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PRIVATE PRESSES -- HABERLY, Loyd (1896-1981). The Antiquary. Long Crendon: Seven Acres Press, 1933. 4°. Hand-coloured woodcut illustrations. Original black morocco decorated in gilt and blind, top edges gilt, WITH AN 8-LINE MS. POEM signed "Loyd Haberly, 22 June, 1938" on front free endpaper. NUMBER 31 OF 100 COPIES. The poem reads: "No diligence/Like indolence,/When eggs are shaken/No chick will waken./God is not ever/In fierce endeavor,/But works His will/And then is still."
With 15 other private press books including Paul Merchant's Stones (Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1973, ONE OF THE FIRST 75 COPIES), Sylvia Plath's Fiesta Melons (Ibid., 1971, ONE OF 150 COPIES) and K. N. Chaudhuri's A Mediterranean Triptych. Venezia, Islam and the Desert (Florence, 1998, ONE OF 20 COPIES). Provenance: Dr Lionel Dakers CBE. (16)
With 15 other private press books including Paul Merchant's Stones (Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1973, ONE OF THE FIRST 75 COPIES), Sylvia Plath's Fiesta Melons (Ibid., 1971, ONE OF 150 COPIES) and K. N. Chaudhuri's A Mediterranean Triptych. Venezia, Islam and the Desert (Florence, 1998, ONE OF 20 COPIES). Provenance: Dr Lionel Dakers CBE. (16)
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