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History of the Roman Empire — Bodoni Printing
Tacitus, Cornelius. C. Cornelii Taciti opera. Parmae: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1797. 8vo (22 cm, 8.66"). 2 vols. I: [4], xii, [4], 379 (i.e., 376) pp. II: [4], 328 pp.
$500.00
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First Bodoni octavo edition of Tacitus's Annals (only, despite the title), following the press's folio and quarto printings of 1795. Dedicated to Ferdinand, Duke of Parma and one of Bodoni's most important patrons, this two-volume set offers a classic example of Bodonian restraint and minimalism. Searches of WorldCat show
only seven U.S. institutions reporting holdings.
Brooks 692; Brunet, V, 638. This ed. not in De Lama, not in Schweiger. Modern quarter green morocco and green pebbled cloth–covered boards, spines with gilt-stamped title and gilt rule–framed compartments; spines sunned (not unattractively), volumes lightly rubbed overall. Some pages creased in the press, with variable spotting/soiling/foxing, the last generally speckle-type; still a
solid, dignified set. (40179)

Bodoni Tacitus — Three Volumes Nicely Bound
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius. C. Cornelii Taciti opera. Parmae: In Aedibus Palatinus, Typis Bodonianis, 1795. Imp. 4to (32.38 cm, 12.75"). 3 vols. I: [2], xii, [6], 284 pp. II: [4], 297, [1] pp. III: [4], 281, [3] pp.
$1000.00
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Large quarto variant of the Bodoni edition of Tacitus's Annals (only, despite the title); the spine labels here give the more correct “Annales,” rather than Opera). Giani notes the scrupulous accuracy of this text, and the “grande perizia filologica” brought to the task by editor Vincenzo Jacobacci.
Binding: Contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper–covered boards, spines with gilt-stamped olive leather title and date labels; quatrefoil gilt roll on raised bands and blind-tooled, black-accented decorations in compartments. All page edges marbled to match endpapers.
Brooks 594; De Lama, II, 106; Giani 71 (p. 54); Schweiger, II, 1006. Bound as above, rebacked with the original spines laid down; sides and edges with moderate scuffing. Faint spotting, occasionally more pronounced, to many page edges; pages overall clean.
Bodoni's unadorned typesetting embodies classical elegance. (40168)
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A Classic of Italian Renaissance Literature
Bodoni
Super-Royal Folio Format Copy
Tasso, Torquato. Aminta favola boschereccia ... ora alla sua vera lezione ridotta. Crisopoli: Impresso Co' Topi Bodoniani, 1793. Folio extra (44.5 cm, 17.75"). xxxv, [1], 117, [1] pp.
$2500.00
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Bodoni's super-royal folio format edition of Tasso's best-known work. This folio extra is a reprint of the press's edition of 1789, with a handsome engraved headpiece done by Lucatelli; Brooks notes that this edition is found both with and without a frontispiece portrait, and the latter is the case here.
Binding: Contemporary brown calf, covers framed in blind fillets surrounding a wide blind roll, with large areas of blind-tooled arabesques in corners; covers with blind-stamped supra-libros (see below). All edges gilt.
Provenance: Covers with armorial supra-libros of Henry Welbore Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden (1761–1836), with his motto: “Non haec sine numine.” Front pastedown of deep blue with armorial bookplate and “C” shelf-list tag at one corner, front free endpaper with bookplates of Robert Wayne Stilwell and Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Brooks 514; Brunet, V, 673; Giani 46 (p. 48). Binding as above, rebacked with original spine laid down and recent gilt-stamped red leather labels; corners and lower edges rubbed. Bookplates as above. Free endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins. Pages notably clean clean and crisp.
A striking copy of this dramatic presentation. (40163)

Uncommon Version of Bodoni's Aminta
Tasso, Torquato. Aminta favola boschereccia ... ora alla sua vera lezione ridotta. Crisopoli: Impresso Co' Topi Bodoniani, 1796. 4to (24.2 cm, 9.52"). xxxvii, [1], 142 pp.
$575.00
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Limited Bodoni edition of Tasso's best-known work. Bodoni first published this widely read 16th-century play in 1789, in honor of the Marchesa Anna Malaspina della Bastia. Vincenzo Monti supplied a dedicatory poem, and Pierantonio Serassi the preface. The text here was reset in different characters from the 1789 and, according to Brooks, limited to 100 copies
on carta velina and 2 on vellum. This is a paper copy, with the engraved portrait of Tasso present on the title-page.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Joseph H. Hamilton (an oak tree being cut by a saw, with the motto “Through”; bookplate attributed to Richard Joseph Ablett by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts). Title-page with early inked inscription of Catherine Cowper.
Brooks 650; Giani 92 (pp. 57/58). Contemporary green calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-tooled compartment decorations between gilt-ruled raised bands, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls, all edges gilt; spine and board edges browned, spine label chipped, joints and extremities rubbed. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. (40176)
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Epic Artistry
Tasso, Torquato. La Gerusalemme liberata. Parma: Nel Regal Palazzo, 1807. Large 4to (30 cm, 11.8"). 2 vols. in 1. [18], 331, [3], 337, [1] pp.
$975.00
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Luxurious Bodoni edition of the great Italian Renaissance epic, with the text edited by distinguished scholar Abbot Pier Antonio Serassi. Bodoni first printed folio and quarto editions of the Gerusalemme in 1794, having previously published Tasso's Aminta in 1789. Giani and other sources consider the present grand quarto edition worthwhile as both a useful text and a generally faithful reprinting; it hews very closely to the 1794 quarto design, though the original Roman stanza numerals are here replaced by Arabic. The work was printed in two volumes — here bound as one — on laid paper.
Binding: Contemporary green textured calf, covers framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather author label. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll.
Textblock edges delightfully marbled in a bright, impressive, tour-de-force match to marbling of endpapers.
Brooks 1017; Brunet, V, 667; De Lama, II, 175; Giani 179 (page 72). Bound as above, rebacked with original spine sunned to brown reapplied; sides with scuffs (some showing signs of refurbishing) and with edges and extremities moderately rubbed.
A monument of both literature and typography in a very clean and handsome copy. (40192)

