A Book of Automatic Drawings

SPARE, Austin Osman

Verlag: Teitan Press, [York Beach], 2011

Beschreibung

[York Beach], Teitan Press, 2011 (a 'reissue of the Abbey Mills paper printing' of the Catalpa Press edition of 1972 [in fact, 1973], a facsimile of the original 1925 manuscript). Folio (438 × 313 mm), [40] pages (printed rectos only) with 16 pages of automatic drawing (some partially in colour) comprising 'calligraphic titles, signature & other devices together with self portraits & allegorical frontispiece' by Austin Osman Spare. Quarter black cloth and black papered boards lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover; a fine copy. Number 133 of 350 copies. Loosely inserted is an explanatory booklet (12 pages, small quarto) by Keith Richmond, not least untangling the complex publishing history of this work.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 143561

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Book of Automatic Drawings
• Verlag: Teitan Press, [York Beach]
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Art
  • Occult