DISTINGUISHED TYPOGRAPHY - Bloomsbury Auctions

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BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 57
57. Villon (François) le s oe u v r e s, number 8 of 105 copies
on vélin de Hollande Pannekoek paper, from an edition
limited to 150, printed in red and black in 15th century gothic
type by Joh.Enschedé en Zonen, title, headings and initials
by van Krimpen, bookplate of J.E.M.Kramers, contemporary
vellum-backed marbled boards, uncut, original wrappers
with printed label bound in, rubbed at edges, modern cloth
slip-case, 4to, 230 x 185mm., Maastricht, Halcyon Press,
1929. £150 – £200
58. Milton (John) th e so n n e t s, one of 325 copies on
Dutch Pannekoek paper, printed in Christoffel Van Dyck’s
Italic 17th century type, original cloth, uncut, 255 x 175mm.,
Maastricht, Halcyon Press, 1929 § Boutens (P.C.) Bezonnen
Verzen, o n e o F 30 C o p i e s o n J a p o n n a C r é (15 for sale),
light foxing at beginning and end, bookplate of Driek van
Opstal, bound in crimson morocco, uncut, original printed
wrappers bound in, spine slightly rubbed and faded, 200 x
120mm., Haarlem, 1931 § Prins (Jan) Indische Gedichten,
n u M b e r 12 o F 20 C o p i e s on laid Van Gelder, from an edition
limited to 30, s i g n e D p r e s e n tat i o n C o p y F r o M t h e a u t h o r
to he n r i bo r e l inscribed on half-title, modern cloth, gilt,
uncut, 200 x 120mm., Haarlem, 1932 § Porter (Katherine
Anne) French Song-Book, one of 595 copies on Van Gelder
rag paper signed by the author, printed in Lutetia, musical
notation, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, dust-jacket,
275 x 190mm., Paris & New York, Harrison of Paris, [1933],
all printed by Joh.Enschedé en Zonen, 4to & 8vo (4).
£150 – £200
Lot 59
59. Constant (Benjamin) aD o l p h e, edited by Jean Jacob
and Arsène Soreil, number VII of 10 hors commerce copies,
from an edition limited to 160, all on vergé de Hollande
Pannekoek, printed in type designed by Didot l’Ainé by Joh.
Enschedé en Zonen, s i g n e D a n D i n s C r i b e D to an D r é su a r è s
b y Je a n Ja C o b (o n e o F t h e e D i t o r s) on front free endpaper
and with note by Suarès in red ink on colophon, bound in
moulded black revorim, b y Je a n D e go n e t (série 5 ‘plaque
d’égout’), upper cover with part of grey calf circular inlay
stamped in red with ‘Gonet Artefacts 1989’, purple calf
spine with exposed threads and brown linen bands, signed
and numbered 146/200 at foot of front pastedown, original
printed wrappers bound in, 8vo, 210 x 135mm., Liege,
Éditions du Balancier, 1933. £250 – £350
Charles Nypels
In 1927 Charles Nypels produced an average of 2 books a
month; also in that year he began printing for the Utrecht
writers’ group ‘De Gemeenschap’.
Lot 60
60. so n e t t e, 1929; Trilogie der Leidenschaft, 1927; Pandora:
ein Festspiel, 1929, together 3 works in 1 vol., each one of
120 copies on Ossekop Van Gelder paper, printed in red and
black in Grotius, initials by S.H. de Roos, the second with
bookplate of C.J.Asselbergs, bound together in moulded
black revorim, b y Je a n D e go n e t (série 4 ‘fichoirs’), covers
with vertical bands of clothes peg shapes, boards edged in
beige calf at fore-edges, beige calf spine with exposed threads
and grey linen bands, uncut, original printed wrappers with
gilt device on upper covers bound in, 8vo, 240 x 160mm.,
Maastricht, 1928. £300 – £400
Lot 61