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[LITHOGRAPHS]
1. Chagall, Marc.
Derriere Le Miroir. No. 132, June 1962.
Paris: Maeght, 1962. First edition. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Text in French by Yves Bonnefoy, "Le religion de Chagall." Cover and double-paged illustrations are color lithographs, plus 85 small black and white lithographs in the Chroniques section. Fresh, bright copy. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $795.00
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[LITHOGRAPHS]
2. _____ .
Derriere Le Miroir. No. 182, December 1969.
Paris: Maeght, 1969. First edition. 32 pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Text in French by Claude Esteban. Comprising one double-page lithograph printed in colours, with title-page, text and reproductions, published by Maeght, Paris, on wove paper, loose as issued within original lithographic front cover wrapper. Bright, clean copy. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $350.00
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[MOURLOT PLATES]
3. Chagall, Marc (Illustrator).
Marc Chagall Drawings and water colours for The Ballet by Jacques Lassaigne.
New York: Tudor, 1969. 1st American edition. 155 pages. Folio, 36 x 27 cm. With an original color lithograph created especially for this edition, plus sixty-eight reproductions in color. Contains the original designs for Aleko, The Firebird, and Daphnis and Chloe. Included are both decors and costumes; sketches for dancers, monsters, peasants, magicians; and the magical sets. Fernand Mourlot printed the color plates and the original lithograph. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper in solid, complete and sunned slipcase. $675.00
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[LITHOGRAPHS]
4. _____.
Derriere Le Miroir. No. 246, May 1981.
Paris: Maeght, 1981. First edition. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Text in French by Jacques Dupin. Cover and one double-page color lithograph with an additional 14 images mostly in color. Printed to by Mourlot under the direction of Charles Sorlier. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $300.00
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[LITHOGRAPHS]
5. _____
Derriere Le Miroir. No. 225.
Paris: Maeght, 1977. First edition. 24 pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Text in French with commentary by Aime Maeght, One double page color lithograph, and a host of full page color and black and white plates. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $300.00
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[LITHOGRAPHS]
6. _____.
Derriere Le Miroir. Nos. 27-28, March-April 1950.
Paris: Maeght, 1950. First edition. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Four leaves, Text in French with commentary by Jean Wahl, with contributions by Guillaume Apollinaire, Lionel Venturi and Blaise Cendrars. Cover and one double page color lithograph. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. $300.00
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[PRINTED BY MOURLOT]
7. _____.
The Jerusalem Windows.
New York: George Braziller, 1962. First edition. 210 pages. Folio 33.5 x 25 cm. Including the two original color lithographs. Text and Notes by Jean Leymarie. Compiled by Andre Sauret, text composed by hand in "Romain Du Roi," printed by The Imprimerie Nationale De France. The 36 preparatory color designs, some of which are in 20 color, were transfered to the stones by Charles Sorlier under the direction of Marc Chagall, and printed by Mourlot Freres. Lovely, very fresh copy. Orig. red cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. $1,250.00
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[BIBLE]
8. _____.
Drawings For The Bible (Dessins Pour La Bible) Text by Gaston Bachelard (Translated by Stuart Gilbert).
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1980. First American edition. Introductory text not paginated (seven leaves). 37 x 27 cm. Twenty four full page original color lithographs, plus 96 plates in black and white. Chagall's biblically theme drawings first reproduced in Verve 33/34 and the second suite Verve 37/38 (double issue), Summer 1960 and is the final entry in the Verve bibliography. The heliogravures in black and white printed by Draeger Freres, and the color lithographs by Mourlot Freres. CRAMER 42. MOURLOT 230-277. SORLIER 75. Orig. color lithographed boards. Near fine in original unclipped dust wrapper chipped along the edges. $4,200.00
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[CRANACH PRESS]
8A. Gill, Eric (Illustrator).
Canticum Canticorum Salomonis Quod Hebraice Dicitur SIR HASIRIM.
Weimar: Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1931. First edition. 31 pages, 26 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 180 of 200 designed by Count Harry Kessler: printed in red and black in Jenson Antiqua on hand-made Maillol Kessler paper with watermark of the Cranach Press. 11 wood engraved illustrations (seven are full page) and 18 initials by Eric Gill. Laid-in, "Former Publications Of The Cranach Press." which lists three tittles -- The Ecologues of Virgil, Hamlet & The Duinese Elegies. An almost as new copy save for a few small toned fore-edge spots. THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK. 121. EVAN GILL 284. Quarter vellum and gilt lettered tan parchment boards. Fine in fine plain wrapper in matching fine board slipcase. $3,900.00
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[WOOD ENGRAVINGS]
9. _____.
