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70. Buckland Wright (John).- Keats (John) The Collected Sonnets, out-of-series copy on Japanese hand-made vellum with three extra sets of the illustrations and five rejected woodcuts in final state signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 376, 11 wood-engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, unbound sheets, uncut, each set loose in modern wrapper, together with a pamphlet on the printing of the work in marbled board box file, [Reid A1b], 4to, Maastricht, Halcyon Press, 1930.

est. £1500 – £2000

There were 15 numbered copies of the edition with three extra sets of plates on different paper, all plates signed by the artist in pencil; this is an unnumbered copy. “Some copies of issues b and c were never bound. These were issued in loose sheets in a slip-case or remain undistributed.” Reid.
The illustrator’s first book.

Sold for £5000
Sale 566, 27th April 2006


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