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A Great 18th-Century Printer Presents a
a Great 17th-Century Dramatist
Racine, Jean. Oeuvres de Jean Racine. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aine, 1784. 8vo in 4s (19 cm, 7.5". 3 vols. I: 463, [1] pp. II: [2] ff., 484 pp. III: [2] ff., 372 pp., [2] ff.
$950.00
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“Cette édition in-8o a été imprimée au nombre de 350 exemplaires, avec les nouveaux caractères de la fonderie de Didot l’aine, sur du papier-vélin de la manufacture de M[ess]rs. Johannot pere et fils, d’Annonaie, premiers fabricants en France de cette sorte de papiers” (vol. III, verso of leaf following p. 372). That is, this is printed on wove paper.
In the series Collection des auteurs classiques, françois et latins, this was issued in the same year in 4to and 18mo formats. The present, octavo format is not only handsomely conceived but
very “handy in the hands.”
Binding: Full crushed red morocco, gilt spine and boards, signed Petit Succs. de Simier; gilt rule on board edges, gilt rolls on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, green silk placemarkers. All edges gilt. Each volume in a light board open-back slipcase covered with marbled paper.
Provenance: Bookplates of Casimir L. Stralem, Clarence E. Clark, and Brian Douglas Stilwell, the trio presenting an appealing set of styles.
WorldCat locates copies of this edition in this format at only four U.S. libraries (UCLA, Georgetown, Library of Congress, Harvard).
Bulletin de la Librairie Morgand et Fatout 10951; Brunet, V, 1078–79; Jammes, Les Didot, 25. Bound as above, joints of all volumes slightly cracking with volumes otherwise only lightly worn; some tape repairs to the delicate slipcases. Age-toning and foxing of faintest varieties only.
Very Good. (40317)

A Review for
Printers & Bibliophiles
Randle, John & Rosalind, eds. Matrix 7. Number seven, winter 1987. Gloucestershire:
The Whittington Press, 1987. Imperial 8vo (28.7 cm, 11.3"). [6], 166, [2] pp.; illus.
$175.00
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Another volume of worthwhile and aesthetically pleasing reading for book arts enthusiasts, including “A Moroccan Diary” by Edwina Ellis, “Ornamented Types: the Making of the Edition” by Ian Mortimer, “On the Shape of Books” by Brooke Crutchley, “A Medley of Printers Past” by Ward Ritchie, “Letters from a Papermaker's Husband” by Brian Richardson, and a variety of other essays and reviews pertaining to typography, fine printing, and illustration, as well as two poems by Philip Gallo. This is
one of 960 copies printed, illustrated with an assortment of photographic plates, an oversized folding plate reproducing illustrations by Annie Newnham, tipped-in examples of printing, etc. The prospectus for Matrix 8 is laid in.
Publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers over printed paper–covered stiff boards; wrappers with spine sunned, minor edge wear. Contents clean and crisp. Very good. (34969)

Lima Mourns Charles III — Engraving by Vazquez — A RARE Type of Volume
from an
Interesting Press
Rico, Juan. Reales exequias, que por el fallecimiento del señor don Carlos III, rey de España y de las Indias, mando celebrar en la ciudad de Lima. Lima: En la Imprenta Real de los Niños Expósitos, 1789. Folio. [2] ff., 169, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f., 50 pp., fold. plt.
$8750.00
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Fr. Rico, an Oratorian, describes the memorial services in Lima on the occasion of the death of King Carlos III, as well as the commemorative art work and its Neo-Latin epigraphs. Fray Bernardo Rueda's “Oracion funebre que en las solemnes exequias del Rey nuestro señor don Carlos III” has a sectional title-page and its own pagination.
The folding plate is of
the funeral monument erected in the king's memory. It is an extremely well executed, large engraving, signed by Vazquez and dated at Lima, 1789.
NUC and WorldCat locate only five U.S. libraries reporting ownership Yale, Notre Dame, the John Carter Brown, the Boston Public, and Duke with the last two copies lacking the plate. Searches of CCPB and the OPAC of the Spanish national library locate three Spanish libraries reporting ownership; COPAC finds no copies in Britain.
The number of “splendid ceremonies” books produced in colonial Peru is small: There is no census but we suspect the number to be around 20.
Other interesting aspects of the work are that it is an important source on the social and artistic life of Lima in the decade following the Tupac Amaru rebellion and that it is
from one of Latin America's famous presses of “orphan children.”
John Carter Brown Library, Catalogue, 1493-1800, III,324; Medina, Lima, 1697; Sabin 73902; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 2546. Contemporary limp vellum with neatly inked title on spine; all edges inked decoratively. Old blurred stamp on front free endpaper, old single numerals very faintly on title-pages. Small tear in margin of plate, not into image. Overall a very good copy, very clean and with wide margins. (34668)
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A U.S.–U.K. Collaboration
Reeves, James. The closed door. [Newark, VT]: Twinrocker & The Janus Press, 1977. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.4"). [12] pp.; 1 illus.
$175.00
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First edition of these poems, preceded by a wood engraving printed from an original block by Richard Shirley Smith. Twinrocker, the Janus Press, and the Gruffyground Press are described as co-publishers in the colophon.
The edition was limited to a total of 240 copies; this is one of the 75 unsigned copies printed for the two American publishers, bound in hand-marbled Fabriano paper done by Susan Johanknecht and Claire Van Vliet. The text was hand set in Walbaum, also by Johanknecht and Van Vliet.
Fine, Janus Press 1975–80, 40. Publisher's lilac marbled paper–covered boards with tan shelfback, front cover with printed paper label. A clean and crisp copy. (32334)

