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The Poems of Jules Laforgue

Item date(s): 1973

Jules Laforgue  - (poems by)
Patrick Caulfield  - (illustrated by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 16x14 inches
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: # A121/200


Place publication: London
Publisher: Petersburg Press

Additional notes:
A book containing 12 poems by Jules Laforgue and 22 screenprints by Patrick Caulfield presented with a sleeve containing 6 separate screenprints.

Illustrated on page 18 of Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967-1988 by Donna Stein, 1989.

Illustrated as Lot 38 of The Ritter Collection of Modern Illustrated Books and Livres d'Artiste, Swann Auction Galleries, 5/5/09.

See also GB/1095, a facsimile published by the Arts Council Collection, London, 1995

Reference note:
From bookseller's description:

Edition A of 220. Signed and numbered in pencil by Caulfield on the statement of limitation page and on the verso of the 6 loose prints. There was 220 copies of edition A printed in English, 220 copies of edition B printed in French, and a portfolio edition C of 120, each of these plates were loose, had wide margins and were signed on the recto. The loose signed plates in edition A are titled:

Ah! This Life is So Everyday;

She Fled Along the Avenue;

You'll Be Sick If You Spend All Your Time Indoors;

All These Confessions;

Oh Helen, I Roam My Room;

She'll Have Forgotten Her Scarf.

Cristea:

38a, 38c, 38f, 38h, 38o, 38q. Folio. Original blue-grey leatherette boards, with a blue-grey leatherette portfolio containing 6 loose screen prints, together housed in a blue-grey leatherette slipcase. The book is illustrated with 22 full page (40.2 x 35.2 cm.) screen prints on 200 gsm Neobond synthetic paper. With a separate suite of 6 loose screen prints (40.2 x 35.2 cm.) on the same paper.

Ref: GB/3609







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