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Lamb, Charles. A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig, An Essay. Printing House of Leo Hart, Rochester, 1932.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan paper covers with yellow spine has light foxing to spine and fore edges. This book is #441/950 printed on Okawara paper under the direction of leo Hart . Illustrations are by Wilfred Jones (SIGNED ON LIMITATION PAGE) with typography by Will Ransom and Chinese characters by Sang Ho. The pages appear unread. Title on spine has some flaking to the T and O and light soil at top. Slipcase is heavily worn and rubbed.
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Lamb, Charles. DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG.|A. The Printing House of Leo Hart, Rochester, NY, 1932.
Price: US$114.00 + shipping
Description: small 8vo. quarter vellum with paper-covered boards, slipcase. 35, (3) pages. Printed on Okawara paper in an edition limited to 950 numbered copies. Rubbing to the slipcase. Else a near fine copy. Illustrated with 7 full-page hand colored wood blocks and 4 smaller ones on endpapers by Wilfred Jones, and signed by him on the limitation page. Typography by Will Ransom. Chinese characters in red drawn by Sang Ho. quarter vellum with paper-covered boards, slipcase
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Color illustrations. Signed by illustrator Wilfred Jones. Limited Edition, 879 of 950 copies. Quarter vellum in slipcase. Handmade paper, partially uncut. Food appreciation writing by 19th-century English essayist Charles Lamb. Very good, bookplate on verso of front free endpaper; shelf wear to slipcase.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$355.23 + shipping
Description: First edition with these illustrations. Octavo. pp [iv], 37. Colour illustrations printed in pochoir by Wilfred Jones. Pigskin-backed paper boards, lettered in red. Printed on oriental Okawara paper. Typography by Will Ransom, Chinese characters by Sang Ho. A somewhat bizarre stab at orientalism. The pictures were first printed in black and then the vivid Japanese watercolours were done by hand by a team of young artists who copied from originals done byJones. One of the figures depicts George Bernard Shaw squeezing his nose. One of 950 numbered copies signed by the artist.Fine in publisher's very good patterned paper-covered card slipcase split at one edge.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom