Lot 128
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Jones, David

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • Jones, David
  • The Book of Jonah, taken from the Authorized Version of King James I. Golden Cockerel Press, 1926
  • ink on paper
4to, number 159 of 175 copies, wood-engraved title-vignette and 12 illustrations by David Jones, 4 full-page, original white buckram, collector's folding case, occasional slight spotting in lower margins

Literature

Chanticleer 40; Cave and Manson pp.49-51.

Catalogue Note

This was the third volume in the Golden Cockerel Press Bible series. David Jones needed quite some considerable time working on the blocks for The Book of Jonah but produced "engravings of a tremendous power, in which the harmony between the designs and the type was managed with great skill".