Doves press (33 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Amsterdam, ., 1992
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In den WarenkorbMit 7 Abbildungen. 29 S., 1 Bl. Orig.-Kartoniert. 21 : 15 cm. * 1 von 850 Exemplaren. Detaillierte Beschreibung des Probedruckes (1 Blatt) von Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson "Bookbinding, then, as other crafts, I would recommend, for the worke`s sake and for the man`s sake, the union of the mind and of the hand ." - Sehr gut erha…lten. Aufgrund der neuen PPWR-Regelung zur Zeit kein Versand in EU-Länder. Due to PPWR no delivery to EU-countries.
Verlag: Sore Dove Press, San Francisco, 2005
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In den WarenkorbUnbound. Zustand: Fine. Broadside. Measuring 11" x 17". Fine. Broadside reads: "i work / you work / he works / she works / we work / you work / THEY $PROFIT$." Nicely printed from hand-set type as a gift for friends of the press, commemorating the Paris May 68 protests.
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Verlag: Printed by Ward Ritchie, South Pasadena, California, USA, 1933
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In den WarenkorbSoft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. The First edition, second issue, of a scarce item, printed by Ward Ritchie for Alice Millard for her exhibition of Doves Press books in 1933. The two issues, according to the Ritchie checklist, consisted of one of 125 copies, with a later reprint of 50 copies (as per…The Ward Ritchie Press and Anderson, Ritchie, & Simon, p. 70). The first issue is 9 3/16 x 5 13/16," that is a bit smaller than the present issue. It is printed on machine-made wove paper and bound in blue or gray wrappers. According to the checklist, this second issue consisted of fifty copies. The handmade laid paper of this second issue is a more expensive variety than that used in the first issue. In the first issue, the colophon bears the statement, "125 copies printed by Ward Ritchie. South Pasadena, California. March 11, 1933." In the present second issue, the colophon simply says: Printed by Ward Ritchie, South Pasadena, Calif. Cream-coloured wrappers, printed with the phrase "Order Touched with Delight" in red. . Octavo . Doves Press device in red on title-page and large red decorative initial on page 5. Text throughout mostly in black with red section headings. Printed on handmade laid paper. Wrappers lightly age marked but otherwise in Very Good++ or better condition. Edges untrimmed. Internally the odd few spots and light creasing but otherwise clean. A nice copy of a fragile early Ward Ritchie printing. Loosely laid in is a small printed note-card from Mrs George Madison Millard in which she thanks a (?) Mr Jackson. ' a trifling acknowledgement of the great pleasure which your books have given to me.' Ward Ritchie (1905-1996) was a very young man when he printed this, and the place of publication is in South Pasadena, where Ritchie's childhood home was located. It would not be long before his publications would bear the place name of Los Angeles instead. He has noted in several places that he finished printing this catalogue during the March 10, 1933 Long Beach earthquake. The opening of Alice Millard's exhibition was the next day, March 11, and he delivered the catalogues just hours before it started. According to Ritchie, she found some problems with the printing of the catalogue and asked him to produce a second issue. Housed in a custom card chemise and a Secol archival folder. A scarce publication. Signed by Author(s).
Verlag: Blackhill, Durham: Christopher Wakeling, at his Corvus Works, Summer, 2020., 2020
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In den WarenkorbNumber '49' of an edition limited to 70 copies designed by Christopher Wakeling who printed it on a Korrex Hannover test press, using Arches and Hahnemühle paper and Hermann Zapf's Palatino and Optima type. Green paper wrappers, sewn in green thread, printed and decorated paper label to the upper cover. Oblong, 165 x 250 mm, pp.… [12]. A book in Fine condition. The text includes a letter addressed to the editor of 'The Times', October 26, 1911, together with 'An Announcement | Shakespeare's Plays and Poems | The Doves Press - MDCCCCXII | No. 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W 1.' There is a Foreword by Christopher Wakeling.
Verlag: Blackhill, Durham: Christopher Wakeling, at his Corvus Works, Summer, 2020., 2020
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In den WarenkorbNumber '50' of an edition limited to 70 copies designed by Christopher Wakeling who printed it on a Korrex Hannover test press, using Arches and Hahnemühle paper and Hermann Zapf's Palatino and Optima type. Green paper wrappers, sewn in green thread, printed and decorated paper label to the upper cover. Oblong, 165 x 250 mm, pp.… [12]. A book in Fine condition. The text includes a letter addressed to the editor of 'The Times', October 26, 1911, together with 'An Announcement | Shakespeare's Plays and Poems | The Doves Press - MDCCCCXII | No. 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W 1.' There is a Foreword by Christopher Wakeling.
Verlag: Blackhill, Durham: Christopher Wakeling, at his Corvus Works, Summer, 2020., 2020
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In den WarenkorbNumber '36' of an edition limited to 70 copies designed by Christopher Wakeling who printed it on a Korrex Hannover test press, using Arches and Hahnemühle paper and Hermann Zapf's Palatino and Optima type. Green paper wrappers, sewn in green thread, printed and decorated paper label to the upper cover. Oblong, 165 x 250 mm, pp.… [12]. A booklet in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket. The text includes a letter addressed to the editor of 'The Times', October 26, 1911, together with 'An Announcement | Shakespeare's Plays and Poems | The Doves Press - MDCCCCXII | No. 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W 1.' There is a Foreword by Christopher Wakeling.
[ Richard Cobden-Sanderson, publisher. ] Typed Letter Signed ('R. Cobden Sanderson') to literary agents J. B. Pinker & Son, declining to publish three titles they have submitted.
R. Cobden-Sanderson [ Richard Cobden-Sanderson ] (1884-1964), publisher, son of printer T. J. Cobden-Sanderson of the Doves Press, Hammersmith [ J. B. Pinker & Son, London literary agents ]
Verlag: On letterhead of 'R. Cobden-Sanderson: Publisher | 17 Thavies Inn Holborn E.C.1' London 9 February, 1925
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In den Warenkorb1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged. He has 'given consideration to the following MSS.': 'THE WEB OF FATE by M. Garahan | ANTONY IN LOVE [by] C. E. Rose | THE NIGHT MOTH [by] Amy Miller'. As he cannot make any offer for their publication he is returning the manuscripts forthwith.
Weitere BilderVerlag: The Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1911
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Gut bis sehr gut. 1. Auflage. First edition of Doves Press's second Catalogue Raisonné. Description: Linen spine and blue paper-covered boards. Titled on the upper cover THE DOVES PRESS. Octavo: 24 × 17 cm; pp. [1], 12. Printed from 'Doves' type on 'Doves' paper. Paragraph marks, section headings, etc., in re…d. Ref.: Cowan 96; Tidcombe 27 Condition: Boards showing some soiling and foxing, internally, clean, bright and free of marks. Generally a very good copy. Notes:The second Catalogue Raisonné (the first Catalogue Raisonné was published in 1908) includes books published to June 1911 and an introduction and additional comments by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. 250 copies on paper. The final Catalogue Raisonné (1916) states the number of copies is 350, in error (Tidcombe).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press.Compositor: J.H. Mason. Pressmen: H. Gage-Cole and Albert Lewis., [Hammersmith], 1909
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In den WarenkorbOne of 250 copies, (a further 15 copies were printed on vellum). Printed in red and black throughout with four large capital letters, two full page, designed by Edward Johnston and engraved by Noel Rooke and Eric Gill. Sm. 4to., original vellum backed, blue holland paper covered boards, signed 'The Doves Bindery' on the lower tu…rn-in, gilt lettering to spine. Housed in a later cloth slipcase. An extraordinarily crisp and bright copy. Booklabel of the collector David Rose.
Verlag: The Doves Press, Hammersmith., 1907
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In den WarenkorbFirst edition. Small quarto. pp xiv, 120, [2]. Publishers' binding of full limp vellum. 300 copies were printed. The essays were originally published in the Cornhill Magazine. In his Preface the author asserts, ''I believe them to be the best, that is to say, the truest, rightest-worded, & most serviceable things I have ever wri…tten''.Signed on the one of the front blanks by the book's printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson.Fine.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Hammersmith, 'printed by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press,' 1910., 1910
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In den WarenkorbFirst Edition. 4to, pp.[2], 7, [1 (blank)], with preliminary and final blanks; printed in red and black in Doves type on laid paper watermarked 'CS EW 1902' and 'TJCS 1910'; small mark at foot of colophon, nonetheless a very good copy; bound in vellum by the Doves Bindery (stamp to lower pastedown), spine lettered directly in gi…lt, sewn with green thread on 4 tapes; vellum bowing slightly with a few scattered spots.One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive Pervigilium Veneris, a celebration of the spring festival of Venus Genetrix, here in the original Doves Bindery vellum, 'a triumph of simplicity and restraint' (Tidcombe). T.J.Cobden-Sanderson (18401922) established the Doves Bindery in 1893 and the Doves Press in 1900, the latter forming the 'triple crown' of private printing along with Morris's Kelmscott Press and Hornby's Ashendene Press. The distinctive Doves type, commissioned in 1899, had been promised by Cobden-Sanderson to his partner Emery Walker for use after his death; following the bitter dissolution of their partnership in 1909, however, he gradually and 'irretrievably committed [the type] to "the bed of the River Thames"' between August 1916 and early 1917, in the wish that the type should 'never be subjected to a machine other than the human hand'. The enigmatic origins of the Pervigilium Veneris have traditionally been dated to the reign of Hadrian and at times attributed to Florus, although its innovative style has led some to place it as late as the fourth century; Walter Pater rather fancifully imagined its composition by a young scholar under Marcus Aurelius. It is 'remarkable not only for its exquisite melody and romantic evocation of spring-time and its associations, but also as an experiment in a new form of poetry, making large use of assonance, recurrence of words and phrases, and even occasionally of rhyme, in anticipation of the accentual Latin poetry of a later age' (Oxford Companion to Classical Literature). The opening line and repeated refrain, 'Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, / Quique amavit cras amet' ('Let those love now who never loved before, / Let those who always lov'd, now love the more', trans. Thomas Parnell), is here accentuated in red ink, recurring after every four lines of the poem. An additional twelve copies were printed on vellum. See Tidcombe, p.64 ff. Language: Latin.
