Author: (Castellon, Federico). Poe, Edgar Allan.
Title: The Mask of the Red Death. A Fantasy by Edgar A. Poe with Sixteen Lithographs by Federico Castellon.
Description: Baltimore: Aquarius Press, 1969. 1969. LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST CASTELLON - Folio, 15 inches high by 11-1/2 inches wide. Gray buckram backed with a black cloth spine, titled and decorated in gilt on the spine. The book is housed in a gray slipcase also titled and decorated in gilt on the spine. There is minor soiling to the bottom of the slipcase's front panel. 67 pages plus the colophon, illustrated with 16 fine color lithographs by Federico Castellon. Near fine. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies signed by Federico Castellon. "This edition of The Mask of the Red Death is the first publication of the Aquarius Press.. The lithographs were drawn on the stones by Federico Castellon and printed under his supervision at the Atelier of Edmund and Jacques Desjobert in Paris, France, on Rives BFK paper, in 1968. The book is designed by Bert Clarke and the text set in Monotype Walbaum and printed by Clarke & Way in New York City. The binding is by The Russell Rutter Company." -- [Excerpted from the colophon]. Fine .

Keywords: ART; ILLUSTRATED; FINE PRESS; EDGAR ALLAN POE; LITERATURE; FEDERICO CASTELLON; SIGNED; LIMITED EDITION; THE MASK OF THE RED DEATH; COLOR LITHOGRAPHS; PLATES; NUMBERED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; AQUARIUS PRESS; FIRST PUBLICATION; ILLUSTRATIONS.


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