1069 - 1683 FINE PRINTING AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
= One of the first 7 copies, signed in pencil and w. loosely inserted drawing in watercolour, pastel and black ink.
Steendam, S. van. Echo Stadsgeluidenboek. Antw., Uitgeverij Vrijdag, 2012, (28)p., full-p. col. ills., orig. boards, folio. - AND 10 others, i.a. P. VERLAINE, Biblio-sonnets (Utr., 2016, woodcut ills. by R. RANFT, printed in 175 numb. copies, orig. boards w. dustwr.) and T. TUKKER, Gedachten in zwart en wit (Rott, n.d., linocut ills., printed in 50 numb. and signed copies, orig. boards).
- Without the extra suite of the 2 plates, often included. Otherwise fine.
= One of 10 copies (this copy numb. ''7'') that were bound in halfleather and oleaugrafie paper by Beatrice Meuter-Peller.
- Owner's ticket on verso of first free endpapers. Joints trifle rubbed. Fine copy. = Monod 3191.
- Mint. = All woodengravings printed from the original blocks.
- Mint.
= One of 180 copies bound in giltlettered hvellum, orig. slipcase. All engravings printed from the original blocks.
- Fine copy.
= "Als nieuwjaarskaarten voor de jaren 1934-1940 verschenen behalve nummer 1 en 3, welke hier voor het eerst worden afgedrukt" (title-p.). C. Buckland Wright, A36.
Idem. Seven book-cover designs. Haarlem, Carlinapers, 1977, (19)p., 7 engrs. by J. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, printed in 110 numb. copies on Barcham Green, orig. wr.
= Designs for book-covers made for publications by A.A.M. Stols, printed from the original copper plates.
- Vague crease in wr.; sl. yellowed; waterstained along outer edge.
= "Als nieuwjaarskaarten voor de jaren 1934-1940 verschenen behalve nummer 1 en 3, welke hier voor het eerst worden afgedrukt" (title-p.). C. Buckland Wright, A36.
AND a New Year's wish and an announcement leaflet, both w. woodengraving by the same.
- Sl. foxed.
= Buckland Wright A12 . Very rare.
- Mint. = All woodengravings printed from the original blocks.
- Mint. = The woodengravings/ cuts printed from the original blocks.
- Very fine copy. = All woodengravings printed from the original blocks.
= This is an unnumbered copy on "perlfarbenem Japanpapier", of which 15 copies were printed according to the colophon. This copy is loose in quires and not signed by A.A.M. Stols. Van Dijk 241; Buckland Wright A3 c: "The book is far scarcer than the printed limitation suggests. In fact only a relatively few sets of the engravings were printed. A large number of copies without illustrations still exist, undistributed, in the form of loose sheets (...). The book contains the first copper-engravings which J.B.W. produced for book illustrations." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.
- Lacks first free endpaper; occas. sl. fingersoiled. Cl. fingersoiled; spine-ends rubbed.
= Halcyon Pers 7; Buckland Wright A1 and p.36/37; Van Dijk 214.
Poe, E.A. The Fall of the House of Usher. Ibid., idem, A.A.M. Stols, 1930, 68,(2)p., 10 (full-p.) aquatint ills. by A. ALEXEÏEFF, printed in 365 numb. copies by J. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN (325), orig. cl. w. gilt vignette by J. BUCKLAND WRIGHT on frontcover, 4to.
- A fine copy. = Van Dijk 222.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; endpapers browned as usual.
= Van Dijk 246; The Halcyon Press 11; Reid A6.
Byron, (G.G.) Lord. Lyrical poems. Ed. E. du Perron. Ibid., idem, 1933, 67,(5)p., woodengr. frontisp. portrait by J. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, printed in black and red in 500 numb. copies on handmade paper, orig. gilt cl.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding partly sl. discoloured; lower joint dam. at top of spine.
= Van Dijk 302; The Halcyon Press 14; Reid A11.
- Binding yellowed along outer edges.
= Bound in full cream morocco with gilt vignette by J. Buckland Wright on frontcover, t.e.g., EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with a suite of five "experimental engravings" (letterpress text leaflet by Mary Buckland Wright) by J. Buckland Wright loosely inserted in buckram portfolio, together in buckram slipcase. Text leaflet states that the book was not released until 1956. Reid A73 (stating 50 copies were published). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.
- Spine sunned. = Reid A54; Cock-a-Hoop 183; Franklin p.332.
- Very fine copy.
= One of 30 Roman numb. copies on Japanese vellum, SIGNED by the artist in the colophon and with 2 extra suites of the plates and of 3 rejected prints (each suite a set on Japanese and a set on Barcham Green) (total of 26 plates), all SIGNED by the artist. The Halcyon Press 13; Buckland Wright A9; Van Dijk 288. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.
- Sl. browned. = Van Dijk 256; Buckland Wright A2.
- Very vague offsetting from the woodcuts on adjacant pages; sm. owner's monogram in pen and ink in lower margin colophon page. Tiny tear in joints at top of spine. Fine copy.
= Halcyon Press 5. This copy marked "A" (monogrammed by Stols) and SIGNED by the author, illustrator and publisher. Van Dijk 291; Reid A10; The Ideal Book p.109f.
- Foxed spot in upper blank margin throughout.
= The colophon merely states: "From a friend of the illustrator and printer". Printed by Stols for a private collector (= W.H.E. van den Borch tot Verwolde) (see Van Dijk p.140f). Reid A12 mentions three editions: 1st ed., 50 copies, white line engraving [the present copy]; 2nd ed., 40 copies, silhouette figures; 3rd ed., 10 copies, and on p.38 [citing Stols]: "The illustrations represent female figures which with a single clever line have been engraved in the block. In the first copies to be printed these illustrations were represented complete. In the second all the black part round the figure was cut away, a very risky experiment which turned out to be a complete success". Rare. Van Dijk 314. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVII.