Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(BRECKNESS PRESS.) Four Poets for St. Magnus. Introduction by George Mackay Brown. Printed in black and rust. One plate with 2 lithographed illustrations by Bryce Wilson of stone sculptures at St Magnus Cathedral, 5 tipped-in facsimile pages of the four poems featured in the book, by Brown, Ted Huges, Seamus Heaney, and Christopher Fry. Folio, publisher's gilt-lettered vellum; green cloth clamshell box with pictorial label. Orkney, 1987

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copy letter o of only fifteen lettered copies signed by all four poets Brown, Hughes, Heaney, and Fry, for private distribution only, from a total edition of 100. An elegant work dedicated to the memory of St. Magnus the Martyr, on the 850th anniversary of the Cathedral of St. Magnus, Orkney, founded in his honor, by Rognvald in 1137.