* To the “Arts Club” A token of gratitude from Belgian artists for the kind hospitality bestowed upon them during the great war
Unique commemorative album to be presented to the London based “Arts Club” on Dover Street, Mayfair, by 30 Belgian World War I refugee artists containing 32 original artworks from the period (1915)-1925, in a commissioned deluxe binding, original artworks in various techniques (drawings, etchings, watercolours, gouaches, lithographs), by i.a. Emile Claus, Marcel Jefferys, Alfred Jonniaux, Leon de Smet, Pierre Paulus, Louis Reckelbus, Valerius de Saedeleer, Belgium, ca.(1915)-1925).
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* The New Temple Shakespeare (40 Volumes)
First thus (1934-36), including one reprint (Hamlet, 1938). 40 small 8vos, incl. notes and glossaries, housed in a custom period wooden bookcase (40 x 30 x 12cm). Title, half-title, binding designs by Eric Gill (five variations, excepting William Shakespeare: A Commentary, which features a unique title page decoration and illustration). Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering to spines and gilt embossed series device to upper boards. A robust set, delightfully housed in the custom period bookcase. Unusual.
* O G and other Ogres by Reginald Reynolds
A first edition hardbakc copy with illustrations by Quentin Crisp and published by Allen and Unwin in 1946 with its unclipped dust jacket. The book has 75 pages of text including the illustrations and is bound in orange cloth with black titles on the spine. The jacket is an example of economy as the inside shows part of a map of North Africa.
