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Description: Dan Burne Jones – bibliographer for the artist Rockwell Kent – writes to Stephen J Janokowski about books being “purposely” “overlooked in the compiling of a bibliography.” The tone of the letter reveals Jones’s impatience with the inquiry.

Jones’s The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonne only lists Kent’s best-known wood cuts, lithographs and prints. The missing entry is that of “Pushkin’s works which has a covere [sic] design by Rockwell Kent!” for which Jones provides an alternate reference and goes on to add that “[t]hese types of bibliographies are not complete.” Signed, Dan Burne Jones.

He adds a handwritten postscript: “Enclosed is a copy of our bookplate done by R. K. and one I did which for [sic] the XVII Meeting of the International Ex Libris Society held in Lugano Switzerland in 1975.”

Typed letter signed on 11” x  8 ½” ivory Dan Burne Jones letterhead is dated January 28, 1982. The left top corner has a small cut  of a winged angel facing sideways in supplication. An accompanying envelope is addressed to: “Stephen J. Jankowski, 450 Clinton Avenue, Albany, New York, 12206.” Item #A02021

Dan Burne Jones (1908-1995) was an American artist and illustrator known for his wood engravings, and lithographs, and as the bibliographer for the artist Rockwell Kent. His lithographs When Nightfall Comes and The Dream Keeper are at the National Gallery of Art.

Condition: Mailing foldlines otherwise fine.