Legge Willow (9 results)

Card Covers. Condition: Near Fine. Legge, Willow (illustrator). Signed Limited Edition. Signed limited edition. [16 pp]. Cream card covers with blue lettering to the front cover. Leaves uncut and edges rough. With eight blind-embossed illustrations by Willow Legge, and her signature to the edition notice at the rear of the binding. No. 46 from a Limited Edition of 85. A little edge wear to the covers, and a few minor markings to the covers. The poem Delicious Babies' is taken from Penelope Shuttle's 1992 collection 'Taxing the Rain'. 0901380709 4to. Limited Edition.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Booklet, stitched. 30cm x 20.5cm. [8]pp. This 1st edition is a limited edition of only 100 copies, signed by Willow Legge. Printed on 300 gsm Somerset rag-made paper. Covers are a little edge worn. Clean inside. Signed by Author.

Two relief prints by Willow Legge. One of 100 signed copies printed by the artist on 300 gsm Somerset rag-made paper. Large 8vo., fine in the original printed brown wrappers. 1.

No binding. Condition: Fine. Folio. 9 bifold sheets + 1 half-sheet, an additional print signed and numbered by the artist. Illustrations of sea creatures are blind-embossed throughout, and provide textural and visual contrast to Legge's colorful silkscreens. The harmonious integration of two illustration techniques nicely echoes the folktale's explanation of the relationship between the sun and moon as they emerge from the ocean. Sheets held loose in clamshell box. Fine. One of 200 copies. Signed by the artist.

Condition: Good. Folio. 38 x 29 cm. 15 x 11.5 inches. One of 50 signed and numbered copies. Original cloth portfolio. Adaptation of an Efik Ibibio folktale illustrated with 18 blind-embossed intaglio designs printed from carved linoleum with some silk screen. Text printed letter-press in 30 pt Baskerville. 200 copies, 45 proofs - ten unbound 4 pp sections - 38 x 29 cm on Somerset mould-made paper in canvas-coloured solander box with a blocked crab motif.Willow Legge is a British artist best known as a portrait sculptor. She studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1950s. From 1987 to 2000 she worked at Madame Tussauds, London, making portraits of celebrities. So how did this portrait sculptor come to create an artist's book? Her venture into the realm of artists' books arose from her marriage to and collaboration with fellow artist Ron King, who established Circle Press in 1967, an artistic enterprise focusing on fine art books that continues today. In addition to An African Folktale Legge made three other artists' books at Circle Press: The Flea (1977), The Gnat and the Lion (1980), and Delicious Babies (1995).Bibliography:Courtney, Cathy. The Looking Book: A Pocket History of Circle Press 1967-96. London: Circle Press, 1996.Dayrell, Elphinstone. Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa. London: Longman, Green, 1910; reprinted New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969, folktale 16, pages 64-65.Radin, Paul, editor. African Folktales and Sculpture. New York: Bollingen Foundation; distributed by Pantheon Books, 1952, reprinted 1964, folktale 5, page 41.

Blind-intaglio print of a flea printed on pure white artist's paper, loose in the original grey letterpress printed folder with title on upper cover. Signed by the artist in pencil. Image size 230 x 160 mm. Paper size 325 x 233 mm. This print originates from Willow Legge's work 'The Flea' with the Circle Press, founded by Ron King. She studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1950s, is a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors and from 1987 to 2000 worked as a portrait sculptor at Madame Tussauds, London.

Blind-intaglio print of a crab printed on pure white artist's paper, loose in the original grey letterpress printed folder with title on upper cover. Signed by the artist in pencil. Image size 180 x 190 mm. Paper size 325 x 232 mm. This print originates from Willow Legge's work An African Folktale with the Circle Press, founded by her husband Ron King. She studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1950s, is a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors and from 1987 to 2000 worked as a portrait sculptor at Madame Tussauds, London.

Blind-intaglio print of a shrimp printed on pure white artist's paper, loose in the original grey letterpress printed folder with title on upper cover. Signed by the artist in pencil. Image size 175 x 165 mm. Paper size 323 x 235 mm. This print originates from Willow Legge's work 'An African Folktale' with the Circle Press, founded by Ron King. She studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1950s, is a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors and from 1987 to 2000 worked as a portrait sculptor at Madame Tussauds, London.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [Guildford, Surrey]: Circle Press, 1979. No. 26 of 200 copies signed and numbered in pencil by Legge at front, and again to loose leaf at rear. [2], 25, [5]pp. Nine unbound bifolia, 15 x 11-1/4 in., the last housing a single leaf. First three sections with mild crease at base near spine; light spotting to blind intaglios on pages 9 & 15; a few leaves with mild vertical warping, primarily at edges. Very good or better. In a cloth-covered solander box with embossed spine titles and front cover motif in brown. Adaptation of an Efik Ibibio folktale, as blind intaglioed, screen printed, and letterpressed on heavy rag paper. Willow Legge (b. 1934) is a British artist and sculptor, and the wife of Ron King, who founded Circle Press in 1967. One of several bookworks on which the couple has collaborated, and an expectedly handsome production.