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One of only 125 copies, with two loose gatherings from another copy
GRABHORN PRESS. SUTRO, Oscar.
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The Friendship of Books.
San Francisco
The Grabhorn Press
1935
Sutro’s address to the San Francisco College for Women, February 1935.
From the the library of Robert Strong, with his Grabhorn booklabel to front pastedown.
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A set of the issues for 1922, specially bound by the Press
S. DOMINIC'S PRESS.
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The Game. A Monthly Magazine. Vol V. January-December, 1922
Ditchling
S Dominic’s Press
1922
Of the beginnings of The Game, which he called ‘that lively magazine’, Pepler wrote “Edward Johnston, Eric Gill and myself decided to print our views…
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HERMES, Gertrude. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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The Garden of Caresses.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1934
The sensually joyful love poems were written by a Moor in Spain in the 10th century. Hermes’s engravings for the Garden of Caresses are particularly…
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Specially bound set to celebrate the 1981 Ashmolean Mackley exhibition, with 60 sheets of loose wood engravings
MACKLEY, George. GRESHAM BOOKS.
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The George Mackley Collection. I. Confessions of a Woodpecker; II. George Mackley, Wood Engraver; III. Wood Engravings.
Old Woking
Gresham Books
1981
A really good, attractive and useful overview of Mackley’s work, influences, and teaching of technique.
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An excellent portfolio of typographic ephemera
PENTAGRAM PRESS. TARACHOW, Michael.
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The Glint Ornaments at Work and Play.
Rockport, Massachusetts
Pentagram Press
2001
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CIRCLE PRESS. LEGGE, Willow. KING, Ron.
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The Gnat and the Lion, a Fable from Aesop with relief prints by Willow Legge.
Guildford
Circle Press
1982
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MARCHBANKS PRESS. COSSART, Theophilus. [GLASS, Montague].
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The Golden Garland of Verse and Family Keepsake together with Greeting Cards for all Occasions.
New York
The Marchbanks Press
1929
A charming Christmas Keepsake of verse by British-American humorist Montague Glass, attributed to his pseudonym, Thoephilus Cossart, and illustrated throughout with 19th century-style vignettes.
The…
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ROGERS, Bruce. ST. LUKE.
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The Gospel According to St. Luke.
New York
Printed by William Edwin Rudge for The John Day Company
1926
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LAKESIDE PRESS. EDMOND JONES, Robert. CONNELLY, Marc.
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The Green Pastures. A fable suggested by Roark Bradford’s Sourthern Sketches, Ol’ Man Adam an’ His Chillun’
New York
printed at the Lakeside Press for Farrar & Rinehart
1930
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ROGERS, Bruce. BEERBOHM, Max.
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The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale for Tired Men.
New Fairfield
October House
1955
Beerbohm’s light-hearted short story concerning the misadventures of one Lord George Hell.
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HASLEWOOD BOOKS. SUETONIUS.
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The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperors of Rome.
London
Printed at Oxford University Press for Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald
1931
Taken from the 1606 edition of Suetonius translated into English by Philemon Holland.
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Three of the most important contemporary tracts on the Scots Darien Colony bound in one volume
DARIEN COLONY.
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The History of Caledonia: or, the Scots Colony in Darien in the West Indies. With an Account of the Manners of the Inhabitants, and Riches of the Countrey. By a Gentleman lately arrived.
London
printed and sold by John Nutt
1699
In 1695 the Scottish Parliament passed an Act which gave authority to the new ‘Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies’ to set…
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NONESUCH PRESS. HERODOTUS. LAWRENCE, A.W.
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The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The translation of G. Rawlinson revised & annotated by A.W. Lawrence.
London
Nonesuch Press
1935
The Nonesuch Press accorded Herodotus, ‘the father of History’, one of its most glorious productions. The dyed blue vellum binding is extremely handsome and the…
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NONESUCH PRESS. HERODOTUS. LAWRENCE, A.W.
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The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The translation of G. Rawlinson revised & annotated by A.W. Lawrence.
London
Nonesuch Press
1935
The Nonesuch Press accorded Herodotus, ‘the father of History’, one of its most glorious productions. The dyed blue vellum binding is extremely handsome and the…
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The last Ashendene folio
ASHENDENE PRESS. THUCYDIDES.
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The History of the Pelopennesian War.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1930
Translated by Benjamin Jowett, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.
The final Ashendene folio and the first time Hornby had thought to use different type in…
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ROGERS, Bruce. WENDELL, Barrett.
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The History of the Translation of The Blessed Martyrs of Christ Marcellinus and Peter.
Cambridge
Harvard University Press
1926
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A remarkable facsimile of a superb 14th century English manuscript
HASSALL, W.O. DROPMORE PRESS.
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The Holkham Bible Picture Book.
London
Dropmore Press
1954
William Hassall was librarian to the Earl of Leicester, who owned the 14th century manuscript before it went to the British Museum in 1952, and…
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Scottish travelling sales rep’s sample Bible showing 4 alternative bindings at different prices
BINDING SAMPLE BOOK FOR THE BIBLE.
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The Holy Bible. According to the Authorized Version, with the marginal readings and parallel references, printed at length and the Commentaries of Henry and Scott, condensed by the Rev. John McFalane LLD.
Glasgow, Edinburgh & London
William Collins, Sons & Company
c.1871
A remarkable survival and fascinating insight into the importance of choosing a family Bible and how the options were presented to the plentiful customers.
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The magnificent Oxford Lectern Bible - “among the noblest works done since the invention of movable type” (Blumenthal)
ROGERS, Bruce.
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The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's Special Command.
Oxford
Printed at the University Press
1935
Bruce Rogers’s magnum opus. "The Oxford Lectern Bible represents the full flowering of Bruce Rogers's genius as a designer of books. In the grandeur of…
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One of only 100 specially bound copies
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SEVERIN, Mark.
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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1948
Greek text translated into English verse by F.L. Lucas.
Using Mark Severin to illustrate this book was part of Christopher Sandford’s policy of trying to commission…