King Edward I's
WELSH Castles
Taylor, Arnold Joseph. Four great castles. [Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales]: Gwasg Gregynog [The Gregynog Press], 1983. Folio (26.9 cm, 10.5"). [2], vi, 70, [2] pp.; 8 plts.
$675.00
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Fine press
GREGYNOG edition of this essay on the architecture and history of Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech, and Beaumaris, opening with a foreword by Charles, Prince of Wales. Illustrated with eight delicately, precisely etched views by David Woodford, printed by him on his own press in Snowdonia, the volume was designed and otherwise printed by Eric Gee on Zerkall mould-made paper with deckle edges. The present example is numbered copy 96 of 165 printed — 150 bound as here, with an additional 15 copies specially bound.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, the American collector of press books.
Publisher's grey marbled paper–covered sides, front cover with gilt-stamped coat of arms, spine with black-stamped title; spine a touch sunned with unobtrusive small scuff towards foot, sides very slightly sprung, slipcase lacking. Front pastedown with bookplate as above. Volume clean and unworn, beautiful and uncommon. (30597)

Tennyson Juvenilia from
the Chaucer Press, Bungay
Tennyson, Alfred. The devil and the lady. London: Macmillan & Co., 1930. 8vo. Frontis., xv, [1], 67, [3] pp.
$35.00
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First edition of this verse comedy written by the poet at the age of 14, edited by his grandson. 1500 copies were printed by R. Clay & Sons at the Chaucer Press, Bungay, on “Whitman hand-made paper”; an attractive label inside the back cover indicates that this copy was acquired (and/or the edition was distributed) by way of “The Times Book Club, 42 Wigmore Street, London, W.1.”
Binding: Publisher's quarter parchment over handsome, textured, swirl-printed tan paper; spine with gilt-stamped author and title. Edges uncut.
Bound as above; corners bumped, spine darkened and rubbed, joints also rubbed. Title-page with small paper adhesion, one other page with light smudge, a little light dust-soiling along the uncut lower edges, otherwise clean. (29724)

Seaside Imagery
Theobald, John. A second light. Newark, VT: The Janus Press, 1977. 8vo (25.9 cm, 10.2"). [24] pp.
$700.00
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First edition of these poems from a professor at San Diego State University; the first piece is “La Jolla Shores.” This is one of
75 copies set in Gudrun Zapf's Diotima by Susan Johanknecht and printed on French-folded Fabriano paper, with the front cover being a portion of an original ocean-inspired
lithograph by Claire Van Vliet, done in blues, greens, white, and silver.
Fine, Janus Press 1975–80, 41. Publisher's navy cloth, front cover with illustration on paper as above; spine very slightly sunned, outer front corners showing most minimal wear.
Van Vliet's lithograph bright and beautiful. (32333)
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“The Bat . . . Is a Murderous Plaything”
“Thine, Bawlingly.” Something for the admirers of base ball. New York: Glenn Horowitz, 1990. 16mo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 12, [4] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Dedicated to the memory of Bart Giamatti and reprinted from the Salem Register of 15 August 1867: a comic account of the trials and tribulations of the game of baseball in its formative years. This is one of 150 copies printed at the Kelly/Winterton Press.
Publisher's paper wrappers.
A fresh, clean copy. (37134)

Welsh Press / Anglo-Welsh Poet
Thomas, Edward. Selected poems of Edward Thomas. [Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales]: The Gregynog Press, 1927. 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.3"). xix, [1], 95, [1] pp.
$275.00
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An early production from the
Gregynog Press, being 67 pieces by an acclaimed early 20th-century poet. The introduction, by Edward Garnett, includes letters from Thomas to Garnett.
This is
numbered copy 173 of 275 printed. The text was set in Garamond type with decorative initials in red and page ruling in blue, and printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard on Japanese vellum.
Harrop, Gregynog Press, 6. Publisher's yellow buckram, spine with gilt-stamped title; sides mildly dust-soiled, spine slightly darkened, back cover with two areas of discoloration near upper edge. Pages gently age-toned and entirely clean. (35245)

Pickering–Chiswick Imitation — Signed Binding
Thomas, à Kempis. De imitatione Christi et contemptu mundi omniumque ejus vanitatum libri IV. Codex De-Advocatis saeculi XIII. Londini: Guil. Pickering (pr. by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press), 1851. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.67"). xxii, 322, [2] pp.
$275.00
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Handsome Chiswick Press production of the enduring classic, here in an equally handsome signed binding. The Latin text opens with a prefatory “Life of Thomas of Kempis” (in English) by Charles Butler and is decorated with ornamental headpieces and capitals. While Pickering had previously published an Imitation of Christ in Latin in 1827, this is the
first Pickering edition printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press and “from the edition of Lambinet, with a strict adherence to the text “ (p. xv).
Binding: Signed binding, stamped by Charles Capé at foot of front pastedown: Very simple black morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped title, place of publication, and date; board edges with gilt rules, pastedowns with gilt dentelle rolls. All edges gilt.Provenance: Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1851.9; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 75. Binding as above, original silk bookmark present. Pages gently and evenly age-toned, otherwise clean and fresh.
A desirable copy. (40820)

