Decorations John Nash (4 results)

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Très bon. London, André Deutsch Limited, 1969, presumed first thus, harcover, green cloth with unclipped dust jacket, about 8 X 5 ĵ inches, (xiii) 141 pages, illustrated in B&W. Book is very fine without any noticeable wear or flaw. DJ is very good or better showing only a few minor wear mainly to top edge including two 1/8 inch tears. Shipping cost for this book will probably less than expected by Abebooks).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited edition. Original half vellum and sea-green marbled boards, quarto (7.75 x 10.5 inches), 35pp. 12 wood engravings by John Nash. Vellum spine darkened, boards rather scuffed and with rubbing to edges, internally near fine. Limited to 380 copies of which this is number 139.

Illustrated from photogravures after paintings by Galen J. Perrett, and initials and decorations by Will Jenkins. Typography by John Henry Nash (illustrator). Leather backing somewhat dry and rubbed but better than often found. Light foxing mostly to first third of volume, plates offsetting. Very Good- Publisher's quarter sheep, gray boards, decorations in black and lettering in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. Quarto. [6], 13, [1], [4] pp. First edition, thus; number 152 of 165 copies. As issued, in buff paper over boards with a printed paper title label on front and rear board; text in black, title and shoulder notes in red. Binding is a trifle soiled including some staining to fore-edge of the front board at the bottom corner; contemporary gift inscription on the first blank; contents are clean. Stunningly reprinted, perhaps no other printer at the time had such a similar aesthetic Cobden-Sanderson's Dove Pressclean and elegant in type and page design. Nash really does capture the spirit of the original. Cobden-Sanderson thought so as well and wrote Nash: "What a perfectly beautiful book you have made of The Book Beautiful! I am enchanted with it! Paper, type, arrangement, all combined under your clever hands to a while which is at once a thing of beauty and a symbol of that great order touched with delight which I am never tired of finding to be the supreme characteristic of the universe itself" (quoted in O'Day Catalogue p.1-2). The praise goes on. . . . Uncommon. This copy with November 1918 gift inscription from Sylvia Loeb to Ruth Eddy. We are uncertain, but the presenter is perhaps Sylvia Loeb Weil who co-authored with Rosetta Goldsmith several children's puzzle books.