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Description: Limited edition, number 281 of 325 copies printed on Dutch Pannekoek laid paper (from a total edition of 376). Quarto. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt vignette by John Buckland-Wright to the upper board and titles in gilt to the spine. Page edges untrimmed, with many pages unopened. Illustrated with a wood engraved portrait frontispiece and 10 further wood-engraved plates by Buckland-Wright. With the bookplate for Helge Loewenberg-Domp to the front pastedown. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little wear to the corners and spine ends, a few minor marks to the lower board and a touch of fading to the spine. The contents with a little toning to the endpapers are otherwise clean and bright throughout. An attractive example of John Buckland-Wright's first illustrated book. (Reid A1d). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$5088.64 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Number XXV of XXXV (376) copies printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, with a double set of proofs of 11 wood-engravings, signed on the colophon by the artist, and specially bound. Type: Van Krimpen Romanee. Illustrated with 11 full-page wood-engravings, with two extra sets of proof engravings, one on Japon vellum, one on Dutch Pannekoek paper, bound in. Full dark blue shagreen with five raised bands by Louis Malcorps, signed in gilt on the front turn-in, marbled endpapers, predominantly peacock-blue sprinkled with gold, upper board blocked in gold to a design by the artist, gilt spine titling, t.e.g. Engraved book label of James Fuller Spoerri on front endpaper. Head and tail of spine just faintly rubbed. Cloth chemise with morocco spine label, slipcase. A very good to fine copy. The 376 copies were composed as follows: (a) 1 copy with a triple set of proofs, 5 rejected engravings and with the original sketches; (b) 15 copies with the triple set of 16 wood engravings; (c) 35 copies with the double set of proofs of 11 wood engravings; (d) 325 copies with 11 wood engravings. Some copies of (b) and (c)were never bound. These were issued in sheets in a slipcase or remain undistributed. All the bound copies have J.B.W.'s design of a nude female blocked in gold on the upper cover. This was Buckland-Wright's first published book. (See: Reid A1c)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom