Introduced by Christopher Buckland Wright. 16 engravings printed from the original blocks and 10 tipped in illustrations of Buckland Wright prints One of 210 ordinary copies. Printed in orange and black in Van Dijck type on special Magnani mould-made paper. Folio, original mustard yellow quarter cloth over JBW designed patterned paper covered boards. In the original slipcase and housed in a later protective card folding box. The third of the series of books on Buckland Wright's engravings from the Fleece Press, containing all the surrealist and abstract engravings from the artist's time in Paris and from London during and just after WWII. The printed paper for the binding is from his design for the binding of his Marriage of Cupid and Pysche.

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Title: Surreal Times. The Abstract Engravings and Wartime Letters of John Buckland Wright.
Publisher: Fleece Press, Upper Denby
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover

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