Print List - Monnow Valley Arts

British Book Illustrations
In
THE STUDIO
1 September – 28 October 2012
EDWARD ARDIZZONE
JOHN BUCKLAND
WRIGHT 1897–1954
1900–79
Sir Tristram c. 1981
Great Expectations 1939
Set of eight colour lithographs, each
17.5 × 11.5 cm
Printed by The Curwen Press for Great
Expectations, published by The
Heritage Club, New York 1939 £1750
EDWARD BAWDEN
Linocut on Japanese Hoshu paper,
20.3 × 26.5 cm
Signed, titled and numbered 10/10
Made for King Arthur, Folio Society
1982
£550
REG BOULTON
1923–2012
1903–89
Cover Design, Sonnets of John
Keats 1929
Wood engraving, 6.2 × 5 cm
Signed and dated
For The Sonnets of John Keats,
Halcyon Press 1930
£275
Endymion In the Cavern 1945
Proof wood engraving, 20 × 11 cm
Titled. For Endymion Book II,
Golden Cockerel Press 1947
£375
Sir Kay Espied them First c. 1981
The Sculptures of Kilpeck 1987
Summer 1935
Linocut on Japanese Hoshu paper,
20.2 × 26.5 cm
Signed, titled and numbered 10/10
Made for King Arthur, Folio Society
1982
£550
Written and illustrated with 93
engravings, many hand coloured.
Published by The Barton Press 1987 in
a signed and numbered edition of 100.
At the time of his exhibition in 2011 at
Monnow Valley Arts, 14 sets of leaves
had remained unbound from the
original edition. These volumes were
completed in 2011 and bound by the
Fine Book Bindery in Wellingborough
to match the ones completed in
1987.
£750
Wood engraving, 16.5 × 15 cm
Signed in the block with initials
For The Four Season’s Calendar,
Boucher, The Hague 1936
£250
Endymion Under the Sea 1945
Mademoiselle de Maupin:
Theodore and Rosette 1937
Proof wood engraving, 20 × 11 cm
Titled. For Endymion Book II,
Golden Cockerel Press 1947
£375
Copper plate and bon ‡ tirer
engraving, each 17 × 12.5 cm
Engraving inscribed for C.S
(Christopher Sandford) and signed
with initials
For Mme de Maupin, Golden Cockerel
Press 1937
£1,500
Upon their shoulders c. 1981
Linocut on Japanese Hoshu paper,
20 × 26 cm
Signed, titled and numbered 10/10
Made for King Arthur, Folio Society
1982
£550
Double Crown Club Dinner
Invitation c. 1954
Kilpeck Angel 1987
Engraving hand coloured, 20 × 14 cm
Signed, edition of 15
£300
Sir Lamorak c. 1981
Linocut on Japanese Hoshu paper,
20.3 × 26.2 cm
Signed, titled and numbered 10/10
Made for King Arthur, Folio Society
1982
£550
Into the Forest c. 1944
Proof wood engraving, 20 × 11 cm
Titled. For Endymion Book I,
Golden Cockerel Press 1947
£375
The original copper plate
incorporating three of the four
designs for the 105th Double Crown
Club Annual Dinner being Girl
Scattering Flowers, Artist’s Palette and
Still Life of Fruit Bowl, Plate, Knife and
Goblet, 17.5 × 17.5 cm, together with
a proof hand coloured of Girl
Scattering Flowers from the
intermediate plate, 16 × 11 cm and an
archive of prints and material relating
to the production of the Invitation
card.
£2,000
EDWARD GORDON
CRAIG 1872–1966
ERIC GILL
1882–1940
Hamlet Profile 1913
The Musical Toy 1899
Proof hand coloured woodcut,
12 × 15 cm
An illustration for Book of Penny Toys
by Gordon Craig published At the
Sign of the Rose 1899
£400
Wood cut on Japanese vellum (Black
Figures 31), 6.3 cm diameter, edition
of 23
Used on the cover of some copies of
the full morocco versions of Hamlet
published by The Cranach Press 1930
£750
Screen Fragment for Hamlet
1913
Frontispiece Book of Penny
Toys 1899
Proof woodcut with highlights in
hand colouring, 10 × 7 cm
An illustration for Book of Penny Toys
by Gordon Craig published At the
Sign of the Rose 1899.
