Roy Bailey
(1933-2002)
"Woodcuts and Words" album, 1962
Edition 62/300
The complete album comprised of 10 woodcuts in colors or black and white on Kinwashi rice paper, hors-texte, each pencil signed, "R. Bailey," numbered in the lower margin, and tipped to their original Arche paper support sheets from the verso of their upper margin corners; together with the series of printed poems by L.S. Davidson, Jr., the colophon numbered "62" in red pencil, and the title pages, all on Arches paper, together with the original interleaving tissues; the album bound as issued within beige fabric-covered boards with the printed title and spine; Roy Bailey and L.S. Davidson, Jr., prntrs.; The Winter Months Press, Nantucket, MA, pub.
Largest woodcut (on rice paper) sheet: 14 1/4 x 9 1/8in; Bound (Arches) sheets: 15 x 11 1/8in

Provenance:
Property from the Anni & Arthur Lipper III Collection, Del Mar, CA

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Album overall: 15 1/4 x 11 5/8 x 1/2in
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