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Illustrated Books, Fine Press Books, Fine Bindings, and Books About Books “If the Book Beautiful may be beautiful by virtue of its writing or printing or illustration, it may also be beautiful, be even more beautiful, by the union of all to the production of one composite whole, the consummate Book Beautiful. Here the idea to be communicated by the book comes first, as the thing of supreme importance. Then comes in attendance upon it, striving for the love of the idea to be itself beautiful, the written or printed page, the decorated or decorative letters, the pictures, set amid the text, and finally the binding, holding the whole in its strong grip and for very love again itself becoming beautiful because in company with the idea.

“This is the supreme Book Beautiful or Ideal Book, a dream, a symbol of the infinitely beautiful in which all things of beauty rest and into which all things of beauty do ultimately merge.”

—Thomas J. Cobden-Sanderson, co-founder of the Doves Press, in his treatise The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful, published in 1900, item 27. The Book Beautiful: 2 Illustrated Books

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Lyrics Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous Lyrics Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z. to A from Humorous & Pathetic Lyrics , noted in the 19th century for extra-illustratingbooks for century 19th the in noted , [was] a children’s alphabet in the form of DULAC, Edmund. Edmund. DULAC, from from A to Z “The delightful collection with earlier, Dulac two years by created limericks elaborate 24 color genre a plates. caricature, for Thesegenius Dulac’s illustrations time first the demonstrated for to public the he fullywould explore the over next 40 82). years” (Dalby, Thisspecial portfolio edition was issued in1909in fromedition the trade 1908 the of sheets remainder 1000 estimated book form. Hughey 18a. Plates fine andlovely in a lightly copy. desirable very A portfolio. clamshell original worn Preferred portfolio edition of this witty children’s alphabet wittychildren’s this of Preferredportfolio edition book, with title illustrations by page Edmund Dulac (including and mounted end 26 edition). book-form papers the from large mounted color clamshell box, mounted cover illustration, 27 loose mounted mounted loose 27 illustration, cover mounted box, clamshell box. clamshell custom images; David David Edward Cronin was (1839-1908) an accomplished artist, formerly of Weekly Harper’s subscriber describing each illustration and its placement within the volume, crushedfull in bound Beautifully front. the at in bound and mounted window morocco-giltAdams Bindery. the by for wealthy clients—an arduous and time-consuming labor of months or even even or months time-consumingandof labor clients—anarduous wealthy for years, depending on the work and the quantity of illustrations. Theoriginal drawings Cronin drew in the present work, a bibliography of those illustrated booksdrawingsthat he of unique in this consist manner during his career, with pen and ink, in blue wash and in watercolors. One of the pen-and-ink drawings is a fine portraitof theof recipient thisvery Mrs. copy, S.J. Sorgof Middletown, drawnOhio, next name of her to a as mention the of one owner of the works described in the bibliographic catalogue letter (Cronin’s is addressed bound. richly hand-illustratedto splendidly and volume, sumptuous A her condition. Fine as well). 13. Scarce Portfolio Edition Of Dulac’s Children’s Alphabet Book The Book Beautiful: 9 Illustrated Books

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ful binding by Asprey with a magnifi a with Asprey by binding ful cent image of a Peacock on the front onlays. morocco and gilt in board Khayyam’s “brief on satires sophisticated verses from theme… vary in the of unreasonableness human pas sion to the passionate lyrics and wine on and love of the sorrows and joys on the wisdom of grasping pleasure while we can” (Hornstein, Percy & illustrated Brown Pogany’s edi377). in 1909. was originally published tion fine in volume beautiful A 121d. Greer condition. black-and-white text illustrations, etchings intricate dozens of including mounted as headpieces. In a beauti Rubaiyat Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. , Signed By Willy Pogany $3000. (POGANY, Willy). Rubaiyat 19. Signed limited edition, one of only 750 copies printed for England, for printed copies 750 only of one edition, limited Signed an illustrated,with Splendidly Pogany. artist, Willy the by signed original etching signed by Pogany (a variant of the color-plate frontispiece), 12 full-page mounted color plates and numerous 1930. Quarto, modern full crushed red morocco gilt, tangrey and morocco full red crushed modern Quarto, 1930. slipcase. custom onlays; morocco www.BaumanRareBooks.com | 1-800-99- Claes Oldenburg Drawings and

(OLDENBURG, Claes) BARO, Gene. BARO, Claes) (OLDENBURG, Lausanne, 1969. Quarto, original brown cloth gilt, slipcase; original

18. Catalogue Raisonné Of Claes Oldenburg, Original With Initialed Etching Oldenburg is best known for his public art typically very installations featuring his public for known is best Oldenburg In objects. of large everyday replicas this of his collection drawings and prints, act the Oldenburg Claes “With sculptures. his for sketches preliminary are many about world the to and life inner his to reflex a natural, wholly seems drawing of his for inhim. in work Of preparation course, he draws also deliberately, quite sculpture; but his with preoccupation the rather, drawing—or, ways in which this necessity… practical beyond well drawing his serves preoccupations—goes They are the essential visual means by which he physical confronts world.” Of and a masters the successful drawing Oldenburg observes, accompanying The “it in general.” things unity of the forms, of shows family relationship the edition total a From 70.” CO “70/100, numbered and initialed is etchingoriginal Fine. copies. 252 only of Limited Limited first editionof Oldenburg’swork, oneof 100 copies with an initialed originaletching. Prints. in. laid etching “His Talent For The Macabre And The Inventive, The Fantastic And The Knockabout Comic”

20. (RACKHAM, Arthur) INGOLDSBY, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends… London, 1907. Quarto, original full gilt-stamped vellum, remnants of pale yellow silk ties. $2500.

Signed limited large-paper edition, one of only 560 copies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham, with 24 mounted color illustrations, 12 full-page tinted illustrations and 66 black-and-white in-text illustrations.

“Rackham’s fanciful imagination gave his illustrations instant recognition, and his dedication to illustration kept him in the public eye for 30 years” (Hodnett, 233). “The ‘gift’ book was really something for a child to receive. They were heavy and thick, with beautifully blocked covers,… ornamental headbands and colored endpapers. Inside there would be color plates, tipped-on to cartridge mounts and protected with tissue. These books were precious objects, to be looked at with awe and handled with care” (Lewis, 186). Rackham first tackled The Ingoldsby Legends in 1898. “Their episodic nature and superficial, rollicking humor were well suited to Rackham’s talents, presenting him with endless opportunities to exercise his talent for the macabre and the inventive, the fantastic and the knockabout comic” (Hamilton, 49). For this 1907 signed limited edition, Rackham produced several additional illustrations and improved a number of existing ones. Latimore & Haskell, 30. An about-fine copy.

“The Very Music Made Visible” (C.S. Lewis)

21. (RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator) WAGNER, Richard. The Ring of the Niblung: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie. WITH: Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods… London, 1910. Together, two volumes. Quarto, modern full pictorial black morocco gilt reproducing the original front board vignettes. $4200.

First deluxe limited edition, each volume one of only 1150 copies and each signed by Rackham, boasting in all 64 mounted color plates and 23 black-and-white drawings, handsomely bound.

“Germany was Rackham’s favorite holiday destination, and the country which, apart from England, had the single most important influence on his art” (Hamilton, 42). Appropriately, then, Rackham provided the libretti of Wagner’s epic “Ring cycle”—arguably German opera’s greatest achievement—with a dramatic series of illustrations, his only work aimed exclusively at adults. At least one child, however, saw and responded to Rackham’s art: the young C.S. Lewis, who would later recall, “His pictures, which seemed to me then to be the very music made visible, plunged me a few fathoms deeper into my delight. I have seldom coveted anything as I coveted that book” (Hamilton, 101). Latimore & Haskell, 37-38. Bookplates. About-fine copies, handsomely bound. The Book Beautiful: 13 Illustrated Books

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Very nearly fine. nearly Very Book. Fairy Rackham Arthur The first impression of the great illus trator: trator: “When armed with palette and paint brushes, he became for of brush one with who wizard, a me his magic wand could people my universe with Remnant 440). elves (Carpenter, chauns” and lepre of original dust jacket (parchment flap) laid in. Without scarce extremely original cardboard slipcase. Bookplate. 69. & Haskell, Latimore RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur. RACKHAM, “Peopling The Universe With Elves And Leprechauns” 23. gilt. full original vellum Octavo, 1933. London, Signed limited first edition, oneof only 460 copies signed by Rackham, with eight full-page color illustrations in and 60 in-textcuts silhouettes.line and One of the last books Rackham illustrated his before death, this book includes 23 classics favorite such as “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “TheUgly Duckling,” “Cinderella” and “Hansel his recalled nephew, Rackham’s Starkie, Walter Grethel.” and $4000. www.BaumanRareBooks.com | 1-800-99- Cinderella. Cinderella

(RACKHAM, Arthur) EVANS, Charles Seddon. London, 1919. Tall quarto, contemporary full green morocco gilt, black, black, gilt, morocco green full contemporary quarto, Tall 1919. London, morocco onlays, morocco pictorial off-white and orange, brown, green, slipcase. custom doublures; With extra color mounted frontispiece of Cinderella within decorative within decorative Cinderella of frontispiece mounted extracolor With double- three and single-page one editions), trade in found (not border page silhouette drawings with and color, 13 full-page and 36 in-text silhouette drawings. Latimore Near-fine. spine. to toning mild text, & to illustrations of offsetting Haskell, 49. Bookplate. Minor Deluxe limited edition, one of only remarkable 525 his with Rackham,illustrated copiesby signed paper handmade printed on English silhouette drawings, beautifully bound by elaborate Mildred T. full Palmer in morocco-gilt depictingstory elements charactersand Cinderella. including with multi-colored morocco onlays 22. Rackham’s Signed Limited Fine Press Books

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, And Our Fathers That Begat Us”

24. (ASHENDENE) (BIBLE). The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus. Chelsea, 1932). Quarto, original full limp orange vellum gilt, silk ties, marbled slipcase. $3000.

The acclaimed Ashendene Press’ limited edition of the Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus—the Press’ final original work and “a balanced harmony of distinguished accomplishment”—one of 328 copies printed on paper (out of a total edition of 353 copies, the remainder printed on vellum), finely printed in red and black type and heightened with hand-done colored initials, bound in the original vellum.

