Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(TWO-HORSE PRESS.) Mackley, George. Engraved in the Wood. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Set in Hermann Zapf's Palatino type and printed on Wookey Hole paper. Suite of 68 wood-engravings by Mackley, loose as issued in separate folder, sheets 12x9 1/2-inches, image size varies, clean, with no evidence of handling. Text volume containins An Appreciation by Ruari McLean and A Glimpse of the Artist by Armida Maria-Theresa Coltis. 4to (uniform size), printed wrappers; prospectus with 1 reproduction laid in; all housed in solander box, dampstain and a bit of fraying to upper corner of box not affecting contents. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. number 94 of a limited edition of 300, signed by mackley. London, (1968)