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Being the 26th AND 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel From The Latin Text.
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. 15 pages. 26 x 19.5 cm. Copy 188 of 250 printed by Robert Gibbings. Text is that of the Vulgate According To The Edition of the Aloysius Fillion (Paris, Letouzy Et Ane). Title page printed in red and black, initial letters in red. Gill provides two full page and text wood engravings. Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs, Pressman: A.C. Cooper. Interior contents pristine, mostly unopened, covers dusty, spine darkened. CHANTICLEER 35. GILL 276. Orig. white buckram spine lettered in gilt. Very good. $1,695.00
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[WOOD ENGRAVINGS]
10. _____.
The Song Of Songs Called By Many The Canticle Of Canticles.
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 43 pages. 26 1/2 x 20 cm. Twenty wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed in black and red in Caslon O.F. Limited edition, copy 441 of 750 on Batchelor hand-made paper. CHANTICLEER 31. Humbert Wolfe in his Introduction to "Chanticleer." notes, "The type and paper of `The Song of Songs' are both beyond praise. GILL 275. Mostly unopened, spine darkened, covers a bit dusty, interior contents immaculate. Orig. white buckram spine lettered in gilt. Very good. $1,495.00
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[GILL & GIBBS]
11. _____.
Troilus And Criseyde By Geoffrey Chaucer Edited By Arundell Del Re.
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Small Folio, 309 (1) pages. 32 x 20 cm. Limited editions, copy 107 of 225, (six copies on vellum), Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs, Pressman: A.C. Cooper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in same pattern style covers as The Canterbury Tales. Five full-page plates, sixty decorative borders and four tail pieces by Eric Gill. Printed in blue, red and black in Caslon Old Face type on Kelmscott hand-made paper. It is the first and considered the scarcest and the first of the three books produced by Gill and Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, having a relatively small limitation as the Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels (Edition of 500 copies). CHANTICLEER 50. GILL. 279. CAVE & MANSON. pp. 50 ff. RANSOM, p. 297. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, slight wear at corners, interior contents very bright, clean and fresh. Orig. quarter morocco spine and patterned boards. Teg. Very good.$7,150.00
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12. _____.
An Essay On Typography.
London: Sheed & Ward, 1931. First edition. 120 pages. 19.5 x 13 m. Limited edition one of 500 signed by Eric Gill and Rene Hague. Wide text margins and graphic examples of type and alphabetical examples, and pictorial colophons. With 25 letterform examples, four printed from wood engravings including Janson, Baskerville and Gills Joanna slab serif. Clean, very fresh copy. Orig. dark salmon cloth. Near fine. $795.00
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[HAND PRINTED]
13. _____.
The Song Of The Soul By Saint John-Of-The-Cross, Barefooted Carmelite; Doctor of the Church. Translated by John O'Connor, Licentiate in Sacred Theology.
Capel-Y-Ffin Abergavenny: Francis Walterson, 1927. First edition. 21 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 116 of 150 signed by Eric Gill, hand printed on Batchelor hand-made paper, by the Chiswick Press with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Introduction by John O'Connor, noting the author composed this piece in a Toledo cell. GILL 280. Clean, bright copy. Orig. quarter red buckram spine, green/blue mottled batik boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. $950.00
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[HIS LAST NOVEL]
14. Fielding, Henry.
Amelia.
London: A. Millar, 1751. First edition. xii, 285; viii, 262, ad leaf; ix, 323; vii, 296 pages.16.5 x 9.5 cm. His last novel. Fielding began writing the novel soon after he began his magistracy, and it took a markedly different approach to his comic works Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. He declared in the dedication that this work was “sincerely designed to promote the Cause of Virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring Evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the Country.” It may be seen as the first novel of social protest and reform in English, though it is also the sentimental story of its long-suffering heroine’s marriage. Although there were two impressions of the edition a month apart, there are no recorded distinguishing characteristics between them. ESTC T89846. ROTHSCHILD 853. With final blank in vol.1 and with the 'Universal-Register Office' leaf at end of vol. 2 (often lacking). Bookplates of John Nolty, elaborately decorated, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt arabesques, front and back covers with gilt decorated corners and center motifs. Minor toning and text spotting. Later full brown morocco. Teg. Near fine. 4 Vols. $2,250.00
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[GOLDEN COCKEREL]
15. _____,
A Journey From This World To The Next.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1930. 175 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 365 of 500. Six engravings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier. The text followed is that of the edition of 1743. Leather bookplate of Micheline & Mervyn Parkhouse printed in gilt, and bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander, backstrip a bit darkened. Tipped-in is Golden Cockerel complimentary note requesting a copy of any review of the book. Orig. maize cloth, gilt front cover design of golden cockerel, brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. $90.00
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[FIRST PLAY]
16. _____.
