A SELECTION OF BOOKS AT FRANCIS HOLLAND CHRISTMAS FAIR 2019

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1.(Alembic Press) MacFarlane (Nigel)). Handmade papers of the Himalayas. With line-block reproductions of woodcuts. 44p, 15 X 38cm, double folded, (Claire Bolton) Alembic Press, Winchester, 1986. Nine different papers from Nepal and Bhutan, sewn in three sections with paper wrapper, the whole being housed in a specially made portfolio with red cotton ties. Handset in Kennerley with 19 Nepali motifs , most printed in a second colour. Number 10 of 108 copies. Fine. £120 'As the papers were all of varying size they had to be folded and cut by hand before I began. I printed each sheet doubled with a sheet of 'Yellow Pages' inside to absorb any ink that might go through to the paper. I lost a number of letters from when they hit bits of rock, bark or charcoal, but apart from that had no trouble printing. The type area for each page for deliberately varied to avoid the need for accurate registration, which would have been impossible with such irregular edges to the paper.' (B19)

2.(Ardizzone) The Local. Lithographs by Edward Ardizzone. Text by Maurice Gorham. Royal 8vo, 23cm, pp.51[1] + 15 inserted lithographs, Cassell & Co., Ltd., La Belle Sauvage, London, 1939. Illustrated with 14 full-page and 1 double-page lithographs, mostly tipped in and with captions in cursive script by the artist. Grey paper-covered boards, titled in red and black on the front, and with a pen drawing (a version of the lithograph on p.8) lettered by the artist. Endpapers a little toned. Very slight loss to head of spine. An exceptionally fresh bright copy. £950 This, the first of Ardizzone's homages to the English pub, was printed by the Curwen Press and can be seen as a companion to Eric Ravilious's 'High Street' . It was issued without a dust-jacket. In the successor volume - 'Back to the Local' (1947), Maurice Gorham noted that the unsold copies of 'The Local' together with its printed sheets and plates 'went up together in the burning of Cassell's premises in Belle Sauvage Yard' during World War II bombing. (Alderson 9)

3.(Bawden) Heath (Ambrose). More Good Food. Decorated by Edward Bawden. First edition, demy 8vo, pp.248,. London: Faber & Faber, 1933. Line-drawn decorated title and 12 illustrations by Edward Bawden. Buff cloth decorated with a coloured linocut by Bawden. Lacks dust-jacket, but a very nice bright copy. £50 'Attention is drawn to the fact that the cover of More Good Food is WATERPROOF and WASHABLE.'

4.Bawden (Edward). Hares, Foxes and Eagles. Large linocut, image size: 40.5 x 55.8 cm, sheet size: 85 x 67 cm, signed, numbered and titled by the artist, [Published by Curwen Prints] (1970). One of 50 copies (this marked 18/50 'Artist's proof') printed in colours on thick wove paper. Unframed, as originally sold, with tissue. Perfect condition. £2,250 One of a series of eight linocuts Bawden produced on the theme of Aesop's Fables. (Bacon & McGregor B.321C)

5.Bawden (Edward). Take the Broom. Oblong 16mo, 10 X 12.5cm, 32p (including wrappers), Reproduced from Bawden's original by Judd Street Gallery, London, 2014. Designed by Webb & Webb; printed by Aspect Press. 7 full-page colour illustrations after the originals by Edward Bawden. Wrappers illustrated from a lithograph by Edward Bawden. A new copy in its blue presentation envelope. £15 The book is one of a set of six tales drawn by Edward Bawden for his children, Richard and Joanna, during 1944. It was first published, in the original size,, redrawn for lithographic printing, in an edition of 350 copies by George Rainbird and ruari McLean in 1952 for presentation to friends. A new edition of Take the Broom, differing greatly in size and detail, was contained within Hold Fast by Your Teeth (Routledge, 1963).

6.Betjeman (John). John Betjeman's Collected Poems. Compiled and with an Introduction by the Earl of Birkenhead. First thus, 8vo, 19cm, pp.xxvi[2], 279, London: John Murray, 1958. Number 100 of 100 copies signed by the author, printed on Oxford India paper and specially bound in full red leather with gilt spine titling and Cockerell marbled endpapers. Matching slipcase. A fine copy. £325

7.(Bird Editions) Campbell (Nancy). How to say 'I love you' in Greenlandic, an Arctic alphabet. Oblong folio, 235 X 390mm, [34]p (rectos only), Bird Editions, Oxford, 2011. Handset in Optima and printed in greyish-green and black on hand-made paper. Number 3 of 50 signed and numbered copies. Title-page decorated in blind, 12 half-page pochoirs in varying colours. Loose-leaved in light blue/dark blue pictorial wrappers with matching card slipcase created by Natasha Herman at Red Bone Bindery, Ottawa. A fine copy. £450 Nancy Campbell’s delightful book omits to give one the words for ‘I love you’ in Greenlandic, but the feeling is all there, and it celebrates the endangered Kalaallisut language - famous for its many words for snow. The book is both an introduction to the Arctic language and a compelling narrative. All twelve letters of the Greenlandic alphabet are represented with words ranging from 'eqisimarput' ('we walk arm in arm as lovers') to 'kinguneqartarpoq' ('he drinks a second brew from old coffee grounds').

8.Blake (Peter). Found Art – ‘Page from a Scrapbook’, for the Art Car Boot Fair, June 14th 2009. Giclée printed in colours, 2009, signed and numbered 104 from the edition of 200 in pencil, on wove paper, with full margins, sheet 419 x 296mm (unframed). Fine condition. £200

9.Briggs (Richard). The English Art of Cookery, according to the present practice; being a complete guide to all housekeepers, on a plan entirely new ... With bills of fare for every month of the year. Second edition, 8vo, 21cm, pp.iv,xx, engraved plates, 656, London: Printed for G.G.J and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, 1791. Half-title present, 12 engraved plates of bills of fare, some scattered spotting, contemporary ownership inscription 'Mary Bunow' to front free endpaper, upper hinge split, contemporary sheep, rebacked, maroon morocco title label to spine, upper board repaired at head. A very good copy. £500 On the title page Richard Briggs describes himself as being 'many Years Cook at the Globe Tavern, Fleet-street, the White-Hart Tavern, Holborn, and now at the Temple Coffee-house'. The volume is strictly organised into 38 chapters with clearly distinct themes, covering poultry, soups and broths, fish dressings, sauces, stews and hashes, ragous and fricassees, roots and vegetables, puddings, pies and tarts, pancakes and fritters, cheesecakes and custards, blancmanges, jellies and syllabubs, potting and little cold dishes, carving, garden vegetables, brewing, wines and cordial wines, and more. The twelve plates depict selected bills of fare for each month of the year.

10.(Caliban Press) Kondoleon (Harry). Andrea Rescued. Crown 4to, pp.[x],22 + colophon, Caliban Press, Montclair, New Jersey, 1987. One of 175 copies handset in 14-point Gill Sans, printed on Japanese Iyo handmade paper and signed by the author and illustrator. Illustrated with 1 half-page and 2 full-page colour linocuts by Alison Seiffer, with others smaller within the text. This one of about 75 copies bound in flexible handmade paper-covered boards titled in black on the front, maroon morocco spine titled in blind. A fine copy. £250 Described by Mark McMurray (the printer) as: 'A passion play, a working of dramatic miracles for an age that no longer believes in such things'. It has probably given me more pleasure to stock Mark’s titles than any other American press and our relationship is now over twenty years. Caliban Press was founded in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1985 then moved to Canton, New York, where he was Librarian at St Lawrence University. Subsequently, it has moved to Ogdensberg. Many titles are out-of-print – I regret that I do not have a copy of his Shakespeare’s Tempest to offer today – but lovers of jazz, Walt Whitman, Edward Lear, will find much for them. He is concerned that however apparently eclectic in subject and however divergent in design, all his books show as much regard for content as design and ‘develop the book as object without being transfixed by it’.

11.(Caliban Press) Notebook used along the New Jersey Coast, by Walt Whitman. [With a portrait, map and facsimile printed from line blocks, and full-page pochoir illustrations by Mark McMurray.] Crown 4to, 253 X 190mm, 20pp., (Mark McMurray) Caliban Press, Canton, New York, 1992. Text set in various sizes of Garamond and Palatino foundry types with nineteenth-century wood for display. One of 125 copies printed on a variety of hand-made papers. Sewn on tapes into printed hand-made paper covers, linen spine titled in black. A fine copy. £450 Combination diary and workbook containing germinal ideas and phrases later used in Whitman's poetry.

12.(Caliban Press) Eckmair (Frank). Houses of Memory. Wood engravings by Frank Eckmair. [Foreword by Fred Norton and with an introduction by the artist.] 8vo, pp.ix + 16 leaves, Caliban Press, Canton, New York, 1995. One of 90 copies handset in Ehrhardt with Weiss Bold titling, printed on cream Zerkall paper and signed by the artist. 16 wood engravings printed by the artist, Jim Benvenuto and Mark McMurray from the blocks. Sewn into handmade sienna paste paper wrappers, titled in black on the front. A fine copy. £100 Frank Eckmair's work is in many collections, including the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The images, printed on the rectos only, depict old houses, rooms, hallways - places on the edge of memory.

13.(Caliban Press) Bolger (Dermot). In Edward's Garden. 8vo, pp.[30], (Mark McMurray) Caliban Press, Canton, New York, 1995. One of 80 numbered copies printed in Dante type on Somerset paper and signed by the author and artist. Illustrated with 5 wood engravings by David Moyer printed on Japanese Kitaka paper. Bound in handmade paper boards with a blue leather spine and printed label on upper cover. A mint copy. £95 The initial version of the opening chapter a then new novel by a prolific, Irish poet, playwright and novelist. Bolger received the AE Memorial Award and Macaulay Fellowship for his first two novels.

14.(Caliban Press) Baraka (Amiri). When Miles Split! Royal 8vo, pp.[8 ]+ portrait frontispiece, (Mark McMurray) Caliban Press, Canton, New York, 1995. One of 120 copes printed from 16-point Gill Sans with News Gothic Titling on St Armand handmade paper and signed by the author. Woodcut portrait by Guy Berard on Thai Unryo paper and signed by him. Sewn into purple paste paper-covered wrappers, titled in black on the front, edges uncut. A fine copy. £240 An elegy to the jazz great Miles Davis.

15.(Caliban Press) Ginsberg's Farm. [A poetic tribute by Mark McMurray & photographic portrait by Mellon Tytell.] 240 X 175mm. (unfolding to 525mm); triptych opening to 3 pages with 2 pages of text bound in; (Mark McMurray) Caliban Press, Canton, New York, 2007. One of 40 copies printed from 14-point Goudy Old Style on papers handmade by La Papeterie St-Armand. The triptych is constructed from splatter-dyed Nepalese paper over boards. In keeping with Ginsberg's personal practice of Tibetan Buddhism, the two outer panels contain images of two Tibetan protector deities taken from an original wood block cut and printed for the Dalai Lama's library at the Potola complex in Lhasa. They are printed on orange and blue papers. At the centre is a previously unpublished gelatin silver print by Mellon Tytell of Allen Ginsberg standing in a field of vegetables, the late summer sun behind him. Housed in a brown handmade paper envelope with the colophon signed on the back cover by Mellon Tytell and Mark McMurray. A new copy. £300 Published on the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Ginsberg's most famous work 'Howl', 'Ginsberg's Farm' is a fine poetic tribute to Ginsberg, recounting in verse a later visit to his "poetry farm" in Cherry Valley. Further playing on the triptych/icon motif, the work also contains a small vial of earth from the poet's garden as referenced in the text of the tribute.

