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Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971)
Typographical design by: Thomas Maitland Cleland (American, 1880–1964)
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons (American)
Printer: Knickerbocker Press (American, 20th century)
1924
Place of Publication: New York, New York, USA; Place of Publication: London, England

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with one two-color woodcut and numerous photomechanical relief prints
Dimensions Overall: 32 x 23.7 x 3.2 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Lee M. Friedman
Accession Number44.625
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924

Catalogue Raisonné Burne Jones 3
Description(New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924) Folio; xv, 184 pp., plus plates; original publisher's half vellum, blue paper boards (blue paper box).

No. 92 from "Author's autograph edition" of 110 copies (100 for sale). Each of these copies contains an original gray-green and black woodcut self-portrait, signed by the artist, and is in a special binding and box. The remaining illustrations are photomechanical relief prints after drawings by Kent, who also designed the endpapers. T. M. Cleland did the typographic design for the volume, which was printed at the Knickerbocker Press.
Signed Pen and blue ink on the justification page: "Rockwell Kent"; graphite below right of the woodcut: "Rockwell Kent."
ProvenanceLee M. Friedman, Boston, by whom given to MFA, June 8, 1944.
CopyrightBy permission of the Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh College Foundation, Rockwell Kent Gallery and Collection.