A Mystique of Mummers. Illustrated with 20 colored elimination linocuts, 12 x 17 inches, 22 loose sheets, plus a list of plates and two sheets of notes pasted inside the front and back of the box

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  • London: Gogmagog Press, 1983
By COX, Morris
London: Gogmagog Press, 1983. Chambers 35. First edition of Cox's last collection of prints. Copy number 6 of only 12 sets printed in black, with each linocut individually titled and signed and dated by the artist/publisher. In a quarter-cloth solander box with cork lining, with printed label on the spine, by Gemma O'Connor, and monoprint covers on Japanese paper by Cox. The list of plates and notes are handwritten by John Craig. Chambers/Franklin comment: "Morris Cox in his eighty-first year produced this energetic series of twenty prints, brightly colored in flat tones from linocuts. . . . It is a profound work. . . . If the word means merely actors, he finds them on the stage of history; mankind as mummer playing whatever dominating, automatic, poetic or dominated part the world's destiny designed. This seems therefore to be his epilogue. With twelve sets completed and no gallery exhibiting him, few have seen what he has done..

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Title

A Mystique of Mummers. Illustrated with 20 colored elimination linocuts, 12 x 17 inches, 22 loose sheets, plus a list of plates and two sheets of notes pasted inside the front and back of the box

Author

COX, Morris

Condition

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Publisher

Gogmagog Press: London

Date

1983

Edition

Chambers 35. First edition of Cox's last collection of prints. C


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