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BRITISH BINDINGS & MANUSCRIPTS
1. COSWAY-STYLE PORTRAITS OF POETS. Collection of six Cosway-style portraits of Burns, Wordsworth, Ruskin, Longfellow, Whittier and Francis Bacon each in a straight-grain morocco case. Six miniature watercolour oval portraits of Burns, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Ruskin, Whittier and Francis Bacon each set in a handsome matching morocco case probably by Riviere of dark blue straight grain morocco with the portrait set behind glass in a setting of blue morocco with a gilt laurel wreath tooled around the oval and the initial of the poet at the base, blue watered silk doublures. An exquisite set. c.1912.
£5600
2. [DOVES BINDERY]. RUSKIN, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Seventh edition in small form. 14 plates engraved by Cuff after John Ruskin’s drawings. Pp. xx, 440. 8vo., clearly bound by Doves Bindery but unsigned, original full very dark blue goatskin, spine with raised band and each panel with a gilt border and gilt lettering in one compartment and with the date 1898 at the bottom in Doves lettering, double gilt borders on turn-ins, all edges gilt. Expert repair to joints and some creasing to spine, slight offset from turnins to free endpapers, but otherwise a very handsome volume. Sunnyside, Orpington, George Allen. 1898. £950
Reputedly the copy belonging to Cobden-Sanderson’s son Richard hence why it is in an unsigned Doves binding.
3. EMBROIDERED BINDING. SHAKESPEARE, Willliam. The Sonnets of Shakespeare. Sm. thin 12mo. Pp. 237. In beautiful contemporary embroidered silk binding, probably by the Royal School of Needlework, with a central rose with a coronet and gilt thread borders, a bird, butterflies and a snail on the upper cover with beads and foliage, the spine has compartments each with a different embroidered flower, the back is decorated with embroidered grapes on the vine, all edges gilt. London, John Lane. 1902. £1200
Very elegantly bound for Hatchards 4. HOUSMAN, A.E. A Shropshire Lad. 12mo., bound in full rich dark blue morocco, elegantly tooled in gilt with central design ruled in double gilt fillet on both sides and double gilt border with circle tooling, spine in compartments with raised bands with double gilt birdes and circular tools, lettered in gilt, turn-ins with double gilt border and circle tools, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a very handsome volume. London, Grant Richards. 1926. £380
A wonderful gift copy of Housman’s famous collection of poem which was taken to the trenches n World War I by so many men. Indeed WH Auden wrote how Housman so perfectly captured the sensibilities of young men with his descriptions of love, idealism and youth. Bound by one of the important London binderies, usually Zaehnsdorf, Riviere or Sangorski, for Hatchards in Piccadilly.
A very attractive Art Deco binding 5. TENNYSON, Lord Alfred. Bound by H.T WOOD of London. The Holy Grail & Other Poems. Small 8vo., bound in full brown morocco with art deco design in black and light brown morocco, tan calf and gilding of borders, semi circles and geometric patterns, all edges gilt. Signed REN on the rear and with ‘bound by Wood, Rathbone Place, London’ in pencil on the ffep. Indeed it has many similarities to a Wood binding in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. London, Strahan & Co. 1870. £650
Henry Wood of London was known for its progressive designs. This is a very interesting Art Deco-style design.
FRENCH BINDINGS, MANUSCRIPTS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
A sumptuous binding by the superb gilder Berthaux on poems about a love affair 6. BERTHAUX. GERALDY, Paul. LEPAPE, Georges. Toi et Moi [You and Me]. 34 illustrations by Georges Lepape. Pp. 165. 8vo., exquisitely bound by the excellent gilder H. Berthaux in full maroon morocco with blue morocco inlays and a inset gilt panel with onlaid pink morocco roses and green morocco leaves all tooled in gilt, gilt ruled borders and lettering on spine, inner dentelles with pink onlaid roses and gilt ruling, marbled endpapers, in a matching chemise and slipcase. In superb condition. Paris, Editions de l’Ile de France. 1947. £1200
Paul Geraldy’s beautiful, ‘naive’ poems following the course of a love affair first appeared in 1912.
