Live auction - Lot 351
[Private press]
Thinking about Mr Person. With two etchings by Bartolomeu dos Santos.
(Beckenham), The Chimaera Press, 1980
€ 250 / 350
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Lot description
4to.
Bound by Helen Hutchins: boards covered with bi-tone white and blueish silk woven by Rosemary Goldfrap, ivory paper spine. Ivory cloth box by Paul Cook.
First edition of this poem evocating the atmosphere of Pessoa's Lisbon (Pessoa means "person" in Portuguese) and echoing Wain's original relationship with Portugal. Ill. with 2 coloured etchings by Bartolomeu Vilhena Cid dos Santos (Lisbon 1931-2008 London), Professor of Fine Arts, with an emphasis on printmaking and engravings. Second book published by The Chimaera Press, limited to 100 copies (num. XII) signed by the author and the illustrator. Enriched (?) with 2 prints of these etchings under passe-partout, signed and numb. XII/XV.