Sophie Schneideman China in Print 2018

SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, PRIVATE PRESS, FINE BINDINGS, CALLIGRAPHY, PRINTS & ART CHINA IN PRINT FAIR HONG KONG MARITIME MUSEUM NOVEMBER 30 TH - DECEMBER 2ND 2018

EMBROIDERED BINDING BY HELEN MARGARET DIXON ARNOLD, THE LIGHT OF ASIA, 1892

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FINE BINDINGS & ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS [COSWAY STYLE BINDING] CHESTERTON, Cecil. The Story of Nell Gwyn (Queens of Beauty and Romance). First edition. 4 colour and 16 black and white plates. 8vo., bound in a ‘Cosway’ style binding with a good watercolour painting of Nell Gwyn inset into an oval in the front board and surrounded by blind and gold tooling, gilt lettering on spine, all edges gilt. London, Foulis. 1911. £950/HK10,000 A well-illustrated biography of Nell Gwyn (1650-1687) actress and mistress of Charles II. The author was the journalist brother of G.K. Chesterton.

EMBROIDERED BINDING by HELEN MARGARET DIXON. ARNOLD, Edwin. The Light of Asia. Finely bound in a contemporary arts and crafts embroidered binding by Helen Margaret Dixon with a pink, blue, green, red and gold intricate floral design, title embroidered in blue, green silk endpapers, all edges gilt.

Original felt-lined red pebble grain cloth box. Portrait frontispiece, 15 illustrations. In extremely good condition. London, Kegan Paul, Trench. 1892. £3800/HK$40,000 A splendid example of a late Victorian embroidered binding by Helen Margaret Dixon. John Ruskin expressed admiration for her work when shown examples of her bindings at Brantwood in June 1892. Arnold’s book which tells the story of the life and teaching of “Gautama prince of India and founder of Buddhism”, was very popular at the end of the 19th century, having been first published in 1879.

Elaborate illuminated vellum binding from Florence

GIANNINI, Giuseppe. The Masterpieces of Van Dyck. Elaborate illuminated binding on full vellum over bevelled boards by Giuseppe Giannini of Florence with his binders label, gold patterned paper endpapers, red top edge and red silk bookmark. Gowans Art Books no.2 with 60 pages of reproductions of Van Dyck’s paintings. Housed in the original green linen box. London & Glasgow, Gowans & Gray. 1908. £580/HK$6,200 Produced by the famous Giuseppe Giannini of Florence for the English tourist trade.

Exquisite calligraphed alphabet book

HEAVENLY MONKEY. LOHMANN, Francesca.

An Alphabetical Accumulation 1 of only 36 copies. 28 pages on rectos only with printed and original calligraphy by Francesco Lohmann, starting with a handwritten elaborate letter A in red ink. The A is then reproduced printed in black from polymer plates and the next letter in the accumulation is added by Francesca in red ink and so on. Thus, every copy contains the full alphabet in original calligraphy. 12mo., bound by Claudia Cohen in full limp vellum, delicately gold-tooled at the edges, endpapers taken from old deeds with handwriting on it, calligraphic title in red ink on the spine, original black silk covered box. printed by Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey.

2017. £1200/HK$13,000 “The layout for each page changes to best present the letters included, and allow space for the next letter in the alphabet to be added by hand”.

Pochoir art deco illustrations by Hummel in a unique Fonseque binding

HUMMEL, Th. VERLAINE, Paul. Amour.

1/500 copies on velin à la forme. Vignette, title & 63 head and tail piece wood engravings coloured in pochoir with gold and palladium in art-deco style.

8vo., bound by Max Fonsêque in full red morocco with spine in compartments with raised bands with floral decorations and gilt borders and ornaments, original printed wrappers bound in, in the original red morocco edges marbled paper covered slipcase.

An extremely good, handsome copy. Paris, Librairie Albert Messein. 1922. £950/HK$10,000

‘Lest we forget’ ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. KIPLING, Rudyard. Recessional. 4 pages of fine illuminated manuscript written in red and black with raised gilt title and purple decoration with 5 gilded initials with blue and green ink. The title page has a verse 7 of psalm 20 and this is followed by the five verses of Kipling’s poem Recessional which was written in 1897. Unbound in two folio gatherings.,. c.1930. £400/HK$4500 A remarkably fine piece of work.

Printed on vellum by a firm founded by a woman printer and illuminated by hand

ILLUMINATED PRINTED BOOK. BOUASSE, LEBEL & MASSIN. Prières pour la communion [Prayers for Communion]. 34 pp. manuscript printed on vellum with each page illuminated in gold, silver and many colours by hand.

