The nonesuch press, including the meynell collection & the copies of lord berners

1. Patmore (Coventry) Seven Unpublished Poems [...] to Alice Meynell. Privately printed at The Pelican Press by Francis Meynell, Christmas 1922, ONE OF 50 COPIES, a faint spot at foot of textblock, very light creasing to top corner, pp. 8, crown 8vo, original gold sewn wrappers, marked ‘Vivian’s copy’ in pencil at head of flyleaf [i.e., Vivian Meynell], good £500 Scarce. Laid in is a Ms. copy of six stanzas of the anonymous religious poem ‘We are like to servants...’ - this does not look to be in Patmore’s hand, but is possibly in that of another of the Meynells’ circle. Pre-Nonesuch Press printing by Francis Meynell.

INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE 2. (Nonesuch Press.) THE BOOK OF RUTH. Translated out of the Original Tongues. (The Text of this Edition... is that of the Authorised Version). The Nonesuch Press, 1923, ONE OF 250 COPIES, this copy out of series, printed on Van Gelder handmade paper typographical ornaments used as a border to each page and as a tail-piece, from sixteenth-century designs by Bernard Salomon and printed in brown, pp.[18], cr.8vo., original green and purple batik-paper covered boards, touch of fading around spine, lacking slipcase but with a modern facsimile of its printed label pasted to the upper board (a little unwelcome), otherwise very good £200 Inscribed by the publisher on the flyleaf, a couple of months before publication, to his wife: ‘Hilda, from Frances, March 3 1923’, and subsequently in Meynell’s own collection. Among the first books of the Press.

INCLUDING A GALLEY PROOF CORRECTED BY FRANCIS MEYNELL 3. (Nonesuch Press.) EPHEMERA: Prospectuses, etc. 1) ‘The first list of fine books in limited editions to be published by the Nonesuch Press’ (Dreyfus P1) - with the corrected galley proof for the same, multiple corrections by the printer 2) [Prospectus for:] Love Poems of John Donne, 1923 (Dreyfus 1 for book) 3) [Prospectus for:] The Letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell’, etc., 1923 (Dreyfus 2 for book) 4) [Prospectus for:] Miscellaneous Poems by Andrew Marvell, 1923 (Dreyfus 4 for book) 5) ‘The Complete Programme of the Nonesuch Press for MCMXXIV (Dreyfus P7, 2 copies) 6) [Prospectus for:] The Writings of William Blake, 1925, enclosing 21 collotype plates taken from the edition (Dreyfus 24 for book, this version b) of the two mentioned)

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7) ‘Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925, for the Spring 1926’, printed by Walter Lewis and bound in grey boards (Dreyfus P10) 8) [Drop title:] ‘Nonesuch Books for the Winter MCMXXVI and for the Spring MCMXXVII, With a Hand-List of All the Publications of the Press’, with the Order Form and Concert announcement leaflet enclosed as issued (Dreyfus P11) 9) [Drop title:] ‘Prospectus and Retrospectus of the Nonesuch Press editions’, 1927 (Dreyfus P14) 10) [Cover title:] The 1928 Prospectus of Nonesuch books’, with prospectus for the Shakespeare enclosed as issued (Dreyfus P16) 11) [Cover title:] ‘Bodkin Permitting: Being the Prospectus and Retrospectus for 1929’ (Dreyfus P18) 12) [Cover title:] ‘1930 Prospectus and Retrospectus of the Nonesuch Press’, some light foxing (Dreyfus P21) 13) [Cover title:] ‘1931 Prospectus of the Nonesuch Press’, some light foxing (Dreyfus P22) 14) [Prospectus for:] Dryden, the Dramatic Works’, 1931 (Dreyfus 80 for book) 15) [Cover title:] ‘Nonesuch Press, Christmas 1933’, some light insect damage (Dreyfus P29) 16) [Prospectus for:] In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1933 (Dreyfus 91 for book) 17) [Cover title:] ‘3 new Nonesuch books for the Summer of 1934’ (Dreyfus P31) 18) [Prospectus for:] Chapman by Havelock Ellis, 1934 (Dreyfus 93 for book) 19) [Prospectus for:] The Devil and All by John Collier, 1934 (Dreyfus 98 for book) 20) [Drop title:] ‘Nonesuch News, Autumn 1935’, some annotation regarding copies ordered (Dreyfus P35) 21) [Cover title:] ‘Prelude to Plenty: Nonesuch Press Limited Editions, Winter 1937-8’ (Dreyfus P40) 22) [Prospectus for:] The Coronation Edition of Shakespeare, 1953, numerous order forms laid in (Dreyfus 119 for book) 23) [Prospectus for:] Gloriana’s Glass, 1953 (Dreyfus 120 for book) 24) [Programme & Menu for:] Sir Francis Meynell’s Seventieth Brithday Party, bookplate of Pamela & Raymond Lister 25) [Prospectus for:] Poems & Pieces, 1911 to 1961 by Francis Meynell, 1961 (Dreyfus 128 for book, 2 copies) 26) [Prospectus for:] The Holy Bible, 1963 (Dreyfus 129 for book, 2 copies) 27) [Drop title:] ‘New Nonesuch Cygnets’, 1964 (Dreyfus P59) 28) [Cover title:] ‘Nonesuch cygnets’, 1968 ((Dreyfus P60, 2 copies) The Nonesuch Press, 1923- 1968, various illustrations from the work of the Press, various sizes and formats, very good condition except where noted above £400 An excellent collection, formed within the Meynell family, offering a broad documentary sweep of the life of the Press - including its earliest years and its later revival.

4. (Nonesuch Press.) ANACREON.... Done into English out of the Original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. (Reprinted, with some alterations in the Spelling and Punctuation, from the Edition of 1683). Nonesuch Press, 1923, 78/700 COPIES printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, title-page, 2 vignettes and 4 full-page illustrations all engraved on copper by Stephen Gooden, tissue-guards present, pp. [104], 8vo, original quarter white parchment, backstrip gilt lettered, fragile gold boards a little rubbed at edges as usual, untrimmed, a few faint spots to endpapers, very good £60 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

‘HILDA ’S COPY ’ 5. (Nonesuch Press.) APULEIUS (Lucius) Cupid and Psyches. The excellent Narration of their Marriage Translated into English by William Adlington out of the Latine Bookes of the Golden Asse 1566. (The text taken from the Edition of 1639). Nonesuch Press, 1923, ONE OF 625 COPIES, this copy out of series and marked ‘Hilda’s copy by the printer, printed on Vidalon handmade paper, decorative border design to each page by Geofrey Tory, slightly enlarged and

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printed in red, pp.[60], cr.8vo., original quarter maroon parchment, backstrip gilt letteredwith some rubbing along joints, patterned cream boards printed in red with matching endpapers, some light dustsoiling, good £60 The copy of Meynell’s first wife Hilda, it remained in the publisher’s collection.

