La Belle Dame Sans Merci
by Keats, John
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
(Shaker Heights, OH): Wind and Harlot Press, 1986. Delrue, Paul C.. 12pp. One of twenty-three copies. Keats's ballad of a knight wooed by a beautiful and wild "faery's child" and then abandoned by her, haggard and pale, on the cold hillside. In a designer binding by Paul Delrue depicting the setting at the poem's beginning and end: the countryside after harvest has ended, a barren and empty landscape with a sloping hill and the silhouettes of birds overhead. A rustic fence borders the pale green, tan, and brown fields, all created using Delrue's signature "Lacunose artwork." In this technique, Delrue covered the boards first with tan goatskin, and then many layers of leather in autumnal hues, some puckered and others flat, were overlapped and alternately sanded down smooth and varnished with PVA to create various effects. The Lacunose panels are set onto the goatskin background intentionally askew, echoing the knight's disorientation, and bordered by blind-stamped circles. The endpapers are grey and violet paper handmade by the artist with flecks of gold and silver. In a handmade-paper chemise and a cloth and handmade paper-covered box with a gusseted pocket for the book. Extremely fine. (3 by 2 1/8; 77x53mm).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bromer Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25741
- Title
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Author
- Keats, John
- Illustrator
- Delrue, Paul C.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Wind and Harlot Press
- Place of Publication
- (Shaker Heights, OH)
- Date Published
- 1986
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miniature Books; Fine Bindings;
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About the Seller
Bromer Booksellers
Biblio member since 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
About Bromer Booksellers
Bromer Booksellers specializes in rare and beautiful books. Owned and operated by Anne Bromer, who has been in the business of fine books for over fifty years, our shop carries a range of important private press books, designer bookbindings, illustrated books, children's books, and miniature books.
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- Goatskin
- Goatskin, leather made from goat, is durable and easy to dye. The original and finest examples of Morocco binding are goatskin....
- Fine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...