Lot 323
Incline Press
Collection of limited editions
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
1) A Book of Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Enid Marx, 1993. One of 260 copies;
2) Marco's Animal Alphabet. Linocuts by Enid Marx, 2000. One of 160 copies, folio, slipcase (sunned), publisher's prospectus laid in;
3) Aesop's Fable of The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass. Retold and Illustrated with Linocuts by Nick Wonham, [2010]. Number 2 of 160 copies signed by the artist, folio, limitation leaf annotated in pencil 'Bound by Alison Allison February 2010';
4) The Charm of Magpies. Illustrated by Nick Wonham, [2018]. Folio, one of 160 copies signed by the artist;
5) Carole George. Layers of Concord. Creating the Landscape Garden of Le Berceau, 2014. One of 175 copies signed by the bookbinder, folio, slipcase;
6) Robert Burns. To A Mouse ... An Edition for those who would read without faking a Scottish accent, 2019. 2 copies from the edition of 72, one copy numbered, one out-of-series, housed in one case;
Graham Foster introduces Anthony Burgess, An Elegy for X, 2018. One of 50 hardback copies from the total edition of 200;
7) Urban Birds. A Collection Cuts by Jo Spaul. Illustrated with a Selection of Suitable Verse, 1999. One of 180 copies, this copy apparently in a variant of untreated craft paper over boards (the limitation statement only mentioning copies in black cloth);
8) Suyeon Kim. A Line, 2009. One of 200 copies signed by the artist, single continuous linocut bound in concertina format, with slipcase;
9) A Selection of Poems on the Theme of Water. With Original Prints by Clare Curtis [etc.], 2008. One of 150 copies bound in marbled leatherette by Alison Allison (q.v.), from the total edition of 550 (the remaining copies issued as sheets for the International Competition of Designer Bookbinders);
10) Jonathan Wonham. Steel Horizon. Poems of the North Sea. Lino-cut Illustrations by Nick Wonham, 2013. One of 200 copies signed by the author and illustrator, with slipcase;
11) Three Poems of the Seventeenth Century, from the Manuscript Cabinets of Chetham's Library ... Introduced and Transcribed by Dr Joel Swann, 2017. One of 220 copies signed by the bookbinder;
12) David Blamires. When in Doubt, Wash! On the Naming of Cats. With Wood Engravings by Chris Daunt, 2015. One of 200 copies signed by the bookbinder, from the total edition of 240;
13) Robert Louis Stevenson. The Long Journey ... With Wood Engravings by Robin Mackenzie, 2014. One of 200 copies signed by the artist and bookbinder;
14) Robin Flower's Translation of Pangur Ban. With Lino-Cuts by Philippa Threlfall, 2010. One of 200 copies;
15) G. K. Chesterton. The Rolling English Drunkard Made The Rolling English Road. Linocut Illustrations by John Watson, 2021. One of 175 copies signed by the bookbinder;
16) Randall Davies and his Books of Nonsense. With a Learned Introduction by Dr Paul W Nash of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2014. One of 175 copies bound at the Incline Press in quarter cloth and signed by the bookbinder;
17) Deirdre Armes Smith. The First Wife a Voice for Katherine of Aragon. Wood Engraved Illustrations by Alan Smith, 2003. One of 160 copies signed by author and illustrator;
18) On the Visionary Work and Revolutionary Life of an Idle Idol: William Morris. By John Mitchinson, 2008. One of 60 copies;
19) Robert Burns and Brose for his Breakfast, 2021. One of 160 copies;
20) Elizabeth Freedlander, 2018. One of 120 copies
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Footnote
A Book of Nursery Rhymes, Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Enid Marx (1993) was the first book printed by the Incline Press.
Provenance: From the collection of bookbinder Alison Allison, whose work for the Incline Press includes A Selection of Poems on the Theme of Water (2008).