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Price: US$74.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Volume 4 only of a four volume set. Full elaborately tooled leather, TEG. Hand-made paper edition, limited to 555 copies; printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston. Slight edgewear to boards. Tight and unmarked. ; Vol. 4; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Poetical Works of John Milton With Life of the Author and Illustrations R.H. Hinkley Company, Boston, 1908, Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press, Boston, #81-555, limited edition, sixteen illustrations, blind stamped pigskin bindings, complete in four volumes, 10 x 6.5, 8vo. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing to edges. Slight cracking and rubbing to joints. Corners exhibit red rot with light fraying. Spines slightly faded with light rubbing to bands. Ends lightly abraded as well. Front gutters slightly tender in each volume. Top edges gilt. Deckled edges are toned and slightly brittle. Internally good. Bright and clean. Free of ownership or markings. Pink stamped #81 in rear of texts. Bindings intact. Presents well. Please see photos. A lovely finely bound set of Miltons work produced by Updike at The Merrymount Press. The Merrymount Press was a printing company, both scholarly and craftsman like, founded and run by Daniel Berkeley Updike in Boston, Massachusetts from 1893-1941. It was perhaps the finest representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement in American book arts, influenced by William Morris Kelmscott Press. Founded to do common work uncommonly well. He called it The Merrymount Press in honor of Mount Wollaston just south of Boston.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: Four volumes. Illustrated with title-page design, borders, head- and tailpieces, and colophon decorations by W.A. Dwiggins printed in red. The 16 illustrations were adapted from Flaxman. Bound in full pigskin heavily embossed with decorative designs on spines and covers, t.e.g. Smith. Notes on the Merrymount Press, no. 319. Agner. The Books of WAD, no. 08.01. Vol. 1 with hinge cracking, but sound, the set with chipping to spine crowns and one foot
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Four volumes. Large octavo. Bound in full decorative pigskin, raised bands, stamped in blind, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Sixteen illustrations. One of 555 numbered sets, printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press on handmade paper. Life of Milton by John Mitford. The title-page rubrication, border illustrations and decorations are relatively early work by W. A. Dwiggins. The illustrations are adapted from Flaxman. (Updike. Notes on the Merrymount Press (1975), p. 142.) Imprinted upon hand-made paper. Among the most handsome editions produced by Updike at The Merrymount Press.The Merrymount Press was a printing company, both scholarly and craftsmanlike, founded and run by Daniel Berkeley Updike in Boston, Massachusetts, and extant during the years 1893¿1941. It was perhaps the finest representative of the Arts and Crafts movement in American book arts, influenced by William Morris and founded "to do common work uncommonly well." Updike established his own studio in 1893, first with the idea of designing type fonts, but soon after as a printing company. He called it the Merrymount Press in honor of Mount Wollaston just south of Boston. In 1896, Updike commissioned font designer Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue to design the Merrymount font for an Altar Book for the Episcopal Church. In 1904 Herbert Horne designed Montallegro for him, and noted graphic artist and print designer Rudolph Ruzicka (1883¿1978) also produced designs for the Press. In 1896 Updike also purchased the Caslon face; other types employed included Scotch Roman, Janson, Mountjoye and Oxford. Merrymount Press was the first American firm to use the Times New Roman font. In 1899 the Merrymount Press printed Edith Wharton¿s novels for Charles Scribner's Sons, which firmly established the press as a going commercial concern. The Press's finest work is generally considered to be the Book of Common Prayer (1930) financed by J. Pierpont Morgan. Without decoration, except a typographic leaf, initial letters, and rubrication, it was an austere and handsome quarto. Updike estimated that Merrymount Press produced some 14,000 pieces of printing during its existence. Much of it was for the private collectors¿ market and limited-editions clubs, but it also printed Christmas cards, bookplates, and advertising ephemera, as well as work for publishers, libraries, churches, and other institutions. Most of the Merrymount Press archives are conserved in the Boston Athenaeum.
Seller: Sean Fagan, Rare Books, Buford, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Salesman's Dummy comprising superb publisher's full pigskin binding with elaborate impressed designs and about 25 preliminary pages, with the remaining 200+ pages blank. Includes titlepage, selected pages as well as a dozen superb full-page illustrations by W. A. Dwiggins. A rare salesman's sample in impressive binding (special binding for the edition of four volumes). Near fine.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.