Price: £600
Subject: Modern Illustrated
Published Date: 1977
Stock Number: 71838
(Your basket is currently empty)With an Introduction by the Artist, and an Appreciation by Kenneth Clark.
Description: FIRST TRADE EDITION, printed on Basingwerk Parchment paper, numerous illustrations with some printed in blue or copper, pp. xliv, 151, 4to, original blue buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt, light rubbing to extremities, top edge blue, a few spots to edges, original prospectus laid in, bookplate of Richard Smart (designed by Reynolds Stone) to front pastedown and four letters from the engraver regarding its design sometime mounted to corners on the facing flyleaf, the dustjacket a little nicked around head, very goodPublication Details: John Murray, 1977
Notes: Laid into the book are four single-page autograph letters from Reynolds Stone, to Richard Smart – a director at Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery in London. The letters, on paper headed to his Bracken Cottage address, arrange the design and printing of a bookplate for Smart: in the first, he accepts the commission, and directs Smart to the 3d stamp of his design being issued that very day (11th June, 1946); the second, almost a year later, apologises for the delay and encloses an example (not present) to gauge the style sought; the next provides a further proof, following Smart's request for 'a sl...more
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