In an exquisite rose calf binding by Paul Bonet’s colleague and pre-eminent finisher Desmules 7. DESMULES, R. DE NERVAL, Gerard. CLOUZOT, Marianne. Sylvie. No. 550 of 750 copies. 20 original etchings by Marianne Clouzot with several wood cuts throughout the text by Gerard Angiolini. Thin 8vo., original rose calf binding by Rene Desmules dated 1972 with delicate dots and wave patterns with a catherine wheel-like device in the centre of each side all in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, white calf turnins and maroon suede doublures, all edges gilt, original wrappers bound in, housed int he original matching chemise and slipcase. In superb condition. Paris, Marcel Lubineau. 1944. £1600 Semi-autobiographical, Nerval’s story is of three lost loves. Proust style (in fact Proust was a great fan of the book), a paragraph in the newspaper causes the narrator to revisit his youth. The noble youth decides to leave his debauched life in Paris and return to the pure love of a peasant girl Sylvie...a timeless theme of the search for a purer time. He also loves a seductive actress in Paris and a beautiful noblewoman who dies in a convent. He loves all of them but there is no happy ending. Rene Desmules was a superb French binder, it is well known that he executed many of Paul Bonet’s binding designs.
CHIMOT
With an EXTRA erotic lithograph by Chimot 8. CHIMOT, Edouard. GERALDY, Paul. Toi et Moi [You and Me]. One of 214 copies on Velin d’Arches, specially made for this edition, (this no.175). 12 lithographs by Edouard Chimot with an extra erotic lithograph inserted loose. 4to., in the original wrappers, with the original chemise and slipcase. A little shaken, spine of chemise faded and slipcase worn at extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Paris, Francis Guillot. 1938. £600 Paul Geraldy’s beautiful, ‘naive’ poems following the course of a love affair first appeared in 1912.
A joyously bawdy faux illuminated manuscript 9. COLLOT, Andre. VILLON, Francois. Ballades de Francois Villon. No.44 of only 300 copies on Montval paper. Illuminated with 10 amusingly erotic images by Andre Collot, plus initials and borders all vividly hand coloured with gilt highlights by Vairel, the text is printed after Gothic calligraphy. Pp. 55. 16mo., loose as issued in the original printed wrappers. Extremely good copy. Paris, Paul Cotinaud. 1932. £750
French painter, engraver and illustrator Andre Collot (1897-1976) illustrated over 30 books, earning praise for his erotic illustrations. A very scarce and delightful hand coloured book illustrating four of French fifteenth century poet Villon’s famous and excellent ballads
DUFY
Dramatic vine leaf binding on Dufy illustrated humorous wine promotional book
10. KIEFFER, Michel. DUFY, Raoul. DERYS, Gaston. Mon Docteur le Vin. Typography by A.M. Cassandre. 19 illustrations after watercolours by Raoul Dufy, covers after pencil drawing by Dufy. Folio, bound by Michel Kieffer in a remarkable binding of real autumn vine leaves on vellum highlighted in gilt over boards with red morocco edges, title in gilt on upper cover. In excellent condition. Paris, Draeger Frères. 1936. £2600
A fabulous binding on an excellent book describing all the benefits of wine from preventing obesity, giving vitamins, curing typhus, depression, appendicitis, diabestes and helping character and morals. It also claims that it is vital for writers, artists and sportsmen.
11. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. IMPRIMERIE MOTTEROZ. Livre d'Heures, Edite et Illustre par Mlle A. Rabeau. 112 pages of well executed hand-illumination given as a gift for the wedding in Tours Cathedral of Lucile and Raymond Nicot in 1909. The book was sold with the text and borders of each page printed. Subsequently the basic pages were all illuminated in colours and gold by the owners of the book. In this case, probably by Eugenie Nicot who was given the book by her mother in 1900. Two inscriptions at the end passes the book down the family in 1912 and 1946. 8vo., in a chestnut brown morocco Jansenist binding with elaborate watered silk endpapers and delicately decorated doublures with flowers of gilt and onlaid green and red morocco with gilt corners, elaborately gauffered gilt edges. An exquisite object. Paris, Imprimerie Motteroz. 1882. £2500
LE RICHE
With 11 original signed drawings, sumptuously bound by Gruel - an extra illustrated super deluxe copy 12. LE RICHE, Henri. DE LA FONTAINE, Jean. Bound by GRUEL. Les Amours de Psiche et de Cupidon [The Loves of Psyche and Cupid]. One of only 10 super deluxe copies, this number 2, with three extra suites of all the etchings, one in full colour, one in black, with remarques or additional sketches at the bottom and one in sanguine also with remarques, this copy being even more special as it has 11 original drawings signed by the artist, Henri de Riches. 17 engravings by Henri Le Riche. Sm. folio, in a very handsome, luxurious binding by Gruel of full tan morocco with floral device in the centre of both covers and elaboate borders with tooled in gilt with onlaid red, green and olive morocco, spine in compartments with flower device in onlaid green and red morocco and giold tooling, lavish doublures of deep red calf with green morocco and gilt oriental style borders, gilt tooled edges, washed silk endpapers, all edges gilt. An extremely good, sumptuous copy. Neuilly sur Seine, Chez l’Artiste.1928. £5500
Henri Le Riche was a French painter and engraver who became a member of the Societe Nationale de Beaux-Arts in 1898. His etchings for this book are all bucolic, pastoral and romantic scenes with nude female figures and a delicate sensual eroticism. La Fontaine wrote the text in 1669.
