Lot 176

Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with illustrations in prose,, one of 210 copies, 1922

Hammer Price: £600

Description

Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with illustrations in prose, one of 210 copies, decorations and 8 full-page illustrations including large pictorial tail-piece, text reproduced from the original decorated manuscript, early tape-staining to endpapers, ink ownership "K. and G. Pepper, Studio Building. Toronto." to front free endpaper with autograph note "This book is just in remembrance of one of the nicest places I know - "The Pepper's Appartment" [sic], and I am going to have Paul Nash to a wood cut of it. Love Yvonne" loosely inserted, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine ends a little chipped, corners bumping and a little worn, some light toning to cover margins but a very good, bright copy generally, preserved in custom drop-back box, 4to, 1922.

⁂ With an interesting provenance: Kathleeen and George Pepper were noted Canadian artists who lived and worked at the Studio Building in Toronto, the home of the celebrated Group of Seven as well as other leading Canadian artistic figures.

Description

Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with illustrations in prose, one of 210 copies, decorations and 8 full-page illustrations including large pictorial tail-piece, text reproduced from the original decorated manuscript, early tape-staining to endpapers, ink ownership "K. and G. Pepper, Studio Building. Toronto." to front free endpaper with autograph note "This book is just in remembrance of one of the nicest places I know - "The Pepper's Appartment" [sic], and I am going to have Paul Nash to a wood cut of it. Love Yvonne" loosely inserted, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine ends a little chipped, corners bumping and a little worn, some light toning to cover margins but a very good, bright copy generally, preserved in custom drop-back box, 4to, 1922.

⁂ With an interesting provenance: Kathleeen and George Pepper were noted Canadian artists who lived and worked at the Studio Building in Toronto, the home of the celebrated Group of Seven as well as other leading Canadian artistic figures.

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