Lebrun rico illus (1 Ergebnisse)

Limited Edition. Limited Edition. With 6 woodcuts in two states (12 total). An interesting collaborative work, in which Lebrun drew the illustrations on cherry woodblocks and Baskin then carved the blocks. Harold McGrath did the printing at The Gehenna Press. One of a handful of copies presented in the vellum-backed clamshell box later created by Gray Parrot, spine lettered in gilt (see GP #33 (34) as cited below). No. 25 from a total edition of 150, nos. 6-31 comprising a deluxe variant (including this copy) with the second suite of woodcuts on Shogun with all prints signed by the artist and engraver. Nos. 1-5 were issued as a super-deluxe variant on Moriki and included an original drawing by Lebrun. Signed by Rico Lebrun and Leonard Baskin at colophon, as issued. Each woodcut signed by the artist and engraver. "An ever growing fixture of the press [latterly abandoned] was to commission works from artists the printer admired. Thus evidenced in work by Shahn, Lockwood, Tyler, Cornell & others. The Encantadas, beyond the irradiated quality of Melville's prose, proved to be an apposite vehicle for the work of Rico Lebrun. Lebrun was a match for Melville, his wonderful work was driven from that same boiling essence that Melville erupted from & Lebrun was propelled from the same furnace of unyielding probity; they were mighty." [The Gehenna Press: The Work of Fifty Years 1942-1992, #33 (34)]. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else bright and unmarred; drop-spine case shows light sporadic foxing, else bright and clean. Beige cloth drop-spine box with vellum spine; sheets in beige cloth folio with gilted onlay; title page and text in red and black ink; woodcuts gathered within a single-fold untrimmed sheet of Moriki; additional woodcut at colophon. fo [61x44.2 cm (24x17½")]. np. [6 elephant folios (with 2 blanks)]. Numbered limited edition, this being 25 of a total of 150 (see below for details re subsets).…