Studio Book. 50 Original Colourprints.[Reverse/direct prints from a great variety of materials and in a great variety of styles.]

(Gogmagog Press) Cox (Morris)

Published by Narrow 4to, 28cm, 68 leaves (joined at the fore-edges), Gogmagog Private Press, Dartmouth Park Road, London, 1980.

About this Item

Text set in Rockwell; display in Extended Egyptian wood letter, French Antique, Bodoni Ultra Bold Italic and Figaro, with a linocut of the author's signature; captions in Gill Sans. One of just 35 copies printed in black (the title-page in black and red; the press-marks in brown; the prints in many colours) on Japanese Hosho and Kuso-shi papers. Natural silk boards with designs printed in brown on the front. Cloth label on the spine. Reddish-brown endpapers. Slipcase covered in paste-patterned paper. A fine copy. 'This brilliant performance has the appearance of a retrospective exhibition of work across half a century, showing every technique of colour-printing which we have come to know in his work; but these are, as the sub-title explains, '50 Original Colourprints', and the Introduction mentions they 'were all conceived, made and printed within the course of one year's extensive work'. Morris Cox follows his custom of giviving titles to each print, perhaps from whatever a chance result suggested to him, continuing thus the notion of blind drawings or reticulation of a cracked plate. In his Introduction we have the longest most revealing of all his explanations as to method and discovery, a brief artistic memoir.' (Chambers 33). Seller Inventory # 12682

Bibliographic Details

Title: Studio Book. 50 Original Colourprints.[...

Publisher: Narrow 4to, 28cm, 68 leaves (joined at the fore-edges), Gogmagog Private Press, Dartmouth Park Road, London, 1980.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)

Edition: 1st Edition