The Wolverhampton Wanderers. An epic of Britannia in twelve books, with a resurrection & a Life for Poetry United (multi-signed edition)

£450.00

HOROVITZ, Michael (1935-2021) SKU: 20731

London: Latimer New Dimensions, 1971.

First UK Edition, first printing. Number 10 of 100 copies of the Limited Edition signed by the author and the artists and photographers who contributed to the book. Square format, Errata slip present at Illustrations page; pp [xviii] + 124. Profusely illustrated. Egg yolk yellow cloth boards with the price-clipped dust-jacket, designed by Peter Blake, depicting a Wolverhampton Wanderers footballer on the front and Horowitz's team line-up of the Wolves players with the heads of the 30 contributors, all of whom have signed it: Michael Tyzack, Peter Blake, Adrian Henri, P.G. Findlay & R. Elson, Jeff Cloves, Patrick Hughes, Shepard Sherbell, Gabi Nasemann, Michael Horovitz, Michael Bloom, Paul Kaplan, John Furnival, Bob Godfrey, Pete Morgan, Jeff Nuttall, David Oxtoby, Adam Ritchie, Colin Self, John Furnival, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Morris, Jeff Goldner, Nick Roberts, Marigold Hodgkinson, Mike Francis, Ron Sandford, David Hockney, Michael Foreman, Feliks Topolski, Gabi Nasemann, Mal Dean, Tom Phillips, Mike McInnerney. Jacket slightly browned with a couple of short nicks to edges. A VG+ copy. An attempt at some species of Structuralist assemblage, and an extraordinary collection of British art luminaries of their age, corralled by British Beat founder Michael Horovitz as an 'object correlative' of the world of Association Football.