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[MONOTYPE CORPORATION]. MORISON, Stanley.
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A Tally of Types Cut for Machine Composition and Introduced at the University Press Cambridge.
Cambridge
Privately Printed at the University Press
1953
Morison’s fascinating account of 17 typefaces, and why they were cut at his instigation and under his supervision by the Monotype Corporation between 1922 and…
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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. DWIGGINS. W.A.
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A Technique for Dealing with Artists.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1941
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A joyful, rococo-style binding with superb executed finishing and onlay by one of the great designers and makers of luxury goods in London at the turn of the century
DREYFOUS, Edouard, binder. DE FINOD, J., editor.
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A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness.
London
William Paterson
1890
The gilt hand tooling is quite elaborate and reflects the high quality of this luxury designer and retailer. Edouard Dreyfous was not only a designer…
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Representative fine printing in the American Printing History Association’s 20th year
AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. STINEHOUR PRESS. KELLY, Jerry. PEICH, Michael.
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A Type Miscellany Twentieth Anniversary Broadside Portfolio.
American Printing History Association
1994
“A shared interest in type has brought together this collection of broadsides; for, without type, there would obviously be no American Printing History Association....the group…
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RAVEN PRESS. SOUTHEY, Robert. BYRON, Lord.
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A Vision of Judgement by Robert Southey and The Vision of Judgement by Lord Byron.
Harrow Weald
Raven Press
1932
With the original prospectus inserted loose.
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Botany and the search for the source of the Nile
GRANT, James Augustus.
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A Walk Across Africa, or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journal.
Edinburgh
1864
In 1846 Grant obtained a commission in the 8th native Bengal infantry and during his time in India he met John Hanning Speke, they became…
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Erotic fore-edge painting - clearly a tip for newly weds
FORE-EDGE PAINTING. BALFOUR, Clara L, editor.
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A Whisper to a Newly Married Pair from a Widowed Wife.
London
printed for Houlston and Stoneman
1850
The fore-edge painting was probably done in the second half of the 20th century and compliments the subject matter of the book perfectly, if rather…
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Inscribed by the artist - one of only 21 copies
KALDEWEY, Gunnar A.
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A Zen Story.
New York
printed by Gunnar A Kaldewey in the Tower of Poestenkill,
Summer 2007
A beautiful retelling of a Japanese folktale about two novices from two different Zen temples in Kyoto.
Inscribed and signed in silver pen by the artist…
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DELAHAUT, Jo.
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AB...
Bruxelles
le sérigraphe Bernard Villers, mis en page par Jacques Everard for Delahaut
1970
In this publication, illustrated with double page geometrical abstract silk prints, he publishes some of his manIfesto and ideas about abstract art and the relation…
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“the climax of Nash’s representational wood engravings”
NASH, Paul. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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Abd-Er-Rhaman in Paradise by Jules Tellier.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1928
The first translation into English from the original French of Jules Tellier’s ‘Les Deux Paradis’.
Nash’s wood-engravings are fine examples of his work, Clare Colvin in…
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“the climax of Nash’s representational wood engravings”
NASH, Paul. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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Abd-Er-Rhaman in Paradise by Jules Tellier.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1928
The first translation into English from the original French of Jules Tellier’s ‘Les Deux Paradis’.
Nash’s wood-engravings are fine examples of his work, Clare Colvin in…
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GRABHORN PRESS. MILLER, Henry.
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Account of a Tour of the California Missions, 1856. The Journal & Drawings of Henry Miller.
San Francisco
printed at The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California
1952
Includes 19 early images of missions including Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara etc.
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By the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. HIGGINSON, Henry Lee.
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Addresses by Henry Lee Higginson on the Occasion of Presenting the Soldiers' Field and the Harvard Union to Harvard University.
Boston
The Merrymount Press
1902
Alumnus and Civil War veteran Higginson’s address upon gifting 31 acres of land to Harvard College. Higginson founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1881.
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Special edition of the first book from press
THE AQUILA PRESS. RODKER, John.
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Adolphe 1920.
London
printed by Geo. W. Jones for the Aquila Press
1929
Together with: List of Books to be Published by The Aquila Press, Printers & PUblishers of 15a Lenthall Place, Gloucester Road, London SW& during the…
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Inscribed with an original nude drawing by the artist - one of 35 special copies
TICE, Clara. LOUYS, Pierre.
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Adventures of King Pausole.
New York
Privately printed for the Pierre Louys Society
1926
With an illustrated inscription on the half title signed by Tice “To Captain Edwin Callahan” with an drawing of a reclining female nude.
Clara Tice was…
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One of 100 copies, designed by Jerry Kelly.
KELLY WINTERTON PRESS. VIRGIL.
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Aeneas in the World of the Dead.
Jamaica
The Kelly Winterton Press
1990
With the original prospectus inserted loose.
Translated from the Latin by Sir G.K. Richards. This section from Virgil’s masterpiece, the ‘Aeneid’, deals with Aeneas’ encounters important…
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PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. PETER PAUPER PRESS.
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Aesop's Fables for modern readers.
New York
Peter Pauper Press
1955
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WINDHOVER PRESS. TRUEBLOOD, Ernest V.
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Afternoon of a Cow. A Pseudonymous Story by William Faulkner.
Iowa City
Windhover Press The University of Iowa
1991
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A rich printing from Agnes Miller Parker’s original blocks on Japanese vellum
GWASG GREGYNOG. MILLER PARKER, Agnes. ROGERSON, Ian.
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Agnes Miller Parker: Wood Engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-tales.
Newtown
Gwasg Gregynog
1997
A superb reprinting of the wood engravings executed by Miller Parker for the Gregynog XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales of 1933 which was printed in only…
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Book-embellishment in the 1960s with original hand-painted ornamentation, illustrations and binding by the artist Powilewicz
NIETZSCHE, Frederic. POWILEWICZ, Andre-Jean
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Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra.
Paris
Georges Cres et Cie
1919
On the verso of his hand-painted and written colophon Powilewicz writes in ink that the designs have been inspired by Persian miniatures and rugs from…
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