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221.MARDERSTEIG (Printer). BEERBOHM, Max. A Stranger in Venice. An Essay By Max Beerbohm. The Winged Lion. 1993. £48
219. LION AND UNICORN PRESS. [BAWDEN, Edward,
Illustrator]. CAROLINO, Pedro. English as She is Spoke. The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English. Lion and Unicorn Press. 1960.
£798
Oblong 4to. Original grey buckram, lettered in gilt on spine, with a coloured Bawden illustration pasted on upper board. Illustrated in colour with Bawden drawings. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 200 copies. A pencil note on the colophon states that this copy was bound by Miss Barber of the Carlisle College of Art. With an Introduction by Paul Jennings. A handsome and scarce Bawden item.
English as She Is Spoke is the common name of a 19th century book credited to José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino, which was intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour.
The humour is a result of dictionary-aided literal translation, which causes many idiomatic expressions to be translated wildly inappropriately. Mark Twain said of English as She Is Spoke that “Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect.”
220. LOTUS SOCIETY.
ZAIDENBERG, A. (illustrator). The Arabian Droll Stories. New York: (Lotus Society), 1929.
DE FORNARO, Carlo. £248
8vo., sometime bound in full cream morocco, boards with elaborate gilt borders enclosing a central gilt device with red morocco onlays, spine panelled in gilt with red morocco centre onlays, lettered in blind. With hand-coloured illustrations by A. Zaidenberg. Upper joint rubbed, boards a little dusty, otherwise a very good copy.
Limited edition of 550 copies, this one of 100 copies extra-illustrated, hand illuminated and signed by the author and illustrator.
8vo., original patterned paper covered boards. Frontispiece portrait by William Rothenstein. A fine copy.
First separate edition, limited edition of 780 numbered copies. Designed by Simon Rendall and handsomely printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona.
Beerbohm first travelled to Italy in the autumn of 1906 and he described the visit in a series of articles published in the Daily Mail. Of the ten articles, it was only the six on Venice which pleased him. These he “welded together” with a few additions to make A Stranger in Venice, which was published in 1928 in A Variety of Things, the 10th volume of his collected works.
222. MAINSTONE PRESS. [RAVILIOUS, Eric.] POWERS, Alan & RUSSELL, James. The Story of High Street. Norwich. The Mainstone Press. 2008.
£160
Small 4to., original cloth lettered in silver on spine with paper label on upper board. A mint copy.
First edition.
Seventy years ago Country Life Books published High Street, a children’s book of shops, featuring twenty-four exquisite lithographs by the English artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). Although the book was not a limited edition, the destruction of the lithographic plates during the Blitz meant that only 2000 copies were ever printed. Subsequently High Street has become one of the most highly-prized artist’s books of its time
This new limited edition includes not only the original shop fronts and text of High Street but also two extensive essays and an eclectic range of illustrations, preparatory drawings and sketches, many of them published for the first time.
In a substantial and wide-ranging examination of the making of High Street, art historian Dr Alan Powers places the book in historical context, giving new and significant insights into its conception, production and publication.
Initially Ravilious approached the Golden Cockerel Press with his
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