NONESUCH PRESS LAVER, JAMES (8 Ergebnisse)

Tall 8vo. 32pp.8vo. Original marbled paper over plain boards, backstrip faded, mostly unopened, a very good copy. Limited edition of 1525 copies. Ralph Smith copy with his signature.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Quarto, 28 (last blank), [1] (limitation page) pages (including front cover). Plain card covers slightly tanned and creased; an excellent copy in the slightly rubbed marbled fold-around dustwrapper. Number 748 of 1525 copies.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Illustrated Edition. Standard unlimited edition printed at the Fanfare Press. 9 full-page black and white drawings and a decoration on the title-page. Full orange cloth, printed spine label, very slightly chipped dust-jacket. A very good to fine copy. Presentation copy from Thomas Lowinsky to Charlotte Bonham-Carter. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

No. 392 of 1525 copies. Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge in Monotype Bodoni italic on Arches mould-made cream paper. Pp. 32. Tall thin 4to., original stiff marbled paper covered boards with printed paper label on upper cover. Mild fading to spine and along edges of boards, marbled paper chipped and splitting at edges with loss at top and bottom front board. James Laver (1899-1975) was the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the V & A but also a very talented writer. Nonesuch Press had previously published his pastiche of Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and 'Love's Progress' was its sequel.

No. 138 of 1525 copies. Set in Caslon and printed on Arches cream laid paper by Richard Clay & Sons. Pp. 27. Tall thin 4to., original stiff marbled paper covered boards with printed paper label on upper cover. A largely unopened copy. Some fading to extremities, slight wear to edges of marbled paper. Laver's pastiche of Pope's 'Rape of the Lock', 'transposed into modern times'. James Laver (1899-1975) was the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the V & A but also a very talented writer. He later published a sequel to this edition, entitled 'Love's Progress, or the Education of Araminta'.

No. 704 of 1525 copies. Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge in Monotype Bodoni italic on Arches mould-made cream paper. Thin 4to., original stiff marbled paper covered boards with printed paper label on upper cover. Spine slightly faded, a little browning to front free endpaper, otherwise good. James Laver (1899-1975) was the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the V & A but also a very talented writer. Nonesuch Press had previously published his pastiche of Pope's Rape of the Lock and Love's Progress was its sequel. Booklabel of Clarence B. Hanson Jr.

London, Nonesuch Press, 1927, 27,(2) pag., printed by Rchard Clay & Sons in 1525 numbered copies, original marbled paper covered boards with mounted title-shield, quarto.

4to. Number 1146 of 1525 copies. Publisher's original stiff marbled paper covered boards, paper label on upper cover lettered in black, with original glassine dustjacket. Printed at the Cambridge University Press for the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury.  Fine, wrappers with a small strip of sunning along the top where not covered by the glassine jacket, some slight foxing to endpapers. A playful love poem about the 'constant strain' of the 'Life Aesthetic', by the acclaimed costume historian and former keeper of prints and drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum.