john anthony scott editor thomas (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Copy "C II" of a limited edition of 300 copies. Large clamshell box, H 40.75cm x L 30.25cm. Black spine well scuffed particularly along joints with large patch of peeling at center from removal of sticker; spine's title/press label intact at head as is heel date label; brown cloth boards. Brown cloth four flap folder which is supposed to contain Cornell plates only contains twenty-one tissue guard sheets instead. Second brown cloth four flap folder contains handsome full dark leather portfolio with six laid-in quires and twenty laid-in Thomas Cornell pencil signed portrait etchings on blue Fabriano paper (plus additional unsigned b/w frontispiece portrait immediately opposite title page); rear colophon provided limitation statement, pencil written copy#, and a Thomas Cornell pencil signature (unfortunately Leonard Baskin's signature is not present). Interior contents are all fine; exterior clamshell box took the wear. Jpeg images provided upon request. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 7.25 pounds (3.28 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Edited & translated with an essay on Babeuf by John Anthony Scott, with 21 etched portraits by Thomas Cornell. Loose as issued in unbound and uncut signatures, in full leather portfolio, limited to 300 copies, with and additional suite of etchings signed and numbered, in cloth portfolio, limited to an edition of 50. Sets 1 through 50 have the additional suite of prints all signed, titled and dated in pencil. This is set 34 identified on the colophon page and the additional suite of prints all numbered 34/50. Colophon page woodcut by Leonard Baskin. Quarto loose uncut signatures in a leather cover housed in a beige portfolio. The etchings in the text are printed on blue Fabriano laid paper, and laid into the text. The additional suite of prints is quarto in a separate matching beige portfolio. Housed overall in a beige cloth clam shell box with a leather spine. Overall excellent condition, minor wear on the outer clam shell box. Inventory #4937-1. This book requires special handling in shipping. From the colophon: "Three hundred copies of this book were printed at the Gehenna Press in Northhampton, Mass., the work finished during March 1964. The type throughout is Baskerville, The paper is Nideggen made in Germany. Harold McGrath was the pressman. The suite of etchings were printed by Emiliano Sorini in New York. . .".