NONESUCH PRESS -- 'Jean Paul RAYMOND' and Charles de Sousy RICKETTS (1866-1931). Oscar Wilde. Recollections. Bloomsbury: The Dolphin Press for The Nonesuch Press, 1932. 8° (255 x 155mm). Woodcut press device by Stephen Gooden on title printed in red. Original white cloth gilt, boards with designs after Ricketts, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, unopened (spine and board edges very slightly darkened).
NO. 779 OF 800 COPIES. Although the work purports to be a translation by Ricketts from the French of the fictitious Raymond, as Lowinsky explains in his preface, this device was deployed by Ricketts to create a 'sympathetic audience for his words of passionate indignation at the fate of his friend' (p. [7]). Dreyfus Nonesuch 81.
NONESUCH PRESS -- 'Jean Paul RAYMOND' and Charles de Sousy RICKETTS (1866-1931). Oscar Wilde. Recollections. Bloomsbury: The Dolphin Press for The Nonesuch Press, 1932. 8° (255 x 155mm). Woodcut press device by Stephen Gooden on title printed in red. Original white cloth gilt, boards with designs after Ricketts, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, unopened (spine and board edges very slightly darkened).
NO. 779 OF 800 COPIES. Although the work purports to be a translation by Ricketts from the French of the fictitious Raymond, as Lowinsky explains in his preface, this device was deployed by Ricketts to create a 'sympathetic audience for his words of passionate indignation at the fate of his friend' (p. [7]). Dreyfus Nonesuch 81.
