buckland wright john illus (4 Ergebnisse)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, burgundy buckram boards, black lettering & decoration to spine, unpaginated prelims + 252pp, illus, VG (moderate fading & rubbing/fraying to spine & board edges/extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, occasional light to moderate cracking to gutters).

Zustand: Good. Some heavy foxing on outer edge of pages and first and last few pages in book. Content is fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The sole UK printing of this illustrated edition published by the Golden Cockerel Press, UK in 1952. Number '9' of 60 special copies (overall edition limited to 360 copies). The BOOK is in near Fine condition, bound in full grey-green/pink morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, as issued. With an extra suite of the 8 aquatint plates loosely tucked into an envelope at the rear, including one extra (9 in total), which was not printed in the book. Signed at the colophon by both Buckland Wright and the author. Very light toning to the morocco spine and to the outer edges of the endpapers, otherwise near fine internally and externally. All tissue guards present and a small neat previous owner's bookplate to the upper front pastedown. Housed in the publisher's original cloth slipcase, which has minor splits and some slight loss to the cloth at corners. A very handsome production and scarce as the special edition. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. The sole UK printing of this illustrated edition published by Golden Cockerel Press, London in 1947. Number '383' of 500 copies issued on Arnold's hand-made paper with the Golden Cockerel Press watermark, of which one hundred copies were specially bound in vellum at Sangorski and Sutcliffe. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. The vellum spine with gilt titling has a few lights spots. The cloth boards with gilt decoration are clean. The binding is tight. Top edge gilt. Free from inscriptions. Some light sporadic toning to the page edges in places, more so to pages 12-15, 90-91 and 132-133, and the rest mild - all copies appear to have been affected with this to some degree, and it does not particularly detract. Profusely illustrated throughout with engravings by John Buckland-Wright. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. One of the highlight productions from the Golden Cockerel Press. Increasingly scarce. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.