Composed in Hebrew in the second century C.E. (A.D.) but preserved in Greek translation, the Wisdom of Ben Sira—also called Sirach or Ecclesiasticus (not to be confused with the book of Ecclesiastes)—“directs humanity to the ways of wisdom, virtue and moderation, and emphasizes the importance of well-ordered family life” through maxims, psalms and eulogies of biblical heroes (Bowker, 136). The Ashendene Press published this finely printed limited edition. Established in 1894, the Ashendene Press “ranks with Kelmscott and Doves at the zenith of superb bookmaking… All the elements of that magnificent tradition which has been in the building through 400 years and more of personal endeavor are here blended into a balanced harmony of distinguished accomplishment” (Ransom, 95). Bookplates. A fine copy of this splendid production.

Fine Facsimile Of The Esteemed 1795 Bodoni Dante

25. (BODONI) (DANTE) ALIGHIERI, Dante. La Divina Commedia di Dante Allighieri. Milan, 1965. Three volumes. Folio (12-1/2 by 18 inches), original half gray morocco, matching gray linen slipcases. $1500. The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The

Fine facsimile reproduction of the splendid 1795 Bodoni printing of Dante’s masterpiece of world literature, the Divine Comedy, number 669 of 875 copies, finely bound in three folio volumes.

“Dante’s theme, the greatest yet attempted in poetry, was to explain and justify the Christian cosmos through the allegory of a pilgrimage… The audacity of his theme, the success of its treatment, the beauty and majesty of his verse, have ensured that his poem never lost its reputation. The picture of divine justice is entirely unclouded by Dante’s own political prejudices, and his language never falls short of what he describes” (PMM 8). Fine Press Books Press Fine Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high repute; he designed the family of typefaces now known as Bodoni. His Divine Comedy of 1795—reproduced here in full facsimile—is widely considered a landmark in the history of printing. Text in the original Italian. With original publisher’s prospectus preserved in matching cloth portfolio. Bookplate. Fine.

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26. (CRESSETT) SWIFT, Jonathan. (WHISTLER, Rex, illustrator). Gulliver’s Travels. London, 1930. Two volumes. Folio (10-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches), publisher’s three-quarter green morocco; custom leather-edged slipcase. $7500.

Lovely Cresset Press illustrated edition of Gulliver’s Travels, one of only 195 copies, with 12 charming full-page hand-colored plates, five maps, head- and tailpiece illustrations by Rex Whistler, two folio volumes in handsome publisher’s morocco by Wood.

First published in 1726, Swift’s masterpiece remains a “remarkable feat in the creation of imaginary worlds as a vehicle for satire upon the political and religious establishments of the day” (Clute & Grant, 914). “Of all Swift’s writings it best shows the merits of his mind and his gifts of expression” (Baugh et al., 865). Rex Whistler was an esteemed British artist, illustrator and designer whose promising life and career were cut short during the invasion of Normandy, where he was killed by a mortar round at the age of 39. Ransom, Cresset 14. Spines gently sunned. A delightful production in fine condition.

“The Book Beautiful Should Be Conceived Of As A Whole”

27. (DOVES) COBDEN-SANDERSON, Thomas J. The Ideal Book, or Book Beautiful: A Tract on Calligraphy Printing and Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole. Hammersmith, 1900. Small, slim quarto, original full vellum gilt; pp. [10]. $850.

Limited Doves Press edition of Cobden-Sanderson’s philosophy of the “ideal book” in its entirety, one of only 310 copies, beautifully printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Walker and bound in traditional Doves vellum.

Books printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press are characterized by a stark simplicity, “dependent for their beauty almost entirely upon the clarity of the type, the excellence of the layout, and the perfection of the presswork” (Cave, 147). Even its printer’s device (the outline of two doves) was used as its watermark rather than printed. Doves books were typeset by J.H. Mason, later head of the London School of Printing—every one “proof of Mason’s ability in composition” (Ransom, 56). Ransom, Doves 2. A fine copy. Scarce. The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The Magnificent Doves Press Edition Of Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus

28. (DOVES) CARLYLE, Thomas. Sartor Resartus: The Life & Opinions of Herr Teufelsdroeckh. Hammersmith, 1907. Small quarto, original full vellum gilt, uncut. $850.

Limited Doves Press edition of Carlyle’s parody of German Idealism (and of Hegel in particular), one of only 315 copies, beautifully printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Walker and bound in traditional Doves vellum.

First serialized in Fraser’s Magazine (1833-34), Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus (“The Tailor Re-

Tailored”) purported to be a commentary on the work of German philosopher “Diogenes Books Press Fine Teufelsdröckh,” author of Clothes: Their Origin and Influence, but in fact it is a parody of German Idealism, and of Hegel in particular. Sartor was intended to be a new type of work—at once factual and fictitious, sober and witty, forward-looking and historical— challenging the reader to discover where if anywhere the “truth” might lie. By using the allegorical “philosophy of clothes,” Carlyle suggests that meaning can be derived from the cultural shifts that result from changes in fashions, power-structures, and faith-systems. Books printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press are characterized by a stark simplicity, “dependent for their beauty almost entirely upon the clarity of the type, the excellence of the layout, and the perfection of the presswork” (Cave, 147). They reflect Cobden-Sanderson’s passion for the “ideal book”in its entirety. Ransom, Doves 13. Fine.

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29. (GOLDEN COCKEREL) SANDFORD, Christopher. Cockalorum. London, 1950. Tall octavo, original half brown morocco gilt, uncut. $450.

Beautifully printed bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, one of a limited edition of only 250 copies signed by the director Christopher Sandford, illustrated with 77 white-line wood-engravings, many by John Buckland Wright.

“After Nonesuch, the most important of the private presses which grew up between the wars was the Golden Cockerel Press” (Ransom, 191). In 1933, the Press passed from the hands of wood-engraver Robert Gibbings (who greatly advanced the Press’ reputation for “fine editions of books of established worth”) to those of Chistopher Sandford, director of the Chiswick Press and founder of the Boar’s Head Press. To save the Golden Cockerel from bankruptcy, Sandford arranged to use the Chiswick plant for the production of Golden Cockerel books. In this second extension of the Press’ formal bibliography (begun in 1936), there is “a more extensive commentary than before… the books being considered from the three aspects of literature, illustration, and book-production.” Chambers & Sandford 184. Fine.

“His Work Turned Heads And Tore Down Barriers”

30. (HERTZOG, Carl) CISNEROS, Jose. The Spanish Heritage of the Southwest. El Paso, 1952. Slim folio (9 by 12-1/2 inches), half red cloth gilt, dust jacket, acetate. $500.

Signed limited first edition, one of 525 copies signed by noted Texas book designer Carl Hertzog, featuring a frontispiece map and a dozen full-page lithographs after drawings by celebrated historical illustrator José Cisneros, in boards textured with prints Beautiful: Book The from adobe bricks.

One of the leading historical illustrators of the Southwest, José Cisneros was an artist whose “work turned heads and tore down barriers… By showing that he, a Hispanic, could paint as well as anyone else, Cisneros was showing El Paso that minorities belonged” (El Paso Times). “In 1948, Carl Hertzog began teaching a course in book design and typography at what is today The University of Texas at El Paso and also started building a college print shop which grew into the Texas Western Press. The first title Fine Press Books Press Fine from that press, The Spanish Heritage of the Southwest, occupies a special niche in regional booklore… The Spanish Heritage of the Southwest, which grew out of this interest in Spanish influence, emphasizes the impact the Spaniards have had on Southwestern life—language, architecture, religion, history and even ethnological origins” (Texas A & M University Libraries). Dust jacket lightly soiled with light wear to spine ends. Loss to original acetate. Book fine. A handsome production.

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31. (KELMSCOTT) KEATS, John. The Poems. Hammersmith, 1894). Octavo, 20th-century full russet morocco gilt; custom cloth slipcase. $5500.

Splendid limited Kelmscott Press edition, association copy, of Keats’ collected poems, one of only 300 copies printed, based on the text of the editions edited by F.S. Ellis, with woodcut title page, facing page with full woodcut page border, and woodcut initials, handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The copy of Beautiful: Book The Henry Arthur Jones, renowned English dramatist and Kelmscott Press founder William Morris’ friend.

The Kelmscott Press was founded in 1891 by William Morris, Pre- Raphaelite painter, designer, architect, and printer. “Morris sought to revive what he saw as the purity of the first century of printing, and to produce what he described as books which ‘would have a definite claim to beauty… and be easy to read’” (Feather, 152). His “passionate craftsmanship was the spark which ignited a 50-year renaissance of bookmaking in England, on the Continent, and in the United States” (Art of the Printed Book, 36). Gift inscription of Henry Arthur Jones, the late 19th-century English dramatist. His best Books Press Fine known plays included “The Silver King,” “The Tempter,” “The Case of Rebellious Susan,” “Michael and his Lost Angel,” “The Liars,” and “The Divine Gift.” Jones met William Morris early in his career and was initially influenced by his socialist ideas; the friendship between Jones and Morris kept Morris involved in the dramatic arts, however, and Morris was frequently observed in Jones’ presence at theatrical events. “In the revival of the English drama Jones played an important part… As a craftsman he was perhaps superior to both [Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw]… His work was keenly appreciated both in America and in France” (DNB). Bookplate. A handsome association copy in fine condition, with a distinguished provenance.

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32. (KELMSCOTT) (MORRIS, William) SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poems. Hammersmith, 1894-95. Three volumes. Octavo, mid- 20th-century full russet morocco; custom slipcase. $5500.

Splendid Kelmscott edition of Shelley’s poems, one of only 250 copies, with woodcut title pages, borders, and initial capitol letters by William Morris, handsomely bound.

“Some of the loveliest lyrics in English, together with longer poems unsurpassed in beauty and grandeur, came from the pen of this visionary, half-unearthly man… The dominant impression of [Shelley’s] work is that of pure and ineffable beauty” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 559). Morris’ “passionate craftsmanship was the spark which ignited a 50-year renaissance of bookmaking in England, on the Continent, and in the United States” (Art of the Printed Book, 36). “Printed in Golden type in black and red (Volumes II and III only), with six- and ten-line initials. Woodcut title page in Volume I, facing page with full woodcut border… ‘Some of the half borders for The Wood Beyond the World reappear before the longer poems’” (Walsdorf 27). Cockerell 29, 29a, 29b. Bookplates, including those of American actor Monty Woolley, best known for his lead roles in the stage, film, and television versions of The Man Who Came to Dinner. Fine.

