Live auction - Lot 715
[Eragny Press]
Christabel, Kubla Khan, Fancy in Nubibus, and Song from Zapolya.
(Hammersmith, Eragny Press, 1904)
Hammer price: €
180
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
8vo (some offset on flylvs).
Quarter gray paper, gold-stamped on upper left corner, green paper boards with a repeat pattern of "violets" printed in mauve and dark green, dito handmade cardboard box covered with handmade paper. Uncut, unopened copy.
Limited edition to 236 copies. 1/226 on Arches paper printed in Brook (unnumb. copy). With one five-colour wood-engr. ill. by Lucien Pissarro. 20 initials in red and pressmark in b/w designed by Lucien and engr. by Esther Pissarro. With orig. prospectus to this ed. loosely included. Plus a typed literary note from John Lane (co-editor) about this work to an American client in the orig. envelope also loosely inserted.
Ref. Genz, M.D. - A history of the Eragny Press 1894-1914, pp. 199-200. - Ransom (Eragny Press) 20. - Tomkinson (Eragny Press) 21.