8vo., bound in jansenist style with plain but sumptuous maroon morocco binding with elaborate tooled gilt inner dentelles and silk endpapers, the front free endpaper stamped in gilt with the decorated initials ‘B.V.’ and the date 30 Avril 1891 (presumably a first communion present), all edges gilt. Paris, Bouasse, Lebel & Massin. c.1890. £2000/HK$22,000 The printed book has borders which have designated styles which change throughout and which are titled in small letters beneath the borders - Renaissance, XVI Siecle, Style Indien, XVIIe Siecle, Dentelle Renaissance, Style Japonais, Style Grec, Style Egyptien & Ferriures Italiennes.

A splendid collection of original handmade patterned papers in a binding by John Jeffery

JEFFERY, J & J. Pattern Paper Sample Book. 1 of only 24 sample books, each with unique contents and uniquely bound. 120 sample leaves of handmade printed decorative, marbled and pattern papers designed and produced by J & J Jeffery and bound by John Jeffery. Oblong 8vo., quarter brown pigskin with hand coloured patterned paper covered boards printed with flowers in gilt, Jeffery pattern paper endpapers, spine lettered in gilt. A truly handsome book. Edinburgh, J & J Jeffery.

2017. £1000/HK$11,000 A large collection of paper specimens which are designed and cut on lino by Jane Jeffery and printed, coloured and gilded by her and her husband John, who is also a binder. The techniques used are traditional and include Dutch gilt, pastepaper, marbled paper and block printed paper using linocuts rather than wood.

Their work is astonishing and highly desirable.

JONES, Peter, Designer Bookbinder. An Incomplete Guide to Onlay, Inlay and Scarf Jointing for Leather Binding. Workshop Notes. Pp.16. 151 x 103 mms.

Written, printed and bound by Peter Jones. Full limp grey and tan morocco, sewn with brown thread with examples of green morocco inlay, yellow and grey and green morocco onlay and scarf jointing. A very attractive, and useful, book.,. 2016. £420/HK$4800

One of only 50 copies with an extra suite and in an exquisite and unique binding

MÉTIVET, Lucien. GRYPERL [Georges Boyer]. Phonographie de L'Amour. 1/50 copies on chine with an additional suite of illustrations in black. Each page has at least 3 illustrations by Métivet printed in sanguine. Pp. iv, 23 plus full additional suite with illustrations only printed in black. 8vo., original and unique full blue morocco with a calf panel inset into the upper cover with designs by Metivet blocked and hand painted on the panel with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, original marbled paper chemise and slipcase. An extremely good copy in a very handsome and individual binding. Paris, Paul Ollendorff. 1895. £850/HK$9000 Lucien Métivet was a highly successful Belle Epoque poster artist and cartoonist and one of the most prominent French illustrators of the nineteenth century.

Gryperl presents love in shorthand through a series of phrases, platitudes, soothing, explanations of infidelity etc. all with delicate and very amusing illustrations by Métivet.

OLIVER, Nicky. PASIPHAE. Original and unique designer binding

£3000/HK$33,000

PRIVATE PRESS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS An extraordinarily bright and crisp copy

ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach commonly called Ecclesiasticus. This text compiled by A.D. Power from the various versions of Ecclesiasticus. One of 328 copies on large Batchelor 'Bugle' paper. Red, blue and green initial letters hand drawn by Graily Hewitt. and his assistants Ida Henstock and Helen Hinkley (who also did a great amount of work for the Pear Tree Press). Printed in Subiaco type with the shouldernotes and wood-engraved colophon printed in red. 4to., original limp orange vellum with ties, untrimmed. Chelsea, Ashendene Press. 1932. £3800/HK$40000 The Ecclesiasticus is a remarkable piece of press work by The Ashendene Press, printed after the death of Faulkner under the guidance of the great printer Gage-Cole, whose pevious triumph was the fabulous Cranach Press Hamlet. Even Hornby himself was pleased with the book: “in my humble judgment it is one of the most satisfactory of the books of the Press.” The first use of green by Hewitt for his initials since his first Ashendene work, Dante's Inferno.

Ashendene Bibliography XXXVIII

DOVES PRESS In a very handsome Doves binding

SHAKESPEARE, William.

Anthony and Cleopatra. 1 of 200 copies on paper. Printed in black and red throughout. Sm. 4to., bound at the Dove Bindery in 1913, handsome full dark blue morocco with gilt rules, all edges gilt.

