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Ravilious (Eric) Four Wood Engravings...Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, one of 120 sets, Fleece Press, 1998 & another Ravilous wood-engraving (2)

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Ravilious (Eric) Four Wood Engravings...made in 1933 for the Golden Hours Press' Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, one of 120 sets, each 270 x 200mm., loose as issued in original wrappers, Fleece Press, 1998; Garden Memories: a Wood-Engraving, number 72 of 200 initialled in pencil by Anne Ullmann (the artist's daughter), sheet 300 x 210, loose with mount in original wrappers, [Church Hanborough], Previous Parrot Press, 1994, 4to (2)

⁂ The second print was used as an illustration to Thomas Hennell's Poems published by OUP in 1936. Hennell replaced his missing friend Ravilious as a war artist in Iceland in 1942 but later disappeared himself during unrest in Jakarta in 1945. The woodblock came to light during a clear-out of the old Oxford College of Technology, Art and Commerce which had been given some equipment by the Oxford University Press.

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Ravilious (Eric) Four Wood Engravings...made in 1933 for the Golden Hours Press' Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, one of 120 sets, each 270 x 200mm., loose as issued in original wrappers, Fleece Press, 1998; Garden Memories: a Wood-Engraving, number 72 of 200 initialled in pencil by Anne Ullmann (the artist's daughter), sheet 300 x 210, loose with mount in original wrappers, [Church Hanborough], Previous Parrot Press, 1994, 4to (2)

⁂ The second print was used as an illustration to Thomas Hennell's Poems published by OUP in 1936. Hennell replaced his missing friend Ravilious as a war artist in Iceland in 1942 but later disappeared himself during unrest in Jakarta in 1945. The woodblock came to light during a clear-out of the old Oxford College of Technology, Art and Commerce which had been given some equipment by the Oxford University Press.

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