Live auction - Lot 850

Thinking about Mr Person. With two etchings by Bartolomeu dos Santos.

Subject: [Private Press]

WAIN, John

€ 200 / 250

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(Beckenham), The Chimaera Press, 1980

4to.

Bound by Helen Hutchins: boards covered with bi-tone white and blueish silk woven by Rosemary Goldfrap, ivory paper spine. Ivory cloth box by Paul Cook.

First edition of this poem evocating the atmosphere of Pessoa's Lisbon (Pessoa means "person" in Portuguese) and echoing Wain's original relationship with Portugal. Ill. with 2 coloured etchings by Bartolomeu Vilhena Cid dos Santos (Lisbon 1931-2008 London), Professor of Fine Arts, with an emphasis on printmaking and engravings.
Second book published by
The Chimaera Press, limited to 100 copies (num. XII) signed by the author and the illustrator. Enriched (?) with 2 prints of these etchings under passe-partout, signed and numb. XII/XV.

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Lot 850

Thinking about Mr Person. With two etchings by Bartolomeu dos Santos.

WAIN, John

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