Extremely good, sumptuous copy.

Hammersmith, Doves Press. 1912. £6200/HK$65,000 Text taken from the 1623 First Folio, with errata on the 3 pages following the colophon.

ERAGNY PRESS. PISSARRO A remarkably good copy, printed for Paul Blondeau of the Cent Bibliophiles

PISSARRO. NERVAL, Gerard de. Histoire de la Reine du Matin & de Soliman Prince des Genies.

1909. Wood engraved title page with gold and first illustration & border in five colours, 14 wood engraved illustrations in green, 12 historiated initials in gold and colour, 3 tailpieces and headpiece by Lucien and Esther Pissarro. 1/130 copies printed for Les Cent Bibliophiles, this No. 14 for Paul Blondeau. Printed in Brook type on special Arches paper with watermarks of Les Cent Bibliophiles and Eragny. 8vo., in the original full limp olive green morocco with elaborate pattern of carnations in gilt on both sides, original card slipcase. Hammersmith, Eragny Press for Les Cent Bibliophiles. 1909. £9500/HK$100,000

The result of a serious commission from the Société des Cent Bibliophiles for an edition of Nerval's Eastern tale for which they paid 10,000 francs (£400). Lucien developed a method of combining colour and gold leaf in printing initial letters which proved problematic at first but which was staggeringly beautiful once he had conquered it for this book.

One of only 125 with Gibbings remarkable ‘vanished line’ wood engravings

GIBBINGS, Robert. BAYNARD PRESS. Twelve Wood Engravings. 1 of only 125 copies signed by the artist. 12 strong wood engravings by Robert Gibbings each printed on an individual leaf. Sm. 4to., original canvas backed grey paper covered printed boards. Bookplate of Felix Dennis. [London], Printed at The Baynard Press by Sanders Phillips & Co.. 1921. £1400/HK$15,000 Robert Gibbings’ first book, produced only 7 years after he first began engraving. The images are beautifully constructed with the structure coming from the black - effectively appearing as black and white shapes vanishing into the page.

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John. Mademoiselle de Maupin. A Romance by Theophile Gautier. Translated by R &E. Powys Mathers. 8 copper engravings by John Buckland Wright. 1/450 copies, this no. 172. Title printed in blue and black, printed in Gill’s Perpetua type on Van Gelder paper. Sm. 4to., original quarter white vellum, blue cloth boards, top edge gilt, uncut. Cloth a bit darkened at edges, otherwise a very good.bright copy. London, Golden Cockerel Press. 1938. £450/HK$5000

‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’ - in the variant red cloth binding

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Endymion. A Poetic Romance by John Keats. 58 woodengravings by John Buckland-Wright. 1/400 ordinary copies (this no. 460), there were also 100 special copies. Tall 4to., original quarter white vellum with very attractive variant red buckram boards (usually brown), spine lettered in gilt, image of Cynthia amongst the stars and planets

by Buckland Wright in gilt on upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut. Unusually fresh and bright copy. London, Golden Cockerel Press. 1947. £1250/HK$13,000 Endymion in a quest for ideal beauty, explores woods and glades, the underworld, the depths of the sea and then the skies where he finds the ultimate object of ideal beauty in Cynthia, goddess of the moon. Buckland Wright upholds the romance and “maintained ectasy” of Keats’s great poem in his seemingly constant stream of passionate wood-engravings.

One of the copies bound in vellum-paper, colour wood engravings by Buckland Wright

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. BEAUMONT, Francis. JONES, Gwyn. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. 1/50 copies bound in vellumparchment with 10 plates - one of which was repeated. 11 colour wood engravings by John Buckland Wright (including the repeated engraving). Tall thin sm. folio, original full cream vellum-paper with gilt waterlily decoration by Buckland Wright blocked on upper cover and gilt lettering on the spine, fore and lower edges untrimmed, in glacine jacket. London, Golden Cockerel Press. 1951. £650/HK$7000 Seven years later after first publication, 50 ordinary copies were bound in a vellum-paper binding to raise some much needed cash. There were also 250 ordinary copies bound in cloth.

In the very rare dust jacket

GIBBINGS, Robert. Samson & Delilah. From the Book of Judges According to the Authorised Version.

