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[TYPOGRAPHY]. WEISS, E.R.
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The Weiss Family: Weiss Types Roman and Italic; Weiss Types Used in Fine Printing; Weiss Types for Advertising and in Display.
New York
Bauer Type Foundry
1931
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Ron King’s double-sided concertina pop-up alphabet book bound by Paul Haskell in beech and sycamore marquetry boards
KING, Ron. CIRCLE PRESS.
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The White Alphabet
Guildford
Circle Press
1984
The pinnacle of Ron King’s Alphabet series. A beautiful, serenely tactile work of art.
Ron wrote in his ‘Cooking the Books: Ron King and Circle Press’…
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PHIPPS, Howard. WHITTINGTON PRESS.
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The Whittington Press.
1998
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Wife of Bath’s Horse, XV from The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.
Circle Press
1978
Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ text accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask-like prints representing the major…
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One of 200 copies signed by the author and illustrator
GRAHAME, Kenneth. SHEPARD, E.H.
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The Wind in the Willows.
London
Methuen
1931
The book was originally published in 1908 but this was the first edition with illustrations that Kenneth Grahame approved and the only edition he signed.…
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BOOKMAN PRESS. SAND, George.
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The Wings of Courage.
New York
The Bookman Press
1997
Written as entertainment for her grandchildren, Sand uses one of the great literary themes in The Wings of Courage as she tells the story of…
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Seen through the Press by Gage-Cole, the printer of the Cranach Press Hamlet
ASHENDENE PRESS.
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The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach commonly called Ecclesiasticus.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1932
The Ecclesiasticus is a remarkable piece of press work by The Ashendene Press, printed after the death of Faulkner under the guidance of the great…
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The first printing from the original blocks engraved by Mauve in 1949
MAUVE, Thijs.
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The Wood Engravings from Het Herstel der Kademuren in de Rotterdamsche Zeehavens.
Quenington, Glos
The Reading Room Press
2017
Thijs Mauve (1915-1996) was a Dutch artist who was the grandson of Anton Mauve, a leading member of the Hague School and cousin-in-law to Van…
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No. I of only 10 special copies, bound by David Esslemont with his handwritten explanation of the binding process
ESSLEMONT, David. GENTLEMAN, David.
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The Wood Engravings of David Gentleman.
Montgomery
David Esslemont
2000
With an introduction by Fiona Maccarthy.
Inserted loose is a letter from David Esslemont presenting this first special copy which describes his binding process:
“My design is…
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MARTIN, Frank. BISHOP, Hal. PREVIOUS PARROT PRESS.
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The Wood Engravings of Frank Martin. A Selection of the wood-engravings, small woodcuts, linocuts & vinyl engravings and a Catalogue of all the Relief Prints. With a foreword by Victor Arwas and an afterword by The Artist.
Church Hanborough
Previous Parrot Press
1998
The book was produced to celebrate 50 years of Martin’s career as a wood engraver, and ‘jobbing artist’. He learned wood engraving with Gertrude Hermes…
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FARLEIGH, John. POOLE, Monica.
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The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh.
Henley-on-Thames
Gresham Books
1985
John Farleigh (1900-1965) was a noted wood engraver, mural painter, designer and craftsman who was the co-founder and first Chairman of teh Crafts Centre of…
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FARLEIGH, John. POOLE, Monica.
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The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh.
Henley-on-Thames
Gresham Books
1985
An excellent illustrated look at the work of John Farleigh by his friend and pupil, the engraver Monica Poole. Included is a bibliography of his…
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HANNAH BROWN, designer binding. TORMIS, Veljo.
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The Word Was Sung/Lauldad Sona.
Tallinn
published for the Estonian Designer Bookbinders by Trukikoda Folger Art
2008
Printed in both Estonian and English, transcribed using recordings and notes by Urve Lippus.
Hannah Brown is a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders and a…
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[PRINTING]. BECKER, David P.
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The Work of Stephen Harvard. A Life in Letters.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library
1990
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Fass’s only bibliography of the Hammer Creek Press
HAMMER CREEK PRESS.
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The Work of the Hammer Creek Press 1950-1956.
New York
Hammer Creek Press
1956
The history of the Press with an engraving and bibliographic information on its publications between 1950 and 1956.
John Strobble Fass (1890-1973) was a graphic designer…
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ROLLINS, Carl Purington. WALKER, Gay.
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The Works of Carl P. Rollins.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University Library
1982
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A typographically handsome, delicately decorated printing of Spenser
SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. SPENSER, Edmund.
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The Works of Edmund Spenser.
Oxford
Published for the press by Basil Blackwell
1930-32
With full and splendid printings of The Shephearde’s Calendar and The Faeirie Queen, together with shorter works including Daphnaida, Epithalamion, Astrophel, Colin Clouts Come Home…
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With a TLS from the printer
PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. KOHN, Hans.
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The World Must Federate! Isolation versus Cooperation.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1940
Inserted loose is a TLS from Melbert Cary of the Press of the Woolly Whale to Arthur Rushmore of the Golden Hind Press, presenting the…
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RORER, Abigail. HOWELL, Christopher.
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The Wu General Writes from Far Away.
Lone Oak Press
1990
A beautiful book, printed at The Sun Hill Press in Mass. for Abigail Rorer.
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ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. MORE, Sir Thomas.
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The XII Propertees or Condicyons of a Lover.
Ditchling
St. Dominic's Press
1933
A ballad detailing the pleasures, pains and vicissitudes of earthly love and the constancy and the higher aim and joys to be found in the…