1815 - 2226 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
= One of 42 Roman numb. copies with a suite of 8 woodcuts (1x handcol.), all signed and numb. by Frank Martin in pencil (these woodcuts are not present in the book). And 4 picture postcards.
= Sarkowski 262.
- With stamp "Bibliotheek Pulchri" on title-p. and final leaf. Frontwrapper lacks upper outer corner and chipped along outer edge; paper ticket at top of spine.
- Sl. foxed and occas. offsetting from opposite pages. Free endpapers dam.; first blanks browned; covers soiled and sl. dam.
= Famous fashion book, finely designed with colourful pochoir illustrations, which according to Poiret 'would be sent to all the great women of the world'. The work revolutionised the fashion catalogue and signified the definitive breakthrough of Poiret and Iribe.
- Slightly later owner's entry on upper pastedown (M. Florence Gibbs, 1921) and stamp on bookblock. Binding sl. rubbed.
= The 13 engravings by David Jones were first printed in 1926 at the Golden Cockerell Press. The original woodblocks were used. With prospectus loosely inserted.
- A few lvs. and flimsies trifle foxed. Leather spine sl. dried out and rubbed.
= Attractive Art Nouveau illustrations and bookdecoration, i.a. the endpapers by Walter Crane. Spencer, Walter Crane, p.135f and 204.
- Plastic dustwr. (formerly) attached to pastedowns leaving some traces of glue on upper pastedown.
Helman, A. De stille plantage. The Hague, Nijgh en Van Ditmar, (1981), (28),254,(4)p., orig. cl. in matching orig. slipcase.
= One of 500 numb. and signed copies, containing an orig. etching by D. STOLWIJK and published on occasion of the 50th anniversary since the first edition of De stille plantage was publlshed (1931).
AND 8 others, incl. several small commemorative publications printed in a lim. edition and a few clandestinely published works during World War II.
- Edges of contents browned; occas. trifle/ sl. foxed; free endpapers browned. Joints starting/ splitting; (sl.) dam. at spine-ends; backstrip w. vertical crease and sl. sunned; corners (sl.) worn.
- First and final few lvs. sl. foxed, otherwise contents fine. Binding lacks ties; covers sl. rubbed/ trifle soiled.
= One of 260 deluxe copies bound in gilt vellum, t.e.g. Houfe, p.318; Peppin & Micklethwaite, p.124.
- Boards sl. yellowed/ dustsoiled. Otherwise good/ fine.
= One of 250 numb. copies SIGNED by the author and artist.
- Box sl. soiled and rubbed at corners.
= The poems were published, partly w. variants, as a section in Gesloten circuit (Amst., 1982). The manuscript comprises: (1). (title); (2). "Herinnering" [Gc p.39: "Souvenir"]; (3). "Nieuwsgierigheid" [Gc p.40]; (4). (without title) [Gc p.41: "Schaduw"]; (5/6). (without title) [Gc p.42: "Cargo"]; (7/8). (without title) [Gc p.43: "Schillen"]; (9). "Kortsluiting" [Gc p.44]; (10/11). "Vergeetachtigheid" [Gc p.45: "Vergetelheid" ]; (12). "Obstakel" [Gc p.46 ]; (13). "Compressie" [Gc p.47 ]. An interesting manuscript in a remarkable binding by ERIK SCHOTS. - WITH a copy of Gesloten circuit (orig. wr.) included in the lot.
- Slipcase sl. (dust)soiled and vague waterstain at foot. Otherwise fine.
= One of 20 Roman numb. DELUXE copies on Ossekop Antiek Druk (20), bound in giltlettered hcalf, in orig. cl. box, with an orig. numb. and signed aquatint etching by CHARLES HOFMAN; signed by the author and illustrator.
- Endpapers browned; bookplate on upper pastedown. Vellum. sl. dustsoiled.
= Braches 661.
= Jurgens 252 and 261 (also 943 and 944).
- Wrappers sl. waterstained in upper corners and sl. creased along spine. Contents fine.
= Unnumb. "H.C." copy. Jurgens 261.
- Frontcover partly faded and paper over vellum partly worn away. = Horodisch 99.
- Fine unopened copy. = The second publication of the Kunera Press. The Ideal Book p.84 and ills. 78-79.





































