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239. NONESUCH PRESS. WHITE, Gilbert. RAVILIOUS, Eric (illustrator). The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne. Selected and edited with an introduction by H.J. Massingham. The Nonesuch Press. 1938.
£1,250
Royal 8vo. 2 vols.; original grey buckram, blocked in gilt with designs by Eric Ravilious on spines and at centre of upper covers, top edges gilt on the rough, others uncut; wood-engraved title-pages and numerous illustrations by Eric Ravilious, frontispiece map in Vol. I, folding map at the end of Vol. II; a little fading to the spines, slight residual tape marks on endpapers, but a very nice set in the original marbled board slipcase.
Limited to 850 numbered sets. One of the most sought after Nonesuch Press books, as well as being a must for Eric Ravilious collectors.
240. NONESUCH PRESS. CARROLL, Lewis. The Complete Works. With an Introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The Nonesuch Press. [1939].
£998
8vo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full crimson morocco, single gilt fillet border to sides, gilt panelled spine with decorative centre tools, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; illustrations by John Tenniel; a fine copy.
First one-volume edition published by Nonesuch.
241. NONESUCH PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William. The New Nonesuch Shakespeare: The Complete Works. The text and order of the First Folio with quarto variants & a choice of modern readings noted marginally … text established MCMXXIX by Herbert Farjeon with a new Introduction by Ivor Brown. Nonesuch Press, 1953.£248
8vo. 4 vols.; original buckram-backed marbled boards; wood-engraved head-pieces and other decorations by Reynolds Stone; a very good set in card slipcase.
Designed by Francis Meynell and printed on india paper. With a new Introduction by Ivor Brown. Printed to celebrate the Queen’s coronation.
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242. NONESUCH PRESS. MACDONALD, George. At the Back of the North Wind. Nonesuch Press. 1963.
£38
8vo., original cloth with glassine wrapper. With illustrations by Charles Mozley. A fine copy.
First edition with Mozley illustrations. One of the Nonesuch Cygnet series.
243.NONESUCH PRESS. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass & The Hunting of the Snark. The Nonesuch Press. 1966.
£40
8vo., original cloth with price clipped dust wrapper. With illustrations by John Tenniel. A very good copy.
Reprint. One of the Nonesuch Cygnet series.
244. NONESUCH PRESS. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Selected Poetry and Prose. Edited by Stephen Potter. Nonesuch Press. 1971.
£275
Crown 8vo. Recently rebound in half red morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt and with small gilt centre tools, top edges gilt; a fine copy.
245. OFFICIA BODONI. LEWIS, C. Day. The Graveyard by the Sea from the French of Paul Valery. Verona, printed for Martin Secker & Warburg by Hans Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. 1946. £225
8vo., original marbled paper wrappers. Parallel French and English texts. A very good copy.
First edition of this translation. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the translator.
246.OFFICINA BODONI. BASKIN, Leonard. To Colour Thought. New Haven: Yale University. 1967.
£298
8vo. Quarter morocco over brown boards, gilt lettering to spine, matching slipcase; 27 pp., 10 plates including colour frontispiece of Blake’s The Book of my Remembrance; printed by Officina Bodoni a little scuffing of slipcase, otherwise fine.
147 of a limited edition of 300. This is a fine printing of a lecture by Baskin on the art of making books delivered on the opening of the Graphic Arts Collection in the Yale University Library on 9 May, 1966.
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