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24. BEAUMONT PRESS. BLUNDEN, Edmund. To Themis. Poems on Famous Trials, with Other Pieces. The Beaumont Press. 1931.
£128
8vo. Original patterned paper boards with oatmeal cloth spine, the spine lettered in gilt, edges uncut and partly unopened; cover, frontispiece and title-page designed by Randolph Schwabe; spine a little darkened, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, limited to 405 numbered copies. This copy is inscribed by the author on the limitation page: “Signed a few years later for John Arlott by Edmund Blunden, Oxford, Feb. 1943.”
Kirkpatrick A40a.
25. BLACK CAT & CAMEL PRESS. CARTER, Angela. The Tiger’s Bride. With 14 linocuts by Corinna Sargood. Castle Cary. Black Cat & Camel Press. 2000.
£498
4to. Original full red Nigerian goatskin, upper board with gilt line panel, spine lettered and ruled in gilt with blind stamp centre tools. Illustrated with 14 linocuts by Corinna Sargood. A fine copy in original morocco lipped paper covered slipcase decorated with a design by Sargood.
First separate edition of this short story which first appeared in The Bloody Chamber, limited to 150 copies, this one of 25 copies numbered I-XXV bound in full red morocco, signed by the illustrator and also by Sebastian Carter who designed and printed the book at the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge.
26. BLACK VINE PRESS. GILL, Eric. Caelum et Terra Transibunt. San Francisco. Printed for Evan Gill by Harold Seeger & Albert Sperisen, the Black Vine Press. 1958.
£148
8vo., single sheet folded twice. Illustrated with two devices by Eric Gill. A fine copy.
A keepsake finely printed by the Black Vine Press for Evan Gill, reproducing a poem written by Eric Gill on a train journey from Bradford to Ditchling in August 1921. The poem first appeared in the March 1922 issue of The Game.
“The device used on the front, St Thomas’ hands, is taken from an original sketch in a letter from Gill to Robert Gibbings. A wood engraved version (actually two versions) was first used as an identifying mark on the title page of Id Quod, 1926, and thereafter on all books written by Gill”
This copy is inscribed by Evan Gill “To John Gartner from Evan Gill 10 September 1958”
27. BLUE SKY PRESS. [OMAR KHAYYAM.] Omar Resung Being Verses By Charles G. Blanden after the prose translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as set forth by Justin Huntly McCarthy. Chicago. Blue Sky Press 1901.
£998
8vo., original tan calf panelled in gilt, lettered on spine and upper board with gilt decoration on upper board. Title-page and endpapers with matching design by Frank B Rae Jr. A near fine copy.
First edition of Blanden’s interpretation in verse of the Rubaiyat, limited edition of 225 copies, this one of 25 printed on Japon Vellum.
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28. BURNS, Robert (artist). Scots Ballads. Seeley Service & Co. [1939]
£298
Folio, original buckram backed paper covered boards with paper spine label. 4 full-page and 18 double-page illustrations and decorated text by Robert Burns. A little browning to spine otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, limited edition of 320 numbered copies. A fine printed facsimile of the original illustrated manuscript by Robert Burns of Scottish Ballads. The original hand-written and illustrated book was illuminated in colour and gold and was in three volumes. Burns in his preface entitled Genesis explains “A reproduction in facsimile of these colour books must, for technical reasons alone, entail a price which would put them beyond the reach of many who might wish to possess them. About three years ago, therefore, I began the rendering of these ballads in black and white so that they might be made available to collectors at reasonable cost.”
Robert Burns (1869-1941) was an early exponent of the Art Nouveau style in Scotland and an outstanding decorative artist. He returned to Edinburgh after periods studying in London and Paris and travelling in North Africa. A talented painter and designer, Burns followed the example of artists of the Arts and Crafts movement, engaging in projects involving a variety of materials. These also furthered the relationship between the arts, commerce and industry. His most famous and complete interior designs were for Crawford’s Tea Rooms on Princes Street. He combined commercial projects with teaching and became Head of Painting at Edinburgh College of Art.
The Ballads included are Wyfe of Ushers Well, Helen of Kirkconnel, Sir Patrick Spens, The Twa Corbies, and The Cruelle Sister.
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