Love In Several Masques. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, By His Majesty's Servants.
London: John Watts, 1728. First edition. 83 pages. 19 x 12 cm. First edition of Fielding's first play and second publication. Love in Several Masques was quite the triumph for the 20-year-old Fielding. It opened on February 16, 1728, in Drury Lane, with Colley Cibber and Mrs. Oldfield in the cast, and its competition was Gay's Beggars Opera and Vanburghs The Provokd Husband. Very light toning throughout with reasonable text margins, uncommon in most rebindings of the period. Bookplate of Louis C. Asher, creator of the first Sears, Roebuck catalogue, father-in-law of Stanley Kunitz, and armorial bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead. Marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, gilt cover panels. Late 19th century polished brown calf backstrip lettered in gilt. Aeg. Near fine. $1,095.00
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[FINE SET]
17. _____.
Miscellanies.
London: A. Millar, 1743. First edition. 354, 420, 421 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. First issue with list of subscribers in Vol. 1. A little more than a year after the publication of "Joseph Andrews," he issued by subscription these three volumes. CBEL Vol. 10, pp. 26-27. "The first volume contains a preface. largely autobiographical, followed by some poems.....early compositions of the heart rather than the head.........The second volume contains more interesting matter: the long Lucianic fragment, "A Journey from this World to the Next." which begins with some of Fielding's happiest satire in the coach-driver of the spirits from earth......In the third volume, he printed the most brilliant piece of work that he had yet achieved, "The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great." Generally clean, lower corner of G1 in Vol.1 torn away not affecting text, tiny ink stain, title of Vol. II, overall; fresh, firm set, raised bands, red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Full modern dark brown calf in period style. Fine. 3 vols. $550.00
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18. _____.
The Works Of Henry Fielding, Esq; Comprising his Novels, Plays, Poems And Miscellaneous Writings Complete and Unabridged With an Essay on the Life, Genius and Achievement of the Author by William Ernest Henley & illustrated with Reproductions of Rare Contemporary Drawings and Portraits.
New York: Croscup & Sterling, 1902. 22 x 14,5 cm. Limited edition, copy 307 of 1000 of the Edition De Luxe. Interior contents fresh and clean and perhaps never read. Bookplates of Virginia Hawley Holden, a descendent of the Harriet Beecher Stow family. Chips and scuffs to spine paper labels, all bindings tight and firm. Orig. publisher red cloth, spine paper labels. Teg. Very good. 16 vols. $595.00
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The Works Of Henry Fielding, Esq; With The Life of the Author. A New Edition, In Ten Volumes.
London: W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne et al, 1784. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Engraved frontispieces in each volume by Colyer, a well-known engraver working in London during the later 18th and early 19th centuries who at one time was official engraver of the queen, plus additional portrait of Fielding in Vol. one. ''New edition'' of a compilation first issued in 1762 and reprinted every few years during the 18th century. Prefaced by Arthur Murphy's long biography and appreciation of Fielding, this set contains the great writer's novels, plays, journals, essays, and miscellaneous publications. Armorial bookplates of Sir Samuel Hannay, bound by Haddon & Co., New York, marginal dampstain vol. one frontispiece and Fielding portrait, raised bands, spine panel gilt floret in corners. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled endpapers and matching endpapers. Near fine. 10 vols. $950.00
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[EARLY LIFE]
20. Hunter, Dard.
Before Life Began 1883-1923.