Printed for The Philobiblon Club by Edmund Thompson at
HAWTHORN HOUSE
Thompson, Lawrance. Emerson and Frost: Critics of their times. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1940. Small 8vo (20.5 cm; 8"). 44 pp.
$35.00
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“An essay read before a meeting of the Philobiblon Club at Philadelphia on 24 October 1940, and now privately printed for the Members of the Club” (title-page). The colophon tells us: “Two hundred and fifty copies, printed by Edmund Thompson at Hawthorn House, Windham, Connecticut, were complete on the last day of the year nineteen hundred and forty. The type is Bulmer, hand set; the paper Worthy Charta. The portrait of Emerson is a wood-cut by James Britton, and is issued through the courtesy of Edwin Valentine Mitchell.”
The title-page is printed in black with two blue lines; the portrait of Emerson is in blue on a pale ochre field; the colophon incorporates a large blue “H.”
Lawrance Thompson (1903–73) was a member of the English faculty at Princeton University and the official biographer of Robert Frost.
New. Publisher's gray cloth shelfback with orange-red marbled paper sides. Deckle edges. In the original gray cloth openback slipcase. (35754)
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“The Great Archer of England”
[Thoms, William John]. The noble birth and gallant atchievements [sic] of that remarkable outlaw
Robin Hood. London: William Pickering, 1827. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.56"). [2], xix, [1], 53, [1] pp.
$750.00
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“Together with a true account of the many merry and extravagant exploits he play'd in twelve several stories: to which is added, the life of Robin Hood, from a manuscript in the British Museum”: A 19th-century printing of a 1678 prose account, offering a particularly roguish take on Robin as a “bold and licentious” outlaw in the days of Henry VIII.
This is the first printing of Thoms' edition; the work was issued separately, and later reprinted as part of the three-volume Collection of Early Prose Romances (1828). WorldCat locates
only four U.S. institutional holdings.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2H28672. This edition not in Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering (see 1828.22 for three-volume collection); likewise Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), (see p. 92 as above). Modern pebbled black morocco, front cover with gilt-stamped green morocco title-label, in matching morocco and marbled paper–covered slipcase; slipcase rubbed, volume spine sunned and rubbed. Pages faintly age-toned with scattered small spots of light foxing. (37602)

“Complementary Opposites. At Least I Hope So.” — One of Fifty Copies Only
Tucker, Alan, & Morris Cox. In line. Stroud; Gloucestershire: The Stilt Press [& The Gogmagog Press], 1988. Sm. 4to (26 cm; 10.25"). 2 vols. I: [10], 11–21, [4] pp.; illus. II: [11] ff.; illus.
$300.00
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Wickedly original collages from artist and
Gogmagog Press owner Morris Cox, here published with some Alan Tucker poems inspired by them; an introduction supplies notes on the somewhat “complicated” process of collaboration from the participants' points of view. Illustrations here were “designed and photoprinted at the Gogmagog Private Press” by a process using Cox's original collages and a copy machine, and have been printed on double-folded Japanese handmade paper. One volume contains illustrations by Cox and Tucker's poems, while the other offers Cox's illustrations and the Gogmagog Press mark as a colophon.
The poem volume colophon states “Published in one edition only, fifty copies signed and numbered,” of which this is
number 39. Bookseller Bertram Rota was responsible for distribution.
Binding: Publisher's lime green cloth with a black and while collage-inspired paper label on each front cover; the pair housed in lime green cloth slipcase with black paper sides and paper labels on front and spine.
Chambers 70. Bound as above, ink on pastedowns somewhat tacky with some offsetting, one leaf attached to pastedown with partial tear to fold; light to moderate age-toning affecting Japanese paper, otherwise bright and clean. Definitely an engaging piece of art. (37197)

