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Eragny Press.- Rust (Margaret) The Queen of the Fishes, An Adaptation in English of a Fairy Tale of Valois, number 83 of 150 copies signed with the artist/printer's monogram, signed and inscribed "Philip Hagreen from Laurence W.Hodson June. 1918" on front free endpaper, printed in red, grey and gold, wood-engraved illustrations (5 in colour) and borders designed and engraved by Lucien Pissarro, one full-page, small gilt-stamped leather book-label of W.A.Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey, original limp vellum, gilt, t.e.g., covers splayed, 8vo, Eragny Press, 1894.
⁂ The first publication of the Eragny Press, and the only one not printed in the usual Vale type.
Philip Hagreen (1890-1988), wood engraver, associate of Eric Gill and member of the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic at Ditchling.
Laurence W.Hodson (1864-1933) was an art collector and patron of William Morris and other leading artists of the Arts & Crafts movement.
Lot 68
Eragny Press.- Rust (Margaret) The Queen of the Fishes, one of 150 copies, signed and inscribed to Philip Hagreen from Laurence W.Hodson, original limp vellum, Eragny Press, 1894.
Hammer Price: £3,800
Description
Eragny Press.- Rust (Margaret) The Queen of the Fishes, An Adaptation in English of a Fairy Tale of Valois, number 83 of 150 copies signed with the artist/printer's monogram, signed and inscribed "Philip Hagreen from Laurence W.Hodson June. 1918" on front free endpaper, printed in red, grey and gold, wood-engraved illustrations (5 in colour) and borders designed and engraved by Lucien Pissarro, one full-page, small gilt-stamped leather book-label of W.A.Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey, original limp vellum, gilt, t.e.g., covers splayed, 8vo, Eragny Press, 1894.
⁂ The first publication of the Eragny Press, and the only one not printed in the usual Vale type.
Philip Hagreen (1890-1988), wood engraver, associate of Eric Gill and member of the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic at Ditchling.
Laurence W.Hodson (1864-1933) was an art collector and patron of William Morris and other leading artists of the Arts & Crafts movement.
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