BRONTË, Emily - EICHENBERG, Fritz (illus.).

£375 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Wood-engraved proof for Wuthering Heights. The artist's copy of this proof wood engraving, signed by him in pencil, and from his estate. This illustration headed Chapter 8 and 14 in Eichenberg's brooding edition of Wuthering Heights (1946, expanded from 1943). The initial run of proofs consisted of no more than ten unnumbered copies.Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) moved to the US in 1933 and quickly became acknowledged as one of the leading wood engravers of his generation, also illustrating such authors as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Poe. His proofs for Wuthering Heights were reprinted in a signed run of 20 numbered copies in 1980 by Harold McGrath. The original blocks are now part of the Eichenberg Archive at Yale University's Sterling Library.

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