‘HILDA ’S COPY ’ 6. (Nonesuch Press.) DONNE (John) Paradoxes & Problemes. With Two Characters and an Essay of Valour. Now for the First Time Reprinted from the Editions of 1633 and 1652 with One Additional 'Probleme'. 1923, ONE OF 645 COPIES printed in the Fell types on handmade paper, this copy out of series and marked ‘Hilda’s copy’ by the printer, typographic ornaments to the title-page and as head-pieces, large initial letters, pp. viii, 80, crown 8vo, original maroon and white patterned parchment, printed label, hint of sunning to backstrip, usual faint browning to free endpapers, untrimmed, bookplate on rear pastedown, dustjacket with browned backstrip panel and a short tear at head of front panel, very good £150 The copy of Meynell’s first wife Hilda, it remained in the publisher’s collection.

7. (Nonesuch Press.) DONNE (John) X Sermons. Chosen from the Whole Body of Donne's Sermons by Geoffrey Keynes. Nonesuch Press, 1923, 456/725 COPIES printed in black and red on Dutch mould-made paper, pp.[iv], 162, folio, original quarter cream canvas with brown sides, light wear to corners and a few faint marks, backstrip with printed label a little browned (spare tipped in at rear), edges untrimmed and toned, bookplates to pastedown and flyleaf, good £100 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership. ‘So many of Donne’s sermons possess special attractions from a literary point of view that a choice of only ten is not easily to be made. This collection seems however to compass fairly well the field covered by Donne's preaching, and it contains besides enough of his magnificent imagery to satisfy the literary sense.’ (Keynes ‘Bibliographical Note’)

‘OUT OF SERIES , FOR HILDA ’ 8. (Nonesuch Press.) HUDSON (W. H.) 153 Letters from... Edited and with an introduction and explanatory notes by Edward Garnett. 1923, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES, this copy marked ‘out of series, for Hilda’, title-page printed within brown border with oval photographic portrait by Opie of Redruth, pp. [ii], 191, [2], royal 8vo, original brown buckram, printed paper label to backstrip, untrimmed and largely unopened, spare label tipped to final endpaper, very good £80 The copy of the publisher’s first wife, Hilda - née Peppercorn, though as a concert pianist she performed as Hilda Saxe.

EVERARD MEYNELL ’S COPY 9. (Nonesuch Press.) MEREDITH (George) Letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell, with Annotations thereto 1896-1907. London and San Francisco: The Nonesuch Press, 1923, FIRST EDITION, 417/850 COPIES printed in black on Fabriano cream Ingres paper, with a border of red Garamond asterisks on the title-page, slight creasing to top of pages 86 and 88, pp. 104, 8vo, original quarter green buckram with brown boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed and uncut, the top edge a little dusty, 2 copies of the prospectus laid in along with various notes and correspondence regarding the book (see below), dustjacket, near fine £150 The copy of the publisher’s brother, bookseller Everard Meynell - in fact, as the prospectus makes clear, and also indicated by the ‘London and San Francisco’ imprint on the title-page, the co-publisher here of these letters to their much-admired mother. It had been, Francis Meynell recorded in The Nonesuch Century, ‘intended that my brother Everard (who had kept the Serendipity Shop in London) should be our agent. He was then in California, hoping to arrest the phthisis from which he was in fact never to recover’. The correspondence to Everard Meynell laid in here shows him hard at work in selling the book: three sheets list various purchasers, including trade buyers, private collectors and institutions - an interesting record, including various people of note;

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also enclosed is a purchase order from the University of California at Berkeley, a 2pp. ALs from Nathan Haskell Dole, a TLs from Joseph Auslander, along with two others. An interesting copy of this early Nonesuch Press publication.

10. (Nonesuch Press.) SECUNDUS (Iohannes) Kisses, being the Basia rendered into English Verse by Thomas Stanley 1647. The Nonesuch Press, 1923, 538/725 COPIES printed on Vidalon handmade paper, typrographical border to the title-page printed in red, pp. [23], royal 8vo, original cream parchment with an overall design of printer's flowers printed in orange, lettered in black to front, some minor dustsoiling and a little rubbing, untrimmed and uncut, good £50 Meynell disliked this book, 'I have just seen one of the finished copies of Kisses. It confirms the fear that has been growing on me that I planned the book badly from the beginning.' A number of orders were cancelled and 170 copies detroyed, leaving 555 extant copies.

11. (Nonesuch Press.) TOLLER (Ernst) Masses and Man: a Fragment of the Social Revolution of the Twentieth Century. Translated from the German by Vera Mendel. The Nonesuch Press, 1923, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 4 photogravures tipped in, pp. xi, 58, crown 8vo, original black and fawn patterned batik boards, printed label (spare label tipped in), backstrip a little sunned, untrimmed and partly unopened, good £45 The first of the author’s work to be translated into English. From the publisher’s own collection, but without mark of ownership.

12. (Nonesuch Press.) THE APOCRYPHA, Reprinted According to the Authorised Version 1611. The Nonesuch Press, 1924, 950/1,250 COPIES (from an edition of 1,325 copies) printed on Japon vellum, copperplate-engraved title-page border and head- and tail-piece by Stephen Gooden, typographic border as head-piece to each Book, pp. [iii], 239, folio, original tan boards with typographic border design stamped in gilt to both boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, tiny nick to leading edge of upper board, top edge a trifle dusty, others untrimmed, the endpapers lightly browned with a few spots, bookplate of Alan Lubbock to front pastedown, very good £100 The original owner of this copy, Sir Alan Lubbock, was educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge - he contributed ‘The Character of John Dryden’ to the Hogarth Essays series in 1925 and was knighted in 1963.

13. (Nonesuch Press.) THE HOLY BIBLE, reprinted according to the Authorised Version 1611. [4 Vols.] Nonesuch Press, 1925- 1927, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES (from an edition of 1,075 copies) printed on Japanese vellum, copperplate title-pages and copper-engraved head- and tail-pieces to each volume by Stephen Gooden, folio, original tan boards, gilt lettered and panelled in seventeenth-century style, boards a little fingersoiled, a couple of minor dinks and a few light marks, untrimmed, very good £325 [With:] (Nonesuch Press.) THE APOCRYPHA, reprinted According to the Authorised Version 1611. 1924, 155/1,250 COPIES (from an edition of 1,325 copies) printed on Japanese vellum, copperplate-engraved title-page border and head- and tail-piece by Stephen Gooden, pp. [iii], 239, folio, original tan boards, gilt lettered and panelled in seventeenth-century style, some light soiling and a red ink spot at head of upper board, untrimmed, good From the collection of Lord Berners, but without mark of ownership.