Verlag: Doves Press., Hammersmith., 1914
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In den WarenkorbLarge 8vo. (234 x 168 mm). [102 leaves; pp. 203]. Title, leaf with explanation, verso and following leaves with contents, leaf with title in red and sonnet 'Bright star!' verso and Keats' verse, two leaves with 'Table of Years', final leaf with colophon recto. Printed text in red and black throughout, sheet size: 230 x 162 mm. F…ull scarlet crushed morocco by Frieda Thiersch with her signature gilt, boards with double gilt rules, banded spine with elaborate tooled decoration with title 'KEATS / 1815 - 1820' and dated 'MCMXIV' in six compartments, large turn-ins with gilt tools and rules to surround vellum doublures, board edges ruled in gilt, morocco-edged wool-lined marbled board slipcase. [PROVENANCE: From the collection of scholar and bibliophile Dr. Ernst Kyriss (1881 - 1974), with his discreet oval stamp to front free endpaper; Achilles Foundation, the collection of Edith and Barbara Achilles]. A very scarce copy of the vellum issue of the Doves Press' Keats in a highly accomplished binding of red morocco by Frieda Thiersch. From the edition limited to 212 copies, with this one of 12 examples printed on vellum. Apprenticed to the binder Charles McLeish who described her as the 'most skillful pupil we ever had . equal to any professional', Frieda Thiersch (1889 - 1947) was a prodigy: a highly talented, innovative and controversial binder. The daughter of a distinguished Munich-based architect, Frieda had a privileged upbringing before her seduction by her music master Ludwig Hess for a bet; the ensuing pregnancy caused her banishment to France for the birth of her child to avoid scandal. After the birth she was sent to London where she undertook an apprenticeship at McLeish & Sons that led to their endorsement and laid the foundations for her future as a binder. Thiersch clearly absorbed, along with the binding skills and knowledge of the McLeishs, the influence of the Doves Bindery: Charles McLeish Sr. had worked with Cobden-Sanderson from 1893 until the establishment of his own bindery in 1909. The austere but beautiful work with the emphasis on simple clarity with a highly restrained decor became a feature of Thiersch's own work and the signature of the many bindings designed by her and issued by the Bremer Press - she worked as the principal designer and her atelier was the principal bindery for the press - before the worsening economic situation in the late 1920s / early 1930s caused the press to close. Throughout the time she worked with the Bremer Press, Thiersch took commissions in her own right as the present binding, signed with her full name as opposed to her initials (when produced by an assistant) and likely produced in the late 1920s, attests. Thiersch exhibited her work internationally and showed books at the First Edition Club in London in 1929 (it is tempting to think that this binding was shown there), the World Exhibition in Barcelona in the same year, the Milan Triennale in 1930, 1933 and 1936 where she was awarded a gold medal and the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 where she was awarded another gold medal. Later in the 1930s Thiersch became associated with the German political establishment and undertook government contracts for the Nazis. Although she did execute personal commissions for, among others, Hitler, her own political views have never been established. The destruction of her archive and personal collection in a bombing raid in 1944, her death from lung cancer in 1947 and the confusion of the Second World War itself have ensured that both an aura of mystery has surrounded her work while adhering a considerable bibliophile cachet to it. Although Thiersch's bindings for the Bremer Presse are prized, even more so are the bindings that she undertook on commission. We can trace few of these, but notable examples are the luxusausgabe of 'Das Graphische Werk Max Pechsteins' (1921), Johanne Auerbach's 'Summa de Auditione Confessionis et de Sacramentis' (the second or third book printed in Augsburg pro.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1912
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In den WarenkorbSoftcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. From the 1899 Weimar Text. A near fine copy of 200 printed on paper from a total edition of 232 copies (32 on vellum). Description: Original full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. Octavo: 24 × 17 cm; pp. 110, [1]. Printed in black and red on Doves handmade paper, top edge cut, fore and lower…edges trimmed. Inner pastedown stamped 'The Doves Bindery'. Provenance: Neat ownership inscription (Sutterlin script) to 2nd blank flyleaf: Ernst Bertram, Bonn 1924. Ref.: Cobden-Sanderson 1922, 141; Tidcombe DP28 Condition: Covers slightly soiled. Internally bright and clean, no browning to endpapers. Notes: Interest in Doves Press editions was very high in Germany. Therefore, after Shakespeare's plays, Cobden-Sanderson decided to print three plays by Goethe in the original German text: 'Die Leiden des Jungen Werther' (1911), 'Iphigenie auf Tauris' (1912) and 'Torquato Tasso' (1913). In addition, Cobden-Sanderson received requests from German dealers to increase both the number of copies on vellum and the number of special vellum copies with gold initials. The appetite in Germany for the finest editions seemed undimmed by the prices Cobden-Sanderson was forced to charge (Tidcombe 2002, 66). This led to the unusually high edition of 32 copies on vellum for 'Iphigenia on Tauris' (5 of them with gold initials) in addition to the rather moderate edition of 200 copies on paper.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1914
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In den WarenkorbSoftcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. "Cleanly printed from first to last" as Cobden-Sanderson remarked on 'Shelley'. A very good copy of 200 printed on paper from a total edition of 212 copies (12 on vellum). Description: Original full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. Octavo: 24 × 17 cm; pp. 181. Printed in black and red on Dov…es handmade paper, top edge cut, fore and lower edges trimmed. Inner pastedown stamped 'The Doves Bindery'. Ref.: Cobden-Sanderson 1922, 142; Tidcombe DP35 Condition: Volume is near fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing. Pages tightly bound throughout, pages 102-103 and 106-[107] show some yellow discolourations (verso of gathering g1, obviously an incident during printing), edges slightly spotted. But otherwise, a very good, clean copy. Notes: The 'Shelley' print was a tough nut to crack. By May 1914, when Shelley was printed, Cobden-Sanderson had recovered from his long illness, but he had become over-sensitive about the quality of the presswork. He blamed his age for the imperfections he thought were there, and for his 'growing inability to energize the Press to its fingertips'. In the end, however, he found the prints were 'on the whole quite "all right" - cleanly printed from first to last' (Tidcombe, 2002). It is all the more surprising, given Cobden-Sanderson's pedantry, that a copy with such a paper defect should have come into circulation at all.
