Box 9

Becque, Maurice de. Legendes Russes.

Paris: Editions de L’Abeille d’or, 1922.

8vo. Illustrated by Maurice de Becque. Publisher’s wrappers. Monod, no. 7046. Purchased 2003.

MARTIN RICHARD MOEBIUS. DER TRIUMPH DER VENUS.

Chemnitz: Printed by Wilhelm Adam for the Gesellschaft der Bucherfreunde, 1923.

8vo. Printed in Behrens-Mediaeval. NO.173 OF AN EDITION OF 300 copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher’s pattern boards. Deutsche Bibliophilie in drei Jahrzehnten, p. 165. Steude, Chemnitz, Imprimatur N.F. VII, Chemnitzer Drucke, no. 2. Purchased, 2001.

T. J. COBDEN-SANDERSON. DAS IDEALBUCH.

Berlin: Euphorion Verlag, 1921.

8vo. ONE OF 800 COPIES. Publisher’s cloth. Purchased, 1998.

WILHELM NIEMEYER. STROPHEN DES ZWIEMUTS.

Frankfurt a. M.: Hausdruckerei der Schriftgiessei Flinsch, 1908.

8vo. First book in Ehmcke-Antiqua. Publisher’s pattern boards. Purchased 2001.

Bibliophile Novellen.

Weimar: Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1934.

Printed on a handpress at the Officina Serpentis by E. W. Tieffenbach in the Elisabeth-Antiqua of the Bauer typefoundry, initials designed by Elfe Marcks. The type was designed by E. Friedländer, a pupil of Weiss. Publisher’s vellum-backed boards.

Hilde Sieg, Gottessegen der Kræuter einst und immerdar.

Berlin: Rowohlt (1936).

Set at the Officina Serpentis, E. W. Tieffenbach, Berlin-Steglitz, in alter Schwabacher and printed by Oscar Brandstetter in Leipzig in an edition of 8000 copies.

VERGIL. BUCOLICA.

Frankfurt am Main: Printed at the Max Dorn Presse for Suhrkamp Verlag, 1957.

8vo. Designed by Hermann Zapf. Reproductions of woodcuts by Aristide Maillol. Publisher’s cloth backed boards in DJ. Hermann Zapf (1961), no. 76. Purchased, 2001.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. THE NEWCOMES.

Cambridge: The University Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1954.

2 vols. 8vo. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, colored through stencils by Maud Johnson. Designed by John Dreyfus. NO. 1133 OF AN EDITION OF 1500 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, in slipcase. Bibliography of the…Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, no. 252. Purchased, 2004.

DAVID ROBERTS. THE TOWN OF CAMBRIDGE AS IT OUGHT TO BE REFORMED: THE PLAN OF NICHOLAS HAWKSMOOR INTERPRETED IN AN ESSAY.

Cambridge: Privately Printed at the University Press, 1955.

Oblong 8vo. Eight drawings by Gordon Cullen. One of an edition of 500 COPIES. Publisher’s cloth backed marbled boards. Crutchley, entry for 1955. Purchased 1999.

JOHN SPARROW, COMPILER. LINE UPON LINE: AN EPIGRAPHICAL ANTHOLOGY.

(Cambridge: Printed for His Friends by the University Printer, 1967.)

8vo. ONE OF 500 COPIES. Publisher’s cloth backed boards, in slipcase. Crutchley, entry for 1967. Purchased 2000.