Watership Down Richard Adams & John Lawrence

RARE EDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION (127/250). BOUND BY FINE BINDER SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE IN FULL GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH ELABORATE GILT TOOLING. Limited, numbered, & illustrated Edition. London: Paradine, 1976. 8vo. Full dark green crushed morocco in marbled board slipcase. All edges gilt. Gilt decorated dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Pages: x, 550, map fold out. Near Fine. Slip case near-fine, some slight foxing to inners. Binding near fine, leather supple and preserved, gilt bright. Some sunning to spine. Contents fine, some pages have very faint age markings. Otherwise, pages fresh and edge gilt bright. Illustrated plates by John Lawrence beautifully preserved and colours still true. Overall, extremely well preserved, presents beautifully. A wonderful limited edition of one of the most famous works of literature. Signed by Richard Adams on title page. Features an original watercolour painting and signature by John Lawrence as frontispiece. Initially rejected by 13 publishers before being accepted by Collings. In the time since, Watership Down has never fallen out of print and has become one of the best selling books of all time.