Paris: la Librairie de France, 1931. First edition. A limited edition of only 125 copies in total (including 5 H.C.) this is one of only 20 copies printed on Japon, with an additional suite of images and in a slipcase. Two stiff paper / card folders. These are cream with a little darkening / marking to the spines. The first volume is the text with integral illustration. The second is the additional suite. The text folder is protected with glassine. This is a little marked and has a couple of chips. To the spine of the glassine are two small hand made label stickers with the titles. (home made not produced by the author). The slipcase is in darkened but good, strong condition. Inside, both volumes are in beautifully clean condition. The Japon paper has remained bright and without marking or foxing. The illustrations have tissue guards to them. The numbered colophon is to the end of the text volume. The suite perhaps lacks two plates, as there are 32 plates in the suite. Each corresponds to an image in the book. However, there is an image of a tree with a large spider, and another with a hedgehog and lizard fighting. Both are in the book but NOT the suite. There are 34 engravings in the book. Some other copies online state 33 engravings (within the book) presumably not counting the frontis vignette - which IS in the suite. The only other copy available with a suite doesn't mention a collation / number of plates in the suite, so we are a little confused ! Nevertheless a nice collection of engravings within the book and an attractive suite of 32 plates. We do not promise completeness. 68 unnumbered pages. 29cm x 21cm. WorldCat / OCLC: 5508426 The BnF holding is: FRBNF31581059. Both are for the issue without suite.

. Première édition. Tirage limité à 125 exemplaires au total (dont 5 H.C.), celui-ci est l'un des 20 exemplaires imprimés sur Japon, avec une suite d'images supplémentaire et sous étui. Deux chemises en papier rigide / carte. Elles sont de couleur crème avec un léger assombrissement/marquage au dos. Le premier volume est le texte avec l'illustration intégrale. Le second est la suite supplémentaire. La chemise du texte est protégée par un glassine. Celui-ci est un peu marqué et présente quelques éclats. Au dos du glassine se trouvent deux petites étiquettes autocollantes faites à la main avec les titres. (faites à la main et non produites par l'auteur). L'étui est assombri mais en bon état. A l'intérieur, les deux volumes sont en parfait état de propreté. Le papier Japon est resté brillant et sans marque ni rousseur. Les illustrations sont accompagnées de protège-tissu. Le colophon numéroté se trouve à la fin du volume de texte. Il manque peut-être deux planches à la suite, qui en compte 32. Chacune correspond à une image dans le livre. Cependant, il y a une image d'un arbre avec une grande araignée, et une autre avec un hérisson et un lézard qui se battent. Ces deux images figurent dans le livre, mais PAS dans la suite. Il y a 34 gravures dans le livre. D'autres exemplaires en ligne indiquent 33 gravures (dans le livre), probablement sans compter la vignette du frontispice - qui fait partie de la suite. Le seul autre exemplaire disponible avec une suite ne mentionne pas de collation / nombre de planches dans la suite, nous sommes donc un peu perdus ! Néanmoins, il s'agit d'une belle collection de gravures dans le livre et d'une suite attrayante de 32 planches. Nous ne promettons pas l'exhaustivité. 68 pages non numérotées. 29cm x 21cm. WorldCat / OCLC : 5508426 Le numéro de la BnF est : FRBNF31581059. Les deux sont pour l'édition sans suite.

London: Burns and Oates, 1910. First edition. Hardback. Pale brown cloth covers with gilt titles. Book plate of Syon Abbey to the inside front board. Three black and white illustrated plates. Rough cut page edges. There is a touch of fading to the cloth and a very pale cup ring to the front board. Slight bowing to the boards only. Internally clean and tidy throughout, with very slight foxing to the end papers. [vi], 78 pp. + plates

There is an anonymous biographical memoir of Hingston at the beginning of the book, written in a rather florid, late Victorian style. It is recorded here that she died in a tragic boating accident in 1907. In fact, her death was the result of a suicide pact, agreed with her fiancee Shirley Davidson, the son of Sir Charles Peers Davidson, Chief Justice of the Quebec Supreme Court. He refused to allow the marriage, as Aileen was a Roman Catholic. Ironically, in 1912, another son, Thornton Davidson - Shirley's older brother, was to die on the Titanic.