14. (Nonesuch Press.) MOORE (George, editor) Pure Poetry. Nonesuch Press, 1924, 165/1,250 COPIES, printed in Monotype Garamond on Vidalon handmade paper, partially unopened, pp. x, 213, [iii], 8vo, original quarter parchment with grey Ingres paper covered boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, untrimmed, top edge dust-soiled, Japon vellum dustjacket slightly dustsoiled, backstrip panel toned, offsetting from dustjacket flaps to front and rear endpapers, good £45 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

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15. (Nonesuch Press.) RAPER (Elizabeth) The Receipt Book... And a Portion of her Cipher Journal. Edited by her Great-Grandson the Late Bartle Grant. With a Portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. Written 1756-1770 and never before Printed. 1924, ONE OF 850 COPIES, this copy out of series, printed in Monotype Baskerville with Stephenson Blake Old Face Open for titles and headings, portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant, pp. [viii], 94, [ii], crown 8vo, original mid-blue buckram boards with bevelled edges, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly faded, untrimmed, good £70 ‘Elizabeth Raper tells in this book not only how she cooked... but also how she philandered, learned Euclid and papered the stairs’. (Dreyfus) From the publisher’s own collection, though not marked as such.

16. (Nonesuch Press.) Vaughan (Henry) Silurist. Poems..., an Essay..., Two Letters from MSS. in the Bodleian Library Nonesuch Press, 1924, 352/850 COPIES printed on mouldmade paper, pp. [vi], 164, 4to, original gold-speckled black boards, backstrip a little rubbed at ends with browned and rubbed printed paper label, wear at corners, edges untrimmed, good £45 From the collection of Lord Berners, though without mark of ownership.

‘NOT ALL THE MASSED BATALLIONS OF BLACKWELLS AND BUMPUS ’ 17. (Nonesuch Press.) Songs of the Gardens. Edited by Peter Warlock. The Nonesuch Press, 1925, ONE OF 875 COPIES, this copy marked ‘Out of series’, printed on Van Gelder cream-laid paper, copper-engraved title-vignette designed by Stephen Gooden and wood-engraved text decorations after eighteenth century designs re-engraved by W.M.R. Quick, the musical notation engraved by Lowe and Brydone using punches designed by the Oxford University Press, typographic border to each page, pp.96, sm.folio, original cream parchment with blind-stamped borders, backstrip gilt-lettered, the parchment browned and with a little of the usual splaying to upper board and starting at extreme head and tail of upper joint, untrimmed, good £60 From the collection of Franics Meynell’s bookseller brother, Everard, with a letter to him from Francis on Press headed paper laid in - promising to ‘make your 8 Blake into a dozen; and not all the massed batallions of Blackwells and Bumpus will frighten me’, before a complaint about an American publisher and a mention of the present work having been fully subscribed.

18. (Nonesuch Press.) BLAKE (William) Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 3 Vols. Nonesuch Press, 1925, 821/1,500 SETS printed on Vidalon handmade paper (from an edition of 1,575 sets), 59 collotype plates reproducing works by Blake, pp. xiv, 368; viii, 400; viii, 432, imperial 8vo, original quarter white parchment, backstrips lettered in gilt, marbled boards, a little wear at corners, free endpapers faintly browned, untrimmed, good £280 Francis Meynell thought highly of this edition and considered it ‘to rank with the Shakespeare as the most useful and most generally creditable of Nonesuch Press publications.’ It was oversubscribed before publication. [With:] WILSON (Mona) The Life of William Blake. 1927, 1,456/1,480 COPIES printed on Vidalon handmade paper, 24 plates, pp. xv, 397, imperial 8vo, original quarter white parchment, backstrips lettered in gilt, marbled boards, a little wear at corners, free endpapers faintly browned, untrimmed, good The set from the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership - the life has a note in pencil, probably by Berners, to the margin of p. 69 (’why?’).

19. (Nonesuch Press.) [BURTON (Robert)] The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it... by Democritvs Jvnior. 2 Vols. 1925, 69/750 SETS (from an edition of 790 sets) printed in double-column on Dutch handmade paper, the colophon to vol.i printed in black and red, numerous drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer reproduced from zinc line-blocks and with border decorations to the title-pages echoing those of the original edition, pp. xv, 300; [iii], 301-591, folio, original quarter white parchment with patterned black, purple and white

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vertically striped boards, some light fading and rubbing to edges, faint foxing to vellum of first volume, edges untrimmed and slightly toned, good £300

20. (Nonesuch Press.) HOTSON (J. Leslie) The Death of Christopher Marlowe. Nonesuch Press, 1925, printed in Monotype Scotch Roman on Japon vellum, folding frontispiece facsimile and four plates, cancel title page, pp. 76, 8vo, original full brown buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt, small mark to tail of upper board, good £35 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

21. (Nonesuch Press.) KING (Henry, Bishop) Poems. Edited by John Sparrow. Nonesuch Press, 1925 513/900 COPIES on Dutch mouldmade paper, pp. xxvii, [iii], 197, royal 8vo, original blind-stamped cream parchment, gently browned backstrip lettered in ink direct by Francis Meynell, with cracking at foot of upper joint and 2cm loss at head of same, boards warped as usual and a little soiled, edges untrimmed £65 From the collection of Lord Berners, though without mark of ownership.

22. (Nonesuch Press.) PERRAULT (M.) Histories or Tales of Past Times Told by Mother Goose, with Morals. Written in French... & Englished by G.M., Gent. Newly Edited by J. Saxon Childers. Nonesuch Press, 1925, ONE OF 1,250 COPIES (this unnumbered) printed on Dutch mouldmade paper, frontispiece and 8 head-pieces re-engraved on wood by W.M.R. Quick from those in the 1719 edition and colour-stencilled at the Curwen Press, pp. [iv], 128, 16mo, original quarter blue buckram, backstrip gilt lettered, worn gold-flecked blue-and-orange patterned fawn Chinese paper covered boards, edges rubbed, good £35 From Francis Meynell’s collection, but without mark of ownership.

23. (Nonesuch Press.) COWLEY (Abraham) The Mistress with other Select Poems. Edited by John Sparrow. Nonesuch Press, 1926, 266/1,050 COPIES printed on Van Gelder Rag paper, collotype portrait title-vignette, pp. xx, 213, royal 8vo, original maize buckram, red leather label to backstrip a trifle chipped and rubbed, edges untrimmed and a little dusty, endpapers browned, good £45 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

‘FOR HILDA ’ 24. (Nonesuch Press.) EVELYN (John) Memoires for my Grand-son. Transcribed and Furnished with a Preface and Notes by Geoffrey Keynes. The Nonesuch Press, 1926, ONE OF 1,250 COPIES, this unnumbered, but inscribed in pencil by Francis Meynell ‘Out of Series for Hilda’, printed on Auvergne handmade paper using the Oxford University Press Fell types, typographical border to title-page, pp. xii, [ii], 104, [ii], 16mo, original limp white parchment with yapp fore-edges, backstrip gilt lettered, sides decorated with blind rules and the author's initials impressed at centre of both covers, in marbled card slipcase, beginning to split at upper edge, very good £95 From Francis Meynell’s collection. Hilda Peppercorn, who performed as a concert pianist under the name Hilda Saxe, was the publisher’s first wife.

WALPOLE ’S BEAR 25. (Nonesuch Press.) HARRISON (Jane [Ellen]) & Hope Mirrlees (Translators) The Book of the Bear. Being Twenty-one Tales Newly Translated from the Russian... The Pictures by Ray Garnett. With a Preface and Epilogue. Nonesuch Press, 1926, printed on Japon Vellum, with 2 full-page woodcut illustrations and 6 head-pieces by the illustrator, printed in black, red and ochre, and music and lyrics for the Bear’s Lullaby printed in black and red, endpapers faintly toned, pp. xiii, 108, 16mo, original quarter fawn buckram, spine gilt lettered, with worn

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silver flecked patterned Chinese paper-covered boards, edges rubbed, pastedown with gilt morocco bookplate of Hugh Walpole and tipped-in slip ‘From the Famous Library of the Late Sir Hugh Walpole,’ good £75

26. (Nonesuch Press.) MELVILLE (Herman) Benito Cereno. Nonesuch Press, 1926, 429/1,650 COPIES printed on grey Van Gelder paper, 7 wonderful full-page colour-printed illustrations, a title design and head and tail-pieces by E. McKnight Kauffer, all stencilled at the Curwen Press, pp. [iv], 124, folio, original maroon bevel-edged buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt and gently faded, free endpapers browned in part as usual, untrimmed, good £45 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

27. (Nonesuch Press.) MOORE (George) Ulick and Soracha. Nonesuch Press, 1926, FIRST EDITION, 141/1,250 COPIES printed on Japon Vellum and signed by the author, copperplate-engraving by Stephen Gooden, typographical design heading initial text page printed in orange, pp. [iv]+286, 8vo., original fawn buckram, backstrip gilt lettered, backstrip tail darkened, untrimmed and opened rather savagely throughout, parchment dustjacket with red printed design, a little chipped at head of backstrip panel, very good £85 The copy of Lord Berners with his pencilled ownership inscription to the front pastedown.

28. (Nonesuch Press.) ROS (Amanda M'Kittrick) Irene Iddesleigh. Nonesuch Press, 1926 ONE OF 1,250 COPIES, 3 full-page wood-engravings by W.M.R. Quick, pp. [vii], 151, crown 8vo, original half mid brown sheep, backstrip gilt lettered, patterned brown and pink boards, edges slightly rubbed, floral endpapers, bookplate of Isabelle Birdsall to front pastedown and bookplate of Marion E. Clark to flyleaf, very good £40

29. (Nonesuch Press.) ROS (Amanda M'Kittrick) Irene Iddesleigh. Nonesuch Press, 1926, 479/1,250 COPIES, printed in Monotype Scotch Roman with floral initials at chapter openings, 3 full-page wood-engravings by W.M.R. Quick, pp. [vii], 151, crown 8vo, original half sheep, boards with a mottled design of pink and grey, backstrip with title lettered in gilt, floral endpapers, untrimmed, board corners with abrasions, edges rubbed, good £20 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

30. (Nonesuch Press.) WILMOT (John, Earl of Rochester) Collected Works. Edited by John Hayward. Nonesuch Press, 1926, 304/975 COPIES (from an edition of 1050 copies) on Antique paper, pp. lii, 408, 4to, original quarter blue buckram, printed paper label, backstrip gently sunned and a little pushed at head and tail, pale grey boards with some light handling marks, endpapers faintly browned, edges untrimmed, very good £70 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, though without mark of ownership.

31. (Nonesuch Press.) COBBETT (William) Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine. With Other Records of His Early Career in England and America. Nonesuch Press, 1927, 1,594/1,800 COPIES, handcoloured frontispiece of Cobbett by Gillray, pp. [5], 163, [1], 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, a little bumped at head and tail, marbled boards with a little wear to corners and at foot of upper board, edges untrimmed, good £25 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, though without mark of ownsership.

32. (Nonesuch Press.) HERBERT (George) The Temple. Sacred Poems & Private Ejaculations. [Edited by Francis Meynell]. 1927, 799/1,500 COPIES, printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, portrait frontispiece engraved by Sigrist after R. White, typographical title border with horizontal red ruled lines and single and double-rule borders to text, offsetting from portrait to title, as usual, pp. x, 213, [iii], 8vo, original red and grey patterned cloth, handwoven and incorporating the Nonesuch device to boards and title-lettering to

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backstrip, top and fore edges gilt (top edge on the rough), tail edges roughtrimmed, free endpapers toned, near fine £70 The text is taken from the Bodleian Library manuscript (believed to be Herbert's own) which differs in several respects from the first and all later editions.

33. (Nonesuch Press.) PINDAR. Pythian Odes. Translated by H.T. Wade-Grey & C.M. Bowra. Nonesuch Press, 1928, 564/1550 COPIES, copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden on title and colophon, pp. xlv, 165, [iii], small 8vo, original cream linen over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, endpapers toned, very good £45

34. (Nonesuch Press.) THOMSON (James) The Seasons. Introduction by John Beresford. Nonesuch Press, 1927, 901/1,500 COPIES printed on Dutch mouldmade paper, 4 colour-stencilled full-page copperplate-engravings and a title-vignette by Jacquier, pp. xxi, 198, folio, original cream, grey and pink marbled cloth, backstrip faded with cream leather label a little lifted at one corner, untrimmed, good £45 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

35. (Nonesuch Press.) VANBRUGH (Sir John) The Complete Works. The play edited by Bonamy Dobrée. The letters edited by Geoffrey Webb. 4 vols. Nonesuch Press, 1927-1928, 635/1300 SETS from an overall edition of 1410, printed in Monotype Caslon, with titles and subtitles in Stephenson Blake Old Face Open, partially unopened, untrimmed, title of vol. 1 with faint smudge at lower margin, otherwise particularly clean, pp. [iv], xliv, 239; [x], 257, [v]; [x], 290, [iv]; [iv], xli, 284, with 9 plates, 4to, original quarter royal blue buckram with blue paper covered boards, spines with printed paper labels, boards with a very few faint scored marks, spines faded, top edges dust-soiled, good £120 ‘All the plays are here printed from original quartos or octavos. The letters are for the first time gathered together. Many of them have never been printed and they have been copied from the originals in the British Museum and from those in the famous country houses built by Vanbrugh... They give an intimate account of his multifarious life, and an extraordinarily characteristic picture of the life of the times.’(1927 Prospectus). From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

36. (Nonesuch Press.) WILSON (Romer) Latterday Symphony. Nonesuch Press, 1927, printed in monotype Baskerville, title within diagonal decorative rules on ochre ground, pp. [viii], 136, [iv], 12mo, original quarter blue-green cloth with green and yellow striped paper covered boards, a little rubbed at corners, endpapers browned as usual, very good £30 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

37. (Nonesuch Press.) BEEDOME (Thomas) Select Poems, Divine and Humane. [Edited by Francis Meynell.] Nonesuch Press, 1928, 921/1,250 COPIES printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, typographical border to the title-page, pp. [vi], 52, [7], foolscap 8vo, original limp white vellum, backstrip and front cover blocked in gilt, pigskin thongs, some light spotting to vellum, untrimmed, ownership inscription and attractive bookplate of Dr G.O. Mitchell, board slipcase with a waterstain to one leading edge and limitation noted, very good £60 Meynell noted that Beedome’s poetry was first published in 1641, pirated by Henry Bold in 1657, and entirely neglected thereafter. He found the texts extremely corrupt, and went to great lengths, in his editing, to restore them.

