Ebenezer press clarke graham (1 risultati)

ONE OF 10 ARTIST'S PROOF COPIES, (75 copies in published edition), 10 hand-coloured aquatints initialled by the author/artist/printer, text in the author's Rural Pen typeface, printed in brown on Greens pasteless board, the illustrations on Hayle Mill water-colour paper, endpaper with presentation inscription: 'For Evelyn de Rothschild, Friday 13th Sep '74' signed by Clarke, oblong 8vo, original grey-brown calf over bevel-edged wooden boards, backstrip lettered in white, endpapers of marbled paper by the author, extremities slightly rubbed, boards with a few small marks, endpaper with tipped-in bookseller's ticket, and loose bookplate of David and Hermione Chambers, very good. A highly idiosyncratic and in many ways very accomplished production - perhaps most of all in the illustration-work, the field in which Clarke is most highly regarded. [With:] a bookseller's card noting the description from Rota's 'The Printer and the Artist' catalogue, 1974: '.Using his own letter-form and a Coggin press, made in 1820, he produces illustrated books of imaginative and ambitious conception. The harmonious effect of each book bears witness to the most intimate collaboration between artist, printer, author and binder.' [And:] bifolio 'Damaged Sheet from the Goose man', 'For David Chambers', the illustration and description of 'Lane in Co. Cork', with a manuscript note by Clarke outlining his printing processes.…