Search Results: Titles starting with E from SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1925. No. 315 of 450 copies. Portrait frontispiece, 38 plates of bindings (several in colour), 8 colour plates of designs for papers and boards, 82 plates of designs for title pages etc. several in two or more colours, 13 plates of Weiss’s type, 8 plates of bookplates and devices, 6 plates of initials, 11 plates of borders and ornaments, plus many other illustrations of Weiss’s work in the essays. Folio, original parchment backed boards with design by Weiss in red on upper cover. Slightly rubbed at edges, a bit shaken, otherwise good. Inserted loose is an original engraving by Weiss, signed and numbered 2/26.||The festschrift for Emil Rudolf Weiss, a leading German calligrapher, typographer, type and book designer who worked in the first half of the 20th century and is particularly associated with Bauer.Among the essays are contriubtions by Gerhart Haptmann, Oskar Loerke, Hans Rupe, Emil Strauss, J. Meier-Graese, Hans Loubier and Stnaley Morison who contributes an… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Portrait frontispiece of Percy, together with 8 other illustrations and a double page map of Charlestown Peninsula. Concerns a dinner given in London by the Corsican patriot, General Paoli, in honour of Earl Percy. One of 550 copies, this no. 348. Printed at the Riverside Press. 8vo., a largely unopened copy in the original full red cloth, slightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, printed title label to spine, housed in the original worn and rubbed black slipcase.|||

Privately Printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. A brief, illustrated essay on Rogers’s art training at Purdue University by his tutor, Professor Ernest Knaufft, with an early example of Rogers’s cover design for ‘Art Student’ magazine. 8vo. 12 pp, string-tied, lacking covers.||A ‘with compliments’ note signed by Rogers is inserted loose.|

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. Illustrated with an engraving of San Francisco from Rincon Point, 1856. One of 500 copies, of which 200 copies were for members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano clubs and 300 copies were for friends of Arion Press. Foreword by Andrew Hoyem. 8vo., [15 x 23 cms], original stapled green paper wrappers, printed in green and black. A very good copy.|||

Boston: Printed for Members of Hoc Volo, David R. Godine, Publisher, 1990. One of 1200 copies. 21 duo-tone offset illustrations. Set in Monotype Bembo. Edited by Nicolas Barker. 8vo., original brown cloth, decorative design and lettering in gilt to cover and spine, in original dust jacket. A very good copy.||With the original prospectus loosely inserted.|

New Haven: The Edward P. Judd Company, 1929. Colour frontispiece of New Haven green and 9 other illustrations originally drawn and engraved by John Warner Barber, during the 1830s. Typography by Carl Purington Rollins. One of 2500 copies printed at Yale University Press. 8vo., [13.5 x 21 cms], a partly unopened copy in original half green cloth over illustrated green paper covered boards, printed title label to spine. Slight toning to spine and rubbing to boards, internally clean and fresh.|||

London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press of rhte Vale Press and sold by Messrs Hacon and Ricketts, 1896. One of 310 copies. Wood engraved border and frontispiece by Ricketts, who was aided in the cutting of it by Charles Shannon. 53 leaves. 20 x 26.4 cms. 4to., originally in white buckram this copy has been very elegantly and expertly bound in full vellum with leather thongs and immaculate gilt titling on the upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, in a black cloth solander box with black and gilt spine label. An extremely clean and handsome copy.||The editor of the volume is named at ‘Charles Sturt’ which was in fact a pseudonym adopted by Ricketts. He wrote two essays under this name for The Dial.|Watry, Vale Press, B1 The first book from Charles Rickett’s Vale Press

1926. Original proof copper engraving signed and numbered by Eric Gill in pencil, “EG” and 6/25, however the numbering has been crossed out and the word “proof” added in pencil. Image size 115 x 91 mms. Small crease to the side of the image. Mounted and framed.||Proof of an alternative and more explicit design which was rejected in favour of the more delicately covered image actually used for ‘Earth Receiving’ in Procreant Hymn, published by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1926. Very scarce.|Physick 367 Proof of an unused and more explicit design for Procreant Hymn, signed by the artist

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2020. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 45, signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 11.5 x 7.7 cms. Paper size 21 x 13 cm.||From ‘Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers’, the third book in Schanilec’s trilogy, the other two are his Little Book of Birds and Ninja Press’s Departures. |

New York: Spiral Press, 1965. Drawings by Ben Shahn, engraved on wood by Stefan Martin. Calligraphy by David Soshensky. No. 112 of 285 copies, signed by the artist, engraver, calligrapher and printer. In the King James translation of the Bible. Designed,hand set in Emerson type and printed on Rives paper by Joseph Blumenthal. Pp. [40]. 4to., original half vellum over black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lower edge uncut. Housed in the original two-piece grey cloth slipcase, inner case with gilt lettering to spine, outer case with printed title label to one side. A few faint marks to vellum, slipcases mildly rubbed, otherwise a very good copy.|||Spiral Press Bibliography, 462

Alaska Editions, 2009. Showing 21 international artist photographers with images printed using vegetable inks. Limited to 333 copies worldwide, hand numbered. Large format book c. 36 x 28.5 cms., original quarter black velvet over printed boards, all edges gilt. ||| One of only 333 copies.

Munich: Bremer Presse, [1933]. No.45 of 155 copies, signed by the author. 5 landscapes hand coloured by Annette von Eckardt, numerous superb phototypes printed by J.B. Obernetter. Printed on Zanders handmade paper. Folio, original linen backed holland boards with the stamp of the Bremer Presse binder Frieda Thiersch, printed paper spine label. Very mild fading to the edges of the boards, otherwise a very good copy. With 4 page prospectus from the New York distributors of the book Duttons inserted loose.||The collection includes first editions of Lear, original water colour drawings, sketch books and manuscript diaries. The book includes a new interpretation of Lear’s life based on the diaries.| Handsomely produced catalogue of a unparalleled Lear collection

London: 37 Belsize Park Gardens, c. 1922-29. 8 Christmas Cards each with a small wood engraving by Clare Leighton pasted onto the front, 6 of which are signed by the artist in pencil. 3 are on a single card, two with short Christmas inscriptions written and signed by Leighton in ink, 5 are 4pp greetings cards with printed greetings and Leighton’s address on the inside, 2 of which have handwritten notes, one with a signature. ||The handwritten note for 1928 states “I go to America on Sat 22nd for 2 or 3 months...” - the second is inscribed “to you and Jock. We’re both down with influenza at the moment & go to the cottage for Christmas to recuperate....I hope this is worthy of joining your little army of my prints...”|

Edinburgh: published for the Benefit of the Sufferers and sold by A. Constable & Co, 1824. 8 etched and lithographed plates, after drawings by Sir James Hall. Oblong folio., [296 x 475 mm], unbound with the original wrappers with the engraved title, the remains of the green glazed paper spine, edges untrimmed. The plates and the engraved title are in very good condition. Inscribed on the title in ink ‘To Colonel Wilkes with Mr James Hall’s Compliments.||Sold for 7/6 at the time to help those affected by the fire, the titles of the plates are:1. State of the Parliament Square at Day-Break on Wednesday the 17th Novr. 1824 - Etching by Lizars2. Con’s Close. 17th Nov. 1824, spot where three men were crushed to death. - Lithograph3. In the Old Assembly Close. - Lithograph4. View from the Old Fish Market Close - Etching by Lizars5. General Veiw of the Ruins, Friday 19th Novr. 1824 - Etching by Lizars - folding out to 698 x 288 mms.6. Preparations for Pulling Down the Great Gable. Friday Evening 19th… Read More

Mt. Vernon, New York: Printed by William Edwin Rudge, 1926. One of 200 copies. Decorative title page. 12mo., original silver-blue-grey paper covered boards, worn at spine ends and rubbed at extremities, printed title label to upper cover. |||

1983-8. 8 signed or initialled limited prints of wood engravings by John De Pol, most of the illustrations produced for Stone House Press publications. Together with various other De Pol ephemera, including:1. ‘John De Pol’s 75th Birthday’. 1988. Keepsake printed in celebration of De Pol’s 75th birthday, with his engraving for Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Leavetaking, at Dusk’, printed by the Stone House Press. With an invitation to De Pol’s birthday cocktail buffet inserted loose. 2. ‘The Book Club of California Quarterly News-Letter: Reminiscences of a Wood Engraver’. 1988. Volume LIII, Number 2 with De Pol’s essay, illustrated with his wood engraving.3. Excerpt from ‘Reminiscences of a Wood Engraver’. 1987. Yellow Barn Press. With a wood engraving by De Pol.4. Prospectus for ‘Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule...’ by Julian Symons. [n.d.] Yellow Barn Press. With a wood engraving by De Pol.5. Publication Announcement for ‘ A Goudy Memoir’. [n.d.] Yellow Barn Press. Wood… Read More

New York: Hammer Creek Press & Harbor Press, 1950-60s. The collection includes an evergreen leaf print (captioned in pencil by Fass and wood engravings, one being printed specially for a Mr Larmon. All beautifully printed and in very good condition and housed in an original envelope from Fass’s friend and dealer, Herman Cohen at The Chiswick Book Shop, New York. Housed in a later blue cloth and marbled paper portfolio. Extremely good.||John Strobble Fass (1890-1973) was a graphic designer and printer of fine press books who designed books for the leading American publishers of limited edition books. Early in his career he worked for publishing house of William Rudge where he learned a great deal from Bruce Rogers. In 1925 Fass founded the Harbor Press in New York which specialised in creating fine editioned books. This press closed in 1939 and Fass began printing exquisite books from his single-room home at the Bronx YMCA first under the name Hell-Box Press and later he began the Hammer Creek Press… Read More

Frankfurt: privately printed at the Max Dorn Presse in Offenbachfor D. Stempel, c. 1950. 26 coloured illustrations, one for each letter, by Fritz Kredel, the blocks being produced in the Klingspor workshops. Printed in red and black in Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse’s Diotima, Diotima-Kursiv and Smaragd typefaces. 8vo., a very good, bright copy in the original patterned paper covered boards, printed paper label on upper cover and spine. ||Each letter depicts a pair of disparate types of people put together each representing that letter. |

New York: Chilmark Press, 1967. Greek poet Trypanis’s long elegiac poem inspired by the ancient myths of Adonis. One of 450 copies, this no. 408, signed by the poet. Designed and printed on T.H. Saunders Wookey Hole mould-made paper by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. The second of the Clover Hill Press editions of the Chilmark Press. Pp. 32. 4to., a good copy in the slightly rubbed original dark green Fabriano paper covered boards, lettering and decorative design in gilt to spine, lacking the slipcase.||Will Carter discusses the typeface – a rare cutting of the Arrighi italic, designed Frederic Warde after the calligraphic models of 16th century writing master Ludovico Arrighi of Vincenza – in his typographical note.With the original prospectus inserted loose.| Set in a rare cutting of Warde’s Arrighi typeface

London: The Rodale Press, 1955. 7 engravings by John O’Connor printed in green and brown. Printed on blue paper. 8vo., contemporary red morocco backed marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Spotted throughout, binding very good.||Booklabel of Hanson on front pastedown.| “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day”