Heads, Figures and Ideas.

London & Greenwich, CT: George Rainbird Limited & The New York Graphic Society,, 1958. First edition, signed limited issue for subscribers, number 76 of 150 copies signed and dated by Moore on the frontispiece. This large-format volume of sketches and notes contains one of Moore's earliest lithographs to be printed at the Curwen Press, the full page colour lithograph Thirteen Standing Stones. In 1968 Henry Moore became his own publisher establishing a partnership with Curwen that was to last 28 years. Folio. Auto-lithograph frontispiece in 4 colours on handmade wove paper with Henry Moore watermark, titled Thirteen Standing Figures, illustrated throughout with full-page drawings on Charter's Chariot Offset Cartridge paper. Original half brown morocco with blue paper boards by Zaehnsdorf, titles to front cover and spine in white. Housed in the publisher's illustrated grey cloth slipcase. Spine darkened, small stain to front cover, foxing to preliminaries, not affecting the signed print, slipcase intact but worn and rubbed.