Bodoni Printing: Religious Advice for a
Dead Princess's Children
Roberti, Giovanni Battista. Istruzione cristiana ad un giovinetto cavaliere e a due giovinette dame sue sorelle. Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1787. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.74"). [2], 143, [1] pp.
$350.00
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First edition, one of two variant Bodoni printings: Lessons in Christian faith and conduct dedicated to Prince Gennaro and Princesses Teresa and Caterina, son and daughters of Vincenzo Caraffa (or Carafa), Duke of Bruzzano and Prince of Rocella (1739–1814). Best known for his Annotazioni sopra l'umanità del secolo Decimottavo, the author (1719–86) was a Jesuit professor and polymath who studied philosophy, science, theatre, and literature as well as theology. Bodoni printed this work in the year following Conte Roberti's death, in two similar variations; the present example bears a “DL” monogram over the dedication (likely in honor of Donna Livia Doria, the children's mother, who had died in 1779) as well as the attractively engraved Caraffa coat of arms on the title-page.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of private collector Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Brooks 340; De Lama, II, 45; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 1918.70. Contemporary half marbled calf with marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, gilt-stamped bands, and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments; minor rubbing overall, spine and joints with small areas of pinhole worming. All edges stained red; original silk bookmark present. Pages very clean and fresh, slightly cockled.
A nice copy of this elegantly printed item. (40136)

First on Several Fronts
Rojanovsky, Fedor [Feodor], illus.; Esther Averill & Lila Stanley, eds. Daniel Boone. Paris: Domino Press, 1931. Folio (36.5 cm, 14.4"). [16] pp.; col. illus.
$325.00
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“Historic adventures of an American hunter among the Indians”: The first trade edition of the first book from Esther Averill and Lila Stanley's ex-patriate Domino Press, and the first English-language children's book illustrated by Caldecott Medal–winning, Russian-born artist Feodor Rojanovsky (Domino published a French-language version in the same year). The text was printed by Robert Coulouma of Argenteuil, and
the brightly colored lithographic illustrations are five-color direct from the stones by Mourlot Frères of Paris.
The limited edition of this work was of 25 copies on velin d'arches, issued unbound, in wrappers.
Allen & Allen, Feodor Rojankovsky: The Children's Books and Other Illustration Art, DP1.a. Publisher's color-printed paper–covered boards with blue cloth shelfback; corners and spine extremities rubbed, spine gently sunned, cream paper very slightly darkened with a few faint spots. Pages fresh and clean.
A very nice copy of a landmark work of children's illustration. (38684)

“True Poetry Forever Lasts”
Ronsard, Pierre de. Songs & sonnets ... Selected & translated into English verse by Curtis Hidden Page. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, [May] 1903. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.6"). xxxvi, 137, [2] pp.
$125.00
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This collection of poems on love, nature, and poetry itself begins with biographical notes. The Renaissance “Prince of Poets,” Ronsard (1524–85) was the “favorite and friend of six successive [French] kings,” with patronage from queens and princesses to match. Many editions of his works appeared before 1623, and one in 1629, however none came forth again until 200 years later, when interest in 16th-century poetry was revived by Sainte-Beuve, Blanchemain, et al.
This edition was designed by the great American typographer (or “typster,” as he labeled himself) Bruce Rogers, and he left his mark on its final page; it was limited to 425 copies printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge, MA. Bound in maroon paper–covered boards with a white paper spine label printed in black, this is copy 405 and is in its original dust wrapper and with its box, being
rare thus. The spare label is tipped in at the back.
Work of Bruce Rogers, 101. Bound and in its box as above; dust jacket and box label sunned, box edges rubbed. The pristine text is, which can be read with enjoyment by peeping, is
unopened and uncut. (30539)
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Nonesuch Press Edition: A Novel
C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien Read Aloud
to
Make the Inklings Laugh
Ros, Amanda McKittrick. Irene Iddesleigh. London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. 12mo (20 cm, 7.9"). 151, [1] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Nonesuch printing of the first novel from an Irish author who made a career out of being critically savaged for her florid and improbably alliterative prose. Anna Margaret Ross, who wrote under the “Ros” pseudonym, first published this tragic novel about a doomed marriage at her own expense in 1897; Mark Twain called it “one of the greatest unintentionally hilarious novels of all time,” and to this day it continues to be featured on lists of the worst books ever written.
“This edition follows exactly the text of the original Belfast issue of 1897 except that certain misprints have been corrected,” according to the edition statement; the text is ornamented with reproductions of the original
three wood engravings by W.M.R. Quick. The present example is numbered copy 719 of 1250 printed.
Provenance: Calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.
McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 33. Publisher's half sheep and pink, red, and brown mottled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine gently sunned, extremities a bit rubbed. Front pastedown with bookplate as above; light foxing to endpapers, with a very few faint spots elsewhere. Lovely Nonesuch production of a “must read it to believe it” novel! (32039)

