Ecclesiastes or The Preacher. Deluxe Edition.
1967107998Folio. Paris: The Trianon Press 1967. Folio 23 ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards. 8 full-page original color lithographs by Shahn. De luxe edition with additional two original prints signed and numbered by Shahn a full set of all 8 plates and 28 progressive states for plate 5 in cloth backed board portfolio with ties. A fine copy in a sunned and lightly worn box with marbled boards and gilt-titled morocco backstrip. § One of 26 deluxe editions on Arches rag paper lettered A-Z this being copy H. Ben Shahn 1898-1969 enjoyed a long career as a social realist artist and left wing visionary widely recognized for his murals paintings commercial illustrations and photography. His rendition of the Book of Ecclesiasties was a deeply personal undertaking; the beautifully embellished calligraphic text in English and Hebrew is also his work and like the illustrations was reproduced by the Trianon Press by a mixture of collotype and hand-stenciling. The Trianon Press hardcover books
