Laus veneris

Date Created

1948

Identifier

PR5508 .L3 1948 [Special Collections]

Publisher

Golden Cockerel Press : London

Abstract

The striking line illustrations accompanying Swinburne’s Laus Veneris are by the Dunedin-born self-taught etcher and engraver, John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954). While resident in Paris, Buckland-Wright worked with Picasso; the latter’s influence evident in some of the 50 books Buckland-Wright illustrated. JBW – as he signed himself – had a long and fruitful association with the Golden Cockerel Press. This post-War production was designed by Christopher Sandford and put through the press by R.F. Parsley. It is no. 668 of 750 copies.

Files

laus.jpg

Citation

Swinburne, Algernon Charles and Buckland Wright, John, “Laus veneris,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/7633.