The English poet John Keats was a favourite of JBW’s; another was A. C. Swinburne (1837-1909). The white-line engravings for Swinburne’s Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) are remarkable examples of JBW’s mastery over the burin. As he well knew (and wrote about), there could be no accidental or haphazard conceptions; the end result as clean and sharp as the point of the tool used. Dolores was a commissioned work, printed by Stols for the private Dutch collector Baron Emil van der Borch van Verwolde.

‘Dolores’, from Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dolores. First edition. Privately printed by A. A. M. Stols, 1933. Private Collection.

http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/jbw/cabinet18.html

                       

First Edition, Figure no. 4 by John Buckland-Wright
An illustration from ‘Dolores, A1gemon Charles Swinburne(1933)’

From: John Buckland-wright (1897-1954) dolores (cbw.a.44) the very rare set of eleven wood-engravings, 1933, the second edition, privately printed by AAM Stols for Emile, Baron van der Borch van Verwolde, on laid japan paper, all with the estate stamp verso, with full margins, in good condition, 245 x 165mm. (11)

http://www.bloomsburyauctions.com/detail/655/20.0