Front street editions (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on half title page.

46/120 COPIES (from an edition of 135 copies) printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, frontispiece and 7 further wood engravings with 5 of these full-page, title-page printed in black and red, pp. [16], oblong 8vo, original red cloth, printed label inset to upper board, grey cloth slipcase with matching printed label, fine. A reminiscence of a childhood journey by the former Poet Laureate, with wonderful illustrations by Andy English.…

FIRST EDITION, 49/100 COPIES (from an edition of 125 copies), tipped-in frontispiece of Nash's 'Cornilla 2' with further tip-in of folded facsimile sheet showing working directions for 'Urne Buriall', pp. 26, 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with patterned Curwen paper sides to a Nash design, backstrip with black paper label lettered in gilt, cloth slipcase, fine. Seventeen unpublished letters, the majority of them concerning the production of Nash's edition of Sir Thomas Browne's 'Urne Buriall' - the Curwen Press's crowning achievement, and one of the finest books of the twentieth-century. …

V/20 COPIES (from an edition of 120 copies) printed on Somerset mould-made paper with a tipped-in frontispiece three-colour wood-engraving of Schubert by Chris Daunt after a portrait by Wilhelm August Riedler, pp. 53, 4to, original deluxe binding of quarter grey Harmatan leather, blue cloth sides with oval label inset to upper board, backstrip lettered in silver, blue cloth slipcase, fine. Printed in parallel text, the verse set to music by Schubert in 'Winterreise' in a translation by this well-known tenor.…

XXI/25 DELUXE COPIES (from an edition of 150 copies) printed on Magnani Pescia Editions paper, frontispiece and 6 further wood-engravings all tipped in, pp. [24], 8vo, original quarter black morocco with sides of patterned paper reproducing an Italian nineteenth-century design, backstrip lettered in gilt, with cloth portfolio enclosing full-page prints of the engravings, together in matching cloth and board slipcase, fine. Printed by John Grice at the Evergreen Press.…