Teriade, E., Director. Verve. December 1937 Vol. 1 No. 1 in box
Paris 1937 Folio, stiff wraps, in original publisher's box. 128 pages. Cover by Henri Matisse. Lithographs of the four elements by Leger, Miro, Rattner, and Bores. Heliogravure reproductions of photographs including Man Ray, Gil, Cartier. Section of photos by Louis Guichard. Color and color/gilt reproductions of paintings and manuscripts. Premier issue of this lavish periodical.
Gold foil sticker of American importer on the title
page. Near Fine, with only slight hinge creasing. Good box with some flap loss.
Very scarce in this condition, with box.
Art # 200809 $650
De La Mare, Walter. Come Hither. A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Youths of All Ages (Two Volumes)
London 1923, Constable. Limited, large paper edition, one of 350, signed by De La Mare. Wood engraving decorations by Alec Buckels. 2 vol. paper over boards with cloth spine and leather spine labels. 8vo. 287 and 411 pages. t.e.g. Printed on exceptionally white handmade paper.
Light cover wear. VG. #4629 $200
Ingpen, Roger. William Thomas Horton, A Selection of His Work With a Biographical Sketch.
London (no date, circa 1920) Ingpen & Grant. 9 1/2 inch tall, paper over boards with cloth spine, paper spine label. 21 page biographical sketch followed by 68 of Horton's drawings (drawing 2, drawing 3) Published after Horton's death in 1919. Friend of Yeats and influenced by Beardsley and Blake, Horton originally trained as an architect, but abandoned that field early in life. His work is not widely known, and largely unpublished.
End pages foxed. A little cover wear and corner bumping. Otherwise tight in a worn and age toned dust jacket. #4271 $100
Marillier, H. C. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life.
London 1899, George Bell, publisher. Folio, 13 1/2 inch tall gold stamped cloth. 270 pages, 200 illustrations. Bookplate of Stephen Coleridge with inscription to Coleridge from Winifred Knatchbull-Hugessen dated Christmas 1899, and a four line poem signed S.C. and dated 1925 on front endpaper. Poem reads: "She is dead and gone, She is dead and gone, at her head a grass - green turf, at her heels a stone." Includes a List of Works and a general index. The book interweaves "a simple account of the painter's life with a detailed chronological record of his artistic work." Backstrip split at upper hinge and frayed at top. Light cornerwear. #200469 $650
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of Macbeth. Printed from the Folio of 1623.
London 1923. Ernest Benn. Folio, 13 inch tall gilt tooled vellum binding by Zaehnsdorf. #70 of 100 signed copies on Kelmscott handmade paper. Signed by Harley Granville-Barker, author of the introduction; as well as Charles Ricketts, the illustrator (12 colotype facsimile plates: 6 monochrome, 6 color); and Albert Rutherston, the art editor. Boards yawn a little. Otherwise Fine. 200177 $950
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