The Last Book Printed At The Kelmscott Press

33. (KELMSCOTT) MORRIS, William. A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Hammersmith, 1898. Slim octavo, original half tan cloth. $1200.

Limited first edition of the last book printed at the Kelmscott Press, one of Beautiful: Book The 525 paper copies out of a total edition of 537, with wood-engraved frontispiece by William Morris and decorative woodcut borders and initials, in original paper boards.

This book was the last to be printed at the Kelmscott Press and, as such, was intended to exemplify the superior quality and attention to detail that characterized the press’ work. The subject of the book is the history of the press and the motivations behind its founding, along with an annotated bibliography of the works it produced. The book features a wood-engraved frontispiece designed by Edward Burne-Jones and engraved by William Morris that was originally intended for a projected edition of The Earthly Books Press Fine Paradise in the 1860s and was touched up by Robert Catterson-Smith. The work is printed in red and black in Golden type, with five pages in Troy and Chaucer. Decorative woodcut borders and initials provide additional embellishment. This copy is one of only 525 copies printed on paper; an additional 12 were printed on vellum, completing an entire first edition of 537 copies. With errata slip. Ransom, Private Presses, 331:53. Armorial bookplate. Interior generally fine, faint dampstain to rear board, only light toning and a bit of wear to extremities. An extremely good copy.

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34. (ROGERS, Bruce) AESOP. Aesop’s Fables, Samuel Croxall’s Translation… Oxford, 1933. Tall octavo, original half vellum. $500.

Signed limited edition, one of 1500 copies, of Croxall’s popular 1722 translation of Aesop’s Fables, designed and signed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Oxford University Press by John Johnson.

Prior to the 18th century, very little was written expressly for the entertainment of children. In 1690 John Locke was the first to suggest Aesop as a beginning book for children. “First published in 1722, Samuel Croxall’s version… deserves its place as the most popular of all the English Aesops” (Victor Scholderer). Some scholars have focused on the changes individual authors make in their editions of Aesop, especially regarding the morals, often shaped to advance their own political or religious biases. “However, critics commend the fables for their simplicity, humor, pointedness, and wisdom, and for the literary quality of particular productions” (Daniel G. Marowski). This handsome edition was designed by Bruce Rogers, who gained early fame as a type-designer (Metropolitan, Montaigne, Centaur) and later recognition as a typographer. “Even in the very few of his books that might be called experimental rather than definitive, the touch of magic is always present” (Ransom, 145). Without original slipcase. LEC 47. Fine.

“Into The Street The Piper Stept, Smiling First A Little Smile”

35. (QUILTER, Harry and Mary) BROWNING, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamlin. London, 1898. Tall quarto (10-1/2 by 12- 3/4 inches), original gilt-embossed green cloth. WITH: The Pied Piper of Hamlin. Small quarto, (4-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches), original full brown morocco. London, 1898. Two volumes in custom clamshell box. $800.

Illustrated Quilter editions of Robert Browning’s beloved tale, featuring the elegant small quarto volume on vellum in full morocco, and the gilt-embossed large cloth edition, together Beautiful: Book The housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

In the early 1940s, while living in Hatcham, Browning and actor William Charles Macready became good friends. At that time Browning “produced a series of eight numbers of Bells and Pomegranates… The third of theBells and Pomegranates series included The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a poem written in May 1842, with the in- tention of amusing Macready’s little son William” (Douglas, Robert Browning, 32). Fine Press Books Press Fine “It is said to have been an impromptu performance…. [and] has been translated into French, Russian, Italian and German” (Sharp, Life of Browning, 35n). Browning’s much-loved rendition of the medieval German folktale is beautifully rendered in these two Quilter first editions—one a small quarto volume featuring the Quilters’ illustrated text with beautifully Art Nouveau ornamental borders on vellum, and the second a similarly illustrated tall quarto volume in original gilt-embossed cloth. With decorative borders by Harry Quilter; ornamental text by Mary Quilter. Gift inscription. Bookplates. Small quarto in fine condition; extremely good tall quarto with slight edge-wear, mild soiling to cloth. A lovely set.

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36. (CLAY, John) SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Cambridge, 1909. Two volumes. Thick folio, modern three-quarter black morocco gilt. $2500.

Finely printed limited edition of Spenser’s “opalescent and kaleidoscopic” masterpiece in praise of Queen Elizabeth, one of only 350 copies, set in Cambridge type and illustrated with vignette title pages and Art Nouveau tailpieces, handsomely bound.

“Where was mortal ever so sweetly praised?” (Baugh et al., 499). A landmark achievement in Elizabethan literature, Spenser’s Faerie Queene reflects the remarkable intellectual progress of its age. The poet devised a new rhyme scheme, the Spenserian stanza, into which he cast his beautiful words. A number of its lines stand among the best-known and most lyrical in English; the work as a whole ranks as one of the finest long allegories ever penned. This handsome edition, printed by John Clay of the Cambridge University Press, was set in “Cambridge” type from the rare 1596 quarto edition of Spenser (Book VII from the 1609 folio). Bookplates. Fine.

One Of Only 12 Copies On Vellum, With 12 Illustrations By Norman Wilkinson

37. (FLORENCE) STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. London, 1910. Quarto, original full limp vellum gilt, original green silk ties; custom slipcase and chemise. $1200.

Private-press limited edition of Stevenson’s essays, one of only 12 copies on vellum, with 12 full-page color collotypes by Norman Wilkinson. Beautiful: Book The

First published in 1881, Virginibus Puerisque was Robert Louis Stevenson’s earliest volume of collected papers, most having been published originally in the Cornhill Magazine and other British periodicals between 1876 and 1879. “The long title essay, a gentle discourse on behalf of the younger generation about the emotional conflicts in accepting adulthood, marriage, and love, concludes with a passionate plea against Victorian hypocrisy and for ‘truth of intercourse’” (University of South Carolina), but with a “certain old-world and sermonesque air” (John Kelman). Chatto & Fine Press Books Press Fine Windus established the Florence Press to produce trade books with the look and feel of private press books. Norman Wilkinson worked as a magazine illustrator until 1914, when he entered the Royal Navy, after which he specialized in marine painting. His fine 1909 watercolor paintings for Stevenson are faithfully reproduced in color collotypes. From a total edition of only 250. Bookplate of New York art collector Millicent W. Smyth. Fine.

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38. (VALE) TENNYSON, Alfred. Poems. London, 1900. Octavo, early 20th- century full green morocco gilt, navy and white morocco floral onlays; custom cloth clamshell box. $3500.

Limited Vale Press edition of Tennyson’s lyric poems, one of only 320 copies printed, with title page border and dozens of initials by C.S. Ricketts and engraved by C.E. Keates, beautifully bound in a full morocco-gilt Art Deco binding with a navy and white morocco floral cover onlay by Riviere and Son.

“Three men, Morris, Walker, and Ricketts, are authoritatively bracketed as ‘the masters of the revival of great printing’” (Ransom, 36). “If one must look for ‘lessons’ taught by the private presses of the 1890s, there can be little doubt that the lesson of the Vale Press was that of the control of the whole production of the book in a consistent design, which has had the greatest influence on modern book production” (Cave, 150). In 1903, Ricketts was on the verge of closing the Vale Press, having accomplished most of his goals, when a disastrous fire at the Ballantyne Press (whose presses were used for Vale imprints and where he kept all his blocks and printing materials) made the decision for him. What was left of his matrices, punches and type Ricketts cast into the Thames. This beautiful edition of Tennyson, published in 1900, was among the last works published by Vale prior to the fire. Bookplate. A beautiful copy in very nearly fine condition.

The Shakespeare Head Yeats, The Copy Of Emery Walker, Printer Of This Edition And Founder Of The Doves Press

39. (SHAKESPEARE HEAD) YEATS, William

Butler. Collected Works in Verse and Prose. Beautiful: Book The Stratford-on-Avon, 1908. Eight volumes. Octavo, original half vellum gilt. $3000.

Fine Shakespeare Head Press edition of Yeats’ early poems, plays and prose, illustrated with photogravure frontispiece portraits, printed by Emery Walker, in four volumes. This is Walker’s own copy, the co-founder of the famous Doves Press.

“There is no disputing [Yeats’] influence… He cre-

ated a poetic language for the 20th century” (Hamilton, 596). This handsomely printed private press edition of Yeats’ works is Books Press Fine from the Shakespeare Head Press, founded by Elizabethan scholar Arthur Henry Bullen at Stratford-on-Avon in 1904. With four photogravure frontispiece portraits of Yeats (printed by Emery Walker) after paintings by John Singer Sargent, Signor Mancini, Charles Shannon and J.B. Yeats, the poet’s brother. Wade 75-82. Ransom, Shakespeare Head 11. Bookplate of Emery Walker, co-founder of one of the great English private presses, the Doves Press, known for “the clarity of the type, the excellence of the layout, and the perfection of the presswork” (Cave, 147). A near-fine set, with only light soiling to original vellum and a rough page-opening to one gathering in Volume VI.

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40. Italian 15th-century painted binding (binding only). [Florence?, circa 1450]. Folio, full blind-tooled brown calf, triple spine-straps, applied hand-painted panels and armorial escutcheons, leather clasps and iron catches, iron corner bosses; custom clamshell box. $7800.

Outstanding 15th-century decorative miniatures possibly added at a later date to a contemporary ledger binding, further decorated with 15 teardrop appliqués painted with Italian coats-of-arms.

This intriguing Italian binding is held by three stitched-on leather straps in the manner of 15th-century ledger books. Its furniture consists of iron catches and corner bosses. The striking covers are finished with blind- stamped borders, two magnificent appliqué hand-painted panels, and 15 teardrop-shaped armorial escutcheons, all executed in egg tempera colors over gilded grounds and red gesso primer. On the front panel is pictured an armistice, undoubtedly commemorating one of the frequent wars between city-states, perhaps the first of them, between Pisa (whose banner is flown here) and Lucca. The two armies are aligned at either end of the panel; the leaders are shaking hands at the center. The rear panel quite possibly depicts allegorically the story of St. John Gualbert, 11th-century Florentine nobleman, who, having captured his brother’s assassin, pardoned him. These intricate panel paintings truly rival the illuminated manuscripts of the period. Contemporary manuscript calculations on endpapers. Without one catch. Board edges and straps rubbed. Some flaking to original tempera, exposing the gilt and gesso grounds.

