The Sketchbooks (Folio Society Limited Edition)

VAN GOGH, Vincent (intro. Marije Vellekoop & Renske Suijver, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam). The Sketchbooks: A Facsimile of the Artist's Sketchbooks in the Collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. London: The Folio Society in association with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2013.

Quarto. Mid-brown cloth solander box with paper cover, letterpress-printed title label and gilt spine titling, lined with hand-marbled paper by Jemma Lewis. The solander case itself is a facsimile of the actual display box used by Van Gogh Museum curators in 1970. Contents: Sketchbook One, bound in light brown vegetable parchment with ink-splattered page edges, 96 pp; Sketchbook Two, quarter-bound in black cloth with raised corners and black paper covers, 42 pp; Sketchbook Three; Sketchbook Four (largest, approximately half unused, with blank and torn pages faithfully reproduced); a full commentary volume cataloguing and explaining the sketches; a companion booklet, "Looking Over the Artist's Shoulder"; a folder containing facsimiles of loose leaves from the collection; loose-leaf colophon. Facsimile limited edition. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, this being number 93. Published to coincide with the "Van Gogh at Work" exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, marking the 160th anniversary of the artist's birth.

Near fine. Some very minor markings here and there; otherwise fine throughout. Presents wonderfully.

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Catalogue Number: HH000663