[50] leaves. With 19 etchings, 6 woodcuts, and 1 wood engraving on various hand-made papers (several mounted as issued), all signed and numbered by Leonard Baskin (Folio) 51x34.5 cm (20x13½"), bound by Gray Parrot in duotone full morocco, lettered in gilt (vertically reading) on spine. Housed in publisher's green quarter morocco & cloth clamshell box lettered in gilt on spine. No. 47 of an edition limited to 50 copies printed letterpress by Daniel Keleher. Signed by Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin at colophon, as issued. "'Capriccio' is heavily equipped with a figured half-title & pictorial title-page unusual for Gehenna, where in general bastard titles are spare & title pages are adorned with a bit of ornament & a touch of color. The book is grandly large, a huge folio with a great cargo of illustration." - The Gehenna Press: The Work of Fifty Years 1942-1992, #95.
[50] leaves. With 19 etchings, 6 woodcuts, and 1 wood engraving on various hand-made papers (several mounted as issued), all signed and numbered by Leonard Baskin (Folio) 51x34.5 cm (20x13½"), bound by Gray Parrot in duotone full morocco, lettered in gilt (vertically reading) on spine. Housed in publisher's green quarter morocco & cloth clamshell box lettered in gilt on spine. No. 47 of an edition limited to 50 copies printed letterpress by Daniel Keleher. Signed by Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin at colophon, as issued. "'Capriccio' is heavily equipped with a figured half-title & pictorial title-page unusual for Gehenna, where in general bastard titles are spare & title pages are adorned with a bit of ornament & a touch of color. The book is grandly large, a huge folio with a great cargo of illustration." - The Gehenna Press: The Work of Fifty Years 1942-1992, #95.
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