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131. Verdigris Press. Lawrence, D.H.
Grapes. Mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. [Octon, France]:
Verdigris, [1999].
$1,500
One of a
few copies, from a total issue of 50, that contain an
additional mezzotint signed by the artist, all copies on
Lanagravure paper. In addition, this special copy is housed
in a specially-made Somerset Black paper clamshell box with
silkscreens of grape leaves in wine red by the artist. Page
size: 7-½ inches x 10-½ inches. Original wrappers in
Somerset Black paper with silkscreens by Judith Rothchild in
wine red, dark gray, and silver gray. Fine. (9840)
132. Verdigris Press. Rouanet, Marie.
Les Jardins Disparus Illustrated by Judith Rothchild.
Octon, France: Verdigris,
2000. $1,600
One of
eight deluxe copies from a limited edition of 50 copies,
signed and numbered by author and illustrator. Deluxe copies
accompanied by an original copper plate, all on Hahnemuhle
paper. Page size: 8-½ x 6-¾ inches. 12 pages. Rouanet’s
imaginative story about “Lost Gardens” is illustrated with
eight original mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Letterpress
printed by Mark Lintott on an Albion press. Bound by Claude
Vallin: leporello binding, tucked into a two-color
screen-printed paper sleeve, this deluxe copy with clamshell
box of same design; both by the artist, fine. This generous,
quiet story begins with a group of fig-laden trees reminding
one of the “jardins disparus” (the lost garden); ambles
through a liminal space of moths and snails and memory and
sun and ends imagining an elusive and transcendent field of
green existing beyond time: “Une epaisseur des taillis, une
sorte de verdure, encouragees par l’humidite cachee, se
souviennent de l’eau et du jardin longtemps apres la mort
des hommes” (a thickness of copses, a sort of green,
encouraged by the concealed humidity, recalls to mind the
water and the garden a long time after the death of man).
Rothchild’s faintly luminous mezzotints of snails evoke a
world just emerging from the soil, as well as one existing
beyond human time. The prehistoric beauty of even these most
simple life forms evoke, according to the epigraph, “la
Geometrie souveraine qui regit le monde” (“the sovereign
geometry which rules the world”). (8282)
133. Verdigris Press. Rouanet, Marie.
Les Jardins Disparus Illustrated by Judith Rothchild.
Octon, France: Verdigris, 2000.
$900
One of
50 copies, signed and numbered by author and illustrator.
All copies on Hahnemuhle paper. Page size: 8-½ x 6-¾ inches.
12 pages. Rouanet’s imaginative story about “Lost Gardens”
is illustrated with eight original mezzotints by Judith
Rothchild. Letterpress printed by Mark Lintott on an Albion
press. Bound by Claude Vallin: leporello binding, tucked
into a two-color screen-printed paper sleeve, with slipcase
of same design; both by the artist, fine. (8281)
134. Verdigris Press. Rouanet, Marie.
Lichens. Mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Octon,
France : Verdigris Press, 2002.
$1,000
One of
50 copies, all on Hahnemuhle paper, signed and numbered by
author and illustrator. Page size: 8-¼ inches x 11-¾ inches,
32pp. Bound: accordion-fold as issued in moss green
Mineralis paper wrappers with title on front panel and on
spine with author and artist’s name in darker green, front
cover and title page embellished with an embossed image of
lichen, slipcase covered in paper with an earthy design,
fine. Lichens an original text is accompanied by nine
mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Through prose and image, the
author and illustrator explore the miniature, earthy world
of lichens. The text is hand set and printed in letterpress
by Mark Lintott. As usual, these are stunning images from
this wonderful artist. (8938)
135. Verdigris Press. Rouanet, Marie.
Lichens. Mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Octon,
France : Verdigris Press, 2002.
$1,700
One of
10 deluxe copies with an extra mezzotint and text hand
written by Marie Rouanet as well as an original copper plate
from a total edition of 50 copies, all on Hahnemuhle paper,
signed and numbered by author and illustrator. Page size:
8-¼ inches x 11-¾ inches, 32pp. Bound: accordion-fold as
issued in moss green Mineralis paper wrappers with title on
front panel and on spine with author and artist’s name in
darker green, front cover and title page embellished with an
embossed image of lichen, slipcase covered in paper with an
earthy design, fine. (9841)
136. Verdigris Press. Sacre, James.
Ecriture aux objets d’encre. Mezzotints by Judith Rothchild.
[Octon, France]: Verdigris Press, 2005.