Perishable Press: Marking the Occasion
Rothenberg, Jerome. B • R • M • TZ • V • H. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1979. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [8] pp.
$75.00
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First edition of this poem in honor of Matthew Rothenberg's bar mitzvah,
signed by the author. This is one of 225 copies printed in black and gray on Umbria paper and pamphlet-sewn in a single, four-folded sheet of Raffaello Roma. Walter Hamady's usual colophonic flair is showcased here: the edition statement is composed
acrostically.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 90. Publisher's paper wrappers, front wrapper with title printed in off-white. Crisp and clean. (30903)
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Didot
Handsomely Presents Rousseau
Rousseau, Jean Baptiste. Odes, cantates, epitres et poesies diverses. Paris: Chez P. Didot, fils aine de F. A. Dudot l'aine, 1790. Large 4to (32 cm, 12.75"). xii, 560 pp.
$1250.00
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First Didot printing of Rousseau's poetry; he was to reprint the work in two volumes, 12mo format in 1799. “Cette edition a été imprimée, au nombre de 250 exemplaires, avec de nouveaux caractères gravés exprès par Firmin Didot, sur du papier vélin de la fabrique de MM. Dervaud et freres Henry, d’Angoulême” (p. [vi]].
This was part of the continuation of the series originally printed for the education of the Dauphin.
Provenance: Bookplate of Louis Boutemy, later owned by Tisseyre Boutemy.
WorldCat locates five U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Pierpont Morgan, NYPL, State Library of Indiana, St. Johns, St. Catherine University).
Brunet, V, 1491. 19th-century half red morocco and marbled boards, rubbed at extremities; top edge gilt, silk place marker. Foxing of a the lightest sort and that not “throughout.”
A lovely copy. (40332)

Reading Recommended by William Penn
Saltmarsh, John. Sparkles of glory, or some beams of the morning star. Wherein are many discoveries as to truth and peace. To the establishment and pure enlargement of a Christian in spirit and truth. London: Reprinted for William Pickering [colophon: J. Whittingham], 1847. 12mo (14.1 cm, 5.6"). [8], xx, 212 pp.
$225.00
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Pickering edition of 17th-century charismatic Protestant Saltmarsh's work, from the publisher's Christian Classics series. William Penn counted Saltmarsh (d. 1647) as a good pre-Quaker writer to read, though he led quite the controversial life — most notably promoting the idea of free grace while serving as chaplain to Sir Thomas Fairfax, and even being accused of letting a woman preach.
The text was first published in 1647; although the title-page and WorldCat records give the publication date of this printing as 1847, Kelly and Keynes suggest 1848.
Binding: 20th-century brown textured calf, spine lettered in gilt with leaf stamps in compartments, covers framed in double blind fillets with crosses at corners and an intricate oval stamp at center; blind dotted roll along board edges, blind double fillets on turn-ins, Fountain marbled endpapers, all edges stained red.
Binding signed by Rivière.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Bell family (a fess ermine between three church bells, with motto “promptus sum”) at front; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering,1848.12; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 57; NSTC 2S3189. On Saltmarsh, see: Oxford DNB (online). Binding as above, a few very gently rubbed spots. Pages very clean save for light age-toning and one small spot to half-title. Bookplates and labels as above, a few small pencilled bibliographic notes on endpapers.
A nice copy of a Pickering and Quaker classic, in a very attractive binding. (39483)

Popular Odes — Petite Bodoni Printing
Savioli, Ludovico. Amori. Crisopoli: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1795. 16mo (12.4 cm, 4.88"). Frontis., [8], 134, [2] pp.
$350.00
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Amorous canzonetti — first published in their final count of 24 poems in 1765, and best-selling in their day — here in
the first Bodoni 16mo edition. Count Ludovico Vittorio Savioli (1729–1804) was classically inspired, and contemporary critics noted the grace and lightness of his verse, particularly these melodious pieces. The Amori are here preceded by a dedication to the Count from the printer, and followed by Savioli's “Amore e Psiche.” Bodoni's first quarto edition was printed in the same year, with the present example offering a daintier, more delicately minute setting; the stipple-engraved title-page portrait of the author, which Giani particularly praised, appears in this edition as a frontispiece.
Binding: Contemporary mottled brown calf, spine with gilt-ruled compartments and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; covers framed in gilt roll, upper cover lettered “A. M. Ad. Etereocle,” board edges with gilt roll. All edges speckled red, original green silk bookmark laid in.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell, front free endpaper with bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell. Front fly-leaf with faded inked gift inscription dated 1837.
Brooks 598; De Lama, II, 107; Giani 72 (pp. 54-55); Brunet, V, 156; Graesse, VI, 279. Bound as above, extremities unobtrusively refurbished; front joint unobtrusively starting from head. Bookplates and inscription as above, front and back free endpapers with later pencilled bibliographical notes.
Charming. (40170)

