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EHMCKE, F.H.
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160 Kennbilder. Eine Sammlung von Warenzeichen Geschftsverlags-und Buchersignets.
Munich
C.H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
1925
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Dylan Thomas’s first collection of poetry
FORTUNE PRESS. THOMAS, Dylan.
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18 Poems.
London
Fortune Press
[c.1942]
‘18 Poems’ was Thomas’s first collection of poetry, the winner of a contest sponsored by the ‘Sunday Referee’ in 1934. It contains the poem, ‘The…
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One of Ravilious’s rarer books
RAVILIOUS, Eric. ARMSTRONG, Martin.
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54 Conceits. A collection of epigrams and epitaphs, serious and comic.
London
Martin Secker
1933
A rarer work with copious charming engravings by Ravilious, one for each epigram and epitaph. Delightful
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With the coronation medal for an Irish police officer from Kerry who provided security for the Crown Jewels for the Coronation
CORONATION OF EDWARD VII, 1902
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67 photographs of the Coronation Procession on August 9th 1902; together with a Silver Coronation Medal.
1902
Commemorative medals were issued in two sizes, 56 mm and 31 mm in diameter and in different metals, with the larger, as we have here,…
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The development of Ron King’s Alphabet series
KING, Ron. CIRCLE PRESS.
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A B C
Bosham
2022
The artist has developed his Alphabet series of cut outs and sculptures into these tactile moveable ‘Bauhaus’ letters on a vibrant teal blue base.
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CHAUNDY, Leslie.
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A Bibliography of the First Editions of the Works of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham.
London
Dulau & Co., Ltd.
1924
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With an extra facsimile of the Gill alphabet book in a separate portfolio, one of only 50 copies
GILL, Eric. CLEVERDON, Douglas.
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A Book of Alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon drawn by Eric Gill.
Wellingborough
Christopher Skelton
1987
Gill produced this book of alphabets for Cleverdon in 1926 when he was staying in Bristol with Desmond Chute with the purpose Cleverdon in his…
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TIMOTHY PRESS. GRIBELIN, Simon.
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A Book of Ornaments.
Meriden, Connecticut
Timothy Press
1941
With the booklabel of Carl and Margaret Rollins. Carl Rollins was a Massachusetts printer and a typographic advisor to Yale University Press.
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STONE, Reynolds. JAMES, Philip (editor).
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A Butler’s Recipe Book [1719].
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1935
First printed edition of this selection of recipes from a 1719 manuscript of Thomas Newington, the butler to a household in Brighthelmstone.
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One of only 25 copies
PRESS IN TUSCANY ALLEY. KAFKA, Franz.
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A Chinese Puzzle.
San Francisco
Press in Tuscany Alley
1991
From Kafka’s story collection, ‘Parables and Paradoxes’, published by Schocken Books, New York, 1935.
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With a correction in red pen from the Press
ASHENDENE PRESS.
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A Chronological List, with prices, of the Forty Books printed at The Ashendene Press, 1895-1935.
Ashendene Press
1935
With a correction in red ink, done at the press, altering the number of paper copies of the Vita di S. Chiara.
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Beautiful circular copper engravings by Gibbings
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert.
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A Circle of the Seasons. A Translation of the Ritu-Samhara of Kalidasa made from various European sources by E. Powys Mathers.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1929
The copper engravings are unexpected from Gibbings and incredibly beautiful.
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Bound by American bookbinder Laura Wait using her own handmade paste paper
THOMAS, Peter and Donna.
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A Collection of Paper Samples from Hand Papermills in the United States of America.
Santa Cruz
Peter & Donna Thomas
1993
27 papermakers are represented with samples each of which has a statement of their process and/or philosophy printed on a specific sample of their paper…
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Four titles from Sumac Press’s ‘A Comp’s Eye View’ series
SUMAC PRESS. WULLING, Emerson G.
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A Comp’s Eye View.
La Crosse
Sumac Press
1947; 1953; 1971; 1976
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WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth.
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A Country Calendar.
Gloucestershire
Printed for Heal’s Books & Prints by The Whittington Press
1976
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. CALDER-MARSHALL, Arthur.
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A Crime Against Cania.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1934
Calder-Marshall was very keen on the work of Blair Hughes-Stanton seeing him as the perfect illustrator and he certainly produces some excellent engravings for this…
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. CALDER-MARSHALL, Arthur.
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A Crime Against Cania.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1934
Calder-Marshall was very keen on the work of Blair Hughes-Stanton seeing him as the perfect illustrator and he certainly produces some excellent engravings for this…
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A classic of British buccaneering, an important Pacific voyage and the source book for Robinson Crusoe
ROGERS, Woodes.
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A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish’d in 1711…containing a Journal of all the Remarkable Transactions…an Account of Alexander Selkirk’s Living Alone Four Years and Four Months on an Island….
London
Printed for A. Bell and B. Lintot
1712
Contemporary ownership inscription of R. Hopwood dated 1716.
First edition of one of the classics of British buccaneering, and an important Pacific voyage. Rogers went…
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HOFFMAN, Richard J.
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A Decorative Divertissement. The foundry and Monotype piece borders and ornaments as well as the Linotype border matrices and border matrix slides that have been accumulated over many years together with the first Supplement to A Gatthering of Types showing the printing types recently acquired by Richard J. Hoffman.
Van Nuys
Richard Hoffman: printer, finding pleasure in his printing office
1980
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GWASG GREGYNOG
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A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing at Gregynog, 1970-1990.
Newtown
Gwasg Gregynog
1990
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