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George Behe. Letters from Titanic. 2022. 128 pages. 265 x 145mm. Monotype typesetting and hot metal casting in-house of Imprint and Gill Sans on 150gsm Bockingford, with 48 digital images of Titanic ephemera and portraits of the people who wrote the letters; rare deck-plan endpapers; a colour tip-in of an original postcard; a letterpress reproduction of a page of one of the letters; and a separate printed reproduction copy of the last menu produced on board. Printed in two colours on a Heidelberg Cylinder 18″ x 22.5″. 250 copies bound by Blissets of London in Colorado Jordan cloth, price: £300.
For this limited edition, George Behe, past vice president of the Titanic Historical Society, has selected 33 of the most moving and poignant letters to be sent by passengers from RMS Titanic, prior to and post her untimely sinking in the early hours of 15 April 1912. He provides the Introduction and fascinating mini-biographies of the letter writers featured. Foreword by Bob Richardson, Library Manager at St Bride, London.