FINE COPY CONTAINED IN A FINE SLIPCASE. EIGHT ETCHINGS BY DENIS TEGETMEIER.THIS EDITION CONSISTS OF 200 COPIES DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS; 188 COPIES NUMBERED 1 TO 188 CONSISTING OF THE TEXT AND THE PLATES; AND 12 COPIES NUMBERED 1 TO X11 AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST CONTAINING A SET OF THE ETCHINGS PROOFED IN 1929. THIS IS NUMBER 37 OF 188. SERRATED PAGE EDGES.
FINELY BOUND IN FULL LEATHER WITH EXTENSIVE GILT DECORATION TO THE FRONT AND REAR BOARDS AND TO THE SPINE. MARBLED END PAPERS. AMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF CONON WILLIAMS ON FRONT PASTEDOWN. 122 PAGES INCLUDING THE NOTES. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY AND LATE PAGES BUT A VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY. THE POEM FOUNDED ON A SPANISH TRADITION CONCERNS DON RODERICK THE LAST GOTHIC KING OF SPAIN.
FOUR VOLUMES. PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE VOLUME 1 . TITLES SLIGHTLY BROWNED. BOOK PLATES ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER FINE CALF REBACKED WITH ORIGINAL SPINES LAID DOWN GILT WITH MOROCCO SPINE LABELS. OCTAVO.
FOUR VOLUMES 8vo. HALF LEATHER AND MARBLED BOARDS. LEATHER IS SOUND BUT WORN. BLACK TITLE BLOCK WITH GILT EMBOSS. END PAPERS AND TITLE PAGES ARE FADED TO DARK WTIH AGE. OTHERWISE VERY CLEAN. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE CRITICISM ON HIS WRITINGS ETC.
FINE HARDBACK IN BLACK CLOTH – NO DUSTWRAP. THE IMPORTANCE OF `STUDIES SPECIMENS ETC.`NOTEBOOK CAN SCARCELY BE EXAGGERATED. ALTHOUGH NOT ONE OF THE DIARY-NOTEBOOKS IT STANDS ALMOST ALONE AS A WITNESS TO HARDY`S EXERTIONS AND ASPERATIONS IN THE MID 1860`S. WHILE THE NOTEBOOK CONTAINS NO DRAFTS OF ACTUAL POEMS IT IS OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST AS PROVIDING DETAILED EVIDENCE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH HARDY WAS SEEKING TO PROVIDE HIMSELF WITH A POETIC BACKGROUND AND EDUCATING HIMSELF IN POETIC TECHNIQUES.
LIMITED TO 180 COPIES (WITH 150 FOR SALE) THIS BEING NUMBER 1. PRIVATELY PRINTED AT OFICYNA STANISLAWA GLIWY. PRINTED ON A CROWN FOLIO PRESS FROM A MONOTYPE BEMBO ON T H SAUDERS MOULD MADE WOVE PAPER. 22 PAGES FRONTIS. AND ONE OTHER LINOCUT. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DOUGLAS CLEVERDON. BOUND IN CREAM BUCKRAM. A FINE COPY WITH ACETATE COVER.
