Timothy Cole: Wood-Engraver (with letters from Timothy Cole to Bella Landauer) + Considerations on Engraving by Timothy Cole (Two volumes)
New York: The Pioneer Associates, 1935. Limited edition. Hardcover. Signed by Alphaeus and Margaret Cole! Limited edition, this no. 36 of 750 copies, 1935, hardcover with blue cloth boards, large octavo, 172pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild soil and wear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked with some foxing to top edge of text block. No DJ, but in protective mylar wrap. With several handwritten notes from Timothy Cole to Bella Landauer on the completion of a woodcut Christmas card she had commissioned from him. Bella Landauer singlehandedly pioneered the field of ephemera collecting in the early 20th century and her collection occupies a whole room at the NY Historical Society. Every year she would print a Christmas card adorned with either an original image or reprinting one of the images from her collection. Nice group of letters outlining the close relationship between the well known artist and one of his patrons. Considerations on Engraving in good condition with spine worn and torn, Landauer's plate to front pastedown, in original onionskin wrap that is torn in several pieces, with two small stickers to front panel. Very Good+. Item #B31592
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