Rémond’s Carmina Et Orationes, 1617, In Distinguished Morocco-Gilt Armorial Binding

41. REMONDI, Francisci. Carmina et Orationes [Songs and Speeches]. Vienna, 1617. 16mo, contemporary full brown crushed morocco, elaborately gilt-tooled spine and covers. $3600. Beautiful: Book The

Early 17th-century collection of formal addresses and prayerful poetry, illustrated with woodcut initials and ornamental head- and tailpieces, in distinguished full crushed morocco bearing elaborate armorial gilt decoration.

The poet François Rémond was a native of Dijon and a Jesuit professor. This volume, which was first published at least as early as 1606, includes Rémond’s speeches, devotional verses—several of which commemorate biblical characters, saints and liturgical occasions—and epigrams addressed to members of the administration of the Collège Royale at La Flèche. Bindings Fine The handsome morocco binding bears at the center of both boards a gilt-tooled coat of arms encircled by the inscription “G. Du Nozet Arc Sel Vic Leg Avenione”—apparently the crest of Guillaume Du Nozet, Bishop of Seleucia, legate at Avignon and member, from 1613 to 1626, of the Sacra Rota Romana, the supreme ecclesiastical court of appeals (Columbia University). A floral border within two double fillets surrounds the heraldry, which is set on a background of small, repeating fleurs-de-lys. Text in Latin. Contemporary owner inscriptions and old library inkstamp to title page. Tiny label to front pastedown, old pencil annotations to rear pastedown. Mild rubbing to morocco, tiny holes from absent catches and clasps. Minor restoration to spine ends. Near-fine.

www.BaumanRareBooks.com | 1-800-99-bauman 22 book of common prayer “A Source Of Spiritual Information… Second Only To The Bible”

42. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments… London, 1662. Quarto, contemporary full red embroidered velvet over wooden boards; custom chemise and clamshell box. $7200.

The authoritative and influential 1662 revision of the Book of Common Prayer—arguably the most important edition of the prayer book, the foundation of the Anglican Communion’s shared liturgical life since the Restoration—in an ornately embroidered velvet binding. Beautiful: Book The

The beautiful and dignified language of the Book of Common Prayer, first issued in 1549, has considerably influenced ecclesiastical practice and has been “a source of spiritual inspiration… for most Englishmen second only to the Bible” (PMM 75). Upon the restoration of King Charles II, Parliament made arrangements for a revised prayer book, which saw publication in early August 1662. Most notably, this new edition added an Office for the Baptism of Adults as well as Forms of Prayer to be Used at Sea; adopted the language of the King James Bible (1611) for the Sentences, Epistles and Gospels; and restored the so-called “black rubric” explaining that the veneration given to the Host in Holy Communion was not to be interpreted as an affirmation of the bodily or “corporal presence” of Christ in the Eucharist (the rubric instead affirms Christ’s “real and substantial presence”). The 1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer still serves as the common basis of the Anglican Communion’s liturgical life. No major attempt at revision would emerge until 1928. “Although for centuries leather was the most common material for covering a book… beginning in the 14th century royal and noble collectors often used silk brocade to cover their valuable manuscripts. Bindings Fine By the 15th century these cloth covers were embroidered with fanciful designs or the owner’s insignia… While cloth and embroidered bindings fell from favor on the continent in the 16th century, they remained popular in England until the Restoration” (Bridwell Library). With ornamental woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Text in Gothic type. Griffiths 1662:1 (state 3). Contemporary owner inscriptions to title page, one of which is largely effaced. Scattered light foxing and marginal dampstaining. Minor loss to top margins of last four leaves. Title page mounted. Marginal restoration to leaf [Q6]. Mild wear to velvet, some age-wear to embroidery. A lovely copy.

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43. DURAN, Simeon ben Zemah, et al. Sefer ha-Tashbets. Amsterdam, 1738-39. Four volumes in one. Small, thick Beautiful: Book The folio, contemporary full Dutch vellum, paneled and mottled with rose and green. $5200.

Handsome Dutch stained vellum paneled binding, with gilt centerpieces depicting Moses with the tablets and Abraham sacrificing Isaac, on Simeon Duran’s four-part Tashbez (1738-39).

In the 17th century, under the auspices of the Guild of Saint Luke, Dutch bookbinders perfected the techniques of mottling, sprinkling and staining vellum. This wonderful vellum binding is designed with rose-colored cover-panels containing gilt-stamped corner and centerpieces, surrounded by wide rose and green mottled borders. The intricate centerpiece stamps depict Moses with the Ten Commandments on one cover and the Sacrifice of Isaac on the other. This splendid Dutch binding holds the four parts of Simeon Duran’s Tashbez (abbreviation of Teshuvot Shimon ben

Zemah), the first three parts being rabbinic exchanges of letters on halakhic matters, and the fourth part, called Hut Bindings Fine ha-Meshullash, being the letters of three rabbis of North Africa, including Simeon’s descendant Solomon. Texts in Hebrew. Bookplate. Internally quite clean and bright, with minor edge-wear to first and last few leaves, inner hinges expertly reinforced. Covers of contemporary stained vellum binding near-fine, gilt centerpieces slightly rubbed, spine darkened. A wonderful example of 18th-century Dutch craftsmanship.

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44. (GUZMAN, Ramiro Felipe Núñez de) PSEUDO-HEGESIPPUS. De Rebus a Iudaeorum Principibus in Obsidione Fortiter Gestis… Libri V. Cologne, 1530. Small folio (measures 8 by 12 inches), contemporary full crimson goatskin, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, front and rear covers with large gilt-blocked armorial centerpieces; custom cloth clamshell box. $9800.

Outstanding example of a 17th-century Spanish armorial and emblematic binding, bound for Ramiro Felipe Núñez de Guzmán, Duke of Medina de las Torres, Spanish Viceroy of Naples from 1637-44, on an anonymous fourth-century Latin history based the Jewish War of Flavius Josephus with a lovely woodcut title page featuring Dionysius and Cleopatra.

The front cover features the arms of Don Ramiro Felipe Núñez de Guzmán, Duke of Medina de las Torres, impaled with those of his second wife Anna Caraffa, Duchess of Sabbioneta, surrounded by an acrologic inscription. Oldham, Shrewsbury School Library Bindings, page 120 gives a full description of the arms, the letters in the inscription standing for: ‘Comitatui grandatum ducatum ducatum marchionatum marchionatum arcis hispalensis perpetuam praefecturam magnam Indiarum chancellariatum primam Guzmanorum lineam ad- didit’ (C and G being transposed towards the end). The centerpiece on the rear cover features the emblematic ‘impresa’ or device of three plants growing between reeds or grass with a starry sky and legend ‘Revolvta Foecundant’ within a shield and the same acrologic inscription.

The Duke of Medina de las Torres (1600-1668), became a favorite minister of King Felipe IV, serving as Viceroy of wealthy Naples from 1637-1644. This book was bound after 1645 when he succeeded to the titles and estates (and began using the acrologic inscription) of his first wife’s father, Gaspar de Guzmán, Conde-Duque de Olivares. The letters ‘FEI’ stand for: ‘Fortuna etiam invidente.’ First published in Paris in 1510. The first four parts, or books, correspond loosely to the first four of Josephus’ War, but the fifth (and final) book combines the fifth, sixth and seventh books of War, while insert- ing some passages from Josephus’ Antiquities, as well as some Latin authors. Text in Latin. Adams H-148. Early ownership signature on the title page of Sir William Godolphin, Envoy Extraordinary 1669-71 and Ambassador at Madrid 1671-78. Godolphin purchased Guzman’s fine library en bloc. Having been implicated in the Popish plot, he chose to re- Beautiful: Book The main in Spain openly professing the Catholic faith, but many books in the library eventually found their way back to England. Quaritch collation note on rear pastedown. Purchased from H.D. Lyon, 1993, by John David Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth (1907-2002), English statesman and banker, who built an outstanding collection of Scottish and English history and literature, fine bindings, and major

color plate books of natural history and travel. Bindings Fine Worm traces and chip marks on covers, upper joints slightly rubbed and tender but sound. A beautiful copy, most desirable with such distinguished provenance.

www.BaumanRareBooks.com | 1-800-99-bauman 25 Lovely French Almanac In Splendid Contemporary Hand-Painted Papier-Mache Binding

45. (FRENCH ALMANAC). Étrennes Mignones Curieuses et Utiles, Avec Plusieurs Augmentations & Corrections. Pour l’Année 1757. Paris, 1757. 32mo (2-1/4 by 3-3/4 inches), contemporary papier- mâché gauffered and hand-painted; custom felt-lined cloth clamshell box. $5200.

Delightful 1757 small-format French almanac in lovely contemporary hand-painted papier-mâché binding, complete with small silver- backed mirror originally affixed to front pastedown, with folding engraved maps of France and Paris.

The contemporary papier-mâché binding depicts on the front cover a bucolic scene with the legend: “Un jeune amant/ craint d’avoir pour/ rival un opulent bar/ bon et moi pour mes/ pois les pigeons.” The rear cover continues the scene with trees, flowers and birds and the legend: “Rivière et Co-/ lombier cause tou-/ jours du dommage/ en plusieurs/ quartiers.” A small silver-backed mirror that had been affixed to the inside front cover is still present, with a few oxidations. Text in French. From the splendid collection of fine French bindings assembled by Michel Wittock. Remarkably well-preserved, complete with original mirror and two folding maps, in excellent condition.

Lovely French Almanac In Splendid Contemporary Hand-Painted Enamel Binding

46. (FRENCH ALMANAC). Almanach de Poche. Pour l’Année 1773. Vienna, 1773. 32mo (1-1/4 by 3-1/2 inches), contemporary half calf, gilt-decorated spine, hand-painted white enamel covers, silvered mirror affixed to front pastedown; custom patterned silk clamshell box. $5000.

Delightful 1773 small-format French almanac in lovely contemporary hand-painted enamel binding, complete with small silver-backed mirror affixed to front pastedown.

The contemporary enamel binding depicts a young couple seated in a bucolic scene on the front cover, with the image reversed on the rear cover. A small silver-backed mirror affixed to the inside front cover is still present. Text in French. Small ink stamp to title page. Remarkably well-preserved, complete with original mirror, in excellent condition. The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The Fine Bindings Fine

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47. (FRENCH ALMANAC). Calendrier de la Cour, Tiré des Éphémérides, pour l’Année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-diz… Paris, 1790. 32mo (2-1/4 by 4-1/4 inches), contemporary full red morocco, elaborately gilt-tooled spine and covers. $1600.