Florence & Rome
WILL Be Punished
Savonarola, Girolamo, pseudo. [drop-title] Expositione sopra el psalmo Verba mea. [Florence: Printer of Pseudo-Savonarola, 'Esposizione sopra il salmo Verba mea', 1500?]. Small 4to (19.6 cm; 7.75"). [8] ff.
$8895.00
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Commentary on Psalm 5, in Italian with citations in Latin. The author describes his generation as worse than Noah's, more lecherous still than the population of Sodom & Gomorrah. The commentary
explicitly rages at Florence and Rome for killing Savonarola. The priest's death polluted their hands, and proved Savonarola's prediction that the cities would be punished by God: “La morte del frate sia causa di verificare le cose predecte . . . El signore torra via & punira te Firenze che hai pollute le mani tue del sangue iusto . . . Anchora el signore punira te Roma” (ff. 4v–5r).
The Vatican Incunabula catalogue notes that this commentary was, “In fact written after Savonarola's death, probably by the Dominican Simone (or Placido) Cinozzi”; ISTC adds, “The Dominicans ordered an enquiry into its authorship and publication on 24 May 1499.” Placido (Lorenzo) Cinozzi (1464–1503) is famous for his Epistola of 1501–03, considered the earliest extant biography of Savonarola; he first heard Savonarola preach at San Lorenzo in 1484 and later knew him at San Marco, where Cinozzi joined the Dominican order in 1496.
Evidence of readership: Early ink manicule in the margin of f. 3v, pointing to a passage beseeching God to free His people, who are in great danger; and some letters finished with the same ink (ff. 3v–4r).
Provenance: Probably from Lathrop C. Harper (its binding style, see below).
ISTC locates five copies in libraries in the U.S., two in Britain, and ten on the Continent.
Adams S485 (“c. 1501”); Goff S203; HCR 14410; H14409?; CIBN S-151 (“about 1500”); IGI, VI, 131 (“after 1500”); Audin 128; Pr 6453; BMC, VII, 1209; GKW M40467; ISTC is00203000; Proctor 6453; Isaac 13494; Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae, Incunabula, III, S-120 (see above); C. Olschki, “Un codice savonaroliano sconosciuto,” in La Bibliofilia 23 (1921), pp. 154–65, at p. 163; R. Ridolfi, Vita, II, p. 669, n. 22 (“about 15 May 1499”); Walsh 3035e. On Cinozzi, see: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani online. 20th-century grey boards, lightly discolored, with caramel-color leather label on front board, and blue edges; rectangle of offsetting to paper of back cover, probably from a similar label on a similar book once this one's neighbor! Text very clean. (27040)

Sensory Reading
Scott, Robert. Poems from last summer. Saint Paul, MN: Midnight Paper Sales Press, [May] 1982. Square 12mo (15.5 cm, 6.06"). [10] ff. Illus.
$200.00
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This series of short, wonderfully atmospheric poems, was collected into a slim volume designed and hand-printed by
Gaylord Schanilec in a
Midnight Paper Sales edition of 120 copies, illustrated by two colorful, abstract relief collographs: a large centerfold and a small title-page ornament.
Rulon-Miller, Quarter to Midnight, A.44. Sewn in tan textured wrappers, in a matching jacket with a blue stamp of a well-dressed man on the front echoing the centerfold illustration. Pristine. (30774)

Riccardi Press — Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare, William. The sonnets of William Shakespeare. London: Pub. for the Medici Society Ld. by Philip Lee Warner [Riccardi Press], 1913. 4to (23.1cm, 9.1"). [4], 78, [4] pp.
$150.00
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Attractive edition of the sonnets, produced with the Riccardi Press's attention to fine typography. The poems were edited by W.J. Craig, and printed by C.T. Jacobi in the Riccardi fount, with a
Kelmscott-style opening page.
This is
numbered copy 974 of 1012 printed (1000 on paper, 12 on vellum), this copy being on Riccardi handmade paper.
Publisher's light blue paper–covered boards with blue-grey cloth shelfback, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Binding mildly sunned overall especially to spine and outer board edges, the latter also a bit dust-soiled; spine cloth worn at extremities and endpapers with offsetting, front endpapers smudged. Internally clean and crisp.
An elegant production. (36891)

English REFORMATION Satire
Printed in the 19th Century ON VELLUM
[Shepherd, Luke, fl.1548]. [drop-title] John Bon and mast person. [London]: [colophon: J. Smeeton, Printer], n.d. [1807 or 1808]. Small 4to (27 cm; 10.5"). [5] ff.
$1950.00
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One of either 12 or 25 copies printed on vellum (as per Alston in the former case, as per Oxford cataloguer and a contemporary note on title-page in the latter). John Bon was originally printed by Daye and Seres in London in 1548 (STC 3258.5) and is here reproduced in letterpress facsimile from a copy formerly owned by Richard Forster
Attributed to Luke Shepherd by Halkett and Laing, this is a satirical poem, a dialogue in verse, on the Eucharist, and could even be seen as a short play. It is printed in gothic (black letter) type with
a large woodcut of a procession of the Eucharist on the title-page.
None of the copies reported to WorldCat, COPAC, or NUC are described as printed on vellum. The copy that Alston found at the British Library is not findable via the BL OPAC.
Provenance: Early 19th-century manuscript ownership on front fly-leaf: “Thomas Briggs Esq., Edgeware Road.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Alston, Books Printed on Vellum in the Collections of the British Library, p. 35; Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), III, p. 192; Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.), J21 (var.) l NSTC, I, S1667. Original dun colored boards with beige linen shelfback; rebacked, and binding discolored. “25 copies Printed on chosen Parchment” written in ink in an early 19th-century hand in lower margin of the title-page. Foxing, heaviest on last three leaves; last page (a publisher's note and colophon) lightly inked and so a little faint.
A nice find for the collector of printing on vellum, letterpress facsimiles, or reprints of rare 16th-century English tracts. (34699)

“A Glass of Fashion to the
Beau Monde”
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The school for scandal. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. Folio (29.2 cm, 11.5"). xxvii, [1], 145, [1] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Handsome edition of Sheridan's famed comedy of manners, decorated and illustrated with wittily pointed drawings by Thomas Lowinsky. R. Crompton Rhodes's lengthy,
informative introduction offers much background detail on the play's original costuming, language, stage business, etc.
This is
one of 475 copies on Batchelor's handmade Kelmscott paper; an additional seven were printed on vellum.
Publisher's half vellum with printed paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; dust jacket lacking as now seen with most copies, vellum dust-soiled with a little rubbing, paper slightly darkened and with two small chips., small chip to paper at bottom edge of front cover and one to lower outer corner of back cover. Internally clean and crisp.
Enjoyable. (34010)

Nonesuch Sonnets
Sidney, Philip. Astrophel & Stella. London: Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). xxxviii, [2], 193, [3] pp.
$100.00
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Handsome Nonesuch edition of the sonnet sequence — this being one of the works chosen for celebration on the cover of the Nonesuch bibliography. The text was edited by Mona Wilson, and printed by the Kynoch Press in Bembo and Union Pearl Italics on Van Gelder paper.
This is
numbered copy 970 of 1210 printed (725 for sale in England and 485 in the United States).
Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 73. Publisher's printed paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label, in green paper–covered chemise lined with paper matching the book's, the whole in a likewise covered slipcase. Chemise with spine rubbed and slightly sunned, slipcase darkened with corners rubbed but quite solid. Volume itself fresh and unworn; mild offsetting to endpapers, pages otherwise clean and crisp. (36909)

A Handsome “Facsimile” — A Pleasing Reference Resource
Simon Gribelin II, illus.; Philip Hofer, intro.; & Rudolph Ruzicka. A book of ornaments: engraved by Simon Gribelin II in the year MDCCIV and now partially reprinted in collotype facsimile. Meriden, CT: Timothy Press, 1941. Oblong 8vo (20.6 cm, 8.125"). 13, [3] pp.; 6 ff. of plts., illus.
$75.00
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“. . . Simon Gribelin deserves recognition because of his skill and ingenuity . . . Such quality of workmanship, such calligraphic and intricate, but confidently assured design, is quite wanting in art today. We have no designers trained in this tradition. Nor do we deserve them, because we do not notice, nor will we pay for, such attention to detail. Yet it is only when we look into Gribelin's engravings with a magnifying glass that the real inner content of his work stands revealed: the play of light and shade, the intricate interlacing of foliage, and lines which indicate so cleverly a roundness of form and a perspective. It is almost impossible to believe that this was achieved — mainly free hand — by a young man working on a recalcitrant copper plate.”
This is one of 310 unnumbered copies printed.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Black cloth shelfback, pictorial paper–covered sides, white label printed in black and red on front board; rubbed. Foxing to endpapers. Very good. (37715)

“Shakspearean” Inspiration? — A Special Copy
[Singer, Samuel Weller, ed.]. Shakspeare's [sic] jest book. Chiswick: A. & G. Way, prs., 1814. 8vo (20 cm, 7.875"). xxxii, 116, [2] pp.
$550.00
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First appearance of this cleverly marketed and in fact valuable Chiswick Press reprint of a humorous Elizabethan short story collection: Tales, and Quicke Answeres, Very Mery, and Pleasant to Rede from the edition printed by Berthelet around 1535. There were two subsequent volumes edited by Singer under the general title of “Shakspeare's Jest Book” and published in 1815 and 1816.
The introduction here explains the text's Shakespearean connection and origin story, with canvassing also of the editor's scholarly processes and his decisions to offer his tale with original orthography, in its full “licentiousness,” and with its original “moral reflections.” A short glossary of Elizabethan words is provided.
This is one of six copies printed on blue paper of an edition of 250 copies.
Provenance: Ca. 1930 bookplate of Henry Pennell Frank; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Late 19th-century half black morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine lettered in gilt; blue endpapers; rubbed at corners and edges.
A testament to 19th-century Shakespeare mania. (40233)

