Magogmagog, Being Random Examples of the Innumerable Incredible Ideas & Guises of Gog, Ma, Gogma, & Magog. [With nine reverse offset linocuts printed in black onto blue backgrounds (cut to allow the white of the paper to show through, and printed from the offset sheet); text pages with monotypes in white.]

(Gogmagog Press) Cox (Morris)

Published by Crown 4to, 43 leaves (joined at the fore-edges) plus tipped-in note, 29.5cm, Gogmagog Press, London, 1973 (1974).

About this Item

Text set in Matura; title-page in French Antique and Fat Face wood letter, Bodoni Ultra Bold and Figaro; half-title in Bodoni Ultra Bold. Number 55 of 75 copies, signed by Morris Cox, printed in black and various colours (the prints in black with chiaroscuro backgrounds in blue; text pages with monotype patterns in white on the yellow paper) on Japanese yellow Mingei and white Hosho handmade paper. Quarter vellum, printed in black, red and brown up the spine, with brown Ingres paper boards printed with a design in black. Black doubled endleaves; blue and brown patterned pastedown. Acetate dust-jacket. A fine copy. 'Magogmagog' is a book that speaks directly from the heart of Cox in its commendation of the clown and self-satire.

Seller Inventory # 8337

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Magogmagog, Being Random Examples of the Innumerable Incredible Ideas & Guises of Gog, Ma, Gogma, & Magog. [With nine reverse offset linocuts printed in black onto blue backgrounds (cut to allow the white of the paper to show through, and printed from the offset sheet); text pages with monotypes in white.]
• Publisher: Crown 4to, 43 leaves (joined at the fore-edges) plus tipped-in note, 29.5cm, Gogmagog Press, London, 1973 (1974).
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1 kilogram
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Artists' books
  • Fine Press