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192. LABOUREUR, Jean-Emile (illustrator) and [Jacques CAZOTTE]. Le diable amoureux, nouvelle espagnole. Paris: Jacoub et Allard Imprimeurs for Camille Bloch, 1921.
£150
8vo (226 x 140mm). Original blue wrappers with printed title-label on upper cover, many quires unopened; pp. ix, [1 (blank)], 152, [2 (blank l.)], [2 (colophon, verso blank)]; copper-engraved frontispiece, 5 copper- engraved plates, and one engraved plate of music, and wood-engraved headpieces and initials, all by and after Laboureur, the copper-engravings printed by Vernant et Dollé Imprimeurs; spine and parts of covers faded, front free endpaper and [presumably blank] flyleaf excised, extremities lightly rubbed, some very light offsetting from engravings onto text, otherwise a very fresh copy.
First Laboureur-illustrated edition, no. 493 of 575 copies, executed in the style of the original edition of 1772, both in typography and in binding. This was the second book that Laboureur illustrated, and is described by Carteret as an ‘intéressante publication’.
Carteret, 1875-1945, IV, p. 93; S. Laboureur, ‘Catalogue complet de l’oeuvre de Jean-Émile Laboureur’ (Neuchâtel: 1989-1991), II (‘Livres illustrés’), no. 194.
193. LABOUREUR Illustrator. FARQUHAR, George. The Beaux Stratagem: a Comedy. Introduction by Bonamy Dobrée. Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon. 1929.
£250
8vo. Original buckram-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt; 7 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur; spine faded from dark green to dark grey; foxing to endpapers and few minor foxing spots in the text, otherwise a very good copy; small bookplate.
Limited to 527 numbered copies.
194. LANGTRY PRESS. TIECK, Ludwig. The Fair-Haired Eckbert. In the Translation by Thomas Carlyle. Illustrated by Jill Heberden. Henley on Thames. Langtry Press. 1988.
£38
A8vo., original cloth backed patterned paper covered boards, with paper spine label. With three illustrations by Jill Heberden. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 100 copies signed by Jill Heberden.
195. LAUREL PRESS. APULEIUS. The Story of Cupid and Psyches. New York. The Laurel Press. 1924.
£498
8vo., in full dark blue morocco, the boards with eight gilt line rules enclosing an elaborate gilt border with bow and arrow quiver corner tools, upper board with an onlay of Cupid holding arrows, spine panelled and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. A very good copy of a handsomely printed volume.
Limited edition of 225 copies. A pleasingly printed book similar in style to the Doves Press.
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196. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. CONFUCIUS. The Analects of Confucius. Translated from the Chinese, with an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Giles. Shanghai. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club by the Commercial Press. 1933
£298
8vo., original patterned silk wrappers, yellow endpapers flecked in gold and blue, with four illustrations. A fine copy in the original redwood box. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 1500 copies.
197. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. SMOLLETT, Tobias. AUSTEN, John (illustrator). The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, in which is included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. With an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Oxford: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the University Press. 1936.
£498
Imperial 8vo. 2 vols.; rebound in the 1960s in half green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the leather extending the whole length of the fore- edges, gilt panelled spines, top edges gilt; 24 coloured plates and numerous black and white vignettes by John Austen; a very nice copy in a cloth-covered slipcase.
One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by John Austen.
198. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. ARISTOPHANES. The Frogs. Translated from the Greek by William James Hickie, with an Introduction by Gilbert Seldes. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, New York, by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem. 1937.
£150
Small folio. Original oatmeal linen blocked in black; top edges silver, others untrimmed; illustrated with wood-engravings by John Austen; a fine copy in the original folder and board slipcase.
Limited to 1500 numbered copies, signed by John Austen.
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