A 30-Item One-Author Sampling of
Bodoni “Job Printing”
Turchi, Adeodati. Collection of Bodoni editions of 30 works by Turchi. [Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale], 1788–96. 12mo & 8vo. In 3 vols.
$2500.00
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30 different, very short works by Turchi, a Capuchin friar who rose to be Bishop of Parma, plus six duplicates of which two are incomplete. All are prime examples of job printing, executed in the same small elegant font, each page with the same border of type ornaments and a small composed ornament above that; present as below are expositions of faith and doctrine, pastoral letters, remissions and pardons, and many, many homilies. Some entries have, on their first page, a crisply neat rendering of the bishop's coat of arms.
Sermons, pastoral letters, and homilies are among the types of job printing that have provided necessary cash flow for all presses throughout time. And because of their ephemeral and narrow-interest nature combined with their short print runs, they tend to be among the scarcest productions of the Bodoni Press.
VOLUME 1: Epostola. 21 Septembris 1788 (Sallander No. 46); Indulto. 18 February 1789 (Sallander No. 51); Lettera pastorale. No date. (Brooks 1348); Omelia recitata al popolo. 1789, (Sallander No. 54); Indulto. 1790. (Sallander No. 55);Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1790 (Sallander No. 56); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno dell' Assunzione di Maria Vergine. 1790 (Sallander No. 57); Omelia. Recitata al popolo nel giorno si San Bernardo. 1790 (Sallander No. 58); Indulto pubblicato. 1791 (Sallander No. 59); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1791 (Brooks 432); Omelia. Recitata nel giorni di Tutti li Santi. 1791 (Brooks 433); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1791 (Sallander No. 61); Indulto. Per la Quaresima. 1792 (Sallander No. 65).
VOLUME 2: Indulto. Per la Quaresima. 1792 (Sallander No. 65; second copy); Omelia. Recitara nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1792 (Sallander No. 66); Omelia. Recitata al suopopolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1792 (Brooks 498); Omelia. Detta al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1792 (Sallander No. 67); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1793 (Sallander No. 70); Omelia. Diretta al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1793 (Sallander No. 72); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1793 (Sallander No. 73); Omelia. Detta al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1793 (Sallander No. 74); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1794 (Sallander No. 76); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1794 (Sallander No. 77); Omelia. Recitata dopo la messa pontificale in lode del B. Bartolommeo di Breganze.1794 (Brooks 582); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1794 (Sallander No. 79); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1794 (Sallander No. 80); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1795 (Sallander No. 81).
VOLUME 3: Indulto. La Quaresima. 1793 (Sallander No. 70; second copy); Omelia. Detta al suo popolo nel Giorno di San Bernardo, 1793 (Sallander No. 74; second copy – incomplete, lacking two leaves containing pages 29 to 32); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1794 (Sallander No. 76; second copy – incomplete, lacking two leaves consisting of first blank leaf and title); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1794 (Sallander No. 77; second copy); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1794 (Sallander No. 79; second copy); Omelia. Recitata dopo la messa pontificale in lode del B. Bartolommeo di Breganze. 1794 (Brooks 582; second copy); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1794 (Sallander No. 80; second copy); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1795 (Sallander No. 82); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1795 (Sallander No. 83). Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1794 (Sallander No. 84); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1796 (Sallander No. 86).
Two volumes in contemporary marbled boards, and one volume in boards with repurposed antique marbled paper, that volume with top edge gilt. Some pages are trimmed at foremargins, most not; vol. II retains a silk placemarker.
All volumes are clean, sound, and attractive. (40140)
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Two Bodoni-Printed Sermons
Turchi, Adeodato. Omelia dall' illustrissimo e reverendissimo Monsignore Fr. Adeodato Turchi ... recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste dell'anno MDCCXCII sopra i beni temporali della cattolica chiesa. [Parma: Dalla stamperia reale, 1793]. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.13"). [4], xxix, [1] pp. [with the same author's] Omelia ... recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo dell'anno MDCCXCII. [Parma: Dalla stamperia reale, 1793]. 8vo. [2], xxxii pp.
$185.00
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Two homilies from Turchi (first name sometimes given as Diodato), a Capuchin friar who rose to be Bishop of Parma, and who favored the Bodoni Press for his printing needs. Each piece opens with a crisp rendering of the bishop's coat of arms.
Sermons, pastoral letters, and homilies are among the types of job printing that have provided necessary cash flow for all presses throughout time. And because of their ephemeral and narrow-interest nature combined with their short print runs, they tend to be among the scarcest productions of the Bodoni Press.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of “G.P.C.” (Pegasus design) and Fratelli Salimbeni (with shelving designation).
Brooks, Compendiosa bibliografia i edizioni Bodoniane, 497. Contemporary marbled paper–covered boards, faded and rubbed; bookplates as above. Page edges untrimmed. Light foxing, as typically seen in these Bodoni printings. (40157)
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One of 50 Special Copies Wood Engravings by
Ruzicka
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, & Rudolph Ruzicka. D.B.U. and R.R.: selected extracts from correspondence between Daniel Berkeley Updike and Rudolph Ruzicka, 1908–1941. New York: American Printing History Association, 1998. Small 4to (27.3 cm; 10.75"). vi, 181, [8] pp.
$115.00
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One of 500 copies and no. 50 of 50 special copies signed by the designer Roderick Stinehour and bound by Judi Conant at Guildhall, VT, with the inclusion of
three wood engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka printed by the Merrymount Press in addition to the many reproductions prepared for this volume. The correspondence was edited by Elizabeth French Lathem and Edward Connery Lathem, and the text and illustration together well exemplify the collaboration between two giants of the Book Arts during the first half of the 20th century.
The wood engravings are absolutely stunning.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard (sans indicia).
Quarter blue cloth with gray paper spine label over lovely marbled paper; issued without a dust jacket.
A bright and clean copy. (37600)
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Signed, Illustrated
Updike Poem
Updike, John. In the cemetery high above Shillington. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1995. 8vo (26.2 cm, 10.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$200.00
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First and only stand-alone printing, following an appearance in the Ontario Review, here illustrated with three relief engravings by
Barry Moser. The edition was designed by John Kristensen and letterpress printed in Baskerville type at the Firefly Press, where it was also bound. 150 copies were printed altogether; the present example is one of 100 copies
signed by the author and the artist, printed on Molino paper, and handsewn in wrappers.
Publisher's cream paper wrappers in folded heavy taupe paper wraps, front wrapper with gilt-stamped title. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations. A clean, crisp copy. (32675)

