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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Host, from The Canterbury Tales.
Circle Press
1978
Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using text from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask prints representing the…
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WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. BERNEN, Robert.
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The House on the Cove.
London
Printed at The Whittington Press for The Acorn Press
1987
Bernen’s account of life on a Greek island, interspersed with his poem, ‘Floor Boards’.
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GILL, Eric.
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The Human Person and Society.
London
Printed by Hague Gill & Davey for The Peace Pledge Union
1940
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert. COPPARD, A.E.
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The Hundredth Story.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1931
The first of the successful ‘Guinea series’ of illustrated modern authors, printed in the new Golden Cockerel type designed especially for Gibbings by his friend…
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The artist’s boat
SCHANILEC, Gaylord, b.1955.
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The Hungry Mind.
Stockholm, Wisconsin
Midnight Paper Sales
2013
One of twelve wood engravings for the artist’s book Lac des Pleurs, printed and published by the artist under his imprint Midnight Paper Sales: a…
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OFFICINA BRINDABELLA. MURRAY, Les A. ATKINS, Rosalind.
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The Idyll Wheel. Cycle of a Year at Bunyah, New South Wales, April 1986 – April 1987.
Canberra
Officina Brindabella
1989
A lovely example of Australian Alec Bolton’s fine printing combined with the natural wood engravings of the Australian artist Rosalind Atkins. Bolton was a creative…
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ROGERS, Bruce. BOOTH, Franklin. ESAREY, Logan.
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The Indiana Home.
Bloomington
Indiana University Press
1953
With the original prospectus inserted loose.
The artists, Rogers and Booth, were both natives of Indiana.
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CURWEN PRESS. DISRAELI. AUSTEN, John.
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The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli the Younger.
London
printed at The Curwen Press for William Jackson
1929
With a bibliography of books with illustrations by John Austen at the rear.
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. ROSS, Gordon. SURTEES, R.S.
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The Jaunts and Jollities of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks of St. Botolph Lane and Great Coram Street.
New York
Limited Editions Club
1932
Robert Surtees began writing about the inimitable sporting hero John Jorrocks – a cockney grocer with a penchant for fox hunting – in the early…
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. RUZICKA, Rudolph.
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The Jonny-Cake Papers of 'Shepherd Tom' Together with Reminiscenes of Narragansett Schools of Former Days by Thomas Robinson Hazard.
Boston
The Merrymount Press
1915
Rhode Island’s Thomas Robinson Hazard’s whimsical reminiscences of Narragansett and his family’s generation-proven method for baking ‘jonny-cakes’, originally a Native American dish, made of corn…
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OLD STILE PRESS. LEMAIRE, Angela.
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The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer.
Monmouthshire
Old Stile Press
2000
Lemaire engraved the blocks in the text especially for an edition of ‘Thomas the Rhymer’ and the engravings, depicting the seasons, that appear throughout the…
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A superb copy printed in a specially designed typeface by Ricketts
VALE PRESS. JAMES I.
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The Kingis Quair.
London
Vale Press
1903
A more elaborate illustrated edition had been planned but it was abandoned in favour or the rather charming simplicity of this version in Rickett’s extraordinary…
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Knight, from The Canterbury Tales.
Circle Press
1978
Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using text from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask prints representing the…
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Knight's Horse, II 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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Illustrated with wood engravings of outstanding skill by Hughes-Stanton
GREGYNOG PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair.
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The Lamentations of Jeremiah.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1933
A spectacular work from the Press, and I would argue one of the greatest from any Press around this time, with an abundance of astonishing…
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Inscribed by Ashbee to his office manager and with an original photograph of a local ranger and carrier mentioned in the book, taken in 1871.
ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. ASHBEE, C.R.
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The Last Records of a Cotswold Community: being the Weston Subedge Field account book for the final twenty-six years of the famous Cotswold Games, hitherto unpublished, and now edited with a study on the old time sports of Campden and the village community of Weston by C.R. Ashbee.
Campden
Printed at the Essex House Press by the Guild of Handicraft
1904
A remarkable copy being inscribed and signed by C.R. Ashbee, the author and founder of the Essex House Press and Guild of Handicraft, to E.G.…
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B.
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The Last Will of Williston Fish.
Boston
Alfred Bartlett
1908
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NONESUCH PRESS. GOODEN, Stephen. HAMILTON, G. Rostrevor.
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The Latin Portrait. An Anthology.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
An anthology of Latin and English poetry, with selections from the work of twenty-one important Latin poets rendered into English.
With the armorial book label…
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. LABOUREUR, J.E. STERNE, Lawrence.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1929-1930
Laboureur’s work was very much in vogue at this time being a great favourite both of Stanley Morison and Eric Gill amongst others.
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The greatest biography in the English language – a remarkable untrimmed copy in contemporary boards
BOSWELL, James.
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The Life of Johnson..in two volumes.
London
printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly
1791
W. Strong is addressed in the letter as Rev.d Archdeacon Strong – he has used the blank page of the letter to make notes on…