1815 - 2226 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
- Front of cloth box partly sprinkled with sm. white specks. Otherwise fine.
= A project of the Dutch organisation of small presses, Stichting Drukwerk in de Marge, produced in 45 numb. sets. The booklets, printed by 26 different Dutch private presses, have as common theme "Drukken" (printing), otherwise they show a great variety of printing methods and materials used. Some contributing presses: Avalon Pers, In de Bonnefant, Frans de Jong, De Lange Afstand, Ser J.L. Prop, De Slofpers, Sub Signo Libelli, De Veerpers and Hester Verkruissen.
Bladwijzerproject. (Santpoort), (Mercator Pers), 1987, title-/ colophon-leaf and 32 bookmarkers, all 7x20 cm. (1x smaller), printed in 90 copies, in dec. board slipcase in black perspex box by BINDERIJ PHOENIX.
- Board slipcase needs to be glued back onto base of perspex box.
= Bookmarkers printed by i.a. Avalon Pers, Mercatorpers, Eric van der Wal, The Cherub Press, De Lange Afstand, Hein Elferink, Hans van Eijk, De Ammoniet, Slofpers. A project of Drukwerk in de Marge, the Dutch association of private press printers.
- Lacks orig. serigr. slipcase. Fine.
= Monod 7280; The Artist and the Book 140: "Dubuffet's illustrations here are in the manner he developed after 1962 in the HOURLOUPE series which began, according to Loreau, when the artist was drawing distractedly during a telephone call in July 1962 and which was shown in the Jeanne Bucher Gallery in 1967."
- All vols. w. owner's entry in blue ink on htitle, dated 1921-1922. One vol. rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip; all vols. sl. worn along extremities; one vol. lower joint weak.
= Hughey, 27j, 27k, 27n.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities. = Hughey 47a.
Dulac, E. Picture-Book for the French Red Cross. London etc., iidem, n.d. (1915), (8),134,(2)p., tipped-in portrait and 19 col. plates by E. DULAC, orig. dec. cl., 4to.
- Occas. sl. foxed. = Hughey 39d.
AND 2 others illustrated by the same: Hughey 39e and 47i(?).
- Foxed as usual; remnants of former bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Rare. Hughey 16rr; cf. Braches 2062: "onbekende portefeuille of band". Braches discovered the original designs for the decoration by J.G. Veldheer.
- Occasionally trifle foxed. Plate on frontcover sl. scratched, otherwise a fine copy.
= Hughey 16ss.
Duizend en één nacht. Arabische vertellingen. Dutch adapt. by M.A.L.J. Cuypers. Zeist, De Torentrans, 1939, 315p., 50 tipped-in col. plates and orig. giltlettered cl. with mounted col. plate by E. DULAC, 4to (occas. sl. foxed). Andersen, H.C. Sprookjes. Ed. J. van der Moer. Alkm., Gebr. Kluitman, n.d. (1915), 2nd ed., (4),172p., 9 col. plates and orig. gilt dec. cl. by E. DULAC, 4to. - AND 2 others illustrated by the same.
- Sl. foxed. Cloth sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Hughey 16b. Hughey noted the 2nd edition as with the plates dispersed throughout the work but our copy with mention of the 2nd edition on verso of title but with the plates mounted on grey art paper and bound in at end of volume (as Hughey 16a, 1st edition).
AND 2 other editions of the same work: Hughey 16x and 16y.
- Foxed. Dustwrapper strengthened w. scotch tape at top of spine on verso.
= Hughey 21g. With on verso title-p.: ''Printed from the second edition by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ld." and on verso of final text leaf "Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable".
Housman, L. Princess Badoura. A tale from the Arabian Nights. Ibid., idem, n.d. (1910), (6),113,(1)p., 10 tipped-in col. plates by E. DULAC, orig. gilt and dec. cl., 4to.
- Trifle foxed. = Hughey 31a.
Andersen, H.C. Stories. Ibid., idem, 1912, 2nd ed., VIII,250,(2)p., 28 tipped-in col. plates, bookdecoration and orig. gilt cl. by E. DULAC, 4to (Hughey 27e). - AND 1 other illustrated by the same: Hughey 19j.
- Hinges weak; some lvs. loose(ning); sl. foxed. Binding w. sm. imperfections. = Hughey 21r.
ADDED: Britsche Baladen. Transl. A. Verwey. Amst., Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1920, (10),198,(1)p., 16 tipped-in col. plates by A. RACKHAM, printed in 550 numb. copies, orig. cl. w. mounted plate on frontcover, sm. folio.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper and first blank. Cloth sl. soiled. Good copy.
- Usual foxing inside. Dam. at spine-ends. = Not in Hughey.
Quiller-Couch, A.T. (ed.). De Schoone Slaapster en andere sprookjes. Dutch adapt. E. Couperus. Ibid., idem, n.d. (1911), 115p., 29 tipped-in col. plates E. DULAC, printed in 350 numb. copies, orig. gilt mor. by E.P. VAN BOMMEL w. mounted col. plate by E. DULAC, folio.
- Usual foxing. = Hughey 23w0.
- Fine copy. = Hughey 72a.
Beauclerk, H. The Green Lacquer Pavilion. Glasgow, W. Collins, 1926, 3rd printing, (6),319,(1)p., 10 ills. by E. DULAC, orig. gilt cl. (Hughey 67c). Queen of Roumania (= Carmen Sylva). The Dreamer of Dreams. London etc., Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. (1916), reprint ed., (8),177,(2)p., 6 tipped-in col. plates and orig. dec. cl. by E. DULAC, 4to (Hughey 38a). Hawthorne, N. Tanglewood Tales. Ibid., idem, n.d. (1918), (10),244,(1)p., 14 tipped-in col. plates by E. DULAC, orig. dec. cl., 4to (Hughey 51a).
= One of 28 Roman numb. copies w. a suite of 4 numb. and monogr. etchings.
The Poems on Llywarch Hen. Market Drayton, The Tern Press, 1976, (79)p., woodcut ills. by N. PARRY, printed in 100 numb. and signed copies, orig. clothbacked boards (w. loosely inserted prospectus). Carey, J. Vegetable Gardening. Cambridge, Rampant Lions Press, 1989, (20)p., tinted linocut ills. by C. MELINSKY, printed in 500 numb. copies (480), orig. clothbacked dec. boards, large 8vo. - AND 2 others.
- Hinges broken; first pict. endpapers w. dampstain near fold. Spine dam. covers rubbed/ sl. (dust)soiled.
= Pioneering Art Deco children's book, telling a Robin Crusoe-like tale of a boy's trip to the tropics and back. Monod 7055; not in Carteret.
= Monod 4236.
Sorg, R. (ed.). Les chansons de Callianthe, fille de Ronsard. Ibid., L. Pichon, 1926, 92,(3)p., frontisp. portrait, woodcut vignettes by P. VERA, printed in 400 numb. copies (340), orig. wr., 4to. - AND 2 others.
- With owner's stamp and (different) owner's entry in pen and ink on first free endpaper and title-p.; occas. trifle foxed. Binding sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities.
- Two opposite leaves sl. foxed and sl. creased. Vague crack in upper half of backstrip; joints trifle rubbed at spine-ends; covers trifle thumbed and backcover sl. darkened along top margin.
= With a loosely inserted errata-leaflet. Franklin p.257; Tomkinson 2.
- Free endpapers browned as usual; foxed spot in lower margin of first 3 blanks. Covers sl. foxed on and along spine; paper over joints splitting (joint not affected).
= Franklin p.259; Tomkinson 26.


























