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Price: US$535.10 + shipping
Description: Wood-engraved frontispiece Of an edition of 200 copies, this is one of 188 in quarter morocco. Set in Monotype Van Dijck on Barcham Green Sandwich. Printed in red and black Folio Fine copy, as new, in solander box, spine with printed label Rogerson 12 Green quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt, Sage Reynolds paste paper boards, by Smith Settle, Barcham Green Charter Oak handmade end-papers
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$573.32 + shipping
Description: Number '147' of two hundred numbered copies printed on hand-made Barcham Green Sandwich paper on an 1853 Albion Press. Of the 200 copies, 188 were bound by Smith Settle in quarter green leather and paste paper created by Sage Reynolds in New York; 12 copies were bound by James Brockman, Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, to his own design in full leather. Gilt lettering to the spine, uncut page block, sage green endpapers. Book housed in an original blue cloth-covered clamshell box. Folio. pp. [50] with 18 (including frontispiece) full-page, and two small engravings printed from the original blocks. A book in Fine condition in a Fine clamshell box.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Size of binding: 10 ¼ in. x 13 ½ in. Number 170 of 188 (of a total of 200) copies. There are 17 full-size and 2 smaller wood engravings, produced between 1925 and 1934. Bound in quarter green leather by Smith Settle and paste paper created by Sage Reynolds of New York. In a green cloth-covered drop-back box with a printed title label on the spine. The interior of this drop-back box shows a little light tanning from contact with the leather sides. Weight is 3 lbs. Postage may be extra for this item.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2340.00 + shipping
Description: 342 x 260 mm. (13 1/2 x 10 1/4"). 6 p.l., 16 leaves of engravings, [1] leaf (colophon).With an Introduction by George Tute. ARTFUL BLACK MOROCCO BY JAMES BROCKMAN (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers with thin strips of white, gray, and matte black morocco arranged in an abstract design, upper cover with a couple dozen short gilt lines resembling rainfall, smooth spine, edges untrimmed. Housed in a taupe linen box lined with felt and with gilt lettered black morocco label. With frontispiece, 16 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS (some with tissue guards), one headpiece, and a small vignette on colophon, all by Leon Underwood and printed from the original blocks. âIn mint condition. This is a special copy of a beautiful tribute to the wood engravings of Leon Underwood, an artist, teacher, and founder of the Brook Green School, covered here by one of the leading English binders of our time. George Claude Leon Underwood (1890-1975) was an artist proficient in several disciplines, producing notable work as a sculptor, painter, etcher, and engraver in the course of his long career. In 1921 he opened the Brook Green School of Drawing, where his pupils included the renowned sculptor Henry Moore as well as wood engravers Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes, who went on to produce excellent work for the Gregynog Press. Produced mostly during the 1920s and 30s, Underwood's wood engravings primarily explore spiritual and figural themes, and several engravings reveal the strong influence of Aztec and Mayan art, which Underwood encountered during his travels to Mexico in 1928. In his introduction to the present work, wood engraver George Tute summarizes the artist's enduring impact on the artform: "Underwood's contribution, like the man, was potent and influential, and it was no accident that some of the most interesting work in the medium this century can be associated with him and those who came under his sway." The binding here clearly derives inspiration from Underwood's engravings, utilizing thin lines of white, gray, and black morocco to achieve a strong, graphic look, while the lashes of gilt resemble the hatching effect that Underwood frequently utilized in his engravings. A past president of Designer Bookbinders and the Society of Bookbinders, James Brockman (b. 1946) apprenticed as a finisher at Blackwell's, studied with Ivor Robinson, and served as assistant to Sydney Cockerell at Cambridge from 1968-73. Three years later, he opened his own bindery in Oxford, which he co-operates with his son Stuart, and which continues to produce work that is highly sought after by bibliophiles. While not always the case, the first numbered copy of a private press publication (as seen here) is often reserved for someone of special importance, either generally or in connection with the book in question. No. 1 OF 12 SPECIAL COPIES bound by James Brockman, from a total edition of 200.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.