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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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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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Written, illustrated and bound by the great Philip Smith
PHILIP SMITH, designer bookbinder.
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A Book of Colour and Sayings. With a Credo.
1999
Philip Smith was one of the greatest British bookbinders of the 20th century and was well-known for inventing several techniques including the ‘lap-back’ structure which…
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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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ROGERS, Bruce. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey.
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A Book of Songs and Sonnets Selected from the Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Boston
Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin & Company
1906
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SONG, Haein.
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A Brief History Of...
London
Designed, printed and bound by Haein Song
April 2009
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SONG, Haein.
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A Brief History Of...
London
Designed, printed and bound by Haein Song
April 2009
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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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BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John.
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A Cask of Amontillado
1930
Engraved for the Halcyon Press edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’.
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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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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. HAY, John.
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A College Friendship. A Series of Letters from John Hay to Hannah Angell.
Boston
Privately Printed
1938
American statesman, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and US Secretary of State, John Milton Hay’s private letters to Hannah Angell, the younger sister of Hay’s…
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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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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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FLETCHER, Andrew of Saltoun.
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A Discourse of Government with Relation of Militia’s.
Edinburgh & London
1698-1702
All bound in contemporary calf with ‘Misc. R.’ on the spine label in gilt and with the booklabel of Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court…