Lot 141
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses.  
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition, this copy 48 (stamp-numbered) of the 100 copies signed in ink by James Joyce, printed on Dutch handmade paper (from a total edition of 1000). Three-quarters turquoise morocco, with Sangorski & Sutcliffe's stamp on the free endpaper; blue cloth sides, spine with five raised bands, uncut and retaining original front and rear wrappers. 9 1/2 inches (24 cm). [viii], 732 pp, plus colophon leaf and final blank. The binding is housed in a clamshell case.
One of the foremost twentieth-century novels, in its most desirable form. Slocum & Cahoon A17.
Sold to a buyer in Ireland for $133,000

Lot 155
MAPS, JOHN SENEX
The universal geographer: or, compleat atlas containing all the known Countries in the World.
London: Robert Sayer, n.d. (circa 1760). Contemporary calf in vertical oblong format. 27 x 11 inches (69 x 28 cm). Title pasted to front pastedown, 26 hand-colored folding maps of various sizes, mounted on guards.
The important Senex map of North America is present, but with defects. That for South America has marginal separation at some folds.
Sold to a buyer in the United States for $21,250

Lot 80
GREGYNOG PRESS
W. H. DAVIES  (William Henry Davies), The lovers' song book.  
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1931. One of 9 copies only, according to the hand-written colophon. Half purple morocco, covers marbled paper over boards. 9 inches (23 cm), top edge gilt. 30 pp., manuscript colophon signed by William McCance. Printed on Japanese vellum, with exquisite vignette wood engravings throughout, printed in brown, by Blair Hughes-Stanton About fine, in a matching slipcase and chemise.
The issue that the Gregynog Press finally published in 1933 is unillustrated. Davies had supplied the poems to the Press in 1930, and Hughes-Stanton and McCance produced this trial version to present to the Gregynog Board. They were decidedly unenthusiastic, and there were criticisms both of the illustrations (which were felt to be too erotic) and of the typography.
McCance salvaged the few copies of the book printed, and gave them to friends. This copy bears a manuscript colophon, indicating the size of the edition, the particulars of its manufacture, etc. This feature is lacking from the few other extant copies. The book is, in any case, absolutely charming, and is one of the great Gregynog rarities. Penelope Hughes-Stanton 9.
Provenance: the Schimmel copy (though with no indication of this), sold Christie's New York, 1991.
Sold to a buyer in the United Kingdom for $17,500

Lot 107
GREGYNOG PRESS
The revelation of St. John the Divine.  
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1933. One of 250 copies, of which this is one of 18 specially bound, this copy number 10. Full cream levant morocco, the front cover with a panel incorporating a cross of black onlaid calf with gilt-tooled shading., the words "The Revelation" in gilt, and a rectangle of onlaid brown calf with the rest of the title and tooling in blind. A similar, slightly smaller design on the rear cover bears the imprint. Signed on the bottom rear turn-in by George Fisher and Blair Hughes-Stanton (designer) at the Gregynog Press Bindery.
13 1/2 inches (34 cm); binding 13 5/8 x 8 inches (28 x 18 cm), top edge gilt. Unpaginated but [68] pp., printed in black and red; with 41 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Harrop 24; Zilverdistel 24; Penelope Hughes-Stanton 14.
Provenance: with the bookplate of J.R. Abbey.
Sold to a buyer in the United Kingdom for $17,500

Lot No. 117
GREGYNOG PRESS
XENOPHON. Cyrupaedia. The institution and life of Cyrus, the first of that name, King of Persians...  
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1936. One of 150 copies, of which this is one of 15 specially bound, this copy 7. Dark brown levant morocco, signed by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. The covers both have a frame of orange calf onlay, surrounding seven concentric blind rules, within which are two inner panels outlined in orange, and a circular design composed of onlaid strapwork in brown, red, orange, and green, tooled and outlined in gilt. The spine has four raised bands, with orange strapwork and blind rules. 12 inches (30 cm); binding 12 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches (40 x 23 cm), top edge gilt. [xviii], 271 pp., plus colophon, with shoulder notes in red and floriated chapter initials. Housed in the original Gregynog box.
Among the grandest of the special bindings emanating from the press. Harrop 34; Zilverdistel 34.
Provenance: J.R. Abbey's copy, with his bookplate and pencilled notes on the verso of the free endpaper.
Sold to a buyer from the United Kingdom for $17,500

