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Auction archive: Lot number 520

Seamus), Laurie Lee, Lawrence Sail and Jenny Joseph. The Four Elements, [series …

Auction 10.07.2014
10 Jul 2014
Estimate
£100 - £150
ca. US$170 - US$256
Price realised:
£140
ca. US$238
Auction archive: Lot number 520

Seamus), Laurie Lee, Lawrence Sail and Jenny Joseph. The Four Elements, [series …

Auction 10.07.2014
10 Jul 2014
Estimate
£100 - £150
ca. US$170 - US$256
Price realised:
£140
ca. US$238
Beschreibung:

Seamus), Laurie Lee, Lawrence Sail and Jenny Joseph. The Four Elements, [series IV only (of 4)], comprising four broadsides, each number 99 of 125 copies signed by the author and with wood-engraved illustration by Miriam Macgregor, fine copies, presented in original card portfolio with mounted title label bearing wood-engraved vignette by Macgregor, Whittington Press for the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, [1992]; and 15 (of 16) of the standard issues of the broadsides from all four series, also presented in original card folio portfolio, folio (19 in 2). *** The limited edition pieces present are The Air station, by Seamus Heaney, Fish and Water by Laurie Lee, Earth by Lawrence Sail and By Lake Huron in Winter by Jenny Joseph. This set is the last of four such to be produced between 1989-92, with the poets taking it in turns to write on each element and a different artist being used to illustrate each set.

Auction archive: Lot number 520
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2014
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Seamus), Laurie Lee, Lawrence Sail and Jenny Joseph. The Four Elements, [series IV only (of 4)], comprising four broadsides, each number 99 of 125 copies signed by the author and with wood-engraved illustration by Miriam Macgregor, fine copies, presented in original card portfolio with mounted title label bearing wood-engraved vignette by Macgregor, Whittington Press for the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, [1992]; and 15 (of 16) of the standard issues of the broadsides from all four series, also presented in original card folio portfolio, folio (19 in 2). *** The limited edition pieces present are The Air station, by Seamus Heaney, Fish and Water by Laurie Lee, Earth by Lawrence Sail and By Lake Huron in Winter by Jenny Joseph. This set is the last of four such to be produced between 1989-92, with the poets taking it in turns to write on each element and a different artist being used to illustrate each set.

Auction archive: Lot number 520
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2014
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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