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251. PENDOMER PRESS. BAWDEN, Edward. BLISS, Douglas Percy. Edward Bawden. The Pendomer Press. [c.1979].
£248
Small folio. Original blue cloth; many illustrations, including 11 coloured plates; covers slightly bowed, otherwise a very good copy in dust-jacket which is a little worn at spine and corners.
First edition. The first full-length study of Bawden’s work, including a bibliography of the artist’s illustrations for books, magazines, etc., compiled by Barry McKay.
Pasted in at the front is a large colour photograph of Edward Bawden with the author and art historian Bevis Hillier, whose copy this was. The picture shows Bawden and Hillier seated in the former’s garden at Saffron Walden in 1979. Also laid in is a letter of appreciation from Bawden to Bevis Hillier dated 20 November 1979 and written on the artist’s headed notepaper.
252. PENMIEL PRESS. BLOOMFIELD, Diana. Tribute to Diana Bloomfield. A Potpourri of her wood engravings and drawings. Esher. Penmiel Press. 1985
£58 8vo. Original cloth gilt. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies, signed by Edward Burrett the designer and printer.
253. PETER PAUPER PRESS. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. With Engravings made by Paul McPharlin. Peter Pauper Press. [1939].
£198
8vo., sometime bound in half dark blue moroccco over cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Printed in red and black, with engravings by Paul McPharlin printed in blue. Spine a little darkened otherwise a very good copy.
First edition with McPharlin illustrations, limited to 1450 copies.
254. PETER PAUPER PRESS. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The Constitution of the United States of America. New Rochelle. The Peter Pauper Press. [1943].
£750
8vo., finely bound by Bayntun in full dark blue blue calf, boards with french fillet border, spine richly gilt with contrasting leather label. With decorations by Ervin Merzl. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 950 copies. This copy from the library of John Whiting Friel with his Rockwell Kent bookplate. Also with a colour printed reproduction of Hintermeister’s oil painting of the signing of the Constitution tipped in at the rear.
255. PICKERING. HORACE. Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Londini Gulielmus Pickering. 1826.
£398
32mo., 75 x 113mm, handsomely bound in contemporary full red morocco, lettered in gilt on spine with floral wreath quatrefoil enclosing a rose blocked in gilt on boards, top edge gilt, rich gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, by Smeers. Engraved frontispiece after Stothard dated 1828, engraved title dated 1826, pp.192.
Pickering Diamond Classic, large paper copy. The second edition of Horace in the Diamond Classic series. The first edition was not produced in large paper format. Horace was the only author in the series to be printed in two editions.
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