Private Press
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First edition, number 9 of 100 specially bound copies, from an overall limitation of 750; folio (310 x 190 mm.); printed in dark green throughout, wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette, 6 chapter headings and device, all by John Buckland-Wright, one full-page map of the east coast of Australia; full green morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edge gilt, others uncut, spine very slightly lightened, but otherwise an excellent copy; housed in original cloth slip-case, lightly marked.
£1,650 -
Limited editions, the Apocrypha number 1024 of 1250, the others one of 1,000 unnumbered copies; 5 vols; copper engraved pictorial titles, head and tailpieces by Stephen Gooden, tissue guards, faint spotting to endpapers, otherwise fine; publisher's decorated boards, faint spotting to upper cover (vol. III only), slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, toned, otherwise very good.
£450 -
Number 60 of 150 copies signed by the artist; 8vo; German language printed in black letter, 15 original etchings by Hubert Sommerauer; publisher's black textured leather binding lettered in gilt, original blue board slip-case, an excellent copy.
£400 -
4 vols, presentation dedication from Francis Meynell on front free endpaper of the Comedies; 8vo; woodcut title vignettes, pictorial dedications and part-title devices by Reynolds Stone, Shakespeare portrait by Leonard Beaumont; publisher's buckram-backed marbled boards, a fine set, in the original card slip-case, slightly worn.
£300 -
First edition, number 14 of 350 copies signed by Anthony Kerrigan, Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin and Bernard Childs; large 8vo (245 x 160 mm.); printed in black & brown, 8 illustrations by Bernard Childs; publisher's leather-backed green boards in matching board slip-case with printed title label, a very good copy.
£225 -
Limited to 300 numbered copies on Batchelor hand-made paper, large 4to., title printed in red and black, marginal notes printed in red, 12 full-page etchings and watermark by Elizabeth Corsellis, original quarter blue morocco over tan cloth by Zaehnsdorf, a tad rubbed on spine and corners, otherwise near-fine.
£600 -
First edition; 4to; sixteen colour plates, a little spotting to original preliminary and terminal blanks, otherwise near-fine, later binding of half-red morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt, spine a little faded, otherwise very handsome.
£250 -
number 56 of 75 deluxe copies signed by the author and artist and with an additional original signed etching by hughie o'donoghue, from an overall limitation of 450; 4to; tipped-in colour illustrations by Hughie O'Donoghue; publisher's green cloth with inset colour illustration, uncut, original colour etching numbered and signed in pencil, loose as issued in original card folder, together in cloth slip-case.
£2,250 -
One of 500 copies, small 4to., original quarter blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering direct, top edge gilt, others uncut, a little sunned and rubbed at spine, some light marking to cloth.
£180 -
Number 117 of 500 copies, 8vo., woodcut title device and illustrations by John O'Connor, original buckram-backed marbled cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, a little rubbed at extremities, minor bumping to fore-corner tips.
£75