vrijdag 8 oktober 2010

Doris Varner Welsh


A Lady and Her Books; the biography of Doris Varner Welsh / by Kathryn I. Rickard. - Montreal QC: Editions du Parnasse, 1988. - 84 p.; 73x 55 mm., ill. - ISBN 2892770300.



Bound in marbled paper boards with cloth corners and spine by Gaumerd-Poirier. Marbled paper by Michele Simard. Published in a limited edition of 150 copies by Roger Huet.






About Doris Varner Welsh and her Le Petit Oiseau Press. Doris V. Welsh, born 1907, h
as worked as a cataloguer at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She was book lover, printer and collector of miniature books. For all of her fifteen books she used a 4 point Century Expanded. She also published scientific works, e.g. Checklist of Philippine Linguistics and Checklist of French Political Pamphlets (1560-1644)

dinsdag 14 september 2010

Magyar népballadák


Magyar népballadák. - Budapest: Patria Nyomda, 1991. - 516 p.: ill.; 58x44 mm. - ISBN 9630289687

Green suede binding with guilt title on front and spine.
Numbered copy 313/750.








Hungarian folk ballads with a foreword by Tibor Komlovszki. Black and white drawings
and coloured illustrations by graphic artist László Kékesi (1960- ).