Wood engraving prints for published works

Title

Wood engraving prints for published works

Shelfmark

MS. 21920/64

Summary

Original housing labelled by Richard Shirley Smith as:

'A45, Rochester proofs, Shelley and Chesterfield proofs, very good proofs' (folder 3)

'10b, RSS Ephemera, Non duplicates, 1st Set, Bodleian, Box II, A10' (folders 4-6)

'A100, W/E Prints, Wood engraving prints, V: good proofs and line drawn bookplates, untrimmed' (throughout, in acid-free paper labelled 'fine proofs')

Comprises:

Folder 1: Prints for Prospect (Bain: number 32), Vines (Bain: number 257) and A Newman Companion to the Gospels (not listed in Bain)

Folder 2: Prints for Enchanting Paths to Paradise (Bain: numbers 285-288)

Folder 3: Page proofs and prints for The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Bain: numbers 167- 175, 178-180, 182-183, 187-188, 190-199, 201-202, 204-207 and 209-210)

Folder 4: Prints for Messer Pietro Mio (Bain: numbers 266, 268, 270, 273-274 and 278-280)

Folder 5: Dust jacket and cover designs for Metamorphoses, The English Church 1000 to 1066, Helmet and Wasps, Memoirs of a London Doll, Margaret Clitherow, When April Came and The Gourmet's Garden, with a review of The Gourmet's Garden in 'Wine and Food' magazine (Bain: numbers 10, 41, 45, 47, 48, 68, 75, 77, 84, 121, 123, 124, 126, 130 and 131)

Folder 6: Prints for The Periodical, Oxford University Press (Bain: numbers 161-164)

Date

1961-1967, 1970-1971, 1985

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (6 folders)