Lloyd r g illus (3 risultati)

Staplebound. Condizione: Near fine. [28 p.]. 22 cm. B&w line drawings. Staplebound booklet. Former owner's label on first page. Published as a supplement to the Summer 1993 Tiller Magazine.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. PROOF COPY, marked up for printing, signed and dated by the artist on the title page "R.J. Lloyd July 31st 1996" and initialled by him to half title, "Proof Copy - RJR 1993". With all 28 poems accompanied by Lloyd's full-colour illustrations as per published book. Lloyd illustrated four books for Hughes, including two published by their own Sunstone Press. In his Introduction to the catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of Lloyd's selected paintings in 1996, Hughes commented about his friend's illustrations for Mermaid's Purse, "Almost every painting he produced for this seems to me a small masterpiece. The luminous delicacy of the colouring in some of them is breathtaking" (p.VII). Loosely inserted is a compliments slip printed with Lloyd's home address in Devon, inscribed by his partner Louise MacMillan to an unknown buyer, enclosing this proof. Octavo. Unbound. Four gatherings of poems, illustrations, front and end papers (complete), preserved in plain cream wrappers lettered to spine by hand in black ink. Wrapps with a few tiny marks and internal orange streak, one gathering loose, contents clean. A near fine copy. [Sagar & Tabor A100. Ted Hughes, Intro to 'R.J. Lloyd - A Retrospective Exhibition of Selected Works', Hereford City Museum & Art Gallery, 1996.]. R.G. Lloyd (illustratore). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, Number 64 of 100 copies signed by author and artist to colophon. 28 full-colour illustrations, the last of the Mermaid reproduced as frontispiece, each design facing a poem by Hughes. The second book published by the Sunstone Press founded by Hughes and Lloyd. As with many of the poet's private press publications, Faber came along later with a trade edition of Mermaid's Purse in 1999. Octavo. Original green cloth-covered boards, lettered to spine in gilt, patterned endpapers. Housed in matching green slipcase with, on one side, colour-printed label depicting shark's egg capsule with names of author and illustrator printed sideways. Book and case both fine. [Sagar & Tabor A100]. R.G. Lloyd (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…