Lot 290

Allix (Susan) Through Closed Doors: 7 Paraclausithyra, number 1 of 21 copies signed by the artist/binder, etchings by Allix, original half black goatskin over stained wood veneer boards with onlays, 2005.

 

Hammer Price: £1,200

Description

Allix (Susan) Through Closed Doors: 7 Paraclausithyra...with Photographs of Italian Doors and accompanying Prints, number 1 of 21 copies signed by the artist/binder, 7 etchings, one linocut and one woodcut by Susan Allix, with decoration in stencil, air brush and crayon, original half black goatskin over stained and air-brushed Japanese wood veneer boards, by Allix, upper cover with coloured paper and reversed goatskin onlays, air-brushed endpapers with cut-outs revealing pictorial flyleaves, uncut, with prospectus in original grey cloth drop-back box, grey goatskin onlaid strip to upper cover and label on spine, 4to, 2005.

⁂ Combination of Roman poetry "spoken through closed doors" and photographs of Southern Italian and Sicilian doors which won the Gregynog Letterpress Prize 2005, for the finest book using traditional letterpress with metal type published in the preceding two years.

Description

Allix (Susan) Through Closed Doors: 7 Paraclausithyra...with Photographs of Italian Doors and accompanying Prints, number 1 of 21 copies signed by the artist/binder, 7 etchings, one linocut and one woodcut by Susan Allix, with decoration in stencil, air brush and crayon, original half black goatskin over stained and air-brushed Japanese wood veneer boards, by Allix, upper cover with coloured paper and reversed goatskin onlays, air-brushed endpapers with cut-outs revealing pictorial flyleaves, uncut, with prospectus in original grey cloth drop-back box, grey goatskin onlaid strip to upper cover and label on spine, 4to, 2005.

⁂ Combination of Roman poetry "spoken through closed doors" and photographs of Southern Italian and Sicilian doors which won the Gregynog Letterpress Prize 2005, for the finest book using traditional letterpress with metal type published in the preceding two years.

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