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288. SNAKE RIVER PRESS. APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. Selected Poems. Translated, with an Introduction, by Oliver Bernard. Brighton, Snake River Press. 1995.
£198
Small folio. Original quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 45; 3 double-page illustrations by Geoffrey Trenaman, these printed on green rice paper; a fine copy.
No. 11 of an edition limited to 30 copies.
‘I WENT TO FRANKFORT, AND GOT DRUNK WITH THAT MOST LEARN’D PROFESSOR, BRUNCK; I WENT TO WORTS, AND GOT MORE DRUNKEN WITH THAT MORE LEARN’D PROFESSOR, RUHNKEN’
289. SOPHOCLES. Sophoclis Tragoediae septem cum scholiis veteribus, versione Latina, et notis. Accedunt deperditorum dramatum fragmenta. Ex editione Rich. Franc. Phil. Brunck. Argentorati [Strasbourg]. 1788.
£1,750
8vo. 3 vols.; contemporary dark green morocco, triple gilt fillet borders to sides, smooth spines lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt panels and various small tools, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; Greek and Latin text; ink stain on fore-edges of Vol. II, otherwise a very nice set.
Brunck’s edition originally appeared in 2 volumes, quarto, in 1786. According to Dibdin the popularity of the edition was very great, but its dearness prevented many from purchasing it. Brunck, therefore, brought out an octavo edition in three volumes, 1786-8, followed by another three- volume octavo edition (the one offered here), of which only 250 copies were handsomely printed at his own expense. Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729-1803), eminent French classical scholar, also published Analecta veterum poetarum Graecorum (1772-76) and editions of Aristophanes, Vergil, Plautus, and others. He is immortalized in Richard Porson’s verse; “I went to Frankfort, and got drunk/With that most learn’d professor, Brunck;/I went to Worts, and got more drunken/With that more learn’d professor, Ruhnken” (Facetiae Cantabrigienses, 1825).
With the small leather book-label and signature of Ambroise-Firmin Didot (1790-1876), the last important member of the French family of typefounders, printers and publishers. With his brother, Hyacinthe, he organized the business in 1827 as Firmin-Didot frères, and for the greater part of the 19th century the firm made a major contribution to quality printing and publishing in France.
290. ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. Hilary PEPLER and Eric GILL (illustrator). In Petra. Being a Sequel to ‘Nisi Dominus’, Together with a Preface and Notes by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler.Ditchling: St Dominic’s Press, 1923.
£200
4to (168 x 128mm). Original blue buckram with applied letterpress title- label on upper board; pp. vii, [1 (blank)], 26, [2 (colophon printed in red on recto, verso blank)]; roman and greek types; wood-engraved title- vignette by Gill printed in red, 8 wood-engraved illustrations and initials in the text, by Gill (5) and others; spine very slightly faded, corners very slightly rubbed and bumped, nonetheless a very good copy.
First edition. In Petra was no. 40 of the St Dominic’s Press publications, and was issued in a number of different bindings: this copy is bound in full blue buckram with a letterpress label on the upper board (‘In Petra ... Price, boards, Five Shillings’), and conforms to the second of the bindings described by Evan Gill (no priority assigned).
Evan Gill, Gill, 87.
291. ST DOMINIC’S PRESS. JONES, David, PEPLER, Hilary. Libellus Lapidum. The first part of a collection of verses and wood- engravings made by H.P. and D.J. who having no windows left in their own dwellings take a mean advantage of their neighbours. Ditchling. Printed and Published by the Author. 1924.
£650
8vo., original wrappers with a wood engraving by Jones printed in green on upper cover with lettering printed in red. With 15 wood engravings by Jones and one other unidentified wood engraving (probably also by Jones). A near fine copy.
First edition, first printing(?). There are a number of variant issues of this booklet. This copy has a manuscript leaf by a former owner, Stanley Scott, tipped in stating this is the first printing: “In this copy page 3 the penultimate line ends: ‘But thought’ In later copies this is printed: ‘But…’ and the last line begins ‘we thought’”
Pepler’s verse satirises various well known people including, GBS, Hilaire Belloc, H.G. Wells, John Drinkwater, Sidney & Beatrice Webb, Ronald Knox, Jacob Epstein and also Hampstead Garden Suburb.
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