1072 - 1314 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
= Derde uitwisselingsproject. "In de tweede helft van augustus 1989 verschijnt de serie Bladspiegeling, het derde uitwisselingsproject van De Blauwe Scheen. De opdracht aan de deelnemers was een bloemlezing samen te stellen met een omvang van acht, of meer bladzijden tekst plus titelpagina en colofon, en deze te drukken in een oplage van vijfenzestig exemplaren. Elk boekje meet 22,5x14,5 cm. en heeft minstens twee katerns. Zesentwintig marginale drukkers hebben elk hun idee van een bloemlezing uitgewerkt. Aan de serie is een inhoudsopgave toegevoegd als zevenentwintigste boekje." (typescript prospectus). Contributions by i.a. Avalon Pers, In de Bonnefant, De Breukenpers, Linea Recta, Mercatorpers, De Oude Degel, Plim's Stoomdrukkerijen, De Priegelpers, Regulierenpers, Rosmarijnpers, De Veerpers and De Wisteria.
= B. SCHIERBEEK, Voor Nono (col. etched ill. by N. REINHOLD); G. ACHTERBERG, Illusie (etching by G. LATASTER) and H. MULISCH, Oud Lied ("gomme bichromatée" by H. BOTMAN). Provenance: the estate of Dick Cassée.
= Contains 11 poems that were not included in the Verzamelde gedichten.
Romijn Meijer, H. J.C. Bloem in het ziekenhuis. Terhorst, Ser J.L. Prop, 1983, (10)p., printed in black and blue in 100 numb. copies. - AND 8 others similar by (1 on) J.C. BLOEM.
= With the prospectus.
- Contents fine. Leather dried and raised bands and embossing on frontcover rubbed/ worn; lacks leather clasps.
- Covers and endpapers yellowed; backstrip and backcover (along spine) (sl.) foxed; binding cord defective.
= DELUXE edition, printed on Hollands paper and bound in hvellum, with the manuscript text of the title-p., colophon and the calligraphed captions to the illustrations (on opposite page) in (col.) pencil, crayon and watercolour ENTIRELY in the exuberant hand of Bodenheim.
- Covers and endpapers yellowed; frontcover some vague waterstains. Binding cord defective. With ex libris on upper pastedown ("M.D. Giltay Veth").
= DELUXE edition, printed on Hollands paper and bound in hvellum, with the manuscript text of the title-p., colophon and the calligraphed captions to the illustrations (on opposite page) in (col.) pencil, crayon and watercolour ENTIRELY in the exuberant hand of Bodenheim.
- With publisher's stamp of Editions Schott, Paris on title-page. Hinges weakening. Spine-ends dam.; sl. worn along extremities; covers and pastedowns partly foxed.
= Terrasse 6. One of Bonnard's earliest and most charming publications, a primer in musical notation for children, by his brother-in-law Claude Terrasse. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIV.
= With autograph signed dedication.
Middleton, C. Parabels en grotesken. Transl. H.C. ten Berge. Woubrugge, Avalon Pers, 2012, 29,(2)p., ill. by P. LAZAROV, printed in 120 numb. copies (30).
= One of 30 clothbound copies.
AND 25 others similar, mainly small publications printed in limited (numbered) editions.
- Contents loose; sl. offsetting from plates on textlvs.; ruststains from staples. Frontwr. sl. chipped; backwr. dam.
Rennes, J. van. Een Hollandsche kermis. Haarlem, Erven Bohn, n.d. (1897), (39)p., 12 lithogr. plates in black and red and orig. clothbound lithogr. board portfolio by W.F.A.J. VAARZON MOREL, folio.- Title-p. sl. foxed. Portfolio soiled, stained and backcover sl. dam.
AND: A. BRISSON, Nos Humoristes (Paris, n.d. (±1895), num. col. ills., orig. (dam.) wr., 4to).
Apuleius, L. The Golden Asse. Engl. transl. W. Adlington. Introd. E.B. Osborn. London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1923, XXXV,(1),282,(3)p., 16 (col.) plates (incl. frontisp.) and num. ills. by J. DE BOSSCHÈRE, printed in 3000 numb. copies, orig. gilt cl., t.e.g. (fine).
= Warmoes 456.
- Foot of spine of dustwr. sl chipped. Fine copy.
= This copy is one of a small number of late issue copies (with a yellow top edge instead of a gilt top edge) which contain the SIGNED COLOUR ETCHING by Jean de Bosschère that was intended to be included in the 100 copies bound in quarter vellum. These late issue copies often come with a smaller number of tinted plates due to the publisher's poor management practices. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIV.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Slipcase worn along extremities and joints sl. split. = Monod 8909; Rauch 109.
= Monod 1855.
- Spine sunned and sl. rubbed. Internally fine.
= One of 175 copies on Barcham Green's handmade paper with special watermark. Reid A9; Van Dijk 288.
- Lacks 7 plates from year 1. = Complete run of this fine periodical, edited by P. Gusman.
= With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION "Voor Jan Donkers met langdurende vriendschap Amsterdam 29 Juni 1993" on colophon.