THE PRINTER ’S NEPHEW 38. (Nonesuch Press.) BUNYAN (John) The Pilgrim’s Progress and The Life & Death of Mr. Badman. The Nonesuch Press, 1928, 1,350/1,600 COPIES printed on Arches mouldmade paper, 8 wood-engraved plates by Karl Michel colour-stencilled at the Curwen Press, single spot at foot of prelims, pp. 450, crown 8vo, original fawn, brown and blue marbled linen, backstrip sunned with tan parchment label lettered in gilt, t.e.g. on the

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rough, others untrimmed and with a few very faint spots, free endpapers browned as usual, contemporary sales receipt laid in at front, original tissue jacket, very good £100 Laid in at the rear is an auction invoice to Mr V Meynell - this is Vivian Meynell, bookseller, following his father Everard in that profession, and the nephew of publisher Francis Meynell. The text of this version is taken from the copy of the first edition in the British Museum. However, Bunyan added a number of important passages in the second and third editions, these later additions being included within the text of Nonesuch version.

‘HILDA ’S ’ 39. (Nonesuch Press.) CONRAD (Joseph) Letters from Conrad, 1895-1924. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edward Garnett. With Two Portraits. Nonesuch Press, 1928, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 925 NUMBERED COPIES, this copy out of series and inscribed by the printer for his wife (’Hilda’s, F.M. 1928’), printed on Arches Laid paper, occasional foxing, pp. xxxiii, 335, 8vo, original maroon buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, usual browning to endpapers, good £100 From the publisher’s own collection - having been the copy of his first wife Hilda, and inscribed to her upon publication.

40. (Nonesuch Press.) DANTE ALIGHIERI. La Divina Commedia or, The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian. Text Edited by Mario Casella, with the English Version of H.F. Cary. 1928, 158/1,475 COPIES, 42 collotype plates after the original drawings by Botticelli, pp. [iv], 327, folio, original bright orange vellum, the lettering on the backstrip and design to upper board blocked in gilt, the upper board bowing slightly, backstrip with a little fading, minor rubbing to extremities, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, free endpapers browned as usual (but faintly), very good £500 The parallel English and Italian texts are printed in Monotype Blado with Poliphilus types used for the capitals and display. These typefaces, coupled with the use of the Botticelli drawings, give a very pleasing appearance and an allusion to the early Italian editions of Dante.

HIS SON ’S COPY , WITH LETTERS FROM FRANCIS AND A NOTE FROM SYDNEY COCKERELL 41. (Nonesuch Press.) MEYNELL (Everard) From a Hospital Journal. Printed for G.M., J.M. A.M., W.M., & V.M., 1928, FIRST EDITION, printed on Van Gelder ‘Nonesuch’ paper, pp. [ii], 62, 8vo, original blue wrappers with printed label to front, untrimmed and unctut, a couple of spots to edges creeping on to head of flyleaf, near fine £300 Scarce. With 2 warm ALs laid in, dated October 1973, from the book’s designer, Francis Meynell, to the author’s son (Francis’s nephew) Vivian Meynell and his wife: Francis discusses this book, which he has been asked about by Anthony Rota, and supplies a few bibliographic details- ‘I guess at 20 or 25 copies and that Gerard [Meynell] at the Westminster Press may have been the printer. The paper has the Nonesuch watermark’, etc., along with various personal and family matters. Also laid in is a note by Sydney Cockerell about the book, clipped from a letter, where he mentions: ‘Reading it I am conscious that he had attained to a degree of sympathy, charity and compassiion, as well as of courage and patience, wholly beyond my own reach & that he must indeed have been something of a saint’. The author had died, from the tuberculosis that had led to his hospital stay, in 1926 - he had before that been proprietor of the Serendipity Bookshop in Mayfair, before emigrating to the US for his health. Those for whom the book was printed were his wife Grazia and his four children (the last of which the owner of this copy).

42. (Nonesuch Press.) [Cover title:] 1930 PROSPECTUS AND RETROSPECTUS. 1930, pp. 32, crown 8vo, original marbled wrappers with printed label, the latter with a couple of spots, nick at head of rear very good £15

43. (Nonesuch Press.) [Cover title:] BODKIN PERMITTING. Being the Prospectus and Retrospectus for 1929. 1929,

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pp. 28, crown 8vo, original marbled wrappers with printed label, lacking the laid in ballot card issued, very good £15

44. (Nonesuch Press.) The LATIN PORTRAIT, an Anthology made by G. Rostrevor Hamilton. Nonesuch Press, 1929, 633/1,550 COPIES printed on Arches handmade paper, copper-engraved title-page and 2 head-pieces by Stephen Gooden, crease to top corner of a couple of leaves, pp. xvi, 367, foolscap 8vo, original maize buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt and darkened, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, very good £80 Selections from the work of twenty one Latin writers rendered into English by seventy two poets, from Spenser to the present day. From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

45. (Nonesuch Press.) BECKFORD (William) Vathek. A New Translation by Herbert B. Grimsditch. With Ten Illustrations by Marion V. Dorn. Nonesuch Press, 1929, 880/1,550 COPIES printed in Monotype Plantin on grey Van Gelder paper, with eight tipped-in lithographic plates printed at the Curwen Press and two vignettes, pp. [viii], 172, [iii], royal 8vo, original quarter vellum with terracotta paper covered boards, upper board gilt blocked with rules and title in Arabic, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge gilt ‘on the rough’, marbled endpapers, spine slightly dustsoiled, a little rubbing to extremities with light grazing to both boards, good £60 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

46. (Nonesuch Press.) DE FONTENELLE (Bernard) A Plurality of Worlds. John Glanvill's Translation with a Prologue by David Garnett. Nonesuch Press, 1929, 777/1,600 COPIES printed on Van Gelder paper, 8 head-pieces stencilled in grey and blue with gold stars to designs by T.L. Poulton, astrological signs printed in lozenge form on title-page in black and red and elsewhere in black, pp. x, 140, crown 8vo, original limp white vellum, lettering on backstrip and designs on front cover gilt blocked, leather thongs, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed and largely uncut (the first text-leaves opened roughly), board slipcase with some trivial wear, very good £75 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

47. (Nonesuch Press.) LAMARTINE (A. de) Graziella. Translated by Ralph Wright with 30 Illustrations by Jacquier. Nonesuch Press, 1929, 1,385/1,600 COPIES printed on Arches paper, frontispiece and 10 further illustrations colour-stencilled at the Curwen Press, the remainder on ochre tinted backgrounds, pp.[ii]+190+[1], crown 8vo, original cloth with repeating pattern in red and green, backstrip faintly faded, printed label, t.e.g on the rough, others untrimmed, board slipcase, very good £40

48. (Nonesuch Press.) LAVER (James) Love's Progress or the Education of Araminta. [Printed by Walter Lewis for] The Nonesuch Press, 1929, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,525 COPIES, this copy out of series, printed on Arches mouldmade paper, pp. 30, imperial 8vo, original marbled paper dustjacket over boards, printed label to front, minor rubbing, untrimmed and uncut, in the original tissue dustjacket (this a little frayed), very good £75 From Francis Meynell’s own collection, though without mark of ownership.

