[Rarebooks] FS: Some Festschrifts: Rowoht, Clark, Benzing, Presser, Brown, Kraus

[Nina W. Matheson]

We offer today the following celebrations of scholarship :

Unseld, Siegfried, ed.  Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt zuliebe, Festschrift 
zu seinem 60. Geburtstag am 12. Maerz 1968 herausgegeben von Siegfried 
Unseld.  [Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 1968]. Original boards. 
Boards very lightly soiled. Among the predominantly German-language 
tributes are contributions by James Baldwin, John Dos Passos, and Henry 
Miller. Illustrated with photographs.  $50.
Clark, John Willis.   Fasciculus Ioanni Willis Clark 
dicatus.  Cantabrigiae, typis academicis impressus, 1909. Original cloth. 
Book-plate on the front pastedown, corners bumped, cloth covers lightly 
marked, otherwise very good. One of 500 numbered copies. Festschrift for 
John Willis Clark whose writings on a w ide variety of topics are listed in 
the "short bibliography" at the end of the volume. Clark was the author of 
the 1899 Sandars lecture, The care of books. 577 pp. Contributions by M. R. 
James, Franc i s Jenkinson, F. Madan, Charles Sayle, Viscount Esher, Sidney 
Colvin, Edmund Gosse, H. F. Wilson, A. C. Benson, and many others. $100/
Geck, Elisabeth, ed.   Festschrift fuer Josef Benzing zum sechzigsten 
Geburtstag 4. February 1964. Herausgeber Elisabeth Geck und Guido 
Pressler.  Wiesbaden, Guido Pressler, 1964. Original orange-red cloth. 
Black label on the backstrip rubbed, otherwise near fine. Pencilled note on 
the front free endpaper: "E. P. Goldschmidt's copy". Includes Elisabeth 
Geck's "Verzeichnis der V eroefflentlichungen von Josef Benzing in den 
Jahren 1928-1963". Contributions by Ferdinand Geldner, Abraham Horodisch, 
Alfred F. Johnson, Claus Nissen, Dennis E. Rhodes, Victor Scholderer, Hans 
Widma n n, and many others. [498] pp. $75.
Geck, Elisabeth, ed.   Festschrift fuer Josef Benzing zum sechzigsten 
Geburtstag 4. February 1964. Herausgeber Elisabeth Geck und Guido 
Pressler.  Wiesbaden, Guido Pressler, 1964. Original orange-red cloth. 
Black label on the backstrip rubbed, otherwise near fine. Pencilled note on 
the front free endpaper: "E. P. Goldschmidt's copy". Includes Elisabeth 
Geck's "Verzeichnis der V eroefflentlichungen von Josef Benzing in den 
Jahren 1928-1963". Contributions by Ferdinand Geldner, Abraham Horodisch, 
Alfred F. Johnson, Claus Nissen, Dennis E. Rhodes, Victor Scholderer, Hans 
Widma n n, and many others. [498] pp. $100.
Brown, Carleton.   Essays and studies in honor of Carleton Brown.  New 
York, New York University Press, London, Humphrey Milford / Oxford 
University Press, 1940. Original orange cloth. Mary Isabelle O'Sullivan's 
ownership signature and August 9, 1940 date on the front free endpaper (her 
name is in the list of subscribers). Lower corners lightly bumped, cloth 
lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. 336 pp. Festschrift honoring the 
author of A Manuscript Index of Middle English Verse. Bibliography of 
Brown's writings, p. [330]-332. Brown's writings are "eminently 
Chaucerian", as the first essay notes, and the volume appropriately 
contains a number of essays on Chaucer. $45.
Mayor, A. Hyatt.   Drawings for unidentified book illustrations by 
Tiepolo.  [Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1967]. Original stapled wrappers. 
Fine. Offprint from Homage to a bookman (a Festschrift for H. P. Kraus). 2 
page text with 6 full-page plates. Inscribed by the author to Agnes Mongan 
at the head of the text: "Dear Agnes / Merry Xmas! / Hyatt". Mayor has 
underlined Fogg Art Museum in the second paragraph of the text, the Museum 
with which Agnes Mongan was variously associated. $35.



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