1666 - 1987 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
- Frontwr. trifle dustsoiled; mounted title-piece sl. foxed.
= Koot 63 I. Nice and rare publication. Contains contributions by i.a. W.D. KUIK (i.a. 2 signed lithographs), J.H. MOESMAN (2 lithographs), K. VAN DER SLUIS (signed etching and aquatint), T. SONTROP, A. TEISTER and P. VOS (signed lithograph).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVI.
- Slipcase some fingersoiling. Otherwise fine.
= DELUXE copy with (in the plate vol.) two extra suites of the woodcuts, one in black and one in sanguine, each 122 woodcuts on 72 leaves, each loosely inserted in orig. pict. wr., all woodcuts stamped with Maillol's monogram "M" in circle. This was the last book that Maillol illustrated. The woodcuts were conceived over a period of approximately 35 years (between ±1910-1944). Monod 11339; The Artist & The Book 1860-1960, no.175. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVI.
= Colophon SIGNED by the artist and the translator.
- Margins of first and final leaf sl. soiled from rubbing against chemise; margins of some lvs. sl. dampstained. Portfolio sl. worn along edges; joints splitting.
= Includes the texts "Eros solaire" by A.P. DE MANDIARGUES and an introduction by G. BROWNSTONE.
= This copy printed for Marcel Thomasset. Monod 7963; Cramer 47. "Parodiant Jonathan Swift (...) André Maurois composa une fantaisie d'un pays gullivérien où la race, sur l'habitat de laquelle un couple est abandonné, est mue par la soif plutôt que par la faim sexuelle (...). Maurois a suggéré à Masson un thème doublement érotique. Non seulement les illustrations de Masson renferment une certaine dose d'humour, abstraction faite du portrait de l'auteur qui sert d'introduction, mais encore leur sensualité, particulièrement dans les couleurs, est rarement égalée même dans l'oeuvre de Masson." (Cramer, p.122).
- Hinges sl. weak. Frontwr. sl. chipped in upper corner.
- Both vols. w. bookplate.
= Gedruckt auf der restaurierten Brixner Holzpresse "Klarissa" der Druckerie A. Weger (...)" [colophon]. With signed dedication by the printer.
Jeffers, R. Hommage à California. Three Poems. Ibid., idem, 1998, (6)p., 1 signed double-p. photogr. plate by FLORIAN STEINER, printed in 35 copies, signed by the printer in the colophon, loose as issued in orig. wr., folio. Arte Grafica. Series of 14 broadsides printed at the Laboratoria Didattico Arte Grafica. Rovereto, Biblioteca civica "G. Tartarotti", 2011-2012, printed in black and red in a limited edition, folio.
= Incl. 1 duplicate. All Italian text, mainly referring to books and printing.
AND 3 other miscell. works printed in limited editions.
- Dustwr. curling sl. along the top. = From Crowley's poetry collection White Stains. Breugelmans, 79.
Broekhuizen, I. van, Nieuwland, P. and Smits, D. Eenige Galanterieën. Utr., De Utrechtsche, 1980, 3 vols., (12); (12); (12)p., one of 345/ 330/ 343 numb. copies, orig. unif. limp boards w. marbled dustwr. and w. slipcase, 7,5x5,5 cm. Boddaert, P. Raadsel. Ibid., idem, 1985, (11)p., orig. limp boards w. dustwr., 7x5 cm. - AND 24 other miscelaneous miniature books, i.a. THE SEASONS (Old Sturbridge Village, 1985, w. woodengr. ills., orig. limp boards, 11x6 cm. A facsimile of the 1830 original printed by Darius Clark); P. HIGHSMITH, De man die van slakken hield (Amst., De Arbeiderspers, 1985, orig. wr., 8x5 cm.); J. KEATS, Poems, with extracts from his letters (Wimbish, Geoffrey Parker, n.d., portrait of the poet, orig. boards, a.e.g., 8x5,5 cm.) and W. SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It (London, n.d., orig. gilt mor., a.e.g., 8x5,5 cm.).
= One of 15 copies bound by Erik SCHOTS in gilt hleather, orig. blindst. cl. slipcase, obl. 12mo.
Blades, W. The Enemies of Books. Collectors. Utr., The Catharijne Press, 1985, 37,(2)p., 1 portrait, 2 ills., printed in 250 numb. copies, orig. boards w. paper letterpiece on frontcover, 6x4 cm. (bookblock). - AND 3 others, i.a. E. DU PERRON, Een vergeten kwatrijn/ Lofzang aan Sint Pieter (Rousseeuw, 1984-1985, 2 vols., printed in 60 numb. copies, orig. unif. wr., 5,3x7,5 cm.).
= I.a. L. VROMAN, Dagboekgedichten (2013, 1st ed.) and J.M.A. BIESHEUVEL, Lentebeken, Karel en Joop (2009, 1st ed.).
AND 18 others, i.a. 10 vols. of the Dwergen series of Van Holkema and Warendorf (1946, typography i.a. by S.H. DE ROOS, orig. cl./ boards, 12mo) and small booklets printed and publ. by Joh. Enschede, Haarlem.
= Based upon a manuscript description of artificial flies used in fly-fishing on the river Wharfe, made in 1807 by John Swarbrick, a Yorkshire farmer.
James, A. The Art of Binding Books. Wakefield, idem, 1991, (53)p., (full-p.) plastic-engr. ills. by A. CHRISTMAS, printed in 300 copies (290), orig. cl. by ANGELA JAMES, obl. 16mo. - AND 1 other, publ. by the Old Stile Press.
= With SIGNED DEDICATION by Brunovský on verso title-p.
AND 18 others published by the same, 1984-1995, orig. leather/ wr. (4x), (sq.) 12mo, illustrated/ with etched frontisp. by i.a. J. ANDERLE, V. SUCHANEK, K. DEMEL, L. KUKLIK and Adolf BORN.
- Binding trifle rubbed; corners showing. = Fine plates.
- A few lvs. trifle foxed; annot. on first free endpaper. Corners/ spine-ends trifle bumped. Nevertheless a very attractive copy.
= Monod 8481; not in Carteret. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVI.
= I.a. G.A. BREDERO, Sonnetten (1944, orig. hcl. With bookplate for H.E. Reeser by PYKE KOCH); A. NAVAGERO, Lusus/ J. DU BELLAY, Voeuz rustiques/ P. DE RONSARD, Ode (1947, orig. gilt cl. With annot. by L.C. Michels on the colophon leaf); Statuten en Huishoudelijk Reglement (1948, orig. wr.); K. KOETS, The Nulties (1999, orig. wr.) and S. CARMIGGELT, Zes kronkels (1999, engr. portrait by R. COX, orig. cl.).
- Hinges weak; endpapers foxed; otherwise contents fine. Backstrip dam.; boardedges (sl.) worn.
= Ray 291: "Nicholson's woodcuts were reproduced by lithography (...) Each has a heavy border - Nicholson was known as "the man who puts a thick black line round everything" - and within this border is a striking design, usually a single figure, made up of contrasting masses of black and one or more colors. The decorative appeal of these woodcuts was immediate and lasting." Peppin/ Micklethwait p.215: "Alphabet and London Types brought a completely new look to illustrated books (...) these influential books owed their straightforward handling of the printed page to the example of early chapbooks." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.