Ventes live - Lot 727
[Eragny Press]
The descent of Ishtar.
(Hammersmith, Eragny Press, 1903)
Prix de marteau: €
320
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Description du lot
8vo: 30-[2] pp. (some offset on the blank flyleaves).
Quarter Michallet blue paper with printed paper label, green paper boards with a repeat pattern of "daisy" printed in green ink, handmade cardboard box covered with decor. paper. Uncut copy.
Limited edition to 226 copies (unnumb. copy) printed in Brook on Arches paper. With one b/w wood-engr. ill., two borders and one ornament in green, 5 initials in red, pressmark in b/w designed by Diana White and Lucien Pissarro and engr. by Esther Pissarro.
Ref. Genz, M.D. - A history of the Eragny Press 1894-1914, pp. 185-188. - Ransom (Eragny Press 17. - Tomkinson (Eragny Press) 18.
Prov. Henry Hawley (bookpl.). - Ms. dedication to "Ms Dalfour from C.F.T.W. In remembrance, 1911" (on blank front flyleaf).