Live auction - Lot 717
[Eragny Press]
Songs by Ben Jonson. A selection from the plays, masques, and poems, with the earliest known settings of certain numbers.
Hammersmith, Eragny Press, (1906)
Hammer price: €
320
€ 100 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: 59-[3] pp. (some offset on flylvs).
Quarter Michallet blue paper, light gold stamped on upper left corner, cream paper boards with a repeat pattern of "speedwell" printed in green and blue ink, handmade cardboard box with dito painted "speedwell" flower pattern. Uncut and partly unopened copy.
Limited edition to 185 copies. 1/175 on Arches paper printed in Brook and Music (unnumb. copy). With a four-colour wood-engr. ill. designed and engraved by Lucien Pissarro and 46 initials in red, one border and pressmark in b/w designed by Lucien and engraved by Esther Pissarro.
Ref. Genz, M.D. - A history of the Eragny Press 1894-1914, pp. 182-184. - Ransom (Eragny Press) 25. - Tomkinson (Eragny Press) 26.