Limited Editions Club

• Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. (1929) New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club. With an introduction by Shane Leslie and illustrations by Alexander King. An edition of 1,500 copies printed by Norman T.A. Munder & Company of Baltimore and signed by Alexander King. The first edition printed in 1726. Issued in a slipcase. UMCP has copy numbered 1,102. Rare Folio PR3724 .G7.


• Morris, William. “The Ideal Book: an address.” (1931) New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club. Delivered by William Morris in 1893, reprinted for presentation to the members of the Limited Editions Club. Special Collections Stacks Z116.A4 M67.


• Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. (1932) Tokyo: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by Shimbo Shoin, Ltd. Illustrated by Yasumasa Fujita. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. An edition of 1,500 copies. Bound in boards covered with dull gold Japanese brocade, silk-sewn in Japanese style; enclosed in wrap case of heavy Japanese silk with mounted printed label and ivory tab fastenings. UMCP has copy numbered 938 and signed by the illustrator. Rare Stacks PS1917 .K8


• Dwiggin, W.A. (William Addison). Towards a Reform of the Paper Currency, Particularly in Point of its Design. (1932) New York: Limited Editions Club. Limited edition of 452 copies. Text and specimens furnished by W. A. Dwiggins. UMCP has copy numbered 155. Signed by the author. Special Collections Stacks HG591 .D8.


• Balzac, Honoré de. Droll Stories: thirty tales (1932). New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club. Completely translated into modern English by Jacques Le Clercq. An edition of 1,500 copies designed by W. A. Dwiggins and printed by the Southworth Press of Portland, ME. Signed by W. A. Dwiggins. Special Collections Stacks PQ2164 .A45.


• France, Anatole. Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque. English: At the sign of the Queen Pédauque. (1933) New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Lakeside Press. Translated by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson, with an introduction by Ernest Boyd, and illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. An edition of 1,500 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 45 and signed by the illustrator. Special Collections Folio PQ2254 .R7 E6.


• The Dolphin. (1933-1941) New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club. Limited edition of 1,200 copies. Irregular series, no 1-no. 4, part 3. Special Collections Folio Z119 .D66.


• Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth: a Fairy Tale of Home. (1933) Waltham Saint Lawrence, England: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Golden Cockerel Press. Seven posthumous watercolors by Hugh Thomson. Introduction by Walter De La Mare. This edition reprinted from the first edition published by Bradbury and Evans in 1846, consists of 1,500 copies designed by Robert Gibbings. UMCP has copy numbered 979. Special Collections Folio PR4572 .C7.


• Aesop’s Fables. (1933) New York: Printed in Great Britain for The Limited Editions Clubs. Translated by Samuel Croxall. Bibliographical note by Victor Scholderer and numerous facsimiles of Florentine woodcuts. An edition of 1,500 copies. Arranged by Bruce Rogers and printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. UMCP has copy numbered 603. Signed by Bruce Rogers. Special Collections Stacks PA3855 .E5 C7.


• Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft. Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. (1934) New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club. With an introduction by Edmund Lester Pearson and illustrations by Everett Henry. An edition of 1,500 copies from type set by Bertham Goudy. Issued in a slipcase. UMCP has copy numbered 1,426 and signed by Everett Henry. Special Collections Folio PR5397 .F7.


• Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. (1936) High Wycombe, England: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club. Introduction by Wilbur L. Cross, and etchings by Denis Tegetmeier. An edition of 1,500 copies printed by Hague & Gill in High Wycombe, England and designed by Eric Gill. UMCP has copy numbered 638 and signed by Eric Gill and Denis Tegetmeier. Special Collections Folio PR3714 .S4.


• Robert, Maurice. A Code for the Collector of Beautiful Books. (1936) New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Edtions Club. Preface by Francis de Miomandre, and translated from the French by Jacques LeClercq. Designed by Frederic Warde, printed in Bembo types by the Printing Office of Yale University press, and bound by the Russell-Rutter company. Special Collections Stacks Z992 .R61.


• Cellini, Benvenuto. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, written by himself. (1937) Verona: Printed at the Officina Bodini for the members of the Limited Editions Club. Translated and edited by John Addington Symonds, an introduction by Thomas Craven, and illustrations by Fritz Kredel. An edition of 1,550 copies have been printed by Hans Mardersteig in Verona, Italy. UMCP has copy numbered 1,162, and signed by Fritz Kredel. Special Collections Folio NB623 .C3 A2.


