Aftermath.

(Centaur Press.) COOK (J. Kingsley)

Aftermath.

Seven Poems and Wood Engravings from drawings made in London and Bristol after the air raids of the Second World War.

Description: 3/4 COPIES (from an edition of 100 copies) signed by Cook, printed on BFK Rives paper, each illustration with press device blind-stamped to bottom corner, these special copies with prints of two of the engravings on Japanese silk paper ('The City Church' and 'The Greening'), each numbered and signed by Cook, ff. 16, large 4to, deluxe binding of full red morocco, the upper board with silver lettering label, backstrip lettered in silver, edges untrimmed, the book and folders containing extra prints together in cloth and board slipcase, fine

Publication Details: The Centaur Press, 1986

Notes: Laid into this copy, along with an invoice and the original prospectus, are four letters from the artist to the book's original owner, explaining that he only had two copies of this special edition bound and they sold more readily than anticipated, then apologising for the delay in getting further copies back due to the binder not having stock of the red goatskin required; present are the four samples of alternative colours offered by Smith Settle, but Cook counsels against this hasty solution. The book's original owner, Anthony Dowd, was a collector of and authority on bindings.A work concei...moreLaid into this copy, along with an invoice and the original prospectus, are four letters from the artist to the book's original owner, explaining that he only had two copies of this special edition bound and they sold more readily than anticipated, then apologising for the delay in getting further copies back due to the binder not having stock of the red goatskin required; present are the four samples of alternative colours offered by Smith Settle, but Cook counsels against this hasty solution. The book's original owner, Anthony Dowd, was a collector of and authority on bindings.A work conceived, at least in its visual element, during the Second World War, when Cook began making drawings of bombed buildings in London and Bristol whilst on leave from the Merchant Navy; he began work on the engravings after the war and continued into the 1980s, adding poems at that point. Cook studied at the Royal Academy, and was taught engraving by Noel Rooke at the Central School of Arts and Crafts; his work is impressive. HIDE

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Price: £700

Subject: Private Press

Published Date: 1986

Stock Number: 72146

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