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BENSEMANN, LEO - Engravings on Wood
Estimate:
$350 - $550
Sold
$850
Timed Auction
174: Rare Books
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BENSEMANN, LEO
Engravings on Wood.
Edited by Peter Simpson and signed by him. The Holloway Press 2004. Limited edition this copy No.7 of 100 copies. It consists of 22 wood-engravings by Leo Bensemann (1912-1986), The artist’s original blocks were loaned to the Holloway Press by the Bensemann family, and the engravings printed directly from them, a method of printing wood-engravings pioneered in New Zealand in the 1940s by The Caxton Press in the 1940s, the firm in which Bensemann was a partner and printer. Folio [390mm], bound in black cloth with silver blocking. Fine.
Provenance: Estate of John Edgar.
Engravings on Wood.
Edited by Peter Simpson and signed by him. The Holloway Press 2004. Limited edition this copy No.7 of 100 copies. It consists of 22 wood-engravings by Leo Bensemann (1912-1986), The artist’s original blocks were loaned to the Holloway Press by the Bensemann family, and the engravings printed directly from them, a method of printing wood-engravings pioneered in New Zealand in the 1940s by The Caxton Press in the 1940s, the firm in which Bensemann was a partner and printer. Folio [390mm], bound in black cloth with silver blocking. Fine.
Provenance: Estate of John Edgar.
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