Ars anatomica : a medical fantasia, thirteen drawings
1972 · NY
by Baskin, Leonard
NY: Medicina Rara, 1972. VG+/VG, slipcase slightly soiled but very solid, small crack in slipcase at one joint.. Oversized Portfolio in brown slipcase. [28] pp. 13 full-page drawings. This beautiful portfolio is numbered 785 out of 2500, and signed by Baskin in pencil. Contains a two-page essay by John E. Marqusee and 13 wonderful full-page drawings. Oversized. Introductory text by John E. Margusee./ Limitation page signed by the artist in pencil./ Thirteen lithographs on loosely inserted pages, folded in half, bearing original private watermark in bottom left corner. Each folded page numbered with Roman numerals./ Prints produced from Baskin's original pen and ink drawings, signed and dated. Plate IV has an bright orange washed background and plate VI has a brown wash./ Quarter red art canvas and laid paper elephant portfolio covered boards with a red backstrip. Gilt lettering on spine and front board. In slipcase./ "Twenty-five hundred single suites have been placed in boxed portfolios covered in a Bugra laid paper, and have been numbered in arabic numerals 1-2500"--Preliminary page./ Portfolio boxes created at the bindery of Richard Mayer, Stuttgart, West Germany. Printed at the Curwen Press, Ltd. London. Paper specially made and manufactured by E. Towgood & Sons, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England.--Page preceding title page. (Inventory #: 167674)