Studio Book: 50 Original Colourprints

(London): Gogmagog Private Press, (1980). First edition. One of 35 numbered copies "designed, cut, modelled, hand-printed & bound" and signed by Cox. "Plates & text printed on Japanese Hosho & Kuzo-shi papers.... Binding material woven in Hong-Kong, supplied by Mr Corrie Guyt". Chambers 33. Presentation copy from Cox to Guyt, who supplied the binding materials, with Guyt's bookplate on the front paste-down and with an autographed note signed ("Xmas 1980, To Corrie - With best wishes & warm affection, Morris") and a typed note signed ("28 November 1980, My dear Corrie, You will see that this book of Studio samples and its Introduction is only for people who already know something about me and my work. And who better than you to be among the first to receive it! See letter by separate post. Yours ever, Morris") from Cox to Guyt, laid in. "This brilliant performance has the appearance of a retrospective exhibition of work across half a century, showing every technique of colour-printing which we have come to know in his work; but these are, as the sub-title explains, '50 Original Colourprints', and the Introduction mentions they 'were all conceived, made and printed within the course of one year's extensive work'. ... In his introduction we have the longest most revealing of all his explanations as to method and discovery, a brief artistic memoir.... At the end we accept the final word as to his printing which 'has never ceased to thrill me with its potential for spontaneous artistry'." - Chambers pp. 160-161. Spine a little bit sunned, otherwise a fine copy. Tall, narrow 8vo, pictorial cloth, patterned slipcase. Spine a little bit sunned, otherwise a fine copy.