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Bosman (Herman Charles) & Skotnes (Cecil) THE ROOINEK (Special Private Edition) with ONE WOODCUT
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Bosman (Herman Charles) & Skotnes (Cecil) THE ROOINEK (Special Private Edition)
Johannesburg
1981
4to (330 x 245 mm)
with ONE WOODCUT IN COLOUR
and FOURTEEN WOOD ENGRAVINGS
by CECIL SKOTNES
Half title page, colour woodcut as frontispiece, title page, 14 wood engravings each signed and numbered in pencil and with onion paper guards, uncut page edges (lightly foxed), quarter green morocco with patterned marbled paper sides, contained in a matching paper covered slip case with leather lips.
The colophon reads:
“The Rooinek” by Herman Charles Bosman firstappeared in “The Toulier”, Johannesburg, in January-February 1931, and is included in the collection“Mafeking Road”.
Acknowledgements are due to Mrs Helen Lake and toHuman and Rousseau Publishers, Cape Town, forpermission to reproduce copyright material.
This private edition, with 1 original woodcut in colourand 14 original woodcut engravings by Cecil Skotnes,each signed and numbered by the artist, is limited to:
75 copies numbered 1 to 75
10 artist’s proofs numbered AP I to AP X
and 8 hors commerce numbered HC I to HC VIII
This copy is number 12
All graphics are printed from original blocks on Zerkall Buetten paper by Egon Guenther
The text hand set in 24 point Bemboby Nicholas Pasotti and printed by Egon Guenther
Each copy is hand bound in quarter Oasis goatskin by Peter Carstens
Johannesburg May 1981
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of Herman Charles Bosman's poignant story Cecil printed fourteen wood engravings and one woodcut in colour at Egon Guenther’s, for an edition limited to 75 copies. (http://cecilskotnes.com/the-rooinek/)
Johannesburg
1981
4to (330 x 245 mm)
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Bosman (Herman Charles) & Skotnes (Cecil) THE ROOINEK (Special Private Edition)
Johannesburg
1981
4to (330 x 245 mm)
with ONE WOODCUT IN COLOUR
and FOURTEEN WOOD ENGRAVINGS
by CECIL SKOTNES
Half title page, colour woodcut as frontispiece, title page, 14 wood engravings each signed and numbered in pencil and with onion paper guards, uncut page edges (lightly foxed), quarter green morocco with patterned marbled paper sides, contained in a matching paper covered slip case with leather lips.
The colophon reads:
“The Rooinek” by Herman Charles Bosman firstappeared in “The Toulier”, Johannesburg, in January-February 1931, and is included in the collection“Mafeking Road”.
Acknowledgements are due to Mrs Helen Lake and toHuman and Rousseau Publishers, Cape Town, forpermission to reproduce copyright material.
This private edition, with 1 original woodcut in colourand 14 original woodcut engravings by Cecil Skotnes,each signed and numbered by the artist, is limited to:
75 copies numbered 1 to 75
10 artist’s proofs numbered AP I to AP X
and 8 hors commerce numbered HC I to HC VIII
This copy is number 12
All graphics are printed from original blocks on Zerkall Buetten paper by Egon Guenther
The text hand set in 24 point Bemboby Nicholas Pasotti and printed by Egon Guenther
Each copy is hand bound in quarter Oasis goatskin by Peter Carstens
Johannesburg May 1981
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of Herman Charles Bosman's poignant story Cecil printed fourteen wood engravings and one woodcut in colour at Egon Guenther’s, for an edition limited to 75 copies. (http://cecilskotnes.com/the-rooinek/)
Johannesburg
1981
4to (330 x 245 mm)
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