[Rarebooks] FS: THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS 1/400 copies Illustrated and SIGNED by Jacob Lawrence

[Charles Agvent]

BIBLE (Jacob LAWRENCE). THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS. THE 
KING JAMES VERSION. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989. Large folio 
bound in full midnight blue Japanese cotton. Number 356 of only 400 
numbered copies, SIGNED on the colophon by Jacob Lawrence who has 
contributed 8 original silkscreens to this massive (16" x 22") and truly 
magnificent work, one of the high points of the press. These silkscreens 
are identical, except for not being individually signed, to the very few 
portfolios of eight prints currently selling for upwards of fifty 
thousand dollars. According to the publisher, anywhere from 17 to 21 
screens were required to bring out the coloring of each illustration, 
making a total of 144 separate stencils, all of which were destroyed 
after the strictly limited number of some 400 original sets of prints 
had been achieved on the fine Whatman paper specified by the Osiris 
Printing Studio in New York. The text was printed on a heavy handmade 
paper from Cartiere Enrico Magnani of Pescia, Italy. Monthly Letter laid 
in. A gorgeous book. The clamshell box has a small area of discoloration 
on the front cover; the book is as new. Fine in a suede lined linen 
clamshell box with leather label. (#010529)        $8,500.00

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