1379 - 1571 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
= Monod 1121.
- Wr. fingersoiled. = Monod 9493.
- Occas. stained in outer right blank margin. Wr. partly soiled. = Monod 2842.
- Wr. browned and spine-ends dam.
= Monod 7341; Carteret IV, p.247: "Édition recherchée et cotée en grand papier". One of 75 numb. copies on Van Gelder, but without the extra suite called for.
- Wr. sl. creased, scratched and rubbed. = SIGNED on title-p.
- Upper joint chemise starting.
- First free endpapers browned. = Chanticleer 17 (the May, 1930 special issue of which 97 were printed).
Marston, J. The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image. Ibid., idem, 1926, 17,(2)p., col. woodcut frontisp. and plate by R.B. SUSAN, printed in 325 numb. copies, orig. hvellum w. batik covers, sm. 8vo.
= Chanticleer 46.
ADDED: one other publ. by the Nonesuch Press.
= Prospectus announcing i.a. the publication of W. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night; E. Gill, An Essay on the Nude; H. Fielding, Jonathan Wild and T.F. Powys, When Thou Wast Naked.
AND 7 others similar, i.a. by The Boar's Head Press (1933), The Golden Cockerell Press (1933 and 1947), The Nonesuch Press (1927) and The Shakespeare Head Press (1934).
= The original name sign of the Green Escape Press.
= Knothole series no.3. Fine copy.
WITH: the ORIGINAL DESIGNS for the lithographs and calligraphed title by J.H. MOESMAN, the ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT of the text w. manuscript corrections by G.P. MEYER, several letters of correspondence between the author and the printer concerning the publication and 2 letters from the printer to DIRKJE KUIK (asking if she would be willing to print the lithographs), all dated 1979-1981. - AND WITH the orig. lead type of the Green Escape Press vignette cut by J.H. MOESMAN.
= Van Dijk 113. Rijmprenten en Planodrukken No.1. Rare handcol. variant, printed on heavy paper.
AND 2 other broadside poems, both framed, i.a. IDEM, ""'t Lieve leven..." "...en de zoete dood."" (broadside, (Haarlem), Enschedé en Zoon, n.d., 2 (1x handcol.) woodcut ills. by J. BOON).
- All lvs. loose; lacks 1 back; 2 backs dam. Lower edge lid dam.
- Pencil annots.; frontwr. and first quires loose(ning). Edges of wrappers creased; unnumb. copy.
= Die Petropolis Reihe.
- Yellowed/ foxed/ thumbed/ soiled (incl. wr.); first few lvs. (incl. frontwr.) waterst, in upper margin. Backstrip pasted over w. tape.
= Kleine revolutionäre Bibliothek 10. Lang 39; Hermann 150.
Pons, P. Der grosse Zeitvertreig. Berlin, Müller & I. Kiepenheuer, 1932, 1st ed., 62,(2)p., 38 (full-p.) ills., orig. pict. wr. and col. pict. dustwr. by G. GROSZ.
- Dustwrapper sl. frayed, partly browned and broken on joints. = Lang 64.
Grosz, G. Das neue Gesicht der Herrschenden Klasse. Ibid., Malik-Verlag, 1930, 1st ed., 126,(2)p., 60 plates by G. GROSZ, orig. giltlettered cl., 4to.
- Covers sl. stained and discoloured along spine; lower joint and spine-ends dam.
= Lang 54; Hermann 170; Gittig 232.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. (sl.) foxed. Spine faded.
= Vicaire IV, p.44f.
Idem. L'Art dans la maison (grammaire de l'ameublement). Paris, Ed. Rouveyre and G. Blond, 1884, new ed., VI,(2),411,(1)p., 50 (tinted/ col.) (woodengr./ lithogr.) plates, num. ills., contemp. hmor., 4to.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Leather rubbed; top of spine dam. = Vicaire IV, p.45.
- Upper hinge weak; trifle browned along outer margins. Covers sl. browned and trifle dam. along extremities; frontcover w. some sm. (water)stains.
= Rare edition before the Amsterdam publisher's address of Van Gogh (but with printer on frontcover: S. Lankhout & Co.). De Groot 129B; Braches 563; Cat. Ned. Boek 3; cat. De Koning 330.
- Plates fine; first 2 lvs. w. some marginal tears (closed w. sellotape); margins of lvs. partly sl. water-/ dampstained; first plate glue in corners sl. shining through. Binding trifle foxed.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "Voor A. en M. Roland Holst van Th. van Hoytema. 12 Jan 1900" on first blank. PROOF COPY. De Groot 131Ab; Braches 567: "De bladen zijn op grote vellen grijs papier (470x365 mm.) geplakt. Op de voorzijde is in zwart en rood een gelithografeerd etiket (150x260 mm.) gedrukt: 'Het leelijke jonge Eendje. Naar een sprookje van H. Andersen. Geteekend en gelithografeerd door T. van Hoytema. 1893. Gedrukt bij S. Lankhout & Co. Den Haag. TvH. Proefexemplaar. TvH.'" SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.
= A complete set, year 1933 was not published. With the often lacking inserts.