Description

A complete collection of books issued by the press (including 3 additional variant copies and a specially bound copy of 'Magogmagog' by James Brockman with all the drawings, proofs and linocut blocks), with 10 of the photocopy library items and 3 of the 5 pre-Gogmagog books (lacking only Mirabelle in the Spring, 1923 and Three Sequence: A Study in Block Montage, 1934), plus several items of ephemera/prospectuses, correspondence and a deluxe copy of the PLA bibliography, limited editions (most limited to fewer than 100 copies, those of the photocopy library limited to fewer than 10, a few unnumbered), most signed by Morris Cox and all with illustrations by him, all in the original bindings, in excellent condition, v.s., 1933-86. The books comprising: Pre-Gogmagog Press Towards Civilisation. A Sudy in Block Montage, number 5 of 16 copies, spine rubbed and faded, 1933 The Whirligig, and other poems, with dust-jacket (spine faded and defective at head), 1954 Selected Early Poems (The Whirligig), 17/35 copies, 1970 Gogmagog Press Yule Gammon, number 1 of 20 copies, 1957 The Slumbering Virgin, 33/45, 1958 A Bird's World, 7/10, 1959 9 Poems from Nature, 9/35, 1959 The Curtain, 7/26, 1960 War in a Cock's Egg, 3/26, 1960 Chimneypots, by Pantopuck the Puppetman, 14/50, 1961 Conversation Pieces, 48/50, 1962 A Mediaeval Dream Book, 4/100, 1963 The Lost Fisherman, a child's story, by Frank Cox, 41/45, 1963 Crash! An Experiment in Block-making and Printing, 2 copies: 1/15 specials and 1/65, 1963 A Web of Nature: A Printbook illustrating a Principle, 16/50, 1964 Mummers' Fool, 13/60, 1965 An Impression of Winter; Spring; Summer; Autumn: A Landscape Panorama, 4 vol., 95c, 90, 63 & 42/100, 1965-66 14 Triads, 7/40, 1967 The Warrior & the Maiden, 60/65, 1967 An Abstract of Nature, 14/26, 1968 Forty-five Untitled Poems, 12/50, 1969 Poems 1970-1971, 28/50, 1972 Magogmagog, 2 copies: 65/75 bound by James Brockman in 1976 with a complete set of all the drawings and proofs and a bound volume of the actual linocut blocks; another copy, 73/75, 1973 Gogmagog...A Checklist...by John Craig, 28/50, 1975 From a London Suburb, 19/24, 1975 Colourprints, 5/15 in box by Gemma O'Connor, 1975 Young Legs Eleven, 2/25, 1976 Winter Trees, 2/25, 1977 Intimidations of Mortality, 84/90, 1977 Blind Drawings, 2 copies: 22/30 on Hodgkinson handmade paper and 38/45 on Japanese Mingei handmade paper, 1978 My Mysterious Father, part of An Infant's Library by Society of Private Printers, 1978 A Feminity of Nudes, 4/5 unnumbered artists' sets, this for Gemma O'Connor, box by O'Connor, 1979-80 Studio Book: 50 Original Colourprints, 29/35, 1980 A Lay of Landscape, 4/10 artists' sets, box by Gemma O'Connor, 1981-82 A Mystique of Mummers, 4/10 artists' sets, box by Gemma O'Connor, 1983 Gogmagog Photocopy Library Night Drawings, 1/5, 1984 The Complete Poems 1921-1971, 1/5, 1984 Drafts (Poetry), 1/5, 1984 Graphic Sheaf, 10/84: 26 Drawings, 4/6, 1984 Paaris: Adventures in Darkest Africa, 1/5 (unnumbered), 1985 Lil Lilla Beloved, 1/5 (unnumbered), 1985 Olio: Miscellanea written between 1922 & 1939, 1/5 (unnumbered), 1985 Original 'Blind' Drawings 1978/1980, 1/5 (unnumbered), 1985 20 Collages (3rd Series), 1/8 (unnumbered), 1986 Oneiric Sketchbook, 1/7 (unnumbered), 1986 Chambers, Franklin & Tucker. Gogmagog: Morris Cox & the Gogmagog Press, 2 vol., number 4 of 6 copies with 20 additional specimen leaves, from an edition limited to 69 and signed by the author, Pinner, 1991 Correspondence comprising: 7 T.Ls.s. from Morris Cox to Philip Ward dated 1960-66 concerning the books and orders, and 3 T.Ls. from Ward to Cox dated 1965-66, plus T.L.s. dated 1985 from Cox to the South African collector Corrie Guyt who supplied silk for some of the Gogmagog bindings. A detailed list of the collection is available on application.

***A superb collection of one of the most personal and idiosyncratic of private presses, the work of the artist/printer Morris Cox; one of only a few complete sets..