J.G. Lubbock: 'The Sphere of Rocks and Water', London, Bertr...

Hammer

£320

J.G. Lubbock: 'The Sphere of Rocks and Water', London, Bertram Rota, 1983, limited edition, one of 80 copies only, this copy numbered 19 and signed by Lubbock to the limitation page, designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 10 colour plates by Lubbock as called for (mainly double page), each tissue guarded and printed from copper-plates worked by aquatint, etching, and engraving, 50pp, folio, original quarter blue morocco gilt over blue pictorial cloth gilt by George Percival at Leicester, top edge gilt, others uncut, original acetate dust wrapper, original patterned paper covered slipcase. Joseph Guy Lubbock (1915-1929) moved to Suffolk in 1963, around the time he turned his full attention to painting and writing. His work drew on the beauty of the Suffolk landscape of his home near Woodbridge: the river, reed beds and marshes, the shingle banks and beaches. His travels to the remoter parts of the world, including the Himalayas, the Galapagos Islands and the Antarctic, were also a great influence on his work