49. (Nonesuch Press.) SHAKESPEARE (William) Works. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings. Edited by Herbert Farjeon. 7 Vols. Nonesuch Press, 1929- 1933, 301/1,600 SETS printed on Pannekoek mouldmade paper using the Fournier type with recut capitals, 8vo., original tan niger morocco with double-fillet border to both boards, tooled stars at corners, gilt lettered backstrips a trifle faded as usual, raised bands ruled in blind, light marks or faint blotching to boards in places, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, free endpaper borders a little browned from turn-ins as usual, very good £1,200

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The text of the first folio of 1623 is used (‘Pericles’ and the ‘Poems’ excepted) and the margins of the texts contain collations of all the significant quarto variants prior to 1623. One of the most satisfying of the press’s publications and among the finest of editions of Shakespeare, both editorially and typographically.

50. (Nonesuch Press.) CERVANTES (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Mancha. The History of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. Matteux' Translation Revised anew (1743) & Corrected, rectified and Filled up in Numberless Places by J. Ozell, who likewise added the Explanatory Notes from the best Editions in English & Spanish. Re-printed with Twenty-One Illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer [2 Vols.] [Printed by Walter Lewis for] The Nonesuch Press, 1930, 112/1,475 SETS printed on Casinensis handmade paper, 21 photogravures by E. McKnight Kauffer colour-stencilled at the Curwen Press, title-pages printed in black and red, pp. ix, 504; vi, 550, 8vo, original fawn niger morocco, maroon leather labels and raised bands, darkening to backstrips, but lighter than is often met with, some light spotting to boards, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed and lightly foxed, very faint foxing to endpapers, good £250

51. (Nonesuch Press.) DONNE (John) The Courtier's Library, or Catalogus Librorum Aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium. Edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson with a Translation. The Nonesuch Press, 1930, ONE OF 950 COPIES printed on Auvergne handmade paper, this copy marked ‘out of series’ by the printer, with Fell type head-pieces, title with typographic border printed in red, pp. [x], 93, [vii], 16mo, original loosely covered teal paper boards, spine with gilt lettered black leather label and faded as usual, untrimmed, original board slipcase with a little wear, good £50 From the publisher’s own collection, but without mark of ownership.

52. (Nonesuch Press.) FARQUHAR (George) Complete Works. In Two Volumes. Edited by Charles Stonehill. The Nonesuch Press, 1930, ONE OF 1,000 SETS, these out of series, printe don laid ‘Nonesuch’ paper, pp. xxxv, 402; 444, 4to, original quarter dark blue buckram with light blue boards, printed labels, handling marks, ink spots to lower board of first volume, corners a little worn, untrimmed and uncut, free endpapers browned, good £70 From Francis Meynell’s own collection, but without mark of ownership.

53. (Nonesuch Press.) DICKENS (Charles) A Dickens Friendship, told in his own letters. With notes by W.M. [Wilfrid Meynell.] Printed for the family of Wilfrid Meynell, 1931, ONE OF 75 COPIES, printed on Van Gelder ‘Nonesuch’ paper, light spotting, pp. 66, 8vo, original buff wrappers with printed label to front, edges untrimmed, free endpapers browned and spotted, very good £500 Scarce. Dickens was, in the 1840s, briefly infatuated with Catherine Weller - an 18 year old pianist, whom he had heard play; also in attendance was his friend Thomas Thompson, who went on to marry Weller - Alice Meynell was one of her two daughters, and this tribute was printed by her son Francis for his father in tribute to his late wife.

54. (Nonesuch Press.) DRYDEN (John) The Dramatic Works. In Six Volumes. Edited by Montague Summers. The Nonesuch Press, 1931, 335/750 COPIES (from an edition of 800 copies), printed on wove paper, pp. cxxxvi, 459; 532; 595; 603; 545; 594, 8vo, original quarter green buckram with marbled paper sides, the backstrips lettered in gilt with uniform light fading, some light rubbing, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed with the odd light spot, very good £200 Published to celebrate the tercentenary of the author’s birth.

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55. (Nonesuch Press.) (Hazlitt.) KEYNES (Geoffrey) Bibliography of William Hazlitt. The Nonesuch Press, 1931, ONE OF 750 COPIES, this copy out of series, 33 plates (including 4 collotypes), pp. xxii, 138,crown 8vo, original quarter pale blue cboards with grey sides, printed label, top edge grey, others untrimmed, very good £45 From the publisher’s own collection, but without mark of ownership.

56. (Nonesuch Press.) (Shakespeare.) HOTSON (Leslie) Shakespeare versus Shallow. Nonesuch Press, 1931, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 6 plates, with two folding genealogies, pp. xiv, 375, 8vo, original blue buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt and lightly faded, edges untrimmed with some light foxing, free endpapers browned, good £30 With the bookplate of George Macaulay Booth, and with a gift inscription to him on the facing flyleaf from his son John, dated Christmas 1943 - Booth was then towards the end of his thirty year tenure as Director of the Bank of England.

57. (Nonesuch Press.) SIDNEY (Sir Philip) Astrophel & Stella. Edited by Mona Wilson. Nonesuch Press, 1931, 475/1,210 COPIES printed on Van Gelder laid paper using Bembo and Union Pearl typefaces, pp. [ii], xxxviii, [ii], 193, [vii], crown 8vo, original cream patterned paper covered boards, with green printed label on front cover, untrimmed, green board chemise with cream patterned paper doublures and printed label, matching board slipcase, near fine £75 The text reproduces the folio, except in the few cases where the reading of the second quarto is obviously preferable. In the introduction, Mona Wilson illustrates what is known of Sidney's relations with Penelope Devereux (the Mira of Phillisides in the earlier poems of the ‘Arcadia’, and the Stella of the sonnet). The patterned paper was designed by Albert Rutherston in 1926, one of the many examples produced at the Curwen Press. From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

58. (Nonesuch Press.) BUTLER (Samuel) Butleriana. (Edited by A.T. Bartholomew.) Nonesuch Press, 1932, 743/800 COPIES printed in Monotype Goudy Modern on Casinensis handmade paper, title with ‘SB’ within double red oval, 8 plates tipped in, pp. xvi, 172, [iv], 8vo, original quarter niger morocco with gilt rule and marbled boards, author’s initials in gilt to backstrip, extremities lightly rubbed, t.e.g on the rough, others untrimmed, very good £35 Selections from the Note-books, each prefixed with a 'Note' by the editor. From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

