BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)


MALLARMÉ (STÉPHANE) L'après-midi d'un faune, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF 5 ENGRAVED PLATES BY BUCKLAND WRIGHT, this copy "E", 4 collotype plates, typescript leaf of text by Mary Buckland Wright, and the suite of additional plates loose as issued in cloth sleeve, original vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt-blocked with illustration designed by Buckland Wright on upper cover, together in original slipcase, small folio, [John Buckland Wright & the Golden Cockerel Press], 1935 [1956, colophon dated 1972]
|A posthumous publication on which John Buckland Wright had been working for twenty years. Originally planned to be the third publication by the artist's own imprint (J.B.W. Editions) the text was printed by Mouton & Co. of the Hague in 1936, but due to his being not satisfied with the illustrations was not issued at this time. Fifty copies of the text were printed, but only 25 copies were ever bound and issued.