Catalogue 30 – Winter 2005

129. (Wayzgoose Press) The Isle of Pines. By Henry Neville. Illustrated by Mike Hudson. Introduction by James Rigney. Katoomba. NSW. [Australia.] 1991. 44(1)p. 12” x 7.5”. Linocuts in black, yellow, brown and black with white by Hudson, who also designed and bound the edition. Handset by Jadwiga Jarvis. Printed in black and brown by Jarvis and Hudson. Bound in cream cloth boards; sun design in orange and red, with black ship; title in black on spine. Endpapers printed with sun design in orange and red. Red paper over board slipcase with black paper trim. One of 55 copies, signed by Hudson and Jarvis. Fine. $425.00

Henry Neville (1620-1694), the author of The Isle of Pines, was a member of a family with a long and influential record of involvement with the political life of seventeenth century England ... the tale, written after the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, is a project of the experience of defeat. The narrative begins with George Pine, an imaginary traveler marooned with four women on an idyllic island somewhere in the vicinity of Australia. With no apparent need to work on this island, he sets about the task of populating and colonizing it. After his death, his only son and heir tries to establish an idyllic republic, but does not succeed.

130.  (Whittington Press) Edward & Helen Thomas: Personal Letters. Selected by R. George Thomas with a foreword by Myfanwy Thomas & with wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. [Risbury, Herefordshire. 2000.] 22p. 10.75” x 7.75”. Printed on Zerkall in Van Dijk. Brown Japanese paper over thin board, brown Japanese endpapers. One of 155 thus in an edition of 200 copiess. Fine. $70.00

The six wood-engravings used here are from a set of twelve entitled Country Scenes which Hellmuth Weissenborn engraved in 1950. They came to light many years later, thus they were not included in Hellmuth Weissenborn, Engraver, which the Whittington Press published in 1983.