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Paper wrappers. Zustand: Fine. FIRST EDITION. Tall side-sewn booklet (25.3 x 16cm), pp. [2 blank], 27, [3, incl. 'Marks used on Ruskin Pottery, 1898-1935)'] + 2 plates, incl. 1 colour. Cream paper wrappers, front wrapper lettered in orange, cord-sewn. Gentle edgewear. Faint, fine spotting to verso of rear wrapper, else, clean, bright and tight. Birmingham Post clipping (10.02.1978) 'The family fired with enthusiasm,' about the Ruskin Pottery, laid in. Fine. A gorgeous first edition copy of L. B. Powell's illustrated memoir (and memorial) of Ruskin Pottery's master potter, Howson Taylor, printed under the direction of master printer Leonard Jay at the City of Birmingham School of Printing, Central School of Arts and Crafts, with student and staff collaboration, including "Compositors' work by boys in the pre-apprentice classes"; from the library of Jay's friends, the Birmingham-based artists Ernest and Catherine Hill, with their supplied cream paper dust jacket (nicked). The Ruskin Pottery was founded in 1898 by William Howson Taylor's father, Edward R. Taylor, who was headmaster of Birmingham School of Art. Howson Taylor (1876-1935), and the pottery, were renowned for their "remarkable glazes". The pottery closed in July 1935, when Taylor retired (and died in the September); the formulae for the glazes and all the pottery documentation were destroyed to prevent reproductions. Master printer-craftsman and pioneer of printing education, Leonard Jay (1888-1963) came from a family "steeped in printing". An Artisan Art Scholarship allowed Jay to attend the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts, Holborn from 1909, where "he enrolled on the newly established typography evening classes run by the printer-scholar John Henry Mason" and in 1912 was appointed Mason's first assistant instructor. Diverging from his mentor's focus on traditional hand-processes, Jay "understood if technical education was to succeed it had to work with existing trade practices," and introduced students to commercial printing, demonstrating "that quality bookwork could be produced using modern machinery" (ODNB). In 1925 Jay was appointed the first head of the Birmingham School of Printing, "the largest centre of printing outside London," where he would remain until his retirement in 1953. "Through an innovative publishing programme, Jay provided all students with the opportunity to produce at least one piece of work of great distinction of which they could be justly proud" and under his direction around 150 (the number varies) finely printed books and pamphlets, including this one, were produced by the Department's students and staff. A friend of Jay's, Ernest F. Hill, RBSA (1873-1960) was a British painter, arts educator and Vice President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RSBA). An early Newlyn group member, he worked primarily in watercolour, favouring British landscape and coastal scenes; he exhibited at the Royal Academy until 1946, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, but his paintings were most often hung in Birmingham (CAI, 2021). Hill was Headmaster of the prestigious Bournville School of Art and Crafts, and was well-connected in regional cultural networks, as well as with the Cadbury family. Less in known of Catherine Hill, who was a watercolour artist, print maker and book binder. Their library reflected these interests, featuring numerous arts and crafts, typographical and fine press books, often in excellent condition, thanks to the addition of hand-marbled, clear or paper wrappers (as here).

Zustand: Good. 2 vols. 4to. 9 x 11-5/8 inches. Vol. I: xxxii, 620 pp. with 7 plates. Vol II: xii,366,ii, 336pp. with 4 plates, Contemporary sheepskin with 5 raised bands the gilt embossing on spine, expertly repaired. Lowndes, II, p. 767.

Zustand: Good. Hand-colored lithograph. 29.7 x 40 cm. (image). 39 x 50.7 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Sheet trimmed and mounted to support sheet. Light foxing.

Printed in black ink on one side of a 23.5 x 17.5 cm piece of pink silk. An interesting piece of American nineteenth-century printing, with only the printer's details giving a clue to the occasion of the dinner. Within a decorative border, and with Maleville's slug in bottom left-hand corner. A sumptuous 'service à la russe', with potages, hors d'oeuvre, poisson, relevé, entrées roti, entremets and dessert. See Image.

50x32cm, One sheet, single-side. [ Reference: Firmin Maillard "Les publications de la rue pendant le siége et la Commune. Satires-- canards-- complaintes-- chansons-- placards et pamphlets. Bibliographie pittoresqve et anecdotiqve" nr. 106.: "Un feuillet avec encadrement, le recto seul est imprimé; imp. Edouard Vert. Les initiales J. D. S. dont est [par] ce 'petit factum représentent la France, c'est elle qui parle (J. D. S. n'est qu'un témoin auriculaire c' est lui qui le dit). La France raconte la chute de la seconde République, l'attenat de Bonaparte : 'Il se disait le neveu de quelque grand capitaine ;' la guerre de Prusse, 'cette trombe de presque deux millions d'anges destructeurs; ' la reddition de Paris 'n'ayant plus de vivres, et aussi par la faute de ses fils les plus puis- sants,' et enfin la Commune : 'Ah !mes fils, la nappe de sang qui tombe du front des combattants leur cache la lumière et les empêche de voir qu'ils frappent leur mère depuis vingt- cinq jours'. Elle prêche la conciliation : 'Cessez vos combats à la voix de la France ; reprenez les travaux de la paix, et bientôt tous nos malheurs pourront se réparer. Soyez justes et équitables les uns envers les autres ; que nul ne cherche à opprimer son frère et à lui ravir ses droits. Donnez- vous tous l'accolade de la paix et criez avec moi, devant le monde entier : Vive la France Republicaine' Soyez justes et équitables les uns envers les autres. Le 28 avril Pyat demandait à Vermorel la clef de ses dépêches chiffrées à M . Rouher et Vermorel lui donnait rendez-vous à la dernière barricade ! La Commune ordonnait .,."]. Some wear and tears to edges. Good.