Delightful 1790 small-format French almanac, published amidst the eruption of the French Revolution, in lovely contemporary morocco-gilt binding in superb condition.

The 1789 French Revolution effectively brought the reign of Louis XVI to an end, culminating in his execution by guillotine on January 21, 1792 and nine months later that of Queen Marie-Antoinette. “A new revolutionary government took over, and the Terror began. France, that most refined, that most sophisticated of countries, had become unrecognizable” (New York Times). This almanac records the births, marriages and deaths of French royalty, the members and offices of the Assemblée Nationale, and includes other fascinating information concerning the reign of Louis XV and the revolutionary birth of a French Republic. Text in French. A lovely volume in exceptionally fine condition.

“In The Presentation Of Miniature Books Albert Schloss In London Reached A High Degree Of Sophistication”

48. (MINIATURE BOOK) (ALMANAC). Schloss’s English Bijou Almanac for 1840. London, 1840. 64mo (1/2 inch by 3/4 inch), original gilt-decorated stiff paper wrappers, original matching slipcase, housed in original velvet-lined black morocco-gilt bijou box with original accompanying miniature magnifying glass; custom patterned silk clamshell box. $1800. The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The Charming and exceptionally tiny miniature ‘bijou’ almanac with six wood-engraved portraits, in original box and with original accompanying miniature magnifying glass. A lovely copy, exceptionally well-preserved.

“In the presentation of miniature books Albert Schloss in London reached a high degree of sophistication. The English Bijou Almanacks… were issued in delicately colored and gilt-stamped flexible boards, in elegant and splendidly decorated morocco or vellum Bindings Fine bindings, always protected by matching slipcases. To keep these highly vulnerable treasures safe, Schloss produced elegant fitted cases” (Bondy). About-fine.

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49. (COSWAY-STYLE) ERSKINE, Beatrice (Mrs. Steuart). Beautiful Women in History & Art. London, 1905. Tall, thick quarto, mid-20th-century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated and inlaid spine, red and green morocco doublure inset with Cosway-style watercolor miniature surrounded by eight small pearls, watered-silk endpapers; custom clamshell box. $32,000.

Spectacular edition of “these portraits of beautiful women, seen against a background of history,” with 38 rich photogravures of contemporaneous paintings, including portraits of Madame de Pompadour, Marie Antoinette, Lady Hamilton and Joan of Arc. Luxuriously bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in the Cosway style, with beautiful inlaid centerpieces and splendid watercolor painting of Joan of Arc set into the doublure. From the famous Doheny library, sold in 1987. The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The Cosway bindings (named in 1909 for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway) were the brainchild of John Harrison Stonehouse, managing director of London booksellers Henry Sotheran & Company, who in 1902 struck on the idea of embedding miniature paintings in the covers of richly-tooled bindings. He engaged the famous Rivière bindery to execute his idea in accordance with his own designs. Rivière brought into its employ Miss C.B. Currie with instructions to faithfully imitate Richard Cosway’s detailed watercolor style of miniature painting. These delicate and beautiful miniatures were set into the covers (or sometimes doublures) of fine bindings and protected with thin panes of glass. Cosway bindings executed by other than the original collaborators (Stonehouse, Sotheran, Rivière, and Currie) are designated as “Cosway- style” bindings—still splendid productions—by such esteemed binderies as Sangorski & Sutcliffe (as here), Morrell, Bayntun, and Bumpus. The work inside this lavish binding is Beatrice Erskine’s Beautiful Women in History & Art. In her preface she

admits that “the selection is perhaps arbitrary, and the omissions are often much to be regretted, but it must be remembered Bindings Fine that the field is a wide one.” This is the Doheny copy, with two of the family’s bookplates. Carrie Estelle Doheny was among the earliest female book collectors in the United States, having purchased her first rare book in 1931. Under the tutelage of Frank Hogan and A.S.W. Rosenbach she continued to buy books and manuscripts until her death in 1958. Her great collection, consisting of incunabula (including a Gutenberg Bible), Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, Western Americana, early printing, literature, and fine bindings, was for many years housed at the Vincentian Seminary of St. John’s in Camarillo, California. She also gave parts of her collection to the Vincentian Seminary of St. Mary’s of the Barrens in Perryville, Missouri. A fine copy, in a spectacular “exhibition” binding.

www.BaumanRareBooks.com | 1-800-99-bauman 29 “A Sly Hit, A Happy Pun, A Humorous Combination”

50. (COSWAY-STYLE) [LAMB, Charles]. Elia. London, 1823. Octavo, early 20th- century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and cover borders with inlaid green floral motifs and decorative centerpieces, morocco doublures with inset watercolor portrait of Lamb, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt and gauffered; custom clamshell box. $5800.

First edition of this first collection in book form of Lamb’s Elia essays, beautifully bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in an exquisite full red morocco Cosway-style binding, inset on the front doublure with a wonderful watercolor portrait of Lamb.

“The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most delightful section amongst Lamb’s works… They are carefully elaborated; yet never were works written in a higher defiance to the conventional pomp of style. A sly hit, a happy pun, a humorous combination, lets the light into the intricacies of the subject… [Lamb] gives an importance to everything, and sheds a grace over all” (Allibone). This copy is bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in an exquisite Cosway-style binding (see previous description). Roff, 149-60. A beautiful production, in fine condition. Richly Illustrated History Of Fanfare Binding

52. (BOOKBINDING) HOBSON, Geoffrey D.Les Reliures a la Fanfare. London, 1935. Folio, original full green morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated covers in the fanfare style, extra suite of plates in separate printed envelope, original slipcase. $2750.

Signed limited first edition of this illustrated study of the history and technique of fanfare binding, one of only 30 copies beautifully produced by the Chiswick Press on Batchelor paper and with an extra suite of the plates (from a total edition of only 215), signed by Hobson. Richly illustrated with 37 photogravures, eight in color, three folding, and numerous in-text facsimiles, beautifully bound in the fanfare style by Leighton-Straker.

Geoffrey Hobson was a great authority on the history and craft of bookbinding. This is his definitive work on the style of binding known as ‘a la fanfare,’ an intricately tooled style that predominated in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. Text in French. With Addenda et corrigenda laid in. Light wear to envelope containing extra suite of plates and slipcase; plates and book fine. A splendid The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The volume. Very scarce, especially with the extra suite of plates.

Biographical Memoir Of 17th-Century English Bookbinder Samuel Mearne

54. (BOOKBINDING) DAVENPORT, Cyril. Samuel Mearne, Binder to King Charles II. Chicago, 1906. Folio (10 by 12-1/2 inches), original half red cloth. $550.

Limited first edition, one of only 252 copies, of this illustrated treatise on Samuel Mearne, “the best-known figure in Restoration binding,” with 24 color plates of his bindings, some designed in his famous “cottage style.”

“The restoration of Charles II to the throne in 1660 initiated the ‘golden age’ of English Bindings Fine bookbinding, when England’s binders were no longer content to follow continental models, but strove to develop their own decorative aesthetic. The best-known figure in Restoration binding was Samuel Mearne” (Bridwell Library). Mearne is credited with creating the distinctively English “cottage style,” the popularity of which grew to such an extent as to “endure with minor variations until the first quarter of the 19th century, thus lasting for a longer period than any other style of book decoration” (Roberts & Etherington). Bookplate of distinguished bibliophile and member of the Grolier Club, Abel E. Berland. About-fine.

www.BaumanRareBooks.com | 1-800-99-bauman 30 h. granville fell/guild of women binders Rare And Beautiful Limited Edition Of The Song Of Songs, One Of Only 100 Copies Printed On Japanese Paper For The Guild Of Women Binders, With 12 Folio Plates And Numerous Decorations By H. Granville Fell, In Spectacular Art Nouveau Extra-Gilt Full Morocco Binding

51. FELL, H. Granville. The Song of Songs Which Is Solomon’s. London, 1897. Folio (9 by 11-1/2 inches), original full inlaid brown morocco gilt; custom full morocco slipcase. $12,500. Beautiful: Book The

Limited first edition, one of only 100 copies on Japanese Paper specially printed for the Guild of Women Binders and bound in an exquisite extra-gilt full morocco Art Nouveau binding with morocco-gilt border inlays. With 12 folio plates by H. Granville Fell.

This beautiful limited edition of the most beautiful love poem ever written was intended to be a complete Art Nouveau production. It features elegant typography as well as 12 woodcut folio plates and decorations by artist H. Granville Fell. The splendid Art Nouveau binding was produced by the Guild of Women Binders, “an association of women bookbinders formed in [the late 19th century]… The women had previously worked in small groups in various parts of Britain, many binding in their own homes ‘aided by no Bindings Fine mechanical devices whatever,’ and they continued to work individually after the formation of the Guild” (Glaister, 208). Armorial bookplate of Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden. Borden was a textile entrepreneur from Fall River, Massachusetts who, in 1880, reorganized the failed American Print Works into the American Printing Company. APC eventually became the largest cloth- printing company in the world, earning Borden the nickname “the Calico King.” Borden was also an enthusiastic book collector. Additional bookplate. Evidence of bookplate removal. A beautiful copy in fine condition. Rare.

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55. (BOOKBINDING) ADLER, Rose. Reliures, présenté par Rose Adler. Paris, circa 1928. Folio, contemporary three-quarter red levant morocco gilt, matching leather-edged slipcase. $950.

First edition of this collection of photogravures of 50 masterpieces of French Art Deco bookbinding, selected by master bookbinder Rose Adler, and featuring works by such renowned artists as Pierre Legrain, Robert Bonfils and Paul Bonet, in addition to Adler herself. Handsomely bound by Vida Benedict.

A breathtaking collection of the new wave of bookbinding that was pioneered in post- war France by master bookbinders Legrain, Adler, Bonfils, Bonet, René Kieffer, Geneviève de Léotard and others. “Legrain’s influence on 1920s binders cannot be overemphasized. Many of the newest generation of binders became immediate disciples, in particular, Rose Adler, who had met Legrain while she was a student… Adler developed a dynamic personal modern style that was admired both by critics and collectors. The most spectacular of her bindings, many executed for Doucet, are always technically perfect and comparable in artistic excellence to examples by Legrain” (Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding). Text in French. Slipcase reinforced along corners. Fine.

