mark fernand severin (4 risultati)

Hardback. 1972. Limited edition. A fine copy with a previous owners bookplate (by Reynolds Stone) on the front pastedowm. The d/w is unclipped and near fine with only a faint line marked on the front panel. This copy is one of a limited edition of 2000 copies of which 1100 were for sale. Scans available if required.

18 wood engraved decorations by Mark Severin to illustrate his father's poems. One of 520 copies (this no. 136), printed on velin de Rives in Garamond Plantin type. Pp. 247. 4to., uniquely bound in 2002 in quarter brown morocco with patterned paste paper covered sides, calf spine label lettered in gilt. A very handsome, fresh and bright copy. Fernand Severin (1867-1931) was a noted French speaking Belgian poet,chair of French literature at Ghent University and father to the important Belgian wood engraver, illustrator and graphic designer Mark Severin. This is the son's tribute to the father.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Limited edition #286 of 300. 8vo.,6ipp. Bound in one quarter cloth with salmon pink paper over board covers, masque motif on face and rear cover and gilt lettering to spine.

4to, pp. 239 in unbound, unopened signatures. Original chemise in brown card papered in grey, lettered in brown to spine. Matching slipcase. A fine copy in the slipcase, which is a little browned and rubbed. 18 wood engravings by Mark F. Severin. First collected edition. No. 474 of a total edition of 520 copies, 20 of which were numbered I to XX, signed, and with three additional wood engravings. Séverin fils, a graphic designer and master engraver, published this collection of the poetry of Séverin père in 1951, twenty years after his father's death. The production values are fittingly high for such an object: it carries eighteen of the son's wood engravings and is printed on velin de Rives, the whole housed in a chemise and slipcase. An excellent copy.