HENRY MOORE/CATALOGUE OF GRAPHIC WORK/1931-1972/GÉRALD CRAMER/ALISTAIR GRANT/DAVID MITCHINSON/GÉRALD CRAMER GENEVA 1973

Published as a book in deluxe and standard editions, this first volume of the Catalogue of Graphic Work contains 206 entries numbered 1 to 206. All graphics completed or begun by the end of 1972 are catalogued. There is a foreword in English, French and German, a list of catalogue references, a list of publishers and an index of prints. Like the three subsequent volumes of the catalogue, it gives a description of each print and illustrates them in black and white, or in colour where the original is in colour. The deluxe edition contains the etching CGM 188 and the lithograph CGM 294.

310 x 235mm: 436 unnumbered pages in 218 sheets perfect bound in brown linen with the title blocked in cream on the spine, in a laminated paper dust jacket with the title and a reproduction of a colour proof of CGM 240 (detail) on the front, and text in English, French and German on the flaps, contained in a brown linen-covered slip-case. CGM 188 and CGM 294 are in paper folders inserted between the front endpapers.

The deluxe edition of 200 copies, signed in ink by the artist and numbered on p.[3], comprises:

50 copies numbered 1 to 25 and I to XXV with CGM 188 and 294 numbered 1/100 to 25/100 and I/XXV to XXV/XXV

75 copies numbered 26 to 100 with CGM 188 numbered 26/100 to 100/100

75 copies numbered 101 to 175 with CGM 294 numbered 26/100 to 100/100

All the prints are signed in pencil by the artist.

The standard edition of 5000 copies is unnumbered and unsigned.

Text set in Univers and printed by Imprimeries Réunies SA, Lausanne, on mat coated paper made by Papeteries de Tenero. Photolithographic work by the printer.

CGM 188 was printed by Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris.

CGM 294 was printed at the Royal College of Art, London.

The books were bound and the slipcases made by Mayer & Soutter SA, Lausanne.