Lot n° 519

WHITMAN, Walter. Poems from Drum-Taps. Wrenching Times [...]. Wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec. (Wales, Newtown, Powys), Gwass Gregynog (Denis Esslemont), 1991.

Estimation : 900 / 1200
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
In-f°. Bound by James Brockman, Oxford : covers and flat spine covered with painted calf and different coloured leathers suggesting clouds above a landscape, blue gray suede doublures, red leather joints, pale green endpapers, pale blue top edge.
Placed in a blue buckram box. War poems selected by M. Wynn Thomas and illustrated with 9 coloured wood-engravings (8 full-page and 1 tail-piece). Limited edition to 450 copies on Zerkall, 1 of 30 "in a special binding" (n° xxv) with 1 set of the 8 full-page engravings, in colour, signed by the artist, numbered 25/100 and with a edition-stamp.

ENRICHED (?) with a coloured woodcut "originally intented for Wrenching Times", representing a horse lying in a field.
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