French Armorial Bindings From The Library Of J.P. Morgan

53. (BOOKBINDING) [MORGAN, J.P.]. Armorial Bindings from the Libraries of the Kings and Emperors of France From Francis I to Napoleon III. London, 1902. Folio (11 by 15 inches), original half diced brown calf rebacked. $950.

First edition, with 33 fine folio chromolithographic plates of royal bindings.

This work was produced by the bookseller John Pearson for John Pierpont Morgan, who had purchased the entire collection that same year. Plates fine, wear to original calf and boards. The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The

With 72 Plates Of Fine Bindings By French Masters

56. (BOOKBINDING) UZANNE, Octave. La Reliure Moderne, Artistique et Fantaisiste. Paris, 1887. Quarto, early 20th-century three-quarter brown crushed morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine; original pictorial paper wrappers and spine bound in. $850.

First and only edition of this illustrated survey of late 19th-century French binding styles, one of only 1500 copies printed, with engraved frontispiece and 72 full-page photographic illustrations of fine bindings. Handsomely bound by Stikeman. Bindings Fine

Richly illustrated with examples of the works of such 19-century masters as Chambolle- Duru, Bernard David, Gruel-Engelmann (one of the oldest binderies in Paris), Emile Carayon, Marius-Michel, Amand, Petit, Champs, and others, with a special emphasis on bindings of ‘haute fantaisie’ that display some of the design tendencies that would eventually become known as Art Nouveau. Text in French. Fine.

www.BaumanRareBooks.com | 1-800-99-bauman 32 Book Arts Large Folio 17th-Century Carthusian Psalter

57. (PSALTER) Psalterium Carthusiense. Sevilla, 1629. Folio (12 by 17 inches), 17th-century full Spanish leather with brass bosses, remnants of clasps and catches. $4200.

Large and impressive 17th-century Carthusian lectern Psalter, in contemporary Spanish binding.

This wonderful binding holds a 17th-century Latin lectern Psalter (Book of Psalms), printed in red and black, with large typographical initial letters and intermittent staves with characteristic square notations, printed by and for use in Carthusian monasteries. The Carthusian Order is a Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics founded by Saint Bruno of Cologne in 1084. The name is derived from the Chartreuse Mountains; Saint Bruno built his first hermitage in the valley of these mountains in the French Alps. Interior generally clean. Some wear to binding. An impressive large folio volume in very good condition.

Large 1677 Italian Folio Stenciled And Colored Antiphonal

58. (ANTIPHONAL) Stencilled Antiphonal. Italy (?): 1677. Folio (14 by 21 inches), contemporary full diced calf over wooden boards restored, brass bosses and cornerpieces, remnants of leather clasps. $8500.

A beautiful church antiphonal (notation dating it to 1677 in the colophon and likely hailing from Italy), containing 101 vellum leaves with finely stenciled text in black and musical staves scored in red, with numerous hand-colored initials, several quite large and enhanced in the mid-19th century with colorful ornamental stencil- ing, bound in contemporary calf with brass fittings. A magnificent volume bespeaking the beauty of both the medieval liturgy and the

book arts. Beautiful: Book The

Ambrose, fourth-century bishop of Milan, introduced antiphonal music—the singing and chanting of biblical psalms and canticles, prayers, responses and other texts, often varying by season and festival—into western Christian liturgy; the practice may date as far back as the late first century. While this impressive antiphonal presents the appearance of an illuminated manuscript, its texts, four- line staves and decorative elements have actually been finely stenciled on the vellum leaves, with only occasional instances of overlap betraying the method used. The texts include numerous large initials with hand-coloring and stenciled ornamental borders (these added later); an especially magnificent initial “K” done in green and blue on a gold ground, with elaborate floral border, appears on the first page, also added later. The volume boasts an impressive contemporary binding. “Books with wooden boards Arts Book were heavy and were given bosses and skids to protect the covering material from damage when the books were placed flat on wooden desks or shelves” (Fine and Historic Bookbindings, 161). The penultimate page bears the inscription, “Vident in penultima pagina ano 1677. Fr. Gregorius Rom. Scriptsithie.” Occasional pencil and ink marginalia and markings. Expected embrowning and soiling to some leaves. Occasional rubbing to decorative initials. Closed tears to corners of leaves 26, 28. Expert restoration to contemporary calf binding; a few instances of pinprick wormholes to joints. An impressive volume.

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59. (ILLUMINATED LEAF) Illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours. Northern France, circa 1480. Single vellum leaf (4 by 6-1/2 inches), illuminated, beautifully matted and window-framed, entire piece measures 10-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches. $14,000.

Beautiful illuminated leaf from a Parisian Book of Hours from the latter half of the 15th century, featuring an exquisitely detailed miniature of “The Visitation” of Elizabeth with Mary above a lovely four-line initial, all of which is surrounded by an ornately floriated border with two grotesques.

Originally derived from the Psalter, the medieval Book of Hours contains “offices”—sets of psalms, lessons, antiphons and prayers—to be recited during each of the eight canonical hours of the day. Its main section, the Hours of the Virgin, was said in honor of the Virgin Mary; other offices include the Hours of the Cross and the Hours of the Holy Spirit. Such personalized prayerbooks were greatly coveted as luxury items during the Middle Ages, when it was fashionable for women of high social standing to own one; this accounts in part for the unique variations of text and illustration.

This leaf comes from a Book of Hours from Northern France. The recto bears five lines of text written in a very pleasing Gothic script and a large, four-line initial letter “D” in blue and white with enclosed flowered stems on a burnished gold ground. The initial itself is on a red and gold ground. There is also a one-line initial in gold on a red ground and one- line filler executed similarly. The text reads: “Deus in adiutorium meum intende. Domine adjuvandum me festina,” (“O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.”) is from the first verse of Psalm 69. The words form the introductory prayer to every Hour and are accompanied by the Sign of the Cross. The detailed, arch-topped miniature

depicts the “The Visitation” of Elizabeth with Mary: Beautiful: Book The The haloed figures are both dressed in elaborate blue and gilt gowns, with various individual details and embellishments. The background is a town setting, featuring a large medieval building and assorted foliage. An elaborately floriated border features two grotesques—one half human and half beast, the other entirely animal. Text in Latin. Only slightest smudge to one-line initial. A beautiful miniature in fine condition. Book Arts Book

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Illuminated Leaf From A Medieval French Book Of Hours, Depicting King David In Prayer Beautiful: Book The

60. (ILLUMINATED LEAF) Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours. France, circa 1450-75. One vellum leaf, measuring 4-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches, matted and framed; entire piece measures 14 by 16 inches. $12,500.

Lovely illuminated leaf from a mid-15th century French Book of Hours, boasting an exceptional miniature depicting King David, handsomely matted and framed.

This lovely, illuminated vellum leaf from a mid-15th century French Book of Hours (a medieval book of prayer containing “offices,” or sets of psalms, lessons, antiphons and prayers for recitation during each of the eight liturgical hours of the day) features, on its recto, a lovely miniature (measuring 2 by 3-1/4 inches). Done in red, blue, green and gold, it depicts King

David, repenting of his affair with Bathsheba, kneeling at an altar on which sit the tablets of the Law, praying to God, who Arts Book is signified by the rays of light shining on him from above. David’s golden harp appears behind him. The three lines of text, with a three-line initial “D” elaborately illuminated in blue with white tracery on a gold ground with an interior floral motif in orange, red and blue, are the opening verse of Psalm 6 in the Latin Vulgate (the first of the seven penitential psalms): “Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me, neque in ira tua corripias me” (O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your anger). A splendid piece in fine condition.

www.BaumanRareBooks.com | 1-800-99-bauman 35 illuminated leaf The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The Rare Hand-Colored Image Of The Virgin Mary And Child Jesus

61. (ILLUMINATED LEAF) Illuminated Leaf from a Book of Hours. Paris, 1509. Single vellum leaf (5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches), illuminated, handsomely window matted and framed, entire piece measures 12-1/2 by 15-1/2 inches. $6200.

Exquisite illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours, printed in Paris in 1509, an exceptional full-page hand-colored image depicting the moment when the Virgin Mary, depicted in a vivid blue and gold-inked robe, presents the Christ Child in the the Temple, with two lines of Latin text in Gothic script beneath the image, window matted with 30 lines of Latin text and traditional detailed miniature borders on the verso, fine and most rare, handsomely framed.

This beautiful illuminated leaf, an outstanding example of early printing, is from a Book of Hours printed by Gillet Arts Book Hardouyn in Paris in 1509. The full-page hand-colored miniature, capturing the moment when the Christ Child is presented in the Temple, is an exquisite medieval representation of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus with the caption in two lines of Latin in gothic script (translation into English): “Beckoning to send to your slave Lord understanding of the peace of your word.” Especially notable is the use of rich, jewel-like colors and the soft folds in the Madonna’s drapery. The verso contains 30-lines of Latin text printed single column in a Gothic script on vellum. A highly desirable leaf in fine condition.

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62. (FORE-EDGE PAINTING) HUNG-NIEN, Lu. Fore-Edge Painting. Peking, circa 1939. ON: SHIH YU. Chi Chiu Chang [Essays on Chinese Calligraphy]. WITH: I Chou Shu [History of the Chou Dynasty]. No place: circa 1800. Tall octavo, later side-sewn dark blue wrappers; custom ornamental clamshell box, custom half leather clamshell storage box. $6500.

Wonderful rare Christian fore-edge painting, executed by Chinese artists around 1939 under the direction of Catholic missionary and college president, William B. Pettus, after a painting by very promising student Lu Hung-Nien.