“I'd Go Cross the Tisza” & Other Songs — JANUS PRESS
Snodgrass, W.D. Traditional Hungarian songs. Newark, VT: Pr. for Charles Seluzicki by the Janus Press, 1978. 8vo (29.6 cm, 11.7"). [24] pp.; col. illus.
$100.00
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Sole edition: Eleven Hungarian folk songs translated into singable English, with the music and lyrics accompanied by masonite relief cuts done by Dorian McGowan and printed in rose. Snodgrass has supplied an afterword explaining the songs' origins and offering performance suggestions.
The volume was printed for Charles Seluzicki, a poetry bookseller in Baltimore, MD, by Claire Van Vliet and Victoria Fraser at the Janus Press. This is
numbered copy 236 of 300 printed (of which 15 were hors commerce), signed at the limitation statement by Snodgrass.
Offered with the prospectus.
Fine, Janus Press 1975–80, 43–44. Publisher's natural Zaan paper wrappers, front wrapper with mauve-stamped decorations; wrappers with a few tiny spots blending rather well into the paper's heavy texture. Pages crisp and clean.
A nice copy. (37268)

Limited Private Press Edition — Signed by the Author
Spingarn, Lawrence P. Elegy for Amelia. Francestown, NH: Typographeum, 1994. 8vo (23.7 cm, 9.375"). 19, [2] pp.
$25.00
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One of only 75 copies printed: “. . . I heard the thin tinkle of her piano and watched the single light blooming pallidly in the far window. I had to look through the broken fence, across a waste of tangled grass, and up the winding drive that was the crooked way to fulfillment.”
This short story, hand-set and letterpress-printed by R.T. Risk of Typographeum Bookshop, has been
signed on the colophon page by the author. The prospectus is laid in.
Lavender blue wrappers with paper front label printed in the same color; spine sunned. Interior clean.
A wonderful copy of this signed limited edition. (38013)
Unattributed & UNCUT
Spring song. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [ca. 1934?]. 8vo. 8 pp.
$15.00

Blue Book — Perishable Press
Stafford, William. Weather. Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1969. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). [24] pp.
$450.00
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A beautiful fine press printing of these 13 poems by Stafford, eventually a U.S.
Poet Laureate, illustrated with a title-page vignette by Jack Beal. The text is printed in Palatino in black, red, blue, and green on blue-gray Shadwell paper “made from unbleached half-stuff”; Walter Hamady, proprietor of the
Perishable Press, did the pamphlet binding in navy blue Fabriano wrappers.
This is one of 207 copies printed; Hamady's distinctive pressmark, calligraphed by Sheikh Nasib Makarem, appears here in blind at the colophon.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 25. Publisher's navy paper wrappers, front wrapper with blind-stamped title and vignette. A crisp, clean copy. (30788)

Printed by W. Thomas Taylor / Signed by Stern
Stern, Madeleine B. Nicholas Gouin Dufief of Philadelphia: Franco-American bookseller, 1776-1834. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1988. 8vo. (22 cm; 8.75"). 81 pp., illus., portrait, facsimiles.
$50.00
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Limited to 300 (unnumbered) copies, signed by Stern and printed by W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, Texas, who also designed the work (“The types used are Baskerville & Bulmer”). Stern gave this talk before the Philobiblon Club; the text “Appeared previously in the American Book Collector in a somewhat shorter form” (Preface). Includes bibliographical references (pp. 73–81).
Stern was the life and business partner of Leona Rostenberg, their firm of Rostenberg & Stern having been one of America's most respected during the post –WWII period and known for its dealing in early printed books Dufief (1776?–1834) was a refugee from the French Revolution who from 1793 to 1818 lived in Philadelphia, where he taught French and ran a bookstore.
Among the libraries he acquired was the large residue of Benjamin Franklin's!
New. Publisher's light brown cloth with paper spine label. (35753)

A Tiny Gem — Printed by the Plantin Press (L.A.) — A Mary Kuper Wood Engraving
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Prayers written at Vailima. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. Miniature (6.2 cm, 2.4"). xxxviii, [2], 61, [1] pp.
$125.00
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Miniature edition of the daily prayers Stevenson wrote
for the use of his family and their Samoan household members, with an introduction by Fanny Stevenson and a preliminary note by Ellen Shaffer (one-time head of the rare book department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and later the first curator of the Silverado Museum in St. Helena, CA).
This is
one of 500 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press in Los Angeles; Mary Kuper did the wood engraving of a Samoan scene.
Provenance: Miniature bookplate of Raymond A. Smith to front pastedown.
Publisher's orange paper–covered boards with tan paper shelfback, front cover with red-stamped cruciform motif, spine with title in red. A clean and fresh copy. (35704)

