Search Results: ecclesiastes or the preacher by shahn ben illustrator

Grossman Publishers / Trianon Press, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Folio. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1967. Folio, (23) ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards. 8 full-page original color lithographs by Shahn, as well as an original print signed and numbered by Shahn. Fine in a slipcase. Minor wear to tips of slipcase. § Limited to 200 copies on Arches rag paper this being unnumbered. Manuscript pages and illuminated chapter headings reproduced by collotype and stencil.

Folio. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1967. Folio, (23) ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards. 8 full-page original color lithographs by Shahn, as well as an original print signed and numbered by Shahn. Fine in a slipcase. § Limited to 200 copies on Arches rag paper this being unnumbered. Manuscript pages and illuminated chapter headings reproduced by collotype and stencil.

Folio. Paris: The Trianon Press, [1966?]. Folio, (23) ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards with slip case. Slipcase is white boards with discolored photograph of the cover illustration glued on, but detaching. Rough photographs and facsimiles of the pages, once glued in place, now mostly detached. Glue stains and discoloration on pages throughout. Scattered pencil notes on scraps of paper loosely inserted. Inscribed at front endpaper “Binding Beautiful, B.S.” in pencil, with a loose sheet at front with the word “Wonderful” in pencil. § Ben Shahn’s copy of the mock-up of the Trianon Press edition of Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher.

Folio. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1967. Folio, (23) ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards. 8 full-page original color lithographs by Shahn plus additional material (see below). A fine copy in a sunned and lightly worn box with marbled boards and gilt-titled morocco backstrip. § One of 26 deluxe editions on Arches rag paper lettered A-Z, with additional two original prints signed and numbered by Shahn, a full set of all 8 plates, and 28 progressive states for plate 5 in cloth backed, board portfolio with ties. This is copy H. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) enjoyed a long career as a social realist artist and left wing visionary, widely recognized for his murals, paintings, commercial illustrations and photography. His rendition of the Book of Ecclesiasties was a deeply personal undertaking; the beautifully embellished calligraphic text in English and Hebrew is also his work and like the illustrations was reproduced by the Trianon Press by a mixture of collotype and hand-stenciling.