If There Were No Books, There Would Be No ….
Cheloniidae Press, 2019.
Price: $2,950.00
About the item
One of 26 lettered copies, with plates signed by the artist and with two additional plates hand colored by the artist. Suite of 24 plates (12 broadsides and 12 drawings) from relief etchings by Alan James Robinson, printed by Arthur Larson on Crane Lettra. 1 vols. Folio. Cloth portfolio. As new.
Item #317351
Illustrations by Alan James Robinson inspired by classic works of literature, exploring the imagination and the world of books. Robinson interprets the concept “If there were no books, there would be no” … Alice in Wonderland, for example, nor many others, including works by Poe, Melville, nor creations such as Huck Finn, the Hound of the Baskervilles, Unicorns, Hamlet and Ophelia, The Call of the Wild, Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