Sumptuously Bound by DAVID for
Cortlandt Bishop
Uzanne, Octave. Son altesse la femme. Paris: A. Quantin, 1885. Small folio (27.5 cm; 11" ). [2] ff., [i]–xii, 312 pp., 2 l. illus. (part col.).
$1500.00
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Definitely this work was created by a bibliophile for fellow lovers of the book. When this work appeared, Uzanne (1852–1931) was in full stride as a leader of the Paris circle of men and women interested in handsomely illustrated, printed, and bound works of literature. In 1880 he launched Miscellanées bibliographiques and, soon after Son altesse la femme appeared. he introduced the influential periodicals Le Livre, Le Livre moderne, and L'Art et l'Idée. In 1889, he took part in the creation of a publishing company, the “League of Contemporary Bibliophiles.” He counted among his friends the artists Jean Lorrain, Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Remy de Gourmont.
Son altesse la femme essays most satirically the position of women in society from the medieval to the author's time. The chapters are: Le vray mirouer de sorcellerie, La mie du poete, La précieuse, La caillette, La citoyenne française, Les galanteries du directoire, Sous la restauration, L'amour aux champs, La parisienne moderne, and Mulieriana.
The work was limited to 100 copies all printed on Japan vellum. It has an engraved vignette on the black and red printed title, small illustrations or vignettes on 50 text pages, 11 vignette borders or headpieces (three of them in color, 10 of them in an
extra state), and 10 tipped-in color plates. The illustrations are by Henri Gervex, J.A. Gonzalès, L. Kratké, Albert Lynch, Adrien Moreau, and Félicien Rops.
Binding: Full red crushed morocco with five raised bands. Covers with a triple-rule gilt border; spine gilt extra with gilt beading on bands. Triple gilt fillet on board edges. Wide turn-ins richly tooled in gilt and with cream and blue leather inlays that are also gilt-tooled. Blue silk pastedowns and free endpapers. Marbled paper fly-leaves. All edges gilt.
Binding signed “David.”
Provenance: Red leather bookplate of Cortlandt Field Bishop, the famed collector of the early 20th century and, at one time, owner of the TWO most important auction galleries in NY/USA.
Original full-color wrappers bound in.
Vicaire, VII, 924. Uncut copy. Bound as above with original
wrappers bound in; front joint (outside) somewhat abraded.
A
very pleasing copy. (26675)
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“Listen, Ye Who Look for Jesus”
Van Dyke, Henry. The toiling of Felix: A legend on a new saying of the Christ. New York: Privately printed, 1898. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). 34 pp.
$200.00
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A presentation copy of one of only 125 copies total “printed from type at the De Vinne Press.” Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) was an American author and clergyman who also taught English literature at Princeton University. His works, which include several Christmas stories, are deeply reflective of his religious devotion. Here, through rhyming verse, he tells of a man's revelation during his quest seeking God. After failed attempts to find Him through books and solitude, Felix finally achieves what he's looking for through daily labor. God tells him, “Raise the stone, and thou shalt find Me; cleave the wood, and I am there.”
This is copy no. 7.
Provenance: Presentation copy to Arthur H. Scribner, a president of Charles Scribner's Sons and a Princeton alumnus, signed by Van Dyke, “March 17, 1898, Dies Sancti Patricii.”
Quarter “vellum” paper over gray paper–covered boards, dark teal lettering to front board; corners a bit bumped, very faint dirtying of boards. Interior bright, with fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. An unassumingly simple production from a good press, now uncommon and here inscribed by the author. (38239)

From the Early Days of the
Dutch Sea-Borne Empire — Japan & Siam & MORE
Varenius, Bernhardus. Descriptio regni Iaponiae. Cum quibusdam affinis materiae, ex variis auctoribus collecta et in ordinem redacta. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649. 12mo (11 cm; 4.25"). 2 vols. in 1. I: [24] ff., 267 [i.e., 287], [1 (blank)] pp. II: [4] ff., 120 [i.e., 320] pp.; fold. table.
$1250.00
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Varenius (1622–50) was born in Germany, studied medicine, settled in Amsterdam, abandoned medicine to study geography and learn of the new discoveries being made by the Dutch explorers, and died young and impoverished.
This is the first edition of his first published work, a description of Japan, and is based on previously published and unpublished sources that were available to him thanks to his association with the Elzevir firm and friendship with Willem Blaeu. The second part of the work, “Descriptio regni Siam,” is a translation into Latin of J. Schouten's Beschrijvinge van de regeringe, macht, religie, coustuymen, traffijcquen, en andere remercquable saken, des koninghrycks Siam.
Both texts treat of religions, customs, political organization, society, and history. As a coda to the “Descriptio regni Siam,” pp. 225 to the end provide “Brevis informatio de diversis gentium religionibus,” including large sections on the religions of Africa and Asia (including China); a page on those of Mexico, Peru, and Chile; sections on ancient Greece and Rome; and pages on Russia, Armenia, and Islam.
The volume begins with an engraved title-leaf showing a royal audience chamber with many people kowtowing to the emperor, and, in another portion of the page, Asian scholars with a book and map.
Provenance: 19th-century Hungarian stamp on verso of title-page “Teleki Pal Gr Pribekfalva.”
Copinger, Elzevier, 4802; Willems 1095; Berghman 1927; Rahir 1109. Contemporary vellum, soiled. Title-leaf loose but present; lightly reattached. A very little old underlining in ink; a good copy. (35534)
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With a Photo of
the Printers in Their Garret
Village Press. The Village Press a retrospective exhibition 1903–1933. New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1933. 8vo. 32 pp.; illus.
$50.00
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Nice look at the Goudys' body of work at the Village Press, with an introduction by Will Ransom and a tipped-in photographic illustration of Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the press.
Sewn in publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers slightly age-toned, otherwise a clean, handsome copy. (14424)