£350
Woodcut on japon, 7.7 × 2.2 cm,
edition unknown
An illustration for the English edition
of Hamlet published by The Cranach
Press 1930
£175
DESMOND CHUTE
1895–1962
Earth Waiting 1926
Procreant Hymn by E Powys
Mathers illustrated by Eric Gill
Copper engraving printed plano P360,
11.1 × 8.6 cm, edition of 20
£450
The Old Stile Press 2011 printed on
200 gsm Vèlin Arches Blanc in two
volumes, each 31 × 24 cm contained
in a slip case. Numbered from the 15
hors commerce edition apart from the
numbered edition of 60. Volume I
follows the layout of the original
version, as published by the Golden
Cockerel Press in 1926, and contains 5
copper engravings printed intaglio.
Volume II reprints the text but uses
four alternative illustrations of a more
erotic nature and a duplication of
Earth Inviting. In 1926, the Golden
Cockerel Press only issued 25 sets of
these more erotic engravings in a
Special of Procreant Hymn.
£1,200
The following nine copper engravings
were conceived for Procreant Hymn,
published by The Golden Cockerel
Press 1926 and printed from the
original plates for Wolseley Fine Arts
and Gerrish & Co in 2011
Earth Inviting 1926
Copper engraving printed plano P361,
11.1 × 8.6 cm, edition of 20
£450
Purgatory 1919
Costume Design for Bethlehem
1903
Woodcut, 16.7 × 12.9 cm
Illustrated Concerning the Woodcuts of
Gordon Craig, Print Collector
Quarterly 1922 and Woodcuts and
Some Words 1924, JM Dent & Sons
1924
£400
Wood engraving, 156.3 × 9.7 cm
Used in Pertinent and Impertinent, St.
Dominic’s Press 1926
£150
BARNETT FREEDMAN
1901–58
Black Figure for Hamlet –
Yorick 1913
Jane Eyre: A Wreath of
Rosebuds Cirled her Forehead
Woodcut on vellum (Black Figures
19), 15.4 × 7.9 cm, Signed with initials,
edition of 25
Used on page 155 of German version
of Hamlet and page 151 of English
edition of Hamlet,
published by The Cranach Press
1930
£2,000
1940
Proof colour lithograph,
22.5 × 11.5 cm
Printed by the Curwen Press
God sending 1926
Earth Inviting (alternative) 1926
Copper engraving printed plano P359,
11.1 × 8.6 cm, edition of 20
£400
Copper engraving printed plano P365,
12.1 × 8.6 cm, edition of 20
£500
God Sending (alternative) 1926
Dalliance 1926
Copper engraving printed plano P364,
11.1 × 8.7 cm, edition of 20
£450
Copper engraving printed plano P362,
11.1 × 8.6 cm, edition of 20
£450
£300
Earth Wrestling 1926
Fuge, Dilecta Mi 1930
Copper engraving printed plano P366,
12.1 × 5.5 cm, edition of 20
£400
Wood engraving P663, 7 × 6.7 cm,
Signed and lettered A of special
edition lettered to H, apart from
numbered edition of 15.
Conceived and used in Canticum
Canticorum published by the Cranach
Press 1930
£1,000
Hortus Conclusus 1930
Vadem ad Montem 1931
Wood engraving P667, 14.7 × 6.7 cm,
Signed and lettered A of special
edition lettered to H, apart from
numbered edition of 15
£1,500
Wood engraving P757, 14.3 × 6.5 cm,
Signed and lettered A of special
edition lettered to H, apart from
numbered edition of 15.
Conceived and used in Canticum
Canticorum published by the Cranach
Press 1930
£1,500
STANLEY WILLIAM
HAYTER 1901–1988
Earth Receiving 1926
Copper engraving printed plano P363,
11.1 × 8.6 cm, edition of 20
£400
Invenerunt me Custodes 1930
Wood engraving P665, 8.6 × 6.7 cm,
Signed and lettered A of special
edition lettered to H, apart from
numbered edition of 15.
Conceived and used in Canticum
Canticorum published by the Cranach
Press 1930
£1,100
Earth Receiving (alternative)
Dilecti Mei Pulsantis 1930
Wood engraving P668, 14.7 × 6.7 cm,
Signed and lettered A of special
edition lettered to H, apart from
numbered edition of 15.
