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Auction archive: Lot number 169

Graves (Ida) Epithalamion, one of 330 copies signed by the artist, wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Colchester, Gemini Press, 1934 & Basilisk Press, 1980 and others, illustrated (25)

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$258 - US$387
Price realised:
£300
ca. US$387
Auction archive: Lot number 169

Graves (Ida) Epithalamion, one of 330 copies signed by the artist, wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Colchester, Gemini Press, 1934 & Basilisk Press, 1980 and others, illustrated (25)

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$258 - US$387
Price realised:
£300
ca. US$387
Beschreibung:

Graves (Ida) Epithalamion, number 255 of 330 copies signed by the artist (but one of 150 copies issued later), wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original boards edged in brown morocco and with morocco label, spine a little faded, with accompanying booklet in original wrappers, together in board slip-case, Colchester, Gemini Press, 1934 and Basilisk Press, 1980 § Hopkins (G.M.) Pied Beauty, number 31 of 75 copies, woodcuts by Simon King, original cloth-backed boards, Simon King Press, 1994 § [Dodgson (C.L.)], "Lewis Carroll". The Hunting of the Snark, one of 430 copies, wood-engravings by Henry Holiday original cloth-backed boards, sliop-case, 1993 § Green (Martin, editor) A Night with Fiona Pitt-Kethley, number 13 of 15 hand-coloured exemplary copies and one of 50 with 3 original etchings, from an edition limited to 250 signed by the editor and artist, hand-coloured illustrations by Michael Tingle, original pictorial boards, etchings numbered, titled & signed in pencil and loose as issued in original board folder with ties, together in slip-case, Newton Abbot, Avenue Press, n.d.; and 21 others, illustrated, v.s. (25) ⁂ The first mentioned was published in 1980 from sheets printed by Hughes-Stanton in 1934 at his Gemini Press; 300 copies were printed, of which only 150 sold. In 1970 Hughes-Stanton gave the remaining sheets to the Basilisk Press.

Auction archive: Lot number 169
Auction:
Datum:
7 Feb 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Graves (Ida) Epithalamion, number 255 of 330 copies signed by the artist (but one of 150 copies issued later), wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original boards edged in brown morocco and with morocco label, spine a little faded, with accompanying booklet in original wrappers, together in board slip-case, Colchester, Gemini Press, 1934 and Basilisk Press, 1980 § Hopkins (G.M.) Pied Beauty, number 31 of 75 copies, woodcuts by Simon King, original cloth-backed boards, Simon King Press, 1994 § [Dodgson (C.L.)], "Lewis Carroll". The Hunting of the Snark, one of 430 copies, wood-engravings by Henry Holiday original cloth-backed boards, sliop-case, 1993 § Green (Martin, editor) A Night with Fiona Pitt-Kethley, number 13 of 15 hand-coloured exemplary copies and one of 50 with 3 original etchings, from an edition limited to 250 signed by the editor and artist, hand-coloured illustrations by Michael Tingle, original pictorial boards, etchings numbered, titled & signed in pencil and loose as issued in original board folder with ties, together in slip-case, Newton Abbot, Avenue Press, n.d.; and 21 others, illustrated, v.s. (25) ⁂ The first mentioned was published in 1980 from sheets printed by Hughes-Stanton in 1934 at his Gemini Press; 300 copies were printed, of which only 150 sold. In 1970 Hughes-Stanton gave the remaining sheets to the Basilisk Press.

Auction archive: Lot number 169
Auction:
Datum:
7 Feb 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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