A unique souvenir of a passionate love affair - a gently erotic, romantic hand written and painted manuscript in a sumptuous Levitzky binding 13. LEVITZKY, Gregoire. MELLERIO, A. [B.G.] Gestes D'Amour. [Gestures of Love] Illuminated title page and 19 pages of calligraphy each with an original watercolour including 4 pages of unused designs for pages which were later rewritten and drawn, on rectos only, all by Mellerio. 8vo., bound in sumptuous full purple morocco. with raised bands and flower designs in gilt and onlaid pink and green morocco on each side, spine lettered in gilt, inner dentells ruled in gilt with chestnut morocco border and lavish marbled endpapers, in the original matching slipcase. In superb condition. Paris, L’Atelier du maitre G.G. Levitsky. 1949. £3600
Written and illustrated by Mellerio at Levitzky’s atelier and bindery for the mysterious Monsieur G.A. who commissioned the book as a souvenir of a two year passionate and erotic love affair beginning in May 1946 and ending with the woman leaving a desolate lover on 1st May 1948. Levitzky (1885- 1969) was a superb and highly revered French art bookbinder, originally from the Ukraine, who set up in rue de l’Odeon in Paris in 1910 after training in Odessa.
MAILLOL A superb copy with two extra suites of woodcuts in a handsome Cretté binding, together with an additional suite of woodcuts with 2 als from the publisher 14. MAILLOL, Aristide. CRETTÉ, Georges, binder. LONGUS. Daphnis & Chloe. French edition, the version written by Amyot & edited by Courier. No. CLX of 500 signed copies, this being one of the Hors Commerce copies with roman numerals and two extra suites of prints in sanguine and in black. 49 woodcuts by Aristide Maillol (including one on the cover of the wrappers) with an additional suite of 49 woodcuts including one ‘planche refusée’ being the first proof of the woodcut on p.23 and one unused woodcut. Printed on Papier Maillol. Pp. [2], 217, [5]. Thick 8vo., beautifully bound, including the suites, by Georges Cretté in full tan morocco with a typical geometric pattern perfectly excecuted in brown and gilt tooling and lettered in brown on the spine, suede doublures and endpapers, the suites are bound with the corresponding sanguine and black images facing each others, all wrappers bound in. Housed in the original chemise and slipcase. A very fine, handsome copy. Together with an extra suite of 49 woodcuts in sanguine in the original printed wrappers and with two als from the publisher to Mr Benoit-Cattin in February and Juin 1952. Paris, Gonin. 1937. £6200
The letters from the pubisher to the collector Benoit-Cattier refer to this binding by Cretté and the additional suite which Gonin sent to the collector Benoit-Cattier. Gonin also offers him other books including Maillol’s Horace and book news in Lyon etc. Inserted loose is an engraving of the original writer of the French text, Jacques Amyot (1514-1593). Some copies of Gonin’s ‘Daphnis and Chloe’ appeared with the extra prints in sanguine and a very few, as here, with two extra suites in black and red. Gonin and Maillol’s book was a triumph of simple lines and subtle typography. Maillol had been introduced to book illustration by Harry Graf Kessler who had used Maillol to illustrated the Cranach Press ‘Eclogues’ in 1926. In 1937 Maillol returned to the delights of book illustration when images he had produced originally for the Cranach Press ‘Georgics’, which was to be unpublished by Kessler, were taken up by Gonin who then went on to produce this wonderful edition of Daphnis and Chloe which was simultaneously published in limited editions in French, English and German. The illustrations are beautiful, John Buckland Wright was a great fan and wrote to Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press: “They are probably far more erotic then even you would want me to do - I don't know - perhaps they correspond with your ideas. Actually I think you'd be prosecuted for publishing. Anyhow, they are quite perfect”. PAVIS, Georges
Unique copy with 20 original erotic watercolours and 20 preparatory drawings bound in 15. PAVIS, Georges. KIEFFER, Rene. BOYLESVE, Rene. Les Bains de Bade: petit roman d'aventures galantes & morales. No.155 of 500 copies of the text but this one completely unique with 20 original finished and signed watercolours and 20 drawings for those watercolours by the artist Georges Pavis bound into the text. Frontispeice by Fougeray du Coudray. Pp. 135 plus 40 additional leaves with the watercolours and drawings on rectos only. 8vo., in a special binding by Rene Kieffer, with binder’s label, in full blind lattice patterned calf with four medallions of erotic nudes stamped in gilt on upper and lower covers, spine lettered with nudes and a heart stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Paris, Bibliotheque artistique et litteraire. 1896. £2500
Georges Pavis (1886-1951), painter, illustrator and humourist was particularly famous for his 1920s illustrations for the reviews Rire and La Vie Parisienne. He also illustrated a number of erotic works such as Les Croix de Bois. This extra-illustrated book is an extraordinary piece of work clearly done as a commission, something which he did for gentleman collectors in association with Rene Kieffer.
