Live veiling - Lot 123
[UK - Eragny Press]
Songs. A selection from the plays, masques, and poems, with the earliest known settings of certain numbers.
(Hammersmith, London), Eragny Press (L. & E. Pissarro), April 1906)
€ 200 / 300
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Beschrijving lot
8vo.
Publisher's binding: half grey paper, patterned paper with green and blue "speedwell" on covers, gilt-stamped title on front cover, flat spine (sm. lack to lower joint, sl. spotting). In a folder with light brown morocco label with gilt title and same leather-edged slipcase. Uncut copy.
Decorated with a coloured frontispiece wood-engraved by and after Lucien Pissarro, a large black border on p. 5 and red initials (large on p. 5) by Pissarro and engraved by Esther. Eragny's mark on last page. Work in "Brook type" printed in red and black. Edition limited to 185 unnumbered copies (incl. 10 on vellum), one of the 175 on Arches hand-made paper.
Ref. Ransom, Eragny Press, 25. - The gentle art of Lucien Pissarro, 37. - Tomkinson, Eragny Press, 26.