Tom. A Humument. Volume I[–X, with two volumes of additional material].

by PHILLIPS

£10,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

A New Hypnerotomachia Poliphili PHILLIPS, Tom. A Humument. Volume I[–X, with two volumes of additional material]. London: Tetrad Press. 1970. Twelve volumes, loose in sheets as issued (largely initialled by Phillips in pencil, see below ), printed by lithography, silkscreen, and letterpress. Each housed in its original coloured card box ( c . 190.5 x 139.7 mm), vols I–X with publisher’s printed spine label and the stamp (or sticker in the last instance) of the Croydon College of Design and Technology Library to inside of lid; comprising ff. [428]; some wear to boxes, spine labels somewhat worn and frayed, boxes for vol. I and ‘misc. Spares’ sunned; contents in fine condition, with occasional light wear; a very well-preserved set; limitation leaflets to vols I–IX numbered in pencil; leaflet to vol. XI inscribed ‘for Andrew Crozier’ by the author. First limited edition, signed by the artist, one of one hundred sets, of Tom Phillips’s Humument (1937–2022), his experimental modification and adaptation – through painting, collage, and cut-outs – of his copy of the 1892 novel A Human Doc-ument which he had bought for three pence in 1966, from the library of Phillips’s collaborator, the British Revival poet Andrew Crozier. This so-called ‘treated work’ is the culmination of Phillips’s page-by-page metamorphosis of the text of Mallock’s Victorian novel, excavating its text ‘for new ambiguities of character and situation and new ironies and paradoxes of utterance [...] The version has

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