Lot 116
GREGYNOG PRESS
XXI Welsh gypsy folk-tales collected by John Sampson.  
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1933. One of 250 copies, of which this is one of 15 specially bound copies, this copy number 10. Mustard yellow levant morocco, covers with onlaid lozenges in black and red joined by gilt lines, with a broad horizontal band at head and tail made up of oblique gilt rules; signed by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 10 7/8 inches (28 cm); binding 11 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches (28 x 20 cm), top edge gilt. xiv, 108 pp., plus colophon leaf. Text illustrated with seven wood engravings by Agnes Miller-Parker, plus her engraving for the title-page. Housed in the original Gregynog box. Harrop 27; Zilverdistel 27.
Provenance: J.R. Abbey's copy, with his bookplate.
Sold to a buyer in the United Kingdom for $16,250

Lot 76
GREGYNOG PRESS.
AESOP. The fables of Esope translated out of the Frensshe in to Englysshe by William Caxton.
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1931. One of 250 copies, of which this is one of 25 specially bound, this copy number 20. Ochre levant morocco, signed by George Fisher and William MacCance (the designer) at the Gregynog Press Bindery. The upper cover has three gilt rules, surrounding an inner rectangle outlined by multiple gilt rules of varying thickness, surrounding a design of onlaid brown calf in which the letters of "Esope" are ingeniously intertwined. "The Fables of" is printed above that in blind, and "Caxton" below in gilt. The rear cover simply has three gilt rules and the letters "GG" on an onlay of brown calf. The spine has five raised bands. 12 inches (30 cm); binding 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (31 x 22 cm), top edge gilt. 5 ff. including blank and title, 146 pp., plus colophon leaf. Illustrated throughout with Agnes Miller Parker's wood engravings. Housed in a later clamshell case.
An illustrated book now regarded as one of the most accomplished examples of wood-engraving between the Wars. Harrop 20; Zilverdistel 20.
Sold to a buyer in the United Kingdom for $15,000

Lot 23
ASHENDENE PRESS
The wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach, commonly called Ecclesiaticus.  
Shelley House, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1932. One of 25 copies printed on vellum, (and 328 paper copies). The issue binding of full brick red morocco by W. H. Smith & Son [under the direction of Douglas Cockerell], front cover lettered with the title, press, and date all within gilt rules; green silk headbands, vellum pastedowns. 11 1/8 inches (28 cm), all edges rough gilt. Title leaf, 182 pp., printed in the Press's Subiaco typeface with chapter headings and shoulder notes in red. The vellum copies have chapter initials in laid gold, as well as hand-drawn initials in green and blue, by Graily Hewitt, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley. Some minor offset from the leather doublures to the free endsheets. The book is housed in a later slipcase.
A magnificent piece of printing on animal vellum, illuminated throughout. This is generally considered the most colorful (and among the most successful) of all the books of the Ashendene Press. Hornby Ashendene Press Bibliography 38.
Provenance: with the Rockwell Kent designed bookplate of Dexter Cook and Ruth S. Brokaw.
Sold to a buyer in the Netherlands for $13,750

Lot 112
GREGYNOG PRESS
ROBERT VANSITTART. The singing caravan. A Sufi tale.  
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1932. One of 250 copies, of which this is one of 25 specially bound, this copy number 11. Burnt orange oasis morocco with onlays in black, an elaborate wrap-around binding with a complex motif of intersecting gilt rules, signed on the bottom rear turn-in by George Fisher and William McCance (designer) at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 11 inches (28 cm); binding 11 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (28 x 18 cm), top edge gilt. viii, [1] f., 143 pp., plus colophon leaf. Wood-engraved frontispiece, tailpiece, and initials, in brown and black, by William McCance. Light offsetting from turn-ins and wood engravings.
Harrop 22; Zilverdistel 22.
Sold to a buyer in New York for $13,750

