EVANS, FREDERICK H. Nine Early Engravings by Edward Calvert.Facsimile enlargements from the originals made on copper, wood & stone MDCCCXXVII-MDCCCXXXI. Permanent photographs on drawing paper by Frederick H. Evans. Printed title-page and 9 platinum prints, each tipped to window mount and titled in pencil, by Evans. Plates vary, but average size is 128x215 mm; 5x8 1/2 inches, sheet, wide margins; title foxed; loose as issued in stiff board folders, separating along folds. [London], 1925
one of only fifteen privately printed sets, signed and dated 1925 by evans. Considered the scarcest of Evans's several works of facsimile photo copies and was unknown to Beaumont Newhall in his 1973 Aperture monograph on Evans who wrote: 'Most photographers consider the copying of prints and drawings a mechanical task, to be avoided. But to Evans even this work was a challenge, and his copies are so perfect in reproduction that it is often hard to believe that one is looking at a photograph and not the original." Between 1912 and 1919 he privately published, in equally small editions, reproductions of William Blake's Illustrations to Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil, wood engravings by Calvert Jones, 49 illustrations of Holbein's The Dance of Death, and his own collection of Beardsley drawings before they were sold in 1919, as well as a small portfolio of "Grotesques" by Aubrey Beardsley.
