° ° Rivers, Elizabeth - This Man: A Sequence of Wood-Engravi...

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° ° Rivers, Elizabeth - This Man: A Sequence of Wood-Engravings, number 89 of 200 on Corinthian Fine Text paper, 4to, original parchment, with pictorial cover 24 black and white plates, printed and bound by Theodore Besterman and F.J. Coton at The Guyon House Press, London, 1939, together with prospectus, the verso printed with a further engraving of plate 5, ‘’a woman’s son’’. Note: It appears probable that the bomb responsible for the destruction of The Guyon House Press, in 1940, might have been the same air raid that resulted in the loss of most copies and all the illumination blocks for Rivers’ This Man. (Exceptional Woodcuts from Elizabeth Rivers, Irish Art Review, Winter 2006. p. 66).

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Lt. marked and e/ps. spotted, o/w good, copy no. 89; the binding is a little bowed. Provenance private collection East Sussex

Binding 'bowed', covers lightly marked, endpapers spotted, copy no. 89, also inserted Paul Melloy Centre relevent 7pp. 4to print-out (Peter and Renate Nahum Collection Copy)

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