• Allen, Hervey. Anthony Adverse. (1937) Mount Vernon, NY: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing Office. With an introduction by the author and illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. An edition of 1,500 copies in a three volume set. UMCP has copy numbered 1,094 and signed by Edward A. Wilson. Special Collections Stacks PS3501 .L5 A5.


• Wroth, Lawrence C., ed. A History of the Printed Book, being the Third Number of the Dolphin. (1938) New York: The Limited Editions Club. Edited by Lawrence C. Wroth. An edition of 1,800 copies. Designed by Carl Purington Rollins. Printed by George T. Bailey at the Printing Office of the Yale University Press. Special Collections Folio Z124 .A2 W7.


• Limited Editions Club. Shakespeare: Review and a Preview. (1939) New York: The Limited Editions Club. Text by Herbert Farjeon. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Special Collections Folio PR2890 .L5.


• Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery & Imagination. (1941) New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Garamond Press. With 16 aquatints by William Sharp and a preface by Vincent Starrett. Limited edition of 1,500 copies, and signed by the illustrator. Binding by Russell-Rutter Company. Issued in slipcase. UMCP has copy numbered 670. Maryland Rare Folio PS2612 .A1.


• Bennett, Arnold. The Old Wives’ Tale. (1941) Oxford: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by John Johnson at the University Press. With an introduction by Frank Swinnerton and a preface by the author. Illustrated by John Austen. An edition of 1,500 copies of a two-volume set in a slipcase. UMCP has copy numbered 171 and signed by John Austen. Special Collections Folio PR6003 .E6 O4.


• Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. (1942) Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Princeton University Press. With an introduction by Sinclair Lewis, and illustrated with lithographs printed by George C. Miller which were drawn onto stone by Lynd Ward. Designed by Elmer Adler and P. J. Conkwright. UMCP has copy numbered 228 and signed. Special Collection Stacks PS3515 .E37 F6.


• Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle The Red and the Black. (1947) New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by The Heritage Press. Translation by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, introduction by Hamilton Basso, and illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. R. D. Remley Collection. Special Collection Stacks PQ2435 .R7 E5.


• Zola, Emile. Nana. (1948) New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club. The authorized translation into English by F.J. Vizetelly. With a note by Henry James and also with an introduction prepared for this edition by Lewis Galantiere. Illustrations by Bernard Lamotte. Printed at the Garamond Press in Balitmore, Maryland. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Issued in a slipcase. UMCP has copy numbered 922 and singed by the illustrator. Maryland Rare Folio PQ2510 .A34.


• Sinbad, the sailor. The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. (1949) New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Heritage Press. Literally rendered from the Arabic into French by J.C. Mardrus, and then translated into modern English by E. Powys Mathers, with an introduction by C. S. Forester and illustrated by Edward A. Wilson. Special Collections Stacks PZ8 .S357 Mat.


• Frost, Robert. The Complete Poems of Robert Frost. (1950) New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club. With a preface by the author, an appreciation by Louis Untermeyer, and wood-engravings by Thomas W. Nason. Limited edition of 1,500 copies, signed by the author, the printed, and the illustrator. Printed by the Marchbanks Press under the direction of Bruce Rogers. UMCP has copy numbered 1,223 of the two-volume set, which is also signed by Robert Frost, Thomas W. Nason, and Bruce Rogers. Special Collections Stacks PS3511 .R94.


• Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann. English Title: Swann’s Way. (1954) New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club. The translation by C.K. Moncrieff, with an introduction by Justin O’Brien and illustrations by Bernard Lamotte. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. Printed by Irvin Silvers at the Garamond Press in Baltimore. UMCP has copy numbered 244 in Maryland Rare Folio. Maryland Rare Folio/McKeldin Library Folio PQ2631 .R63 D83.


• Meredith, George. The Shaving of Shagpat. (1955) New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by the George Grady Press. With a preface by Sir Francis Meredith Meynell and illustrations by Honoré Guilbeau. Limited edition of 1,500 copies designed and decorated by W. A. Dwiggins. Bound by the Russell-Rutter Company. UMCP has copy numbered 561 and signed by Honoré Guilbeau. Special Colections Stacks PR5006 .S4.