One of only 88 copies with two additional signed prints and an extra 4 leaves with additional etching
16. TREMOIS, Pierre-Yves. MALLARME, Stephane. L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. With commentary by Leon-Paul Fargue. One of 88 copies for individual members of the Societe des Amis des Livres, this no. 29 printed for Mr. Rene Lavallette-Simon. 23 large erotic etchings (3 double page) around the text and one wood engraving on the front cover by Pierre-Yves Tremois, engraved by Raymond Haasen and Pierre Bouchet. Very large 4to., unbound as issued in the original pictorial wrappers with Tremois engraving in green on upper cover, housed in the original green cloth backed chemise with printed paper covers spine. Slight rubbing to chemise spine but otherwise an extremely good copy. With the note to the binder inserted loose. Together with an additional 4 leaves with the first three bars of Debussy’s L’Apres Midi printed in green and black and another large full page etching of the Faun by Tremois. Paris, Societe des Amis des Livres. 1948. £1900
Also with this copy are two large 4pp. menus for the Societe des Amis des Livres for March and November 1948, one at the Cercle Interallie and one at the Automobile Club in Paris, again printed in green and red. They each have an editioned signed etching by Tremois numbered 13 of 56 and 25 of 56 of an unused illustration for the book and an unused title page.
VAN DONGEN
A remarkable Cretté binding on Voltaire, illustrated by Van Dongen 17. VAN DONGEN. GEORGES CRETTÉ, binder. VOLTAIRE. La Princesse de Babylone. No. 170 of 198 copies. 48 colour lithographs by Van Dongen. Printed in red and black in the specially designed Kennerley type cast by the Caslon. Folio, bound by Georges Cretté in full red morocco decorated in a spectacular flowing design in gilt with green, black and white inlays and onlays, blue silk endpapers with gilt border, all edges gilt, original red and gilt wrappers bound in, housed in a half red morocco chemise and red morocco edged slipcase. A splendid copy. Paris, Scripta et Picta. 1948. £8000
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) was an important Dutch/French painter with a radical use of form and colour. He was one of the founders, with Matisse and Derain, of the Fauve movement and was most famous for his sensuous portraits of women, as in this book. This edition of Voltaire’s 1768 philosophical novel was the final publication of Scripta and Picta, established by Dr. Roudinesco for the Groupe de Bibliophiles et d’Amateurs d’Ar,t which published luxurious books between Sept. 1942, during the war, and December 1948. The founders of the society included George Blaizot, the dealer, and the famous and spectacular binder of this copy, Georges Cretté.
PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS
18. DOVES PRESS. MACKAIL, J.W. William Morris, An Address. One of 300 copies on paper (there were a further 15 copies on vellum). Printed in red and black. Sm. 4to., original limp vellum, lettered in gilt on the spine. A very good, crisp copy. Hammersmith, Doves Press. 1901. £580 A history and analysis of William Morris, particularly focusing on his desire for Socialist revolution. The third Doves Press book and a printing of the lecture given by Mackail to the Hammersmith Socialist Society in 1900, four years after Morris’s death. It was the first book from the press to be printed in red and black. Tidcombe, The Doves Press, DP3
With a signed letter about the printing mistake on the title page 19. ERAGNY PRESS. KEATS, John. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Wood engraved frontispiece by Lucien Pissarro, initial letters in red designed by Lucien and engraved by Esther Pissarro. One of 200 copies, printed in Brook type on Arches paper. Oblong 32mo, quarter bound in grey/blue paper with printed label upper left, rose patterned paper covered boards. Some of the usual browning to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy with the errata slip bound in, not always present. Hammersmith. 1905. £1700
Intended for the Christmas market, this was a hurried production resulting in the date being printed as 1146 rather than 1906. This very good copy is accompanied by a letter from the Pissarros on an Eragny Press headed paper, or rather card, dated Dec. 14th 1905. It is with the original envelope addressed to Harold Pierce of Philadelphia. Interestingly it would seem the card was sent in April 1906 not in the December. However, the letter is very interesting as it refers to the “serious mistake in the title page. We have started to reprint and the binders will insert the corrected page. If you return your copy we will send you a corrected copy when ready”. Instead it would seem they inserted an errata slip.
