Description
E/26 COPIES, printed on Somerset Textured White paper in various colours, using wood and metal type, along with bike gears and chains and grosgrain ribbon, comprising 23 broadsides (one for each stage, plus the two rest days), these each signed in pencil by the rotating assembly (peloton?) of printers (between 3 and 6 hands), along with a title-leaf, colophon, and contents-leaf, and a composite print formed of all 109 runs from the daily broadsides, this last protected with acetate, laid in a pack of 7 postcards depicting and describing the broadsides, pp. [27], 57 x 37 cm approx., the broadsides and postcards together in a paste-paper and cloth dropdrown box, fine condition