Bodoni's Quarto
Hero & Leander
Viviani, Niccolò. Ero, e Leandro poema. Parma: Nel Regal Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1794. 4to (28.4 cm, 11.18"). [8], 40, [2 (blank)] pp.
$700.00
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Typically elegant Bodoni printing of this ottava rima treatment of the subject, written by the Marchese Niccolò Viviani, governor of Pisa, and dedicated to Maria Luisa of Parma. In 1794, Bodoni published the first edition of Ero, e Leandro in folio, following up in the same year with quarto and octavo versions; the paper of this
large quarto is watermarked “FP.” Thomas Hartwell Horne claimed “of each edition, not more than
40 or 50 copies were struck off.”
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell and with 19th-century Florence bookseller's ticket.
Brooks 548; De Lama, II, 96–97; Giani 59 (p. 51). Contemporary half brown calf and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled; rubbed overall with fore-edge and spine label chipped, pin-hole worm action to spine/joints without this reaching interior. Free endpapers, front fly-leaf, and final blank each with one horizontal crease
in lower portion; front endpapers with pencilled annotations. Occasional light to moderate foxing. (40167)

The Art of Angling
Illustrated by Adams
Walton, Izaak. The compleat angler or the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of fish and fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers ... decorated by Frank Adams. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Folio (35 cm, 13.5"). Frontis., [10], 124, [2] pp.; illus.
$350.00
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Beautifully enhanced facsimile of the first edition of Walton's beloved classic, possibly the highlight of fishing literature. The pages are graced with numerous black-and-white decorations in addition to a color-printed frontispiece and nine scenes of gentlemen fishing done in elegantly muted shades of green, blue, and brown by American artist Frank Adams (1871–1944), known for his children's illustrations. This is numbered copy 359 of 450 printed, and signed by the artist.
Provenance: The publisher-issued bookplate and box label proclaim that this copy belonged to L. Haskell Sweet, a New York businessman.
Coigney 308. Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; original glassine dust wrapper and original charcoal-colored paper-covered box with personalized label present, wrapper with chips, short tears, and some creasing, and box split at seams with two side elements fully detached (one lost). Vellum of the volume's spine faintly darkened and spotted, book otherwise clean and fresh with top edges gilt; sweet identification as above.
A good catch. (28332)
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Deluxe Angler — In a Zaehnsdorf Binding, with Proof Plates
Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton; Harris Nicolas, ed. The complete angler or the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of rivers fish-ponds fish and fishing ... and instructions on how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream ... with original memoirs and notes. London: William Pickering (pr. by C. Whittingham), 1836. Large 8vo (27.3 cm, 10.75"). 2 vols. I: [16], clxiv, [4], [clxv]-ccxii, [2], 129, [1] pp.; 29 plts., illus. II: [4], [131]–436, [32 (index)] pp.; 38 plts., illus.
$4000.00
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First edition edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, and
the most lavish of all of Pickering's editions of this beloved treatise on fishing. In addition to the expected steel-engraved plates and in-text illustrations, this copy features
an extra set of proof plates printed on India paper, mounted on heavy paper, and bound in for all illustrations including the headpiece decorations, for
a total of 67 plates. Horne summed the work up as having been “illustrated by the foremost contemporary artists, produced by an excellent printer and issued by an outstanding publisher” — and it appears here in a binding that does justice to those qualities.
Binding: Signed 20th-century dark green straight-grain morocco, covers framed in quadruple gilt fillets with gilt fish motifs in corners, spines similarly decorated, board edges with gilt fillets, turn-ins with gilt fillets and roll. All edges gilt; green marbled endpapers. Bindings done by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf, with his stamp (dated 1914) on lower front turn-ins.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with small silver “TJS” monogram label (unidentified); most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 94; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1836.17; Ing, Charles Whittingham, 13; Horne, The Compleat Angler 1653–1967, 43. Bindings as above, spines gently sunned; front free endpapers stamped “Bartlett & Co, Boston” in upper outer corners. Occasional minor foxing/spotting; vol. II with mild waterstaining to lower outer portions, more pronounced to first few leaves and later ones.
An enduring classic, in a beautiful set. (40961)
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Waugh! The Pre-Raphaelites!
Waugh, Evelyn. PRB An essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1847–54. Westerham, Kent: Dalrymple Press, 1982. 4to (25.2 cm, 9.9"). 44, [3] pp.
$125.00
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“No-one else was writing about the Pre-Raphaelites in the 1920's, and it is therefore interesting to know what an intelligent and independent-minded author thought about them, especially during their most unfashionable phase. We must, of course, be thankful that Waugh became a novelist and not an art-historian, but he does deserve to be remembered as one of the most distinguished pioneers of the Victorian revival” (44).
This is the first published edition of Waugh's essay, which was first printed privately by Alastair Graham in 1926. As Christopher Sykes and Christopher Wood describe it in the preface and postscript, respectively, Waugh's account of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is not very scholarly (for one, Waugh makes biased remarks about William Holman Hunt, who married not one but two of his relatives, the sisters Fanny and Edith Waugh); however it is regarded as the first serious bit of writing by one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. A commission followed to write the biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Waugh's first full-length book.
The text was designed by Robert Hamilton Dalrymple using Monophoto Modern Extended 7 and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper at the Westerham Press, illustrated with
six plates reproducing portraits drawn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais, of each other. The binding, in navy blue cloth with the title stamped in red on the front cover and spine, and matching red endpapers, was designed by Hunter & Foulis of Edinburgh. Of an edition limited to 475 copies, this is number 118, written in manuscript below the colophon.
Binding as above, in protective mylar wrappers. Short marginal tear to bottom of one leaf, else
like new. (30683)
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Berhardt Wall's Works:
“A Prize of the Cognoscenti, a Delight for Collectors, & the Pride of Librarians”
Weber, Francis J. Following Bernhardt Wall 1872–1956. Austin, TX: The Book Club of Texas, 1994. Folio (29.9 cm, 11.75"). [2], 63, [1] pp.; 5 col. plts., col. illus.
$450.00
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Weber's account of the life and works of Wall, known as the “Postcard King,” an American artist, historian, and pioneer of etching. Originally published in 1974 as a miniature volume, the work appears here in an
expanded full-sized presentation designed and typeset by Castle Press and printed by Patrick Reagh Printers, limited to 195 copies (this example unnumbered). Like the first edition, this one is illustrated with mounted intaglio reproductions by Anthony Kroll — but this one additionally features a number of examples of Wall's work printed from the original plates, five colored photogravure reproductions of etchings by Wall, and one
original postcard (with writing on the reverse).
Publisher's speckled paper–covered boards with gray cloth shelfback, front cover with printed paper label, in plain paper dust jacket with printed spine label and in coordinating paper and cloth slipcase; jacket spine very slightly sunned, slipcase and volume clean and crisp.
A beautiful tribute to an important American illustrator. (37130)
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A Poem Commemorating
Fifteen Lost Smokejumpers
(50 COPIES)
Weil, James L. Mann Gulch. New York: Kelly Winterton Press, 2000. 12mo (19.1 cm; 7.5"). [5] ff.
$100.00
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This short poem remembering the smokejumpers who died in 1949 during the Mann Gulch fire was printed by the Kelly Winterton Press, an American press founded in 1978.
The edition was limited to 50 copies only.
The colophon notes that this text was printed from Bembo, Cleland Initial, and Sistina types on Niddegen paper.
Rose wrappers with black lettering on front; spine gently faded. Light pencilling on front endpaper. A simple yet elegant production. (36075)

