[Brett, Simon]: Lee, Brian North. BOOKPLATES BY SIMON BRETT. The Fleece Press, Wakefield, 1989.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Small octavo. Half grey morocco and decorated boards, spine lettered in gilt. Frontis and illustrations. Fine in slipcase. First edition, deluxe issue. From an edition of 260 numbered copies, printed on Zerkall mould made paper, this is one of forty copies specially bound, and signed by Brett. Four original proof engravings of bookplates, numbered and signed by Brett, are secured under a flap in the rear.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Lee, Brian North & Simon Brett (Bookplate Designer; 1943- ).. Bookplates by Simon Brett [One of 40 Special Signed Copies with 4 Signed Proof Engravings].. The Fleece Press. Printed & published by Simon Lawrence Netherton, Wakefield. One of 40 copies (of a total of 260), with the 4 signed prints numbered: 22/xc [22/40]., 1989.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: [Colophon]: "Simon Lawrence printed and published this book at his Fleece Press in late 1989 on dampened Zerkall mould made paper. Bill Hughes set the type, 10pt Spectrum, at Solo-Type. There are 220 copies bound in cloth and patterned paper created by Simon Brett, and 40 signed copies [this copy is one on the 40] bound in quarter leather which also contain four proof engravings signed by the artist. [signed]: Simon Brett." 5 1/4 in. x 7 3/4 in., frontispiece of a bookplate; title-page printed in red and black; contents with list of illustrations. [1]-[57] + signed colophon page, with the 4 proof engravings in a pocket in the inner back cover. Illustrated with the Simon Brett bookplate designs, and a mounted bookplate on p. [35]; with notes on the plates; chronology: 1969-89; and: The artist's approach Gray leather spine and sides with the title gilt-lettered on the spine, and violet & black patterned paper, designed by Simon Brett, over boards; gray-green endpapers, in the publisher's sturdy, gray cloth-covered slipcase. With the former owner's frog design bookplate (designed by Leo Wyatt) on the front paste-down. The very scarce signed edition with the four signed and numbered proofs [List of the bookplates featured]: John Gartner; Anthony Baker; Harry Robertson Page; Patricia Morison; Richard Thompson; David Collison; Clive Stewart-Lockhart; William Darby; Betty Wood; Rosemary Luck; P & D Colnaghi; St. John's School, Marlborough; Matthew Ellis; Hal Burton; Rebecca Parker; David Sloss; Nicholas Dudley; The Folio Society; James Davis; Peter Giffard; William R. Chambers; Peter Parker; H.R.H.; (Davis family); James Wilson; J. H. W.; Linda Sloss; Nicholas Ray; Alexander Schwartz. Loose prints in the special copies: Nicholas Dudley; John Gartner; Rosemary Luck; Peter Parker.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.