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Oblong folio 67 ps. 15 full page B&W etchings by Ayrton. Text in French except for the editorial note by Cleverdon. Designed and printed by the Circle Press Guildford in monotype Bembo 270. Mould-made paper. #42 of 85 copies signed and numbered by the artist. 1/4 green Morocco and marbled boards. gilt lettered spine. In cloth covered labeled slipcase. Internally fine. Marbled board has some scuffs that have been touched up. Slipcase shows some wear.
Femmes / Hombres. With... etchings by Michael Ayrton by VERLAINE, Paul - (1972).
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London: Douglas Cleverdon for the Arcadia Press, (1972).. Limited edition, no. 45 of 85 copies signed by Ayrton from a total edition of 100 copies, oblong folio, xii, 69, (3) pp. 15 illustrations. Original gilt titled green quarter morocco, t.e.g., cloth slipcase with some light marks, otherwise fine.
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Femmes/Hombres: with 15 etchings by Michael Ayrton
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Femmes / Hombres with Fifteen Etchings By Michael Ayrton
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London: Douglas Cleverdon for the Arcadia Press, 1972. Quarter green morocco over marbled boards, gilt title, t.e.g., housed in cloth slipcase. (16" x 11 1/2"). Limited number 53 of 85 copies. 67 pages (french text); illustrated with 15 full page etchings by Michael Ayrton. SIGNED by artist on limitation page. "Designed and printed by the Circle Press Guildford in Monotype Bembo 270. Etchings printed at Studio Prints London. Mould-made paper from Barcham Green Kent 1972. Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) wrote three secret collections of verse, of which Femmes and Hombres remained almost unobtainable even in France until the 1970s. These strangely unrespectable poems celebrate the pleasures of sex, with women and men respectively, in loving detail." A clean, tight and bright copy. Size: Oblong Folio. Signed. Limited.. Leather. Fine. Illus. by Michael Ayrton. Private Press.
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