[Rarebooks] fs: Special on Fine Press Bewick / ABAA Benevolent Fund

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Here's the deal- we have this book listed at $250, and will sell it for 
$175, a 30% discount, IF the buyer will send $25.00 to the ABAA Benevolent 
Fund, a contribution we will match.

So, you pay us $175 and send an extra $25 to the Benevolent Fund (so you 
are spending a total of $200) and we will match your contribution and send 
$25 to the Benevolent Fund ourselves.

I hope that's clear; if not, please ask me to try to make it clearer. See 
the bottom of this email for details about the ABAA Benevolent Fund.

Here's the book-

Hesterberg, William. A FRAIL MEMORIAL. Being selections from the writings 
and engravings of Thomas Bewick, Selected by William Hesterberg. Chicago; 
The Cherryburn Press:1975. Edition limited to 100 copies printed at the 
press on calendered paper. Bewick

"was fascinated not only with death but with the impermanence and 
inevitable decay of grave stones, and in his writings referred to them as 
'frail memorials'. Public monuments of a more lasting nature were 
envisioned by Bewick as a tribute to those of 'departed worth'. The large 
bare rock formations in the English countryside presented to his original 
imagination an ideal surface for the inscription of worthy sentiments and 
distinguished mens names... Although no inscriptions on rock were ever 
attempted by Bewick, he utilized the concept in his vignettes to point up a 
moral or express a point of view".

This interesting little study illustrates a number of Bewick's "envisioned" 
memorial vignettes, and also reprints an excerpt from Iain Bain's 
introduction to his 1975 edition of Bewick's Memoir, on the subject of 
Bewick's fascination with death.

This title is even scarcer than the edition limitation suggests -of the 100 
copies printed, 30 are currently listed as being in institutional libraries.

Hardcover.  6.25"x9", 47 pages, 15 vignettes reproduced from the Memorial 
edition, plus a tipped-in b&w illustration of Bewick's own memorial stone, 
as well as a laid-in portrait of Bewick and a mounted Bewick vignette on 
Troy paper, pulled from a block in the author's possession. A fine copy in 
slipcase. [28151] $250.00

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---------THE ABAA BOOKSELLER'S BENEVOLENT FUND-----------

The Bookseller's Benevolent Fund, run by the Antiquarian Bookseller's 
Association of America, is a non-profit charity fund established by the 
ABAA in 1952 to benefit any bookseller (whether an ABAA member or not -most 
are not) in time of personal need. The Fund has given out more money than 
it has taken in this year, and is at its lowest point in several years.

The address is-

Antiquarian Booksellers' Benevolent Fund
c/o Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
20 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036-6604

It's a worthy cause- anyone else who is thinking of giving back a little 
this Holiday Season, please know that all contributions are welcome and 
appreciated.

-Forrest


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