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Mallarmé.L'Après-Midi d'un Faune,1/50,1935

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letter C of 50 copies with an extra suite of 5 experimental engravings and a note on the edition by Mary Buckland Wright, 4 collotype plates of drawings by John Buckland Wright, book-labels of Pamela Lister and The Garden (Haven O'More) on front paste-down, original pictorial cream sheep, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine yellowed and lightly soiled, additional plates and printed note loose as issued in cloth envelope, together in cloth slip-case, a little rubbed, [Reid A73], 4to, The Hague [and London], 1935 [1956].

***A posthumous publication on which Buckland Wright had been working for twenty years; the work was intended to be the third publication by J.B.W. Editions and the text was printed by Mouton & Co. of the Hague in 1936. Always fascinated by the classical Pan or faun figure, the artist experimented with different media for the illustrations but was never satisfied; the drawings reproduced in the book would probably have been turned into line engravings or etchings. Although 50 copies of the text were printed only 25 copies were ever bound and issued. The Golden Cockerel Press issued an English version translated by Aldous Huxley in 1956, in an edition of 200 copies (see lot 140)..

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