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FINE PRESS. 11 titles:
13 – 23 June 2023, 12:00 EDT
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11 titles:
1. [ÉDITIONS DU RAISIN.] AYNARD, RAYMONDE, illustrator. Genèse. Mis en français par le Maistre de Sacy. Paris: Éditions du Raisin, 1929. 9 color aquarelle illustrations. Publisher's red stiff wrappers printed in white. Light wear.
2. [OFFICINA BODONI.] TERENCE. (PUBIUS TERENTIUS AFER). A Comedy of Terence Called Andria. Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1971. Folio. 25 woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel after drawings by Albrecht Dürer. Publisher's quarter vellum and yellow boards, original glassine and buckram slipcase. Minimal wear. Number 125 of 170 copies in English.
3. [ERAGNY PRESS.] FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. Un Coeur simple. London: Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1901. Wood engraved frontispiece, borders and initials designed by Lucien Pisarro. Publisher's quarter linen and blue boards. Light foxing, small abrasion to front cover. One of 226 copies on Arnold hand-made paper.
4. [ANVIL PRESS.] HAMMER, VICTOR, typographer. De quatuor Evangelistis. Lexington: Anvil Press, 1955. 12mo. Publisher's blue-gray boards with wrap-around printed label across both covers and spine. One of 250 copies printed in mold-made paper, in Hammer's "American Uncial" in red and black. Hammer designed the type after the uncial letters in medieval calligraphy.
5. [GEHENNA PRESS.] SCOTT, JOHN ANTHONY, translator. The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court. Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1964. Large 4to. 21 etched portraits of French revolutionary leaders and thinkers by Thomas Cornell. Unbound signatures in publisher's morocco chemise, and morocco-backed buckram case. Minimal wear. Book design by Leonard Baskin, and signed by Baskin on the colophon. Limited to 300 copies.
6. [PEGASUS PRESS.] MERCATOR, GERARD. The Treatise of Gerard Mercator. Antwerp and Paris: De Sikkel / Pegasus Press, 1930. 8vo. Green moiré cloth stamped in gilt. Number 174 of an edition of 200. A facsimile of Mercator's writing book, prepared as a model for his students, hand-set in Janson type.
7. [OVERBROOK PRESS.] SAVILLE, LORD GEORGE. The Lady's New-Year's Gift, or Advice to a Daughter. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1934. 12mo. Publisher's tan boards, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase. Slight wear to tip of spine, short split to bottom of slipcase. One of 300.
8. [KING'S PRINTERS.] JONSON, BEN. The Masque of Queens. London: King's Printers, 1930. Folio. 20 plates after drawings by Inigo Jones. Red vellum, stamped in gilt. Number 134 of 150 copies for the United Kingdom, of a total edition of 350.
9. [JACQUES DAMASE.] DELAUNAY, ROBERT, illustrator. Les Tours Éiffel de Robert Delaunay. Paris and Brussels: Jacques Damase Gallery, [1974]. Tall 4to. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with image of the tower in red, black cloth clamshell box with image in red and white. One of 150 deluxe editions on Arches paper, with an additional engraving by Delaunay signed by Sonia Delaunay, with a pencil notation E a Bat, indicating an artist's proof. There were additionally 1000 ordinary copies, for a total edition of 1,150.
10. [VINCENT FITZGERALD.] MAMET, DAVID. The Frog Prince. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1984. Small 4to. Illustrations by Edward Koren, original etched frontispiece and 4 plates after Koren's drawings, signed by the artist. Publisher's quarter pale orange linen over orange boards, stamped in green. One of 130 copies on Rives, signed by Mamet and Koren with a presentation inscription to the publisher, Vincent FitzGerald.
11. [ESSEX HOUSE PRESS.] WOOLMAN, JOHN. A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman. London: Essex House Press, 1901. 8vo. Publisher's vellum, yapp edges. One of 250 copies.
1. [ÉDITIONS DU RAISIN.] AYNARD, RAYMONDE, illustrator. Genèse. Mis en français par le Maistre de Sacy. Paris: Éditions du Raisin, 1929. 9 color aquarelle illustrations. Publisher's red stiff wrappers printed in white. Light wear.
2. [OFFICINA BODONI.] TERENCE. (PUBIUS TERENTIUS AFER). A Comedy of Terence Called Andria. Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1971. Folio. 25 woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel after drawings by Albrecht Dürer. Publisher's quarter vellum and yellow boards, original glassine and buckram slipcase. Minimal wear. Number 125 of 170 copies in English.
3. [ERAGNY PRESS.] FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. Un Coeur simple. London: Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1901. Wood engraved frontispiece, borders and initials designed by Lucien Pisarro. Publisher's quarter linen and blue boards. Light foxing, small abrasion to front cover. One of 226 copies on Arnold hand-made paper.
4. [ANVIL PRESS.] HAMMER, VICTOR, typographer. De quatuor Evangelistis. Lexington: Anvil Press, 1955. 12mo. Publisher's blue-gray boards with wrap-around printed label across both covers and spine. One of 250 copies printed in mold-made paper, in Hammer's "American Uncial" in red and black. Hammer designed the type after the uncial letters in medieval calligraphy.
5. [GEHENNA PRESS.] SCOTT, JOHN ANTHONY, translator. The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court. Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1964. Large 4to. 21 etched portraits of French revolutionary leaders and thinkers by Thomas Cornell. Unbound signatures in publisher's morocco chemise, and morocco-backed buckram case. Minimal wear. Book design by Leonard Baskin, and signed by Baskin on the colophon. Limited to 300 copies.
6. [PEGASUS PRESS.] MERCATOR, GERARD. The Treatise of Gerard Mercator. Antwerp and Paris: De Sikkel / Pegasus Press, 1930. 8vo. Green moiré cloth stamped in gilt. Number 174 of an edition of 200. A facsimile of Mercator's writing book, prepared as a model for his students, hand-set in Janson type.
7. [OVERBROOK PRESS.] SAVILLE, LORD GEORGE. The Lady's New-Year's Gift, or Advice to a Daughter. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1934. 12mo. Publisher's tan boards, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase. Slight wear to tip of spine, short split to bottom of slipcase. One of 300.
8. [KING'S PRINTERS.] JONSON, BEN. The Masque of Queens. London: King's Printers, 1930. Folio. 20 plates after drawings by Inigo Jones. Red vellum, stamped in gilt. Number 134 of 150 copies for the United Kingdom, of a total edition of 350.
9. [JACQUES DAMASE.] DELAUNAY, ROBERT, illustrator. Les Tours Éiffel de Robert Delaunay. Paris and Brussels: Jacques Damase Gallery, [1974]. Tall 4to. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with image of the tower in red, black cloth clamshell box with image in red and white. One of 150 deluxe editions on Arches paper, with an additional engraving by Delaunay signed by Sonia Delaunay, with a pencil notation E a Bat, indicating an artist's proof. There were additionally 1000 ordinary copies, for a total edition of 1,150.
10. [VINCENT FITZGERALD.] MAMET, DAVID. The Frog Prince. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1984. Small 4to. Illustrations by Edward Koren, original etched frontispiece and 4 plates after Koren's drawings, signed by the artist. Publisher's quarter pale orange linen over orange boards, stamped in green. One of 130 copies on Rives, signed by Mamet and Koren with a presentation inscription to the publisher, Vincent FitzGerald.
11. [ESSEX HOUSE PRESS.] WOOLMAN, JOHN. A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman. London: Essex House Press, 1901. 8vo. Publisher's vellum, yapp edges. One of 250 copies.