Lot 191A
Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with illustrations in prose, one of 210 copies, 1922 & another, Nash (2)
Hammer Price: £480
Description
Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with illustrations in prose, number 35 of 210 copies, decorations and 8 full-page illustrations including large pictorial tail-piece, text reproduced from the original decorated manuscript, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and spotted, spine worn at foot, 1922; Aerial Flowers, limited edition, signed presentation copy from the author's wife inscribed on inside front wrapper, illustrations, one colour and tipped in, original printed wrappers, variant with portrait of Nash mounted on upper wrapper, light soiling and faint staining, Oxford, 1947, 4to (2)
⁂ The second item was "...designed by Paul Nash shortly before he died on July 11th, 1946, and is now published by his friends, one year later, as a small tribute to his memory...".
Description
Nash (Paul) Places: 7 Prints reproduced from Woodblocks, designed and engraved by Paul Nash with illustrations in prose, number 35 of 210 copies, decorations and 8 full-page illustrations including large pictorial tail-piece, text reproduced from the original decorated manuscript, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and spotted, spine worn at foot, 1922; Aerial Flowers, limited edition, signed presentation copy from the author's wife inscribed on inside front wrapper, illustrations, one colour and tipped in, original printed wrappers, variant with portrait of Nash mounted on upper wrapper, light soiling and faint staining, Oxford, 1947, 4to (2)
⁂ The second item was "...designed by Paul Nash shortly before he died on July 11th, 1946, and is now published by his friends, one year later, as a small tribute to his memory...".