16.(Caliban Press) Lear (Edward). The Jumblies. [From 'The Book of Nonsense,' 1871.] 12mo, 138 X 112mm., accordion fold, [10]pp., Caliban Press, Canton, New York, 2007. One of 200 copies printed from 11-point Baskerville and 42-point Caslon italic types on various hand and mould made papers from Papeterie Saint Armand, Montreal, signed by the printer. Hand-coloured volvelle reproducing Edward Lear's "sieve boat" (spin the pea-green sail and see!). Glued into tomato-coloured wrappers printed in black. Housed in a blue handmade envelope folder printed in wood type. A fine copy. £100 Green heads? Blue hands? Go to sea in a sieve and spin the volvelle!

17.(Caliban Press) Whitman (Walt). This is what you shall do: 16mo, 11cm, 6p folding, (Mark McMurray) Caliban Press, Ogdensburg & Cranberry Lake, New York, 2019. Handset in Palatino and Garamond. One of 200 copies printed on antique laid paper and sewn into grey paper wrappers titled in black. New in Press envelope. £15 Extracted from the preface to the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass, the most important thing with this charming little publication is TO READ IT ALOUD.

18.(Cambridge Christmas book) Gentleman (David). Bridges on the Backs: a series of drawings by David Gentleman. Introduced by Peter Eden. Oblong 4to, Title, pp.6,sub-title,9 plates (6 with one or more hinged overlays) Cambridge: Printed for his Friends by the University Printer, 1961. One of 500 copies printed in Monotype Times Wide on Spicer's cartridge paper. Illustrated with 9 drawings, touched with colour, by David Gentleman, with another on the front endpaper and title-page. Green canvas portfolio binding, lettered in gilt, with `Father Cam' device blocked in gold and black. Card slipcase. A fine copy. £200 ‘Bridges on the Backs is unique - it opens like a lady's handbag; unique in other ways too and, I think, my favourite of the larger books, perhaps of them all. David Gentleman's drawings are delightfully reminiscent of youthful Cambridge in summertime. Peter Eden in his text and captions carries his erudition with consummate grace, and the overlapping illustrations, a la Humphrey Repton, never fail to surprise.’ (Brooke Crutchley)

19.(Cambridge Christmas book) Sparrow (John). Line upon Line. An epigraphical anthology. {Preface by Brooke Crutchley.] 8vo, pp24, 46 epigraphs + colophon + booklet, [Cambridge: Privately printed, 1967]. One of 500 copies on Basingwerk Parchment. 46 inscriptions reproduced typographically each faced by a short note on its location and history. 'Translations of Latin, Italian & French Inscriptions' given in a 12pp booklet done on India paper, contained in a pocket at the rear. Grey paper boards titled in white on upper and lower covers (designed by Reynolds Stone), blue cloth back titled in gilt. A fine copy in the matching slipcase. £80 FHS CHRISTMAS FAIR PRIZE CONTEST: A MINT HUMBUG OFFERED TO ANYONE WHO CAN SPOT THE TOPY ON THE TITLE-PAGE!

20.(Circle Press) King (Ron). Turn Over Darling. 12mo, 19cm, [24]p, Ronald King, Circle Press, London, 1994. Designed and drawn in wire by Ron King and printed at Circle Press on J. Green RWS hand- made paper in a signed limited edition of 75 copies (this marked "10/20 final"). Grey hand- made paper covers titled in light blue, grey paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy. £200 A series of six double-sided blind-embossed images printed in wire, which, when folded and juxtaposed in sequence, make eleven reclining nudes which change position from front to back view. Also an unlimited edition on Khadi Indian hand-made paper.

21.(Clarion Publishing) Bible Plants.Wood engravings by Sister Margaret Tournour.[With an Introduction by Joanna Selborne.] Royal 8vo, 27cm, 46 french-folded pages,Trevor Weston, Clarion Publishing, Holybourne, 1999. Set in Monotype Joanna and printed by Phil Abel at Hand & Eye letterpress. Illustrated with 24 wood-engravings, the majority full-page. One of 225 copies signed by the artist and publisher. This one of 100 copies stab-bound in the Japanese style within hand-made Nepalese asmara flower tissue by Chris Hicks. A fine copy. £65

22.(Clover Hill Editions) Reed (Henry). Lessons of the War. Demy 4to, 29cm, pp.35[1] + colophon, Clover Hill Editions, London and the Chilmark Press, New York, at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 1970. Set in Didot Walbaum and printed in green and black on Wookey Hole mould-made paper. Number 4 of 110 (530) copies numbered in roman and signed by the author. Full dark green buckram, spine gilt, 'barbed wire' patterned endpapers. A fine copy. £130 The fifth Clover Hill edition, containing Reed's enjoyable burlesque of army language `The Naming of Parts'.

23.(Cookery) Collection of recipes by Jemima Margaret Roper, daughter of Reverend John Gilpin, married Roper Stote Donnison Rowe Roper, 1814-67, of Sedbury Hall, near Gilling, North Yorkshire, cousin of William Sawrey Gilpin, landscape painter and landscape gardener, 1762-1843, 1809-60. Autograph MS, 112p, 22p index at front, mostly in one hand but with additions in at least two other hands, 4to, 15th November 1831 - 40s & later. Four cookery recipes loosely inserted, original half calf, rubbed. Very good condition. £525 Recipes include "Sugar Crust"; "Lemon drops"; "Bath Cakes - excellent Mrs Hogg"; "Raspberry cream for basketts"; "Baked hasty pudding Mrs WS Gilpin"; "Currie powder"; "To make muffins - Mrs Carter"; "Breakfast Biscuit"; "Cheese Pudding"; "Velvet Cream"; "Dough Cake"; "Solid Custard"; "Coffee Biscuits"; "Plymouth Pudding"; "Mrs Alderson's Gingerbread"; "Perpetual Lemon Cheesecakes"; "Old Wifes Cakes"; "Liffy Pudding"; "Dutch Sauce - Mrs Wharton"; "Royal Cream - Mrs Wharton (excellent)"; "Lobster Cutlets"; "Muffin Pudding"; "For the Ringworm"; "Sherry and Beer Cup"; "Cherry Brandy"; "Devonshire Cream"; "Champagne Cup"; "Cream - Lady Lawson"; "Fig Pudding - Lady Lawson"; "Lancashire Pie (without meat)"; "Porter Jelly"; "Green butter"; "Sir Watkin W Wynne's Pudding"; "Damson Cheese" etc.

24.(Coracle) Scraps of an Aborted Collaboration, by Erica Van Horn & Some One Else (they were introduced by a mutual friend in Paris, January 1984). Oblong 8vo, 18p, French-folded, Coracle, Docking, Norfolk, 1994. One of 200 copies with 7 brightly coloured drawings by Erica Van Horn, bound with yellow thread, Japanese-style in green rexine, titled in black. A fine copy. £20 A satirical look at the story of a children’s book that didn’t quite make it.

25.(Coracle) Boy Bell’s Book of Envelope Interiors. Square 12mo, third edition, 15cm, 14 leaves, done on the rectos only, (Erica Van Horn & Simon Cutts) Coracle, Docking, Norfolk, May 1995. 11 ‘bits of envelopes’, tipped-in. Sewn into grey card wrappers, titled in black. A fine copy. £25 David Bellingham was the progenitor of this really amazingly good idea – a scrapbook belonging as much to the world of train spotting or stamp collecting as in the world of art.

26.(Coracle) Envelope Interior Pin-Up Calendar. Square 8vo, 16cm, 12 leaves, (Erica Van Horn & Simon Cutts) Coracle, Docking, Norfolk, 1999. Spiral-bound wall calendar printed in Sans-Serif on card with 12 tipped-in envelope interiors, one for each month. Grey card covers, titled in black. A fine copy in its original card envelope. £40

27.(Cuala Press) Yeats (William Butler). Two Plays for Dancers. 8vo, first edition, pp.[vi],38, colophon, The Cuala Press, Dundrum, Dublin, 1919. One of 400 copies set in Caslon and printed in red and black on Irish handmade paper. Title- page device by T.Sturge Moore. Canvas-backed grey paper-covered boards, titled in black on the front, printed label to spine. Grey endpapers. Some wear to extremities. A very good copy. £200 The Cuala Press was founded by Miss Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Miss Lily Yeats (daughters of the painter, Jack Butler Yeats, and sisters of the poet, William Butler Yeats) at Dundrum, Co. Dublin, in 1909. Ultimately, nearly all of the many books of modern Irish verse produced, were printed by hand by Miss E.C. Yeats.

28.(Cuala Press) Yeats (William Butler). Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends: An extract from a record made by his pupils: and a play in prose. First edition, 8vo, pp.[viii],46, 2 plates, The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1931. One of 450 copies set in Caslon and printed in black and red on Irish handmade paper. Woodcut to title page ('Unicorn and Star') and two woodcut plates on grey paper by Edmund Dulac. Canvas-backed blue paper-covered boards, titled in black, blue endpapers. A very good to fine copy. £225

29.(Curwen Press) Bennett (Arnold). Elsie and the Child. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Crown 4to, 26cm, pp.87 + 7 plates, (Curwen Press for) La Belle Sauvage, Cassell & Co, London, 1929. One of 650 (750) copies printed on handmade paper at the Curwen Press. 7 full-page and 2 smaller drawings richly stencilled in opaque gouache colours by pochoir. Printed biscuit cloth with spine just a bit yellowed. Black card slipcase with printed spine label. A very good to fine copy. £225 'Part of the stencilling was applied by a sponge and the result was spectacular.' (Oliver Simon in ‘Printer and Playground'). 30. (Domestic life) Berkhey (Johannes Le Francq van)Zinspelende Gedigtjes op de Geestige Printjes ge-etst door Pieter de Mare. Second edition, half-title, engraved title vignette, 32 etched illustrations on 26 sheets, a few spots, contemporary half speckled calf, spine ends chipped, rubbed, Amsterdam, Willem de Vliet, 1793. £300

31.(Eragny Press) Some Poems by Robert Browning. Demy 8vo, 21cm, pp.64 [2] + contents + colophon + blank + press-mark, Sold by The Eragny Press, London, and John Lane, New York, 1904. Handset in ‘Brook’ type and printed in black with nine-line woodcut initials in red or peach. One of 215 copies on Arches paper. Woodcut frontispiece in five colours, woodcut border of roses and leaves. Binding, printed paper, Wild Rose in two colours, stone paper back titled in gilt. Light browning to endpapers. A near fine copy. £1,000 One of my favourites of all private presses, this hand-press was founded in 1894 by Lucien and Esther Pissarro at Epping, eventually moving to The Brook Hammersmith. A characteristic of the Press was the use of colour wood engraving and printed paper boards with a simple hedgerow flower design.

32.(Essex House Press) The Essex House Song Book, being the collection of songs formed for the singers of the Guild of Handicraft by C.R. and Janet E. Ashbee, and edited by her. Royal 8vo, pp.40 + 24 + 44 + 32 +52 + 28 + 20 +24 + 76 + 60 + xxiv appendix, Essex House Press, Chipping Campden, 1903-1905. 10 parts bound together in contemporary reversed calf (just possibly by the Guild of Handicraft?), complete set; Number 79 of 200 (205) sets printed in red and black in 'Endeavour' type on Batchelor handmade paper. Woodcut initials by C.R. Ashbee. Musical notation drawn by Paul Woodroffe. Head of spine and spine label a bit rubbed, lacking three of four silk ties, otherwise very good to fine set, unfoxed. £1,000 A collection of some two hundred representative songs of England, together with their music, from the Middle Ages to the year of publication. Several songs were specially written for the publication, including examples by Laurence Housman and John Masefield. Of Essex House books this was Ashbee's favourite. Always searching to express the Idea of the Guild of Handicraft, he wrote: 'To me, perhaps, its completed expression in the life of the Guild is to be found in the Song Book, printed and published by the Essex House Press in 1905, and entirely ignored by the public.'

