A Complete Catalogue Of The Etchings And Dry-Points Of Edmund Blampied
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1926. Blampied, Edmund. First edition. Hardcover. 28 pages in text. 29 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 47 of 350 including an original signed etched frontispiece by Blampied entitled "The Cooling Stream." 99 plates with lettered tissue guards. An eminent artist born in the Parish of Saint Martin, Jersey in the Channel Islands whose first language was Jerrais, a French/Norman tongue. Elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1938, he produced some 200 etchings and drypoints, and more than 80 lithographs and lithographic prints, many of which depicted rural life in his beloved island of Jersey. He was also a prolific illustrator, appearing in around 50 books and over 600 issues of magazines and newspapers. Laid in is letter on Cleveland Museum of Art stationary noting the exhibition of Blampied sponsored by the Print Club of Cleveland, together with a Catalogue of the Exhibition. Clean, very bright copy, book plate. Orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt. Teg. Fine. Item #19850
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