Lot 128
Buckland Wright (John).- Musaeus. Hero & Leander, one of 100 specials with an extra engraving, orig. vellum, Golden Cockerel Press, 1949 plus prospectus (2)
Hammer Price: £1,000
Description
Buckland Wright (John).- Musaeus. Hero & Leander, translated by F.L.Lucas, number 74 of 100 specially-bound copies signed by the translator and artist and with an extra engraving, from an edition limited to 500, engraved frontispiece, pictorial title and illustrations by John Buckland Wright, most full-page, faint spot to title and one or two plates, original pictorial vellum, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with figures of Hero and Leander by JBW in gilt on upper & lower covers respectively, t.e.g., others uncut, cloth slip-case, [Cock-a-Hoop 183; Reid A54a], 8vo, Golden Cockerel Press, 1949; with a copy of the prospectus (Cockalorum P183), one of 3500 copies, 8vo (2)
⁂ " The specials have a chaste beauty that is truly Greek in feeling". Reid
"John used to laugh at the thought of what the worthy Dr Arnold would have said about this love-book translated and illustrated respectively by two old Rugby boys. A neo-puritan reviewing for a literary weekly advised its readers not to suppose for one moment that the engravings had any value as art. Some literary pundits are rather jaundiced in their appreciation of graphic artists' work, philistine in their judgements of it, and terrified by nudity in any form." Cock-a-Hoop
Description
Buckland Wright (John).- Musaeus. Hero & Leander, translated by F.L.Lucas, number 74 of 100 specially-bound copies signed by the translator and artist and with an extra engraving, from an edition limited to 500, engraved frontispiece, pictorial title and illustrations by John Buckland Wright, most full-page, faint spot to title and one or two plates, original pictorial vellum, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with figures of Hero and Leander by JBW in gilt on upper & lower covers respectively, t.e.g., others uncut, cloth slip-case, [Cock-a-Hoop 183; Reid A54a], 8vo, Golden Cockerel Press, 1949; with a copy of the prospectus (Cockalorum P183), one of 3500 copies, 8vo (2)
⁂ " The specials have a chaste beauty that is truly Greek in feeling". Reid
"John used to laugh at the thought of what the worthy Dr Arnold would have said about this love-book translated and illustrated respectively by two old Rugby boys. A neo-puritan reviewing for a literary weekly advised its readers not to suppose for one moment that the engravings had any value as art. Some literary pundits are rather jaundiced in their appreciation of graphic artists' work, philistine in their judgements of it, and terrified by nudity in any form." Cock-a-Hoop
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