Vincent Van Gogh

This volume collects letters Vincent van Gogh wrote from the 1870s to 1890, above all to his brother Theo, the Paris dealer who sent money and canvases. The correspondence follows him from the Netherlands and the Borinage through Paris, Arles, the hospital at Saint-Remy, and Auvers. He discusses drawing and colour, books, religion, poverty, and fellow painters, and often encloses sketches of work in hand. The sequence is a working life in first person, not a later biography and not a catalogue of pictures alone.

Bound in vegetable parchment. Facsimile 2 quarter bound in cloth with raised corners and coated paper. Facsimile 3 bound in cloth. Facsimile 4 bound in hessian cloth with hand sewn leather edging. Marbled endpapers. Folder with 14 loose leaf cards with letterpress printed label. Commentary volume bound in paper with letterpress title label. Loose colophon page inserted. All in brown solander box lined with hand marbled paper by Jemma Lewis and blocked with gold foil on spine and letterpress printed front label.