ORWELL, George.

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Animal Farm. First St James Park Press edition, number 29 of 140 copies signed by the illustrator Hugh Ribbans. This copy is also inscribed by the printer with a quotation: "James Freemantle. 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'" The font used for the letterpress publication, Intertype Times Roman, was cast on a working farm.Freemantle established his fine-press in 2014 and has also produced an edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four (2021). His Animal Farm pays homage to the popular first paperback edition published by Penguin in 1951, being in wrappers and of a similar size. The artist Hugh Ribbans specializes in linocuts and has exhibited at such venues as the Society of Wildlife Artists, the Society of Wood Engravers, and the National Theatre.Orwell's classic work was first published in 1945.

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