Description
Binding.- Waugh (Evelyn) Black Mischief, number 165 of 250 large paper copies signed by the author, plates and illustrations, green silk place marker ribbon, bound in green hand-stained calf within irregular frame of black goatskin, by Lester Capon, with border formed of short gilt straight and jagged lines over the join of the calf and goatskin, all across both boards and spine, black calf doublures, green and white headbands, t.e.g., others uncut but gilded, signed and dated 1989 in blind at foot of rear pastedown, preserved in custom drop-back box, 1932; and a copy of the catalogue for the Fine Words Fine Books exhibition which featured this copy, large 8vo (2)
*** According to the binder's loosely inserted letter, "the idea is of the African interior, superimposed with the encroaching onslaught of 'modernity' in the gold lines, which nevertheless still have an air of native spears about them. The whole has a slight '30s look to it, perhaps, relevant to the time of writing."
Lot 20
Waugh (Evelyn) Black Mischief, designer binding by Lester Capon, 1932.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Binding.- Waugh (Evelyn) Black Mischief, number 165 of 250 large paper copies signed by the author, plates and illustrations, green silk place marker ribbon, bound in green hand-stained calf within irregular frame of black goatskin, by Lester Capon, with border formed of short gilt straight and jagged lines over the join of the calf and goatskin, all across both boards and spine, black calf doublures, green and white headbands, t.e.g., others uncut but gilded, signed and dated 1989 in blind at foot of rear pastedown, preserved in custom drop-back box, 1932; and a copy of the catalogue for the Fine Words Fine Books exhibition which featured this copy, large 8vo (2)
*** According to the binder's loosely inserted letter, "the idea is of the African interior, superimposed with the encroaching onslaught of 'modernity' in the gold lines, which nevertheless still have an air of native spears about them. The whole has a slight '30s look to it, perhaps, relevant to the time of writing."
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