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viii+93pp. 8vo. Original boards. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound in contemporary half calf, retaining original wrappers, titled in gilt up the spine and with 'To be returned to Charles Higham' blocked in gilt on the upper board. Extremities a little rubbed, but a very good copy of this valuable catalogue (reprinted in 1981). Charles Higham has also written 'For loan only, to be returned' on the front wrapper.

8vo, pp. vii, [1], 91, [3]; text in Latin and English; original black cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; very good, sound, and clean. Edition limited to 215 numbered copies (this, no. 62). This copy inscribed "To Michael Clapham with best wishes from Sydney Cockerell, 18 May 1935." With the bookplate of Michael Clapham. Clapham (1912-2002) was a well-known British industrialist, and also a classical scholar and fine press printer, becoming a printer's apprentice at Cambridge in 1933. Wikipedia notes this serendipitous date: " Clapham married The Hon. Elisabeth Russell Rea (1911-1994) who he met at Cambridge, on 18 May 1935." Cockerell may have play a part in this meeting. At the time he was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. Mills College Check List 2697.

Condizione: Near Fine. Clever light verse and charming watercolored vignettes, with the verse and artwork cross-fertilizing and resulting in an entirely novel homemade book, unlike any such effort we have ever beheld. N.d., mid-20th century. (A send-up of an Edith Sitwell poem first appearing in 1953 suggests the manuscript dates to the late fifties or sixties. Our sense, based on the poem, was that Sitwell was still alive at the time. The eccentric poet passed away in 1964.) Oblong, 15 by 19.5 cm. Unpaginated, 24 leaves, with content only on the rectos. It is unfortunate that the identity of the poet is unknown, as the verse are not only fun and funny, but also there is a coherence and uncommon evenness of quality. The verse manages to strike a satisfying balance between absurdity and restraint. Much of the verse relates to cuisine and edibles, directly and indirectly, and insects are another motif cropping up now and again, but these commonalities are secondary in creating the coherence we speak of. We think the word play on what might be regarded as a half-title page captures the esprit especially well: "A volume of vagaries and verses from the vitiated vortex of a virus victim -- Gems from the Germery". In the corners are two drawings of flies. Between the words and pictures, we would consider the former the more important, in contrast to most homemade books we have encountered. This is not to say the vignettes don't have a charm and polish, but rather, they are servants to the words, whetting our interest, adding a visual fillip, or the like. The cover has a patterned paper pastedown. The title is given, pasted to the front cover, on a shaped cut-out pen and ink drawing of a scroll and inkwell. Paper pastedown on boards. String ties.