$750
One of
40 copies, from a total edition of 50, all on Hahnemuhle
paper, each signed in pencil on the colophon by the author,
James Sacre, and the artist, Judith Rothchild. Page size:
7-½ inches by 8-7/16
inches. Bound: black wrappers with original serigraph print
by Judith Rothchild, leporello style, wrappers debossed with
title and four small black squares, matching slipcase with
original serigraph and debossing, black and gray pastepaper
guards, fine. Containing four full-page sequential
still-life mezzotints, commencing with a wood spindle, part
of that object appears in next print with pine cone, pine
cone repeated in third print with shell, part of shell
repeated in last print with another shell that circles in on
itself, in all an intriguing procession. The artist has
pulled all the prints herself. Handset in Vendome romain and
printed on an Albion press by Mark Lintott who has made the
slipcase and sleeve. As usual, Ms. Rothchild has infused the
inanimate objects pictured herein with a life of their own.
Their strong presence compels the reader / viewer ever
forward. (9642)
137. Verdigris Press. Sacre, James.
Ecriture aux objets d’encre. Mezzotints by Judith Rothchild.
[Octon, France]: Verdigris Press, 2005.
$1,250
One of 5
copies, from a total edition of 50, all on Hahnemuhle paper,
each signed in pencil on the colophon by the author, James
Sacre, and the artist, Judith Rothchild. This copy has an
additional print that appears only in the deluxe edition, as
well as an original poem in the hand of the author and
signed by him with his initials and an original mezzotint by
the artist not included in the ordinary edition that
combines the four objects that appear sequentially in the
regular edition. Page size: 7-½ inches by 8-7/16
inches. Bound: black wrappers with original serigraph print
by Judith Rothchild, leporello style, wrappers debossed with
title and four small black squares, clamshell box with
original serigraph and debossing, black and gray pastepaper
guards, copper plate affixed to back of box, fine. (9643)
138. Verdigris Press. Sand, George and
Emile Zola. Vues de Venise. Mezzotints by Judith
Rothchild. Octon, France: Verdigris Press, 2002.
$850
One of
50 copies, all on Hahnemuhle paper, each signed and numbered
by the artist, Judith Rothchild. Page size: 8 x 10 inches;
16pp. Bound: reversible accordion-fold (leporello), covers
of hand-marbled Venetian papers in red, black and gold over
boards; as issued in black slipcase with Venetian paper
accents, title in letterpress in black on marbled paper
insert, fine. Text in French. This book, which is completely
reversible, has on one side a text on Venice by George Sand
and on the other by Emile Zola, each with three Rothchild
mezzotints of doorways, bridges and canals. Sand’s
delightful description of Venice in springtime forms a sharp
contrast to Zola’s grim portrayal of a decadent city in
decay. Like the illustrations themselves, the texts provide
a provocative study of contrasts. An extraordinarily
beautiful book redolent with the eternal allure of Venice.
(8939)
139. Verdigris Press. Sand, George and
Emile Zola. Vues de Venise. Mezzotints by Judith
Rothchild. Octon, France: Verdigris Press, 2002. $1,600
| One of
10 copies, all on Hahnemuhle paper, with an original copper
plate and an additional mezzotint not in the regular
edition, each signed and numbered by the artist, Judith
Rothchild. Page size: 8 x 10 inches; 16pp. Bound: reversible
accordion-fold (leporello), covers of hand-marbled Venetian
papers in red, black and gold over boards; as issued in
black clamshell box with Venetian paper accents, title in
letterpress in black on marbled paper insert, back of box a
bit rubbed else fine. Text in French. (9094) |
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140. Verdigris Press. Stevens, Wallace.
Study of Two Pears / Etude de deux poires. A Poem by
Wallace Stevens with a translation into French by Bernard
Noel and mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Octon, France:
Verdigris Press, 2003.
$1,200
One of
44 copies from a total issue of 50, all on Hahnemuhle paper,
each copy signed in pencil by the artist, Judith Rothchild,
and the printer, Mark Lintott, and hand-numbered in pencil;
the 6 deluxe copies with an original copper plate and housed
in custom-made clamshell box by Mark Lintott. 20pp; page
size: 11 x 11-13/16
inches. Bound: leporello loose in original wrappers that are
green, brown, and gold screen-printed paper by Judith
Rothchild, the title printed in dark green in French and
English on the front and in dark brown on the brown spine,
housed in publisher’s slipcase of the same screen-printed
paper by Rothchild. Judith Rothchild’s mezzotints are
extraordinarily beautiful with 9 separate plates (including
title page) of single and double pears. There are pears
blind engraved on the white spaces of the pages. The text is
hand-set letterpress and was printed on an 1867 Albion press
by Mark Lintott with Wallace Stevens’ English verse in black
and Bernard Noel’s French translation following it in brown.
Judith Rothchild’s affinity for objects from the natural
world - pomegranates, figs, grapevines - is confirmed in
this splendid edition of Wallace Stevens’ verse. It is about
as lovely a book as I’ve seen - the velvety mezzotints
infusing a mystery and wonder for the miracle of this fruit
so taken for granted. Rothchild’s sculptural pears are
indeed what Stevens’ meant when he wrote, “Opusculum
paedagogum. / The pears are not viols, / Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing else.” (9399)
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