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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BATES, H.E. LAMB, Lynton.
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A German Idyll.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press
1932
The pages are beautifully designed by the expert printer Robert Gibbings who has incorporated the wood engravings with the text just perfectly. He was a…
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ASHENDENE PRESS.
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A Hand-list of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCXCV - MCMXXV.
Shelley House, Chelsea
Ashendene Press
December, 1925
Printed in December 1925 on the 31st anniversary of the founding of the Press. It states in the colophon "since December 1894 the Press has…
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SCHANILEC, Gaylord. MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES. LOGUE, Mary.
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A House in the Country.
Wisconsin
Midnight Paper Sales
1994
“A House in the Country” contains four essays by Mary Logue which document the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on…
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry. TEGETMEIER, Denis.
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A Journey from this World to the Next.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1930
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UPHILL PRESS. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey.
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A Letter: from Thomas Bailey Aldrich to Bayard Taylor. Auburn, N.Y. August 20, 1865.
New York
Uphill Press
1967
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“A pleasantly witty discussion of divorce”
![A Letter to a Young Lady on her approaching Marriage [and divorce]. by NONESUCH PRESS. HOOPINGTON, Ambrose.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8236---200.jpg?v=1740499152)
NONESUCH PRESS. HOOPINGTON, Ambrose.
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A Letter to a Young Lady on her approaching Marriage [and divorce].
London
Nonesuch Press
1934
Written under the pseudonym of ‘Ambrose Hoopington’ by Cecil Binney, a practising barrister and the founder of ‘Cherwell’ magazine. He also published a popular manual…
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CRESSET PRESS. BRETON, Nicholas.
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A Mad World, My Masters.
London
Cresset Press
1929
An excellent printing of Nicholas Breton’s prose work first published in 1603.
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AMERICAN TEXTILE BINDING INCLUDING ELABORATE SILK AND GOLD THREAD EMBROIDERY.
WORCESTER, Joseph E.
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A New Primary Dictionary of the English Language. A Pronouncing and Defining Vocabulary of the Words in Popular Use.
Philapelphia & London
J.B. Lippincott Company
1925
The rather unusual textile binding may well have been added in around 1931 as there is an ink inscription to the front free endpaper “Eleanor…
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The manifesto of the Kelmscott Press - the Estelle Doheny copy bought from the Pasadena woman bookseller, Alice Millard in 1934
KELMSCOTT PRESS.
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A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Together with a short description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell, & an annotated list of the books printed thereat.
Hammersmith
Trustees of the Kelmscott Press
1898
The final posthumous publication from the Kelmscott Press and what is effectively William Morris’s printing manifesto. The bibliography is very interesting as the notes by…
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One of only 65 copies with an extra suite of engravings, signed with a quote from the book by Philip Pullman
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PULLMAN, Philip. OAK TREE FINE PRESS.
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À Outrance. [His Dark Materials]. This Book Tells of the Great Fight between the Bear Kings, as chronicled in Northern Lights.
Fyfield, Oxfordshire
Oak Tree Press
2009
A stunning production, signed by Philip Pullman who has also written out a quotation from the book in pencil.
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“a little peach of a book” (Francis Meynell) - Roger Senhouse’s copy
NONESUCH PRESS. DE FONTENELLE, Bernard.
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A Plurality of Worlds.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
Fontenelle’s ‘Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes’ offered an explanation of Copernicus’s heliocentric model of the universe. Meynell provided an exquisite edition with astrological decorations…
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WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. BONHAM-CARTER, Victor.
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A Posy of Wild Flowers Gathered in the Countryside of English Literature.
London and Dulverton
Acorn Press and Exmoor Press
1983
Weissenborn’s charming wild flower illustrations, except in a few cases, are printed from the original wood engravings.
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WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. BONHAM-CARTER, Victor.
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A Posy of Wildflowers.
London
Allan Wingate
1946
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One of 200 copies, with Schanilec’s first colour engraving
SCHANILEC, Gaylord. GALLO, Philip.
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A Printer's Dozen.
Los Angeles
Bieler Press
1992
This is Schanilec’s first colour engraving, created circa 1980, but not published until this book appeared.
Very scarce.
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ROLLINS, Carl Purington.
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A Printer's Solutions of Some Printer's Problems.
New Haven
Yale University Press
1955
One of 500 copies printed as a keepsake in celebration of Rollins’s 75th birthday, with a list of 55 of the printer’s favourite books produced…
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ROGERS, Bruce. GARGAZ, Pierre-André. EDDY, George Simpson.
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A Project of Universal and Perpetual Peace Written by a former Galley-Slave and Printed by Benjamin Franklin at Passy in the Year 1782.
New York
George Simpson Eddy
1922
A gift from the publisher George Simpson Eddy to the New Jersey Historical Society, with the society’s book label and Eddy’s printed ‘with compliments’ slip…
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SCHANILEC, Gaylord, 1955.
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A Robin’s Reach.
Wisconsin
Midnight Paper Sales
2017
From ‘Little Book of Birds’, part of Schanilec’s trilogy, the other two are his ‘Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers’ and Ninja Press’s ‘Departures’.
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A triumphant presentation of “the only important contribution in this country” to the art of the pattern paper (Paul Nash)
NASH, Paul. CURWEN PRESS.
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A Specimen Paper Book of Pattern Papers designed for and in use at The Curwen Press.
London
published for The Curwen Press by The Fleuron Ltd
1928
Nash’s introduction relates the history of pattern papers, noting the exquisite end papers produced in Italy and France and much later in Augsburg during the…
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ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. BAKER, Fr. Augustin.
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A Spirituall Life in a Secular State, being an addition to ‘The Abridgment of a Spirituall Life’ by Father Augustin Baker, Religious of the hold order of St. Bennit. Taken from a manuscript at St. Gregory’s Abbey, Downside.
Ditchling
St. Dominic's Press
1927
Taken from the 17th century manuscript at Downside.
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“As much a typographical essay ‘in the manner’ as Laver’s verse satire itself” [Francis Meynell]
NONESUCH PRESS. LAVER, James.
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A Stitch in Time; or, Pride Prevents a Fall.
London
Nonesuch Press
1927
Laver’s pastiche of Pope’s ‘Rape of the Lock’, ‘transposed into modern times’.
James Laver (1899-1975) was the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the V…
![A Letter to a Young Lady on her approaching Marriage [and divorce]. by NONESUCH PRESS. HOOPINGTON, Ambrose.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8236---800.jpg?v=1740499152)
![À Outrance. [His Dark Materials]. This Book Tells of the Great Fight between the Bear Kings, as chronicled in Northern Lights. by PULLMAN, Philip. OAK TREE FINE PRESS.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/7265---800.jpg?v=1740499605)
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