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
20. GILL, Eric. Art & Love. No. 231 of 260 copies, signed by the artist. Title page wood engraved vignette and 6 full page copper engravings by Eric Gill. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. Small 8vo., original black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, edges uncut. Slight fading and rubbing a very edges of cloth, closed and imperceptibly repaired small tear to front free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy in a later protective jacket. Bristol, printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press for Douglas Cleverdon. 1927. £480
The 6 full page copper engravings are some of Gill’s most famous including “Adam and Eve in Heaven, or the Public-House in Paradise’, ‘With Ritual Chant’ and “A Symbol of Divine Love’. Eric Gill, A Bibliography, 14
One of Gill’s masterpieces 21. GILL, Eric. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by Walter Skeat, M.A. Illustrated by Eric Gill with numerous foliated and peopled borders, full- and half-page illustrations and initial letters. Initial letters printed in red and blue. One of 485 copies on paper of a total edition of 500. 4 volumes. Folio, original niger morocco-backed patterned boards, top edges gilt, others uncut. Housed in an excellent complimentary marbled paper covered slipcase with niger edges. Some marking to the spines of volumes III and IV, vol IV with mild patches of toning to spine, internally a very good, crisp copy. Waltham St Lawrence, printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at The Golden Cockerel Press. 1929. £7800
The collaboration between Gill and the Gibbings is a rich one. This stands as one of the great books of the Press and of the twentieth century private press movement in general.
“A flower among the best products of English romantic genius” 22. GILL, Eric. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. Illustrated with 64 wood-engraved illustrations and initial letters by Eric Gill. Printed in Gill's Golden Cockerel type face. One of 482 copies on paper of a total edition of 500 (this no.202). Folio, original half white pigskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, cloth sides, top edge gilt, others uncut, in the original slipcase. Some darkening to the pigskin and spotting to the buckram but all the pages and endpapers are crisp, bright and fresh, slipcase rather spotted but intact. Waltham St Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press. 1931. £12500 Gill's finest book and one of the triumphs of twentieth century book production. Pencil ownership inscription of Andrew L. Irvine with a note of his loan of the book for exhibition. Lavishly illustrated throughout by Eric Gill and using his perfect typography, the Golden Cockerel Press Four Gospels is one of the greatest of Britain’s private press productions, alongside the Doves Bible, the Kelmscott Chaucer and the Ashendene Dante Chanticleer: Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press
“A light coronal of perversities” 23. SANDFORD, Lettice. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. LASCARIS, Evadne. The Golden Bed of Kydno. 12 erotic line engravings by Lettice Sandford. No.66 of only 200 copies. Printed in the splendid Perpetua type. Sm. folio, in an exceptionally handsome binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of full tan morocco with the image by Lettice Sandford blocked in gilt on the upper cover as used on the cloth version, in a very handsome patterned paper covered slipcase of flowers in gilt, orange, yellow, green and light brown. An exceptionally fine, clean copy., Printed for subscribers at the Golden Cockerel Press. 1935. £950
An erotic Lesbian tale in verse, apparently written in the early nineteenth century in two parts and telling the tale supposedly from the late nineteenth century of a lady calling herself Kydno who, tired of Paris, went by yacht to the Island of Lesbos and had built a magnificent Palace of Memory. She is an invention like Pierre Louys’ Bilitis but the story had it that she gathered there a multitude of girls and gave them free ‘education’. Growing old she left the college and wandered alone over the world, composing her ‘Imitation of Sappho’ of which there is not trace. She polished these, her epigrams, collected as ‘The Golden Bed’ and died in 1910 at Rhodes and was buried there. Translated form the modern Greek of Evadne Lascaris by P. Mathers who terms the book a “light coronal of perversities”.
One of only 75 copies with 6 extra erotic wood engravings 24. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. MATHERS, Powys. Love Night, A Laotian Gallantry. No. 31 of 75 special copies., with 6 extra erotic wood engravings only produced for the special copies. 15 original wood-engravings in the book, including an elaborate title page, by Buckland Wright. Printed on 14 point Perpetua on English vellum paper. 8vo., in the original binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of full green vellum, spine lettered in gilt, gilt tooling on binding edges, top edge gilt, others uncut. A little of the usual bowing to the boards and a little fading and rubbing to the vellum with a few small marks to the binding, a little creasing to the very left hand edges of three of the loose plates (not near the images) but still a very good copy. London, Golden Cockerel Press. 1936. £5000 One of Buckland Wright’s most successful books and his first commission for the Golden Cockerel Press. With the leather and gilt booklabel of C.S. Barlow.