No. 160 of 325 copies. 7 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Sm. 4to, original cream linen, gilt lettering on the spine, untrimmed, in the original dust jacket. The dust jacket is slightly chipped at the top edge and lower bottom edge with very mild spotting, but it is an extraordinarily good example, the cream linen is extremely bright and fresh. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press. 1925. £1200/HK$12,800 It is very unusual to find Samson & Delilah in a dust jacket. It was made out of brittle, acid filled paper so this remarkably clean and intact jacket is a rare survival.

One of only 40 copies

HAMMER CREEK PRESS. The Song of Solomon. Printed in black, red and blue with gilt dot decorations on the title page. Printed on Sekishu paper. Pp. viii, 28. 12mo., original marbled paper wrappers sewn on the outside in japanese style, printed paper label on upper cover with a gilt border. An extremely good uncut copy in the original gold paste paper covered slipcase with printed paper spine label. Slipcase a little worn, otherwise very good., Hammer Creek Press. 1959. £600/HK$6,400 Hammer Creek is known for its immaculate masterpieces of letterpress printing in tiny editions. Beautifully conceived and printed, John Fass worked slowly to achieve perfection, hence the turtle press device.

59 exquisite pochoir coloured prints of women, an exceptionally good copy

KIEFFER, René. GOURMONT, Remy de. Litanies de la Rose. Decorated and illustrated with 59 exquisite pochoir coloured prints by André Domin, all of women, mainly nudes and borders printed in gilt and brown on each page. No. 180 of 500 copies on paper.

Sm. 8vo., an incredibly fresh and neat copy in the original printed pink wrappers, housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. An extremely good copy. Paris, Éditions René Kieffer. 1919. £2400/HK$25,000

LAURENCIN, Marie. FIGUIERE, Eugene. Un Petit Breviaire de la Vie. 3 colour illustrations by Marie Laurencin.

16mo., a very good copy in the original printed wrappers with colour illustrations

by Laurencin on the upper cover. Housed in a specially made cloth clamshell box.

Paris, Eugene Figuiere & Co. [1909]. £350/HK$4000 From the wonderful series by Figuiere - Petit Livres d’Heures. A charming book of recommendations for life - such as what to do when you don’t recognise people you should with delicate illustrations of women by Laurencin.

One of only 12 copies on vellum with an extra set of prints

RUSSELL FLINT, William.

HAYMARKET PRESS. Judith. No.3 of 12 copies printed on vellum, signed by the artist, with an extra suite of 4 colour plates in a separate folder. 4 colour plates by Russell Flint pasted onto the vellum pages within a green printed border. Hand set in Goudy type, each page with a green printed border, printed by Morton, Burt & Sons. 4to., full limp vellum with gilt lettering on the spine and upper cover, green silk ties. London, Haymarket Press (Halton and Truscott Smith). 1928. £3800/HK$40,000

STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS. Christmas Lyrics. Calligraphic manuscript initials by Margaret Adams in gilt, red, blue and green at the beginning of each Christmas poem. One of 400 copies of the second printing, printed in Perpetua type by Dame Hildelith Cumming. Pp. 30. 8vo., [14 x 19.5], original full limp vellum with green silk ties threaded round the binding, gilt lettering on spine, in the original card slipcase. A very good copy.

Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press. 1957. £200/HK$2500

One of only 25 deluxe copies in a special designed binding and a full portfolio of proofs

WHITTINGTON PRESS. MACGREGOR, Miriam. Midwinter. No. 9 of 25 deluxe copies with an additional portfolio of 24 proofs and bound in full morocco to a design by Macgregor. 24 wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Text printed in Centaur type in sepia on Zerkall mould made paper. Large 8vo., bound in grey and white morocco with a snowscape design and crescent moon by Macgregor, together with a blue cloth backed portfolio of proofs all housed in a blue cloth clamshell box with paper spine label. An immaculate copy. Risbury, Whittington Press. 2012. £1400/HK$15,000

PRINTS & ART JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Individual Wood Engravings from Dolores II. Wood engravings from Dolores II. Second edition, worked into silhouettes by Buckland Wright. Proof copies from the estate of the artist with Buckland Wright’s studio stamp. 1933. £280/HK$3200 EACH Dolores, by Algernon Swinburne. Was printed privately by Stols of Maastricht for Baron Emile van der Borch with 11 wood engravings

by JBW. The first edition was printed in 50 copies and the second, as here, with the wood blocks being further worked in an edition of 40 copies. A third edition of 10 copies was made up using text from the second edition and pasted images from the first edition.

