Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
Books and Prints
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GEMINI PRESS
GRAVES, IDA. Epithalamion. Higham, Colchester: Gemini Press, (1934) [but this is the reissue of 1980 by the Basilisk Press, using the original sheets, which were not fully distributed on publication]. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum, this number 31, signed in pencil by Blair Hughes-Stanton. One of 6 copies (according to Penelope Hughes-Stanton) bound after a design by Blair Hughes-Stanton of blue-gray morocco; with six circular onlays on both covers in white and black, joined by rules in gilt and blind, parallel vertical rules in gilt at the fore and spine edges of the covers. 13 3/8 inches (34 cm); binding 13 3/4 x 8 inches (35 x 20 cm), top edge gilt. [51] pp., with 23 full page wood engravings by Hughes-Stanton. In the publisher's clamshell case, with the accompanying text brochure.
As the prospectus to the Basilisk edition points out, no deluxe binding was produced when the work was first published, so the design by Hughes-Stanton for the binding of the Basilisk issue is of considerable interest. Penelope Hughes-Stanton 25.
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GEMINI PRESS
GRAVES, IDA. Epithalamion. Higham, Colchester: Gemini Press, (1934) [but this is the reissue of 1980 by the Basilisk Press, using the original sheets, which were not fully distributed on publication]. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum, this number 31, signed in pencil by Blair Hughes-Stanton. One of 6 copies (according to Penelope Hughes-Stanton) bound after a design by Blair Hughes-Stanton of blue-gray morocco; with six circular onlays on both covers in white and black, joined by rules in gilt and blind, parallel vertical rules in gilt at the fore and spine edges of the covers. 13 3/8 inches (34 cm); binding 13 3/4 x 8 inches (35 x 20 cm), top edge gilt. [51] pp., with 23 full page wood engravings by Hughes-Stanton. In the publisher's clamshell case, with the accompanying text brochure.
As the prospectus to the Basilisk edition points out, no deluxe binding was produced when the work was first published, so the design by Hughes-Stanton for the binding of the Basilisk issue is of considerable interest. Penelope Hughes-Stanton 25.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
