WITH AN ESSAY “A CHAT ABOUT MY BOOKPLATES”
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(CURIOSA.) Bayros, Franz von.
Autograph Letter Signed, in English, to
William R. A. Hays, his American publisher.
Apparently the first letter since the end
of the War, he writes about the effect of the war on his family, that he has broken with his
publisher but has nevertheless been busy, and gives a bibliography of books and bookplates
he produced in 1918 and 1919. Densely written in ink in his distinctive script; 4 pages,
large 4to, on single folded sheet.
ACCOMPANIED BY A
5-
PAGE MANUSCRIPT ESSAY
“A Chat
About My Bookplates.”
Karlsburg, 25 September Nd [but 1919]
[400/600]
“
With us it has had the most disastrous and frightful consequences. In the same year my wife
has lost her mother and brother, and is now herself on account of anxiety, grief and undefeeding,
very ill...” He closes the letter by asking “are you agreed if I fix my price for an exlibris at 180
dollars?”
300 ORIGINAL BOOKPLATES
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(CURIOSA.) Bayros, Franz von.
Checklist of The Bookplate Designs of
Franz von Bayros. Extracted, with additions, from the Bibliography Produced
by Rudolf Brettschneider.
Edited by W.E. Butler and J.J. Wilson. Illustrated with over
300 bookplates numbered, identified and described,
PLUS ABOUT
300
ACTUAL BOOKPLATES
,
each annotated on verso with the corresponding checklist number, and tipped to a stiff
backing.Tall thin 4to.
JamesWilson and The Bookplate Society, nd [1980s]
[400/600]
ONE OF ONLY
25
CLOTH COPIES
,
WITH AN ORIGINAL PLATE TIPPED
-
IN AS FRON
-
TISPIECE
.
The work of an indefatigable collector who tried to get an example for each entry. He
came close, with some duplicates, and some images in different states.
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(CURIOSA.) [Bayros, Franz von.]
Choisy Le Conin. Bilder aus dem Boudoir
der Madame C. C.
30 erotic and phantasmagoric heliogravure plates by von Bayros
under his pseudonym Choisy le Conin. Sheets measure 250x212 mm; 9
3
/
4
x8
1
/
4
inches, wide
margins, corner-tipped to window mounts, glue sometimes bleeding through. Folio, plates
and title-page laid into publisher’s
1
/
2
vellum gilt over patterned board portfolio, discolored,
joints splitting, title penned by owner in ink on front cover recto.
FIRST EDITION
.
ONE OF
200
COPIES
of this scarce subscription-only publication.
Np: Privately printed, 1912
[600/900]
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