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ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. BRANGWYN, Frank. MACKLIN, W.R. & RIGBY H.A.
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The Decorative Paintings in Christ’s Hospital Chapel 1913-1923.
Ditchling
Printed for Christ’s Hospital by H. Pepler at St. Dominic’s Press
1925
Frank Brangwyn was a long time inhabitant of Ditchling and paintings and drawings of local people were often incorporated into his work. This book begins…
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GEHENNA PRESS. CORNELL, Thomas. BASKIN, Leonard.
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The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome.
Northampton
published by Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press
1964
Babeuf led the so called “Conspiracy of Equals” against the French Directory in post-Revolutionary France, for which he was executed in 1796. He is now…
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“Ill fares the land”
INCLINE PRESS. GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
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The Deserted Village.
Oldham
Incline Press
1993
One of Incline Press’s first books.
A poem which has as much weight today as it did when it was published in 1770. It decries…
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With initial letters by the great British calligrapher Florence Kingsford
ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
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The Deserted Village.
London
printed at the Essex House Press under C.R. Ashbee, published by Edward Arnold in London and Samuel Buckley in New York
1904.
One of the series of 14 books produced by C.R. Ashbee celebrating the Great Poems of the Language whose motto ‘Soul is Form’ is taken…
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A socially progressive work by Pepler, who organised the first free school meals serivce in London, with original illustrations by Eric Gill
PEPLER, Douglas. GILL, Eric.
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The Devil’s Devices or Control versus Service.
Hammersmith, London
published at the Hampshire Hog Workshops, Hampshire Hog Lane,
1915
Seen as the precursor to the S. Dominic’s Press with its early Gill engraving and close collaboration between Gill and Pepler.
At the time this…
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Inscribed with an additional als from Pepler to Green-Armytage
PEPLER, Douglas. GILL, Eric.
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The Devil’s Devices or Control versus Service.
Hammersmith, London
published at the Hampshire Hog Workshops, Hampshire Hog Lane,
1915
Seen as the precursor to the S. Dominic’s Press with its early Gill engraving and close collaboration between Gill and Pepler. This copy is inscribed…
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BLANCH, Lesley, illustrator. LUCIAN.
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The Dialogues of Lucian, translated from the Greek by William Tooke, edited with occasional notes and an introduction by N.M. Penzer.
London
Privately printed [for the Navarre Society]
1930
A finely illustrated edition of Lucian’s comic, tongue in cheek dialogues which parody Socratic dialogue.
Lesley Blanch was a noted author and travel writer but…
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RIVERSIDE PRESS. CARLYLE, Thomas.
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The Diamond Necklace.
Boston
Houghton Mifflin Company
1913
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Gwenda Morgan illustrates her own countryside WWII diary
WHITTINGTON PRESS. MORGAN, Gwenda.
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The Diary of a Land Girl, 1939-1945.
Risbury
Whittington Press
2002
Gwenda Morgan was born in 1908 in Petworth in West Sussex. This diary, illustrated with her own excellent wood engravings, is a remarkable and detailed…
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Doctor of Physic, XVI 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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INCLINE PRESS. CRAWHALL, Joseph.
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The Dogs Meat Man. An Anonymous Verse Tale.
Oldham
Incline Press
1996
A great reproduction of an old broadside ballad in the original envelope from the Incline Press
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One of very few complete sets
DOLMEN PRESS. MILLER, Liam, editor.
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The Dolmen Chapbook. A Miscellany in Twelve Parts.
Dolmen Press
November 1954-1960
It is very rare to see all 12 chapbooks together, some issues being extremely rare and most being published in editions of only 250. The…
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ST. DOMINIC'S PRESS. RHYME SHEET No. 4.
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The Dormouse.
Ditchling
St. Dominic’s Press
c.1926
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Dyere, X 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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ROGERS, Bruce. PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE.
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The Early Art Training of B.R. at Purdue University.
Privately Printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale
1935
A ‘with compliments’ note signed by Rogers is inserted loose.
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ARION PRESS. SHUMATE, Albert.
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The Early Gardens of Rincon Hill.
San Francisco
Arion Press
1990
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With folding type specimen
LANSTON MONOTYPE. JONSON, Ben.
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The English Grammar Made by Ben Jonson for the Benefit of All Strangers Out of His Observations of the English Language Now Spoken and in Use.
London
Lanston Monotype
1928
A lovely copy of this verbatim reprint of the 1640 edition of Jonson’s ‘The English Grammar’, with the fold-out specimen [19.5 x 32 cms] of…
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GILL, Eric. V & A Museum.
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The Engraved Work of Eric Gill.
London
HMSO
1963
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One of only 85 special copies, with an extra suite of 8 prints from the original blocks
GILL, Eric. SKELTON, Christopher.
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The Engravings of Eric Gill.
Wellingborough
Christopher Skelton
1983
The 8 prints in the portfolio are: ‘A Garden Enclosed’, ‘Self-Portrait’, ‘Surrexit Alleluia’, ‘Tree and Dog with Flames’, ‘St Thomas’s Hands’, ‘Girl with Mirror’, ‘I…
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One of 75 special copies, with an extra suite of 7 illustrations
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FRASER, Eric. XENOPHON OF EPHESUS.
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The Ephesian Story.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1957
A sister volume to Apollonius of Tyre with illustrations by the artist Eric Fraser who made wash drawings on linoleum which were printed over a…