Verlag: Sunday, The Chesnuts, Ebford, Topham, S. Devon
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In den Warenkorb3 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Zustand: Fine. 3 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. "I was so sorry to ---away without coming to wish you 'good-bye' & hear how you were feeling.
Verlag: The Doves Press, [Hammersmith]., 1916
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In den WarenkorbFirst edition. Two leaves. No wrapper, although Tidcombe mentions copies ''in an unprinted brown wrapper, or in a folded leaf of Doves paper''. In this instance the brown wrapper (splitting at the fold) is printed with the titles for ''Wordsworth's Cosmic Poetry).Fine. Scarce.
Verlag: Doves Press, [Hammersmith], 1914
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In den Warenkorb8pp. 1 vols. 8vo. About 300 printed. About 300 printed. 8pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Ransom 40 Laid in printed brown wrappers. Fine.
Verlag: Doves Press, [Hammersmith], 1914
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In den WarenkorbAbout 300 printed. About 300 printed. 6 pp. with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Ransom 42 Single folded sheet, unbound and laid into printed brown wrappers. Fine 6 pp. with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1911
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In den WarenkorbONE OF 250 COPIES. 9 1/2 x 6 3/4" 1 p.l., 12 pp. Original holland-backed blue-gray boards (stamp-signed The Doves Bindery to the rear pastedown), printed title. Printed in red and black. Page four with one correction in red ink, initialed "C. S." Front pastedown with Henry Young & Sons, Liverpool stamp. Rear flyleaf with Newbegi…ns, San Francisco bookseller's ticket. Tidcombe DP-27; Tomkinson, p. 57. Edges of boards somewhat browned, spine with a few areas of discoloration, corners a bit rubbed, but the fragile binding with no appreciable wear; fine internally. This is the second full-length catalogue put out by the Doves Press, recording their publications through 1911. As in the 1908 catalogue raisonné, this work includes remarks by Cobden-Sanderson about his approach, emphasis, and motivation. He begins by saying that his press was founded in 1900 "to attack the problem of pure typography, . . . keeping always in view the principle laid down in 'The Book Beautiful' that 'the whole duty of typography is to communicate to the imagination, without loss by the way, the thought or image intended to be conveyed by the author.'" Tidcombe notes that the British Library copy has the same correction as ours, initialled by Cobden-Sanderson. The lovely Doves typeface stands out on the bright, clean paper here, and the binding is well preserved, with none of the fraying that so often affects the cloth spine.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1916
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USAPhillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
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In den Warenkorb237 x 167 mm. (9 3/8 x 6 5/8"). 96 pp. Publisher's vellum-backed blue-gray boards, flat spine with gilt lettering. With frontispiece silverpoint portrait of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson by A. Legros. Printed in red and black. Front pastedown with book label of Norman J. Sondheim. Tidcombe DP-40; Tomkinson, p. 59. A touch of browning t…o edges of boards, light shelfwear to tail edge, a handful of creased corners in the text, otherwise very fine. This is the sought-after final book and the most complete catalogue raisonné issued by the Doves Press, containing press co-founder T. J. Cobden-Sanderson's "Hail and Farewell" in which he recounts the establishment and purpose of the press, and the "Consecratio" in which he consigns the Doves Press Fount of Type to the River Thames. In addition to listings of the press' publicationsboth in chronological order and as annotated descriptions arranged by categoriesthe volume contains Cobden-Sanderson's 1891 "Address to the Art Worker's Guild," his letters to the editors of the Westminster Gazette and The Times of London, his notes on the press' editions of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Shelley's poetry, some advertisements issued for works of the press, a list of previous catalogues raisonnés (there were six), and an Epitaph: "Here lies the Poet / Who saw life's future / As he saw its dawn; / Cloud-obscured its / Limits, but midmost / Bright: / God's great Creation, / The Poet's Vision. / Be you it, he said, / And died." The Doves Press was founded in 1900 by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson (1840-1922) and Emery Walker (1851-1933) to produce their ideal of the "Book Beautiful." Over the next 16 years, they produced 51 titles in which they demonstrated that printing with plain type (designed by Walker) that is well set and with good margins could produce notable work. As Cave says, the Doves Press books, "completely without ornament or illustration, . . . depended for their beauty almost entirely on the clarity of the type, the excellence of the layout, and the perfection of the presswork." After the partnership ended (acrimoniously) and this finale had been printed, Cobden-Sanderson threw Walker's beautiful type into the Thames, so it could never be used by anyone else. This copy was formerly owned by Pennsylvania businessman Norman J. Sondheim (1914-2011), an avid collector of private press books. ONE OF 150 COPIES on paper (and 10 on vellum).
