The Limited Editions Club Poems by Wordsworth, Crane, Browning, Blake, Villon, and Ballads 12 PCS
The Lyrical Poems of François Villon: 1979. Selected by Leonie Adams (bilingual French/English edition with translations by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, W. E. Henley, John Payne, and Leonie Adams). Introduction: Robert Louis Stevenson. Design & calligraphy: Stephen Harvard (also signed the colophon). Printing: Stinehour Press; printed on Curtis Rag paper by Meriden Gravure. 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed by the designer. Quarto, bound in forest-green Dutch linen stamped in pure gold on the front cover and spine; decorative endpapers. Slipcase.
The Poems of William Wordsworth: 1973. Selection, editing & introduction: Jonathan Wordsworth. Illustrations: John O’Connor (10 full-page line drawings with watercolor tints + additional black-and-white drawings). Design: John Dreyfus; printed at the University Printing House, Cambridge. 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto, quarter tan morocco leather with ochre-dyed linen boards, front board embossed with a portrait medallion of Wordsworth. Slipcase.
The Poems of Robert Browning: 1969. Selection, editing & introduction: C. Day Lewis. Illustrations: Wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Design: John Dreyfus; printed at the University Printing House, Cambridge. 1071/1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Tall octavo/quarto, quarter blue Morocco leather with tan cloth boards, front board with an embossed/inlaid black portrait of Browning. Slipcase.
The Poems of William Blake: 1973. Selection, editing & introduction: Aileen Ward. Illustrations: 12 designs engraved and colored by Blake himself (faithfully reproduced from the originals in his illuminated books). Design: John Dreyfus; printed at the University Printing House, Cambridge. 1071/1,500 numbered copies (issued unsigned, as the illustrations are Blake’s own). Quarto, quarter black morocco leather with mulberry-colored linen boards, front board embossed with a portrait of Blake. Slipcase.
The Book of Ballads: 1967. Selection & editing: MacEdward Leach. Illustrations: 36 woodcuts by Fritz Kredel (many colored via pochoir). Printing: Press of A. Colish. 1071/1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto, quarter blue-green/green buckram with patterned red paper-covered boards, colored woodcut spine label. Slipcase.
The Nibelungenlied: 1960. Translation by Margaret Armour with an introduction by Franz Schoenberner. Typography by Jan van Krimpen; 23 hand-colored illustrations by Edy Legrand (signed on the colophon page). Printed by Joh. Enschedé in Haarlem, Netherlands, with medieval-style lettering headings designed by Arnold Bank. 1071/1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Bound in full black cloth, featuring a blind-stamped title on the front cover and gold lettering over a red panel on the spine. Slipcase.
The Bridge (Hart Crane): 1981. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Five gravure photographic plates by Richard Benson (including a double-page panorama). Hand-set and printed by Michael & Winifred Bixler. 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed on the colophon by photographer Richard Benson. Large quarto, silver-gray Dutch natural-finish cloth bound by the Stinehour Press, with custom paste-paper endpapers and slipcase designs by Carol Blinn. Slipcase.
Gogol. Nikolai: The Overcoat and The Government Inspector: 1976. Translation: Constance Garnett. Introduction: Alfred Kazin. Illustrations: engravings by Saul Field (including color plates). Design: Charles E. Skaggs. Printing: Meriden Gravure Company. Binding: Tapley-Rutter Company. 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto, green and brown buckram stamped in aluminum foil. Slipcase.
The Sonnets of Petrarch: 1965. Edited and introduced by Thomas G. Bergin. Printed in Verona, Italy, at the Stamperia Valdonega. 1071/1,500 numbered copies, signed on the colophon page by printer Giovanni Mardersteig and illustrator Aldo Salvadori. Tall octavo, half-bound in blue levant morocco leather with gold-leaf title stamping; boards covered in beige cloth featuring an impressed profile head of Petrarch on the front cover. Slipcase.
