Limited signed edition; small folio, black goatskin and textured binding by Susan Allix, the upper cover with paper and metallic embellishments, housed in a grey folding box. No 6 of an edition of 15, signed by the artist on the limitation page. Aquatints printed in black and brown with hand-coloring (from drawings made at demolition sites and in the underground), two linocuts and four facsimile extracts of the letters. "In the summer of 2013 I was given a small collection of letters. The owner Mildred or 'Billie' as she was known, had recently died... they were written to her by her sister Evelyn, a young woman in her twenties working in Central London... [Evelyn] tells of the devastation to the city, the personal fear and the spirit of the people in difficulties around her as she survives in the centre of the nightly raids... As it will never be possible to have this same experience, designing the book seemed sometimes similar to creating an historical novel... Certain pages are smoked and burnt. This was done after the printing and owing to the unpredictable nature of the process each copy is different. The smoke trails were made over a candle and the edge burning done with a Dunhill lighter (brought back into use because it doesn't over-heat) setting alight a small line at a time then extinguishing the flame". Fine, a few marks to the box.