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1941. First edition. 116 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 169 of 219 signed by Bruce Rogers, printed at the press of A. Colish, New York on paper made in the author's mill at Lime Rock Connecticut. The water-mark portrait shows him half-way before life began. The cover paper made by Veronica Ruzicka. In this biography, Hunter, six foot tall at the age of 14 enlisted, and accepted into the cavalry during the Spanish American War only to have his father drag him back home. Also, a good deal of material on his days spent working at the Roycrofters with Elbert Hubbard. Bright, sharp copy, bookplate. Orig. vellum spine and marbled boards. Fine in original worn and chipped glassine overwrapper. $395.00
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[HIS MASTER WORK]
21. _____.
Papermaking By Hand In America.
Chillicothe: Dard Hunter, 1950. First edition. 326 pages. Folio, 43 x 30 cm. Limited edition signed by Dard Hunter, copy 8 of 210, 200 of which were for sale; however, as noted in his own bibliography there were only 180 completed. "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum opus, this book provides a history of American papermaking by listing and describing the first paper mill in each state from 1690 until 1811 ... There are in the book 123 facsimiles of documents and watermarks and forty-two reproductions of labels used by these early paper manufacturers. The book is printed on Dard Hunter's paper." This last, most ambitious work, with more illustrations and samples than any of the earlier works: the bold, and elegant type was designed by Hunter's son, Dard Jr. As usual, all type-setting and presswork for the book was done by father and son. A bright fresh copy with an elaborately watermarked sheet of Dard Hunter's paper laid-in. Front cover soiling to clamshell case. Unbound in original sheets. Fine in fine linen covered chemise in original red/brown morocco and linen clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. $8,000.00
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[PAPER]
22. _____.
Papermaking by Hand in India.
w York: Pynson Printers, 1939. First Edition. 129 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 44 of 375 copies signed by Dard Hunter and Elmer Adler with binding by Gerhard Gerlach. Four page prospectus laid-in. Photogravure title vignette, with 27 paper specimens and 85 photogravures with complete descriptions for each. The latter produced by the hand printing process. The book printed on rag hand-made paper from Sweden. Bookplate front cover pastedown. Interior contents bright and clean. Quarter black cloth spine and elaborately decorated cloth boards. Spine printed in gilt. Near fine in worn slipcase lacking bottom panel. $995.00
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A Papermaking Pilgrimage to Japan, Korea and China.
Dard Hunter. New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. First edition. 148 [2] pages. 29 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 119 of 375 signed by Dard Hunter and Elmer Adler, the binding by Gerhard Gerlach -- the only limited edition of his works not published by him. Two line drawings, 66 gravure illustrations from photographs, plus 50 paper specimens from Asia bound at rear: from the collection of William Scott, publisher and illustrator. Chapter VI provides a "Description of Illustrations," Part VII "The Specimens," gives the name of each paper used in the Orient. Comprehensive Index. Laid-in the ten page string tied Prospectus for the publication entitled "In the raiment of the gods..." written by Alfred Stanford a friend of Hunter and Adler "and may prove, in itself, an interesting adventure for the reader." Bright, very fresh copy. Orig. quarter black morocco, spine lettered in gilt and red over patterned boards. Fine in near fine brown slipcase. $2,550.00
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Papermaking Through Eighteen Centuries.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First edition. 358 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. 214 illustrations, fold-out frontispiece of 1390 German manuscript, extensive index., small gilt decorated bookplate, partly unopened. An adjunct to his earlier work, "Old Papermaking," in a more comprehensive manner with additional text and more illustrative material. Orig. brown cloth spine label printed in gilt. Teg. Fine in original glassine wrapper. $90.00
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[EPIC POEM]
25. Rogers, Bruce (Designer).
The Song of Roland.
Boston: Printed by the Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1906. XXXIV pages. Folio, 45 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 205 of 220. This 11th century epic poem (chanson de geste) based on Roland and the battle of Roncevaux Pass is the oldest surviving major work of French literature. Known as one of Rogers' favorite books, a superb example of his elusive style, printed in two columns, illustrated with seven stained glass window designs colored by hand. The type fonts are a lettre batarde and Civilite types imported from France, the title page printed in red and black with panel design of thistles against a blue background. Brian Stillwell and Whitehead Library (Antrim, Northern Ireland) color bookplates front cover pastedown. Small birthday inscription free front endpaper dated 1930. Interior contents very fresh and clean. Quarter vellum, fleur-de-lis decorated boards, vellum tips. Fine. $3500.0000
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[ON JAPAN VELLUM]
26. _____.
