Ken Dallison The Spirt 75 Years Book Autographed

Description

Spirit is a collection of twenty-four watercolors that depict twenty-four classic Rolls-Royce automobiles, from the car that gave the name Silver Ghost to the 40/50 hp model to the car that was current at the time the book was published, the Pininfarina-designed, two-door Camargue. In between are found the Phantoms I, II, III and IV along with the Wraith, Silver Wraith, Corniche and others. With the exception of the Silver Cloud, Corniche and Camargue, each car is a specific automobile (although chassis numbers are not given) with custom coachwork. All cars are individually described in a few sentences at the beginning of the book. It is itself as much a work of art as the drawings it contains and is bound in tan Connolly leather (Connolly leather is what was used to trim the cabins of Rolls-Royces and many other luxury marques) with the embossed silhouette of the hood of a vintage Rolls-Royce car on the cover. Each book is autographed and individually numbered, the whole edition being limited to 2000 copies. All the illustrations were specifically done for this book, in 1979, the year the firm founded in 1904 turned 75.
Book collectors may groan, but the makers of this book fully expect it to be taken apart and therefore gave it a binding of the metal post-type that
can be unscrewed so as to facilitate easy removal of those pages the owner might wish to frame.
Ken Dallison The Spirt 75 Years Book Autographed. Condition is "New".