Blue Bird - 1919, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 1. Edition 115. Signed in pencil. Initialed and dated in the block, bottom center.

Image size 6 1/16 x 6 1/16 inches (154 x 154 mm); sheet size 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (292 x 222 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream wove paper, with wide margins (1 3/8 to 3 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

Illustrated in Fifty Prints, 1926, AIGA. Collections: AIC; Kent Collection; LC; LAPL; MMA; NYPL; NPL; PMA; PUL; Spector Collection; WM.

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Casanova frontispiece from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt - 1925, Collotype.

Not in Burne Jones. Edition 26. Unsigned.

Image size 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (191 x 133 mm); sheet size 9 9/16 x 8 1/2 inches (243 x 216 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce.

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt was privately published by Aventuros in 1925 in a 12-volume, numbered edition of 1026. This print is from the portfolio of 12 illustrations by Kent which accompanied 26 sets of the deluxe edition.

$600.

Over the Ultimate (Voyager)- 1926, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 16. Edition 110. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 1/2 x 8 inches (140 x 203 mm); sheet size 8 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches (225 x 286 mm).

A superb, black impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 1 7/8 inches). Original brown paper hinge remains on the top sheet edge verso; in excellent condition.

The cancelled block is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Reproduced: Prints and Their Creators, A World History, Carl Zigrosser, Crown Publishers Inc., 1974.

Collections: Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum, Franklin Collection, Metropolitan Musuem of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Library, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz), Spector Collection.

$3400.

Beowulf: Genealogical Tree - 1931, Lithograph.

Burne Jones 71. Edition 150. Signed in pencil.

Image size 12 5/8 x 10 inches (321 x 254 mm); sheet size 22 7/8 x 16 inches (581 x 406 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on Rives off-white wove paper, with full margins (3 to 5 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

Collections: Associated American Artists, NY; Boston Public Library; Burne Jones Collection, Oak Park, Ill; Columbia University Library, NY; Kent Collection, Ausable Forks, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library; Spector Collection, Bronx, NY.

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Beowulf: Beowulf - 1931, Lithograph.

Burne Jones 72. Edition 150. Signed in pencil.

Image size 13 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches (346 x 267 mm); sheet size 22 7/8 x 16 inches (581 x 406 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on Rives off-white wove paper, with full margins (2 3/4 to 5 3/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Collections: Associated American Artists, NY; Burne Jones Collection, Oak Park, Ill; Kent Collection, Ausable Forks, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library; Spector Collection, Bronx, NY.

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Beowulf: Beowulf and Grendel's Mother - 1931, Lithograph.

Burne Jones 74. Edition 150. Signed in pencil.

Image size 13 1/2 x 10 inches (343 x 254 mm); sheet size 22 7/8 x 16 inches (581 x 406 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on Rives off-white wove paper, with full margins (2 7/8 to 4 5/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Collections: Associated American Artists, NY; Burne Jones Collection, Oak Park, Ill; Franklin Collection, Jericho, NY; Kent Collection, Ausable Forks, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; Spector Collection, Bronx, NY.

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Fair Wind - 1931, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 83. Edition 170. Signed and titled Bowsprit in pencil.

Image size 5 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches (137 x 175 mm); sheet size 9 1/8 x 10 7/8 inches (232 x 276 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan, with wide margins (1 1/4 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

One of twelve prints by Kent which were used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. The advertisements ran monthly from July 1930 through August 1931 in a number of national magazines including Spur, Sportsman, Time, Town and Country, and American Mercury.

Collections: AAA, Burne-Jones Collection, Columbia, Franklin Collection, Hermitage Museum, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Kent Collection, Amherst, PMA, Portland Museum of Art, Princeton, Spector Collection.

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Oarsman- 1931, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 86. Edition 150. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches (137 x 175 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 3/8 inches (283 x 365 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 3/4 inches); in excellent condition.

One of twelve prints by Kent which were used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. The advertisements ran monthly from July 1930 through August 1931 in a number of national magazines including Spur, Sportsman, Time, Town and Country, and American Mercury.

Reproduced: Professional Art Quarterly, June 1936; Rhythm, no.3, Calcutta, 1959; and in the portfolio Rockwell Kent, 1882-1971, published by the National Council for America-Soviet Friendship, May 1971.

Collections: AAA; Burne-Jones Collection; Chegodaev Collection, Moscow; Franklin Collection, NY; Kent Collection, NY; Amherst College; PMA; Princeton University Library; Spector Collection, NY.

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