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A magnificent bibliography full of specimens and sample leaves printed at the Press
ASHENDENE PRESS.
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A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press. MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1935
The Bibliography is the last book from the Press and one of the most magnificent. Hornby foreword gives a really good overview of the work…
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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…
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HASLEWOOD BOOKS. SAINSBURY, Hester.
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A Dog of War by John Taylor, the Water Poet.
London
Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald
1927
Tipped in is a publisher’s label for Humphrey Milford who presumably took over the distribution of the book.
John Taylor was a Thames waterman who rose…
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Adagio Press ephemera
ADAGIO PRESS. STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
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A Few Sentences from the Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Harper Woods, Michigan
Adagio: The Private Press of Leobard Bahr
1970
Together with 2 other pieces of Adagio Press ephemera:
1. ‘A Gathering of Typographic Odds and Ends rescued from sundry sources and now protected in the…
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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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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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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”
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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“I thought this book might free the birds”...(Schanilec)
SCHANILEC, Gaylord.
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A Little Book of Birds.
Wisconsin
Midnight Paper Sales
2017
A remarkable book with some really interesting wood engravings held almost encaged within unopened pages - Schanilec writes “As it turned out my mid-life vessel…
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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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The first published poetry of the Uranian poet Francis Edwin Murray who apparently provided source material for Uncle Monty in Withnail and I - one of only 6 copies on vellum
[MURRAY, Francis Edwin]
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A Minor Poet Sings.
London
Murray & Co., 180 Brompton Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington
1907
21 poems by a ‘Minor Poet’ who dedicates the book “to my father, who stands sponsor for it, I dedicate this, the first child of…
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One of only 12 sets, extremely rare
SCHANILEC, Gaylord. MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES.
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A Miscellany of Ephemera produced by Gaylord Schanilec 1978-2003
December 2006
The ephemera designed, printed and often illustrated by Schanilec includes book prospectuses for Schanilec’s books, price lists, various iterations of Gaylord Schnailec’s business cards and…
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An excellent collection of Monotype specimens
WHITTINGTON PRESS.
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A Miscellany of Type.
Gloucestershire
Whittington Press
1990
A superb and moumental production - the purpose of the book is to celebrate the typographical renaissance wrought by Stanley Morison and the show off…
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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
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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One of 50 deluxe copies, with an extra suite of wood engravings by Gibbings
LIBANUS PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert. KINGLAKE, Alexander William.
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A Portrait of Lady Hester
Marlborough
Libanus Press
1987
Alexander William Kinglake’s portrait of Lady Hester Stanhope, originally published as a chapter in ‘Eothen’. Lady Hester went to the Middle East in 1810, where…
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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