Weitere BilderVerlag: March 15, 1917, 1917
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USAPhillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
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In den Warenkorb260 x 202 mm. (10 1/8 x 8"). Contained in an envelope addressed to Edgar S. Oppenheimer (see below) from the Chiswick Bookshop, postmarked January 20, 1950. See Tidcombe, The Doves Press, pp. 74- 81; Reminiscences of Newell Sill Jenkins, p. 400. In excellent condition, surprisingly without tears or soiling. This small collection… of Doves Press material, which includes a manuscript letter from Cobden-Sanderson to the husband of a former student, recalls for us a fond connection between the pre-eminent English bookbinder of the period and an aspiring one, and provides a glimpse into the sunset days of Cobden-Sanderson's career. It consists of the letter (approximately 250 words long), a typed transcript of the letter (the letter being one which poses the challenge to legibility frequently seen in Cobden-Sandersons' penmanship), the original envelope (addressed in Cobden-Sanderson's hand), a Doves Press receipt, a pencilled list of purchases, and, most important, rubbings of the two bindings made for deluxe Doves vellum-printed books that are at the center of the correspondence. The receipt records the sale of copies of the Doves Press Shelley and Keats, both printed on vellum, to Dr. T. Leslie Shear (1880-1945) as well as paper copies of "The Prelude," Goethe's "Gedichte," and a Doves Press "Catalogue Raisonné." The total bill came to the considerable sum of £88 4s (about $420 at the time), with £73 10s going for the two finely bound vellum books. The four pages of rubbings are for the bindings on the Keats and Shelley volumes, as recorded in Tidcombe (see "The Dove's Bindery" Nos. 779 and 780). Shear, our buyer, was an archaeologist best known for his excavations of the Athenian agora and the city of Corinth. At the time of this purchase, he was teaching Greek at Columbia University, and later went on to be a Professor of Classical Archaeology at Princeton for 25 years. Although the letter here is addressed to "My dear Leslie," the most important connection between Cobden-Sanderson and the Shears was through the professor's wife, Nora Jenkins Shear (1872-1927), an artist, later an archaeologist with her husband--and an aspiring bookbinder. As the unmarried Nora Jenkins, she had been one of a significant group of women, many of them American, allowed into (and able to afford) the elite bookbinding course offered by Cobden-Sanderson in his Hammersmith studio during the final decade of the 19th and first decade of the 20th centuries (for example, Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff, Emily Preston, Ellen Gates Starr). According to her father's memoirs, Nora attended the course at the urging of her decorative arts professors in Paris, but never seriously pursued bookbinding, preferring to focus her energies on archaeology. However, she formed a personal friendship with Cobden-Sanderson during her time in London: the two maintained a correspondence lasting over 15 years, and several books with personal inscriptions to Nora from Cobden-Sanderson are retained in libraries or have appeared on the market (see, for example, Tidcomb DP 8, DPE 89). She owned one of only 25 copies of the Cobden-Sanderson print "In Bookbinding, then, as in Other Crafts" (Tidcombe DPE 83), which now resides at the Bancroft Library. In the present cordial letter, in which the writer refers to Nora as "R." (a nickname or inside joke?), Cobden-Sanderson says that he looks forward to an upcoming letter from Nora and to a visit from the Shears, during which they would pick up their purchases: "I will keep watch on your books against your soon coming." This piece of correspondence and associated receipt, dated 13 March 1917, are highly representative of the period at the end of Cobden-Sanderson's career. The "Catalogue Raisonné" purchased by the Shears was the final printing of the press, and the Shelley and Keats were among the last, if not the very last, copies sold directly by Cobden-Sanderson. We know this because he wrote to bookseller Thomas Bain on April 5, 1917 that "all.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London: The Doves Press, 1906, 1906
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Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes KönigreichPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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In den WarenkorbFirst Doves Press edition, one of 300 copies on paper. The Doves Press co-founder Emery Walker "read and worshipped" Emerson "for some years", and later had "the great happiness" of meeting the author. This edition was "printed in memory of that meeting and a late acknowledgement of a life-long debt". Tidcombe DP8. Octavo. Initi…al letters and names of characters printed in red. Original vellum by the Doves Bindery, spine lettered in gilt. Vellum slightly cockled, as often, faint marks and creases, a near-fine copy.
