Caradoc press (7 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Number 75 of 350 (364) copies printed in red and black on Batchelor's handmade paper. Decorated with woodcut borders, initials and strips by H.G. Webb. Superior binding of quarter white vellum (usually buckram) with printed grey paper-covered boards. Boards spotted, spine a bit rubbed. Internally excellent. Rather endearing "ympryntynge" in the Morris manner. …

SOLE EDITION, printed in red and black with wood-engraved initials and other decorations by H.G. and H.D. Webb, tissue guards, pp. [28], 64mo, original quarter vellum and blue board, device to upper board stamped in red with printed label to same, some very faint spotting and a faint offset of red ink clearly from the press device to lower board, untrimmed and largely unopened, bookplate to front pastedown, good. A charming little production, early in the life of the Press and with some pleasing amateurishness in the production - including a total of thirty days for the month of February (evidently the first issue, as copies have been seen with this corrected). (Ransom p. 225).…

220 x 153 mm. (8 3/4 x 6"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 107, [4], 112-211, [1] pp. Publisher's limp vellum, flat spine with black lettering. Decorative woodcut borders on three pages, fine woodcut capitals in the strapwork style of 15th c. Italian initials, etched frontispiece portrait of Goldsmith by Harry George Webb, and signed by him in pencil. Printed in red and black. Franklin, p. 266; Tomkinson, p. 26. Short tear at bottom of front and rear pastedowns, isolated faint foxing, but an excellent copy, the binding quite clean and the contents very fresh. This attractive ninth publication of the Caradoc Press is the enduringly popular "Vicar of Wakefield." Written in 1761-62 but not published until four years later, "Vicar" was said to have been rescued from some of Goldsmith's unpublished manuscripts by Dr. Johnson, who thus saved the penniless author from debtors' prison by selling it to a publisher for £60. Considered to be the masterpiece of the middle-class domestic novel, the "Vicar" has never gone out of style because its whimsically delineated characters have a delightful simplicity that somehow insulates them against ultimate misfortune, and the innocent and virtuous are rewarded, as they should be, in the end. The Caradoc Press derives its name from a hill in Shropshire, near the birthplace of Hesba Dora Webb, who founded the press with her husband H. George Webb in 1899. The Webbs were responsible from the outset for every facet of Caradoc book production, issuing 20 volumes in the course of a decade featuring, as here, a typeface based on 15th century printer Nicolaus Jenson's celebrated roman founts. No. 215 OF 360 COPIES on paper (and 14 copies on vellum).…