Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(FLEECE PRESS.) Wright, John Buckland. Surreal Times: The Abstract Engravings of John Buckland Wright. Introduction by Christopher Buckland Wright. One copper engraving tipped in ("Nymphe Surprise No. II," 1935), plus plates and illustrations, some wood-engraved, some color, a few tipped in. Folio, original gilt-lettered, 1/4 vellum over patterned-paper boards designed by J. B. Wright; slipcase, few soil marks along bottom of box.

number 33 of 44 specially bound copies with the additional print Signed by Christopher Buckland Wright, from a total edition of 266. Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, 1999

Additional Details

WITH: Sensuous Lines. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Intaglio prints, Compiled and Introduced by Christopher Buckland Wright.
Upper Denby, 2014. ONE OF 220 COPIES (from an edition of 360 copies) with original tipped-in copper engraving frontispiece (Venus calling the Sea Gods; printed at the Black Star Press) and over 400 illustrations. Oblong 4to, original quarter red cloth with false Suminagashi marbled paper sides; slipcase, fine.