Lot 36
E. ADVENO BROOKE
The gardens of England.  
London: T. McLean, 1857. First edition. 2 volumes, text and plates bound separately. Later three-quarters leather, green cloth sides. 21 inches (54 cm). Text volume: three leaves with a lithographed dedication, list of subjects, and list of subscribers; and 27 (of 29) text leaves with 15 mounted india-paper vignettes (of 16). The text for Wilton House is omitted from this copy, hence the discrepancy in the page count. Plate volume: 27 exceptional hand-heightened chromolithographs, including the title, with its vignette of Fountain Gardens. These are mounted on card, bound on cloth guards, and are titled by hand. One plate is out of order, and curiously this copy has an additional plate. With the W. R. Grace bookplate.
This is among the finest chromolithographic view books published during the Victorian era. The plates show vistas of the gardens of Castle Howard, Woburn Abbey, Elvaston Gardens and many others. These gardens were constructed at the zenith of Victorian garden design, and are remarkable for their arbors, parterres, wide gravel walks, and fountains. In addition to its importance as a major example of color printing, and as a color-plate book, this is a significant document of Victorian garden design.
The additional plate in this copy is a curiosity. We have been unable to ascertain if it is from another work. It is almost identical in size and finish to the other plates, but its subject, an Italian scene, is very different. Abbey Scenery 392
Sold to a buyer in New York for $12,500

Lot 49
CRANACH PRESS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Die Tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenmark.
Weimar: Cranach Presse, 1929. One of 213 copies on regular paper, this copy 217 (there were also examples on Japanese and animal vellum). Full crimson morocco, the deluxe issue binding (probably by Otto Dorfner, though not signed); covers with single gilt rules, spine with five raised bands. 14 inches (35 cm), top edge gilt. 202 pp., including title, plus colophon leaf. Printed in red and black (in the typeface designed for the press by Edward Johnston) on Gaspard Maillol's handmade paper. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Edward Gordon Craig, half-title lettering by Eric Gill. Offsetting from the doublures to the free endpaper. Preserved in a slipcase.
This copy has two fine wood engravings by Craig printed on animal vellum laid in, approcimate sheet sizes 13 x 9 inches (33 x 23 cm). These are for the half-title vignette and the illustration on p. 72, each initialed in pencil by Craig. The second of these proofs exhibits significant variation from the published version of the engraving. Ransom 253.
Sold to a buyer in the United Kingdom for $12,500

Lot 97
GREGYNOG PRESS
The lamentations of Jeremiah...  
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1933. One of 250 copies, of which this is one of 15 specially bound, this copy number 11. Midnight black levant morocco decorated to a complex design on both covers of an onlaid circle of blue Oasis morocco, six onlaid white squares of increasing size, parallel lines tooled in gilt and blind, and a sword, half in gilt and half in blind; signed by George Fisher and Blair Hughes-Stanton (designer) at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 15 1/8 inches (39 cm); binding 15 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches (38 x 26 cm), top edge gilt. 24 ff., printed on Japanese vellum with initials and titles etc. in blue. Illustrated throught with Blair Hughes-Stanton's wood engravings. A faint waxy white deposit shows up on some places on the leather, probably from British Museum leather dressing. Housed in the original Gregynog box (somewhat rubbed and soiled).
Harrop 29; Zilverdistel 29; Penelope Hughes-Stanton 21.
Provenance: J.R. Abbey's copy, with his bookplate.
Sold to a buyer from the United Kingdom for $12,500

Lot 203
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
Drum major and children, University of Michigan.  
Gelatin silver print, image 1951 but this a later 1991 printing made at Time-Life labs, so noted in pencil on reverse. Image 16 x 21 inches (40 x 53 cm), signed by Eisenstaedt and numbered 59 of 250 in lower margin. Titling, copyright, and printing details are noted in pencil on the reverse of the image.
Sold to a buyer in Florida for $5,625