Conceived and used in Canticum
Canticorum published by the Cranach
Press 1930
£1,650
1926
Marquis de Sade 1932
Engraving and mezzotint Black 62,
15.4 × 9.5 cm
Total edition 80, this print no 54/55
from Ombres portèes by Georges
Hugnet published by Editions de la
Montaigne, Paris April 1932
£ 450
Copper engraving printed plano P367,
12.1 × 8.6 cm, edition of 20
£500
Transiliens Colles 1930
Nigra Sum Sed Formosa 1929
Wood engraving P618, 14.7 × 7 cm,
Signed and lettered A of special
edition lettered to H, apart from
numbered edition of 15.
Conceived and used in Canticum
Canticorum published by the Cranach
Press 1930
£1,500
Wood engraving P666, 14.8 × 6.7 cm,
Signed and lettered A of special
edition lettered to H, apart from
numbered edition of 15.
Conceived and used in Canticum
Canticorum published by the Cranach
Press 1930
£1,500
Le prisonnier des Óles 1932
In Domun Matris Mea 1930
Wood engraving P670, 14.7 × 6.7 cm,
Signed and lettered A of special
edition lettered to H, apart from
numbered edition of 15.
Conceived and used in Canticum
Canticorum published by the Cranach
Press 1930
£1,500
Engraving Black 64, 15.4 × 9.5 cm
Total edition 80, this print no 54/55
from Ombres portèes by Georges
Hugnet published by Editions de la
Montaigne, Paris April 1932
£450
Grongar Hill, Carmarthenshire
Gulliver Kisses the Queen’s
Little Finger 1925
Proof wood engraving E98, 6 × 6 cm
For Gullivers’s Travels published by
The Golden Cockerel Press 1925 £250
Cassie 1932
Engraving Black 65, 15.4 × 9.5 cm
Total edition 80, this print no 54/55
from Ombres portèes by Georges
Hugnet published by Editions de la
Montaigne, Paris April 1932
£450
1944
God Speaks to Noah 1927
Proof wood engraving E162,
16.5 × 14.3 cm
For The Chester Play of the Deluge
published by The Golden Cockerel
Press 1927
£500
Lithograph Levinson 38,
12 × 18.1 cm
£225
At Lewknor, Oxfordshire 1944
Lithograph Levinson 39,
12 × 18.1 cm
Queen Shows Gulliver to the
King 1925
£225
Proof wood engraving E99, 6 × 6 cm
For Gullivers’s Travels published by
The Golden Cockerel Press 1925 £250
The Bride 1930
Proof wood engraving E200, 11.4 ×
8.3 cm
For Hermia and some other poems by
W H Shewring published by the St
Dominic’s Press 1930
£250
Trawsfynnydd, Merioneth 1944
JOHN PIPER
L’archipel (le rendezvous des
Óles) 1932
Engraving and mezzotint Black 65,
15.4 × 9.4 cm
Total edition 80, this print no 54/55
from Ombres portèes by Georges
Hugnet published by Editions de la
Montaigne, Paris April 1932
£450
DAVID JONES
Whore on Back Stairs 1925
Proof wood engraving E115, 5.8 × 5.8
cm
For Gullivers’s Travels published by
The Golden Cockerel Press 1925 £250
1903–1992
The following seven lithorgraphs were
made for English, Scottish and Welsh
Landscape 1944, printed by the
Curwen Press and published by
Frederick Muller in an unspecified
edition.
Lithograph Levinson 41,
12 × 18.1 cm
£225
1895–1974
Easegill, Lancashire 1944
Lithograph Levinson 43,
18.1 × 12 cm
£225
Pistyll Cain, North Wales 1944
Gulliver is Ship-wrecked 1925
Lithograph Levinson 35,
18 × 12 cm
Proof wood engraving E85, 6 × 6 cm
For Gullivers’s Travels published by
The Golden Cockerel Press 1925 £250
£225
The Crucifixion 1927
Proof wood engraving E155, 16.7 ×
11.8 cm
For Llyfr y Pregeth-wr (The Book of
Ecclesiasties) published by the
Gregynog Press 1927
£450
Stonesfield, Oxfordshire 1944
Lithograph Levinson 46,
12 × 18.1 cm
£225
Gulliver is Tied Down 1925
Proof wood engraving E86, 3.2 × 12.7
cm
For Gullivers’s Travels published by
The Golden Cockerel Press 1925 £250
Weathercote Cave, Yorkshire
1944
Lithograph Levinson 36,
18.1 × 11.8 cm
£225
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