Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
lushlight: Ecclesiastes : Eragny Press : Lucien and Esther Pissarro showing heavy influence fom The Vale Press- Charles Ricketts I could spend hours reposting images of his most delightful woodcuts- I am lucky enough to own a few- however the catalogue raisonne is The woodengravings of Lucien Pissarro & a bibliographical list of The Eragny Press-Lora Urbanelli: Silent Books/Oxford/Ashmolean Museum 1994) in itself a delightful book
Eragny Press (1894 - 1914) Choix De Sonnets De Pierre De Ronsard by Pierre De Ronsard, 1902 One of 226 copies on Arches paper The book was bound in paper block printed by Pissarro. http://www.elstonpress.com/Eragny.html
The Eragny Press ELP: Esther & Lucien Pissarro. http://www.elstonpress.com/Eragny.html
Eragny Press (1894 - 1914) Choix De Sonnets De Pierre De Ronsard by Pierre De Ronsard, 1902 One of 226 copies on Arches paper One of the more dramatic of Eragny’s title pages. http://www.elstonpress.com/Eragny.html
lushlight: Eragny Press : Printers Device
lushlight: Areopagitica-Milton : Frontispiece-Eragny Press For Yama-Bato Lucian Pissarro (Camilles eldest son) set up a small Press in London -1894 he was influenced by the Arts&Crafts printers of the day and was befriended and patronised by Charles Ricketts- he used Vale type for most of the thirty or so catalogue- all pocket sized and beautifully bound by his wife Esther via adissertationlushlightwrotemanymanyyearsago.com
Vale Press (1896 - 1905) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 1901 one of 310 copies printed on handmade paper Decorated by Charles Ricketts http://www.elstonpress.com/vale.html
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