Lot 241
Nonesuch Press
Collection of works
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Keynes, Geoffrey (editor). The Notebook of William Blake called The Rossetti Manuscript, 1935. One of 650 copies, 4to, finely bound in near contemporary black crushed morocco with gilt and blind tooled circular design with red morocco onlay, gilt title and decoration to spine, top edge gilt, patterned pastedowns, gilt inner dentelles;
Grant, Bartle (editor), & Duncan Grant (illustrator). Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper. And a portion of her Cipher Journal. Written 1756-70 and never before printed, 1924. One of 850 copies, 8vo, near-contemporary blue morocco fine binding by Best & Co. Ltd., ruled in gilt, gilt floral motifs to boards and spine, raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt, others uncut, bookplate of children's illustrator Evelyn Vere Boyle to pastedown, spine rubbed and toned, corners slightly bumped and worn, spotting to endpapers;
Bible; Authorised Version. The Book of Ruth. 1923. One of 250 copies, 8vo, original decorative and textural paper-covered boards, blue card slipcase pasted with decorative printed title, leaves uncut other than free endpapers, some sunning to slipcase;
Jacquier [Ivy Skinner]. The Family Face. A History of the Family written by the Family according to the Plan of Jacquier, 1936. Jacquier's own personal copy, 4to, original pink cloth, filled in by Jacquier throughout in ink and pencil, with various ephemera (including photographs, newspaper clippings, and Jacquier's contract or ‘Memorandum of Agreement’ with Nonesuch Press, signed by Francis and Alice Meynell) laid or pasted in, The Family Secret’ envelope absent, some damp staining to front board, spine worn with short tears to head and tail, together with another copy, not filled in but retaining ‘The Family Secret’ envelope;
[BBC] Morris, John (editor). From the Third Programme. A Ten-Years' Anthology: Imagination, argument, experience, exposition, 1956. Out-of-series copy from the numbered edition of 1,300, with autograph inscription to Pam Orr on colophon page by Morris (Controller of BBC radio station Third Programme, 1953-58), 8vo, original grey cloth over bevelled boards, rubbed, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled-paper slipcase with owner's name in ink and a couple of short splits to joints;
Symons, A. J. A., Francis Meynell, & Desmond Flower. The Nonesuch Century. An Appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the Press 1923-34, 1936. One of 750 copies, 4to, green cloth with gilt title pasted to spine, 6 photogravure plates of bindings, 47 tipped-in leaves, many in colour, including illustrated examples by Paul Nash, E. McKnight Kauffer, George Grosz and Jacquier, dust-stains to front endpaper, pencil inscription to rear endpaper and Museum Books Inc., NYC, sticker to end pastedown, boards worn and edges rubbed, sunning to spine;
together with 30 further works including: Cowley, Abraham and John Sparrow (editor). The Mistress with other selected poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667, 1926; Cobbett, William. Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine, 1927; Thomson, James. The Seasons. With Five Pictures by Jacquier, 1927; Harvey, Dr William and Geoffrey Keynes (editor). The Anatomical Exercises of Dr William Harvey, 1928; Sydney, Philip. Astrophel & Stella, with slipcase, 1931; Ellis, Havelock. Chapman, 1934; Collier, John. The Devil and All, 1934; Pope, Alexander and Norman Ault (editor). Pope's Own Miscellany, 1935; The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll, 1939 (38)
Footnote
The annotated copy of ‘The Family Face’ was completed by the author of the book, artist Ivy G. M. Skinner (Jacquier). Jacquier provided illustrations for several Nonesuch works.