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4:00 AM PT - May 15th, 2009
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Quennell (Nancy, editor) A Lover's Progress: Seventeenth Century Lyrics, number 213 of 215 copies, title printed in black & gold with cockerel by Buckland Wright, text with initials in red, this copy extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with 55 erotic original drawings in pen and ink over pencil, 6 full-page, contemporary vellum with double gilt rule border, t.e.g., others uncut, preserved in wrapper, [Pertelote 135], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938.***A unique copy of this work. A note by the artist on colophon reads, "with fifty-five drawings made by J.B.W. in Sept.-Nov.1939. J.B.W." One of several extra-illustrated books executed by Buckland Wright as a distraction during the war: "The book selected would be one printed on hand-made paper, with ample margins and spaces, or with blank pages bound in. Original pen-drawings were then added...The subject matter of these erotic poems [A Lover's Progress] and the ample spaces where each lyric ends made it most suitable. With wit and delicacy and charm the artist added drawings...There is a whole world of enchantment in these pictures. The pastoral backgrounds alone, with all their trees and streams and glades and little flowers, are a delight. The lovers are vintage Buckland Wright." Reid p.21. ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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