Henry Moore, O.M., C.H.

The complete portfolio, comprising 18 lithographs, 1973, each signed in pencil and numbered 68/75, on mouldmade Hodgkinson paper with the WHA and HM watermarks, printed and published by Petersburg Press, London in 1974, contained in the original lithographed folder, and red-cloth covered portfolio; together with The British Museum 1974 exhibition catalogue AUDEN/MOORE POEMS/LITHOGRAPHS

With full margins, in good condition apart from an occasional soft handling crease in the margins, a few sheets with discoloration (as detailed below), the portfolio with minor surface scuffs and wear at the corners. C. 250 a prominent pale mottled fox mark in centre of lower margin. C. 253 a small area of tiny rust flecks at lower sheet edge right. C. 256 two mottled fox marks in the lower left margins, showing through recto from verso, a third at deckle lower right edge. C. 259 tiny rust flecks at the lower sheet edge. C. 270 very pale mottled fox marks verso are showing through in the image recto C. 271 tiny rust flecks along the lower sheet edge, pale mottled fox marks verso, not visible recto. C. 272 areas of mottled foxing in the margin recto and through the verso.
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