25. WEBB, Clifford. DE CHAIR, Somerset. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. The First Crusade, The Deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites. No. 469 of 500 copies. 6 wood engravings by Clifford Webb. Thin 4to., original half vellum binding with orange/brown buckram sides by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with a flowing design of knights by Webb blocked in gilt on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. An extremely bright, fresh copy. Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press. 1945. £400 A sumptuous production of the first ever complete translation of a unique eye-witness account of the First Crusade. The deeds of the Crusaders done in the name of God makes rather modern reading and leaves usastonished as to what extraordinary acts are bred by fanaticism. Cockalorum 168
One of only 60 copies with an extra set of 9 copper engraved and aquatint prints 26. BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. HARTNOLL, Phyllis. The Grecian Enchanted. No. 51 of only 60 copies, specially bound and signed by the author and artist with extra set of 9 copper engraved aquatint prints (including an additional erotic plate not used in the actual book). The book has 8 collotype copper plate aquatint plates by John Buckland-Wright. Sm. folio, original grey and pink morocco with a design of two cockerels fighting by Buckland Wright blocked in gilt on the upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, with the extra set of aquatints loose in a pocket at the end of the book, in the original faded slipcase. Some darkening to the spine and a couple of very small spots on the pink morocco but otherwise a very good copy with an unusually fine set of prints. London, Golden Cockerel Press. 1952. £2800 With the small booklabel of James Thielman on the front pastedown Buckland Wright was in his element with the book which called for his favourite theme; young idealised women in an idealised Classical Greek world including nude bathers, a love scene, women slaves in chains and minimised clothing amongst others. Sandford remarked that “the figures, though too close to nature to accord with everyone’s taste, are drawn with all John’s customary regard for the bone structure beneath the flesh, and were, he said, much to his own tast anyway”. The technique here was experimental with its combination of aquatint with copper engraving. It was only in the set of prints for the special edition of 60 that the images were printed from the original copper plates, the book itself was illustrated with collotype plates. The book was published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1952. It is a simple love story “as evanescent as the scent of wild thyme, into which Phyllis Hartnoll wove the mingled ecstasy and heart-break of young lover..." Cock a Hoop: Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 189; Reid A65.
MORRIS, William & KELMSCOTT PRESS
The customs and obligations of knighthood, explained by a hermit 27. KELMSCOTT PRESS. LULL, Ramon. The Order of Chivalry, and L'Ordene de Chevaleries, with a translation by William Morris. One of 225 copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper (there were also 10 copies on vellum). Wood-engraved frontispiece designed by Burne-Jones, with woodcut borders and initials by William Morris. Printed in red and black in Chaucer type. Sm. 4to., original full vellum, original ties, uncut. Vellum a little dry with a few marks, edges a little dusty, extremely light spotting to ffep but generally a very good copy. Hammersmith, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. 1893. £3000
With the help of F.S. Ellis, Morris added to Caxton's 1494 text 'The Order of Chivalry' a translation of the French poem 'L'Ordene de Chevaleries' as it was believed that Caxton had derived his idea for translating the French version of Lull's 14th century Catalan text from seeing the poem. In the book itself, a hermit describes to a young squire the customs, obligations and honours appertaining to knighthood. A medievalists dream... With the booklabel of the Earl of Haddington. Peterson, Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press, A13
28. MORRIS, William. MORRIS & CO. Original panel of silk needlework by Morris & Co with stylised acanthus. 53 x 53 cms. Mounted on wooden frame with a linen back. Framed in a box frame. c.1890. £3400 Morris & Co. embroidery kits were sold with the design painted onto soft cotton cloth, known as ‘Manchester cloth’.This has a suitably open weave, allowing embroiderers to define the design with stem stitch and cover areas of ground quickly with darning stitch using the silk threads or ‘twist’ supplied by Morris & Co from their Merton Abbey workshops. Sufficient thread to complete the design was supplied wrapped in tissue paper bundles.
