J O N K E R S R A R E B O O K S
P R E S E N T A T I O N C O P I E S & M A N U S C R I P T S
Fleming illustrating possible positioning for the title and two with Chopping’s annota- tions and lettering and several unused. One page of what appears to be an aborted typescript of the first page of Goldfinger with two pencil sketches of eyes on the reverse. Five pages of watercolour palette examples, one with rough pencil design for jacket layout, two with notes on the colours of the various elements, noting for instance that the flesh colour is made up of “Yellow Ochre, Light Red, White, Alizarin Crimson” and “To get high light on eye clearer draw head back - put eye lashes in late”. Two pages of watercolour on paper design for the wooden background, one in light wood and one in the eventually used grey wood, with a rough sketch of the brass card holder beneath. Some nineteen pieces of tracing paper containing pencil sketches of various elements of the design in varying detail, including eyes, lettering and name-card holder, as well as alternative design for the layout. The final design for the jacket and spine, pencil on tracing paper held on a piece of artist’s board, signed by Chopping under the drawing, with a protective sheet of paper over it with the holograph note, “Please return to:- Richard Chopping” and his address. A single page taken from a magazine showing a close up of an eye, presumably used for anatomical detail. Three ‘specimen eyes’ each with different colouring. Watercolour on artist’s board with Chopping’s notes on colour in pencil beside each. Signed in pencil at the base. The final preparatory watercolour of the eye looking through the spy-hole with the grey wood finish around it. Watercolour on artist’s board (165mm x 216mm). [40889] £75,000 An extraordinary archive which charts the design and construction of one of the iconic dustwrap- pers in the James Bond sequence. Chopping was introduced to Ann Fleming by their mutual friend Francis Bacon in 1956. She invited him to a party at the Flemings’ house where he was given the commission to design the jacket for From Russia With Love. He subsequently designed Goldfinger (though curiously not Dr No). For Your Eyes Only was only his third Bond jacket, though it is clear from their correspondence that Fleming is very much taken with his work and thereafter Chopping designed each of Fleming’s Bond books. .
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