Avant-Garde Short Stories Cutting-Edge Criticism
Stone, Herbert Stuart, ed. Essays from the Chap-Book being a miscellany of curious and interesting tales, histories, &c.; newly composed by many celebrated writers and very delightful to read. [and] New stories from the Chap-Book being a miscellany of curious and interesting tales, histories, &c.; newly composed by many celebrated writers and very delightful to read. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1896 & 1898. 8vo (17.8 cm, 7"). I: vi, [2], [5]–262, [19 (adv.)] pp. II: [6], 260, [2] pp.
$150.00
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First editions of the first and second series of selected pieces from an important late 19th-century literary periodical: one volume of essays and one of short stories. Each title-page is printed in red and black, with a gaily colored publisher's vignette. The first volume includes Boyesen writing on Ibsen's new play (“Little Eyolf”), John Burroughs on writing and criticism in general, Alice Morse Earle on three different topics including the merits (or lack thereof) of professional writing revision services, Maurice Thompson on the relative oldness of “The New Woman” and on “The Return of the Girl,” and many other interesting essays on the state of contemporary life and literature.
The second volume contains “The Sands of the Green River” (Neith Boyce), “The Unsullied Brow of the Viceroy” (Edwin Lefévre), “The Saving of Jim Moseby” (Anthony Leland), “The Escape” (Dabney Marshall), “Dick” (Maria Louise Pool), “The Primrose Dame” (John Regnault Ellyson), “When His Majesty Nicholas Came to England” (Clinton Ross), “At 'The Temple of Unending Peace'” (Alfred Dwight Sheffield), “The Tumbrils” (Nathaniel Stephenson), “Gil Horne's Bergonzi” (Maurice Thompson), “Her Last Love” (Clarence Wellford), “A Little Boy of Dreams” (Beatrice Witte), and “The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing” (Edith Franklin Wyatt).
Bindings: Both volumes in publisher's pinkish-tan cloth, all edges gilt. Vol. I's spine in dark blue, each cover with A.E. Borie's Art Nouveau design of a woman walking down the street while reading, stamped in black, green, yellow, and blue. Vol. II's spine in red, covers each with striking black and red reproduction of Claude Bragdon's Chap-Book poster of the “Sandwich Man”: a vignette of a bowler-hatted man in triplicate, wearing Chap-Book sandwich boards.
Kramer, Stone & Kimball, 119 & 168. Vol. I: Binding as above, minimal shelfwear, faint smudging to sides. Pages with a few instances of pencilled marks of emphasis, mostly but not entirely confined to the first essay, pages otherwise clean. Vol. II: Binding as above, very slightly cocked, sides with faint spots of discoloration, light wear to extremities. Two stories with faded inked marks of emphasis, and one with a few pencilled marks; a very few small spots of staining, pages otherwise clean. (29013)
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Works of a Master Engraver — With Signed Print
Stone, Reynolds. Reynolds Stone engravings. London: John Murray (pr. at the Curwen Press), [1977]. 8vo (29.1 cm, 11.5"). xli, [3], 151, [3] pp.; col. illus.
$450.00
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First edition, with an introduction by the artist and an appreciation by Kenneth Clark: an extensively illustrated survey of Stone's impressive accomplishments in wood engraving. A signed print of a previously unpublished engraving (of a waterfall in the Prescelly Mountains of south Wales) is laid in at the front; this engraving was printed with an Albion press by the artist, on handmade cream wove paper from Wookey Hole Mill. The colophon — which is also signed by Stone — notes that this is numbered copy 114 of 150 printed, done on Basingwerk parchment paper made by Grosvenor Chater, and bound in full buckram by W. & J. Mackay, with Cockerell endpapers.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's blue cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in a striking slipcase covered in combed paper in black, grey, and white, matching the endpapers; volume spine sunned, slipcase showing minimal shelfwear. Pages crisp and clean.
A beautiful book for collectors of calligraphic and/or bookplate art as well as connoisseurs of wood engraving. (39551)
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Like Father / Like Son
Strozzi, Tito Vespasiano; Ercole Strozzi; Aldo Manuzio. Strozii poetae pater et filius. Parisiis: Ex officina Simonis Colinaei, 1530. 8vo (17.3 cm, 6.75"). [8], 256, [4] ff.
$2800.00
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First and only Colines edition from Italian Renaissance father and son poets, containing a dedication by Aldus Manutius to Lucrezia Borgia, an extensive table of contents, poems by Ercole Strozzi (1473–1508) followed by those of his father Tito Vespasiano Strozzi (1424–1505), and “Oratio tumultario habita à Coelio Calcagnino in funere Herculis Strozae.” The content covers a variety of themes — from the religious to the erotic — and formats, including numerous elegies and epitaphs.
The text is neatly printed in single columns of italic text, with a few uncompleted guide letters and initial letters in roman; the Colines “Tempus II” printer's device of Time with his scythe appears on the title-page, with the motto “Hanc aciem sola retundit virtus” on a ribbon over a cartouche containing the word “tempus.” The text was originally published by Aldus in 1513; Colines enhances the introduction with a 33-line epitaph to the poet.
Binding: 19th-century rather deeply diced calf; spine gilt-lettered, gilt-ruled with solid and dotted lines, and gilt-stamped with a central floral device in five compartments. Covers framed with a gilt rope and floral roll, board edges with a dash and dot roll in gilt, turn-ins gilt with a Greek key roll; Stormont marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon place marker.
Evidence of Readership: A reader has helpfully added inked marginal reference numbers approximately every eight lines, for ease of navigation, and entered one small correction in an early hand.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Schreiber, Colines, 68; Renouard, Simon de Colines, pp. 166–7; Moreau, Éditions parisiennes du XVI siècle, III, 2292; Adams S1957. Bound as above, gently rubbed with some loss of leather at corners; joints (outside) refurbished and front one beginning to crack but covers solidly attached. A few pencilled notes on endpapers; faint touches of hand-coloring on title-page and (perhaps) one leaf of text. Light age-toning with a handful of spots, three small marginal paper flaws including one to title-page; two other small holes and one repair. Provenance and readership markings as above, perhaps a third of the marginal numbers partially trimmed. A pleasurable book to hold or
use. (38144)

