Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Passionate Pilgrim, edited by T.Sturge Moore, [one of 310 copies], Vale type, Charles Home MacCall's copy with his bookplate, pencil inscription of Roger Senhouse, original blue boards, 1896 § [Drayton (Michael)] Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium, [one of 210 copies], original patterned-paper boards, a little spotted, 1896 § Apuleius (Lucius) The Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyches..., translated by William Adlington 1566, one of 210 copies, printed in red & black, original cream buckram, a little spotted and soiled, 1897, all Vale type, wood-engraved decorative borders, initials and illustrations by Charles Ricketts, uncut, a little rubbed, [Watry B5, B6, B13], [Vale Press]; and 6 others from the press, (Watry B3, B7, B11, B12, B44 & B45) including another with MacCall's bookplate, 8vo (9)

⁂ Charles Home MacCall (or McCall) was the son of Charles McCall, the manager and printer of the Ballantyne Press and an important influence and guide to Charles Ricketts. Charles Home McCall joined his father at the press in 1893. At the end of the introduction to his bibliography of the press Ricketts paid tribute to the McCalls: "My books would not have achieved that measure of technical success in 'build' and presswork had I not benefitted by the untiring energy and the intelligent sympathy of Mr. Charles McCall and of his son, C.Home McCall...".

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