33.Finden (William). The ports, harbours, watering-places, and coast scenery of Great Britain: illustrated by views taken on the spot by W. H. Bartlett; with descriptions by William Beattie. Two volumes, plates, illustrations, 28 cm, 4to, London: George Virtue, 1842. Added engraved title-page to both volumes, plus 124 engraved plates. Green half morocco, maroon leather labels gilt, marbled paper-covered boards. Some foxing to titles but elsewhere fresh and clean. A very good set. £250 A revised edition, much enlarged, of William and Edward Finden's "Views of ports and harbours, watering places, fishing villages, and other picturesque objects on the English coast" (London, 1838), the letterpress of which was written by W. A. Chatto.

34.(Florin Press) O'Connor (John). Dukes Village: A Suite of Wood Engravings. Introduced by Graham Williams with more than a little help from the artist. Royal 8vo, [19]pp., (Graham Williams) Florin Press, Biddenden, Kent, 1988. Number 30 of 55 (70) copies handset in Lutetia with Rosart for display, printed in black (the title-page in green and black, the illustrations in many colours) on old Arnold grey laid paper, and signed by John O'Connor and Graham Williams. Bhutanese hand-made paper-covered boards, spine titled in black. A fine copy. £350 Originally engraved for a projected Westminster Bank brochure in the late 1950s or early 1960s, these blocks stayed unclaimed at the Curwen Press until its liquidation in 1984. All illustrations have been printed from these original blocks, as was the press device, which was engraved by John O'Connor in 1985. The coloured inks were reground at Florin Press with added pigment and other (!) substances.’

35.Foster (Peter). A small envelope of 11 satirical wood engravings of the Royal family, unsigned and undated (about 1987), some repeats. Depicted are the Queen, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Prince Charles and Diana, Prince Andrew and Princess Anne. Clearly proof engravings, but excellent impressions on different papers. All in fine condition. £130

36.Fraser (Claud Lovat, artist & illustrator, 1890-1921). The Judge. Watercolour, initialled F at lower right. Inscription verso ‘To Leith Ross and his wife with all good wishes from their friends Haldane MacFall and Mabel Haldane MacFall, 1925’. Measurements 8.8 X 13.8cm, framed measurements 32.3 X 40cm. £500 Claud Lovat Fraser was a London artist who studied at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Sickert. He was a close friend of the art critic Haldane MacFall (1860-1928), who introduced him to many important names in the theatre world. Fraser fought in France during World War I, being wounded in a gas attack in 1916, a factor that led to his early death in 1921. In 1917 he married American actress Grace Inez Crawford and it was through her encouragement that theatrical and costume design became so important to him. In this respect, one must mention Nigel Playfair’s famous revival of The Beggar’s Opera at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 1921. Lovat Fraser died young but he was to be of enormous influence upon the 1920s generation of artists – especially those who worked for the Curwen Press – such as Paul Nash, Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious.

37.(Freedman) Bronte. (Charlotte). Jane Eyre. With lithographs by Barnett Freedman. 8vo, pp.456 + 16 leaves illustrations + 16pp. endpapers, London: Collins, 1955. 16 lithographs in colours, endpapers and other prelims illustrated in black against a coloured background. Text set in Monotype Baskerville with display in Chisel and Walbaum. Quarter brick-red cloth, spine gilt, contrasting cloth with colour lithograph by Freedman. Rear board carries a portrait of the author. A fine copy in a card slipcase. £90 A real joy to read and to look at. Designed by Oliver Simon and printed at the Curwen Press. Previously published by the Heritage Press, New York, 1942, produced whilst Barnett Freedman was working as a war artist attached to the Admiralty.

38.Gaskell (Elizabeth Cleghorn, novelist and short-story writer, 1810-65).- Cookery & Domestic.- Southam (John, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) [Collection of recipes], manuscript, 123pp., some ff. excised, browned and stained, 1p. of newspaper cuttings, printed advert for William Slater's Superior Biscuits on front pastedown, original half morocco, rubbed, corners worn, 8vo, 1st July 1832 - [c. 1855]. £675 Recipes include: "Grand Peas Soup... Mrs Gaskell"; "Mixed Sauce for Salad... Mrs Gaskell"; "To make bread"; "Nettle Beer"; "Apple Charlotte"; 39.Gibbings (Robert). Fourteen Wood Engravings from Drawings made on Orient Line Cruises. Folio, 330 X 235mm, [32]pp., illustrations on rectos only. Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, [Waltham St. Lawrence], 1932. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. Illustrated with 14 full-page and 2 smaller wood engravings, done on the rectos only. Variant binding of quarter green cloth with blue paper- covered boards, blue endpapers, printed label superimposed on the upper cover. A very good to fine copy. Advertisement slip for proof engravings (on GCP watermarked paper) loosely inserted. £450 Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, but as a private commission and so not reckoned a Golden Cockerel item. It is much more usually found in a binding of printed yellow wrappers, sewn. (Kirkus 17)

40.Gill (Eric). On the Birmingham School of Art, 1940. [A Report by Eric Gill, dated July 13 1940.] Introduction by John Randle. Squarish 8vo, 21cm, pp.39[1], colophon + loose Note, (James Freemantle) St James Park Press, London, 2018. Set in 12-point Joanna and printed in black on Somerset Book paper. Wood-engraved opening initial by Eric Gill printed in green. One of 100 numbered copies. Bamboo boards laser-engraved on the front from a unique pencil rubbing by Eric Gill and on the rear with Gill's initials, scarlet morocco spine, titled in gilt. A new copy. £175 This extraordinary unpublished manuscript lay in our drawers here at Collinge & Clark for nearly twenty years. Commissioned by Birmingham School of Art in the year that Gill was to die, it is perhaps not as surprising as it may first seem that it was never published. One senses a strange, rather fey mood when he was writing. In part it is an interesting study of students work in the individual departments of a commercial art school. However it is also an attack on the value of such schools. The printing and binding of the book is masterful. John Randle's introduction excellently sets up Gill's complex personal life at the time.

41.(Gogmagog Press) Cox (Morris). An Impression of Winter [Spring, Summer, Autumn]. A Landscape Panorama. Three embossed reversed/direct offset prints joined into a continuous strip, a folded to make nine double-page openings. 4 volumes, (each 26 leaves joined at the fore- edges). 8vo, 201 X 122mm., London: The Gogmagog Press, 1965-66. Set in Bodoni Ultra Bold. Each one of 100 copies printed in black and blue (Winter), black and green (Spring), black and yellow (Summer), black and brown (Autumn) on Hosho paper with the prints done in a wide range of colours. Ingres paper boards printed monotypes in various colous, front, back and spine. Pale grey pastedowns. Acetate dust-jackets. A near fine set. £1,850 The Seasons are reckoned the peak of Cox's achievement as a printer, and they belong together. Each of the four starts with a short poem, the rest is all colour printing. The panoramas folded into pages achieve their effects. Each possesses more undisciplined colour embossing, nature-printing with seeds and leaves, than exists in the rest of his books and prints.

42.(Golden Cockerel Press) Maya: A Play by Simon Gantillon paraphrased into English by Virginia & Frank Vernon with XIII wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. 8vo, 25cm, pp.viii,95[1], colophon, Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1930. Set in Caslon. One of 500 copies printed on Dutch hand-made per. Maize buckram, stamped and titled in gilt. A few spots on front cover, endpapers browned. A very good copy. £95

43.(Golden Cockerel Press) Stewart (Cecil). Topiary. An Historical Diversion with colour- engravings by Peter Barker-Mill. Crown 4to, pp.34 + colophon, The Golden Cockerel Press, 123 New Bond Street, London, [1954]. Number 116 of 400 (500) copies printed in dark green and black on F.J. Head hand-made paper. Illustrated with 13 colour wood-engravings. Half orange buckram, gilt, with decorated hand- made paper sides. A fine copy. £75 Printed in Pastonchi type by the John Roberts Press. (Cock-a-Hoop 198)

44.(Gooden) The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine. Translated into English Verse by Edward Marsh. With Twenty-six Engravings on Copper by Stephen Gooden. Two vols, royal 8vo, 26cm, pp.lxxi[1],235, plates, pp.xxii,336, London: William Heinemann [&] New York: Random House, 1931. Set in Monotype Garamond. Number 193 of 250 copies printed on Hayle Mill Special Toned hand-made paper, specially bound, and signed by Edward Marsh and Stephen Gooden. Engraved title-pages and 24 other full-page inserted engravings. Bound in full vellum with gilt spine titling, bevelled edges and edges uncut. Neat pencil ownership signature. Boards a little uneven, but a very nice clean set. £200

45.(Greenaway) Harte (Bret) [Francis Brett Harte]. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Foolscap 4to, 21.5cm, [9] 10-58p, London: Chatto and Windus, [1886]. Frontispiece and 27 smaller illustrations in colour. Oatmeal cloth, stamped in gold and black; picture of three children on a "boat" (p.13), stamped in colours; double-line border stamped in gold, spine titled in black, back cover with illustration from p.16. All edges stained gold. Blue endpapers. Some slight wear and finger-soiling. A very good copy. £220 First edition, second state. (Susan Ruth Thompson 109b)

46.(Gregynog Press) The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. Folio, 34cm, [60]p, The Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1932. Set in Bembo with Perteua Titling and printed on Japon vellum in Tyrian red and black. The first three words of the title on the title-page are wood-engraved. 41 wood engravings, title-page and book design by Blair Hughes-Stanton.This one of 232 (250) copies bound in red Hermitage calf, blocked in blind on upper cover with the title and a Press device. Cloth slipcase. Spine faintly rubbed. A very good to fine copy. £2,350 ‘There can be no doubt that here he [Blair Hughes-Stanton] has surpassed himself. There is in the wild sanity of this astounding book something very close to the texture of Mr Stanton’s own mind. He commands and controls a savage dexterity that flows from an ardent imagination. No limits are set to that imagination by the Book of John of Patmos …’ (Observer, 18 June 1933) The Gregynog Press was established in December 1922 by the Misses G.E. and M.S. Davies at Gregynog, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and the printing carried out – not always happily – under a succession of ‘Press controllers’. That notwithstanding, it ranks as one of the great presses.

47.(Gregynog Press) Milton (John). Four Poems: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas. With wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. [Text edited by the Rev. H.C. Beeching.] Royal 8vo, pp.33[1], colophon, The Gregynog Press, [Newtown, Montgomeryshire] 1933. Number 242 of 235 (250) copies handset in Perpetua and printed on Japon vellum. Illustrated with 11 wood engravings: 4 full-page and 7 smaller used for title and tail-pieces. Reddish Hermitage calf blocked in blind on upper cover with the figure of Euphrosyne, titling and Press device. Spine just a little faded. A very good to fine copy. £825

48.(Gregynog Press) The Lamentations of Jeremiah. [From the text of Dr Scrivener's Paragraph Bible.] Folio, [30]pp., The Gregynog Press, Newtown, 1933 (1934). Number 64 of 235 (250) copies handset in Baskerville Italic and printed on heavy Japanese vellum. Title-page, 5 full-page engraved chapter openings, 16 other wood engravings and book design by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Headings and running titles printed in blue. This, one of 125 copies bound in nocturnal blue Hermitage calf (the remainder were bound in blue oasis). Title and device blocked in blind on the upper cover and spine. Very slight loss at heel of spine, lacks brown card slipcase. A very good copy indeed. £1,950

49.Hamnett (Nina). Laughing Torso: Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett. First edition, 4to, 26cm, pp.ix[1], 326, inserted plates, London: Constable & Co, 1932. De luxe large paper issue of just 92 copies, each numbered and signed by the author and containing an original signed drawing by her. 23 inserted plates. Yellow full buckram, spine gilt, gold top, yellow endpapers. Armorial bookplate. Slight potting to preliminary leaves. A very good copy. £950 "On February the fourteenth, 1890, I was born. Everybody was furious, especially my Father, who still is. As soon as I became conscious of anything I was furious too..." Nina Hamnett (14 February 1890 – 16 December 1956) was a Welsh artist and writer, became known as the Queen of Bohemia. The notorious occultist Aleister Crowley unsuccessfully sued her and the publisher for libel over allegations of black magic made in her book. Although she won the case, the situation profoundly affected her for the remainder of her life. Alcoholism would soon overtake her many talents and the tragic "Queen of the Fitzroy" spent a good part of the last few decades of her life at the bar, (usually that of the Fitzroy Tavern), trading anecdotes for drinks.

