1666 - 1987 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
= One of 150 numb. copies bound by GEERT VAN DAAL in clothbacked boards w. paper letterpiece and marbled covers.
Idem. Blauwbaard en Reus. Vier verhalen. (Ibid.), Cornamona Pers, (1982), 1st ed., 57,(3)p., printed 175 numb. copies (125), orig. clothbacked marbled boards and board slipcase by G. VAN DAAL (copy marked "h.c."). Idem. Het dagboek van het witte bloedlichaampje. (Ibid.), idem, 1981, 1st ed., 44,(2)p., printed in black and red in 500 copies, orig. wr. - ADDED: Idem. Deernis met de wegen. Zandvoort, Eliance Pers, 1974, 1st separate ed., 14,(2)p., printed in 100 numb. copies, orig. wr. (backwr. sl. soiled).
- All w. bookplate on first free endpaper.
= Each of resp. 25/ 50/ 50 Roman numb. copies bound by GEERT VAN DAAL in hmor. with marbled covers, t.e.g., matching board slipcase.
AND 1 other.
= Contains contributions by Stanley Morison ("The Theorist"), James Wardrop ("Civis Romanus Sum. Giovanbattista and his circle"), A.S. Osley (the English translation of "The Tools of Handwriting") and Sebastian Carter ("A note on Hermann Zapf's Palatino typeface").
- Contents loose; sl. offsetting from plates on textlvs.; ruststains from staples. Frontwr. sl. chipped.
- Vol. 1 upper hinge weak, title-p. loosening and last blank loose; all vols. w. two library stamps (Library of Ricardo A. Caminos) on first contents page and w. the ms. edition number on verso htitle added later in ballpoint; contents overall trifle yellowed. Bindings (sl.) rubbed along extremities; corners showing; spines sl. faded. Despite the small defects a fine and desirable, nicely bound set.
= Longfellow's translation was first published in 1865. John Flaxman (1755-1826) created his fine neoclassical line-drawings (110 in total) on commission in 1793.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Spine-ends worn. = Hughey 39d.
Hamerling, R. Amor und Psyche. Leipsic, Adolf Titze, n.d. (1883), 4th ed., 142,(2)p., 9 mounted plates and num. textills. by P. THUMANN, lithogr. endpapers and orig. richly gilt and dec. cloth by G. WEIDENBACH, a.e.g., 4to (spine-ends dam./ worn). - AND 2 others similar.
- All w. owner's entry.
- Two bookplates on upper pastedown and first free endpaper (i.a. "Henry C. Taylor"). Joints sl. rubbed (upper joint starting).
= Gay/ Lemonnyer III, p.593; Cohen/ de Ricci 306.
- Bookplate of H. Boekenoogen on upper pastedowns.
= Vicaire I, p.592; Gay/ Lemonnyer, p.519ff.
- Linocuts w. sm. gluestains from formerly being tipped-in.
= Rare. One of 10 copies probably privately printed and bound by/ for the artist.
= Published on occasion of the awarding of the Laurens Janszoon Costerprijs to Bram de Does. Contains contributions by i.a. Alex Barbaix (Pastei), Jaap Binsbergen (Tussen Haakjes), Karel Gildemacher (De Hynsteblom), Lodewijk de Groot (Cicero), Piet Jacobs (Priegelpers), Jan de Jong (De Buitenkant), Rob Over de Linden (Ovira Linda), Kees Thomassen (De Uitvreter) and Pauline van Wensveen (Vette Venus Pers).
Ariosto, L. Orlando Furioso. Eerste zang. Dutch transl. I. Cialona. Utr., Stichting De Roos, 1994, (6),(81),(9)p., printed in red and black by BRAM DE DOES in 175 numb. copies, orig. boards, sm. 8vo.
- Unnumb. copy.
AND a small stack of ephemera (prospectuses, menus etc.) and small publications printed by Bram de Does, incl. duplicates.
- Spines sl. sunned.
- Fine. = Monod 8374. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.
- Some foxing. Bindings sl. worn, stained and soiled.
= 1. De Hel; 2. Het Vagevuur; 3. Het Paradijs. With parallel Italian and Dutch text. Vol. 2 w. AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION by the translator on first free endpaper.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed. Covers sl. soiled/ rubbed along extremities; spine sunned.
- Contents (trifle/ sl.) foxed; w. stamp on free endpaper and title-p; w. bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding (sl.) soiled and sl. worn along extremities.
= Vicaire IV, p.905; A.-M. Bussy, Les Fables de La Fontaine, Quatre siècles d'illustration 45.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Corners sl rubbed; backstrip expertly restored. Very good/ fine copy.
= Leblanc p.276-277; Vicaire VI, p.544; Carteret III, p.466; Sander 563; Bilderwelt 2539; Ray 247: "He [Hetzel] fell in with the artist's desire that the book should be presented with all the splendour of the Inferno, not in the least disturbed by "that apparent enormity, a very large and expensive book for little children." So it was that this handsome folio, with its frontispiece and forty plates, bound in elaborately gilt cloth, came into existence. It proved to be one of Doré's most popular works. (...) Particularly vivid are the ten plates devoted to Tom Thumb and his family. In that shown he is marking the way back with white pebbles, as his despairing father tries to lose his children in the woods so that he won't have to watch them die of hunger. Even Doré rarely conceived so harmonious and moving a composition."
- First free endpaper and binding some sl. foxing. Fine copy from the library of J.F. VAN ROYEN, sold at our auction, 2009.
= Franklin p.271; Tomkinson 51.
- Inner blank margin along spine and binding sl. foxed.
= "This essay was originally printed in 1908 by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press in London. There was no statement of limitation in the colophon, but only a few copies were printed. (...) The Press of the Pegacycle Lady has reset the essay line-for-line in Centaur types and printed one hundred copies on handmade Hayle paper." [colophon]. Nice edition, duplicating the original edition as precisely as possible.
= Inscribed "Doves Press Hamlet / specimen sheet" and monogrammed "C.S." (= Cobden-Sanderson) in pen on the first page.
Mackail, J.W. William Morris. An Address delivered the XIth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House Hammersmith before the Hammersmith Socialist Society. Hammersmith, Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1945, 39,(1)p., printed at the Chiswick Press, orig. hvellum.
= The first edition was published in 1902 by the Doves Press, Hammersmith.
AND 3 others (incl 1 duplicate), i.a. THE CLOSING OF THE DOVES PRESS. A letter from Coben-Sanderson with a preface by Davis Magee (Stanford, 1969, printed in black and red by Grabhorn-Hoyem, orig. wr.).
- Fine copy. = Franklin p.271/ 272; Tomkinson 2.