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21 Algernon Charles Swinburne
Laus Veneris
England: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Stk. PR
5508 L3 1948.
The striking line illustrations accompanying Swinburne’s Laus Veneris
are by the Dunedin-born self-taught etcher and engraver, John Buckland-Wright
(1897-1954). While resident in Paris, Buckland-Wright worked with
Picasso; the latter’s influence evident in some of the 50
books Buckland-Wright illustrated. JBW – as he signed himself
– had a long and fruitful association with the Golden Cockerel
Press. This post-War production was designed by Christopher Sandford
and put through the press by R.F. Parsley. It is no. 668 of 750
copies. |