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
BLAKE, William
29. BLAKE, William. Songs of Experience. One of around 50 copies. 27 facsimile leaves, all hand coloured, plus the facsimile hand coloured title page for this and the Songs of Innocence at the end. In addition there is the preface by Muir dated 1885. 4to., contemporary full calf, gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers and gilt inner dentelles. Some rubbing and marking and with repair to the upper joint, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Edmonton, William Muir. 1885. £3400
The earliest Muir facsimile of the Songs of Experience which was copied from the Beckford copy from Hamilton Palace Library and was in the possession of Bernard Quaritch at the time Muir accomplished this work. With the booklabel and ownership inscription dated September 1925 of Charles Ballantyne, probably the Canadian politician. Bentley 249d
LINDSAY, Norman
Finely bound edition of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata printed by The Three Sirens Press & illustrated by Norman Lindsay 30. LINDSAY, Norman. WHITMAN BENNETT BINDERY. Lysistrata, the Grecian Temptress by Aristophanes. 5 full page and one vignette illustration by Norman Lindsay. Tall 8vo., unique design binding by Whitman Bennett Bindery of full teal morocco with ornate gilt borders surrounding a vignette of a dancing nude blocked in gilt on both sides, gilt inner dentelles, edges and marbled endpapers. New York, Three Sirens Press. c.1940. £900
Aristophanes’ comedy about of the women of Greece led by Lysistrata bringing an end to the Peloponnesian war through denying all the men of the land sex which is all they really desired. An attractive copy with Lindsay’s gently erotic illustrations in a very handsome fine binding.
TICE, Clara A special copy in a deluxe binding 31. TICE, Clara. VOLTAIRE. Candide or All for the Best. Translated from the French. With 10 erotic etchings in colour by Clara Tice. Special copy being one of 250 copies on deckle edge Pannekoek paper. Two parts in one. 8vo., this copy especially bound in full morocco with gently erotic images by Tice blocked in gilt on the upper cover, spine decorated in gilt, a very good copy. New York, Printed in Holland by Joh. Enschede en Zonen for the Bennett Libraries. 1927. £780
Clara Tice was famous for her bohemian dress and lifestyle, her dadaist affiliation and her nudes. In 1915, Tice "became an overnight sensation" when one of her early exhibitions, at Polly’s Restaurant in Greenwich Village, drew the venom of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock.
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11 exciting colour wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec for The Grolier Club 32. SCHANILEC, Gaylord. AUCHINCLOSS, Kenneth. New York Revisited. 11 colour wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. One of 200 copies signed by the artist and author, there were also 50 specials with a portfolio of wood engravings by Ruzicka printed for the club in 1915. Printed in 12 point Monotype Emerson. Tall thin 4to., bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery in original grey silk covered boards with black and gilt spine label, housed in a grey silk covered slipcase. As new. New York, The Grolier Club. 2002. £550 A great tribute to New York and New Yorkers. The book was intended as a modern day reply to a Grolier Club book on New York printed in 1915 with colour woodengravings by Rudolph Ruzicka, however, it took on a new importance as its publication coincided with the attack on New York in September 2001. A truly beautiful book printed by Gaylord Schanilec at his press in Wisconsin, Midnight Paper Sales.
An astonishing and beautiful work from the great Gaylord Schanilec 33. SCHANILEC, Gaylord. MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES. Lac Des Pleurs: Report from Lake Pepin. One of 100 copies, signed by Gaylord Schanilec. A remarkable large folding wood engraved map printed on Kraku Kozo handmade paper, 8 other large colour wood engravings printed on Zerkall paper by Gaylord Schanilec of fish, pelicans and river scenes plus 31 electrotype prints of fish in the text which is printed on Barcham Green Tovil and Wookey Hole Mill paper. Handprinted by the artist with the title page typeface made from type by Russell Maret after the 1499 Aldus Manutius Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Folio, bound and with a box by Craig and Leigh Ann Jensen using marbled paper by Jemma Lewis, original quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards in blue leather backed maroon cloth clamshell box. As new. Stockholm, WI, Midnight Paper Sales. 2015. £6200
A real magnum opus and an astonishing tribute to Lake Pepin, the widening of the Mississippi between St.Paul, Minnesota and La Crosse, Wisconsin. The book was nearly seven years in the making the book explores the landscape and natural history of the lake. All of the large wood engravings were printed from Schanilec’s maple blocks which were made from trees on Schanilec’s property except for the Pelican print which was made from a piece of Corian countertop material which was used for the compartment covers for the boat which was such an integral part of the making of the book as Schanilec went out on the lake and discovered birds, mussels, fish etc and got to know about all the facets of this piece of water.
PRINTS & ORIGINAL ARTWORK
PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS
34. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Girl in Red Dress Lying on a Beach; Portrait of a Girl. Doubled sided oil painting on wood. 25.2 x 25.6 cms. c. 1947. £4000 Two excellently finished oil paintings. From the estate of the artist.
35. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John Centaur and Three Women. Original oil painting on thick art board. 13.8 x 17.9 cms. c.1945. £2200
From the estate of the artist.
36. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Girl in a Long Dress. Original charcoal drawing signed and dated by the artist in ink. Mounted. 29 x 16 cms.. 1948. £1400
37. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John Bathroom II. Original oil painting on wood, titled and signed on the rear by the artist in red. 33.2 x 21.8 cms. 1947. £3500
From the estate of the artist. With the stamp of the board supplier in Paris on the rear.
PRINTS
38. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Bather & Moon. Original copper engraving, no. 15 of an edition of 30. Signed, titled, numbered and dated by the artist. Printed by Bunel in Paris as were several of the artist’s copper engravings at this time. 12 x 9.8 cms. Mounted. 1932. £1000 From the estate of the artist. Engravings of John Buckland Wright M28
39. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Song From Beyond the World III. Original wood engraving. Titled, dated and signed by the artist. No edition but no more than 5. Image size 15.7 x 10.7. Mounted. 1932. £550 The third state of an illustration for the Halcyon Press book - Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The masque of the Red Death’. Reid, A9
40. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. The Masque of the Red Death. Original wood engraving. Titled, dated, numbered and signed by the artist. No.3 of only 5 copies. Image size 15.7 x 10.7. Mounted. 1932. £520 An illustration for the Halcyon Press book of the same title by Edgar Allen Poe. Reid, A9
41. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Melancholie. Original large copper engraving. No.26 of an edition of 30. Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil by the artist. Image size 20.5 x 16.5 cms. Paper size 33 x 25.2 cms. Mounted. 1933. £1200 An excellent printing of a rare image. Engravings of John Buckland Wright, M40
42. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. The Waterfall. Original wood engraving. Artist’s proof. Titled and signed by the artist. 12.4 x 8.1 cms. Mounted. 1933. £950 One of two artist’s proofs. Although this was meant to be printed in an edition of 30, it is recorded that the full edition was not pulled from the block. Very rare. Engravings of Buckland Wright, L91
43. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Bathroom. Original wood engraving, no. 19 of an edition of 30, 25 of which were printed in 1993 from the original block. Titled, numbered and dated by the artist’s son. Printed by BRunel in Paris as were several of the artist’s copper engravings at this time. 15.2 x 5.8 cms. Mounted. 1942. £850 An extremely rare and very beautiful print. This 1993 printing was done by the great London printer Ian Mortimer under the supervision of the artist’s son. From the estate of the artist, with the estate stamp on the verso. Engravings of John Buckland Wright L140
44. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Love Scene from The Grecian Enchanted. Original aquatint, solely produced for the special copies of Golden Cockerel Press ‘The Grecian Enchanted’. 20.9 x 12.4 cms. Mounted. With the studio stamp of the artist on verso.,. 1951. £220 Reid A65
45. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Dressmaking. No.3 of an edition of 30. Original etching printed by C.H. Welch. Artist’s studio stamp on the verso. Titled and dated by JBW’s son. 17 x 12.5 cm, paper size 28 x 23 cms. 1954. £550 The etching was inspired by a photograph of the Royal College of Arts. Engravings of John Buckland Wright M105
EX LIBRIS
46. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Ex Libris Anthony Reid. Two artist’s proofs for different bookplates engraved in copper for the collector and JBW’s bibliographer Anthony Reid. Both printed from the plate on larger pieces of handmade paper. 10 x 8.5 cms and 10 x 12.5 cms. £240
Excellent bookplates for Anthony Reid both with nude Greek athletes bearing an Olympic torch on the way to Olympia.From the estate of the artist.
47. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Ex Libris IR. C[arel] J. Asselbergs. Original wood engraved bookplate for Asselbergs printed from the block on japanese vellum, signed in the block. 8.6 x 5.8 cms.,. 1933. £60 Image of a typical JBW young woman reading in a brewery. The Asselbergs family were Dutch brewers.
Erotic mermaid and merman bookplate for Mark Severin 48. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. SEVERIN, Mark. Ex Libris Mark Severin. Artist’s proof of the copper engraved bookplate for Mark Severin printed from the plate on handmade paper, signed in the plate. 8.6 x 4.8 cms. Paper size 16.4 x 13.6 cms.,. 1947. £140 By one great master of ex libris and erotic engraving for another.
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49. SCHANILEC, Gaylord, b.1955. O Mannhatta. Original colour wood engraving using black, yellow and pale blue ink on Zerkall mould-made paper. One of 380 prints, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 178 x 92 mm. Paper size 290 x 175 mm. 2001. £220
50. SCHANILEC, Gaylord, b.1955. Times Square. Original colour wood engraving using black, yellow and pale blue ink on Zerkall mould-made paper. One of an edition of 150 signed and numbered by the artist. Image size 178 x 92 mm (7 x 3.5 ins). Paper size 173 x 293 mm. 2001. £220