Lamentations of Jeremiah.
Newtown, 1933. 10 x 15. Sixteen leaves with 5 full page and 14 half page dramatic wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Bound by Don Glaister, in 2001, in dark gray Niger goatskin, blind-tooled in a framed geometric pattern with onlays of aluminum and mylar, and areas of sanded leather; all edges polished graphite. Signed in blind with a gold dot at rear leather hinge. Fine, in felt-lined clamshell box. Item #10945
One of the great 20th c. private press books, bound by one of the most dynamic American binders. In his "Notes on the Binding," Don discusses the essential elements of Blair Hughes-Stanton's images, and how those images are represented in his binding. Figures in a tiled cityscape wave their arms as if in pain or grief. A figure hovering over the others appears to be a spirit, or God. "The mostly black art deco illustrations are mechanical in their stylized rendering."
No. 132 of 250 copies printed in Baskerville Italic on Japanese vellum, running titles in blue. The text comes from Dr. Scrivener's Paragraph Bible, by consent of The Cambridge University Press.
Price: $18,000.00