1228 - 1692 FINE PRINTING (including ILLUSTRATED BOOKS and CARICATURE)
= With an ORIG. DRAWING on htitle: (Don Quixote facing a windmill), pen and black ink, ±13x17 cm., signed "A Born 1978 Prag" and "Dem mijnheer Souverein".
AND 3 others by the same, all w. a small pen and ink/ ballpoint drawing on htitle/ title-p.
= "Born's Life of Animals" was published on occasion of the artist's 60th birthday for his friends. This copy "aut. t." (author's copy?). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
AND a similar publication by the same containing 4 lithographs(?), printed in brown, all signed in pencil.
= SIGNED by the artist on title-p.
AND 34 others (illustrated) by the same, mostly Czech language, i.a. translations of works by A. DUMAS, R. KIPLING and J. DE LA FONTAINE. - AND a small stack of exhibition catalogues and other small publications and documentation concerning the same.
= With an ORIG. DRAWING on htitle: (A frog-like creature in military uniform), pen and black ink, ±11x9 cm., signed "A Born 1983" and "Für J. Souverein".
AND 3 others illustrated by the same, all w. a small pen and ink/ ballpoint drawing by A. BORN on htitle/ title-page.
- Fine copy. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
= One of an unspecified number of copies bound by M. KRUPKOV and L. KRUPKOVÁ in gilt and blindst. leather.
- Backstrip sl. worn/ rubbed.
= With an ORIG. DRAWING on htitle: (Gulliver and the Lilliputians), pen and ink, 18x12 cm., signed and "Milému příteli Johanu Souvereinovi (to my dear friend Johan Souverein) 24.XII.1974".
AND 5 others illustrated by the same, all w. an orig. drawing on title-p./ htitle.
= With a loosely inserted leaf w. the signature of the artist in pencil. Monod 6445. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- Bookblock splitting. Portion of title-piece torn off; backstrip lacks portion at foot.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION by the author on htitle.
Roll, S. Moartea vie a Eleonorei. Ibid., Editura Unu, 1930, (32)p., 2 tipped-in plates by VICTOR BRAUNER, orig. wr.
- One text leaf w. sm. tear in blank margin. Backwr. sl. stained/ foxed.
ADDED: 2 others, both Romanian, i.a. J.G. COSTIN, Exerciţii pentru mâna dreaptă şi Don Quichotte (ibid., n.d., plates by M. IANCU and M. PĂTRAŞCU, orig. wr.).
- Fine.
- A few etchings very vaguely foxed. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.
- Usual sl. foxing and sl. offsetting of the plates on opposite page. Vellum trifle soiled. Fine copy.
= One of 100 DELUXE copies bound in gilt full vellum, t.e.g. (this copy not numb. and signed). With ms. dedication on title: "Eindhoven, September 1914. Voor Trees en Ies, die mij zooveel hartelijkheid gaven in de eerste Oorlogsmaand van 1914. Rie Brusse". W.L. & J. Brusse 2i.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Sm. stain on frontwr. along backstrip; wr. trifle yellowed. Otherwise a fine copy, without foxing.
= Text probably written by Th. Gusten. Fine publication, typographically produced in the characteristic Sandberg/ Duwaer style. Rare.
= I.a. M. DE JONG, Aan zee (1983, printed in 80 numb. copies, orig. wr.); A. VAN NIMWEGEN, Sonnetten (1984, printed in 33 numb. copies (9), SIGNED by the author, bound by D. Simaleavich, orig. cl. w. dustwr.); T. HOLMAN, Grepen uit de wereldliteratuur (1995, tipped-in col. prints by T. Holman, printed in ±60 numb. copies, orig. wr.) and IDEM, Fabeldier getemd (2001, printed in 50 copies, orig. wr. by T. Holman).
AND ±15 publications by other Dutch private presses: Presse d'Escargo (Valthe), Pastei (Amst.), Het Gonst (Maastricht) and Water Leaf Press (Assen).
= Posthumously published by the periodical Graphia as a premium for its members. These woodengravings were originally intended by the publisher Le Libre Belge, for illustrating the work Le Sphinx by Iwan Gilkin, but they were never used. Reid A75.
- Sl. foxed (worse at the beginning and end).
= Reid A20. The third book published by J. Buckland Wright. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.