Artist, Author, & Printer All Uncredited — All of Interest
Summerly, Felix, ed. [pseud. of Sir Henry Cole]; [John Callcott Horsley], illus. Beauty and the beast. An entirely new edition. With new pictures by an eminent artist. London: Joseph Cundall [pr. by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press], 1843. 12mo (16.7 cm, 6.57"). 4, iv, 36 pp.; 4 col. plts.
[SOLD]
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First edition: The classic fairy tale, rewritten in opposition to contemporary versions full of “moralizings” and “dull logical probability,” and published as part of Cole's “Home Treasury of Books” series. Darton notes that Cundall's children's books were “distinguished by sound typography and illustration,” and indeed this volume is clear, legible, and graced by
four hand-colored, wood-engraved plates from (unattributed) designs by the painter and popular illustrator John Callcott Horsley (responsible for the design of the first commercially produced Christmas card). McLean's Cundall bibliography attributes the printing of the entire Home Treasury series to the
Chiswick Press. This work is now scarce, with a search of WorldCat finding
only one U.S. institution reporting a physical holding (UCLA).
Binding: Publisher's arabesque-printed cream paper–covered sides with vellum shelfback, covers elaborately and beautifully gilt; diapered endpapers and all edges gilt.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Osborne Collection, p. 593; McLean, Joseph Cundall, p. 48; Darton, Children's Books in England (3rd ed.), pp. 234–35. Bound as above, sides slightly darkened and rubbed with gilt dimmed; back hinge (inside) tender. Front pastedown with pencilled inscription of Mrs. W., dated '44. Pages age-toned with occasional minor smudges; guard leaves present for all four plates.
A nice copy of an uncommon item. (40805)

Three 1586 Greek Works from Fédéric Morel's Press
Synesius, of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais. [title in Greek, romanized as] Synesiou Kyrênês Episcopou Ymnoi deka. Grêgoriou tou Nazianzêiou ôdai teatares. [bound with two others, see below]. Lutetiae [Paris]: Apud Federicum Morellum, 1586. 8vo (18 cm; 7"). 88 pp. [with the same author's] [title in Greek romanized as] ... Peri enypnion ... Liber de insomniis ... Lutetiae [Paris]: Apud Federicum Morellum, 1586. 8vo. 56 pp. (lacking parts 2 and 3; [10], 31, [5], 55, [1] ff.). [with] John Chrysostom, Saint. [title in Greek romanized as] Ioannou tou Chrysostomou Peri Heimarmenes te kai pronoias. [then in Latin:] Divi Ioannis Chrysostomi Conciucnculae perquam elegantes sex de fato & prouidentia Dei. Lutetiae [Paris]: Apud Federicum Morellum, 1586. 8vo. 82. (i.e., 79), [1] pp.
$2875.00
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An attractive Greek sammelband of scarce theological works in a trio produced by Frédéric Morel (1552–1630) — heir of a great line of Paris printers after his father’s death in 1583 and, from 1581, the French Royal Printer for the Greek, as blazoned by the dedicated printer’s device with pike, snake, and olive branch on each title-page here. Based on editions previously produced by other Parisian printers (and sometimes also bound together), this sammelband boasts the famous Grec du Roi typeface — in particular, the Royal Pica Greek — that Morel had inherited, ultimately, from Robert Estienne, and which was originally produced by Garamond.
Synesius (373–414), Bishop of Ptolemais, was known in the Renaissance for his intriguing works, spanning subjects as varied as the praise of hair and the making of astrolabes. First here, entirely in Greek, are his ten famous hymns of Neoplatonic feeling, followed by four odes by the Church Father Gregory of Nazianzus (329–90), Archbishop of Constantinople. Next comes part I (only) of Synesius’s second work – Peri enypniōn — “one of the most fervent writings in the area of religiously founded speculation about divination through dreams,” and “an important representative of Greek oneirological thinking” (Bittrich, 71); this concludes with a short Orphic hymn. The last work presents the influential Conciunculae by John Chrysostom (347–407), a treatise on fate and divine providence, followed by short excerpts from St. Isidore’s epistles.
In addition to the royal printer’s woodcut device on titles, the works all also have interesting decorated initials and ornaments.
Binding: Late 18th-century green sheep, board edges gilt with a decorated fillet with stars in a chaine; spine gilt with Greek fillet and urns. Gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Provenance: From the library of the Hardens of Crea, King’s Co., in Ireland, and probably bound in Dublin in the second half of the 18th century. Armorial bookplate printed in red of Henry Hurden, L.L.B.; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
I: Not in Brunet or USTC. II: USTC 171954; Pettegree & Walsby 87229; Renouard 1584 06:14:1; Brunet, V, 614. III: Adams, C1546. Bittrich, “Outline of a General History of Speculation about Dreams,” in On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination (2014), 71–96. Bound as above, second work lacking parts II and III, rubbed and with spine a little sunned; text remarkably clean, with
generous lower margins. Light age-toning small light water stain at foot of a few leaves; two pages in last section with old pencilled underlining.
Handsome Greek printing with pleasing provenance. (37798)

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