Sale 2475 - Lot 153
Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JONES, SHIRLEY / RED HEN PRESS. Ordinary Cats. 5 mezzotints by Jones, numbered I/70, titled, dated, and signed in pencil, lower margins. 381x305 mm; 15x12 inches, sheets. Large folio, prints loose as issued in publisher's blue cloth drop-back box with printed cover label. Accompanied by an 8-page booklet with aphorisms about cats selected by Jones, and with a signed circular mezzotint miniature of her cat, Ajax, and colophon on final leaf, the text printed in deep teal 24-point Baskerville italic type, on Rives mould-made paper. Laid in are the prospectus and two Autograph Letters Signed by Jones to the book's recipients, one on Red Hen Press letterhead. (London: Red Hen Press, 1992)
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letter i of only twelve suites containing the special printed book accompanying the prints, from a total edition of 70. A beautifully crafted tribute to the spirit of the feline by the Welsh artist Jones, proving that there are no ordinary cats.
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