638 Eragny Press. Histoire de Peau d’Ane, by Charles Perrault, Eragny Press, 1902, wood-engraved frontispiece, borders and initials designed by Lucien Pissarro, woodcut illustrations by T. Sturge Moore, printed in black and red, some toning to endpapers, booklabel of Ken Tomkinson, original boards with repeat palm pattern in blue, some toning to joints and extremities, 8vo, limited edition, one of 230 copies Tomkinson 14. With two loose 1 pp. autograph letters from Lucien Pissarro to Geoffrey Tomkinson, dated 23 February and 27 February 1928; the first requesting a copy of Tomkinson’s Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses... (1928), and discussing the Eragny Press, signed at foot, the other letter thanking Tomkinson for his book and offering to send him a book in return (incomplete? and unsigned), plus a postcard from Esther Pissarro to Tomkinson stating her husband was away in Paris and would answer his letter on his return. (1) £400-600
639 Eragny Press. The Book of Ruth & The Book of Esther, Epping, Eragny Press, 1896, text printed in red and black in Vale type, 5 woodcut illustrations by Lucien Pissarro, woodcut initials, untrimmed, original cream and green patterned boards, a little rubbed to joints and edges, bookplate of William Crampton to front pastedown, and bookplate of Ken Tomkinson to front endpaper, small 8vo Tomkinson 2. 155 copies printed. (1)
641 Eragny Press. Emile Verhaeren. Les Petits Vieux, Hammersmith, Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1901, printed in red and black on Japanese paper, wood engraved frontispiece printed in colours, and decorative initials in red, designed by Lucien Pissarro, and engraved by Lucien and Esther Pissarro, neat pencil inscription to front endpaper A.H. Jan 1925, top edge gilt, original patterned boards, with design of Winter Aconite printed in green and yellow on grey paper, spine lettered in gilt, contained in early card casing for postage, with address label for Ambrose Heal Esq. Baylin’s Farm, Knotty Green, Beaconsfield, Bucks., oblong 8vo
£200-300
Tomkinson 11. 230 copies printed. Ambrose Heal (1872-1959), furniture designer and retailer, studied at the Slade School of Art, and joined the family firm Heal & Son in 1893. He was a founding member of the Design and Industries Association, inaugurated in 1914-15, which promoted the values of the Arts and Crafts movement in industrial production. (1) £400-600
640 Eragny Press. Gustave Flaubert. Herodias, Hammersmith, Eragny Press, 1901, wood engraved frontispiece, borders and initials designed by Lucien Pissarro, and engraved by Lucien and Esther Pissarro, circular printer’s colophon to verso of final leaf, untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards with paper label to upper cover, with early plain paper dust wrapper, printed to upper wrapper with the address The Book Shop of Douglas Cleverdon, 18 Charlotte Street, Park Street, Bristol, 12mo Tomkinson 9. 226 copies printed. Fine copy. (1)
£300-400
642 Essex House Press. The Flower and the Leaf, [by Geoffrey Chaucer], 1902, printed on vellum, 3 hand-coloured engraved plates and 85 ornamental letters hand coloured by Edith Harwood, all edges gilt, original stiff vellum, upper cover titled in gilt, 8vo One of 165 copies, all on vellum, this copy unnumbered with signed note after limitation details at foot of colophon, ‘a retrée copy, C.R. Ashbee’. Tomkinson 29 ‘the sixth of the great poem series. (1) £400-600
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