A Book of Satyrs

A2. A BOOK OF SATYRS

A2a. A BOOK OF | SATYRS | BY AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE | [design] | Co-operative Printing Society Ltd., 1907. 300 signed and numbered copies.
Vellum backed grey boards; 17.5″ x 13″.

A few copies were apparently issued with loose pages, in grey boards with green ties.

Eleven full page drawings and many small decorations.

The “signed and numbered original edition, Artist’s Bookplate” was advertised in the 1916 Form at 30/-. This had increased to Two Guineas in the 1921 Form.

A2b. A BOOK OF | SATYRS | BY AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE | [design] | London: John Lane, The Bodley Head | New York: John Lane Company, 1909. 300 copies.
Vellum backed; green boards; 17.5″ x 13″.

This edition had an additional illustration “Pleasure”, the introduction by James Gutherie was re-set to cover one and a half pages and some vignettes re-arranged.

In 1916 the book was advertised in Form at One Guinea.

A2c. REPRINTED (2b.) 1979 – 93 PUBLISHING, Quebec.
Green cartridge paper wraps, 17.5″ x 13″.

A2d. REPRINTED (2a.) 1979 – [as illustrations to SSOTBME].
Nigel Grey-Turner. 9″ x 6″; laminated wraps which reproduce “The Blas’ Bacchante” from The Golden Hind, Vol. 2, No. 5.

A2e. REPRINTED (2b.) 1989 – VENUS, London.
Numbered limited edition of illustrations reproduced on postcards; together with Spare’s introduction [abridged] in a plastic sleeve.

A2f. REPRINTED (2b.) c1990.
No publisher or date given. 11.75″ x 8.25″; photocopies in buff wraps with plastic spine clip.

A2g. REPRINTED (2a.) 1990 & 1993 – BEYOND THE RISING SUN PUBLICATIONS, Glasgow.
Pale green card wraps; 11.5″ x 8″; 200 copies. The 1993 impression has grey wraps with green lettering, etc. but is still dated 1990.

A2h. REPRINTED (2a.) 1993 – FIRST IMPRESSIONS, Seattle.
In From the Inferno to Zos [See A11].

A2i. ITALIAN TRANSLATION. (2b.) 1997 – BELFORTE GRAFICA, Livorno.
Translated, with additional material, Roberto Migliussi.
Cream card wraps; 13″ x 9.5″; 400 numbered copies.

A2j. REPRINTED. (2b.) c1990.
No publisher or date given. Yellow cards wraps 11.75″ x 8.25″. Reset limitation statement – “Five Hundred Copies of this Work have been printed.”

A2k. FRENCH TRANSLATION (2b) c1990 – LES PRESSES DE BABALON , Quebec.
Un Livre de Satyres , buff card wraps 8″ x 11″. Gutherie’s introduction is not included.

A2l. GERMAN TRANSLATION 1990
Das Buch der Satyrn translated by Michael De Witt, published as part of Gesammelte Werke [See A8c] pp 55-84.

A2m. REPRINTED (2b) 2001 – BLAKKSTARR PRESS
As part of Automatism – A collection of writings and drawings by Austin Osman Spare. Subscribers edition of 75 numbered copies 11″ x 18″ handbound decorative paper covered boards. Some copies issued in cloth covered boards, with matching wraparound outer cover.

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