BASKIN LEONARD Hughes Ted Capriccio 1990

Sale 2175 - Lot 8

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(BASKIN, LEONARD.) Hughes, Ted. Capriccio. Poems by Hughes. 25 color engravings, woodcuts, and wood engraving by Baskin, all signed by the artist and printed on various handmade papers. Letterpress in Jan van Krimpen's Spectrum type. Large, thick folio in full green and brown leather in three alternating panels on covers, stamped in black by Gray Parrot; publisher's 1/4 leather clamshell box. Prospectus laid in. Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1990

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number 12 of only 50 copies signed by hughes and baskin. this copy with two additional touched color proofs for the owner, art book collector Mel Ritter, one of which is inscribed and signed by baskin to ritter and dated 1990, in pencil, below image. It is the first edition of this collection of Hughes''s poems and also the first time a diverse combination of media occur in the illustrations of a Gehenna Press book. "Capriccio is conceived on a grand scale, it is a large folio, and pleases in harmonious deployment of illustration and type. These poems are revelatory of the human condition and represent England''s poet Laureate at his most powerfully convincing"--from the prospectus. Gehenna 95.