The fanfrolico press (5 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 32 pages. Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward ) 1883-1959 - published works / Sotheby's prices realised in their March 1969 Book Auction; including titles from The Fanfrolico Press, The Golden Cockerell Press, The Kelmscott Press / Books For Sale / Wanted Titles.…

: being a statement of the aims of the Fanfrolico Press both typographical and aesthetic with a complete bibliography and specimen passages and illustrations from the books. London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Octavo, original wrappers, with illustration by Norman Lindsay (faint crease to fore edge), the standard edition, 36 pp, illustrated, including title page drawing, three plates and tailpiece by Norman Lindsay. Arnold C6. A catalogue of publications of the Fanfrolico Press, which also contains a short publisher's manifesto. In mid-1928 the Press, the result of a creative partnership forged between Sydney publishers John Kirtley and Jack Lindsay (son of Norman Lindsay), was based in London with Jack Lindsay as proprietor working alongside P.R. Stephensen. By the time the Press closed in 1930, it had published forty-six books with a distinctive design aesthetic, including numerous titles illustrated by Norman Lindsay. An important catalogue relating to arguably the most significant of Australian fine publishing houses.…

: being a statement of the aims of the Fanfrolico Press both typographical and aesthetic with a complete bibliography and specimen passages and illustrations from the books. London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Octavo, original pictorial parchment over boards, with illustration by Norman Lindsay (a small amount of wear but quite presentable), LIMITED EDITION OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy number 150), 36 pp, illustrated, including title page drawing, three plates and tailpiece by Norman Lindsay. Arnold C6. A catalogue of publications of the Fanfrolico Press, which also contains a short publisher's manifesto. In mid-1928 the Press, the result of a creative partnership forged between Sydney publishers John Kirtley and Jack Lindsay (son of Norman Lindsay), was based in London with Jack Lindsay as proprietor working alongside P.R. Stephensen. By the time the Press closed in 1930, it had published forty-six books with a distinctive design aesthetic, including numerous titles illustrated by Norman Lindsay. An important catalogue relating to arguably the most significant of Australian fine publishing houses. Provenance : Australian poet Kenneth Slessor (1901 - 1971), signed by him on the front pastedown, his pencil annotations checking off books held in Slessor's collection, and correcting a typographical error in his poemEarth Visitors which is reproduced in this volume.…

Sydney: Wentworth Press, 1976. Sm. 4to. Bound in full morocco, gilt-titled, and with the orig. printed wrappers bound in. (ii, 82pp.). With portrait, and 2 full-page plates. Fine. (Stud. in Aust. Bibliography, No.23). Inscribed and fully signed "Jack Lindsay".

First Edition. Illustrated and decorated by Norman Lindsay. With an Introduction by Thomas Earp. Pp. xx+176+[2](colophon, verso blank), 35 collotype or gravure plates (including the frontispiece) and 10 drawings (half-title and title page vignettes, pictorial headpieces and tailpiece); wide demy 4to; full green stained artificially grained sheepskin, spine lettered in gilt, with small design by Lindsay in gilt on the upper board, the leather lightly rubbed, corners and spine extremities a trifle worn, the spine faded; t.e.g., others uncut; bookplate of George M. Gray on upper pastedown, plus bookplate of Harold L. Sheard and a small handwritten price sticker on the upper free endpaper, a little faint offsetting of plates; The Fanfrolico Press, London, 1928. First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies on Barcham Green's handmade paper. Arnold 20. *Contains the text of Hugh McCrae's previous volumes of poetry Satyrs & Sunlight (1909), Columbine (1920), and Idyllia (1922); plus the previously unpublished Orleans & Isabelle. lang720 Harold L. Sheard (1890-1975) is best known for assembling the archive of his friend, anthropologist Charles P. Mountford, and donating the collection to the State Library of South Australia.…