59. (Nonesuch Press.) DONNE (John) Sermon of Valediction at his going into Germany, preached at Lincoln’s Inn April 18, 1619. Printed from the original Version in the Lothian and Ashmole Manuscripts and from XXVI Sermons. Edited by Evelyn Simpson. Nonesuch Press, 1932, 611/750 COPIES printed in the Fell types on Auvergne handmade paper, typographic border to the title-page printed in red, the occasional spot, pp. vi, 81, folio, original white boards with yapp edges, backstrip lettered in black with a tiny spot of wear at foot, the upper board stamped in blind to a seventeenth-century design, free endpapers and blanks browned with a few spots, untrimmed, very good £120

60. (Nonesuch Press.) DONNE (John) Sermon of Valediction at his going into Germany, preached at Lincoln’s Inn April 18, 1619. Printed from the original Version in the Lothian and Ashmole Manuscripts and from XXVI Sermons. Edited by Evelyn Simpson. Nonesuch Press, 1932, 384/750 COPIES printed in the Fell types on Auvergne handmade paper, typographic border to the title-page printed in red, the occasional spot, pp. vi, 81, folio, original white boards with yapp edges, the

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upper board stamped in blind to a seventeenth-century design, backstrip lettered in black, dust-soiled overall, free endpapers and blanks browned as usual with a few spots, untrimmed, good £65 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

61. (Nonesuch Press.) EVELYN (John) Directions for The Gardiner at Says-Court, but which may be of Use for other Gardens. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Nonesuch Press, 1932, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 800 COPIES printed on pale grey Van Gelder paper, this copy marked ‘Out of Series’ in Francis Meynell’s hand, line-block illustration of a ‘castrating-hook for bees’, beautifully designed title-page with oval typographical border and a typographical border to each text page, pp. [ii] (blanks), 112, [2] (blanks), cr.8vo., original marbled mid green boards and matching endpapers, backstrip rubbed at head, pale green leather label, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, dustjacket with minor dustsoiling and the odd nick or short closed tear around head, very good £110 From the publisher’s own collection.

62. (Nonesuch Press.) MOORE (George) A Communication to my Friends. Nonesuch Press, 1933, 928/1,000 COPIES, text printed in Monotype Goudy Modern on Pannekoek mould-made paper, title page with Baskerville ornaments and press device, designed by Stephen Gooden, printed in brown, pp. 86, [6], 8vo, original quarter chestnut hermitage calf with grey-green Ingres paper covered boards, backstrip with title gilt in script, very faint shadow at lower edge of upper board, printed brown laid paper dustjacket, frayed at lower edge of cover, good £35 From the collection of Lord Berners at Faringdon House, but without mark of ownership.

63. (Nonesuch Press.) TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord) In Memoriam. (Edited, with an Introduction by John Sparrow.) 1933, 702/1,875 COPIES (from an edition of 2,000 copies) printed on Van Gelder mouldmade paper, the typographic ornaments bordering the title and at the head of the initial verse printed in red, pp. xxiii, 145, royal 8vo, original boards of black paper patterned with gold, printed label to backstrip, a little rubbing to extremities, edges untrimmed, light spotting to free endpapers, original slipcase a little bowed at opening, very good £65 Printed for the centenary of the death of Arthur Hallam.

64. (Nonesuch Press.) (Chapman.) ELLIS (Havelock) [George] Chapman, with Illustrative Passages. [Edited by J.I.M. Stewart]. The Nonesuch Press, 1934, 550/625 COPIES (from an edition of 700 copies) printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, pp. [iv], 147, 8vo, original boards in grey and terracotta patterned paper, printed label to upper board, free endpapers lightly browned as usual,untrimmed, rubbed and gently faded matching board chemise (without slipcase) with printed label, very good £40

65. (Nonesuch Press.) POPE (Alexander) Pope's Own Miscellany. Being a reprint Of Poems On Several Occasions 1717 containing new poems By Alexander Pope and others. Edited by Norman Ault. [Printed by John Johnson for] The Nonesuch Press, 1935, ONE OF 750 COPIES, this copy marked ‘out of series’, printed on Van Gelder ‘Nonesuch’ paper, pp. xcvii, 165, 8vo, original dark green buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt and gently faded, gilt borders to both boards, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, very good £55 From the publisher’s own collection, though not marked as such.

66. (Nonesuch Press.) SYMONS (A.J.A.), Desmond FLOWER and Francis MEYNELL. The Nonesuch Century. An Appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the First Hundred Books Issued by the Press 1923-1934. 1936, 407/750 COPIES, 46 inserts, each of two or four pages, reprinted in original colours illustrating examples of texts, title-pages and illustrations taken from the first hundred Nonesuch Press books, each insert mounted on titled grey backing-paper, further illustrated with three pages of press-devices, 6 plates

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illustrating bindings used at the press and 53 facsimile pages of texts and title-pages used by the Nonesuch Press, a copperplate-engraving of Francis Meynell by Eric Gill, a few spots to borders of prelims, pp. xi, 80, [63]+(Inserts), folio, original apple-green buckram, black leather label to backstrip, touch of fading to same, light spotting to edges and endpapers, untrimmed, the fragile dustjacket with some short closed tears, cracking across backstrip panel, diagonal split down length of rear panel, good £375

67. (Nonesuch Press.) MILTON (John) and Henry Lawes. The Mask of Comus. The Poem... Edited by E.H. Visiak. The Airs of the Five Songs Reprinted from the Composer's Autograph Manuscript Edited by Hubert J. Foss. With a Foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere. Ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar (Printed by John Johnson for) The Nonesuch Press, 1937, 858/950 COPIES printed in the Fell and Walpergen typefaces on Pannekoek mouldmade paper, 5 colour-printed lino-cut plates by M.R.H. Farrar printed at the Curwen Press, pp. xxiv, 44, folio, original fawn boards with yapped fore-edges, blind border design to both boards, backstrip gilt lettered and a shade darkened with some rubbing at tips and along joints, top corners gently bumped, edges untrimmed, a couple of small spots to flyleaf, untrimmed, original prospectus laid in, very good £50

68. (Nonesuch Press.) ROUSSEAU (J[ean]-J[acques]) The Confessions... in an Anonymous English Version First Published in Two Parts in 1783 & 1790. Now Revised and Completed by A.S.B. Glover. With an Introduction by Havelock Ellis. 2 Vols. 1938, 209/800 SETS printed on Pannekoek mouldmade paper, wood-engraved head-piece to each of the 12 'Books' and a final tail-piece by Reynolds Stone and all printed in maroon, title-pages printed in black and maroon, pp. xxvii, 415; vii, 389, crown 8vo, original fawn niger morocco, brown leather labels and raised bands, backstrips darkened, as usual, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to initial blank of each vol., good £250 Published using the text of the first English edition, with the passages omitted from that edition restored, names printed in full and modernised spelling.