Prague: Antonín Víte, 1906. Original cardboard cover with embossed pale blue cover title and textile hasps. First and only edition of this visually charming, yet as regards the story also pertinently disturbing bibliophile edition, with 33 full-paged illustrations after indian ink or pencil drawings by Czech symbolist painter and printmaker Emil Holárek (1867-1919) after a fairy tale by Jaroslav Kvapil. The story is about a nymphet, who wears herself out between various institutions of state and society and the wickedness of their protagonists, finally ending up as a supposed culprit on the scaffold. The reproductions of Holáreks drawings are skilfully arranged by the Prague based printmaker Antonín Vítek by contrasting them with a ochre surface and ornamental frames and elegantly printed on cream machine-mould paper. Apart from minor wear to the cover and a few foxing stains inside, present is a very clean copy of this attractive bibliophile publication.

Holárek's unique and to some extent irritating style is marked by 'a sombre pessimism'. He embodied a sense of sarcastic moralism in most of his series, reflecting on a deep tragic and romantic conception. Except for his connection to [Max] Klinger [whom he met when studying in Munich] he never allied with any school, nor did he have any followers. (Urban).

Otto M. Urban: Mysterious Distances. Symbolism and Art in the Bohemian Lans, 1880-1914. Catalogue on the occasion of the Exhibition in the Olomouc Museum of Art 201/15. Olomouc/Prague: 2014, pp. 106-09, with 7 illustrations, whereof 3 of comparable ink or pencil drawings; Thieme/Becker, vol. XVII, 326.

320 by 250mm (12½ by 9¾ inches). 4Mo. 35, [5]. pages.

Oberlin, Ohio: Idlewild Press, 1999. From a numbered and signed edition of only 35. Letterpress, illustrated with seven colour photographic transfers from images by the author. In red cloth over boards, gilt-stamped; English mould made Somerset book paperstock with endpapers of zerkall nideggen sand. There is a light water stain to the boards, not very noticeable, otherwise the red boards are clean and tidy. Crinkling to the front and rear paste-down, with a little staining to the front paste-down. Would appear to have been stored in a damp environment. Text block is in excellent, clean condition. This book was designed, printed and bound during Fraser's apprenticeship at Yolla Bolly Press in Covelo, California. Fraser was one of the curators at Victoria State Library in Australia. 40 pp. 270 by 155 mm (10¾ by 6 inches). Édition numérotée et signée de 35 exemplaires seulement. Typographie, illustrée de sept transferts photographiques en couleur à partir d'images de l'auteur. En toile rouge sur les plats, estampillé en doré ; papier de livre Somerset fabriqué en Angleterre, avec des pages de garde en sable zerkall nideggen. Il y a une légère tache d'eau sur les planches, pas très visible, sinon les planches rouges sont propres et bien rangées. Les planches rouges sont propres et bien rangées. Les contre-plats avant et arrière sont froissés et le contre-plat avant est légèrement taché. Il semblerait qu'il ait été stocké dans un environnement humide. Le bloc de texte est en excellent état. Ce livre a été conçu, imprimé et relié pendant l'apprentissage de Fraser à Yolla Bolly Press à Covelo, en Californie. Fraser, un des conservateurs de la Victoria State Library en Australie. 40 pages. 270 x 155 mm

Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1905. First Edition. One of 200 copies. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 56 pages. Quarter cloth and papered boards; spine title label; top edge trimmed, others uncut; covers lightly darkened to the edges and spines. corners slightly bumped; spine label a little tanned and slightly chipped. An attractive copy. Printed in red and black on paper made in Ireland. Published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the house of Evelyn Gleeson in Dundrum. [1], 55, [1] pp. 215 x 150 mm (8½ x 6 inches).

Elizabeth Corbet Yeats was the sister of W.B. Yeats. She was a founder of Dundrum Press. The press published 11 books. She worked alongside Evelyn Gleeson, an English embroiderer. Relations were strained, and the press ended in 1908. Elizabeth (known as Lolly) went on to found Cuala Press with W.B. Gleeson continued Dun Emer after the split, and after her death it continued until 1964.