• Dumas, Alexandre. Dame aux camellias. (1955) New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte, the authorized translation into English by Edmund Gosse, with an introduction by André Maurois, a prefatory letter from the author, and a memoir of Marie Duplessis by Jules Janin. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. Rare Folio PQ2231 .D3.


• Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey. (1957) New York: Limited Editions Club. With a prefatory letter from the author, an introduction by André Chamson, and lithographic illustrations drawn by Roger Duvoisin. Limited edition of 1,500 copies numbered 561 and signed by Roger Duvoisin. R. D. Remley Collection. Special Collections Stacks PR5488 .T8.


• Ovid. Metamorphoses. (1958) Verona: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Officina Bodini. Translated into Engish verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden and others. The etchings were made for this edition by Hans Erni. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. Printed by Giovanni Mardersteig. Signed by Enri and Mardersteig. UMCP has copy numbered 300. R. D. Remley Collection. Special Collections Stacks PA6522 .M2 G37.


• Herodotus. The Histories of Herodotus of Halixarnassus. (1958) Haarlem: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. Translated by Harry Carter. Illustrated and decorated by Edward Bawden. Limited edition of 1,500 copies printed from Monotype Spectrum. Designed by Harry Carter. Bound J. Brandt & Zoon in Amersterdam, Holland. UMCP has copy numbered 1,404. Special Collections Stacks D58 .H5313.


• Limited Editions Club. Quarto-millenary: the first 250 publications and the first 25 years, 1929-1954, of the Limited Editions Club. (1959) New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Clarke & Way and The Press of A. Colish in Mount Vernon, New York. An edition of 2,250 copies printed on Archer White paper. Designed by Robert L. Dothard. Bound by Frank D. Forthey of the Russell-Rutter Company. UMCP has copy numbered 1,879. Special Collections Folio Z1028 .L55.


• Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de. The Three-Cornered Hat: the true history of an affair current in certain tales and ballads, here written down as & how it befell. (1959) Los Angeles: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the Plantin Press. Translated by Martin Armstrong, with an introduction by Gerald Brenan and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. Limited edition of 1,500 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. UMCP has copy numbered 1,463 and signed by Roger Duvoisin. Special Collections Folio PQ6502 .S7 E5.


• Beerbohm, Max, Sir. Zuleika Dobson, or, and an Oxford Love Story. (1960) Baltimore, MD: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Garamond Press. Preface by Douglas Cleversdon. Illustrations by George Him. Limited edition of 1500 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 417. Maryland Rare Folio PR6003 .E4 Z4.


• Balzac, Honoré de. Eugénie Grandet. (1960) London: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club. Translated by Ellen Marriage. With an introduction by Richard Aldington, and illustrations by René ben Sussan. Limited edition of 1,500 copies printed by the Curwen Press. The illustrations hand-colored by Walter Fischer in New York. UMCP has copy numbered 1,305 and signed by René ben Sussan. Special Collections Folio PQ2166 .A113.


• James, Henry. The Ambassadors. (1963) Baltimore: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Garamond Press. With illustrations by Leslie Saalburg, and a preface by the author. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. Printed by Irvin Silvers. UMCP has copy numbered 917. Maryland Rare Folio PS2116 .A5.


• Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. (1965) Baltimore, MD: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Garamond Press. With illustrations by Fletcher Martin and a new preface by the author. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 125, and signed by the author and illustrator. Maryland Rare Folio PS3537 .I85 J85.


• Prescott, William Hickling. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. (1967) Baltimore, MD: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club. Illustrated by Lima de Freitas. Edited by C. Harvey Gardiner. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 752, and signed by the illustrator. Maryland Rare Stacks DP162 .P82.


• James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. (1967) Baltimore, MD: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Garamond Press. Ilustrations by Colleen Browning. Introduction by R. W. Stallman. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 365, and signed by the illustrator. Maryland Rare Stacks PS2116 .P6.


• Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. (1967) New York: printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Clark & Way, Inc. With an introduction by Edward Weeks and illustrations by Henry C. Pitz. Limited edition of 1,500 copies designed by Bert Clarke. UMCP has copy numbered 832 and signed by Henry C. Pitz. Carolyn Davis Collection. Special Collections Stacks PS1017 .L5.


• Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. (1969) Baltimore, MD: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Garamond Press. With an introduction by Leo Gurko and illustrations painted by Robert Shore. Arranged by Richard Ellis. Limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies printed from Monotype Goudy Deepdene types. UMCP has copy numbered 994 and signed by Robert Shore. Maryland Rare Folio PR6005 .O4 H4.


• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (1971) New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Meriden Gravure Company. The original Middle English text edited by A.C. Cawley, and a modern verse translation, with an introduction by James L. Rosenberg. Illustrated by Cyril Satorsky. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. Book and calligraphic images designed by Frank J. Lieberman. UMCP has a copy numbered 28 and signed by Cyril Satorsky. Special Collections Folio PR2065 .G3.


• Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. (1974) Avon, CN: Printed for members of Limited Editions Club by Case, Lockwood & Brainard in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Translated by Richard Crawley, revised by R. C. Feetham, introduced by Peter Pouncey, and illustrated with woodcuts by A. Tassos. Limited edition of 2,000 copies designed by Eugene M. Ettenberg. UMCP has copy numbered 28 and signed by A. Tassos. Special Collections Folio DF229 .T5 C7.


• Appelton, Tony, ed. A Handlist of English Language Editions Printed on the Hand-press of the Officina Bodini, 1923-1975: with a supplements of books designed & printed by Giovanni Mardersteig for the Limited Editions Club. (1975) Brighton, England: Privately Printed for Tony Appleton. Limited edition of 100 copies printed from Giovanni Mardersteig’s Dante Type. UMCP has copy numbered 73 and presentation copy given to Decherd Turner from Tony Appleton. Special Collections Stacks Z232.O33 H3.


• Stevenson, Robert Louis. New Arabian Nights. (1976) Avon, CT: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Garamond Press. With an introduction by Norman H. Strouse, and illustrations by Clarke Hutton. Limited edition of 2,000 numbered copies designed by Eugene M/ Ettenberg. Contents include: “The Suicide Club”, “The Rajah’s Diamond”, “The Pavilion on the Links”, “A Lodging for the Night”, “The Sire de Maléstroit’s Door”, “Providence and the Guitar.” UMCP has copy 1,611 and signed by Clarke Hutton. Maryland Rare Folio/Special Collections Folio PR5484 .N5.


• Pater, Walter. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry. (1976) Verona, Italy: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Stamperia Valdonega. With an introduction by Kenneth Clark and illustrated with the work of the masters. Limited edition of 2,000 copies. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed under his direction at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. UMCP has copy numbered 1,628 and signed by Martino Mardersteig. Special Collections Folio N6915 .P35.


• Defoe, Daniel. Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress: or, A history of the life and vast variety of fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards called the Countess de Wintselheim in Germany, being the person known by the name of Lady Roxana in the time of Charles II. (1976) Avon, CN: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by The Stinehour Press. With an introduction by James Southerland, and woodcuts by Bernd Kroeber. Limited edition of 2,000 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 1,611 and signed by Bernd Kroeber. Special Collections Folio PR3404 .F6.


• Cabell, James Branch. Jurgen: a Comedy of Justice. (1976) Westport, CN: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. With an introduction by Edward Wagenknecht, and illustrations by Virgil Burnett. Limited edition of 2,000 copies designed by Ted Gensamer. The illustrations were hand-colored by pochoir at the Atelier Walter Fischer in New York City. UMCP has copy numbered 1,611 and signed by Virgil Burnett. Special Collections Folio PS3505 .M53 J8.


• Lees, Jim, ed. The Ballads of Robin Hood. (1977) Cambridge: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press. Illustrations by David Gentelman and the introducution by Jim Lees. Limited edition of 1,600 copies printed under the direction of Harry Myers. The autolithographic colorplates printed at the Curwen Studio. UMCP has copy numbered 1,357 and signed by David Gentelman. Special Collections Folio PR2125 .A1.


• Newman, Ralph Geoffrey, and Glen Norman Wiche. Great and Good Books: a bibliographical catalogue of the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985. (1989) Chicago, IL: Ralph Geoffrey Newman, Inc. Preface by Mortimer J. Adler. Limited edition of 500 copies from Cartier type on Vicksburg Starwhile Natural. Printing by photo-lithography at the Schori Press, Inc. Bound by Zonne Bookbinders, Inc. UMCP has copy numbered 367. Special Collections Folio Z549 .L5 N48.

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