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228. MOSHER. WILDE, Oscar. The Birthday of the Infanta. Portland. Thomas B Mosher. 1905.
£148
8vo., original card boards with printed japon vellum covers and original glassine wrapper and slipcase. Title printed in red and black. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 450 copies printed on japon vellum. The first separate edition of this short story which previously appeared in A House of Pomegranites.
229. NASH, John Henry (Printer). DRYDEN, John. All for Love, or, The World well Lost: A Tragedy. San Francisco. Privately Printed for William Andrews Clark Jr., by John Henry Nash. 1929.
£248
2 volumes, 8vo. and folio., original mock-vellum backed red paper covered boards, housed in slipcase. Portrait frontispieces of Dryden and Shakespeare, 13 colour plates. A little wear to slipcase, otherwise a very good set.
Limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this one with William Andrews Clark’s Christmas 1929 compliments slip inserted.
A finely printed edition of All for Love by the accomplished American printer John Henry Nash. The octavo volume contains a facsimile of the Bridgewater-Clark copy of the first edition of the play printed in 1678. The folio volume includes bibliographical and prefatory remarks by William Andrews Clark, a reprint of the text of the play and its preface, and a series of colour plates based on the murals in Clark’s library depicting scenes and characters from the play.
All for Love is considered by many to be Dryden’s dramatic masterpiece, and one of the finest products of Restoration tragedy.
230.NONESUCH PRESS. BLAKE, William. KEYNES, Geoffrey and Mona WILSON (authors). The Writings Of William Blake. Edited In Three Volumes By Geoffrey Keynes. together with The Life of William Blake by Mona Wilson. Printed by the Chiswick Press for the Nonesuch Press, 1925, 1927
£595
Large 8vo. Two works in four vols. Original quarter parchment over marbled paper covered boards; xx, [2], 365, [28]ff. of numbered pls; [viii], 399pp. and 10ff. of plates; viii, 430pp. + [21]ff. of plates; frontispiece, xvi, 397, [1]pp., [24]ff. of plates; a bright clean set.
The Writings limited to 1575 copies. This copy numbered 114. The Life limited to 1480 copies. This copy numbered 1062.
231. NONESUCH PRESS. KEYNES, Geoffrey (editor). Pencil Drawings By William Blake. Nonesuch Press, 1927.
£110
4to. (290 x 225 mm). Original half linen over paper-covered boards; xvi, 82 b/w plates each reroducing a drawing by Blake, each with a leaf of descriptive text; a very good copy.
Limited to 1550 numbered copies. This copy numbered 330. Printed at the Chiswick Press.
232. NONESUCH PRESS. SARDA, Daniel. Conte de maitre Espapidour. Imprimés par Vincent Brooks Day & Son soul la direction de la Nonesuch Press. 1927.
£298
8vo. Original limp vellum with leather thongs, gilt title on upper cover; pp. [16]; printed by chromolithography on Japon vellum, the text on each page surrounded by decorations after the manner of a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript, title-page printed in red; a fine copy.
Limited to 500 copies. Not designed, but only supervised in its technical production by Francis Meynell, for Charles and Fern Bedaux, New York.
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233. NONESUCH PRESS. HARVEY, William. The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey. De Motu Cordis 1628: De Circulatione Sanguinis 1649: The first English text of 1653 now newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes. The Nonesuch Press. 1928. £398
8vo. Original niger morocco, double gilt fillet border to sides, spine lettered in gilt and with slightly raised bands, top edges gilt on the rough, others untrimmed; with a folding engraved plate showing the valves in the veins of the fore-arm; free-endpapers browned and a little spotted as usual, but a very good copy.
One of 1450 numbered copies, printed on Dutch hand-made paper. Issued on the occasion of the tercentenary celebration of the first publication of the text of De Motu Cordis.
234. NONESUCH PRESS. DANTE ALIGHIERI. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English. The Italian text edited by Mario Casalla ... with the English version of H.F. Cary. The Nonesuch Press. 1928.
£998
Folio. Recently rebound in full russet morocco, single-line gilt border to sides, spine lettered in gilt and with raised bands, top edges gilt on the rough, others untrimmed; pp [iv] + 326 + colophon; 42 illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli; a very nice copy.
Limited to 1475 copies.
235.NONESUCH PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works ... the text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings: edited by Herbert Farjeon. The Nonesuch Press [printed at the Cambridge University Press]. 1929-33.
£2,750
8vo. 7 vols.; original niger morocco, gilt double fillet border to sides, spines with slightly raised bands and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt on the rough, others untrimmed; a very nice set.
First edition of the Nonesuch Shakespeare, limited to 1600 numbered
copies, this being one of 550 copies for sale in America. One of the press’s most successful publications, both financially (netting £11,000 profit) and typographically (Brooke Crutchley’s skilled presswork at Cambridge University). The edition was enthusiastically reviewed by the Press, the Daily Telegraph calling it “the most enjoyable edition ever printed.”
236. NONESUCH PRESS. Havelock. Chapman. The Nonesuch Press 1934.
[CHAPMAN, George]. ELLIS, £398
8vo., original full niger morocco, rounded spine lettered in gilt with multiple gilt rules. Inoffensive thin horizontal impression on upper board, otherwise a very good copy.
Limited edition of 700 numbered copies, this one of 75 specially bound in full niger morocco. With the 8-page prospectus loosely inserted. “The Nonesuch Press is commemorating the tercentenary by the publication of an important factual and critical essay by Havelock Ellis, who has long coupled his psychological investigations with a scholar’s devotion to Elizabethan literature. The essay is accompanied by a wide selection of Chapman’s writings, illustrative of his work in
general.The work is thus both a study and an anthology.”
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