Lot 230
Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) Mummer's Fool, one of 60 copies, 1965 & others from the press (6)
Hammer Price: £900
Description
Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) Mummer's Fool, number 22 of 60 copies, original cloth-backed colour-printed boards with paper disc moon and dried grasses mounted on covers beneath tissue paper, 1965; Magogmagog, number 67 of 75 copies, original vellum-backed decorative boards, slip-case, 1973 [1974]; From a London Suburb: Poems, number 8 of apparently 24 copies, original dark green silk, cloth label on spine, 1975; Young Legs Eleven, number 11 of 25 copies [printed for friends, not for sale], with printed Note on the author’s poetry loosely inserted at end, original blue & gold striped silk, paper label, 1976; Winter Trees, number 21 of 25 copies, original striped cloth with image of veined sun printed on upper cover, silver foil label, 1977; Blind Drawings, number 15 of 30 copies with an original signed blind drawing, from an edition limited to 75 copies, original vellum-backed Japanese paper boards, uncut, slip-case (with small stain), 1978, all numbered & signed by the author/artist, the last also by Colin Franklin, printed on mainly Japanese handmade paper, most printed in colours with reverse/direct offset prints by Cox, transparent wrappers, [Chambers 13, 23, 25, 27, 28 & 30], v.s., Gogmagog Press (6)
⁂ An excellent group from this idiosyncratic and highly personal press. The binding of the first "is perhaps his masterpiece in this kind." (Chambers).
Description
Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) Mummer's Fool, number 22 of 60 copies, original cloth-backed colour-printed boards with paper disc moon and dried grasses mounted on covers beneath tissue paper, 1965; Magogmagog, number 67 of 75 copies, original vellum-backed decorative boards, slip-case, 1973 [1974]; From a London Suburb: Poems, number 8 of apparently 24 copies, original dark green silk, cloth label on spine, 1975; Young Legs Eleven, number 11 of 25 copies [printed for friends, not for sale], with printed Note on the author’s poetry loosely inserted at end, original blue & gold striped silk, paper label, 1976; Winter Trees, number 21 of 25 copies, original striped cloth with image of veined sun printed on upper cover, silver foil label, 1977; Blind Drawings, number 15 of 30 copies with an original signed blind drawing, from an edition limited to 75 copies, original vellum-backed Japanese paper boards, uncut, slip-case (with small stain), 1978, all numbered & signed by the author/artist, the last also by Colin Franklin, printed on mainly Japanese handmade paper, most printed in colours with reverse/direct offset prints by Cox, transparent wrappers, [Chambers 13, 23, 25, 27, 28 & 30], v.s., Gogmagog Press (6)
⁂ An excellent group from this idiosyncratic and highly personal press. The binding of the first "is perhaps his masterpiece in this kind." (Chambers).