Ann Brunskill (10 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. This is a signed artist's proof etching by Ann Brunskill, featuring a cat on a sofa. The cat sits with its back to the artist, its tail gently hanging down over the front of the sofa. The colours in browns and reds. The sheet measures 62 × 45cms. The plate mark (image) measures 41 × 29cms. It is unframed. Undated, late 20th century. Signed by Ann Brunskill lower right, and titled by the artist lower left. Ann Brunskill (1923-2018), was a printmaker, publisher, painter, and etcher. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art & Design (1959-62). She established her own printing label, The World's End Press, using a Lion platen press to create her own books. Her artwork consisted of etching, woodcutting, painting and construction. She added more colour to her printing process for books by using woodblocks painted with watercolour and printed in a Japanese method. She also worked with digital images. She has exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Crafts Centre in London. Her work can be found in the V&A, National Library of Australia, Government Art Collection, The British Library, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Condition: The etching is in very good condition, with some light crinkling to the edges and margins. It will be sent in a postal tube. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

First Edition. 31 x 22 cm No. 45 of an edition of 120 copies, set in Bembo 12 point, printed on a Lion hand press, signed in pencil by the illustrater and translator. Decorated boards, fine copy, in clothbound slipcase.

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto-size. Original illustrated pictorial boards, as issued, in a black cloth slipcase. Fine. A traditional Tuscan tale, translated by Attlee, well-told in a spare style. With wonderful hand-coloured wood block illustrations by British artist, Ann Brunskill (a printmaker, in the "livre d'artiste" style, who originated The Worlds End Press in 1971). Printed in a small edition (this being #91 of 120 copies) set in Bembo 24 point, printed on a Lion Hand Press. Signed by the artist on the limitation page. …

21 x 18cm. A complete set of 13 loose illustrated cards with biographies of participating craftspeople including musical instrument makers, jewellery designers, book-binders, etc. Produced to accompany Man-made, a residency at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 29th to 31st December 1976. Each card illustrates an object in the Museum selected by one of the participants, relating it to their own work. Also includes tri-fold event guide (designed by Michael Martin and printed by The Soman-Wherry Press, Norwich, for the V&A), listing the artists: lutemaker Stephen Gottlieb, book-binder Adrian Pasotti, wood engraver John Lawrence, etcher and hand-made book designer Ann Brunskill, calligrapher Ann Hechle, glyptic artist Nik Lambrinides, jeweller Matthew Tomalin, potter Ray Silverman, tapestry weaver Archie Brennan, ecclesiastical embroiderer Jennifer Boyd-Carpenter, handweaver and spinner Barbara Mullins, lace-makers Kathleen Riley, Margaret Susans (and students), and embroiderer Diana Springall. Also includes other Victoria & Albert event brochures: Linda Parry's 'William Morris: Designs for Printed Textiles' (1978) and Jean Hamilton's 'Twentieth Century Wallpaper' (c.1978). Good condition.…

1st edition. Hardcover. Green morocco spine and decorative blue boards, a little wear at the corners, stiff card pages very clean. Woodcuts throughout by Ann Brunskill. Limited edition of 100 copies, this no 20 signed and numbered by the artist. Very scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Look Back, by Ann Brunskill. Hardcover (no jacket, as issued). Limited to 150 copies, this signed, dedicated and hand-numbered 22/150 by Brunskill at rear. Excellent condition, with no notable faults; text and images are clear. TS. Signed by Author. Used. …

After producing a portfolio of plates titled 'Aphrodite', Brunskill purchased a nineteenth century Lion platen press built for Frederick Ulmer. 'The Romaunt of the Rose' was the second book printed on the press, with type composition by Edward Ash. The poem was started in French by Guillaume de Loris in 1237 and translated by Chaucer shortly thereafter. Edition limited to 75 copies, with an original double page etching signed by the artist, 290mm x 410mm, 54 pages printed on De Wint handmade paper, edges uncut, blind blocked frontis, vibrant pictorial boards; a fine copy.…

French Text by Guillaume de Lorris. Etchings by Ann Brunskill. Folio, publisher's full white vellum by Bert Set, in slipcase. First edition; No. 5 of 75 copies, signed by Ann Brunskill; and one of 25 with seven original etchings. A few slight marks to the vellum; boards very slightly bowed; light spotting and use to slipcase.…

FIRST EDITION, 12/300 COPIES signed by the artist, printed on watercolour paper, 20 colourprinted illustrations by the author, the text printed in blue to facing versos, pp. [ii], 42, crown 8vo, original quarter blue cloth, illustrated boards, corners of lower board slightly bruised, original Press invoice laid in, near fine. Late work by the artist, illustrating her short fairy tale; it was the first of her work to be digitally printed, a method which has given a vivid tint to her illustrations.…

painted wooden box with string-hinged panels to close; inside, a wooden tree construction flanked by wooden sun and moon painted in gold and silver respectively and suspended by string; titled, initialled and dated on the painted wooden platform, the artist's title-label to rear aong with another (exhibition?) label, 15 x 43cm [the box at 22cm], very good condition. An intriguing object from a versatile artist who printed and published books under her World's End Press imprint. Brunskill was trained at the Chelsea School of Art & Design and subsequently taught at the Rochester School of Art in the 1970s - beginning to print books in this period, but continuing following her move to Ashford at the start of the next decade.…