Other notable Lawrence limited editions include the Archer and Black Sun editions of Sun (1926), the numerous expurgated and unexpurgated (“definitive”) editions of Pansies (1929), and the Black Sun Escaped Cock (1929).
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From the mid-1920s onwards he published a series of limited editions, some of them signed, with various publishers, most famously Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) in a signed edition of 1,000 (Lawrence was essentially both author and publisher of Lady Chatterley). Lawrence died on 2 March 1930.Ģ On 30 August 1929 Lawrence wrote Hughes-Stanton that writers and artists had to “work for the limited-edition people now-it’s the only way to make money” ( 7L 457). Although the publisher’s statement for the Cresset Press Birds, Beasts and Flowers, illustrated with wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, gives the date of publication as June 1930, the English Catalogue lists April for the 30 copies on hand-made paper and May for the 500 “ordinary” copies on mould-made paper (Roberts/Poplawski 101). Two years later Thomas Seltzer published a trade edition of Sea and Sardinia, featuring reproductions of eight paintings by Jan Juta. Eighty of the 200 copies are hand-colored. Published on hand-made paper in an edition of 200, Bay is illustrated with ten zinc block engravings by Anne Estelle Rice. Beaumont in 1919, was Lawrence’s first fine press, limited edition book. The World War I poetry sequence Bay, issued by C. During his lifetime he published two books illustrated by artists. Lawrence had lived a few more months, the Cresset Press Birds, Beasts and Flowers would have been the third fully illustrated book he had seen through the press.
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