Private press
Collection of works
£813
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
comprising:
St Dominic's Press. The Hand Press. An Essay written and printed by Hand for the Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago, by H. D. C. Pepler. Ditchling Common: St Dominic's Press, 1934. One of 250 copies signed by Pepler, 4to, original blue cloth with integral white wraparound band;
Idem. Le bœuf et l'âne et deux autres pièces pour marionnettes, 1930. One of 120 copies, 4to, original black quarter sheep, slipcase, spine and slipcase rubbed;
Gill, Eric.The Holy Sonnets of John Donne. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd for Hague & Gill Ltd, 1938. One of 550 copies signed by Gill, 8vo, original black cloth gilt;
Golden Cockerel Press. A Ballad upon a Wedding by Sir John Suckling. With Engravings by Eric Ravilious, 1922. One of 375 copies, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket (a few chips and spots);
Idem. The Twelve Moneths by Nicholas Breton. Edited by Brian Rhys, with Wood Engravings by Eric Ravilious, 1927. One of 500 copies, 8vo, original orange buckram, dust jacket, initials printed in red, bookplate (Herbert B. Luria), text-leaves toned;
and 6 others: Golden Cockerel Press, The Puppet Show by Martin Armstrong, 1922, ownership inscription of Naomi Mitchison, apparently autograph; Dropmore Press, Images from the Progress of the Seasons by Edward Shanks, with Decorations by Charles Berry, 1947, one of 450 copies, contemporary green quarter morocco; Max Plowman, First Poems, 1913; Eric Gill, Social Justice and the Stations of the Cross, 1929; Ian Fleming, Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, first edition, dust jacket, association copy, signed by Bond girl Maud Adams ('Maud Adams, "Octopussy"') on the half-title; and 1 other (11)