A SELECTION OF BOOKS AT FRANCIS HOLLAND CHRISTMAS FAIR 2019 Collinge & Clark 13 Leigh Street London WC1H 9EW 0044 (0) 20 7387 7105 http://www.collingeandclark.co.uk [email protected] 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.