The Equilibriad
Freud, Lucian. Sansom, William
London. The Hogarth Press. 1948
Lucian Freud's illustrations for William Sansom's Kafka-esque novella.
From the edition limited to 750 copies, signed and numbered by Sansom in turquoise ink.
Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) provided illustrations for Nicholas Moore's 'The Glass Tower' (1944) before illustrating the present work. The illustrations after Freud's original drawings are instantly recognisable as his work. Freud provided no further illustration for any subsequent books.
From the edition limited to 750 copies, signed and numbered by Sansom in turquoise ink.
Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) provided illustrations for Nicholas Moore's 'The Glass Tower' (1944) before illustrating the present work. The illustrations after Freud's original drawings are instantly recognisable as his work. Freud provided no further illustration for any subsequent books.
[24 leaves + 5 inserted leaves of plates on different paper; pp. 45, (i)]. 8vo. (224 x 148 mm). Half-title, leaf with justification, printed title in red and black, copyright verso, leaf with Sansom's dedication to Osbert Sitwell and Sansom's text with three-line opening initial in red and illustrated with 5 full page monochrome illustrations, all recto only after Freud's original drawings, final leaf with printer's credit verso. Original publisher's black buckram-backed marbled paper-covered boards, title gilt to spine.
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