rackham arthur illustrator hawthorne nathaniel (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. First Edition. Large Octavo, 207 pages with 24 color illustrations. In Good condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and detailing on spine and front cover. Boards have fraying to spine edges, bumping and rubbing to corners, and sunning to spine. Textblock has splitting to gutters between page 56 and subsequent plate and between second and third to last pages, slight age toning, and previous owner's name on verso of front endpaper. Shelved Case 14. 1374199. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

No. 301 OF 600 SIGNED COPIES. 286 x 222 mm. (11 1/4 x 8 7/8"). viii, 206, [2] pp. MOST ATTRACTIVE CHOCOLATE BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND ONLAID, BY ELEANORE VAN SWERINGEN (stamp-signed and dated 1928 on rear turn-in), covers bordered by thick and thin gilt rules enclosing an onlaid geometrical frame of blue-green morocco, the corner with tan morocco and gilt anthemiums, center of each side with onlaid blue morocco square with gilt tulip, raised bands, spine compartments with similar gilt and onlaid frame, blue squares with tulips at center, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, pictorial endpapers by Rackham, all edges gilt. Original pictorial gilt binding of white cloth bound in. Housed in a French style calf-lined chemise trimmed with matching brown morocco. With 24 colored plates, 16 of them tipped on, as well as other illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Front flyleaf with detached bookplate of John Suetierle Taylor, with handwritten ink notation "The Wonder-Book, presented to John on Sunday--the 10th of April, 1932. His ninth birthday." Signed with the monogram E. S. T. Hudson, p. 171; Latimore & Haskell, p. 55. For the binder, see Conroy, "Teaching Genealogies of American Hand Bookbinders" in the Guild of Book Workers Journal (Vol. 28. Nos. 1 & 2. spring/fall 1990), p. 61. â Endpapers with offsetting from the morocco flaps of the chemise, otherwise very fine IN A LOVELY, VIRTUALLY PERFECT BINDING. This item is of interest for its binder, author, and illustrator. Our volume was beautifully bound by New York artisan Eleanore Van Sweringen, who studied with a number of prominent binders in the U.S., England, and France. Although best remembered for his novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne published several books of stories for children, including the present work, which ANB tells us was produced in 1851 "to support his growing family." Here, Hawthorne's delightful retelling of Greek myths of Perseus, King Midas, Pandora's Box, Hercules, and Baucis and Philemon is much enlivened by Rackham's charming illustrations. Our copy was bound when Van Sweringen was a member of the Guild of Book Workers, which, according to the group's website, was founded in 1906 "with the goal of nurturing a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts." The Guild's Yearbook for 1908-09 and 1909-10 listed Van Sweringen as a member and named F. Boone, Helen Haskell Noyes, and A. Dehertagh as her teachers. Van Sweringen continued her training abroad, adding, in 1912-13, the name of the great Charles McLeish to her instructors and then the French masters Domont, Noulhac, and Maylander in 1923-24. Our binding definitely shows the influence of Henri Noulhac in its design, onlays, and tooling. Van Sweringen became a teacher herself, and her pupils included Ruth S. Bergen, Gertrude Dodsworth, Dorothy Moulton, and Christine Hamilton. Van Sweringen bindings are rarely seen: we could trace just two others in RBH, one of them the substantial and significant five-volume Doves Press English Bible.