Lot 241
Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with illustrations in prose, one of 55 copies on Japon, 1922
Hammer Price: £1,400
Description
Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with illustrations in prose, one of 55 copies on Japon, with the designs printed direct from the wood-blocks and signed by the artist, decorations and 8 illustrations including large pictorial tail-piece, text reproduced from the original decorated manuscript, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine ends and corners a little bumped and worn, spotting to covers, upper cover with some darkening to fore-edge, 4to, William Heinemann, 1922.
⁂ The first and only book both written and illustrated by Nash.
Description
Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with illustrations in prose, one of 55 copies on Japon, with the designs printed direct from the wood-blocks and signed by the artist, decorations and 8 illustrations including large pictorial tail-piece, text reproduced from the original decorated manuscript, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine ends and corners a little bumped and worn, spotting to covers, upper cover with some darkening to fore-edge, 4to, William Heinemann, 1922.
⁂ The first and only book both written and illustrated by Nash.