- Bookplate and tipped-in circular plate (by I. Bilibin) on verso frontwr. Spine sl. worn and w. traces of tape(?). Internally fine.
= Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.27: "Between 1901 and 1903 seven fairy tales were published [by the State Dispatch Office] in six volumes of the same size and with an identical cover on paper of the best quality and with the most up-to-date chromolithographic technique, all illustrated by Bilibin." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- Spine sunned. A very fine copy in a (very) fine binding.
= Provenance: the library of Ulco Proost (bookplate on verso first blank). One of 25 numb. copies monogrammed by the publisher and printed on vélin d'Arches, containing 3 states of the etchings: the pure etchings, a handcoloured suite of the etchings, the handcoloured etched illustration in the book and with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR by the artist on the half title. Carteret IV, p.56; Monod 31. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- Occas. sl. foxed; flimsies occas. frayed. Spine and board edges sl. faded; doublure on first free endpaper loose and frayed. Good/ fine copy.
= Includes the publ. prospectus w. 2 plates (that also appear in the book) as "spécimen". Monod 3809. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- A few vols. covers loose(ning) and backstrip trifle rubbed; final 2 vols. letterpieces sl. discoloured. Nevertheless an attractive set.
= First edition of Thackeray's Works. From the library of cardinal John J. Wright (all vols. with his bookplate on upper pastedown).
= Bound by a very skilled anonymous Dutch binder.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ browned. Upper hinge sl. weak at foot of spine.
20th cent. gilt blue morocco binding, both covers w. gilt fillet-line along borders and 5 gilt hinge-shaped art deco ornaments running from cover to cover along raised bands on spine, and with "Willem Kloos- Verzen" on spine, t.e.g. ON: Kloos, W. Verzen. Ibid, W. Versluys, 1894, 1st ed., (6),262p.
- One leaf clumsily cut open in outer margin. Spine sunned.
= With the points of the first edition (i.a. mispagination of p.93, "heeerlijk" instead of "heerlijk" on p.96, "mage" instead of "magen" on p.98, and the lacking line spoken by Phaon on p.171 (which should read: "Neen, neen, zij sprak zóó raadslig, dat ik mijzelf verloor."). Both vols. bound by a very skilled anonymous Dutch binder.
- Covers and endpapers yellowed; frontcover some vague waterstains; binding cord defective.
= DELUXE edition, printed on Hollands paper and bound in hvellum, with the calligraphed captions (by TINE BAANDERS) decorated w. watercolour and the frontcover w. calligraphed text in watercolour.
- Unnumb. copy. Mint.
= SIGNED by all artists and authors on the final leaf. Contains illustrations by Uwe Laysiepen, Pieter Laurens Mol, Sandra Derks, Nour/ Eddine Jarram, Marcos Lora Reed, Harald Vlugt, Emo Verkerk, Pieter Bijwaard, Helen Frik, Roy Villevoye, Marien Schouten, Marieke van Diemen, Uwe Poth and Fortuyn-O´Brien; and literary contributions by Dirk van Weelden, Adriaan van Dis, Joost Zwagerman, Elma van Haren, Jan Brokken, P.F. Thomése, Benno Bernard, Erik Menkveld, Paul Claes, Mustafa Stitou, Gerrit Komrij, Hafid Bouazza, Cees Nooteboom and Pieter Bokma.
- Sm. tear in first free endpaper. Otherwise fine.
= Publication on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of F.H. Fentener van Vlissingen (1933-2006). "Liber amicorum. An unusual visual representation of the life of a captain of industry. It started as a small booklet, but it grew and grew... The book is built around a core of more than 200 letters from Frits's friends. These letters are printed on the inside of the thin paper fold-outs. They were the guide for what can be seen on the outside. The result is poetic and true to his roots." (I. Boom and M. Lommen, Irma Boom: The Architecture of the Book, 136).
- Edges trifle foxed. Spine (sl.) sunned. = Warmoes 457.
Idem. Ten droll tales. Being the story of the fair imperia, the venial sin, the merrie diversions of his most Christian majesty king Louis the eleventh, together with certain other quaint and piquant histories (...). Transl. J. Lewis May. Introd. A. Maurois. London, J. Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., 1926, XX,218,(6)p., col. frontisp., 24 plates (16 in colours and gold), vignettes and orig. gilt cl. w. dustwr. by J. DE BOSSCHÈRE, printed in 3000 numb. copies, 4to.
- Edges occas. trifle foxed. Binding sl. soiled/ sunned. = Warmoes 111.
= SIGNED by the author on 2nd blank.
Idem. Strofen uit de nalatenschap van Andries de Hoghe. Naar het handschrift uitgegeven door -. Bussum, C.A.J. van Dishoeck, 1919, 1st ed., 74,(2)p., orig. wr. Idem. Zomerwolken. Amst., P.N. van Kampen en Zoon, 1922, 1st ed., (2),140p., orig. dec. gilt cl. - AND 5 others (transl.) by the same, i.a. Alianora (Bussum, 1924, 1st ed., orig. cl.) and Louise Labé (ibid., 1926, 1st ed., orig. cl.).
- A few occas. foxed spots. = Rijkse 2.94.
Idem. Doodenoffer. Dutch transl. P.C. Boutens. Ibid., idem, 1919, 55p., orig. gilt dec. cl. unif. w. the above, large 8vo.
= Rijkse 2.59.
AND 3 others (transl.) by the same, all publ. by the same, 2x unif. bound with the above: Zeven tegen Thebai (1928. Rijkse 2.93), Eumenieden (1922. Rijkse 2.75) and Smeekelingen (1930. Rijkse 2.99).
- Vellum (dust)soiled.
= The Halcyon Press 1. Probably deluxe edition, with the prospectus loosely inserted. Rijkse 2.95; Van Dijk 164; The Ideal Book p.110.
Aischylos. Prometheus geboeid. (...) in Nederlandsche verzen overgebracht door P.C. Boutens. N.pl. (The Hague, the translator), 1914, 53,(1)p., printed in black and red on Van Gelder en Zonen in 70 copies by JOH. ENSCHEDÉ & ZONEN, orig. vellum paper wr., 4to.
- Some sl. foxing. Upper corner bumped; the vulnerable vellum paper wr. sl. yellowed and w. only a few sm. defects.
= Stols, Bibl. Boutens p.13; Rijkse 2.38.
Boutens, P.C. Gedichten gekozen uit zijn lyrische werk 1894-1929. Ed. and introd. J.W.F. Werumeus Buning. Haarlem, Joh. Enschedé & Zonen, 1930, 190,(1)p., printed in black and red in 160 copies (135), orig. gilt cl., 4to.
- Backstrip and part of upper margin of frontcover sunned. = Rijkse 3.7.
- Both works wr. sl. yellowed and (dust)soiled. = Stols, Bibliogr. Boutens p.17; Rijkse 2.29 and 2.21.
- Small annot. on last free endpaper. Joints sl. rubbed; upper joint trifle dam.; corners showing.
= Monod 1817; Carteret V, p.35.
- Small dent in upper margin of backcover; joints rubbed.
= A DELUXE EDITION, one of 50 numb. copies on papier des Manufactures impériales du Japon, with 7 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS and with 3 states of each plate and an extra suite on chine of the woodcut vignettes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.
- Boards foxed and soiled; corners sl. rubbed.
= Lehnacker 15 and 16; Rodenberg p.58 (15 and 16); Schauer II, p.70.
= Monod 10487; Carteret IV, p.371.