The Chi-chiu is the oldest surviving text on “swift-done script,” attributed to the first-century (B.C.) calligrapher Shih Yu—this late 18th-century edition printed in blocks cut in the format of vertical bamboo slips. It had become the most widely used Han elementary text and the single-most important primer through the early T’ang Dynasty. Bound with it is a block-book edition of the I Chou Shu, a history of the Chou Dynasty compiled from “lost records” uncovered from the third century B.C. The magnificent fore-edge painting on this volume, entitled “Flight into Egypt, Enquiring the Way,” is rendered in the Ming style of the 14th and 15th centuries, executed by 20th-century Chinese artists connected with the Catholic University in Peking in the 1930s. It was copied from a painting by Lu Hung-Nien, a student at the time. With a minuteness of detail and ornamental use of color, especially a rich blue-green that designates the principal figures, Mary and Joseph, this painting was produced under the direction of the President of the University’s College of of Chinese Studies, Dr. William Bacon Pettus, who brought the concept of fore- edge painting to China. Entitled “The Holy Refugees,” Hung-Nien’s original work was reproduced in the December 22, 1941 issue of Life magazine and is currently in the possession of the Pettus family. For the artist, this painting held special significance, “because he has seen thousands of his own people take to the road like the Holy Family, with a few bundles and a donkey, escaping from tyranny in their own land” (Life). Hung-Nien’s later painting of “Our Lady of China and Baby Jesus” was the basis for the central mosaic in the National Shrine of the United States in Washington, D.C. Fore-edge painting clean and bright, a few small holes and tears (not affecting fore-edge), minor expert repairs to extraordinary custom clamshell case. The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The Book Arts Book

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63. (FORE-EDGE PAINTING) (EDWARDS OF HALIFAX) [KNOX, Vicesimus]. Elegant Extracts: from the Most Eminent Prose Writers; Elegant Epistles: from the Most Eminent Epistolary Writers; Elegant Extracts: from the Most Eminent British Poets. London, circa 1810. Eighteen volumes. 16mo, contemporary full straight-grain beige morocco gilt, custom morocco-covered wooden cabinet (measuring 7 by 18 inches). $17,000.

Early 19th century editions, elegantly bound by Edwards of Halifax, with 18 charming fore-edge paintings. From the important fore-edge painting collection of celebrated bibliophile Estelle Doheny, with her morocco-gilt bookplates; also with the bookplates of collector Dorothy Jayne Pedrini Shea. Housed in a handsome Beautiful: Book The morocco-covered wooden cabinet with glass door.

Weber attributes the 18 fore-edge paintings (and therefore the bindings) to Thomas Edwards of Halifax, who “perfected the technique of fore-edge painting” (Weber, John T. Beer, xiv). Gift inscriptions. Bookplate of noted book collector Estelle Doheny. Starting in 1926, Doheny “was drawn to examples of the delicate art of fore-edge painting… This collection grew to be one of the most important in the world.” Doheny eventually expanded her collecting foci: “With innate good taste, Doheny formed one of the most impressive rare book and manuscript libraries in the United States” (Dickinson, 95). Also with bookplates of California collector and philanthropist Dorothy Jayne Pedrini Shea. Light foxing to additional engraved title pages. Arts Book Occasional light rubbing to joints, a few inner hinges split or cracked; a few covers lightly soiled, gilt generally bright. A fine set, elegantly bound and handsomely presented, with distinguished provenance.

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64. (GRANT, Duncan) WADDELL, Helen, translator. Mediaeval Latin Lyrics. Harmondsworth, 1952. Small octavo, original stiff paper wrappers; custom dust jacket hand-painted by Duncan Grant; custom chemise and clamshell box. $6800.

Custom-covered volume of Latin lyrics, with a splendid original hand-painted dust jacket in ink and watercolors by Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant, depicting a monk and a nun dancing on one cover and a chalice surrounded Beautiful: Book The by grapes on the other, with his gift inscription: “Angus with love from Duncan, Christmas 1954.”

Post-impressionist artist Grant, who grew up with many of the Bloomsbury Group, studied at the Westminster School of Art and the Slade School. Vanessa Bell’s son Quentin noted, “Grant is assured of his place in British art history as an innovator of very great talent, as an accomplished decorator, and as a painter of large though unequal achievement. It is probable that he will be valued for his landscapes and his still lifes, for a few of his portraits, and for the [H.M.S.] Queen Mary decorations… His enthusiastic generosity as a critic of other artists’ work derived from a firm conviction that, of all human activities, painting is the best” (DNB). The recipient of this volume was Angus Davidson, author and an assistant at Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press. Arts Book Book fine; light wear to extremities of painted dust jacket, with shallow chipping to spine ends. A beautiful and unique work by Grant, most desirable.

www.BaumanRareBooks.com | 1-800-99-bauman 39 “A Wizard, With Scissors And Paste, I Would Mention, To Please All You Children, Worked Out An Invention…”

65. (POP-UP BOOKS) GIRAUD, S. Louis, ed. Daily Express Children’s Annual. WITH: Daily Express Children’s Annual No. 3. London, 1929, 1933. Octavo, original pictorial paper boards. $1400.

First editions of the first and third of S. Louis Giraud’s ingenious movable books, illustrated with color frontispieces and title pages, numerous black-and-white illustrations and 14 color pop-ups.

In 1929, “British book publisher S. Louis Giraud conceived, designed and produced books with movable illustrations… While the term had Beautiful: Book The yet to be used, these were authentic pop-up books. Each title contained at least five double-page spreads that erected automatically when the book was opened, with illustrations that could be viewed from all four sides. Unlike the German precursors, Giraud’s books were moderately priced… Between 1929 and 1949, Giraud produced a series of 16 annu- als, first for the Daily Express and later as an independent publisher… Giraud’s books reached a wide audience and were very popular” (Montanaro, xviii-xix). The 14 “self-erecting models” in these two books—seven in each—illustrate an assortment of stories, poems and conundrums, including “Punch and Judy,” “Bath Time,” “The Flower Arts Book Fairy” and “In Santa Claus Land.” Montanaro, 64-65. Annual No. 3 ex-library, with small institutional blindstamp to the upper corner of pages 35-36, no other library markings. All pop-ups bright and clean; although portions of some are occasionally partly detached or loose, only one exhibits a tear (the diorama of Santa Claus on the front endpapers of Annual No. 3), and several remain completely intact and functional. Small split to spine foot of Annual No. 1. Light rubbing to boards. An extremely good and attractive pair.

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66. (POP-UP BOOKS) KUBAŠTA, Vojtěch. Alice in Wonderland. London, circa 1960. Slim folio, original half yellow cloth; pp. [16]. $750.

First edition of this masterpiece of paper engineering, with delightful large double-page pop-ups on the endpapers by acclaimed artist Kubašta, featuring Alice’s underground itinerary and the Queen’s deck of cards, and with lively color headpieces on every page.

“Vojtěch Kubašta’s children’s books were unlike anything the world had seen when they first appeared in the late 1950s… His talent as a graphic artist was to combine a robust graphic style of great charm and humor with a puppet-master’s flair for story-telling in three dimensions” (John Michael Dawson). “The books were entirely of his own invention, and when he designed them, he was completely in control. He planned them, worked out the ways the pages would be cut and folded, did the artwork, and produced the finished dummy with everything ready to be published” (Roman Kubašta). His pop-up books were produced by the state-owned Artia publishing house and have appeared in 37 different languages. Over 35 million copies have been sold. “Kubašta’s faux-naif style with a Bohemian flavor is somewhat exotic to an American eye” (Ellen G.K. Rubin), and “today, original editions of his illustrations and books are sought after by collectors from around the world” (James A. Findlay). Not seen by Montanaro. A fine copy, with only a slight bow to front board.

Wonderful Large Pop-Up Red Riding Hood By Czech Artist Kubašta

67. (POP-UP BOOKS) KUBAŠTA, Vojtěch. Rotkäppchen [Red Riding Hood]. Hamburg, 1959. Slim quarto, original half red cloth, pictorial paper boards; pp. [16]. $600. The Book Beautiful: Beautiful: Book The First edition in German, with eight delightful large three-dimensional pop-ups by acclaimed artist Kubašta, each featuring an episode in Little Red Riding Hood’s saga.

“Today, original editions of his illustrations and books are sought after by collectors from around the world” (James A. Findlay). Text in German. Not listed in Findlay & Rubin. Not seen by Montanaro (see p. 259, 1961 English edition). A Book Arts Book fine copy, with all pop-ups intact.

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68. (POP-UP BOOKS) (KUBAŠTA, Vojtěch) PERRAULT, Charles. Der Gestiefelte Kater [Puss in Boots]. Hamburg, 1959. Slim quarto, original half orange cloth, pictorial paper boards; pp. [16]. $600.

First edition in German, with eight delightful large three-dimensional pop-ups by acclaimed artist Kubašta, each featuring a key episode in Perrault’s ever-popular Puss in Boots.

Charles Perrault’s Puss in Boots appeared in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript two years before its 1697 debut in his collection of eight fairy tales called Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé. The title character has been described as “the epitome of the educated bourgeois secretary who serves his master with complete devotion and diligence” (Zipes, 25). “Today, original editions of [Kubašta’s] illustrations and books are sought after by collectors from around the world” (James A. Findlay). Text in German. See Findlay & Rubin 127 (1985 Arabic edition); Montanaro, 255 (196? English edition). Owner name and address handwritten on cloth backstrip. A near fine copy (all pop-ups intact), with only light rubbing to corners, short crease to rear cover, two small tears to original cellophane in coach.

Wonderful Large Pop-Up Gulliver

69. (POP-UP BOOKS) (KUBAŠTA, Vojtěch) SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver Mezi Obry [Gulliver Among the Giants]. Bratislava, 1956. Slim folio, original pictorial paper-covered boards; pp. [18]. $700.

First edition, with delightful large double-page pop-ups on Beautiful: Book The the endpapers by acclaimed artist Kubašta, featuring Gulliver’s arrival in Brobdingnag and rescue at sea, and with two full-page color illustrations and lively headpieces on every page.

“Gulliver’s Travels has given Jonathan Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame… For every edition designed for the reader with an eye to the historical background, 20 have appeared, abridged or adapted, for readers who care nothing for the satire and enjoy it as a first-class story” (PMM 185). Text in Czech. See Findlay & Rubin 51 (Gulliver v Liliputu); Arts Book Montanaro, 115 (English edition). Occasional marks of handling. An extremely good copy, with cover cellophane and pop-ups intact.

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70. (NUREMBERG CHRONICLE) BULLEN, Henry Lewis. The Nuremberg Chronicle… San Francisco, 1930. Tall, slim folio (13 by 19 inches), containing a single folio leaf of the 1493 Chronicle (12 by 18 inches). $1500.

Limited first edition, one of only 300 copies, of Bullen’s fascinating account of the contents and production of the extraordinary “Nuremberg Chronicle,” the first extended study of this great illustrated incunable. With original leaf CCIX from the first Latin edition of 1493 tipped in, as issued. This leaf features woodcuts of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick of Sicily, an eclipse of the sun, and two architectural views of the monasteries of the Ordo Praedicatorum (Dominicans) and the Ordo Minorum (Franciscans).

