[Rarebooks] Offering: Eragny Press

[Michael John Thompson]

THE ERAGNY PRESS

Lucien and Esther Pissarro founded the Eragny Press in 1894. The 
press was named after the Pissarro family's home town in France. 
Lucien, a wood engraver, created the illustrations and set type, 
while Esther did the bookbinding. Friends of Charles Ricketts of the 
Vale Press, the Pissarros used Vale type for many of their books and 
collaborated with Ricketts and his publishers on some projects. The 
press produced over thirty books before it closed in 1914.

We offer:

BINYON, Laurence.

DREAM COME TRUE. Poems by Laurence Binyon.

The Brook, Hammersmith: The Eragny Press. April, 1905.

185 copies printed of which this is one of 175 copies printed on 
Arches hand made paper with the Eragny watermark, 150 of which were 
for sale. A further ten copies were printed on vellum. Woodcut 
frontispiece by Binyon; the decorations designed by Lucien Pissarro & 
engraved by Esther Pissarro. 28 pp. Printed in black, red and green 
in 'Brook' type; bound with gray paper spine, specially printed 
decorative paper boards, printed title label on front panel. Small 
mark to inner margins of p. 20 & 21; endpapers browned as usual, 
binding just a touch bruised, a very good, attractive copy.

$400.00 US net, postpaid

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