Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
(GEHENNA PRESS.) Baskin, Leonard. Birds & Animals. Unbound set of 66 wood engravings, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by Baskin printed in black, olive, navy, and red, printed one to a leaf on Troya paper, printed from the blocks by Harold McGrath, plus title-page and a single colophon sheet signed by Baskin. 11 3/4x15 inches, sheets, the images varying in size, all with full margins. [Northampton, 1974]

Additional Details

one of only fifty sets created. An unknown number were bound; many, like this set, remained in loose sheets. The images, which range in size from roughly one inch up to 8 inches. They consist primarily of illustrations, bookplates, pressmarks, and ephemera used in earlier works. Bridwell 77.