Pattern Paper Curwen by Lowinsky Thomas (2 results)
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A SPECIMEN PAPER BOOK OF PATTERN PAPERS DESIGNED FOR AND IN USE AT THE CURWEN PRESS
CURWEN PRESS; NASH, Paul; BAWDEN, Edward; MARX, Enid; RAVILIOUS, Eric; CARTER, Harry; JAMES, Margaret; LOVAT FRASER, Claud; RUTHERSTON, Albert; LOWINSKY, Thomas; HOPPÉ, Emil Otto
Published by London: The Curwen Press for The Fleuron Ltd., 1928
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- First Edition
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United KingdomLUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA)
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Add to basketFirst edition. Limited edition. Quarto. Publisher's original white cloth printed in black with a wood engraving design by Paul Nash, title in black to the spine. Title page vignette, head-piece and decorated initial letter by Edward Bawden, coloured in green and pink. With 31 sheets of pattern papers printed at The Curwen Press,… 10 of which are produced from wood engravings. Each sheet is folded twice and uncut to the folded edge, as issued. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with bumping to the spine tips and corners and rubbing to the black printed design at the edges. The contents, with a little offsetting to the endpapers and the occasional finger mark to the margins of the introduction, are otherwise fine, bright and fresh throughout. Issued in an edition of 145 copies for sale in the UK, from which this example is numbered 49. There was also an edition of 75 copies issued by Random House for sale in America. With an eight page introduction by Paul Nash in which he relates the history of patterned papers. A beautiful volume. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Published by Curwen Press, London, 1997
Seller: Lott Rare Books, Banstead, SRY, United KingdomLott Rare Books
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Add to basketLithograph. Condition: Fine. Decorative Pattern Paper designed by Thomas Lowinsky for The Curwen Press, 1928. This example is from the Curwen Studio Archive and is printed on GREY Ingres Fabriano paper in MID-BROWN ink at Curwen Chilford Prints 1997 from Elizabeth and Robert Simon's collection (Robert Simon is the son of Herbert… Simon and nephew of Oliver Simon). The excellence of the printing in quality ink on fine paper imbues the full size sheet (20" x 25" approx) with the distinction for which the Curwen Press is celebrated. In his autobiography, Oliver Simon writes, "A group of artists became interested in drawing or engraving designs for a series of pattern papers which The Curwen Press initiated in 1923 for bookbinding covers and endpapers. The sheets, measuring 20" x 25", were printed lithographically". Writing about Curwen Press pattern papers Paul Nash states they are, "a humble part of the endless contribution to decoration which forms one of the most absorbing studies in the history of aesthetics". The sheet is in perfect condition. Thomas Lowinsky (illustrator).