50.(Haslewood Books) Wadsworth (Edward). Sailing Ships and Barges of the Western Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas. A series of copper plates engraved in the line manner by Edward Wadsworth and coloured by hand, with an introduction and brief descriptions by Bernard Windeler. Large Imperial 8vo, pp.xv[1],81+ colophon, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald (‘The Haslewood Books'), London, 1926. One of 450 copies (this marked ‘Review’) printed on the rectos only in Koch Kursiv on Zanders handmade paper at the Curwen Press. Engraved extra title-page, 4 head and tailpieces (2 hand- coloured), 17 engravings of ships printed full-page (all but one hand-coloured) and a full-page engraved map, all by Edward Wadsworth. Quarter cream buckram, gilt-lettered on spine with gilt extra, scarlet cloth sides blocked in gold on the upper board, edges uncut. Neat ownership signature of Alan Moore. Grey paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy £750 'Sailing Ships' was Edward Wadsworth's only original book - and a great one. It is perhaps unique amongst English illustrated books of the twentieth-century insofar as it combines copper engravings with hand colouring. Alan Tucker supposes that the choice of typeface was the artist's and, given its harmony with the engravings, this may well be so. 51.Helvetius (Claude Adrien). De l'Esprit. First edition, 4to, pp.xxii, 643, [1], 26 cm., A Paris: Chez Durand, libraire, Rue Du Foin, 1758. Half-title, large woodcut floral ornament by Papillon on title. Some light spotting and staining, some scattered wormholes towards the end. Finely and newly bound by the Wyvern Bindery in quarter morocco with five raised bands marbled paper-covered sides, spine titled in gilt and gilt extra. Bookplate of J.S.L. Gilmour. "Burnt by Order" (later pencil inscription on front free endpaper). A very good bright copy. £495 The author's most controversial book: His militant utilitarianism, vilified by the Sorbonne, Louis, Dauphin de France and the Pope, led to copies being burnt by the public executioner. The author later retracted many of the book's basic tenets. Early issue, with M in the date directly above the second P and "Dicours" in head-lines of pp.67, 97, 179 & 237.

INCLINE PRESS BOOKS –‘FOR THE COLLECTOR WHO READS’

Incline Press, Oldham, founded 1994, is the private press of Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen. We have always loved his work, energy and the originality he brings to each new project. We have stocked every single book, each one brimful of ideas.

The following series of chapbooks are always a popular choice, making an excellent gift for yourself or for someone else and, (dare we say it?) a howling bargain. Currently in stock (all new copies):

52.Toad Poems. Illustrated by Alice Smith. Chequebook 8vo, 12p, Incline Press, n.d. Set in Linotype Baskerville and printed on Ingres handmade paper in black (title-page in black and green). Hand-coloured full-page illustration and another smaller (repeated on the cover). Sewn into oatmeal handmade paper wrappers, titled in black and red. £15

53.There is a Lady. The Song from 1607 and the reprise by Ralph Hodgson. Chequebook 8vo, 12p, Incline Press, (2011). Introduction by Graham Moss. Hand set in 12 point Poliphilus and Blado and printed on Zerkall paper. 6 Claud Lovat Fraser decorations printed from line blocks. Sewn into a stiff card cover with a printed label that wraps from back to front. The edition is of about 200 numbered copies. £15 This anonymous poem was first published as the lyric to one of Thomas Ford's simple arrangements for the solo voice. As a song and a poem it kept some currency: the poem was included in the Oxford Book of English Verse published to general acclaim in 1900 and the song retained its popularity as a parlour piece. During the years before the First World War Georgian poet Ralph Hodgson and his young friend Claud Lovat Fraser began writing and illustrating broadsheets and chapbooks for their popular Flying Fame series. After the war Flying Fame's concept of inexpensive chapbooks and broadsheets was appropriated by Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop which included 'There is a Lady' in its 'second series' of Poetry Bookshop Broadsheets with Lovat Fraser's illustrations.

54.Making Hay by Moonlight: Joe Harriott plays at Ronnie Scott’s. Written and illustrated by Jo Reed. Chequebook 8vo, accordion-fold, Incline Press, (2012). 217 x 110 mm, a leaf which is folded into five accordion panels. Linocut illustration by Jo Reed runs across three of them. Handset in Stephenson Blake Bodoni type and printed in black and blue on Zerkall paper. The edition is of almost 250 copies. £15 An accordion booklet in which Jo Reed's poem looks back fondly to nights spent at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the 1960s when she was drawn into the fine saxophone of Joe Harriott. He died young, but there is of course a boxed CD set and a single piece of film on Youtube for those who like jazz with music as well as words.

55.A Garland of Love Songs by Robert Burns. Chequebook 8vo, 12p, Incline Press, 2013. One of about 200 copies printed in Modern No.20 and Scotch on Velin Arches. Illustrated with old engravings, marked by time, printed in various colours. Sewn into plum handmade paper wrappers with title label. £15 Inspired by the Robert Holt collection of early 19th-century ballads at Chetham's Library, which, has a fair few songs by Robert Burns even though most of the broadsheets and song sheets were published in England. As you would imagine from sheets produced locally for local people the Scots Dialect which can make Burns' poems difficult has been 'Englished'. The five songs included in the Garland are: Red Red Rose, Corn Riggs, One Fond Kiss, John Anderson My Jo, and Fair Eliza.

56.Feathergill’s Donkey Brand, by Claire Robertson-Dwyer. Chequebook 8vo, 12p, Incline Press, 2014. Handset in 12 point Granby with Prism for the title, and printed on Hahnemühle paper. 1 line-block illustration repeated and two tipped-in donkey stone wrappers. Sewn into a printed card cover. The edition is of 160 unnumbered copies. £15 In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before so many forms of concrete became quite so common, brick built houses for industrial workers tended to have steps and sills made from local stone. They were kept clean and white (or at least a lighter grey!) by scrubbing them with a 'Donkey Stone'. Made from ground sandstone and bleach with a little cement powder to hold it all together, each stone was about the size of a bar of soap. Feathergill's was one of the most popular of these stones and its trade mark Donkey gave these bars their name. Claire’s poem captures the rhythm as well as the drudgery of this housewife's routine job

57.(Incline Press) Hollis (Matthew). Stones: A poem in 6 parts. Second printing, 8vo, 21cm, pp.[6], 7, colophon, Incline Press, Oldham, 2016. Set in Bembo and Delittle wood type and printed in black and brown on Zerkall paper. One of less than 400 copies. Engraved vignette of Blaveen on the Isle of Skye by Paul Kershaw. Sewn into stone paper wrappers printed in two shades of brown. Acetate envelope. A new copy £12 Matthew Hollis is Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber. The poem was read on Radio 4 on 4.xii.2016.

58.(Incline Press) Theroux (Marcel). The Christmas Pudding. 8vo, 21cm, 8p, 2019: To Greet the New Year, Incline Press & Bracketpress. Set in a digital face based on Miller & Richard's No.7 and printed on handmade paper. Illustrations (with some hand colouring) by Alice Smith. This one of the 125 (total edition 450) copies issued by Incline Press. Sewn into pictorial card covers, titled in black. A fine copy. £15 Marcel’s short story about a RAF mechanic surviving as a POW in the Thai jungle. His idea: to make a Christmas pudding from their rations and other foraged bits and pieces in order to raise moral. The result: an unforgettable Christmas day. 59.(Incline Press) Burns (Robert). To a Mouse: On turning her up in her nest with the plough, November 1785. An edition for those who would read without faking a Scottish accent. 4to, 30cm, 8pp French-folded (Graham Moss & Kathy Whalen) Incline Press, Oldham, 2019. Set in Juliana, with editorial interjections in Stern and Duensing Titling. One of 72 copies printed in black (the title-page in red and black) on handmade India paper. Sewn into overlapping grey handmade paper wrappers with title label superimposed. Marbled paper folder by Jemma Lewis, rust cloth back. A fine copy. £60 Every year Burns’ Night will find us around the dining room table with a vegetarian haggis, neeps and tatties, and plenty of Scotch whisky. As the ice caps melt, the forests burn, and the land floods we think the words "I’m truely sorry man’s dominion has broken nature’s social union" is eerily prescient.

60.(Incline Press) Rants, Whispers & Cries. Thinking of Peterloo. Narrow 8vo, 27cm, 16p + insert, (Graham Moss & Kathy Whalen) Oldham, 2019 One of about 200 copies printed on blue paper sewn into brown paper wrappers, titled and decorated in black. Illustration, based on an 1819 image and lettering, by the Manchester calligrapher Stephen Raw. A fine copy. £15 Published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Peterloo, the text consists of Shelley's Condition of England in 1819 with the poem Rants, Whispers and Cries by Manchester Cathedral Poet-in-Residence Andrew Rudd.

61.(Jones) Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. With ten engravings on copper by David Jones. [With a note by Douglas Cleverdon.] Super Royal 4to, pp.[viii],37, colophon + inserted plates, printed for Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol, at the Fanfare Press, London, 1929. One of 400 (470) copies handset in Frederic Warde's Arrighi type (with marginal notes in Norstedt's eighteenth-century type), printed under the direction of Stanley Morison on hand- made paper. Head- and tailpiece, 8 full-page copper engravings printed blue-grey by Walter Colls. Quarter white linen buckram, titled in gilt up the spine, green paper sides, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Spine slightly soiled, corners rubbed, endpapers a bit browned. SOLD The plates were printed leaving a thin film of ink over the plate area, partly (in Jones' words) as an aid to the unification of these essentially linear designs. The text was printed four pages at a time due to the small quantity of Arrighi available; it matches the calligraphic quality of the engravings admirably. One of the outstanding inter-war books. (Appleton 280)

62.(Kelmscott Press) The Nature of Gothic: A Chapter of the Stones of Venice. By John Ruskin. With a preface by William Morris. Foolscap 4to, 20cm, pp.v + 127 + colophon, Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press and Sold by George Allen, London, March 1892. Set in Golden type and printed on Batchelor s handmade paper watermarked with a primrose between the initials W.M. Woodcut borders, initials and press-marks (twice) cut by William Morris and printed in black. One of only 500 copies on paper. Bound in stiff vellum with yapp edges and green silk ties (all intact), spine titled in gilt. Small armorial bookplate. A near fine copy of this early Kelmscott. £1,750 This, the most famous of all modern Hand-Presses was founded by William Morris at 16 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, the first trial-page being set up and printed on January 31st, 1891. He designed three typefaces, mostly based on Jenson (1470s) and the books were printed with immense care and skill. In 1896, the year of his death, he produced the Kelmscott Chaucer, with its 87 woodcuts by Edward Burne-Jones - still regarded as the finest book ever printed in England. 63.(Kelmscott Press) Syr Perecyvelle of Gales. [Overseen by F.S.Ellis, after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell from the MS in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral.] 8vo, 21cm, pp.[iv] + 98 (including colophon), Printed by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, February 1895. Set in Chaucer type and printed in red and black on Batchelor's 'Flower' handmade paper. One of 350 copies (plus 8 on vellum). Woodcut frontispiece by Edward Burne-Jones, elaborate wide border on frontispiece and first page of text, one page with half-border, decorative woodcut initials, device in colophon. Original holland-backed blue paper-covered boards, titled in black on the front. Front flyleaf with a faint and neat presentation inscription to "Mary M. Clark, 4 March 1897, Paris from Mary Johnston [?]" A near fine copy. £2,250 This volume like 'Sire Degrevaunt' (A47) and Syr Ysambrance (A48) was based on the text of The Thornton Romances: The Early English Romances of Perceval, Isumbras, Eglamour, and Degravant, edited by James Halliwell (Camden Society, 1844) - a favourite with Mr Morris from his Oxford Days', according to Cockerell. (Peterson A33)

64.(Lake District, Manchester & elsewhere.) Skemp (Hettie, of Sunny side, Worsley, Manchester, & later 31 Hopwood Avenue, Eccles, married William K Dawson) Recollections and diary, autograph manuscript, 4to, 119pp. Excluding blanks, slightly browned, original half morocco, slightly rubbed, 4to, 26th January 1891- 23rd February 96. Lake District 4th May, 1891. “Here I am at the ‘Swan Hotel’ Newby Bridge, staying here with Uncle William.... . We got a conveyance to Lak[e]side, where we got a steamer from one end to the other of the Lake... I went in the cabin part of the time. We had a ¼ of an hour at Ambleside where we had a cup of tea. We went back by the steamer as far as the ferry. We went for a lovely drive, we passed Esthwaite Water, & Blelham Tarn & had a peep at Ambleside, besides a lovely mountain view. In the morn we went to the ‘Bowder Stone’, in the aft... went to see ‘Lodore’ we afterwards went on, into see a wood & saw another little waterfall, a very peculiar one, as it sinks into the earth & gets lost: Uncle calls it ‘The Lost Chord’.” 13th May 1891. “We went by the first train to Keswick Station... & went to Bassenthwaite ... got into a boat, & were pulled for two miles on the lake. We arrived at Keswick, & got into the conveyance... & then had a lovely drive, right round the other side of Derwentwater.” 14th June 1893. “... I went up Helvellyn, it was a hard climb but we did enjoy it; the view from the top was lovely. We had a lot of boating & I learnt row with two oars. In the morning Will & I got up before 6.0. and were on the lake at 6.40... .” A lively account of the life of Hettie Skemp, written in the 1890s, but starting in 1873 and ending with the beginning of her married life in 1896. Skemp records living on the outskirts of Manchester and incorporating holidays in the Lake District, Cheltenham, Colwyn Bay and the Mumbles. Much of the diary includes her family (including an uncle sent to prison for three months for embezzlement, and another uncle, Asaph, who was declared insane and sent to an asylum), and her fights with her stepmother, “she told me, ‘I was a bad naughty girl & a constant source of trouble & annoyance. Also that the sooner I left home the better, she for one, would be very glad”. Much of the diary concerns Hettie’s courtship from her teenage years by her boyfriend and subsequent husband, William K Dawson. She records married life at the age of 23, “I have lost my best of presents”, settling into her own house, buying a piano and a puppy, and becoming pregnant. £300 65.Loos (Anita). Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady. Intimately Illustrated by Ralph Barton. First edition, 8vo, 21cm, Half-title + 217p, London: Brentano's, Ltd. Publishers, 1926. One of 1,000 copies signed by the author. Frontispiece, 7 other full-page reproductions and 25 other illustrations within the text. Blue balloon linen, pictorial gilt on the front cover, gilt spine titling (dulled) and all edges gilt. Lacks dust-jacket. Endpapers just a little toned. A very good to fine copy. £200 “A kiss on the hand may make you feel very nice, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.” (Lorelei Lee) Edith Wharton declared Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as "the great American novel" as the character of Lorelei Lee embodied the avarice, frivolity, and immoderation that characterized 1920s America. - James Joyce stated that - even though his eyesight was failing him - he "reclined on a sofa reading Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for three days" while taking a break from writing Finnegan’s Wake.

66.[McCoy (John)], "The Lord Commissioner". A Prophetic Romance: Mars to Earth. First edition, 20cm, pp.283, Boston: Arena Publishing Company, Copley Square, 1896. Ex-library with label and ink-stamp to front endpapers, a little soiling (pp.14-19), cracked hinges, original olive cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities. The label and stamp are of Pony Public Library, Montana. Pony was a prosperous gold-mining town, which is now a ghost town. A very good copy. £350 An early American science-fiction novel, imagining humanoid Martians visiting a utopian America, which is run by a female President.

67.(Malaprop Press) Forster (Peter). Election Lights. Chequebook 8vo, pp.[8], (Peter Forster) The Malaprop Press, London, 1987. "Set in 10pt Bell in an unnumbered Christmas edition of quite a lot, printed (not all that well) on Wiggins Teape.The de luxe Boxing Day edition, printed (not all that badly) on Goatskin numbering a tidy few. This copy is from one edition or the other." Illustrated with 5 wood engravings (in several colours) by Peter Forster, mostly depicting Margaret Thatcher in an unflattering manner. Sewn into printed blue Union Jack wrappers. A fine copy. £80 Superb engravings combine with a fine ironic text to make Conservative Central Office seethe and a good thing too! Inscribed by Peter Foster.

68.(Midnight Paper Sales) Logue (Mary). A House in the Country. With engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Royal 8vo, pp.65[5], Midnight Paper Sales, Minneapolis-Stockholm, 1994. One of 200 (250) copies printed in Walbaum with mauve Balle initials on Zerkall paper and signed by both author and artist/printer. Title-page wood engraving in grey and Illustrated with 4 full-page colour wood engravings. Blue Japanese cloth boards with grey cloth spine and printed label. A fine copy. £240

69.(Minton) Ross (Alan). Time Was Away: A Notebook in Corsica. Illustrated by John Minton. Demy 8vo, pp.189[1] + plates, John Lehmann, London, 1948. 8 full-page illustrations in colours inserted into the text; other illustrations in line within the text, 46 full-page and 40 smaller. Typography and covers by Keith Vaughan. Second issue binding of yellow cloth, titled in green, pictorial dust-jacket chipped with some repairs. A very good copy. £350 First edition. 'The book was written by Ross who was not only a close friend but had a flat in the same house as Minton and [Keith] Vaughan. In Hamilton Terrace. At Lehmann's suggestion and expense Ross and Minton went to Corsica and produced a notebook of their travels in the brief three weeks they were there. The drawings recall the sultriness and languor, the sticky heat, the encrustation and neglect of this incredibly beautiful island. There is something of the excitement of the young Boswell who visited the island 200 years before, and something of the melancholia of Edward Lear who travelled in Corsica a century later.' (Rigby Graham)

70.(Nonesuch Press) The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper and a portion of her cipher journal. Edited by her great-grandson the late Bartle Grant with a portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. Written 1756-1770 and never before printed. Demy 8vo, pp.[viii],96, Nonesuch Press, Soho [London], 1924. One of 850 copies printed at the Kynoch Press on wove paper. Duncan Grant's illustrations printed from line blocks. Peacock blue buckram with bevelled sides, spine lettered in gilt, edges uncut. Printed dust-jacket, slightly chipped. A very good copy indeed. £80 The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper was announced in the 1924 Prospectus: 'Elizabeth Raper tells in this book not only how she cooked in a remarkably varied, rich, delicate and largely lost fashion, but also how she philandered, learned Euclid and papered the stairs.' (Dreyfus 18)

71.(Nonesuch Press) Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). Don Quixote de la Mancha. Motteux translation revised anew & corrected, rectified and filled up in numberless places by J. Ozell, who likewise added the explanatory notes from the best editions in English & Spanish. Reprinted with twenty-one illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer. 2 vols., 8vo, pp.ix[1],501 + 11 plates & pp.vi,548 + 10 plates, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. Number 645 of 1,475 sets printed on thin hand-made paper at Cambridge University Press. Hand-engraved Goudy titling on the title-page in terracotta. 21 full-page illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer hand-coloured by pochoir at the Curwen Press. Full natural morocco, maroon leather spine labels titled in gilt, all edges uncut, t.e.g. Boards slightly spotted, spines unevenly darkened. Marbled paper slipcase rubbed. A very good set. £300

72.(Nonesuch Press) The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson, with Love and Truth & miscellaneous writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 8vo, pp.[x],631, + insets, The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1929. Number 1162 of 1,600 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper. 6 copper engravings by Charles Sigrist and 10 drawings of fish by T.L.Poulton stencilled in colours at the Curwen Press. Full natural morocco with marbled endpapers, gilt spine lettering, upper board stamped in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Edges of slipcase smoothed. Else a fine copy. £220

73.(Nonesuch Press) Lowinsky (Ruth). Lovely Food. A Cookery Notebook with table decorations invented & drawn by Thomas Lowinsky. Demy 8vo, pp.127, The Nonesuch Press, 16 Great James Street, London, 1931. Number 89 of 500 copies set in Caslon and SB Open and printed on Batchelor Kelmscott handmade paper at the Fanfare Press. 10 full-page drawings and one smaller, plus a decoration on the title-page, by Thomas Lowinsky. Quarter brown buckram gold-blocked with roundels on both edges of the spine, brick-red cloth sides, gilt spine titling, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Dust-jacket (not usually present) a bit chipped at extremities. A very good copy indeed. £300 "The menus and recipes in this book are all cuisines bourgeoise of rather a high order." I think this book is best described as “suggestions for a hostess”. There was also an unlimited edition on machine made paper. (Dreyfus 79, Myers 14)

74.(Nonesuch Press) The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne. Selected and edited with an introduction by H.J. Massingham. With wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Two vols., 26cm, super royal 8vo, pp.xxx,311 + map & pp.viii,356 + fold-out map, Nonesuch Press, London, 1938. Number 121 of 850 sets printed in Times New Roman on fine wove paper. Title-pages and 36 other wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Grey buckram by Leighton-Straker, lettered in gilt on the spines, elaborately panelled in gilt with designs of birds, flowers, etc., gold tops, others uncut, gilt designs by Eric Ravilious blocked on the front covers. Marbled paper-covered slipcase a little rubbed otherwise, a fine set. £1,200

75.(Officina Bodoni) The Holy Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. [With a postscript by Giovanni Mardersteig.] Folio, 30.5cm, pp.370 + colophon, Officina Bodoni, Verona, July 1962. Set in 16 and 14 point Zeno roman, 30 point for titles and 60 point for initials. One of 320 copies on Magnani mould-made paper, The Authorized or King James version of the Bible, with a wood-engraved title-page by Reynolds Stone and 114 woodcuts from the Epistole et Evangelii, Florence, 1495, newly cut for this edition by Bruno Bramanti (except 8, cut after his death by Italo Zetti). Dark red oasis morocco with title and ornament on front cover in gold. Lacks slipcase, else a fine copy. £2,250

76.Paynter (Hilary) & Paul Kershaw. Two by two: a Noah's Ark. Essays by Hilary Paynter and Paul L. Kershaw. With 51 wood-engravings by Members of the Society of Wood Engravers, plus two tipped-in reproductions of images of Noah's Ark. 2 vols. (total 38 leaves), 160 X 160mm, Printed by Paul Kershaw, Altvaid, Isle of Skye. Published by the Society of Wood Engravers, Richmond, 2003. Text set in Perpetua and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Number 80 of 178 (185) copies with the two volumes bound side-by-side (with a common lower board) in quarter dark blue buckram with Ann Muir marbled paper-covered boards, in a cloth chemise, spine label. A fine copy. £300 Contributors include: Monica Poole, John Lawrence, Gerard Brander a Brandis, Linda Holmes, Miriam Macgregor, Ann Tout, Howard Phipps, Sarah van Niekerk, Yvonne Skargon, George Tute - and many others.

