Corvinus Press (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. By Richard Wagner. Full white vellum. Near fine copy. One of 130 numbered copies. Parallel texts in German and English the translation probably being made by Lord Carlow, owner of the press.

One of 55 copies, being one of 50 on Barcham Green "Medway", uncut, printed in blue and black Just a very little foxing to top and fore-edge, but a very nice copy Nash and Flavell 58 The last book of the Corvinus Press, about which the bibliographers are scathing as well as its predecessor, Wyatt's Penitential Psalms, unfairly we think. Although hardly rivalling the earlier glories of the press, the printing and inking do not seem to us anywhere near as poor as they suggest. They say that it seems likely that Lord Carlow was involved with the production "only to the point of choosing the text, the type face, and perhaps overseeing the first stages of composition", which seems like quite a lot of involvement. The stock and equipment of the press was bought by the Dropmore Press in 1945 and the binding and numbering took place there as with Penitential Psalms. Original quarter vellum, green linen boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies (the entire edition.) Title page illustrated with woodcuts by Eric Kennington, original buckram, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. T.e.g., others uncut. Original card slipcase (rather worn). No place, the Corvinus Press. A fine copy in a morocco backed slipcase, with the neat book label of H. Bradley Martin, whose great collection was sold in a series of auctions in New York in 1989 and 1990.

First edition, signed limited issue, number 10 of 178 copies. Golding's interpretation of the Biblical poem stages it as a masque, with the spoken text and stage directions printed in contrasting colours. "The use of three colours for the text, coupled with the large format and higher price suggest that Carlow saw this book as the first important public production of his Press. It is, typographically, very beautiful" (Nash & Flavell, p. 33). This is the first appearance of the text, which was later published in a trade edition. Nash & Flavell 13. Quarto. Printed in red, blue, and black on Barcham Green "Medway" paper. Original dark blue limp vellum, front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, two dark blue silk ties. Housed in original dark blue morocco-grain paper slip case. Lower cover slightly cockled; contents clean and fresh, slipcase worn with loss. A near-fine copy in a good slipcase.

First edition, limited issue, number 62 of 40 copies printed on Medway paper, from an edition of 203 copies, of which only 150 were for sale. This is the diary kept by Lawrence during his solitary walking tour of Syria in 1911. After graduating from Oxford, earning a first for his dissertation on crusader castles in Syria, Lawrence was employed through the influence of D. G. Hogarth at an archaeological dig in Northern Syria at Carchemish. When the dig was closed, Lawrence was free to further explore the country on foot through Syria. This "most ambitious and handsome volume published by the Corvinus Press" (O'Brien) reproduces his diary from the time, along with photographs from the expedition and letters to his mother written when he was in Carchemish, Tel Ahmar, and Jerablus. His letters often betray his feelings towards the Arab population he was living with, writing in the first that "fortunately there is no foreign influence as yet in the district: if only you had seen the ruination caused by the French influence, and to a lesser degree by the American, you would never wish it extended. Better a thousand times the Arab untouched" (pp. 46-47). The Corvinus Press was established by George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow (1907-1944), a close friend of Lawrence who was at his deathbed in 1935. As a result he was in a position to publish a number of high-quality editions of Lawrence's work, such as the present volume. This edition comprised 30 copies on Canute paper, 40 on Medway, and 130 on parchment substitute paper. There were also 3 copies, not for sale, on papier d'Auvergne, green handmade parchment paper, and grey Japanese paper. The standard binding is with a brown leather spine and mottled boards. O'Brien A194. Quarto. Thirteen collotype plates with loose tissue guards, colour illustration in text. Original vellum, yapp edges, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, rear cover with gilt Cornivus crow vignette, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, silk ties. Housed in custom grey cloth slipcase. Vellum clean and bright, tissue guards with a few tears or creases, faint offsetting to some plates, ties a touch foxed: a near-fine copy.

1 vols. 4to. No. 20 of 30 copies on J.B. Green unsized paper (edition of 32). 1 vols. 4to. Poet and diplomat James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) burned bright and briefly. He joined the diplomatic service in 1908, trained for two years, and was posted to Constantinople in 1910, "but in September a slight fever was diagnosed as tuberculosis and he returned to England to a sanatorium. He pronounced himself cured and went back to Constantinople in March 1911, to be transferred in April to Beirut. Flecker was not a very efficient vice-consul" (ODNB). His first formal collection of verse, The Bridge of Fire, was published in 1907, and The Golden Journey to Samarkand was published in 1913. He died in Switzerland aged thirty-one. Lawrence knew Flecker in Beirut before the war. "Flecker probably introduced Lawrence to contemporary poetry" wrote Wilson in his introduction to Minorities (1971). According to O'Brien, An Essay on Flecker was "written in 1925 with the intention of publication in a periodical, [and] did not appear in print until 1937". O'Brien A198; Ridler p. 58, #41 White linen, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Fine No. 20 of 30 copies on J.B. Green unsized paper (edition of 32).

No. 11 of 17 copies (this copy on Milbourn hand made paper). 15 unnumbered leaves. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to artist Eric Kennington: "EK from Carlow" Only 17 copies were printed on a variety of paper stocks, for private distribution only. RARE. O'Brien A193 Full white vellum with yapp edges, upper cover titled in gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Liddell Hart bookplate 15 unnumbered leaves. 1 vols. 8vo No. 11 of 17 copies (this copy on Milbourn hand made paper).

1 vols. 4to. One of 12 copies printed for Liddell Hart, signed by both authors. 1 vols. 4to. With presentation inscription from Storrs to Sir Edward Marsh. A beautiful memorial production of the Corvinus Press, here inscribed from Ronald Storrs, at whose behest Lawrence was assigned to the British-organized conference at Jiddah in the fall of 1916. Lawrence impressed the Arab leaders, and thereafter played his spectacular role as the revolt succeeded, entering into the mythology of the twentieth century. O'Brien E101; Ridler, p. 51, #2 Cloth and paper over boards. Fine One of 12 copies printed for Liddell Hart, signed by both authors.