RICHARD HAMILTON, C.H. | Microcosmos (plant cycle) (L. 39)

The rare etching with drypoint, aquatint and engraving, 1950, from Growth and Form, printing with plate tone, signed in pencil, numbered 10/20, Lullin notes that there were scarcely more than ten impressions printed, printed and published by the Artist at The Slade School, London, on unbleached Arnold paper

With full margins, in good condition, minor paper discoloration, a few pale fox marks and minor surface soiling in the margins and verso, slight creasing at sheet edges, the sheet glued to backboard at invervals with associated skinned spots along edges verso *(verso partially examined), framed.
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