Nonesuch Press Beedome, Thomas (3 results)

One of 1250 copies handset in Janson and printed on Van Gelder paper with the Nonesuch watermark. Decorated with type ornament. Full limp parchment with pigskin thongs, gilt decorations on the front cover and title gilt down the spine. A fine copy. Original board slipcase.

1,250 copies. 8vo, (201x122mm), [6],51,[1],viiip. Original full limp vellum, gilt lettered within printers' small ornaments in the centre of the front cover, some discolouring. Printed in Janson type on Van Gelder paper to the design of Francis Meynell. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if possible the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.…

No. 142 of 1,250 copies. 201 x 120 mm. (7 7/8 x 4 3/4"). 4 p.l., 51, [1] (blank), iv pp., [2] leaves. Publisher's limp vellum, gilt design on upper cover, flat spine with gilt titling. In the original glassine jacket (lacking most of spine) and original cardboard slipcase, slightly worn. Dreyfus 54. âA breath of browning just to untrimmed edges, otherwise A PRISTINE COPY, well protected for 90 years by its original jacket and slipcase. The verse of Thomas Beedome (d. 1641) includes love poems, elegies for such figures as his friend John Donne and Gustav Adolphus of Sweden, and religious works. Somewhat in the manner of Donne, they were published in 1641 after his death, and a pirated edition came out in 1657. Thereafter they languished until Meynell took an interest in them and edited them for this printing. The Nonesuch Press was founded in 1923 by typographer and book designer Francis Meynell (1891-1975) with the help of his friend David Garnett and his future wife, Vera Mendel. Meynell designed his books on a small Albion hand press, but had them printed commercially in order to keep the price of well-designed books made of quality materials within the means of readers and collectors who could not afford most private press editions. …