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Leaf book
GRABHORN PRESS. WYNKYN DE WORDE.
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A Short Account of the Life and Work of Wynkyn de Worde, with a leaf from The Golden Legend printed by him at the sign of The Sun in Fleet Street, London, the Year 1527.
San Francisco
Printed by the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California
1949
The texts used here on Wynkyn de Worde and on the textual and printing history of the Golden Legend, were compiled from various sources by…
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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…
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VERDIGRIS. ROTHCHILD (Judith) & LINTOTT (Mark).
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A Study of Two Pears/Etude de deux poires.
Octon,
Verdigris Press
2004
A sumptuous feast for the eye. Rothchild and Lintott producing yet another remarkable work of art.
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[PRINTING]. RYDER, John.
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A Suite of Fleurons or A Preliminary Enquiry into the History and Combinable Natures of Certain Printers' Flowers.
Phoenix House, London
Tinlings of Liverpool
1956
With the booklabel of Robert Elwell.
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From Gibbings’s Till I End My Song
ALEMBIC PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert.
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A Tale of Two Benches.
Marcham
Alembic Press
2000
The Tale of Two Benches is taken from Gibbings’s book Till I End My Song, being the chapter about the village where the Alembic Press…
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![A Tally of Types Cut for Machine Composition and Introduced at the University Press Cambridge. by [MONOTYPE CORPORATION]. MORISON, Stanley.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8200---200.jpg?v=1727459781)
[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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Inscribed by the printer to his friend F. Meyrick-Jones
ASHENDENE PRESS. BERNERS, Dame Juliana.
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A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1903
This charming book is taken from the Boke of St. Albans printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496. This was the first printed book on…
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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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One of 40 specially bound copies, with a Gill print from the block ‘Christ from Emmanus’
DREYFUS, John. GILL, Eric. Bound by CLARE SKELTON.
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A Typographical Masterpiece. An Account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Four Gospels in 1931.
London
Bain & Williams
1991
This handsome study considers in detail the process behind the design and printing of the great Golden Cockerel Press Four Gospels. Dreyfus writes about the…
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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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“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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“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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A charming joyfully erotic alphabet with pochoir illustrations by Jules Pascin
![Abécédaire des Filles et de L'Enfant Chéri. by [MAC ORLAN, Pierre. PASCIN, Jules]](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11869_2---200.jpg?v=1731504771)
[MAC ORLAN, Pierre. PASCIN, Jules]
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Abécédaire des Filles et de L'Enfant Chéri.
[Paris
Éditions Henri Jonquières
1935]
Pascin’s charming and rather sweetly erotic alphabet accompanies Pierre Mac Orlan’s short verses in this second, more elaborately illustrated of Henri Jonquières’ Abecedaire. The first…
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. MARTIN, Edward Sandford.
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Abroad with Jane.
Boston
Privately Printed
1918
American journalist Martin’s sprightly travel book chronicling his journey to England and Europe.
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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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