The Light of Asia (Sir Edwin Arnold): 1976. Printing of Sir Edwin Arnold’s 1879 epic poem. Introduction by anthropologist and scholar Melford E. Spiro. Featuring full-page watercolor plates, two-color line drawings, and black-and-white spot illustrations by Ayres Houghtelling. Printed by A. Colish in Mount Vernon, New York. 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Bound in cotton fabric with green leather backstrip and gold-leaf stamping. Slipcase.
Robert Graves: Poems: 1980. Selection & introduction: Elaine Kerrigan. Illustrations: 8 double full-page color watercolors by Paul Hogarth. Typography: Freeman Keith. Printing: Stinehour Press. 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator and the designer. Quarto, half brown buckram over patterned paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Slipcase.
The Poems of John Donne: 1968. Selected, introduced, and annotated by Frank Kermode. 33 wood engravings by Imre Reiner (signed by Reiner). Designed by John Dreyfus; printed at the University Printing House, Cambridge, by Brooke Crutchley. 1071/1500 numbered copies. Quarto, quarter red (or burgundy) crushed morocco spine stamped in black and gold over ochre/yellow cloth boards with black embossed oval portrait of Donne on the front cover; slipcase.
Provenance: Property from the Collection of Marianne Endicott, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI
Dimensions:The Lyrical Poems of François Villon: 1979 . Selected by Leonie Adams (bilingual French/English edition with translations by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, W. E. Henley, John Payne, and Leonie Adams) Introduction: Robert Louis Stevenson H 11" W 7" 1 PC
The Poems of William Wordsworth: 1973 Selection, editing & introduction: Jonathan Wordsworth. Illustrations: John O’Connor (10 full-page line drawings with watercolor tints + additional black-and-white drawings) H 11" W 7" 1 PC
The Poems of Robert Browning: 1969 Selection, editing & introduction: C. Day Lewis Illustrations: Wood engravings by Peter Reddick Design: John Dreyfus; printed at the University Printing House, Cambridge. 1071/1,500 H 11" W 7" 1 PC
The Poems of William Blake: 1973. Selection, editing & introduction: Aileen Ward. Illustrations: 12 designs engraved and colored by Blake himself (faithfully reproduced from the originals in his illuminated books) H 11" W 7" 1 PC
The Book of Ballads: 1967. Selection & editing: MacEdward Leach Illustrations: 36 woodcuts by Fritz Kredel (many colored via pochoir) Printing: Press of A. Colish. 1071/1,500 1 PC
The Nibelungenlied: 1960. 1071/1,500. Translation by Margaret Armour with an introduction by Franz Schoenberner. Typography by Jan van Krimpen, 23 hand-colored illustrations by Edy Legrand (signed on the colophon page). 1 PC
Crane, Hart: The Bridge: 1981. 1071/2,000 numbered copies signed on the colophon by photographer Richard Benson. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Five gravure photographic plates by Richard Benson H 12" W 9" 1 PC
Gogol. Nikolai: The Overcoat and The Government Inspector: 1976. 1071/2,000 numbered copies and signed by Saul Field (on colophon) H 11" W 7" 1 PC
The Sonnets of Petrarch: 1965. Edited, and introduced by Thomas G. Bergin. Printed in Verona, Italy, at the Stamperia Valdonega. 1071/1,500 numbered copies. 1 PC
Sir Edwin Arnold: The Light of Asia: 1976 printing of Sir Edwin Arnold’s 1879 epic poem.1071/ 2,000 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, Ayres Houghtelling. Introduction by anthropologist and scholar Melford E. Spiro. H 12" W 9.75" 1 PC
Robert Graves: Poems: 1980. Selection & introduction: Elaine Kerrigan. Illustrations: 8 double full-page color watercolors by Paul Hogarth. H 10.5" W 7.5" 1 PC
The Poems of John Donne: 1968. Selected, introduced, and annotated by Frank Kermode. 33 wood engravings by Imre Reiner (signed by Reiner). H 11.5" W 7" 1 PC
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