Phillip J. Pirages PHILLIP J. PIRAGES Catalogue Sixty-four Incunabula and Private Press Books Catalogue 64 Items Pictured on the Front Cover 16 164 7 12 104 24 19 12 169 25 113, 137 11 126 Items Pictured on the Back Cover 112 28 138 8 21 217 109 216 218 171 127 215 219 121 167 17 4 To identify items on the front and back covers, lift this flap up and to the right, then close the cover. Incunabula and the Private Press Books they Inspired Catalogue 64: Incunabula and the Private Press Books they Inspired Please send orders and inquiries to the above physical or electronic addresses, and do not hesitate to telephone at any time. We would be happy to have you visit us, but please make an appointment so that we are sure to be here. In addition, our website is always open. You can click here to go to www.pirages.com. 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Table of Contents Catalogue Items I. .....Incunabula (Complete Volumes) ..............................................................................................1 - 34 II. .....Leaf Books and Individual Incunabular Leaves ...................................................................35-84 III......Private Press Books ...............................................................................................................85-220 ________ 1 Incunabula and the Private Press Books they Inspired Incunabula and the Private Press Books they Inspired Foreword In many ways, the first printers in the West were never excelled. Certainly one can say that, with notable exceptions, books produced during the four centuries after the incunabular era fell well short of the level of craftsmanship manifested in printed works created in the 50-year golden period after Gutenberg. William Morris and likeminded aesthetes deplored the impersonal, mechanized process THANK YOU FOR of printing as they found it in the latter part of the 19th century. Using the work of 15th century SHARING YOUR printers as their models, they determined to recapture the satisfaction of issuing aesthetically pleas- INTERESTS WITH US. ing books produced by hand in small quantities, using handset type, printed on high quality paper, and incorporating a design that reflected an intelligent purpose and a conscious conception of the NAME: beautiful. ADDRESS: The present catalogue is an acknowledgement of this renaissance in the history of printing. Sug- PHONE (if you wish): gested by Cokie Anderson, it contains a representative sampling of incunabular volumes and leaves (including works from all five decades, the first books produced in certain cities, important bindings, EMAIL: significant provenance, diverting annotations, and works with pleasing rubrication, illustration, il- lumination, and other kinds of decoration). These are followed by a variety of modern-day fine press AREAS OF INTEREST (Please be as specific as you can about limitations and constraints): books that more or less directly took their inspiration from the earliest European printers. There are some very happy connections between the two parts of the catalogue that emphasize the relationship between those who set an early example and those who determined to live up to it 400+ years later. There is, for instance, a 1486 Venetian printing of Augustine’s “City of God” (item #13) and the same work done (in Latin and with design features that echo an incunable) by the distinguished How far along are you in building your collection(s)? (e.g., just beginning, halfway, looking for the few remaining German Bremer Press in 1925 (item #100). The typographic bridges between the end of the 15th and difficult items): end of the 19th centuries show up in many places: the Subiaco typeface created at the Ashendene Press, for example, takes its name and design from Sweynheym & Pannartz, the first printers outside Can you list two or three specific titles of interest I might conceivably encounter? Germany, who set up shop at Subiaco, and the elegant roman type used at the Doves Press (see items #113-26) is clearly a descendant of that used by Nicolaus Jenson (see item #3) at the beginning of his career in 1470 in Venice. Even our own leafbook (#39) pairs a leaf from Sweynheym & Pannartz with a text printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press, one of America’s most long-lived and distin- How important is condition to you? guished private presses. Would you welcome (not tolerate, but welcome) a phone call or email about things I see? Y / N And then there are the personalities that established and fostered the connections. Charles Harry St. Is there a special way I can help you? (Would you like me to represent you at auction? To do an appraisal? To John Hornby, who ran the Ashendene Press (see items #87-96) was an avid collector of incunabula, visit you and your collection in person? To discuss the possible purchase of books from your library? Is there as was William Morris. One of the highlights of the catalogue is item #30, Morris’ copy of Sebastian some other service I can provide?) Brant’s “Various Poems,” printed in 1498. It is included in a list of 131 illustrated incunabula from Morris’ library that is printed at the back of his Kelmscott edition of “Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century.” And, finally, Laurence Hodson was an avid collector of both early printing and modern fine press books: the group of five immaculate Vale Press items printed on vellum that once Is there another collector or address I should send my catalogue to? (I am always most grateful for additions to were in his library (items #215-19) are another special highlight of the offerings here. my mailing list.) NAME/ADDRESS: Whether you are interested in early books or in fine modern printing (or are happily blessed to like both), we hope you enjoy our Catalogue #64. Phil Pirages and the staff at Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts ________ ________ 2 3 Incunabula and the Private Press Books they Inspired Incunabula and the Private Press Books they Inspired Index of Authors Leonardus De Utino.....6, 9 Rossetti, Christina.....121 Leslie, Shane.....220 Scripps, John Locke.....108 (References are to entry numbers) Livius, Titus.....12 Shakespeare, William.....104, 181, 212, 214 Aesop.....146, 151 Dryden, John.....131 Mackail, J. W. .....114, 119 Shelley, Mary.....193 Alberti, Leon Battista.....186 Dulac, Edmund.....170 Magnusson, Eirikr.....175 Shelley, Percy Bysshe.....131, 197 Anderson, Sherwood.....220 Duns Scotus, Johannes.....11 Malory, Thomas.....207 Sinclair, May.....220 Antoninus Florentinus.....10 Dürer, Albrecht.....107 Mandeville, Sir John.....147 Spenser, Edmund.....91, 92, 131, 210 Armstrong, Martin. .....220 Eschenbach, Wolfram von.....156 Mapplethorpe, Robert.....173 Steele, Robert.....196 Augustinus, Aurelius.....13, 100 Fairclough, Henry Rushton.....178 Mardersteig, Giovanni.....187-88 Sterne, Laurence.....211 Baptista Mantuanus, Giovanni.....31 Feliciano, Felice.....185-86 Marguerite d’Angoulême.....179 Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius.....18 Baufet, Guillermus.....23 Field, Michael.....217 Meinhold, Wilhelm.....219 Swift, Jonathan.....109, 144 Baum, L. Frank.....189 Flint, William Russell.....198-200 Melville, Herman.....168 Tennyson, Alfred.....131, 135 Bede, The Venerable.....205 Gallus, Abbas Cisterciensis.....16 Milton, John.....89, 131, 154, 158, 170 Theocritus.....28, 200 Benson, E. F. .....220 Garnett, David.....220 Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de.....201 Theognis.....28 Benson, Stella.....220 Gerson, Johannes.....1 More, Thomas.....90 Thomas Aquinas.....4, 19 Beroaldus, Philippus.....34 Gill, Eric.....136, 140 Morley, Christopher.....220 Tolstoy, Leo.....93 Bible.....25, 86, 113, 174, 182, 183, 215, 216 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.....134 Morris, William.....163, 175 Tortellius, Johannes.....8 Biel, Gabriel.....32 Goldsmith, Oliver.....101, 131 Mottram, R. H. .....220 Turrecremata, Johannes De.....17 Blackwood, Algernon.....220 Graves, Robert.....220 Napoleon.....142 Twain, Mark.....190 Boccaccio, Giovanni.....22, 184 Gray, Thomas.....131 Nicolaus De Ausmo.....7 Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.....24 Boethius.....20, 26 Guillelmus Parisiensis.....23 Nissen, Claus.....36 Vergilius, Polydorus.....33 Booth, George