The Great Illustrated Private Press Books (TGIPPB) - Book #13
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1dlphcoracl
The dlphcoracl is nothing if not persistent.
After last week's TGIPPB entry was unexpectedly demolished - by someone who recalled seeing it listed within an auction, no less! - I have visited the nether regions of my private press book collection to select a book that has a very small limitation and is not well known to the vast majority of serious private press book collectors. As with all prior entries in this series, the illustrations are sensational.
Four illustrations are posted below. Are you up for this week's challenge?
After last week's TGIPPB entry was unexpectedly demolished - by someone who recalled seeing it listed within an auction, no less! - I have visited the nether regions of my private press book collection to select a book that has a very small limitation and is not well known to the vast majority of serious private press book collectors. As with all prior entries in this series, the illustrations are sensational.
Four illustrations are posted below. Are you up for this week's challenge?
2MobyRichard
Reminds me a bit of the John Austen Hamlet.
3astropi
I know that illustration.
It's E. R. Herman whom you could easily mistake for Harry Clarke. Fortunately, I did not :)
This is for Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson. Certainly an absolutely beautifully illustrated book!
It's E. R. Herman whom you could easily mistake for Harry Clarke. Fortunately, I did not :)
This is for Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson. Certainly an absolutely beautifully illustrated book!
4dlphcoracl
https://depositphotos.com/183766224/stock-photo-the-young-guy-is-in.html
What is an honest Oracle to do? I scour the depths of my private press collection for the most beautifully illustrated but obscure private press books and the cognoscenti on the LT Fine Press Forum treat it as a mere hors d'oeuvres, lasting little more than a few minutes. It is enough to make an Oracle leap into the cleft within the rocks of the omphalos and asphyxiate oneself from the noxious vapors arising within.
That said, this is indeed the ultra-rare deluxe edition of 'Fables' by Robert Louis Stevenson, Longmans, Green & Co. (London), 1914, one of only 105 such copies. It is the large paper issue with limp vellum binding and gilt lettering on the spine and front cover, top edge gilt. The original owner had a bookbinder create a folding wrap-around green cloth chemise, completely enveloping the book, which was then inserted into a half-green leather and marble paper covered slipcase. As a result, despite being over one-hundred years old the book is in flawless ("as new") condition.
The illustrations by E.R. Herman demonstrate an Aesthetic style reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley and for this edition he created 20 black and white plates, one for each of the twenty fables by RLS, each pasted down to stiff stock and bound in with stubs, then protected with a captioned tissue guard. The book was printed letterpress at the Chiswick Press. Uncharacteristically, Stevenson's fables are morality tales, strange and cynical.
Additional illustrations are given below.
What is an honest Oracle to do? I scour the depths of my private press collection for the most beautifully illustrated but obscure private press books and the cognoscenti on the LT Fine Press Forum treat it as a mere hors d'oeuvres, lasting little more than a few minutes. It is enough to make an Oracle leap into the cleft within the rocks of the omphalos and asphyxiate oneself from the noxious vapors arising within.
That said, this is indeed the ultra-rare deluxe edition of 'Fables' by Robert Louis Stevenson, Longmans, Green & Co. (London), 1914, one of only 105 such copies. It is the large paper issue with limp vellum binding and gilt lettering on the spine and front cover, top edge gilt. The original owner had a bookbinder create a folding wrap-around green cloth chemise, completely enveloping the book, which was then inserted into a half-green leather and marble paper covered slipcase. As a result, despite being over one-hundred years old the book is in flawless ("as new") condition.
The illustrations by E.R. Herman demonstrate an Aesthetic style reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley and for this edition he created 20 black and white plates, one for each of the twenty fables by RLS, each pasted down to stiff stock and bound in with stubs, then protected with a captioned tissue guard. The book was printed letterpress at the Chiswick Press. Uncharacteristically, Stevenson's fables are morality tales, strange and cynical.
Additional illustrations are given below.
5astropi
4: It is enough to make an Oracle leap into the cleft within the rocks of the omphalos and asphyxiate oneself from the noxious vapors arising within.
Well, sounds reasonable enough. However, before you go about ending it all and such, seems to me you will no longer have need of this nicely illustrated edition of Fables and can send it to your's truly :D
Well, sounds reasonable enough. However, before you go about ending it all and such, seems to me you will no longer have need of this nicely illustrated edition of Fables and can send it to your's truly :D
