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.