PISSARRO, Lucien. ERAGNY PRESS. [CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK]. ~ Notes on the Eragny Press, and a Letter to J.B. Manson.
One of 500 copies. 11 wood engravings, 9 of which were printed from the original blocks in the Ashmolean including a page in colour form The Queen of the Fishes, the opening four block colour print from Riquet a la Houppe, the five block engraving from C’est Aucassin et de Nicolette and the four colour with gold roundel from the Livre du Jade. Pp. 52. 8vo., original quarter grey paper with Eragny floral paper covered boards, Pissarro’s name printed in blue on the spine with two printer’s ornaments. An extremely good, fresh copy with one small mark on the upper cover.
Brooke Crutchley wrote of this remarkable fine Cambridge Christmas book that “it may well be the best of the series” being a tribute to the great printing work of Lucien Pissarro. The text is printed here for the first time having been found in the papers of James Bolivar Manson, onetime Director of the Tate Gallery.