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'We have done very well': John Buckland Wright and his eleven wood engravings for The Collected Sonnets of John Keats

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    A. Stols and J. Buckland Wright on their The Collected Sonnets of John Keats

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English translation of C. van Dijk's 1995 book on his excerpts from the (English) correspondence 1929 - 1930 between A.A.M. Stols and John Buckland Wright on their collaboration on John Keats “The Collected Sonnets” (The Halcyon Press 1930, Reid A1). Plus a 7 pp. Note on the suite of rejected wood engravings with 11 ills. of all 6 rejected engravings and their 5 replacements by W. Keizer. Each copy has a full-size facsimile of the 1930 Stols prospectus for the Keats Collected Sonnets laid in.

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    • Oosterhesselen: De Klencke Pers
    • Amsterdam: Graphis Books, 2015

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    • "The English translation of We have done very well and A note on the suite by Willem Keizer was printed in 20 copies on 120 gsm. Biotop paper in 2015. All the texts by Stols, Buckland Wright and Van Dijk are printed in Malgun Gothic to distinguish them from the texts by Keizer, which are printed in Times New Roman. The quotations from the letters of John Buckland Wright and Alexandre Stols are the original English texts"--Colophon of the translation.
    • This publication appeared in May 1995 as the eighth volume of the Lettersnider-reeks in 40 copies"--Colophon.
    • "In 1930 A.A.M. Stols published The Collected Sonnets of John Keats as the seventh volume in the series The Halcyon Press The book derives its attractions especially from the eleven illustrations that John Buckland engraved for it in wood. It was printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen and Jan van Krimpen functioned as the book architect"--Title page verso.
    • Accompanied by a sheet of an illustration of John Buckland Wright from the Collected sonnets of John Keats and an except from the List of the Halcyon Press editions, Halcyon Press, Maastricht 1934/5.

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