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PRIVATE PRESS

The Collection of the late P.J.R. Catterall
Lot 335

ROTHENSTEIN (MICHAEL)
Suns + Moons... with Accompanying Poems Chosen by the Artist, NUMBER 32 OF 85 COPIES, signed by the artist on the colophon, 8 colour-printed woodcut plates each signed in pencil, 8vo, 4to and folio; and approximately 41 others, mostly small private presses, including Stourton Press, Lion and Unicorn Press, Skelton's Press, Libanus Press, Caliban Press; and 11 volumes of "Parenthesis. The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association", including de luxe limited copies of Nos. 4, 5, 10, 13, 15, and 17 (c.55)

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ROTHENSTEIN (MICHAEL)

Suns + Moons... with Accompanying Poems Chosen by the Artist, NUMBER 32 OF 85 COPIES, signed by the artist on the colophon, 8 colour-printed woodcut plates each signed in pencil, loose as issued (with original prospectus) in publisher's cloth portfolio solander box, 1972--[CARTER (SEBASTIAN)] In the Beginning, NUMBER 8 OF 25 COPIES, signed by Carter, printed in colours on hand-made paper, with original prospectus (announcing price of £1000) loosely inserted, original wrappers, solander box, 2006, Cambridge, Rampant Lions Press, 1972--THOMAS (DYLAN) Deaths and Entrances. Illustrated by John Piper, LIMITED TO 268 COPIES, colour off-set lithographed plates, publisher's morocco-backed cloth, slipcase, Gwasg Gregynog, 1984--CLARKE (GRAHAM) The Gooseman and Other Poems, NUMBER 14 OF 75 COPIES, 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates by the author, original leather, Ebenezer Press, 1974--BETJEMAN (JOHN) Metro-Land, LIMITED TO 220 COPIES signed by the author and illustrator, lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte, publisher's cloth in original case, Warren Edition, 1977--MARX (ENID) An ABC of Birds & Beasts, NUMBER 164 OF 300 COPIES on mould-made paper, from an overall edition of 375, publisher's patterned fabric, Clover Hill, 1984, 8vo, 4to and folio; and approximately 41 others, mostly small private presses, including Stourton Press, Lion and Unicorn Press, Skelton's Press, Libanus Press, Caliban Press; and 11 volumes of "Parenthesis. The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association", including de luxe limited copies of Nos. 4, 5, 10, 13, 15, and 17 (c.55)

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