[Rarebooks] FS: ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD ENGRAVING IN NORTH AMERICA, 1/50 lettered copies

[Charles Agvent]

AINSLE, Patricia & RITSCHER, Paul.  ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD 
ENGRAVING IN NORTH AMERICA
Barbarian Press (Mission, British Columbia) 1994 First Edition.  Quarto 
7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in full black leather with patterned endpapers 
and contained in a black morocco-backed drop-back box with the sides 
covered by the same patterned paper.  Of a total edition of 430 copies, 
this is one of only 50 lettered copies of this magnificent production 
with each of the 121 engravings, each by a different artist, printed 
from the block.  SIGNED by the publishers, Crispin and Jan Elsted, on a 
page bound before the colophon page, this smaller limitation also 
includes a numbered and SIGNED tipped-in frontispiece engraving by 
RosemaryKilbourn.  The 121 contemporary Canadian and American artists 
represented include the little known as well as giants such as Leonard 
Baskin, John DePol, Michael McCurdy, and Barry Moser.  A beautiful book 
and a great reference work.  Fine in drop-back box, as issued, of this 
important book.      $3500.00
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