Hartmann Schedel compiled his elaborate history of the world from “the first day of creation” to his own time in an effort to correct what he felt was a slight to German history by earlier chroniclers. Published in 1493, this outstanding German incunable is still one of the finest of illustrated books. The accompanying original leaf from the first Latin edition bears the running title “Sexta etas mundi,” last of the six eras into which Schedel divided the history following the Creation. It opens “Fridericus eius nominis secudus impator, anno dñi 1212,” with a full-length woodcut portrait of Frederick of Sicily, continues with an observance of the solar eclipse of 1238, and closes on the verso with descriptions of the Dominicans and Franciscans, together with woodcuts of their monasteries. Text and original leaf fine. Copies are almost never found with the original leather spine intact, as it tended to deteriorate (as here)—even the two copies at the Book Club of California are virtually spineless. An extremely good copy.

“Of Rare Occurrence And High Value”

71. (CAXTON, William) LEWIS, John. The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton… Beautiful: Book The The First Printer in England. London, 1737. Octavo, late 19th-century three-quarter red morocco. $3800.

First edition of the first true biography of England’s first printer William Caxton, one of only 150 copies, from the library of influential American bibliophile Edwin B. Holden, co-founder of the prestigious Club Bindery. Bound in three-quarter red morocco by the Club Bindery.

This scarce volume is the first extensive biography of William Caxton, “England’s first printer,” who established “the first press in England… His Myrrour of the worlde (1481) was the first illustrated book printed in England… [and] his first major contribution to Books About Books English literary history was to print, about 1478, an edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales… In 1485 Caxton published his second great contribution to English literary history, Le Morte D’Arthur” (Glaister, 88-9). Caxton not only changed history with his printing press, he also “took upon himself the immense responsibility and labour of introducing that art into England… The books he chose to print were the best works English literature had produced” (Crotch, vii). “Only 150 copies of this work have been printed, it is of rare occurrence and of high value” (Bigmore & Wyman I:436-37). Engraved frontispiece portrait after Bagford. Bookplate of Edwin B. Holden, influential co-founder of the Club Bindery, whose exquisite craftsmanship rivaled that of the Europeans and “exerted a considerable influence on fine binding in America” (Roberts & Etherington). Faint notation on front pastedown, 18th-century owner signature on verso of title page. Text fresh with lightest scattered foxing, joints and corners with expert restoration. An exceptional near-fine copy.

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72. DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall; AMES, Joseph; HERBERT, William. Typographical Antiquities; or, the History of Printing in England. London, 1810-19. Four volumes. Thick folio, mid-19th- century three-quarter calf rebacked with original elaborately gilt- and blind-decorated spines laid down. $2800.

First Dibdin edition, one of only 65 large-paper copies of this monumental illustrated history of English printing, with 14 engraved portraits and numerous full-page and in-text engraved and woodcut illustrations of printer’s devices, sample pages, type specimens, watermarks, and early woodcuts. The copy of noted collector Baron Northwick, with his engraved armorial bookplates.

The first volume of “the great storehouse for the history of English printing” (Bigmore & Wyman I, 7) is devoted almost entirely to William Caxton, along with a discussion of early engraving; Volume II to the productions of Wynkyn de Worde and Richard Pynson; Volumes III-IV deal chronologically with printers from William Faques to Thomas Hacket. More than 2900 books are described, at times discussing in engaging detail the book’s printing, its contents, relative rarity, extant copies in Dibdin’s time, and so on. From the library of noted art collector John Rushout, second Baron Northwick, with his engraved armorial bookplates in each volume. Faint foxing to a few plates only. Expected age-wear to attractive bindings. A very scarce large-paper set of this esteemed history of English printing, with distinguished provenance.

Paul Rand’s Own Copy Of His A Designer’s Art, Signed

73. RAND, Paul. A Designer’s Art. WITH: [Guide to A Designer’s Art] in Japanese. New Haven, 1985; Tokyo, 1986. Two volumes. Slim quarto,

original yellow paper wrappers, dust jacket. $2200. Beautiful: Book The

First edition of Rand’s magnum opus on commercial design, including an updated version of his 1947 Thoughts on Design, with “a wide selection of his brilliant graphic work from the 30s to the present”—Rand’s own copy, signed by him. This is the Japanese issue with a separate guide in Japanese.

Considered one of the world’s foremost innovators in the field of graphics and advertising, Rand exerted a tremendous influence on corporate identity and branding, having designed such famous logos as ABC, IBM, Westinghouse and UPS. “Mr. Rand’s work is distinguished for its ready wit and richness of

reference” (New York Times). “He is an idealist and a realist using the language Books About Books of the poet and the businessman. He thinks in terms of need and function. He is able to analyze his problems, but his fantasy is boundless” (Laszlo Moholy- Nagy). Influenced by Le Corbusier and Klee, Rand brought elements of the Bauhaus, De Stijl and Russian Constructivism into the realm of commercial art. In A Designer’s Art, Rand observes that “from Impressionism to Pop Art, the commonplace and even the comic strip have become ingredients for the artist’s caldron. What Cezanne did with apples, Picasso with guitars, Léger with machines, Schwitters with rubbish, and Duchamp with urinals makes it clear that revelation does not depend upon grandiose concepts. The problem of the artist is to defamiliarize the ordinary… Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.” This is the Japanese issue of A Designer’s Art, being the English edition in a Japanese slipcase, accompanied by a page-by-page guide to the English edition in Japanese. Book and Guide in fine condition, slipcase slightly worn.

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74. MCLUHAN, Marshall. Counterblast 1954. Toronto, 1954. Slim quarto, original staple-bound pale blue stiff paper covers; pp. [18]. $850.

First edition of this “biting never-before published manifesto McLuhan distributed as a hand-made ‘zine’ in 1954.”

Marshall McLuhan took inspiration from Wyndham Lewis’s Vorticist magazine Blast and produced Counterblast, intended to shake the city of Toronto out of its smugness, complacency, and spiritual torpor—in the same way that Lewis rattled London. In the expanded 1969 edition of Counterblast, McLuhan observed that “today we live invested with an electric information environment that is quite as imperceptible to us as water is to a fish.” He was convinced that the new electronic media shape not only the information they convey but also our very consciousness and that, in order to actually perceive this, a counter environment is needed. This is the original 1954 edition of McLuhan’s Counterblast, run off on an office machine. A new expanded edition appeared in 1969. A fine copy, with only a shallow band of sunning to front cover.

Everything The Book Collector Needs To Know: Richly Illustrated Ten-Volume Set

75. (BOOK COLLECTING) ROUVEYRE, Edouard. Connaissances Nécessaires à un Bibliophile. Paris, 1899. Ten volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter burgundy straight-grain morocco, elaborately gilt- decorated spines with tan morocco onlays, original

printed paper wrappers bound in. $2200. Beautiful: Book The

Limited edition of this thorough introduction to book collecting, one of only 50 sets printed on Japon, richly illustrated with hundreds of wood engravings and reproductions. Very handsomely bound.

Originally issued in 1877 as a one-volume guide for book collectors, by the time of this fifth—and best—edition Rouveyre’s work had expanded to ten richly illustrated volumes covering every topic of interest to a collector.

Includes a history of book collecting, a guide to forming a Books About Books collection, a survey of book formats, and detailed discus- sions of rarity, price, bindings, illustrations, provenance, manuscripts and illumination, caring for a collection, and cataloguing. Volume IV includes nine tipped-in samples of marbled papers, nine tipped-in samples of patterned papers, and nine tipped-in samples of paper in imitation of the types and styles of leathers used in the binding of books. Volume X includes a detailed glossary. Text in French. Only 100 sets of this fifth edition were printed, 50 on Japon and 50 on Chine. Previous editions contained fewer volumes and were not nearly as thor- oughly illustrated. Bookplate. Front hinge of volume one expertly reinforced. Beautifully bound.

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76. BALDINUCCI, Filippo, et al. Sculptura-Historico-Technica: or, the History and Art of Ingraving. London, 1747. 12mo, modern brown cloth. $900.

Enlarged second edition of this practical treatise on engraving, with an extensive catalogue of engravers’ marks, ten full-page copperplates of techniques and large folding chart of master artists.

Extracted from the writings of Baldinucci, Florent le Comte, Faithorne, Orlandi’s Abecedario Pittorico, and other authors, the Sculptura-Historico-Technica is the enlarged, second edition of the Repertorium sculptile typicum (1730)—being a translation of Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi’s Abecedario (1704). “The editor… has in this [1747] edition not only considerably enlarged the number of marks… but given a short abridgment of the history of the art, with an idea of a fine collection of prints… and directions for ingravers.” With a two-page addendum of marks at the rear (paginated 111-112). Plates fine. Title page embrowned, early paper repairs to chart, page 163 scraped at inner margin (with minor loss of text). An extremely good copy. Scarce.

Paper-Maker’s Walnut Sample Case, With Slots And Drawers Filled With Swatches And Envelopes

77. BRADNER SMITH & CO. Wooden case of paper samples offered by Bradner Smith & Co., Chicago paper-makers since 1852. Chicago, circa 1920. Original walnut cabinet (25 by 12-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches) hand-lettered in gilt, containing hundreds of samples of paper stock and envelopes. $2800.

Paper-maker’s walnut sample case, enclosing 40 swatch books of various standard printing stocks, six packets of sample envelopes and three drawers of 3 by 5-1/2 inch samples of cover stock.

The slots, pigeon-holes and drawers of this intriguing sample case contain swatch books of standard paper stocks in various weights, textures and colors, such as “Camel’s Hair Covers,” “Calendered Book Paper,” and “Antique Laid and Egg Shell Book Paper,” as well as sample envelopes of laid, wove, bond, kraft and cold pressed papers. The drawers are filled with hundreds of swatches of cover stock—“Bankers’ Board,” “Damascus Bristol” and “Blotting Paper.” Established in 1852, “Bradner Smith Beautiful: Book The & Company started in a one room storefront at 12 LaSalle Street in the heart of Chicago. In those early days, large orders were delivered by horse-drawn drays and smaller orders with personal service from the company’s delivery boys. By 1856, deliver- ies were made to most surrounding states, including Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. Salesmen traveling from city to city by train, developed strong relationships with their clients in each market” (Bradner Smith). As one of the few remaining independent, family-owned enter- prises in its field, the company con- Books About Books About Books tinues today as a leading wholesale distributor of high performance printing and office papers. Occasional evidence of slight worming to samples. A wonderful object.