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(DERRYDALE PRESS.) Vosburgh, Walter Spencer.
Cherished Portraits of
Thoroughbred Horses from the Collection of Willliam Woodward.
68 uncolored
heliogravure plates reproducing paintings in Woodward’s collection. Folio, original red
morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slightly scuffed, few minor scratches on covers.
[NewYork]: Privately Printed [for] Ernest R. Gee, 1929
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
LIMITED TO
300
COPIES
,
designed and printed by Eugene Connett at the
Derrydale Press. “This was Connett’s first major work in fine book production” (Siegel).
Mellon/Podeschi 373; Siegel 22.
WITH SIGNED INSCRIPTIONS FROM WOODWARD
to
William A. Law and from Law to Isaac H. Clothier, Jr.
74
(DETMOLD, EDWARD JULIUS.) Maeterlinck, Maurice.
Hours of Gladness.
Translated by A.Teixeira de Mattos. 20 mounted color plates by Detmold. Large 4to, pub-
lisher’s pictorial boards; scattered light foxing, mostly to endpapers and text leaves; original
dust jacket, several archival tape repairs to verso and some paper restoration, lightly soiled.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
.
London, 1912
[300/400]
75
(DOLMEN PRESS.) Synge, J. M.
The Playboy of the Western World.
Printed
in violet and black. 7 color illustrations including frontispiece after brush drawings by Louis
le Brocquy. 4to, yellow cloth with gold design on front cover (after frontispiece image);
bookplate on half-title; board and cloth slipcase with wrap-around label, lightly worn.
COPY NUMBER
11
OF
1950
COPIES SIGNED BY LE BROCQUY
, but not Sultan (as called for),
printed for members of the Imprint Society of Barre, Massachusetts.
Dublin, 1970
[250/350]
76
(DOVES PRESS.) Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Essays.
Preface by Thomas Carlyle.
Printed in red and black. Small 4to, gilt-lettered vellum, thin cream horizontal line across
top of front cover, another along lower rear cover; bookplate; slipcase.
ONE OF
300
UNNUM
-
BERED COPIES
.
Hammersmith, 1906
[300/500]
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