The True and Authentick History of Amelia and Reginald; | Their Love, their Trials and Travels, along with sundry other Nonsense, Foolishness, Redundancies and Inconsistencies | Now first published and edited, together with the author’s and editor’s notes | With Illustrations by Tara Bryan
[Flatrock, Newfoundland]: [walking bird press], [2013 (in roman numerals on the colophon page)]. Octavo, 21.8 x 16.3 cm. Tipped into covers of light blue Canson Mi-Teintes paper. A paper label, lettered and decorated with a border of type ornaments, is pasted to the upper cover. Unpaginated [pp. 52; one of the illustrated leaves is a fold-out]. The upper cover is cockled and very faintly sunned. There is also a wrinkle to the rear flap-fold. A very good and internally fine copy. “The first North American impression of The True and Authentick History of Amelia and Reginald is here offered to the reading public: no pains have been spared to make it perfectly correct, comparing it meticulously with the hand-written manuscript of its esteemed author, Rudolph Ellenbogen, gentleman. The text was set in Joanna at the respected Press & Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler and shipped by land and sea to be made ready and printed at walking bird press by Tara Bryan, proprietor, and Duncan Major, her trusted printer’s devil. In less than a decade, the entire nine chapters, with endnotes and illustrations, have been polished and produced in an edition of 100 copies which is now, dear reader, humbly submitted for your scrutiny, with utmost anticipation of your edification and pleasure.” The text is illustrated with 8 full page drawings (one on a fold-out leaf) and 8 vignettes and tailpieces by Tara Bryan. From an edition of 100 copies. The present copy is number 37. Signed in ink by the author and Tara Bryan on the colophon page. Item #426
Price: $150.00