77.(Penmiel Press) A Psalm of David: the twenty third psalm. [With a wood-engraved device on the title-page by Diana Bloomfield.] 8vo, [12]pp., (Edward Burrett) The Penmiel Press, Full Point, New Road, Esher, Christmas 1974. Number 20 of about 20 specially bound copies, of an edition of 50 all printed in black on John Mason's 12 X 8 pink hand-made paper, signed by the printer. Full goatskin vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, elaborately blocked in gold on the front, endpapers printed in red and brown to a design by Anne Burrett. Fine in slightly stained slipcase. £150 Handset in Monotype Baskerville and Perpetua Titling. The first book from the press. This copy is inscribed by Edward Burrett to his son. Penmiel Press was founded by Edward Burrett, typographer, upon his retirement. The name derives from elements of his daughter’s, son’s and wife’s names: Penelope, Michael and Elizabeth. Despite a good output, it remains one of the less collected of English presses – and yet, how good the ‘Scriptural Texts’ series looks when put together.

78.(Penmiel Press) Eleven Chinese proverbs, translated by William Scarborough. With 11 drawings (one used twice) by Clarke Hutton. 8vo, 29p, (Edward Burrett) Penmiel Press, Esher, 1976. Handset in Monotype Baskerville, Perpetua Titling and Bodoni Heavy Condensed. One of 50 numbered copies, signed by the artist and the printer, printed in black and various colours on John Mason's 12 X 8 hand-made papers, damped before printing, on a Victoria platen press. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in multi-coloured Chinese oiled paper, with a leather label, blocked with title in gold. Card slipcase a little stained, else a fine copy. £100 With an inscription in Edward Burrett's hand.

79.(Penmiel Press) Now Faith is the Substance of Things Hoped For. The Eleventh Chapter of Hebrews (Verse One). 8vo, 16cm, [4]p, Designed and printed by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press, Esher, (1976). One of only 25 copies printed in black and green on John Mason hand made paper. Wood- engraved title vignette by Diana Bloomfield. Sewn into decorative cover paper by Legatoria Piazzesi of Venice. A fine copy. £40

80.(Penmiel Press) Towle (Tim). The Seven Deadly Sins. With seven silk screen illustrations by Clarke Hutton. Crown 4to, 23p, (Edward Burrett) Pemiel Press, Esher, 1980. Handset in Monotype Gill Sans. Number 3 of 70 copies, signed by author, artist and printer, printed in black on six contrasting coloured boards, by Keays. Bound in black cloth blocked on the front with the title in silver and a small cross printed in black. Glassine dust-jacket. A fine copy. £50

81.(Penmiel Press) Caroll (Lewis). Eight or nine wise words about letter writing. 8vo, 12p, (Edwarrd Burrett) Penmiel Press, Esher, 1981. Text set in Monotype Baskerville. One of 75 copies printed in black (with type ornaments in green) on Dene Mill hand-made paper. Sewn into paper wrappers by Legatoria Piazzesi of Venice with ornamental title label superimposed on the front cover. A fine copy. £85 Contains excellent advice on how to write a letter.

82.(Penmiel Press) The Beatitudes. [New Testament, Matthew Chapter 5, Christ's Sermon on the Mount. With two drawings by Edward Burrett and stock-blocks from C. Morton's New Ornament book of 1870.] Foolscap 4to, 24pp, Designed and printed by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press, Esher, for Private Circulation, 1984. Text set in Monotype Baskerville. One of 65 copies printed in blue (the illustrations in several colours) on John Mason's hand-made paper. Full mauve morocco, ornately gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Lacking slipcase, but else fine in the original glassine wrapper. £140 If one were to select, rather than collect, Penmiel Press, this would be the book to choose.

83.(Penmiel Press) Proverbs and paper-cuts from China. Edited by Edward Burrett. With 11 illustrations by Clarke Hutton and 16 original Chinese paper-cuts tipped-in. 4to, 32p, (Edward Burrett) Penmiel Press, Esher, 1986. Set in Monotype Baskerville, Perpetua and Bembo. One of 100 copies printed on three shades of G.F. Smith Strathmore paper and signed by the printer/editor. Bound in boards with laminated cover by Clarke Hutton. Maroon card slipcase. A fine copy. £85 An astonishing variety of paper-cuts, produced in the People's Republic of China, which vary from copy to copy.

84.(Penmiel Press) Xmas Present for Christmas. An Anthology of Words and Pictures that give Comfort-and-Joy. Edited by Cy Olney. 8vo, 24cm, pp.30 + colophon, Specially designed & printed for the Time-of-Giving by the Penmiel Press, Esher, Surrey, 1986. Printed in red and black on Basingwerk Parchment using Monotype Baskerville and Linotype Pilgrim. One of 65 copies signed by Edward Burrett. 44 illustrations by various artists, some coloured in pink, red or blue. Sewn into decorative silver paper wrappers with label printed in green superimposed on the front cover. A very good to fine copy. £45 Inscribed by Edward Burrett to his son and grandsons.

85.(Penmiel Press) Eighty - Not Out. An interview, broadcast by the BBC, between Cliff Morgan and E.W. Swanton, O.B.E., recording his eightieth birthday on 12th February 1987. 8vo, 16pp. (including colophon), The Penmiel Press, Esher, Surrey, 1987. Number 13 of 110 copies handset in Linotype Pilgrim and Monotype Baskerville, printed in green and black on Basingwerk Parchment, and signed by the printer. With one wood-engraving by Eric Ravilious (by line-block from Wisden) and one by Diana Bloomfield, three drawings by Edward Burrett and a half-tone portrait. Sewn with green thread into Ingres marbled paper covers, title label superimposed on the front. A fine copy. £70 Printed as a tribute to the famous cricket commentator.

86.(Penmiel Press) 'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills'. 121st Psalm from the Authorised Version of the Bible. With a drawing by Albrecht Durer, a wood-engraving Diana Bloomfield and a silk-screen cover design by Anne Lain. 8vo, 8pp, Designed and printed letterpress by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press, Esher, 1987. Text set in Monotype Baskerville. One of just 30 copies printed in red and black on Barcham Green Ian Badger mould-made paper, sewn into decorative covers. A fine copy. £50 No.4 in a series of 'Scriptural Texts' printed as Keepsakes. Oddly, this title is given as appearing in 1983 in the Penmiel Press checklist. 87.(Penmiel Press) 'Seek ye the Lord'. Isaiah 55: 6-12, from the Authorised Bible. With three illustrations by Clarke Hutton and two Chinese paper-cuts. Small folio, 8pp, Designed & printed letterpess by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press, Esher, Summer 1987. Text set in Monotype Baskerville. One of 50 copies printed in black and red (with the paper-cuts in many colours) on Barcham Green Langley hand-made paper, sewn into black Strathmore cover boards decorated in blind. A fine copy. £50 No.5 in a series of 'Scriptural Texts' printed as Keepsakes.

88.(Penmiel Press) 'Down to the sea in ships'. Psalm 107: 23-31, from the Authorised Version of the Bible. With 11 illustrations by Diana Bloomfield. Royal 8vo, 12p, Designed and printed by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press, Full Point, Esher, 1987. Text set in Monotype Baskerville. One of 50 copies printed in black and blue (the illustrations all in blue) on Barcham Green Chilham hand-made paper. Sewn into Malmarque paper boards, titled in black and blue. With an inscription in Edward Burrett's hand. A fine copy. £50 No.6 in a series of 'Scriptural Texts' printed as Keepsakes.

89.(Penmiel Press) The Sensitive Plant, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. With five drawings by Clarke Hutton, printed by the artist. Foolscap 4to, 37p, (Edward Burrett) The Penmiel Press, Esher, 1989. Text set in Monotype Garamond. One of just 65 copies printed in black (the illustrations in many colours) on hand-made paper with watermark, dated 1804. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece. Bound in Curwen paper-covered boards, titled in black, in a slipcase. A fine copy, with an inscription in Edward Burrett's hand. £100 In 1989 Edward Burret discovered a small quantity of paper watermarked 1804: the idea of printing a piece of literature belonging to that period led him to Shelley's 'The Sensitive Plant' written in 1820. To illustrate any poem is a hazardous undertaking but Burrett's idea was that an abstract design leaves the reader free to interpret both text and drawings to his own understanding.

90.(Perpetua Press) Bell (John). Mutiny on the Bembo. 8vo, 22cm, 11 leaves all but one printed on one side only, Vivian Ridler, The Perpetua Press, Oxford, 1984. Set in 14 point Bembo. One of 200 copies printed on cream wove paper. Two illustrations. Card covers with pictorial papers wrappers. A fine copy. £40 One of a number of copies presented to the Double Crown Club.

91.(Perpetua Press) Brown (George Mackay). Christmas Stories. With five wood-engravings by John Lawrence. Crown 4to, 28pp, (Vivian Ridler) Perpetua Press, Oxford, 1985. Number 11 of 150 (650) copies printed on Zerkall paper, signed by the author, illustrator and printer and specially bound in paper-covered boards with a red buckram spine. A fine copy. £200

92.(Prospero Poets) Cope (Wendy). The Squirrel & the Crow with line drawings by John Vernon Lord. 8vo, [16]p +extra plate, Prospero Poets, Clarion Publishing, 1994. Set in Palatino, printed litho at Didcot Press in black on mould-made paper. One of 99 (499) special copies signed by the author and artist with an additional signed illustration by John Vernon Lord loosely inserted at the rear. Grey paper-covered boards with a design of flowers. A fine copy. £50 93.(Prospero Poets) Duffy (Carol Ann). Meeting Tonight: Three Young poems, with drawings by Quentin Blake. 8vo, [10]pp. Prospero Poets, Clarion Publishing, Holybourne, Alton, 1995. Printed litho by the Didcot Press on Bockingford paper. 8 drawings. Number 28 of 149 (499) copies signed by the poet and artist with an additional lithograph loosely inserted at the rear, also signed by the artist.Pink pictorial boards, titled in black. A fine copy. £80

94.(Prospero Poets) Hughes (Ted). Football. Broadside, first edition, 30cm, Trevor Weston, Prospero Poets, Clarion Publishing, Holybourne, 1995. 36-line broadside poem by Ted Hughes illustrated with two watercolours by Chris Battye, signed by the artist and poet and suitable for framing. A fine copy. £50 [By hand on verso:] " This poem was commissioned from Ted Hughes in 1995 as No.9 in Clarion Publishing's 'Prospero poets' series. This addendum version on card, signed by Ted and Chris Battye, the illustrator, was intended to be suitable for framing and is No.62 of 75 copies. Trevor Weston."

95.(Ranelagh Editions) McGrandle (Leith, editor). Europe: The Quest for Unity; Speeches and Writings. Foreword by Lord Gladwyn. Folio, XXIII,[1],86,[4]p., [London : Published in England by Ranelagh Editions Limited. 770 Fulham Road. London 1975]. Designed by Giovanni and Martino Mardersteig. The text, set in Bembo type, was printed by the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, on paper specially made by Cartiere Magnani in Pescia. One of 475 copies with a frontispiece hand-printed at the Officina Bodoni, signed by the Pietro Annigoni. Fine full scarlet morocco, gold top, by A.J. Brazier, tooled, titled and decorated in gilt. Marbled paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy £200 This volume celebrates and commemorates the enlargement of the European Communities and the entry into them of the United Kingdom and some of her partners in the European Free Trade Association by reproducing the more important declarations regarding 'Europe' of great leaders in all our countries over the years. texts by Churchill, Kennedy, Adenauer, Macmillan, Brandt, Madariaga, and many others.

96.Raspe (Richard). The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Illustrated with five woodcuts by G. Cruikshank, and twenty-two full-page curious engravings. 8vo, 19cm, pp.xvi,268 + plates, 4 ads, London: William Tegg, 1868. Hand-coloured frontispiece, 22 full-page or double-page engravings, woodcuts by Cruikshank and decorative initials and head-and tailpiece. Full blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, spine titled in gilt, grey endpapers, top and tail of spine a bit worn, likewise bottom corners. Generally, a very good bright copy. £120 Copies were issued coloured and uncoloured. The five woodcuts by Cruikshank had been previously used in other works. This state was first issued in 1867 and subsequently in 1869.

