1932, ISBN: 9196e5a5df76e7c9be488affd5115c1e

[SC: 9.22], [PU: London The Nonesuch Press], Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo (260 x 155 mm.); title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt, designed by Ricketts, … More...

[SC: 9.22], [PU: London The Nonesuch Press], Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo (260 x 155 mm.); title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt, designed by Ricketts, top edge gilt, others uncut, a bright & sharp copy. A fine copy of Charles Ricketts' recollections of Oscar Wilde for the Nonesuch Press. Charles Ricketts was a well-known artist/illustrator and typographer, most famous perhaps for his creation of The Dial (co-founded with his partner Charles Shannon), and for his work with the Vale Press. His name is often synonymous with that of Oscar Wilde as he was one of the two illustrators primarily associated with Wilde's work, the other of course being Aubrey Beardsley. He and Shannon were friends & supporters of Wilde, for whom Ricketts painted the hero of Wilde's short story The Portrait of Mr. W.H. 'Jean Paul Raymond' was an imaginary author first introduced by Ricketts in his privately issued work Beyond the Threshold (1929). The typography was designed by Francis Meynell, and the book was printed at the Dolphin Press, six hundred copies being for sale in England and two hundred to Random House for sale in America. Dreyfus 8A., Books<

1932, ISBN: 9196e5a5df76e7c9be488affd5115c1e

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1932. . Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo (260 x 155 mm.); title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt, designed by Ricketts, top ed… More...

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1932. . Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo (260 x 155 mm.); title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt, designed by Ricketts, top edge gilt, others uncut, a bright & sharp copy. A fine copy of Charles Ricketts' recollections of Oscar Wilde for the Nonesuch Press. Charles Ricketts was a well-known artist/illustrator and typographer, most famous perhaps for his creation of The Dial (co-founded with his partner Charles Shannon), and for his work with the Vale Press. His name is often synonymous with that of Oscar Wilde as he was one of the two illustrators primarily associated with Wilde's work, the other of course being Aubrey Beardsley. He and Shannon were friends & supporters of Wilde, for whom Ricketts painted the hero of Wilde's short story The Portrait of Mr. W.H.'Jean Paul Raymond' was an imaginary author first introduced by Ricketts in his privately issued work Beyond the Threshold (1929). The typography was designed by Francis Meynell, and the book was printed at the Dolphin Press, six hundred copies being for sale in England and two hundred to Random House for sale in America. Dreyfus 8A., 0<

1932, ISBN: 9196e5a5df76e7c9be488affd5115c1e

Hardcover

[SC: 19.61], FIRST EDITION, Jacket, First edition, one of 800 copies. Nonesuch device in red on title page by Stephen Gooden. Small folio, 16.5 x 26.5cm, original cream coloured cloth dec… More...

[SC: 19.61], FIRST EDITION, Jacket, First edition, one of 800 copies. Nonesuch device in red on title page by Stephen Gooden. Small folio, 16.5 x 26.5cm, original cream coloured cloth decorated in gilt after Ricketts, t.e.g., plain black dustjacket with spine lettered in gilt. Fine, spectactularly bright copy in very good jacket, with small chip at top of spine and slight wear at corners. London, The Nonesuch Press. A biographical essay by Charles Ricketts, writing under the pseudonym of Jean Paul Raymond, published posthumously and with a design intended to pay homage to the books of the Vale Press. Ricketts had been a friend of Oscar Wilde and designed and edited his collection of poems The Sphinx; in Dreyfus' words 'this was the only Nonesuch book linked in a personal way with the private press movement of those years.' Dreyfus 81.<

1932, ISBN: 9196e5a5df76e7c9be488affd5115c1e

Hardcover

[SC: 10.43], [PU: The Nonesuch Press, London.], Jacket, First edition. Royal octavo. 60 pages. Of 800 numbered copies printed by Geo. W. Jones at The Dolphin Press this is one of 600 for … More...

[SC: 10.43], [PU: The Nonesuch Press, London.], Jacket, First edition. Royal octavo. 60 pages. Of 800 numbered copies printed by Geo. W. Jones at The Dolphin Press this is one of 600 for distribution in England - the remaining 200 were sold by Random House in America. Original white buckram with elaborate pictorial gilt on both covers by Charles Ricketts. Typography also by Ricketts. The memoir was wholly his work, the fictional Jean Paul Raymond being a literary artifice. Small bookplate on front pastedown. Front free and rear endpapers and penulimate blank tanned and spotted. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper a bit chipped at head and tail of spine.<