LAUS PICTORUM. PORTRAITS OF NINETEENTH CENTURY ARTISTS INVENTED AND ENGRAVED BY LEONARD BASKIN.
Leonard Baskin
Artist's BiographyLaus Pictorum. Portraits of Nineteenth Century Artists Invented and Engraved by Leonard Baskin.
1969
Very good condition, missing title page. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 14491
Price: $2,000.00 Publisher : Gehenna Press, Northampton, Leonard Baskin, set of 15 signed in pencil and inscribed "AP." The prints are 10 wood engravings and 5 etchings, 12 in paper mats, 3 not matted. Includes text on each portrait, wood engraving of a crow on pomingrate on colophon page. Promotional flyer laid in. Signed colophon, folio, in leather backed clamshell case.
From colophon:
"The edition of Laus Pictorum is arranged as follows: one hundred copies have a double set of portraits, both sets matted, numbered I to C: seventy-five copies have in addition to a matted set an extra suite of the portraits and are numbered CI to CLXXV: one hundred & seventy-five copies have a single set of matted portraits and are numbered 1 to 175. A group of Artist's sets are lettered A to ZZ All prints are signed. Harold McGrath was the pressman. . ." Books , Monographs , Artists B
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