Accession number
PML 199155
Creator
Dine, Jim, 1935- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbGY8VWgY6tQg4Q7PxJjC
Published
London : Petersburg Press, [1968]
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2023.
Notes
"The original color lithographs, etchings and text pages ... were prepared on zinc and aluminum plates by the artist at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, in February, 1968; and subsequently printed on Velin Arches at the Atelier Desjobert and Atelier Leblanc in Paris. The binding and slipcase for each edition were made by Rudolph Rieser in Cologne. ... Edition A is bound in red velvet with the title blocked in silver on the cover. There are six additional loose lithographs, signed duplicates of those bound in the book. The edition is 200, with 25 artist's proofs."--Printed in colophon.
The Morgan's copy is inscribed in the colophon in pink ink: Edition A [signed] Jim Dine 146/200. Six additional loose lithographs are signed in pencil, as issued.
The Morgan's copy is inscribed in the colophon in pink ink: Edition A [signed] Jim Dine 146/200. Six additional loose lithographs are signed in pencil, as issued.
Description
[52] pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 45 x 32 cm + 1 portfolio (6 color lithographs ; 44.5 x 31 cm)
Summary
An artist's book comprised of a modern typewritten rendering of Wilde's text of the play illustrated throughout with reproductions of Dine's line drawings and manuscript notes and inscriptions; with 12 plates of color lithographs, one of which incorporates a printed vinyl sheet.
Binding
Full red velvet with title blocked in silver on front cover; loose lithographs in black velvet chemise; together in publisher's black cloth slipcase, designed by Rudolph Rieser, Cologne.
Classification
Catalog link
Department