{"product_id":"the-doves-press-auserlesene-lieder-one-of-only-ten-on-vellum","title":"The Doves Press Auserlesene Lieder, one of only ten on vellum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuserlesene Lieder, Gedichte und Balladen.\u003c\/strong\u003e London, Doves Press, 1916.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of 10 copies on vellum, from a total edition of 185 (175 on paper). 226 pp., printed in red and black with marginal titles. Original flexible vellum binding signed by the Doves Bindery, in slipcase. Small quarto (234 × 168 mm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy 1916 Cobden-Sanderson had entered the terminal phase of the press\u003c\/strong\u003e; this was in fact the last book it printed. Cobden-Sanderson predicted it would be \"a beautiful book, perhaps the best I have done, as it will be the last,\" the moment bound up with the destruction of the Doves type in the Thames. A Goethe printed on vellum in that year belongs to the austere, controlled final phase of the press. The paper issue belongs to the normal Doves collecting field; the vellum issue belongs to the highest tier of rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Quinn (1870–1924) was one of the decisive Anglo-American collector-patrons of literary modernism, associated with Yeats, Pound, Eliot and Joyce; a Doves Goethe on vellum from his library shows Goethe's canon passing through the same collecting world that helped shape literary modernism. Osmond Kessler Fraenkel (1888–1983), the American civil-liberties lawyer and long-time ACLU counsel, adds a second distinguished twentieth-century provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePROVENANCE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Quinn (1870–1924), American lawyer, collector and patron of literary modernism; Osmond Kessler Fraenkel (1888–1983), American civil-liberties lawyer and ACLU counsel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Heribert Tenschert Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eREFERENCES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarianne Tidcombe, \u003cem\u003eThe Doves Press\u003c\/em\u003e (British Library, 2002); Tomkinson, \u003cem\u003eA Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses\u003c\/em\u003e; John Rylands Library, \u003cem\u003eDoves Press\u003c\/em\u003e holdings; \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Catalogue of the Library of John Quinn\u003c\/em\u003e (Anderson Galleries, New York, 1923–24).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013059428540,"sku":null,"price":65000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/Lieder_Doves-Press_Perg-1.jpg?v=1782803788","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/the-doves-press-auserlesene-lieder-one-of-only-ten-on-vellum","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}