Fantastical “Rural” Scenes
Weissenborn, Hellmuth, illus. A country calendar. Gloucestershire: Pr. for Heal's Books & Prints by the Whittington Press, 1976. 8vo (25.2 cm, 9.92"). 24 pp.; col. illus.
$40.00
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First edition, hand-printed by the Whittington Press from Weissenborn's original linocuts: a short verse and calendar page for each month, each with a
color-printed vignette from the German-born artist.
Provenance: From the collection of Gerson Leiber, the artist, engraver, sculptor, and book collector, sans indicia.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; spine sunned, light shelfwear to lower edges, lower outer corner of back wrapper lightly creased across. Interior clean and fresh; vignettes
bright. (41523)

Nicely Printed Wharton Work — Keepsake Edition
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, [1967]. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.5"). [4], 128, [4] pp.; illus.
$150.00
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Published as a Christmas keepsake by Helen and Frank Atschul with a printed presentation note laid in, Wharton's classic tale is here illustrated in color by Edward A. Wilson, with the Overbook pressmark by Thomas Maitland Cleland on the colophon page.
The colophon notes, “300 copies have been printed for private distribution. . . . Design by Margaret B. Evans.” John Logan supervised the presswork through chapter eight, and Frederick Warns finished after Logan's death.
Garrison A19.12. Publisher's blue-grey textured cloth, spine gilt-stamped; printed on light green laid paper with all edges deckle. As new. (40073)