Tuscan Songs Collected Translated and Illustrated by Francesca Alexander.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1897. First edition. 58 pages in text. Folio, 36.5 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 6 of 50 designed by Bruce Rogers, printed on Japan vellum: the first work produced by Rogers for the Riverside Press. One hundred and eight photogravures from the original designs. Lettered tissue guards, title printed in red and black with English and Italian text. Alexander met John Ruskin through a family friend; impressed by her spirituality he purchased her manuscripts, and in 1885 published her work, Roadside Songs. After Ruskin's death she published this work. Interior contents very fresh, clean and bright. Covers mottled with stains. WARDE & HASS 6. Orig. full vellum in fleur de Lys gilt designs. Aeg, Very good. $1,250.00
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[EARLY WORK]
26A. Rowlandson, Thomas [Illustrator].
Advice To Sportsmen. Rural or Metropolitan, Noviciates Or Grown Persons; With Anecdotes Of The Most Renowned Shots Of The Day: Exemplified from Life. Including Recommendatory Hints In The Choice Of Guns, Dogs, And Sporting Paraphernalia: Also, Characters, Costumes And Correspondence Selected from the Original Notes, &c, of Marmaduke Markwell, Esq.
London: Thomas Tegg, 1809. First edition. 132 pages. 17 x 10.5 cm. Half title, frontispiece and 15 hand-colored plates after Rowlandson. Early, scarce work of Rowlandson. TOOLEY 407. Armorial bookplate, inner dentelles, chipping front endpaper fore-edge, plates clean, text generally bright, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, triple gilt border fillets, front cover hinge repaired, moderate surface wear. Period full brown calf. Teg. Very good. $575.00
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[CITY LIFE]
27. _____.
Characteristic Sketches Of The Lower Orders, Intended As A Companion To The New Picture Of London.
London: Printed by Samuel Leigh , 1820. First edition. 14 1/2 x 8.5 cm. iv pages including title and advertisement. Fifty-four hand-colored plates by Rowlandson: a panoply of city life, the costumes of street vendors through Rowlandson's colorful, often affectionate delineation's of human character. The plates are related to Rowlandson's "Cries of London series of 1799. TOOLEY 424. Clean, fresh copy bound by Riviere & Son, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs, triple gilt border panels, inner dentelles, dark green endpapers. Later full red crushed morocco. Aeg. Fine. $2,100.00
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[DR. SYNTAX]
27A. _____.
The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of The Picturesque; A Poem & The Second Tour, In Search of Consolation; A Poem.
London: R. Ackermann, (1813) & 1820. Third edition and Second Edition respectively. 276, 277 pages. 23 x 15 cm. 30 and 24 colored plates respectively designed and etched by Rowlandson. "Picturesque," first appeared originally in the POETICAL MAGAZINE under the title, "The Schoolmaster's Tour," text is by William Combe. Second state of plate 15 (Skiminngton Riders). "Consolation," appeared originally in eight monthly parts, text by William Combe. TOOLEY 427, 428. Bookplates, some plate offsetting, age toning mostly marginal, elegant binding: raised bands, gilt paneled polished speckled brown calf with inlaid tan calf center cover panels within triple gilt fillet border panels, gilt paneled spine, marbled endpapers, dark brown morocco spine labels, inner gilt dentelles. 19th century full calf rehinged. Aeg. Near fine. 2 vols. $695.00
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[BOUND BY LLOYD]
28. _____.
The Vicar of Wakefield; A Tale By Dr. Goldsmith.
London: R. Ackermann, At The Repository of Arts, 1817. First edition thus. 254 pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates by Rowlandson, all with tissue guards. Binding by Lloyd, Wallace and Lloyd, raised bands spine panels richly gilt, inner dentelles, triple gilt cover border panels, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplates front cover pastedown, minor rubbing to spine head, text and plates clean, offsetting of latter on tissue guards. TOOLEY 436. Covers rehinged.19th century full crushed red morocco. Aeg. Near fine. 1,250.00
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[AQUATINTS]
29._____.
Poetical Sketches of Scarborough Illustrated by Twenty-One Engravings of Humourous Subjects, Coloured From Original Designs.
