Sarda, Daniel. Conte de Maitre Espapidour. Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$128.33 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Hardback, original limp full vellum with leather thongs, gilt titles to front. 21 x 14cm. [16]pp. Litho printed in gold and colours on Japon vellum. One of an edition of 500 copies. Partially unopened. An excellent copy.

Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom

Nonesuch Press. Sarda (Daniel) One of 500 copies "imprimés par Vincent Brooks Day & Son sous la direction de la Nonesuch Press à Londres". Conte de Maitre Espapidour. Privately printed for Mrs Fern L. Bedaux, New York,, 1927.

Price: US$134.74 + shipping

Description: 8vo Fine copy. Very scarce Printed by lithography on japon, the eleven text pages with richly coloured and decorated initials and borders in the manner of an illuminated manuscript. While Dreyfus, McKitterick and Rendall state that the book was "only supervised in its technical production" by Francis Meynell, we feel sure that he must have designed the binding, so strongly reminiscent of his own edition of Beedome issued in the following year. Full limp vellum with leather thongs, title within flourished cartouche in gilt on upper cover

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom

Sarda, Daniel, and Fern L. Bedaux. Conte de maître Espapidour. Cinq cents exemplaires imprimés par Vincent Brooks Day & Son sous la direction de la Nonesuch Press á Londres pour Mrs. Fern L. Bedaux de New York, London, 1927.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: [16] p. (pages [1-2], [4], and last page, are blank) : col. ill. ; 21 cm. One of 500 unnumbered copies. Title page printed in red. Text printed on Japon vellum in blackletter with illustrated borders in the manner of a fifteenth century illuminated manuscript. Covers in vellum, gilt title within oval decorated border, gatherings hand-stitched, and sewn with four thin leather thongs visible through small square windows cut on either side of the spine. Housed in a custom clamshell case of quarter bound crushed Morocco and linen over boards . Condition: Fine. A copy virtually without flaw. Ex-Libris Sir Thomas Ramsay, with his embossed stamp to ffep. Ramsay was a MP in the 1930's who later went on to become an Australian collector of some note. "His collection of New Zealand church and school histories resides in the Alexander Turnbull Library in New Zealand. Many of the books and pamphlets are marked with Ramsay's blind stamp "T.M.R. Library of T.M. Ramsay".

Seller: DuBois Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.