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(Paper). HUNTER, DARD. Papermaking Pilgrimage to Japan, Korea, and China. NY, Pynson Printers, 1936. |
| Quarto. 150 pp., with 50 specimens tipped-in at the end. One of 370 copies printed on Shogun paper and signed by the author and the publisher. Hunter was granted access to even the most obscure papermaking locations, being one of the first foreigners many of the mills had ever encountered. This placed him on the forefront of the discovery of this otherwise esoteric and secretive world. He was permitted to take photographs, which many of his subjects willingly posed for, and 65 of these are illustrated in this book. Also contains 50 specimens of modern Japanese, Korean, and Chinese papers, an exhaustive list of papers and their origins, and a bibliography. Aside from being a beautiful and well printed volume, this book represents an insightful and historic undertaking to mark the cultural differences of papermaking between East and West. Bound in quarter black morocco and patterned boards. Fine in slipcase, which is split along bottom panel. Prospectus laid in. (20793) $4,500.
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[RACKHAM, ARTHUR]. Lucas, Mrs. Edgar. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. NY, Doubleday, Page, 1909. |
| Quarto. xv, (1), 325, (1) pp. One of only 50 copies comprising the deluxe American edition, signed by Rackham on the verso of the half title page. With forty mounted color plates and fifty-five black-and-white illustrations. Bound in publisher's full suede with yapp edges, decorated in gilt and blind on spine, silk moire endpapers. Small hole at outer rear hinge, a few tears to suede at yapp edges, light crease to lower corner of frontispiece. Even with these condition issues, this extremely fragile Rackham piece is in surprisingly good condition. The binding is not identified in Latimore & Haskell. (17676) $6,000.
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[THORNTON, ANN]. The Anglo-Saxon Elegies. London, The Folio Press, 1988. |
| Small quarto. 77 pp. Eight elegies from the the Exeter Book of the Middle Ages, each preceded by a color engraving by Hannah Firmin that picks up on imagery and themes in the text. Elegies include "The Wanderer," "Deor," "The Wife's Lament," "The Husband's Message," "Wulf," "The Seafarer," "The Ruin," and "The Fortunes of Men." With an introduction by the translator, Kevin Crossley-Holland. Printed on Van Gleder Old Dutch paper and bound by the celebrated British bookbinder Ann Thornton in full brown morocco, with gilt design to both boards and spine lettered in gilt. Pastedowns and front free endpapers hand marbled, with additional endleaves of brown natural-fiber paper. A very fine copy of a handsome book. T.e.g. (21126) SOLD.
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