Haters Gonna Hate: Whistler vs. the Critics — The Unauthorized First Edition
Whistler, James McNeill. The gentle art of making enemies: Edited by Sheridan Ford. New York [i.e., Antwerp]: “Frederick Stokes & Brother”, 1890. 12mo (17.4 cm, 6.9"). [8], xi–xvii, [2], 21–256, [6 (2 adv.)] pp.
$2500.00
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First edition: Collected exchanges of letters in which the artist harangues his critics, including arch-nemesis John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Tom Taylor, Harry Quilter, Theodore Child, and many others. Whistler's sarcasm and venom know no bounds, nor does his commitment to defending his aesthetic philosophy.
This pirated edition, quickly suppressed by Whistler, was produced immediately after the artist first gave and then withdrew publishing permission from the American journalist Sheridan Ford. It thus preceded the author's printing, and differs notably from the later, officially published text, providing
more Wilde correspondence as well as record of the final bitter spat between Ford and Whistler — and it gives only Ford's name on the cover, spine, and title-page, with no mention of Whistler himself until he appears in the preliminary note.
While Ford used the Stokes name on this Antwerp printing (and again later in the same year on a Parisian printing to which he resorted after Whistler's representatives successfully halted the Belgian production and confiscated most of the existing copies), Stokes denied having been involved in any way.
Provenance: Inked inscription of noted educator and book collector Jahu Dewitt Miller on final blank page.
For the story of Ford's pirated edition, see: E.R. & J. Pennell's Life of Whistler, 1908, V. II chap. 34, pp. 100–13. Publisher's heavy gray paper wrappers, front wrapper with title stamped in red; spine creased and sunned, corners rubbed, rear wrapper very unobtrusively reinforced. Now housed in a violet cloth–covered chemise and a quarter deep purple morocco and violet cloth–covered slip case, with outer box edge and case spine and front cover sunned, case showing light shelfwear overall. Front two fly-leaves with short tear from upper margin; a very few instances of light spotting, generally not occurring within text. With laid-in auction catalogue information regarding publication and textual details; final blank page with inked inscription as above. Now very uncommon. (36545)
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Bird & Bull Press — Clubs Compared
Whitehill, Walter Muir. The Club of Odd Volumes, Boston, 1887–1973. [Philadelphia]: Printed for The Philobiblon Club [by the] Bird & Bull Press, 1973. 8vo (23 cm; 9"). 13, [1 (colophon)] pp.
$75.00
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This is the text of “an address given to the Philobiblon Club on 19 April, 1973.” Whitehill, the former director and librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, begins by pointing to
similarities between social organizations in Boston and Philadelphia and then gives a history of
the Club of Odd Volumes, the Boston book collecting club founded in 1887.This brief history was printed in an edition of 250 copies at the Bird & Bull Press. The Press's bibliography says: “Title line and colophon [are printed] in Arrighi; the text [is] printed in Garamond type on Hodgkinson's Bird & Bull paper” and the wrappers are “Burnt Sienna roller-printed paste paper . . . [with the] title on [a] paper label on [the] upper cover.”
Taylor & Morris, Twenty-one Years of Bird & Bull, B3. New. Publisher's “burnt sienna” patterned wrappers as above. (35763)
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Strawberry Hill
Press Book
Whitworth, Charles Whitworth, Baron. An account of Russia as it was in the year 1710. [Twickenham]: Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758. Small 8vo (18 cm; 7.25"). xxiv, 158, [2] pp.
$825.00
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First edition and sole Strawberry Hill edition; second and third editions appeared from other publishers in 1761 and 1771. As handsomely printed a work as one would expect of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill press, this bears a title-page offering an engraved vignette of Strawberry Hill and presents Walpole's account of the author and his assessment of the Account as an “Advertisement” occupying pp. [iii]–xxiv. The errata appear on the last leaf.
Limited to 700 copies.
Whitworth was perhaps the most effective English ambassador to Russia in the first half of the 18th century. His Account was originally written for the foreign office and remained in manuscript till Walpole printed it. The DNB (on-line) writes of it, “Succinct and perceptive, it was a survey of Petrine Russia which held its readership through to the century's end and beyond.”
Horace Walpole (1717–97), the 4th earl of Orford, is best remembered as the author of the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto. Among bibliophiles he is also remembered for his private press, variously known as the Officina Arbutana or the Strawberry Hill Press. Walpole's almost fantastic wealth allowed him the connoisseur's luxury of maintaining this noble enterprise, which he operated in the arena of the rebirth of fine printing in Great Britain that was being carried on by the Foulis brothers, Baskerville, and others.
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of William & Helena Hand.
Hazen (1973 ed.), Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, 5; ESTC T138827; Rothschild 2560; Cox, I, 195. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine extra, gilt dull; joints and hinges with good repairs. Two old booksellers' descriptions taped to front pastedown. Off-setting from the turn-ins on the front and rear free endpapers and fly-leaves, title-page, and errata leaf; else, quite clean. A handsome book. (26862)
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Tideline Press: Deluxe Set, Signed & with Illumination
Wild, Peter; Elaine Scull, illus. The island hunter trilogy: Pioneers, The Cavalryman, and The Island Hunter. [NY]: Tideline Press, 1976. Oblong 8vo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 3 vols. Each [24] pp.; illus.
$350.00
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Handsome fine press printing: a set of three volumes of Wild's poetry, illustrated by Elaine Scull, printed and bound by Leonard Seastone at Tideline Press, part of an edition of 150 “regular” copies and and present here as
lettered copy S of 26 deluxe gold-illuminated, casebound copies, signed at the colophon by the author, printer, and artist.
Bindings: Publisher's paper-covered boards in light blue, light green, and taupe; covers blind-stamped each with author, volume title, and
a landscape image drawn from the double-spread title-page.
Bound as above, spines slightly sunned and spotted; each volume with small faint trace of now-absent shelf label. Pages clean and fresh.
A very nice trio. (41344)

Early Versions of
Classic Tales of MAGIC
Wright, Thomas, ed. The tale of the basyn and the frere and the boy. London: William Pickering [C. Whittingham], 1836. 24mo (14.2 cm, 5.625"). xvi, [58] pp.; illus.
$135.00
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Chiswick Press production of “two early tales of magic printed from manuscripts preserved in the Public library of the University of Cambridge,” here with an introduction and scholarly notes by antiquarian Thomas Wright. Only
150 copies of this edition were produced, and the text is printed in roman and Caslon's blackletter with a gorgeous historiated initial and two in-text illustrations. Pickering & Chatto note in their catalogue that the offering is one of four Early English poetry volumes produced in a similar style.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1836.18; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 96; NSTC 2W34141; Pickering & Chatto, William Pickering (catalogue 708), 277. Quarter dark brown roan in imitation of morocco and rose-pink paper–covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; paper gently rubbed and faded, front hinge (inside) just starting at top, two small pencilled notes on endpapers. Booklabel as above. Light age-toning, some light staining on endpapers. Signatures mostly unopened.
Early English poetry presented within a historical context and in “antiquarian” style. (39487)

“FATHER'S FATHERS” — One of 50 Copies
Zundenfel, Dieter. Father's fathers. Six poems with six wood engravings. Lebanon, PA: Red Howler Press, 1989. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). [10] ff., 6 plates; illus.
$275.00
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The colophon tells us the edition was limited to “50 copies. The poems are set in 14pt. Garamond type and printed on Rives paper. The prints were engraved on end grain maple blocks and printed on Kitakara Japanese paper. This book is bound in Arches Cover paper with Japanese binding.”
This is copy 22 of 50; the engravings are signed and numbered 22 of 75.
The illustrations are by David Moyer.
Poet and artist look humorously at early 20th-century fathers: baritone, critic, physicist, militarist, machinist, and photographer.
Binding as above, with title embossed on cover and red-cord sewing. Fine copy. (35481)
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