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Red Jasmine Bathing. One of the wood for Buckland Wright’s spectacular work Love Night printed on japanese vellum. With the studio stamp of the artist on the back.108 x 159 mms. 1936. £400/$4400

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Forest Laos. One of the wood engravings for Buckland Wright’s spectacular work Love Night printed on japanese vellum. Signed, title and dated by the artist in pencil. 106 x 77 mms. 1936 £500/HK$5500

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Into the Forest: Laos. One of the wood engravings for Buckland Wright’s spectacular work Love Night printed on handmade paper. Signed, titled and dated by the artist in pencil. 108 x 159 mm1936 £650/HK$7000

One of a tiny edition of 15

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John (18971954). Judgement of Paris. [No.IV].

Original copper engraving. No. 9 of 15.

Image size 277 x 201 mms. Sheet size 460 x 282 mms. In superb condition.,. c. 1950. £1200/HK$13200 Final version of the plate, although unfinished.

Printed by C.H. Welch and dated c.1944 on the basis that the drawing for the plate carried this date.

Extremely rare erotic engraving

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John (1897-1954).

Chinese Susanna. Original copper engraving. 16.8 x 9.2 cms. There is no edition of this print and it is extremely rare. c.1953. £1000/HK$11,000

One of only 30 copies

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John (1897-1954). Two Girls. Original etching by John Buckland Wright.

No. 5 of only 30 copies printed by C.H. Welch of London. 188 x 252 mms. With the studio stamp of the artist on the verso. 1954. £1200/HK$13,200

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Brass for the binding of the special edition of Hymn to Proserpine. Brass used for the bindings of the 50 special editions of the Golden Cockerel Press Hymn to Proserpine which had 8 wood engravings by John Buckland Wright. The brass is an image of the extra wood engraving which were only in the special copies, the ordinary copies only had 7 engravings. 1944. £1200/HK$13,200

Christmas cards with original wood engravings - a complete set for NV Houtindustrie in Eindhoven

BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. N.V. HOUTINDUSTRIE, PICUS, EINDHOVEN 7 original Christmas Cards each with an original wood engraving. Seven Christmas cards each with an original wood engraving by John Buckland Wright printed from the block, all 7 in the series. 4pp. 152 x 118 mms. In very good condition. Eindhoven, N.V. Houtindustrie, probably printed by A. A. Stols. 19341940. £700/HK$7700

John Buckland Wright produced these wood engravings for the Christmas and New Year cards for N.V. Houtindustrie in Eindhoven. The series are numbered 1 to 7 and ceased in 1940 due to the War. The wood engravings are remarkable especially the ones of industrial scenes which was not a common subject for Buckland Wright - unfortunately.

ERIC GILL GILL, Eric. On My Bed by Night. Original wood-engraving. Printed on thin tissue paper.

Image size 9.6 x 6.3 cms. Extremely good. Block first printed in 1925. £580/HK$6400 A beautiful illustration for the Golden Cockerel Press “The Song of Songs”.

Physick 320

CLARE LEIGHTON

Wood engraving from the Farmer’s Year, one of 20 signed by the artist

LEIGHTON, Clare. Apple Picking. No. xix of xx. Signed by the artist in pencil.

220 x 280 mms, mounted. 1933. £1400/HK$15000 One of Leighton’s great wood engravings for her famous ‘Farmer’s Year’, this being ‘September’.

SEVERIN, Mark.

4 pages of original pencil drawings from a Severin sketchbook. 4 pages with pencil drawings on rectos only. 260 x 210 mms. In good condition. £1900/HK$20,000 The pages comprise: 1. A full page design for a poster of a near naked goddess symbolising Belgium with worshippers kneeling offering gifts under a bright sun with the words “Belgique: Creuset De Force Et De Splend” [Belgium: Crucible of Strength and Splendour”.

2. Full page of 13 developed designs for a bookplate for the Friends of the University of Brussels Library including 7 images of women in various states of attire.

3. Sketches and a main circular heraldic design of a mermaid with a deer.

4. A really good design of slightly saucy images for a special plate with notes in English by Severin’s son.

From the family of Mark Severin, then a private UK collection.

STEVENGRAPHS. Three Stevengraphs - "The Meet", "Full Cry" and "Are You Ready". Showing a hunt and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. All with the original labels on the back showing the Stevengraph works in Coventry where the silk woven pictures were made. Available individually.,.. £200/HK$2200 EACH

PLUS SEVERAL INDIVIDUALLY PRICED PRINTS BY ERIC GILL, BUCKLANDWRIGHT, GAYLORD SCHANILEC AND A FEW OTHER ITEMS TO BE VIEWED AT THE FAIR