Wood engravings for poems of Shelley / Richard Shirley Smith.
Published / Created:
[Cambridge?] : [Limited Editions Club?], [1971?]
Physical Description:
42 prints : wood engraving ; 24 x 16 cm + 1 paperboard box
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts MSS 17 Moss no. 92Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View finding aid for the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0017
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Shirley Smith's engravings were executed for: The poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, selected, edited, and introduced by Stephen Spender (Cambridge : Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Printing House, 1971).The set of engravings are issued in publisher's paperboard box, which is covered in paper of a foral design; the top of the box bears the publisher's printed title label.Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 92Bain, I. Wood engravings of Richard Shirley Smith, 165-210BAC: British Art Center copy set of engravings is no. 7 of 25. The engravings have been removed from the publisher's original box and individually matted (see Section IV of the Moss collection).BAC: From the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith."Boxed set of forty-two of the forty-six Shirley Smith engravings for the Shelley project [Bain nos. 165-206] printed on individual sheets of Japanese paper by the artist in a limited edition of 25 boxed sets, numbered and signed ..."--Moss.