Details
The Vigil of Venus: Pervigilium Veneris, [translated by F. L. Lucas], [London]: GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS, 1939, 4°, limited to 100 copies printed for subscribers on Batchelor hand-made paper, Golden Cockerel type, 18 copper-engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright, original yellow morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slipcase. [Reid A33; Pertelote 141]; together with JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT'S PROOF COPY on unbound sheets, with copious pencil notes and markings and the full set of engravings laid down.
The artist's notes reveal the painstaking attention he gave to layout, particularly as regards the relationship between illustration and text. In The Vigil of Venus, he used the technique of combining pure line-engraving on copper with tints etched by the sugar aquatint process for the first time.
The artist's notes reveal the painstaking attention he gave to layout, particularly as regards the relationship between illustration and text. In The Vigil of Venus, he used the technique of combining pure line-engraving on copper with tints etched by the sugar aquatint process for the first time.