[Rarebooks] FS: Chicago Cherryburn Press items

Nina W. Matheson matheson at boo.net
Thu Jun 29 14:55:20 EDT 2006


For consideration:

Bewick, Thomas. A frail memorial: being selections from the writings and 
engravings of Thomas Bewick. Selected by William Hesterberg.  Chicago, The 
Cherryburn Press [1975]. Original brown cloth. Fine in publisher's box. One 
of 100 numbered copies. 47 pp. Prospectus laid in.   $ 150.00

  Middleton, R. Hunter. Cherryburn prints. Design and printing by R. Hunter 
Middleton. Volume I: discovered subjects I to X.
Chicago, The Cherryburn Press, 1973. Introductory text and prints laid into 
a quarter tan cloth andpaste paper boards folding box with ties. Fine. 
Number 8 of 20 copies signed by R. Hunter Middleton. This copy also 
includes two prints from v. 2: nos. 8 and 16, plus an unidentified print 
but part of v. 2 judging from the size of the print. $ 750.00

Pepler, H. D. C. A letter from Sussex by H. D. C. Pepler about his friend 
Eric G[ill].  Chicago, Cherryburn Press and the Society of Typographic 
Arts, 1950. Original grey dust jacket overstiff wrappers. Spine lightly 
toned, otherwise fine. Keepsake for The Society of Typographic Arts. Not 
paginated. Set in the Perpetua type of Eric Gill by Greer Allen.  $ 50.00


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