Weitere Bilder[POEMS] SELECTED, ARRANGED, AND PRINTED AT THE DOVES PRESS BY T. J. COBDEN-SANDERSON
(DOVES PRESS). (BINDINGS - SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE). KEATS, JOHN
Verlag: Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1914
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In den Warenkorb235 x 167 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/8"). 203 pp. VERY PRETTY GREEN MOROCCO, GILT, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with delicate frame featuring sprays of flowers at the corners, raised bands, spine compartments with floral sprig centerpiece, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edge…s gilt. Printed in red and black. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Helen & Michael Oppenheimer. Tidcombe DP-36; Tomkinson, p. 58. Spine sunned to a light tan (as often with green morocco) and with three tiny brown spots, otherwise in pristine condition inside and out. Full of lovely poetry, this refined volume from the always elegantly austere Doves Press comes in a binding that can trace its "descent" from Doves Press and Bindery founder T. J. Cobden Sanderson. Ever the perfectionist, Cobden-Sanderson personally selected and arranged the poems in the present anthology only after much considered effort. He noted in his journal on 31 July 1913, "I have put 'Bright Star' first, for I wish the feeling of the last sonnet to accompany the reader throughout; and at the end revert to Keats' first sonnet, and so leave the poet as it were on the peak in Darien." The Arts & Crafts-style binding from Sangorski & Sutcliffe has more than passing similarities to Doves bindings--perhaps because its binders were trained by a man who apprenticed with and later designed for Cobden-Sanderson's workshop. Francis Sangorski (1875-1912) and George Sutcliffe (18781943) met in 1896 while attending Douglas Cockerell's bookbinding classes at the London County Council Central School of Arts & Crafts. Generally considered to be the leading binder of his day, Cockerell (1870-1945) became an apprentice for Cobden-Sanderson in 1893, when the latter was setting up his Doves Bindery, then established his own workshop in 1897. Impressed with his pupils Sangorski and Sutcliffe, Cockerell hired the latter as a finisher and former as a forwarder in 1898. In 1901, Francis and George went into business for themselves, and before long, they had become two of the most renowned English binders of the 20th century. In the manner of their teacher and of his teacher, they combined high-quality materials with faultless technique and beautiful designs to create some of the most outstanding bindings of the Edwardian era. Our volume was formerly in the collection of fine private press books owned by the distinguished scholars Sir Michael Oppenheimer (1924-2020) and his wife Lady Helen Oppenheimer (1926-2022); he was an Oxford lecturer in politics and history, she an Anglican theologian whose groundbreaking work on ethics helped reform the church's position on remarriage of divorced persons. ONE OF 200 COPIES ON PAPER (and 12 on vellum).
Weitere BilderSARTOR RESARTUS: THE LIFE & OPINIONS OF HERR TEUFELSDROECKH
(BINDINGS - DOVES BINDING FORGERIES). (DOVES PRESS). CARLYLE, THOMAS
Verlag: The Doves Press, London, 1907
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In den Warenkorb235 x 165 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). 341 [1] pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE DARK BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO IN THE STYLE OF THE DOVES BINDERY (counterfeit signature stamped and dated 1907 to the rear turn-in), covers simply framed by two plain gilt rules, raised bands, spine compartments with rose window designs formed by six open ovals accented with… dots, encircled by two gilt rules, with low platforms and dots above and below, gilt titling, turn-ins gilt-ruled and with cornerpieces of open ovals, dots, and gouge work, all edges gilt and gauffered with two rows of tiny dots. Initials designed by Edward Johnston. Printed in red and black. Pastedown with the bookplate of Helen and Michael Oppenheimer. Tidcombe DP-13. For the binding: Tidcombe, p. 464. Spine a little sunned, just a trace of soiling to leather, the usual offsetting from the facing turn-ins on the front and rear free endpaper, a hint of yellowing to quire b, but still fine, the text otherwise pristine, and the binding unworn and lustrous. This is one of the 26 intriguing (and obviously uncommon) examples Tidcombe has identified as forged or imitation Doves bindings, a group of handsomely executed volumes that continue to be mysterious. Tidcombe differentiates between forgeries (those books that are stamp-signed with "C - S" and a date, as here) on the one hand and unsigned "copies of Doves bindings or bindings in the Doves style" on the other. But she treats them as one group "because they have several features in common." For example, signed or unsigned, all of the suspect bindings cover Doves Press books, all are bound in dark blue morocco, and all have a signature pallet with the letters "E" and "S" close together. Although Tidcombe suggests that the person responsible for the forged Doves bindings could possibly have been the former Doves Bindery finisher Charles McLeish, she does not settle on him or any other likely candidate. Whoever was behind them, the volumes in this puzzling group of bindings--like other forgeries and imitations of historically important cultural artifacts--are actively collected for their value as counterfeits. And as with other counterfeits, the present binding is a kind of implicit homage, in this case to the outstanding work done by Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery--our spurious binding would not have been worth undertaking, were the objects it mirrored not so universally recognized as worthy of imitation. The text here is an uncategorizable work reminiscent of satires by Swift and Sterne in its fictitious biography of Teufelsdroeckh (i.e., "devil's dung"), Professor of Things in General at the University of Weissnichtwo ("Know-not-where"). Day calls it "an intellectual and spiritual autobiography and a diatribe against current conditions in England" that advocates a reorganization of society and its institutions, so that "Brotherhood and the duty to work usefully will grip mankind's true leaders and assure a theocracy, a reborn humanity ruled by the divine spirit within." Our volume was formerly in the collection of fine private press books owned by the distinguished scholars Sir Michael Oppenheimer (1924-2020) and his wife Lady Helen Oppenheimer (1926-2022); he was an Oxford lecturer in politics and history, she an Anglican theologian whose groundbreaking work on ethics helped reform the church's position on remarriage of divorced persons. ONE OF 300 COPIES printed on paper (and 15 on vellum).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doves Press May 1908, Hammersmith, 1908
