Society Members Only prints

Recent Members Only prints are not numbered in the usual way. The publisher describes the 2016 and 2019 prints as numbered with the membership number of the subscribing member, with a separate edition of 25 artist’s proofs. So the lower figure on one of these is not an edition size.^2,5

A dealer describes a copy of the 1997 print as hand signed “P Buckley Moss ’96” at the bottom right.⁶

[edition sizes of the Members Only prints before 2016 not confirmed]

[whether Members Only prints were signed as a rule not confirmed]

P. Buckley Moss prints in general

Her publisher explains the numbering. The number is usually written in the lower margin in the form X/YY: the print’s own number over the size of the edition. “AP” before the number marks an artist’s proof.¹³

The signature may not be by hand. Her publisher says limited-edition prints are typically signed by the artist or carry a mechanically applied signature, put on by a signing machine called an Autopen. The year of publication is typically put near the signature, with a © symbol beside it.¹³

The publisher’s shop gives edition sizes in the form “1,000 and 25 artist’s proofs”. One thousand is the usual figure on the pages we read. A dealer says editions were once almost always a thousand and are now more often about 250.^14,15,16

All identification notes for P. Buckley Moss prints