69. (Nonesuch Press.) MEYNELL (Francis) Fifteen Poems. Nonesuch Press & Dent, 1944, FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF 470 COPIES] printed on English handmade paper, title-page with striking vignette by Eric Gill printed in red, pp. 24, foolscap 8vo, original blue linen, spine gilt lettered, unclipped dustjacket repeating winged horse vignette, slightly chipped at head and foot of backstrip, £30 The Publisher's Note on the dustjacket blurb reads: 'The use of a small parcel of prewar English handmade paper has imposed a limit of 470 copies on this edition.' A new poem, 'Bomber's Harvest', written too late for inclusion in the book is also printed on the flap. Meynell chose Gill’s winged horse vignette as the design for his own bookplate.

70. (Nonesuch Press.) MEYNELL (Francis) Seventeen Poems. Nonesuch Press & Dent, 1945, [ONE OF 750 COPIES], printed on Spicers’ mould-made paper, title-page with vignette by Eric Gill printed in red, pp. 24, foolscap 8vo, printed blue wrappers lettered in white, cover repeating winged horse vignette, folds rubbed, £35 With an inscription from the author to his first wife: ‘Hilda from Francis / March 1945.’ A re-issue of ‘Fifteen Poems’ incorporating the poem originally printed on the jacket flap and a newly written poem.

W ITH THE ORIGINAL BIRO DUSTJACKET ARTWORK 71. (Nonesuch Press.) MORRIS (John, Editor) From the Third Programme. A Ten-Years’ Anthology. Edited by John Morris. The Nonesuch Press, 1956, FIRST EDITION, pp. x, 339, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt against a black ground, a few spots to edges, mock-up dustjacket in ink and watercolour (see below), very good £225 The dustjacket here is the original artwork for the printed version, by B.S. Biro, with his stamp to the rear panel (a couple of paint colour-tests thereupon); the front and backstrip panels have a mock-up for the printed design, the central image and title-text drawn in ink, the background colours applied in water-colour, with further text indicated in white; some pencil

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marks refer to fonts and sizes. A unique copy, and an excellent insight into this aspect of book design from one of its master-practitioners.

72. (Nonesuch Press.) MORRIS (John, Editor) From the Third Programme. A Ten-Years’ Anthology. Edited by John Morris. The Nonesuch Press, 1956, 490/1,300 LARGE PAPER COPIES printed on Barcham Green's rag mouldmade paper, 4 full-page scraperboard illustrations by B.S. Biro, pp.x+339[+i], 8vo., original pale grey bevel-edged buckram, backstrip lettered and banded in gilt with some gentle fading, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, book-label to flyleaf, very good £30 One of 1,300 copies issued in a large paper edition; a further 5,000 copies were issued without the Biro illustrations. Published to celebrate the completion of the first decade of broadcasting by the BBC Third Programme - it includes contributions from T.S. Eliot, Thomas Mann, André Gide, Henry Reed, Stevie Smith, E.M. Forster, et al.

MEYNELL TO MEYNELL 73. (Nonesuch Press.) MEYNELL (Alice) Selected Poems, 1847-1922. Newly Chosen... The Nonesuch Press, 1965, FIRST EDITION, printed on mouldmade paper, pp. 64, crown 8vo, original wrappers, a couple of very faint spots, very good £50 In an envelope addressed, in the hand of Francis Meynell, to ‘Mr & Mrs Vivian Meynell’ - i.e., his nephew (son of his brother Everard) and his wife; an ALs from Francis to Vivian, presenting this book, is laid in, apologising for a ‘misprintt in my Foreword’ - this apparently restricted to advance copies. ‘The corrected edition will be published on 11 November, with one of those superfluous cellophane transparent jackets [...] Love, Francis’. The ‘misprintt’ referred to has so far eluded us.

74. (Nonesuch Press.) LATER EPHEMERA, including association copies. 1) [Offprint:] Nonesuch: the next two score, Reprinted from The Book Collector, Winter 1971, pp. 18, crown 8vo, stapled wrappers, [2 copies] 2) (Cygnet Press.) A MEMENTO of the Opening of the Exhibition of Nonesuch Press Books and Prospectuses, etc. Burford, 1974, ONE OF 60 COPIES, printing the speeches of Geoffrey Keynes and Francis Meynell, pp. 10, crown 8vo, marbled wrappers 3) [Exhibition booklet:] About the Nonesuch Press. Gainsborough’s House, April 1974, pp. [8, inc. covers], crown 8vo, stapled wrappers [2 copies] 4) (Cygnet Press.) MEYNELL (Alix) Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell, 12 May 1891 [-] 10 July 1975. Burford, 1977, ONE OF 300 COPIES, photographic portrait frontispiece, pp. 33, crown 8vo, card wrappers with patterned paper dustjacket (reproducing that of binding of the first Nonesuch book), inscribed by the author ‘For dearest Cynthia from Bay [Alix Meynell], July 8 1977’ - i.e., from his widow to his daughter 5) Rogerson (Ian) Sir Francis Meynell and the Nonesuch Press. Manchester Polytechnic Library, 1979, ONE OF 500 COPIES, photographic portrait frontispiece, addenda sheet laid in, crown 8vo, original wrappers with fuschsia dustjacket, inscribed ‘To Cynthia from Bay, November 1979’ - Alix Meynell was the work’s dedicatee and provides the Foreword 6) Meynell (Alix, Dame) Francis Meynell of the Nonesuch Press. The Stanley Morison Memorial Lecture, 17 October 1979, corrections and annotations by the author, pp. 17, 4to, stapled wrappers, inscribed by the author to the inside cover ‘For Maggie, with affection and gratitude’, and with a 2pp. ALs to the same laid in - also a letter from a bookseller to FM’s nephew Vivian Meynell, offering this copy 7) Prospectus for John Dreyfus’s History of the Nonesuch Press [2 copies] 8) ‘Books from Nonesuch: An exhibition [...] at the St Bride Printing Library, 12-26 May, 1982’ broadsheet invitation with typed exhibition handlist and other information sheets 9) [Menu:] Manchester Polytechnic Library, Francis Meynell Centenary Dinner, Friday 7th May 1991, folded card with Agnes Miller Parker press device printed in claret to front, with an invitation and a ticket to the dinner - these with various Press devices printed in red and green respectively - these

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accompanied by a TLs from Ian Rogerson to Vivian Meynell [Francis’s nephew], regretting that he cannot attend and offering these keepsakes 10) Rogerson (Ian) Sir Francis Meynell: Designer Extraordinary. The Nonesuch Press, 1992, [ONE OF 100 COPIES], pp. 34, crown 8vo, sewn wrappers with integral dustjacket - with a TLs from Alix Meynell to Vivian Meynell [i.e., his widow to his nephew], presenting this book Various, 1971 1992, illustrations, largely examples of work from the Press, various, see above, very good condition overall £250 A collection formed by Vivian Meynell, Francis’s nephew - the son of his elder brother Everard; it comprises various tributes to either the Press or the man, many attractively printed, and includes inscriptions and letters from his widow Alix (known as ‘Bay’) to family and friends.

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