Curiosities for the King’s Road Chelsea Book Fair. 1st and 2nd November 2024 Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Road, London SW3 5EE Beautifully bound Vale Press poetry 1.
SUCKLING, Sir John [ed. John Gray] The Poems of Sir John Suckling London: Sold by Messrs. Hacon & Ricketts at the sign of the Dial. 1896 Limited edition (one of 310 copies), described thus in the colophon: “This Edition of the Poems and Songs of Sir John Suckling, edited by John Gray and decorated with Woodcut Border and Initials by Charles Ricketts, under whose Supervision the Book has been printed by the Ballantyne Press.” Octavo in 4s. pp. [ii], cxvii. Red morocco, attractively decorated in gilt with leaf and flower motifs and lettered in gilt to the spine. Turn ins decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. Although unsigned, the binding has some of the characteristics of the work of C.E.Gladstone whose work is found on other books produced by Ricketts’s Vale Press. Slight rubbing to the joints and some marking to the edges of the boards. Minor spotting to the fore-edge but otherwise a very good copy and a nice example of the work of the short lived Vale Press. [4366]
£850