1359 - 1565 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
= Facs. reprint of the ed. Chemnitz, Gesellschaft der Bücherfreunde, 1924.
AND 5 others, i.a. G. FLAUBERT, Die Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius. German transl. H. Liesmann (Munich etc., 1921, 14 full-p. woodcuts by H. LISMANN, orig. giltlettered hcalf. Sl. foxed throughout; binding sl. rubbed along extremities).
- Sm. mark in ballpoint in margin of p.12. Frontcover faded.
= Lang 44. From the library of ARMANDO (with his owner's entry on first free endpaper).
= One of 10 numb. copies w. a suite of the plates and illustrations in sanguine. Not in Monod.
Roger-Marx, C. Vertès un et divers. Paris, J. Vialetay for Trinckvel, 1961, 150,(2)p., num. (double-p./ full-p.) (col.) ills. and orig. wr. by M. VERTÈS, printed in 1000 numb. copies, 4to (fine).
- Spine-ends sl. worn.
= Cf. Bilderwelt 2648 (not mentioning this edition). Monod 5822. The history of the Alsace explained to children from a strongly anti-German point of view.
AND 2 others, i.a. J. FEITH, Herinnering aan het bloemen-corso, 12 April 1896 (Haarlem, ±1896, ills. and orig. lithogr. boards by W.F.A.J. VAARZON MOREL, 4to).
- Frontcover mouldy in left margin. Contents fine.
= Monod 5824. Bilderwelt 2647: "Die Erstausgabe erschien 1913 und brachte Hansi eine Verurteilung durch die deutschen Behörden ein. In der Tat machte sich der Autor in seiner Bilderbüchern, die das Elsaß hervorheben, zum Wortführer eines elsässischen Patriotismus, der die deutsche Besatzung bekämpfte".
- Frontwr. sl. foxed. Otherwise fine.
= Contains poems by Tou Fou, Li Tai Po and Chang Wou Kien. Fine publication produced in a very small number of copies.
Omar Khayyám. Rubáiyát. Haarlem/ Amst., J. Enschedé en Zonen for A.A. Balkema, 1945, (29)p., orig. wr., sm. narrow 8vo. - AND 4 miscell. others, i.a. A. VAN DUINKERKEN, Het wereldorgel (Utr., 1931, col. ills. and orig. gilt clothbacked boards by C. EYCK, obl. 8vo).
= SIGNED by the author and the artist.
- Occas. trifle soiled. Portfolio sl. stained/ worn; joints weak/ starting; tear on inside backcover.
= Published on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Delft student corps, w. loosely inserted the score booklet Italiaansch liedje gezongen door de Bloemenmeisjes in: Het tournooi gegeven ter gelegenheid van het 12de lustrum van het D.S.C. (Ibid., idem, 1908).
- Dropback box sl. worn at upper joint. = Monod 1160.
Longus. Daphnis et Cloé. Translation by D'Amyot. Ed. P.L. Courrier. Paris, Éd. du Bélier, 1945, 2 vols., 116,(4); 109,(7)p., col. plates and ills. by L. TOUCHAGES, printed in 805 numb. copies (700), orig. unif. wr., chemise, slipcase, 4to.
= Monod 7255.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper; trifle soiled. Wr. splitting at top and foot of spine; dustwr. split/ sl. dam./ partly sunned.
= Stiemer p.49.
De zeven hoofdzonden. Prentenboek voor de rijpere jeugd en overrijpe ouderdom, samengesteld door de Vereniging tot bevordering der grafische kunst. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1969, 20 woodcut/ woodengr. plates by i.a. G. ARNTZ, L. STRIK, W. ZWIERS and P.G. RUETER, printed in 375 numb. copies, orig. wr. w. "obonai" gilt wr., 4to.
- Wr. w. 2 corners trifle bumped; dustwr. sl. rubbed at extremities. Otherwise fine.
AND 6 others similar.
= Ritzer E9. One of the few Roman numbered copies. Roman numbered "VII" on colophon, H.C. copy not for sale on Maillol-Kessler paper and printed for the translator EDWARD SACKVILLE WEST. The Cranach Presse was known for its finely printed editions of non-German literature. So it was natural for the Woolfs to commission the Cranach Presse to print the English edition of Rilke's Duineser Elegien. It is one of the finest printed works by the Hogarth Press. With a loosely inserted letterpress folding leaf: R.M. RILKE, The Ninth Duino Elegy. Transl. by B.J. Morse (n.pl., n.d. Brown stain near lower edge. SIGNED by the translator in pen and ink. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- Sm. owner's entry on title-p. Binding trifle worn along extremities.
Zegadłowicz, E. Na Wiedzeni. Misterjum balladowe w trzech aktach. Kraków, S.A. Krzyżanowski, 1925, 115,(2)p., orig. linocut wr. by L. MISKY.
- Wr. sl. frayed and dogeared.
AND 2 others, both Polish, by E. LIGOCKI and B. OBERTYŃSKA.
- Fine copy. = Monod 6225.
- Traces of bookplate(?) on first blank, w. some offsetting on htitle. Backstrip sl. cracking; sm. dam. spot at foot.
= Monod 4084; Carteret IV, p.147: "Une des meilleures illustrations de l'artiste. Édition cotée, surtout en grand papier." SEE ILLUSTRATION ON TITLE-PAGE.
- Sl. foxed.
= Rare portfolio containing pre-Rorschach coffee-stain interpretations made while Kaulbach, Echter and Muhr worked together on the murals in the Neue Museum in Berlin.
- Two duplicate pages included twice in part III and intentionally pasted together (with lower outer blank corner cut off). Both vols. sl. worn along joints. One slipcase (of 4to vol.) paper sl. worn at base. Otherwise fine.
= UNIQUE DELUXE COPY with colophon in the first volume filled out in manuscript in pen and ink by the binder/ publisher and reading as follows: "Réservé à l'exemplaire contenant les originaux à la plume et les corrections de colours. [SIGNED:] René Kieffer". Monod 9182. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to "Hein Kohn" on the colophon leaf.
- Lacks the first etching.