Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(JONES, DAVID.) Cleverdon, Douglas. The Engravings of David Jones. A Survey by Douglas Cleverdon. Portrait frontispiece; 96 illustrated plates of Jones's wood-blocks, copperplates, and engravings, printed on Barcham Green hand-made paper. 4to, handsomely bound in 1/4 tan morocco, name embossed in gold on front cover, gilt-lettered green morocco spine labels; top edges trimmed and gilt, others uncut; publisher's slipcase. London: Clover Hill Editions, 1981

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number 46 of only 75 roman-numbered portfolios containing a set of the engravings on japon, 9 copper-engravings and 1 dry-point, printed from the original copper-plates. From a total edition of 446. Designed and printed letter press by Will & Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge. The reproductions are printed offset by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, Charlbury, Oxford.