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29. BUSY BEE PRESS. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John (illustrator). Edward FITZGERALD (translator). PONTICUS (translator). Kwatrijnen Van Omar Khayyam [Dutch translation from the English of Edward Fitzgerald by Ponticus]. [Amsterdam]; Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij [The Busy Bee Press]. 1944.
£498
Tall slim 4to.Original grey wrappers printed in crimson with a constellation of 5 stars, preserved in a handsome fall-down-back box backed in deep red morocco, the spine with 2 raised bands panelled, and lettered longitudinally, in gilt, the sides ruled in gilt; pp. [32], printed throughout on hand-made Dutch paper; with 11 fine, and pleasingly erotic, collotype reproductions of copper-engraved plates by John Buckland Wright; a fine copy protected by the custom-made leather case.
First edition thus, clandestinely printed by the Dutch underground press De Bezige Bij (“The Busy Bee”) in the darkest days of the Second World War. Number 342 of a limited edition of only 525 copies, of which 500 were for sale. This volume is No. 4 in the series Quousque Tandem. The Dutch quatrains are Dutch translations made by the poet Ponticus (H.W.J.M. Keuls, 1883-1968) who published his first translations of Omar’s quatrains in a literary magazine Criterium (1941).
Buckland Wright’s engravings for this verse appeared originally in the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1938 (Reid. A Check-List of the Book Illustrations of John Buckland Wright, A28). This work was issued in two formats. The special issue, limited to only 30 copies, contained 8 copper- engraved plates with 5 additional plates in a pocket at the rear. The
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ordinary issue was limited to 270 copies and simply contained the original 8 copperplates in the body of the work. “The five extra plates in the former volume are more erotic in tone than the others and rank among the artist’s best work” (Reid). This Dutch edition (Reid. A42) includes 3 of these more salacious images, which are rarely encountered.
30. CAYME PRESS. AUSTEN John (illustrator). DAVID, Villiers. The Guardsman and Cupid’s Daughter and Other Poems. Humphrey Toulmin, The Cayme Press. 1930.
£98
8vo. Original green buckram, coloured pictorial label with John Austen design on upper cover, top edges gilt; illustrations by John Austen; spine faded, otherwise a very good copy.
Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Villiers David and John Austen.
31. CHERRYBURN PRESS. BEWICK, Thomas. Ten Working Drawing Reproductions Shown with Impressions of Corresponding Engravings. Chicago. Cherryburn Press. 1972. £398
Oblong 8vo. Original buckram-backed paper-covered boards, with slipcase. A fine copy.
First edition, with an introduction by R. Hunter Middleton, signed by Middleton. The ten facsimiles of the original drawings are housed with a pull of the finished engraving taken from the original woodblock (with one exception) , each in a separate fascicle. Limited to 160 copies.
32. CHESHIRE HOUSE. VIRGIL. The Georgics translated into English verse by John Dryden New York. Cheshire House. 1931. £1,250
Folio, finely bound by Severac in full red morocco decorated in blind and gilt with green morocco onlay, red reversed calf doublures and endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 20 engravings which are reproduced from the originals in the first folio edition of Dryden”s Collected Works of Virgil, published by Jacob Tonson, in London, 1697. A handsome copy.
Limited edition of 1,200 numbered copies. This limited edition was printed for the bi-millennium year of Virgil and the tercentenary of Dryden’s birth.
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