1228 - 1692 FINE PRINTING (including ILLUSTRATED BOOKS and CARICATURE)
- Backstrip sl. dam.
= One of 10 lettered copies on "Keizerlijk Japansch parelmoerpapier". Reid A34, lists 10 copies marked "A" to "J" (our copy marked "B").
- Free endpapers w. some offsetting; trifle foxed.
= Van Dijk 341; Reid A19 a: "Described in the colophon as 'a private experiment in illustration and typography by the engraver of the plates, who offers no other excuse for this publication'. All plates printed by J.B.W. himself." Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; some offsetting on free endpapers.
= Reid A1 and p.36/37; Van Dijk 214.
Idem. Letters to Fanny Brawne. With three poems and three additional letters. Introd. by J.F. Otten. Maastr., The Halcyon Press, 1931, (6),117,(3)p., woodengr. frontisp. portrait by J. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, printed in 356 numb. copies (325), orig. gilt cl.
- Brown offsetting on first free endpaper and colophon. Spine sunned; upper joint w. tiny dam. spot.
= Reid A6; Van Dijk 246.
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 copies on handmade paper, orig. gilt cl.
- Endpapers sl. foxed and w. some offsetting. Binding vaguely discol. along upper edges and spine.
= Reid A11; Van Dijk 302.
- A few (±5) text lvs. w. large brownish stains; occas. trifle foxed (incl. endpapers); some offsetting from bookplate on first free endpaper.
= One of 100 copies bound by SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE in full gilt vellum, SIGNED in the colophon by the artist. With woodengr. bookplate "Ex libris G.H. 's Gravesande" by M.C. ESCHER (Bool 322; Jaquinta p.33) on upper pastedown. Cockalorum 175; Franklin p.324; Reid A47 and p.41/42: "(...) In the darkest days of wartime London, Buckland Wright began work on Endymion by John Keats (...), published in 1947 and generally considered to be his magnum opus as well as one of the finest books produced by the Golden Cockerel Press". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.
= Reid A23; Cockalorum 113.
- Spine sl. faded. = Buckland-Wright A54; Cock-a-Hoop 183; Franklin p.332.
- Backstrip sl. faded. Good copy.
= One of 175 copies on Barcham Green's handmade paper with special watermark. Reid A9; Van Dijk 288.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Spine sl. sunned. = Reid A8b; Van Dijk 290. One ill. present in duplicate. Rare.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; endpapers foxed. Spine sunned.
= Halcyon Press 5. SIGNED by the author, illustrator and publisher. Van Dijk 291; Buckland Wright A10; The Ideal Book p.109f.
- Some usual foxed spots. Three tiny inkstains on frontwrapper. Otherwise a very fine copy.
= With signed dedication by the artist on the colophon: "For Jan Greshoff and from the illustrator John Buckland Wright 1933". 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). Reid A12 mentions three editions: 1st ed., 50 copies, white line engraving (this 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 XLIII.
= Reid A48; Cockalorum 178.
AND 1 other: OMAR KHAYYAM, Kwatrijnen. Dutch transl. Ponticus (= H.W.J.M. Keuls) (n.pl. (Utr.), 1944, ills. by J. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, printed in 525 numb. copies (500), orig. wr., 4to).
= Reid A57; Cock-a-Hoop 185.
AND 1 other: S. MALLARMÉ, L'Apres-midi d'un Faune. Transl. A. Huxley (London, 1956, ills. by J. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, printed in 200 numb. copies, orig. gilt hmor., t.e.g., 4to).
= De Jong 130; Van Laar 184.
- Wrappers some sl. foxing; vague vertical fold throughout. = Engels 64-69. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIII.
- Sl. foxed. Lower margin of frontcover sl. waterstained (w. reddish edge).
AND 2 other editions of the same work: a good/ fine copy of the 2nd edition (orig. pict. cl. Bookplate and owner's entry on upper endpaper. Sl. smaller than the first ed.) and a copy of the 3rd edition (orig. pict. boards. Upper hinge weak; joints partly split (upper joint repaired w. tape); owner's entry and traces of ticket on first free endpaper. Enl. with extra chapter (p.113-119); also sl. smaller than the first ed.).
= One of 15 Roman numb. copies bound in vellum, w. orig. slipcase.