The Weekly Mosher Press Update

Many of the books Thomas B. Mosher published were slipcased. The slipcase was one of the first things to go missing, naturally. (Actually, the very first thing to go missing was the glassine wraps that were on many of the books) So when you find on of the Mosher books witht he slipcase intact or even partially intact, it's a rare event. Especially with Mosher's Brocade Series, where the 16mo books were enclosed in a delightful floral-printed slipcase. The slipcases from the Brocade Series are usually found cracked, split, scuffed and generally biffed about. Two of the Mosher book I received this week had the remains of slipcases.

The Centaur and The Bacchante, by Maurice de Guerin, trnaslated by Lucie Page, Published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1897. Brocade Series, one of 425 copies on Japan vellum, 16m0, slipcased (split). Introduction by Matthew Arnold and Foreward by Thomas B. Mosher. Two very interesting and, in my opinion, proto-Symbolist prose poems by Maurice de Guerin who died in his late 20s in the early XIXth Century. Very Charming.

The Child In the House, by Walter Pater, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. Brocade Series, second edition, one of 425 on Japan vellum, 16mo, slipcased (split). The Child In the House is part of Pater's longer work, Imaginary Portraits.

Memories of President Lincoln, by Walt Whitman, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1906.
Part of the Lyric Garland Series, octavo, one of 950 copies on hand-made Van Gelder paper, faded slate coloured paper over sturdy cardstock boards. Foreward by Horace Traubel and brief note by Thomas B. Mosher. This edition contains the mighty elegy When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and other lyrics on Lincoln and the Civil War.

Tares, A Book of Verses, by R. M. Watson, published by Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. Part of the Lyric Garland Series, octavo, one of 950 copies on hand-made Van Gelder paper, faded slate coloured paper over cardstock boards. Mr. Mosher was greatly impressed by Miss Watson's lyrics though I'm shot if I can see why. They're rather over-wrought, filled with histrionics and mental upheaval.