97.(Ravilious) Armstrong (Martin). Desert, a Legend. Woodcuts by E. Ravilous. First edition, 8vo, pp.252, Jonathan Cape, London, 1926. De luxe issue, being number 2 of 100 copies on handmade paper, signed by the author. 3 full- page and 31 smaller wood engravings by Eric Ravilous. Green cloth, gilt, spine gilt, pictorial printed dust-jacket with two repeat engravings. Spine of dust-jacket just slightly darkened, one chip (no loss) to front panel. A very good copy indeed £550 The artist's first commission from a publisher. The printing, whilst still superior to that of the American edition, is poor - the engravings being heavily over-inked - although the appearance is much better in this handmade paper edition. 98.(Ravilious) Heath (Ambrose). The Country Life Cookery Book with a few hints and reminders about the kitchen garden. Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. First edition, demy 8vo, pp.253[1], London: Country Life Limited, 1937. Printed on good quality wove paper at the Curwen Press. Title-page vignette and 12 other half- page wood engravings (one being a repeat). Red cloth, titled in white on the spine and upper board. Pink printed dust-jacket with an additional wood engraving by the artist. Dust-jacket a bit r ubbed and soiled, but generally very good. £350

99.(Reading Room Press) Tessimond (A.S.J.). Night Club Girl: Six new poems and a letter to Beatrice Warde. Illustrated by Simon Brett. Royal 8vo, 32pp, The Reading Room Press, Quenington, 2011. Set in Melior, Palatino, Festival and Monotype Typewriter and printed on Zerkall paper. Title- page in red and black. Illustrated with two wood-engravings by Simon Brett, the smaller being a likeness of Miss Zena Dare, the artist's grandmother. Quarter grey cloth with maroon spine titling, pink and grey pictorial boards, titled in dark red. A fine copy. £85

100.(Richter) The Sonnets of William Shakespeare. Nine etchings by Marina Richter. 4to, 29.5cm, 153p + colophon, (Vladimir Benes) The Bonaventura Publishing House, Prague, 1997. Handset in Aldine Bembo and printed in sepia and black on Excudit special paper. One of 120 copies with each full-page etching signed by the artist. Sewn into sections, contained within a brown and grey papr-covered chemise with brown silk ties. A fine copy. £280

BARBARA ROBERTSON 1945 – 2018

Barbara Robertson was a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. She chose Printmaking as her medium, specifically Linocut, and she was a superb printmaker, sensitive, observant, full of humour and wonderfully skilled, creating technically sophisticated, complex linocuts.She had a marvellous visual imagination and a mischievous wit which are beautifully expressed in her exceptional prints. Cats, hens, sheep and other animals make regular appearances in her work; she also portrayed the landscape of the Angus countryside where she lived. Her prints are strictly limited to small editions making them appealing to collectors. I have brought a few along to the FHS Christmas fair in the hope that they may also appeal to young collectors. If you like her style, we have others in stock.

101A. “Sleepwalker” by Barbara Robertson. Colour linocut, image size 16 X 6.5cm, numbered 7/10, signed, dated ’82, and titled by the artist. Mounted, with the artist’s printed label on verso. Fine condition. £40 101B. “Living and Growing” by B. Robertson. Colour linocut, image size 14.5 X 8cm, numbered 4/9, signed, titled and dated ’83 by the artist. Mounted with the artist’s printed label on verso. Fine condition. £40 101C. “Silk Sea”, by Barbara Robertson. Colour linocut, image size 10.5 X 11.5cm, numbered 2/6, signed, titled and dated ’83 by the artist. Fine condition. £42 101D “Unicorn Dream” by Barbara Robertson. Colour linocut, image size 15.5 X 11.5cm, not numbered but titled, signed and dated ’84 by the artist. Silver mount. Fine condition. £75 101E “Hen Chaos” Colour linocut, image size 20 X 9cm, numbered 8/10, titled, initialled and dated ’90 by the artist. Fine in mount. £50

102.(Rowlandson) The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: A poem, by the author of the three tours [William Combe]. [Illustrated with 24 hand- coloured aquatints by William Rowlandson.] First edition, 8vo, 25cm, [4], 268p, 24 aquatints, London: Published by R. Ackerman, At the Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, 1822. Original pink cloth, grained and decorated in blind, spine ruled and titled in gilt, gold top, other edges uncut, yellow endpapers, armorial bookplate of Hon. John Wayland Leslie. Just slightly rubbed at extremities, but a very good to fine copy. £650 "In 1822 Ackermann produced The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the little Foundling of the late Fr. Syntax. The text by Combe was illustrated with twenty-four coloured aquatints by Rowlandson. The introduction gives the best clue to the nature of the contents: 'The Favor which has been bestowed on the different tours of Dr. Syntax has encouraged the writer of them to give a 'History of the Foundling,' who has been thought an interesting object in the latter of these volumes, and it is written in the same style and manner with a view to connect it with them. This child of chance, it is presumed, is led through a track of life not unsuited to the peculiarity of his condition and character, while its varieties, as in the former works, are represented by the pencil of Mr. Rowlandson with its characteristic felicity. The idea of an English Gil Blas predominated through the whole of the volume" (Hardie).

103.(Sandwiches) Grosley (Pierre Jean) A Tour to London; or, New Observations on England, and its Inhabitants, translated by Thomas Nugent, 2 vol., first English edition, advertisement leaf at end of vol.1, browned, some soiling, Z5 in vol.1 torn and repaired, ex-library copy with a few small ink stamps to title and preliminaries but none to text, modern half, 8vo, for Lockyer Davis, 1772. Good condition. £200 A Frenchman's observations of England and the English having spent a year living in London. It reputedly includes the first mention of the sandwich in print: "A minister of state passed four and twenty hours at a public gaming-table, so absorpt in play, that, during the whole time, he had no subsistence but a bit of beef, between two slices of toasted bread, which he eat without ever quitting the game. This new dish grew highly in vogue, during my residence in London; it was called by the name of the minister, who invented it." vol.1 p.149.

104.(Small School) Learning by Heart: an anthology edited by Satish Kumar; with drawings by Truda Lane. [Introduction by Leopold Kohr.] Oblong 4to, [68]p., 20 x 28cm., The Small School, Hartland, Bideford, Devon, 1986. Illustrated with 17 small and 17 full-page drawings. Number 41 of 175 copies handprinted on Zerkall paper at Five Seasons Press, Hereford. Bound at Woolnough Find Bindings in handwoven Indian silk specially selected in the market of Lucknow. Spine titled in brown, silk slipcase. A fine copy. £60 The title is taken from the first poem, by Kathleen Raine. The anthology is a well-chosen series of poems on school life.

105(Stanbrook Abbey Press) Christmas Lyrics: Fifteenth Century. Large Post 8vo, pp.vi,30, The Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, 1957. [Second printing, one of 400 copies.] Handset in Perpetua and printed in red and black on W.S. Hodgkinson hand-made paper. One hand-drawn initial in burnished gold and 14 in red, blue and green by Margaret Adams. Full white limp parchment with silk bands laced through the covers, titled in gilt up the spine, paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy. £250 The first book with initials by Margaret Adams. The fifteen carols and poems were taken from manuscripts in the British Library. (Butcher A2) The Stanbrook Abbey Press was at one time the oldest private press in England, and acquired an international reputation for fine printing under Dames Hildelith Cumming and Felicitas Corrigan. Cumming, printer for the Abbey from 1956 to 1991, is considered responsible for earning the Stanbrook Abbey Press a reputation as a great private press. Many celebrated printers, bookbinders, and artists have been associated with the Stanbrook Abbey Press over the years, including Sydney Cockerell, Jan van Krimpen and John Dreyfus. It is a closed community of Benedictine nuns.

106.(Stanbrook Abbey Press) Maritain (Raissa), Arbre Patriarche - Patriarch Tree: Thirty Poems in French with an English Translation by a Benedictine of Stanbrook. Preface by Robert Speaight. Demy 4to, pp.xxii,86 + colophon, Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, 1965. Number 199 of 500 (550) standard copies with the title-pages printed in burgundy and black. Handset in Romanee and printed on Barcham Green paper. Lithographed portrait. Title devices by Margaret Adams. Quarter bound in black morocco, spine gilt, white Japanese paper-covered boards with stencil-dyed tree patterns in black and red, gold fillets at the junction of leather and paper. Olive-green Japanese endpapers, gold top, other edges uncut. Rust-red Japanese hand- made paper slipcase. A fine copy. £170

107.(Stanbrook Abbey Press) Earnest-pennies: An Anthology of Prayers and Meditations on the Holy Eucharist. Compiled by Philip Martin, Chancellor of Wells. Medium 8vo, pp.xix[1],101 + colophon, Mowbrays, London & Oxford, 1973. Set in Monotype Spectrum, with a hand-gilded initial by Margaret Adams. Number 26 of 75 (1,080) copies, initialled by the printer, printed in black, red and green on Barcham Green hand- made paper (this being one of forty on 'Eltham' handmade).. Bound by George Percival, Leicester, in quarter dark green morocco with bevelled boards covered in a light green Japanese silk, lettered in gold on the spine, with a device by Margaret Adams blocked in gold on the front cover, gilt top, others uncut. White slipcase. A fine copy. £500 Printed for A.R. Mowbray & Co.; distributed by the Stanbrook Abbey Press. (Butcher B20a)

108.(Strawberry Press) Roberts (Carolyn). An evening with Philip Larkin. With 5 scraper-board designs by Sharon Julie Pipe and a linocut frontispiece by Carolyn Roberts. Crown 4to, 23p, (Paul Nash & Alison Felstead) Stawberry Press, London, 1992. Text set in 14 point Kennerley. 36 (37) copies printed in red and black on Zerkall mould-made paper, this being one of 26 copies bound in blue Thai paper wrappers, printed label superimposed on the front cover. Slightly faded. A very good copy. £50

109.(Strawberry Press) The Lord of the Dance, by Helen Pipe. With a wood-engraving by Paul W. Nash. 24mo, 15pp, (Paul Nash & Alison Felstead) The Strawberry Press, Christmas 1992. Text set in 8 point Spectrum.One of around 70 copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper and sewn into Indian printed paper wrappers, mauve and gold. A fine copy. £30 Inscribed by Paul Nash to Edward Burrett.

110.(Strawberry Press) Horse feathers, by Alexandra Herring. With a wood-engraving and 5 scraper-board designs by Sharon Julie Pipe. 8vo, 17pp, (Paul Nash & Alison Felstead), The Strawberry Press, 1993. Text set in 12 point Bembo. Total edition of 46 copies of which this is one of 41 printed on Zerkall mould-made paper and sewn into marbled paper wrappers with printed title label. A fine copy. £25

111.(Tabard Press) An Aeroplane Flight with Wilbur Wright, by The Hon. C.S. Rolls. 24mo, [12]p, Printed and published by Philip Kerrigan at The Tabard Press, Esher, 1964. Handset in 10 point Bembo and printed in black and reddish-brown on Basingwerk Parchment. Illustrations by Clive Chizlett. Handsewn in light green Ivorex, titled in black, with a 'flyer' in reddish-brown. A very good copy indeed. £20 An article that first appeared in 'The Automotor Journal' in 1908.

