- Steelengr. bookplate on upper pastedown. Some sl. scratches on backcover, otherwise a very fine copy.
= Copy of the deluxe ed. printed in 500 signed and numb. copies. Riall, p.132.
- First/ final free endpaper sl. browned (otherwise contents fine). Frontcover w. dam. spot; corners bumped.
= Riall p.91: "Reprint of 1900 edition with enlarged pages and added illustrations".
Ingoldsby, T. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels. (London), W. Heinemann, 1909, 3rd(?) ed., XIX,(1),549p., 24 tipped-in col. plates, 12 tinted plates and num. (full-p.) ills. by A. RACKHAM, orig. gilt cl., 4to.
- Hinges weak; bookblock shaken. Spine-ends sl. worn/ dam.; backstrip discoloured. = Cf. Riall p.96.
AND 1 other illustrated by the same.
- Contents trifle foxed, not affecting plates. All vols. backstrip sunned; trifle/ sl. rubbed along extremities; one vol. backstrip sl. dam. at foot of spine.
= Het Rijngoud. Voorspel tot de trilogie De Ring van den Neveling; De Walkure. Eerste dag van de trilogie De Ring van den Neveling; Siegfried. Tweede dag van de trilogie (...); Godenschemering. Derde dag van de trilogie (...).
- Sl. foxed as usual. Backstrips and corners rubbed; covers partly sl. foxed.
= Het Rijngoud. Voorspel tot de trilogie De Ring van den Neveling; De Walkure. Eerste dag van de trilogie De Ring van den Neveling; Siegfried. Tweede dag van de trilogie (...); Godenschemering. Derde dag van de trilogie (...). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
- Sl. foxed as usual; owner's entry on first free endpaper. Covers partly yellowed.
Dickens, C. A Christmas Carol. London/ Philadelphia, W. Heinemann/ J.B. Lippincott Co., 1915, XI,(1),147p., 12 col. plates, ills., endpapers and orig. pict. cl. by A. RACKHAM.
- Occas. foxed. Top of spine sl. worn. = Riall p.124.
ADDED 1 other: T. HOVEN, Blondine (Deventer, 1894, 3 col. lithogr. plates, contemp. hcl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down. Rare).
= With loosely inserted note from the publisher to "Dear Dr Keizer".
In praise of letterpress. Ten broadsides designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press. Ibid., idem, 2001, fold. title/ contents/ colophon leaf, 10 broadsides in orig. folder, printed in various colours in 140 numb. copies, together in orig. cloth dropback box w. printed title-label, sm. folio.
- Wrappers partly sl. sunned.
- A very fine copy.
= Monod 9522; Cramer, Pablo Picasso, les livres illustrés, no 120; Mourlot 353-355; Sorlier, Marc Chagall, le livre des livres 21. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE XLI.
- Rebacked w. use of the orig. backstrip; extremities sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine. = Braches 1459.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION: "Ik hoop dat frans [Pannekoek] zijn talent de verdiende hoeveelheid geld moge binnenbrengen. Greonterp 9.11.1966. Gerard van het Reve." With another later anonymous dedication to Hans Evers.
- Backstrip of dustwr. sunned.
= Bibliofiele Bijenkorf Bibliotheek 6. One of 50 Roman numb. copies (this copy numb. "III") for the author and publisher, signed in the colophon. With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION on the colophon: "Voor Johan Polak, in dank en met veel lieve en geile wensen. 'La Grâce', Le Poët-Laval, 20 September 1976." (The work contains a bibliographic annotation by J.B.W. Polak).
= Contains the text in draft (4p.) and the definitive text in fair copy (7p.) of Reve's contribution to Jan de Hartog (Amst./Brussel, 1981). Each copy contains 1 leaf from one of the 2 versions of the original autograph manuscript. One of 4(?) unnumb. copies, this copy bound in full morocco (the regular edition was clothbound), marked "H.C.", signed on the colophon and w. AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on title: "Dat facsimile van een prachtverhaal is voor Matroosje Vosch. Schiedam, 18 Februai 1981, Gerard Reve". Without one of the lvs. of the original manuscript, but with a loosely inserted ms. leaf with (mainly unrelated) AUTOGRAPH ANNOTATIONS, dated "1983". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
= With loosely inserted manuscript letter by Jan Bouma, the printer (Hugin & Mugin) addressed to "Ger [Kleis]".
- Annot. on first blank erased w. tipp-ex. = One of 24 copies printed on Hahnemühle.
- Bookplate on verso frontwr. Fine copy.
= First publication of a rejected chapter (number 23) of Moeder en Zoon.
Idem. Het hijgend hert. Amst./ Antw., (L.J. Veen), 1998, 8,(1)p., 3 facs. ills., printed in 1200 numb. and SIGNED copies, bound as a leporello, orig. boards.
= Pre-publication of the first chapter of Reve's novel Het hijgend hert; New Year's gift 1997/1998 of the publisher.
AND 5 other small publications by the same.
- Endpapers browned; contents (sl.) foxed; contemp. dedication on first free endpaper. Binding w. a few light red/ pink stains on frontcover.
= On Charles Robinson see Houfe p.435: "His style was very decorative, flowing and imaginatie scenes were surrounded by elaborate borders and in the faces and forms of his childres he recaptured somthing of the innocence of childhood."; Johnson, Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain, p.86/87.
- Partly sl. stained in blank lower outer corner. Spine-ends rubbed/ trifle dam., backstrip and surrounding area sl. faded.
= Peppin & Micklethwait, p.256.
Jerrold, W. (ed.). The Big Book of Fairy Tales. London/ Glasgow/ Bombay, Blackie and son, 1912, XXI,(3),294p., 27 (of 28) col. plates, num. ills., col. pict. endpapers and richly gilt red cl. by C. ROBINSON, a.e.g., 4to.
- Lacks 1 plate; contents occas. trifle foxed. Binding sl. soiled; corners bumped.