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USAPhillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
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In den WarenkorbSecond Printing, updated. 237 x 170 mm. (9 3/8 x 6 3/4"). 7, [1] pp. Unbound, as issued. Sold-out titles marked with an asterisk. Tidcombe DPE22. Crease down the center, otherwise fine. This pamphlet represents an update of the 1908 list, which was the first significant Doves catalogue to appear, our later version indicating wit…h asterisks which books included in the original have been sold out. The contents are otherwise identical: in addition to listing the first 13 books issued by the press, this work includes remarks by Cobden-Sanderson about his approach, emphasis, and motivation. He begins by saying that his press was founded in 1900 "to attack the problem of pure typography, . . . keeping always in view the principle laid down in 'The Book Beautiful' that 'the whole duty of typography is to communicate to the imagination, without loss by the way, the thought or image intended to be conveyed by the author.'" The lovely Doves typeface stands out on the bright, clean paper here, and the unbound pamphlet has happily survived in fine condition. This item is seldom found in the present unbound state.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1914
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USAPhillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
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In den Warenkorb236 x 165 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). 203 pp. LOVELY DOVES BINDERY-STYLE DARK BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO, VERY INTRICATELY GILT AND INLAID, BY WESLEY D. BAKER (verso of front free endpaper stamped in ink: "Baker Bindery for James Cummins, Bookseller"; rear turn-in stamp-signed in gilt: "20*WDB*08") covers with wide frame of inlaid pink moro…cco Tudor roses (a total of 88 inlays on the covers), the blossoms linked with sinuous gilt stems with delicate leaves, all on a background stippled with tiny stars, raised bands, spine compartments similarly adorned, with inlaid rose at center, a trio of leaves at each corner, and a background of stars, gilt lettering, gilt-framed turn-ins with cornerpieces featuring an inlaid rose, gilt branches, and stars, white watered silk pastedowns and endleaves, all edges gilt. Printed in red and black. Tidcombe DP-36; Tomkinson, p. 58. A PRISTINE COPY. This is a refined book full of lovely love poetry, offered as an object so gorgeous that its Doves Press imprint has to take an uncharacteristic second place in importance; this is especially true because the binding, which clearly derives from Doves Bindery models, is a convincing perpetuation of that firm's superb achievements. Ever the perfectionist, Cobden-Sanderson personally selected and arranged the poems in the present anthology only after much considered effort. He noted in his journal on 31 July 1913: "I have put 'Bright Star' first, for I wish the feeling of the last sonnet to accompany the reader throughout; and at the end revert to Keats' first sonnet, and so leave the poet as it were on the peak in Darien." Our binding was done by Wesley Baker in 2008, using tools created by Roy Petit (responsible for the roses) and Stewart Fields (who cut the leaf tools). Baker became interested in bookbinding while in college, and attended workshops in the Northeast U.S., but is largely self-taught. From Alabama, he has adapted the traditional techniques used in England to the climate of the Deep South, where high temperatures and humidity require a different method of gold tooling than would be used in London. The present binding represents the latest attempt we know of to carry on in any thoroughgoing and convincing way the great tradition created by Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery at the center of the Arts & Crafts Movement. ONE OF 200 COPIES ON PAPER (and 12 on vellum).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Hammersmith: Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson at The Doves Press, 1914, 1914
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In den WarenkorbFirst Doves Press edition, one of 200 copies. Publication of Coriolanus was announced for the autumn of 1913 in the press's Catalogue Raisonné that April. Cobden-Sanderson, however, fell ill during its production, delaying its release. He continued to revise the text and compile the errata while convalescing at a nursing home in… October 1913, and the work appeared in March 1914. The Doves Press was run by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson alongside his wife Anne. Cobden-Sanderson left his career as a lawyer in 1884 in order to open the Doves Bindery, establishing the Doves Press in 1900. He was interested in all aspects of book design, writing in his diary in 1898 that "I must, before I die, create the type for today of 'The Book Beautiful', and actualize it - paper, ink, writing, printing, ornament, and binding". The text of this edition is based on the First Folio, published in 1623. Franklin, p. 278; Ransom 41. Marianne Tidcombe, The Doves Press, 2002, DP34. Quarto. Text printed in red and black. Original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, their stamp to the rear pastedown, spine lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Housed in an orange card slipcase. Vellum clean and notably unbowed, contents bright: a fine copy.
