9. Bacon (Francis) Of Gardens, one of 226 copies on Arnold’s handmade paper, printed in red, green and black in Vale type, wood-engraved frontispiece, border and initials designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by Esther Pissarro, free endpapers lightly browned, bookplates of William A.Pye and J.R.Abbey, and pencil signature of Leonard Baskin on front free endpaper (and his initials at rear), original patterned-paper boards, uncut, rubbed, spine browned, upper outer corner bumped, preserved in grey morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, spine a little faded, 8vo, 170 x 95mm., [Eragny Press], Hacon & Ricketts, 1902.
est. £300 – £400
Baskin was possibly motivated to buy this at the 1969 auction of the Abbey library as he had published his own Gehenna Press version of the same text in 1959 (see lot 214).