David Hockney

The complete portfolio, comprising 39 bound etchings and 6 loose etchings, 1969, signed in pencil, inscribed 'Ed A', and numbered 78/100 on the justification page, each loose print also signed in pencil, inscribed 'Grimm Ed. A' and numbered 78/100 in brown ink on the verso, published by Petersberg Press, London, on Hodgkinson handmade wove paper with DH/PP watermark, with the original blue leather-bound book, portfolio, and slipcase, as issued (45 prints)

The prints are in good condition, with full margins. Several of the loose prints have a vertical crease alongside the upper portion of left sheet edge (A wood landscape, The sexton disguised as a ghost, and Rapunzel growing in the garden), Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair has a single tiny rust fleck in the sky in the image. The portfolio slipcase is worn at the edges.
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