[SPECIAL PRESS] A GATHERING OF SEVEN BOOKS.~ODE TO A GRECIAN URN; TRUE CHARITY, AN EXAMPLE [4 VARIANT ISSUES]; THE SECOND CHAPTER OF SAINT MATTHEW; THE COURT OF THE PRINTERS’ GUILD

Bronxville, New York | San Francisco, 1979. A gathering of 7 books printed by Valenti Angelo housed in a custom clamshell box in blue cloth with a burgundy morocco spine label.~Keats. Ode to a Grecian Urn (1952); 8vo. in blue flexible paper-covered boards with an urn device stamped in gilt to the cover; title page printed in green and terra-cotta; one of one hundred copies printed on the hand-press by Valenti Angelo in December 1952 and signed by Mr. Angelo with presentation to Wayne Hartnell~There are four copies of True Charity, by San Bernardion of Siena in four variant bindings: 1. In grey sewn wrappers with titling printed in red to the cover; one of fifty copies; not signed by Mr. Angelo; with hand-colored initial; (1960) 2. In pale blue wrappers with titling printed in red on a pastedown label; with hand-colored initial; one of fifty copies printed on a small hand-press; (1979); 3. In blue wrappers with pale blue-grey pastedown with decorations in blue and gilt; printed in blue; one of 50 copies signed by Mr.Angelo; 4. In pale grey wrappers printed in blue; with hand-colored initial; signed by Mr. Angelo on the colophon which has an error: “One of fiftty copies...”~The Second Chapter of Saint Matthew (1960?). in cream colored wrappers titled in blue to the spine; one of one-hundred copies with vertical titling to the spine.~The Court of the Printers’ Guild (1975). in blue paper-covered boards with title label printed in red to the spine; in an edition limited to 65 copies, text hand set, printed and hand illuminated by Valenti Angelo, and signed by Mr. Angelo on the colophon.