1072 - 1314 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
- Binding trifle scratched. = Leblanc p.243, note.
Double Crown Club. Rules of the Club. Roll of Past and Present Members. List of Dinners. Ibid., printed by Bernard Roberts at the John Roberts Press, 1969, 104,(1)p., printed in 130 copies, orig. giltlettered hcl. w. marbled boards. - AND 14 others related to the Double Crown Club, i.a. invitations to dinners no.130 (w. an essay by Stanley Morrison), 276, 313, 310, 322, 323, 327, 337, 339 and W. RITCHIE, Ashendene and the Double Crown Club. Some remembrances by - (London, 1979, printed by Ward Ritchie in ±60 copies, marbled wr.).
= One of 130 numb. copies on Arches w. a col. woodengraving by R. DUFY printed on silk. Monod 6913.
- Hinges broken; upper 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.
- Fine copy. = Monod 443. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXV.
- Spine-ends dam. Otherwise fine.
= The rare first edition of this scarce novel on homosexuality ("Amour inverti").
- First etching w. 2 sm. brown stains. Otherwise fine. = Monod 5187.
AND 1 other: P. LOUYS, Psyché (ibid., 1973, col. plates by G. JOFFRIN, orig. gilt dec. hmor., t.e.g., slipcase, 4to).
- Binding trifle rubbed along extremities. Fine copy.
= One of a very small number of copies made after the manuscript kept at the 'Enfer'. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 614; cf. Kearney 1391: "(...) Le Panier aux Ordures is a collection of exceedingly licentious songs and poems by Armand Gouffé, Bruneau, Brazier, Antignac etc., taken from a manuscript preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. An English collector, Richard Monckton Milnes had a copy of this taken and in 1865 caused a small edition to be published at London in facsimile of his manuscript. This edition was presumably that issued by J.C. Hotten (...). It is possible that the following two entries [1392 and 1393] are for the collector's manuscript copy and an exemplar of Hotten's published edition respectively."; K.1392: "a calligraphic manuscript, the text decorated with erotic vignettes." and K.1393: "... a lithographed facsimile of the preceding (...) n.p., n.d. (London? c.1865). (...) very rare edition (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.
- A few foxed spots, otherwise fine. Chemise and slipcase dam. Otherwise fine.
= Monod 731. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.
- Some foxing. Top of spine trifle dam.; joints splitting at spine-ends.
= Reprint of the ed. 1797, publ. in the series Vieux Bouquins, Vieilles Histoires, with a publisher's cat. of the series at the end.
- Very fine copy. = Pia, Livres de l'Enfer p.890; Batten 79.
AND 1 other: P. MAC ORLAN, Les vrais mémoires de Fanny Hill (Paris, 1929, ills. by the author, printed in 1000 numb. copies (50), orig. wr. One of 50 numb. copies printed on papier de Montval. Fine copy).
- Frontcover portfolio lacks sm. piece of lower right corner (
= "Avec un inédit de Pierre Louÿs". Series of erotic prints, inspired by a text by Pierre Louÿs.
- Foot of spine trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.
= Untraced edition, possibly a reprint of the 1942 edition. Copy w. an uncoloured suite of the plates w. remarques.
= Splendid publication. With the prospectus loosely inserted.
= An almost complete collection of publications by this press, a few publications outside the order and some publications printed for others. All neatly kept in envelopes and chronologically ordered. With a printed list.
= With loosely inserted col. linocut cards and with a letter from the artist/ publisher.
AND 7 others similar by the same, all w. (handcol.) wood- or linocuts, all hcl., sm. 4to/ 8vo: Day at the races (n.d., 60 copies), Trip to the seaside (n.d., 60 copies, poems by Anne Jones), Trip to Tunisia (1999, 110 copies), Tunisia Revisited (2001, 110 copies), The Book Shop (2000, 200 copies, w. prospectuses), Alphabet of People (2005, 110 copies) and Market Visitors (2011, 60 copies). - AND WITH: 11 New Year's wishes by the artist, all w. woodcut ill., all signed in pen.
= With a loosely inserted prospectus leaf.
= One of 210 copies with 16 woodengravings by the artist, printed from the original blocks and with a cloth slipcase.