1228 - 1692 FINE PRINTING (including ILLUSTRATED BOOKS and CARICATURE)
- Year 4 bookblock loose and foot of spine dam.
= Czech annual devoted to graphic design and book art. Contains orig. graphics by i.a. JAN KONŮPEK, KAREL SVOLINSKÝ and VÁCLAV MAŠEK.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Fine copy.
= Vicaire II, p.246-247; Carteret III, p.143-154; cf. Ray, p.314-315. Luxuriously illustrated publication. With the later published 4th vol., which is very often lacking.
- Endpapers sl. browned. = De Jong 649.
Villon, F. Les oeuvres. The Hague, A.A.M. Stols, 1942, 144,(8)p., printed in red, blue and black in 327 numb. copies, orig. hvellum, t.e.g., orig. wr. pres., slipcase.
- Endpapers sl. yellowed; faded owner's entry on first free endpaper. = Van Dijk 589; De Jong 871.
AND 22 others, i.a. B. AAFJES, Omne animal (ibid., 1944, ills. by C.A.B. BANTZINGER, printed in 275 numb. copies, orig. (foxed) wr., folio. Bookblock loose) and A. HELMAN, Sebastiaan (Amst., 1944, 2 col. woodcut ills. by P. STARREVELD, printed in 100 numb. copies, folio).
- Partly unopened. = One of 10 H.C. copies, intended for the author and publisher.
= Rare. One of 50 Roman numb. copies in hcl. twin-binding.
= Facsimile reprint of the original eds. (Amst., 1949, printed in 12 copies each). Slagter 3a and 3b.
- Title-p. sl. yellowed. Corners sl. worn; covers sl. browned along extremities.
= Ray 247; Houfe p.271; Spencer, Walter Crane p.106: "(...) [his] first and finest flower book (...)".
= With an extra loosely inserted copy of the same plate SIGNED by the artist.
AND 19 small publications by the same press, i.a. New Year's wishes and invitations.
= Incl. a few SIGNED copies.
- Fine.
= One of 600 DELUXE copies with one signed woodcut. Oppermann 1227; Hansen, p.17ff; Schuster 988.
= Published on occasion of the departure of Anton Korteweg as director of the Letterkundig Museum. Contains poems by i.a. H.H. ter Balkt, A. Brassinga, R. Campert, T. van Deel, A. Enquist, E. Gerlach, J. Hamelink, K. 't Hart, J. Herzberg, G. Komrij, R. Kopland, G. Krol, W. Kusters, N.M. Min, L. Nolens, C. Nooteboom, J.P. Rawie, K. Schippers, T. Tellegen, W. van Toorn, H. Verhagen, L. Vroman and A. Zuiderent.
= Series of prints inspired by the eponymous compositions of Bedřich Smetana.
- Owner's entry on inside slipcase and inside frontwr. Slipcase partly worn along extremities. = Monod 1248.
- Wr. sl. duststained.
- Wr. w. a few sm. stains. Otherwise fine. = De Vries p.23ff and p.342f.
AND 2 others by the same: Kerstmis (N.pl., n.d., woodcut ills. by E. WONDERGEM, simple limp boards) and Kwatrijnen (Amst., n.d. (1923), portrait, orig. wr.).
- Textlvs. (sl.) foxed; plates fine. Binding soiled/ dam.
= Vicaire III, p.529; Leblanc p.218; cf. Carteret III, p.378 (on the 1st ed.): "Un des chefs-d'oeuvre de G. Doré."; Leblanc p.217: "Les grandes, trop grandes compositions de Gustave Doré, forment une suite saisissante, fantastique et sinistre, où le dessinateur, entièrement dominé par son sujet, évoque la vision d'un monde étrange, chaotique et sombre, au milieu duquel le Juif Errant marche sans cesse, n'offrant aucune prise ni aux éléments ni à la mort."; Brivois p.254-255; Sander 248; Ray p.327: "Over the next two years Balzac's Contes drolatiques, one of his masterworks, and La Légende du juif errant, with its twelve immense designs, staked his claim to be considered the leading book artist of his time.".