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Auction archive: Lot number 171

Vigil of Venus 1/100 Golden Cockerel Press

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$1,560
Auction archive: Lot number 171

Vigil of Venus 1/100 Golden Cockerel Press

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$1,560
Beschreibung:

27, [1] pp. Translated by F.L. Lucas. With 12 etchings by John Buckland Wright plus 2 etched tailpieces, & 2 etchings on each of the double title-pages. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full citron morocco tooled in blind, slipcase. No. 41 of 100 copies printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. A lovely production, the last Golden Cockerel printing completed before the start of World War II. The bibliography notes "The very fine engravings, by a process revived for the first time in our generation and which took two years to produce, were inspired by the Roman sarcophagi in the Louvre, and represent a worthy complement to F. L. Lucas's beautiful rendering of the Latin text. GCP 141.

Auction archive: Lot number 171
Auction:
Datum:
22 Oct 2020
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

27, [1] pp. Translated by F.L. Lucas. With 12 etchings by John Buckland Wright plus 2 etched tailpieces, & 2 etchings on each of the double title-pages. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full citron morocco tooled in blind, slipcase. No. 41 of 100 copies printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. A lovely production, the last Golden Cockerel printing completed before the start of World War II. The bibliography notes "The very fine engravings, by a process revived for the first time in our generation and which took two years to produce, were inspired by the Roman sarcophagi in the Louvre, and represent a worthy complement to F. L. Lucas's beautiful rendering of the Latin text. GCP 141.

Auction archive: Lot number 171
Auction:
Datum:
22 Oct 2020
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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