Live auction - Lot 714
[Eragny Press]
Some poems.
(Hammersmith, Eragny Press, 1904)
Hammer price: €
400
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: 64-[5] pp. (some offset on pastedowns and flylvs).
Quarter Michallet blue paper, medium gold stamped on upper left corner, cream paper boards with a repeat pattern of "wild rose" printed in peach and green (spine sl. rubbed), handmade green cardboard portfolio with leathered spine and dito slipcase. Uncut copy.
Limited edition to 226 copies. This is 1/215 copies (unnumb.) printed on Arches paper in Brook. With one five-colour wood-engr. ill. by Lucien Pissarro. One border in peach, ten initials in red, and one pressmark designed by Lucien and engr. by Esther Pissarro.
Ref. Genz, M.D. - A history of the Eragny Press 1894-1914, pp. 196-200. - Ransom (Eragny Press) 19. - Tomkinson (Eragny Press) 64, 20.
Prov. Ms. dedication "Marguerite to Pauline, 1e sept. 1906" (on front flyleaf).