Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sold by Hacon & Ricketts. Limited to 310 copies. Designed by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) and engraved on wood by Keates. New Vale monogram. Printed in the Avon type on lighter paper with the mermaid watermark. Seen through the press by T.S. Moore Green Cloth with stamped geometric design and a gilt stamped title. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear; spine darkened, minor rubs on lower corners. Background Information: Richett's arranged to have the Vale Press publications printed at the Ballantyne Press as private press books by a carefully chosen selection of compositors, readers, pressmen and binders freed from the everyday demands of the press. [Watry] Charles Ricketts was a British artist, illustrator, author and printer, known for his work as a book designer and typographer and for his costume and scenery designs for plays and operas. Ricketts first made his mark in book production, first as an illustrator, and then as the founder and driving force of the Vale Press (1896-1904), one of the leading private presses of the day, for which he designed the type and illustrations. A disastrous fire at the printers led to the closure of the press, and Ricketts turned increasingly to painting and sculpture over the following two decades. [Tate] Ref: Ricketts, xxxiv; L'Art Ancient, 63; Watley, B44/34; Kells, p275ff
Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA- FABA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
Shakespeare, William. The Second Part of Henry VI (The Vale Shakespeare). Vale Press, London, 1903.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "This Edition of The Second Part of King Henry VI has been seen through the press by T. S. Moore. Decorated by Charles Ricketts under whose supervision the book has been printed at the Ballantyne Press. M. D. C.C.C.C.I.I.I." Very Good pale green cloth Hardcover with arts & crafts style blocking to front and back boards, deckle page edges, and gilt titling to spine. Mild shelf wear, spine age-toned, cloth slightly rippled along fore-edge of front board, previous owner's bookplate to front flyleaf. Text clean & unmarked.
Seller: O'Gara and Wilson, Ltd. LLC, Chesterton, IN, U.S.A.
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Second Part of Henry VI. Ballantyne Press /Vale Press, London, 1903.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Border designs by Charles Ricketts. Thin 8vo, light green cloth, stamped in blind with a design by Ricketts, and in gilt on the spine. (London: Vale Press, 1903). Limited Edition. This edition was seen through the press by T.S. Moore, and printed at the Ballantyne Press, as part of the Vale Shakespeare. One of 310 (unstated) copies. The spine is slightly darkened and rubbed, but the interior is immaculate and partially unopened.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.