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DRAYTON, Michael. Nymphidia & the Muses Elizium. Edited by John Gray, London: Ballantyne Press [Vale Press], 1896, 8°, limited to 210 copies, wood-engraved frontispiece and decorated borders by Ricketts, original paper-backed decorated boards with mouse design (spine darkened) -- Henry VAUGHAN. Sacred Poems, being a selection, London: Ballantye Press [Vale Press], 1897, 8°, limited to 210 copies, frontispiece and decorated initials by Ricketts, original blue boards, paper-labels on spine and upper cover; and 8 other works in 9 volumes from the Vale Press, all designed and illustrated by Ricketts, comprising the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam (1901); Gray's Spiritual Poems, (1896); Symonds' The Life of Benvenuto Cellini (2 vols., 1900); Suckling's Poems, (1896); Campion's Fifty Songs (1896); Arnold's Empedocles on Etna (1896); The Kingis Quair (1903) and The Sheepheard's Song of Venus & Adonis (1897), some with the bookplate of Campbell Dodgson.
"The Vale Press books in particular remain for me the most pleasurable to look at, to handle and, yes, even to read of all that emerged from private presses in that turn-of-the-century heyday of the private press" [Taylor, The Art Nouveau Book in Britain, p.72]. (11)
"The Vale Press books in particular remain for me the most pleasurable to look at, to handle and, yes, even to read of all that emerged from private presses in that turn-of-the-century heyday of the private press" [Taylor, The Art Nouveau Book in Britain, p.72]. (11)