Verlag: The Doves Press, 1902
Anbieter: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Vereinigtes KönigreichBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA
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In den Warenkorb[ONE OF 325 COPIES] (from an edition of 350 copies) printed in black and red on handmade paper, first four leaves with light spotting to fore-margin, pp. 56, 8vo, original limp vellum, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges lightly toned and spotted, very good. The two translations are from 'The Iliad', the original poems mostly arou…nd Greek themes. (Tidcombe DP4).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1909
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USAPhillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
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In den Warenkorb235 x 164 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). 84 pp., [1] leaf. ELEGANT CONTEMPORARY DARK BLUE MOROCCO, EXTRAVAGANTLY GILT, IN THE STYLE OF THE DOVES BINDERY, gilt, covers with strapwork frame, daisy cornerpieces, two medallions at center in an intricate Celtic knot design, raised bands, spine compartments with guilloche tooling, gilt letteri…ng, turn-ins ruled in gilt with strapwork loops at corners, all edges gilt and gauffered with rows of dots. Three fine capitals engraved by Noel Rooke and Eric Gill after Edward Johnston. Printed in red and black. Tidcombe DP-18; Tomkinson, p.56; Gill 307. For the binding: Tidcombe, "The Doves Bindery," Appendix III, pp. 458-65. Mild offsetting from turn-ins (as uaual), one opening with barely perceptible horizontal darkening along tail margin, but A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL COPY INSIDE AND OUT. This Doves Press version of Shakespeare's Sonnets is based on the text of the first edition of 1609 and is printed in celebration of the 300th anniverary of their first appearance. The volume is a very pleasing example of the "Book Beautiful" as envisioned by press founders T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker: a desirable text rendered with reserved elegance and exquisite taste in Walker's stately Doves type. Cobden-Sanderson was a perfectionist, and finding that he had inadvertently printed an extraneous comma in the first sonnet, he covered over by hand every extra comma in every copy, using an early form of correction fluid. The correction is just visible in our volume (after the word "aboundance"). The engraving Gill did on the initials here is among the very earliest of his recorded work. Our binding is not signed, but was clearly inspired by Doves Bindery examples. The navy crushed morocco, the elaborate but tasteful design, and the precise tooling are all characteristic of Doves work. While the tools and pattern do not match any of those in Tidcombe's comprehensive study of the bindery, the open petals in the cornerpieces are similar to Doves tools, just as the use of strapwork is common in Cobden-Sanderson bindings. Tidcombe documents counterfeit Doves bindings in her book, and notes several common features. Like ours, all of the fake bindings are on Doves Press books and all are bound in dark blue morocco. But they differ from our binding in that they all use a stamp-signed Doves Bindery signature. She considers unsigned bindings in the Doves style copies, rather than forgeries. All that being said, it seems possible that our binding was created by an artisan who had studied with Cobden-Sanderson and who was much influenced by his bindings. ONE OF 250 COPIES ON PAPER (and 15 copies on vellum).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1912
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USAPhillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
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In den Warenkorb238 x 172 mm. (9 3/8 x 6 3/4"). 3 p.l., 7-140 pp., [2] leaves (colophon and errata). Original flexible vellum by the Doves Bindery, gilt spine titling, edges untrimmed. Printed in red and black. Tidcombe DP-29; Tomkinson, p. 57. A little natural variation (as always) in the grain of the vellum and covers tending to splay slightl…y, but in virtually pristine condition inside and out. This is a splendid copy of one of the series of Shakespeare works issued by Cobden-Sanderson's Doves Press. Although he printed 16 items before turning to something written by Shakespeare, seven of the last 35 Doves Press productions were authored by the Stratford bard. Probably first performed in 1607, "Anthony and Cleopatra," the tragic, classic story of lust and politics in ancient Rome and Egypt, is the third of those seven ("Hamlet" and the "Sonnets" were printed previously, in 1909). The text here is based on the First Folio, with errata added at the end. The Doves Press was founded in 1900 by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker to produce their ideal of the "Book Beautiful." Over the next 16 years, they produced 51 titles in which they demonstrated that printing with plain type (designed by Walker) that is well set and with good margins could produce notable work. As Cave says, the Doves Press books, "completely without ornament or illustration, . . . depended for their beauty almost entirely on the clarity of the type, the excellence of the layout, and the perfection of the presswork." After the partnership ended acrimoniously, Cobden-Sanderson threw Walker's beautiful type into the Thames, so it could never be used by anyone else. Doves Press items appear regularly in the marketplace, but "Anthony and Cleopatra" shows up less frequently than expected. ONE OF 200 COPIES on paper (and 15 copies on vellum).