CHRISTINE TACQ

112.Tacq (Christine). Sleep walking through trees. an anthology for those born later. [A selection of poems, illustrated with intaglio and relief prints by Christine Tacq.] Royal 4to, 395 X 325mm, pp.[50], colophon, The p's and q's Press, Thame, 2004. Set in 24-point Monotype Garamond and printed in black (the title-page in brown and black, the illustrations in many colours) on very heavy Somerset rag paper. One of 30 (45) standard copies, housed in a linen slipcase. The book is signed by the artist, illustrated with seven full-page etchings and four smaller ones, the full-page etchings with magnificent softground etched colour printed overlays and small collagraph printed areas. Endpapers blind embossed from a relief block. Bound in screen-printed linen canvas, purple, lime-green and red, in a "tree motif". Slipcase with printed label on the front. A fine copy. £750 Amongst the poems illustrated are: 'As I Wandered' by William Blake; 'A Talk with a Wood' by Brian Patten; 'Everything Changes' by Cicely Herbert; from 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson; 'Arbre Mon Ami', by Minou Drouet; 'Solstice Poem', by Margaret Attwood. Christine Tacq was awarded a French government Fine Art Scholarship in 1968 and spent time etching at Atelier Friedlaender in Paris. She became a member of Bristol Artspace and has developed a mixture of collagraph, relief and drypoint techniques. Her first artist’s book ‘The Monkey’s Dream’ (Rocket Press, 1992) and indeed subsequent works are held in many important collections. Her work is always a joy to handle and keenly observes changing circumstances. A selection of small prints and engravings is available. 113.Tacq (Christine). Sonnet XLIII, by William Shakespeare. Square 16mo, 14 X 12cm, 6p, French-folded, The p’s and q’s Press, Thame, 2009. One of 25 copies printed on Zerkall paper (this copy signed, titled and marked A/P by the artist). Illustrated throughout with drypoints, with a collagraph and chine-colle cober. Fine copy in a CD case with a loose explanatory note ‘Looking at the Ceiling’ additionally signed by the artist. £45

114.Tacq (Christine). Hatbox: A Storm of Stars. [Vol. 1 From Revolution to Retail: Loveday, Natalia, Lolly, Emmeline; Vol. 2 From Reason to Revenge: Dominica, Christabel, Annie, Sylvia; Vol.3 From Reality to Reinvention: The Maid, Vera, Marina.] 84mm X 84mm, 3 vols, The p's & q's Press, Thame, Oxfordshire, 2012. A collage of drawings, prints with text in Imprint Shadow printed ink jet on Planet Plus , collaged on either side of Arches paper. Each concertina-fold "volume"printed in an edition, signed by the artist. De luxe edition, being one of 20 (25) copies on Conqueror paper in a poplar box with a colour label. A new copy. £90 In ‘Hatbox’ Christine Tacq shows herself to be both bookmaker and social historian. The Women’s pages of a 1912 newspaper, together with a poster featuring a 1912 ‘hat trimming competition’ are plundered and combined to illustrate how a slight change in a hat shape or a letterform can convey a different meaning.

115.Tacq (Christine). Printess & the p. By Christine Tacq. With: The Real Princess, by Hans Andersen. 4to, 31cm, 54p, colophon, (Christine Tacq) The p's and q's Press, Thame, 2014. The text is set in Optima. Relief collagraphs are on Zerkall, intaglio collagraphs are on Fabriano and the covers were designed with relief-blocks. Bound at the Fine Book Bindery. Illustrated with 20 relief prints, including seven richly coloured double-page spreads with embossing, that hint at past and future events. 54 pages including two poems, one by Emily Dickinson. One of 15 (25) copies. Signed by the artist/printer, bound in hand-printed linen, with printed labels to the spine and upper board. Matching slipcase. £525

116.Tacq (Christine). Barricadia, Psychomachia, Concordia. Square 16mo, 10.5 X 11.5cm, [8]p, The p’s and q’s Press, Thame, 2019. Twenty copies printed in Bembo on Ingres and Fabriano papers with letter-forms stamp-printed in gold on Khadi papers for the cover. Special version (copies numbered 1-5) frottages on wire are on lightweight Khadi paper and accompanies a standard copy. In this book images were assembled from found materials and placed inside envelopes as a prelude to pressure printing Special edition £90 Standard edition £30

The ‘Pyschomachia’ by Prudentius (400 AD) as shown in a British Library exhibition in 2019 is a ‘Spirit- Battle’ poem whose virtues, vices and monster women were brought to life by the Anglos-Saxons in flowing inky illuminations, which I reimagined by working in wire. In ‘The Beginning of the End’ (June 1968) Angelo Quattrocchi also describes savage battles and his quotes from Situationists’ texts on the walls of Paris seem to turn ancient virtues and vices on their heads. They became for me the basis for a conversation, by overprinting a paperback copy found in a second-hand bookshop in Bristol, for the exhibition ‘Ex Libris’ in 2018. I chose some of these overprints as text for pafes to be pulled from the spine ofthis new book, together with quotes from selected poetry and interviews fifty years on where women have their say with “words everywhere, everywhere, everywhere”.

CHISATO TAMABAYASHI

Chisato Tamabayashi is a Japanese London-based artist. After finishing her BA Studies at London College of Printing she studied an MA In Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2005. Chisato’s work includes a range of remarkable books and cards using pop-ups, printed and hand cut pages. Chisato has exhibited in the UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Japan and is in the collections of the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery as well as the TATE library artists’ book Collection. Her books defy description but they are no less wonderful for that. They contain talent, skill and an enchanting childlike vision.

117.Chisato Tamabayashi – Transmission. Pop-up book with cloth bound hardcover. 115 x 155 x 15mm, 5 pages. Hand Screen printed, hand cut and assembled. This book follows a bee buzzing from flower to flower, transporting pollen. The last page shows the fruits of the bee's labours - mission accomplished! Orange cloth, titled in black. Out-of-print. A new copy. £60

118.Chisato Tamabayashi – Branches. Hand Screen printed, hand cut and assembled. Pop-up book (8 pages) 40 x 40cm (when opened) Open edition, printed in many colours. bound Japanese-style in brown cloth stamped with an apple in red. A new copy. £60

119.Chisato Tamabayashi – Plunge. A screen-printed pop-up book about a dive into the sea, down into the deep and back again, encountering various creatures on the way. The pages are designed to be held and angled in different ways so that the reader can explore the depths and the two sides of the sea's surface. Blue cloth, titled in black. A new copy. £60 My favourite, I think. This work was awarded the Doverodde Book Arts Centre of Denmark Award, 2nd Prize, in 2011.

120.(Vale Press) Tennyson (Alfred Lord). In Memoriam. [Seen through the press by C.J. Holmes.] 8vo, 23cm, pp.125 + colophon + press-mark, (Vale Press) Hacon & Ricketts, 1900. One of 320 (330) printed in Vale type on specially watermarked handmade paper. "Willow" border, half border, initials and ornaments by Charles Ricketts. White buckram with gilt spine titling. Raymond Lister book label and ownership signature.. A very fresh bright copy. £200 (van Capelleveen A44a)

121.(Vaughan) Rimbaud (Arthur). A Season in Hell. The original text, together with a new translation by Norman Cameron, and eight lithographs by Keith Vaughan. 8vo, pp.[vi],69, Published in London by John Lehmann, 1949. 8 colour lithographs bled to the edge of the plates; black cloth with gilt spine titling, pictorial dust-jacket just a little chipped at the top and tail of the spine. A very good copy indeed. £400 [Rigby Graham:] '8 very striking and highly personal interpretations of a work towards which the artist appears to have felt more than a little sympathy. The illustrations are dark, sombre, muted in colour, yet intense in feeling.'

122.(Vieillard) Hymne à Déméter. Traduit selon le rythme par P.L. Couchoud. Burins originaux de Roger Vieillard. 4to, [6], I-IV, [1], [1 blank], [1]-73, [6] p. [numbering erratic]; 6 leaves of plates : ill. (b & w engr.) ; 33cm, Paris : La Nouvelle Édition, 1946. Number 105 of 230 (300) copies with the text printed in Garamond Greek and Roman on Vélin blanc crève made by Papeteries du Marais, with engravings printed on Vélin blanc made by Papeteries de Lana. In Greek and French, printed on opposite pages. 6 full-page inserted copper engravings by roger Viellard. Cream paper wrappers, titled in black, original glassine, chemise and slipcase. Slipcase a little worn at extremities, else a fine copy. £250

123.(Whittington Press) Pub Signs for Samuel Webster. Forty-one wood-engravings by Kathleen Lindsley. [With an introduction by John McConnell.] Imperial 16mo, [48]pp., The Whittington Press [Manor Farm, Andoversford] & Pentagram Design [London], 1983. Number 276 of 350 (355) copies handset in Walbaum, printed on Zerkall paper (the title-page in black and green), and signed by the artist. Quarter black cloth with printed spine label, Whittington marbled paper-covered boards. A fine copy. £130

124.(Whittington Press) Allotments; poems by R.P.Lister. With wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Oblong 4to, 19cm, 48p, (John & Rosalind Randle) Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1985. Set in Bell type and printed in dark-green (the engravings in black) on Zerkall paper. Number 23 of 300 (335) copies signed by the author and artist. 41 engravings(of all sizes). Printed paper- covered boards by the artists, brown buckram back, slipcase with spine label. A fine copy. £230

125.(Whittington Press) Sun, Sea and Earth. Copper-engravings by Brian Hanscomb, with texts by Richard Jefferies, John Clare, Edward Thomas & the artist. Imperial 8vo, 11 double leaves, folded at the fore-edge, extra suite, The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Andoversford, 1989. Number 3 of 25 (125) special copies printed on Hammer & Anvil handmade paper, with an extra suite of prints in a folder and all prints (whether extra or not) signed by the artist. Handset in SB Caslon. 8 copper engravings printed on the artist's etching press, plus extras. Bound Japanese- style, laced with black ribbon, in blue-grey handmade paper covers, with title label inset on upper cover. Black paper-covered slipcase with printed spine label. A fine copy. £500

126.(Whittington Press) Randle (Rosalind). Rose's Aga Recipes, illustrated with [6] linocuts by Judith Verity. Imperial 16mo, [48]pp., The Whittington Press, Risbury, 1995. One of 950 copies printed in black (the illustrations specially hand-coloured) in Bell type on Zerkall paper. Red floral cloth with a repeat linocut superimposed on the front board. A fine copy. £45 The fifth edition of this mini-bestseller, this being one of just a few attractively hand-coloured with crayons by Judith Verity in an idle moment.

127.Wilde (Oscar). A House of Pomegranates . The design & decoration of this book by C. Ricketts and C.H. Shannon. First edition, square 8vo, 22cm, pp.[x], 158, London, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1891. One of 1,000 copies printed. Binding by Charles Ricketts in half green cloth, white cloth covers stamped in gilt and orange. Pale olive endpapers with design of quail and sheaves of corn (expertly laid down), signed CR. Four plates reproducing woodcuts by Shannon in faint detail (the process was carried out in Paris and was a failure). 12 illustrations and numerous decorations designed by Ricketts. Neat ownership inscription. Some general wear, but a very nice bright copy of a book from the heyday of art nouveau. £750

128.Woolf (Virginia). Orlando: A Biography. First (limited) edition, small royal 8vo, 23cm, pp.[12] 13-333 [3], New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Number 131 of 861 copies printed on all rag paper, signed by the author in purple ink (on the verso of the half-title). Frontispiece and 7 photographic illustrations, including one of Virginia Woolf as Orlando. Black cloth boards patterned in gold on the spine in six panels. Slight mark to front cover. A near fine copy. £2,000 (Kirkpatrick A11) Designed by Frederic Warde.

129.Yamashita (Kiyozumi, artist). Songe de Minuit. 12 original aquatints, 26 X 19cm, Kiyozumi Yamashita, [Paris, 1974]. 12 original aquatints in many colours, each with the artist's stamp. Individually signed by the artist, this set on white and black hand-made papers and numbered 2/30. Double chemise with illustrations of white nudes on a black background, white handmade paper covers, titled in black. Black cloth folder with ties. A fine copy. £1,000 Kiyozumi Yamashita is a Japanese artist who formerly studied printmaking at Dusseldorf and has lived in France and Italy. Yamashita developed a fantasy world, reminiscent of that of Hans Bellmer, through copper engraving and the erotic texts and poems of Andre Pieyre Mandiargues. The aquatints are of astonishing facility and dexterity. (Complete Works of Kiyozumi Yamashita: Catalogue Raisonne: Colour Etchings, 1969-2007.)