Gentleman, David Bridges on the Backs

Bridges on the Backs by David Gentleman.    

Hardback in valise type binding. Oblong 4o.

Privately published by the University Printer by his friends.

One of 500 copies printed in Monotype Times Wide on Spicer's cartridge paper. Illustrated with 9 drawings, touched with colour, by David Gentleman, with another on the front endpaper and title-page. Green canvas portfolio binding, lettered in gilt, with `Father Cam' device blocked in gold and black. Card slipcase. A fine copy of a special book.

Introduction by Peter Eden

Illustrations of the bridges along the river Cam in Cambridge.

Signed association copy Inscription by John Dreyfus to Ira and Lee Gershwin

John Dreyfus was a British book designer and a historian of printing. He worked for Cambridge University Press. So it's likely this was a carefully chosen present to the dedicatee the lyricist Ira Gershwin, brother of the composer George Gershwin and his wife Lee.