BOOKS ON THE ARTIST WILL BARNET
Cole, Sylvan [ed.]. WILL BARNET: Etchings, Lithographs, Woodcuts, Seriagraphs 1932-1972, Catalogue Raisonné. Unpaginated with 146 b&w illustrations and a pamphlet-sized supplement. 4to, wraps. New York, American Artists Gallery, 1972.
Item nr. 47604
$ 125.00
BARNET, Will. A Wave. By John Ashbery. Illustrated with 8 lithographs by Will Barnet. Small folio, publishers' linen binding in a matching folding box by Claudia Cohen. New York: 451 Books, 2002.
One of an edition of 90 copies signed by Ashbery and Barnet. The first book from 451 Books, designed by Sasha Cutter and Charles Miller and printed at the Grenfell Press. This new book has to be one of the most felicitous examples of bookmaking in recent times. All the elements of the book combine to form a truly harmonious whole from the hand-made paper to the elegant type-face designed by Eric Gill in the twenties, to the superb series of lithographs and Claudia Cohen's elegantly restrained binding. The poetry of John Ashbery is perfectly complemented by Barnet's prints.
Item nr. 104495
$ 2,500.00
ASHBERY, John. A Wave . Suite of 8 lithographs by Will Barnet. Small folio. Publishers' linen folding box by Claudia Cohen. New York: 451 Books, 2002.
One of an edition of 30 copies, with each of the lithographs signed by Barnet. This suite of signed prints was issued to accompany the edition of Ashbery's A Wave, published by 451 Books in an edition of 90 copies. A Wave is the first book from 451 Books, designed by Sasha Cutter and Charles Miller and printed at the Grenfell Press. This new books has to be one of the most felictous examples of bookmaking in recent times. The poetry of John Ashbery is perfectly complemented by Barnet's elegantly restrained prints.
Item nr. 104496
$ 3,500.00
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