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49. [COCKERELL, Sydney and Joan TEBBUTT.] Address Book.
£998
8vo. Bound by Sydney Cockerell (unsigned) in black morocco-backed vellum, cover design by Joan Tebbutt, comprising the letter “A” in black at the centre of the upper cover against an all-over pattern of black and gilt horizontal lines, with a single central vertical gilt line, lower cover with a central ruled circle in black, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; a fine copy in a marbled boards slipcase.
A handsome (unused) address book and a nice example of the collaboration between Sydney Cockerell and the calligrapher Joan Rix Tebbutt. Sydney Cockerell (1906-87) was the son of the bookbinder Douglas Cockerell. He achieved a high reputation for his own designer bindings, often in vellum, as well as for conservation of early books. Joan Rix Tebbutt graduated from the Glasgow School of art in 1933 and taught lettering for many years before collaborating on designer bindings with Sydney Cockerell. They first worked together in 1948 and over a number of years they produced a remarkable series of vellum bindings with designs based on lettering by Tebbutt.
50. COWELL PRESS. JOYCE, James. Chamber Music. Santa Cruz, California. The Cowell Press. 1975
£148
4to., original paper covered boards with glassine wrapper. Glassine just a little chipped at head of spine, otherwise a fine copy.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. A handsomely produced edition.
51. CRESSET PRESS. MARKHAM, Gervase. The Pleasures of Princes or Good Mens Recreations… Together with The Experienced Angler by Colonel Robert Venables. The Cresset Press. 1927. £550
8vo. Original limp vellum, gilt lettering to spine, ribbon ties, top edges gilt; pp. xxiv + 111, some text illustrations; a little spotting to endpapers, otherwise very good.
Number 27 of limited edition of 50 bound in vellum. With a preface by Horace Hutchinson. Markham’s celebrated work was first printed in 1614, with Venables’s following in 1662. Both works became classics of angling literature and share many points in common; both authors were soldiers of varying fortunes, Markham (1568 - 1637) being a captain in the Earl of Essex’s disastrous campaign in Ireland and Venables (1613 - 1687) a Parliamentarian officer who suffered after the Restoration. Izaak Walton was a close friend of Venables and wrote the epistle which begins The Experienced Angler.
WHISTLER’S MAGNUM OPUS
52. CRESSET PRESS. [WHISTLER, Rex]. SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels ... [Printed by the Oxford University Press for] The Cresset Press. 1930.
£7,500
Royal 4to. 2 vols.; original half green morocco over vellum boards by Wood of London, top edge gilt.; pp. 158 + colophon and 172 + colophon; title-page device, 12 hand-coloured plates, 8 head-and-tail-pieces, and 5 maps, all by Rex Whistler; Spines a little darkened, some very light offsetting, but a very nice copy in a later cloth slipcase.
First edition with Whistler’s illustrations, limited to 195 copies on hand- made paper. “His finest illustrations ... are those in Gulliver’s Travels of 1930 and The Next Volume of 1932 ... In this genre he never did anything better ... or indeed as good.” (L. Whistler and R. Fuller, The Work of Rex Whistler, p. xiv and 72/3).
53. CRESSET PRESS. SIDNEY, Sir Philip. The Shepheards Calender. Conteyning Twelve Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes. The Cresset Press. 1930.
£598
Folio. Original quarter vellum over beige silk cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; additional coloured title and 12 head- pieces by John Nash, hand-coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press; some foxing to the boards, otherwise very good in dust-jacket which is defective along the top edge and darkened at the spine.
Limited to 350 numbered copies on Barcham Green hand-made paper. A handsomely printed and illustrated edition.
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