A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens, introduction by Paul Davis, with 50 relief prints in colors by Ida Applebroog, signed, 1993. $3,000.00
Publication 42
Dickens' Christmas Carol was first published in 1843. The Arion edition marks its 150th anniversary and honors this perennial favorite with a treatment that is traditional and contemporary by turns. Paul Davis is Professor of English Literature at the University of New Mexico and an authority on Charles Dickens. His introduction traces the history of illustrated editions of the Carol. The artist Ida Applebroog has achieved wide-spread recognition for her appropriated images in paintings, drawings, and prints. She pays homage to earlier illustrators of this classic while making familiar depictions of Scrooge, the ghosts, and Tiny Tim into new works of art in her own style.
FORMAT
10 by 13 inches, 116 pages. The types are Gloucester Old Style and Cheltenham Bold, handset, printed in black, red, and green inks. The drawings were printed from photopolymer plates in brown and yellow inks. The paper is French mouldmade Rives heavyweight. The binding is full green cloth, with inset paper panels on front cover and spine, in a cloth and paper slipcase. Numbered and signed by the artist. Edition of 200 copies. An extra suite of eighteen hand-colored prints by Applebroog was issued with the book, which forms a tableau when the mounted prints are stood up on their folding stands. The images are in black ink with tints in watercolor of purple-grey, dusty rose, and pale yellow. The prints vary in size within 10 by 13 inches. Contained in a cloth box. Limitation panel numbered and signed by the artist. Edition of 25 copies, sold with the book.
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