London: R. Ackermann, 1813. First edition. 215 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Twenty-one hand colored aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson after J. Green. This is the first edition as noted following with the title leaf and advertising leaf making one fold of two leaves. ABBEY SCENERY 297. "There was evidently a large demand for the book, for the plates in the reprint [2nd edition] show considerable signs of wear:.." TOOLEY 422. "Plate 8 The Warm Bath is said to contain the portrait of Mrs. Robinson, George IV's mistress." Lovely copy bound by Morrell. Covers with triple gilt border panels, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, spine lettered in gilt, inner dentelles, plates bright and clean, offsetting of plates to text. Full crushed red morocco. Fine in red cloth chemise housed in matching fine half crushed morocco and red cloth slipcase. $700.00
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[HANDSOME BINDING]
30._____.
The Relicks Of A Saint. A right merry Tale by Ferdinand Farquhar, Esq.
London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. First edition. 135 pages. 18 x 10.5 cm. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece by Rowlandson. Half-title, in the original brown boards with spine abraded, text generally clean. Slipcase with raised bands and spine lettered in gilt. Orig. drab boards. Good in fine red cloth chemise housed in fine quarter red morocco and matching cloth slipcase. $350.00
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31. Shakespeare, William.
Hamlet and Macbeth [MINIATURE BOOK].
New York: Miniature Dictionary Publishers, Inc. Sole agent, M. Minkus , 1930's. First edition. [3] 765 pages. 5.5 x 3.5 cm. A tiny puncture hole at center of front cover which appears to be part of the original design as there is no impression to endpaper. Full black morocco, all edges red. Very good. $100.00
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[BOUND BY RIVIERE]
32. _____.
The Players' Shakespeare Loves Labour's Lost Newly Printed from the Folio of 1623.
London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1924. 99 pages in text. 32.5 x 24.6 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 100. Introduction by Harley Granville-Barker, printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper and bound by Riviere & Son. Line blocks are by Emery Walker. Illustrations by Norman Wilkinson, five full page color colotype plates. Signed by Harley Granville Barker, Norman Wilkinson and Albert Rutherson. Wide text margins. Book label of F.R. Furber (Frank Robert Furber] eminent British golfer. Orig. full brown morocco, raised bands, spines decorated in gilt, rectangular cover panels decorated in gilt motifs and arabesques. Teg. Fine. $1,950.00
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[BOUND BY BAYNTON]
33. _____.
The Sonnets Of Shakespeare.
London: Robt. Riviere And Son, Ltd, 1928. 153 pages. 18.5 x 14 cm. Initial page capital letters in blue. Bound by Baynton Riviere in Cosway style binding, front cover an inlaid miniature portrait of Shakespeare behind a clear frame, surrounded by elaborate floral gilt motifs, panels in gilt four leaf clover leaf design, raised bands, inner dentelles and marbled endpapers. 20th century brown morocco. Aeg. Fine in fine brown cloth slipcase. $6,250.00
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[EMORY WALKER BLOCKS]
34. _____.
The Tragedie Of King Lear Newly Printed from the Folio of 1623.
London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. 109 pages in text. 33 x 25 cm. Limited edition, one of 100 this copy unnumbered, on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper which was bound in vellum or oasis morocco (this copy in the latter). Signed by Paul Nash, Harley Granville-Barker, and Albert Rutherson. Line blocks by Emery Walker. Six black and white plates and five color plates by Paul Nash. Wear to corners, extremities rubbed, interior fresh and clean. Orig. publisher's quarter brown oasis morocco and thick light brown boards, Very good. $995.00
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[BOUND BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE]
35._____.
Twelfth Night Or, What You Will With Engravings By Eric Ravilious.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. 76 pages. 34 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 223 of 275 on Batchelor hand-made paper with Golden Cockerel watermark, wood engraved title, borders plus 29 wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious printed in brown and grey/green, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. CHANTICLEER 82. "One of the Press's greatest aesthetic successes, and the finest flowering of Ravilious' engraved book illustrations" Twelfth Night was Ravilious's "most ambitious project. With a design concept similar to Eric Gill's Canterbury Tales, published by Gibbings [at the Golden Cockerel Press], the decorative borders relate the illustrations to the text in a... visually unified manner" POWERS, ERIC. "Eric Ravilious, Artist & Designer, 2013, p.41). Tiny front cover scratch, bookplate, Laid-in "Golden Cockerel Books For The Spring," four titles noted. Orig. quarter bound brown morocco, decorated cloth boards. Bookplate front cover pastedown. Teg. Very good. $3,150.00
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