The Soul Cage. An Irish legend retold in 20 wood engravings and some words.
Dublin. The Dolmen Press. 1958. Hardcover. 12mo, 18.5cm, 20,1p., limited to 50 signed copies, numbered 1 - 50, and 450 ordinary copies numbered 51-450, This being number 44, signed Tate Adams, in light blue green cloth, gilt spine titles, decorations and gilt ruled designs on the upper cover, decorated endpapers, inner linen hinges, binding is near fine, internally fine condition. Miller 30. Tate Adams made this sequence of wood engravings in Ireland during a visit and, at the same, made the first experimental four-colour linocuts which led to our edition of Riders of Sea, eleven years later. Tate Adams (1922-2018), Australian artist. 'Soul Cages' was his first published volume of engravings; he was to establish the print department at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1960, and set up his own Lyre Bird press in 1977. In 2009 he was named a Member of the Order of Australia for 'service to publishing and to the arts, particularly through contributions to the development of printmaking in Australia'. Item #40212
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