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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry. TEGETMEIER, Denis.
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The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1932
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. DICKENS, Charles.
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The Life of Our Lord; written during the years 1846-1849. By Charles Dickens for his children and now first published.
New York
Simon and Schuster
1934
Written around the time he was completing ‘David Copperfield’, Dickens wrote this extended letter – a simple account of the life of Jesus – to…
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One of the most charming Gregynogs with 25 hand coloured engravings
GREGYNOG PRESS.
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The Life of Saint David.
Newtown,
Gregynog Press
1927
The text is based upon the Latin Life by the 11th century Rhygyfarch and the charming engravings illustrate each short chapter in the Welsh patron…
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CIRCLE PRESS. LEGGE, Willow. b. 1934
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The Lion.
London
Circle Press
1982
This print originates from Willow Legge’s work with the Circle Press, founded by Ron King. She studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art in the…
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STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS. RUSSELL FLINT, William.
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The Lisping Goddess.
A Figurehead Fantasy: Comments & conversations, Philosophical, Romantical, Facutal & Mendacious, Poetical & Impertinent by Loquacious Mariners, Discreetly Recounted & Advantageously Delineated by W R F.
Worcester
Private printed for William Russell Flint at the Stanbrook Abbey Press
1968
A major piece of work by the Stanbrook Abbey Press where Russell Flint found the typographical marvel Dame Hildelith Cumming remarkably open minded about producing…
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Bound by Roger Powell with the original blocks for the letters
ROGER POWELL, bookbinder. OSTLER, George.
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The Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English.
Oxford
Clarendon Press
1957
Together with the two original metal blocks used to blind-tool the letters A and Z.
The binding is unsigned but comes with a letter from The…
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NONESUCH PRESS. PLUTARCH. NORTH, Thomas.
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
Thomas North’s translation of Amyot’s French version of Plutarch’s Lives printed from the first edition of 1579 with the addition of 15 lives from the…
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NONESUCH PRESS. PLUTARCH. NORTH, Thomas.
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
Thomas North’s translation of Amyot’s French version of Plutarch’s Lives printed from the first edition of 1579 with the addition of 15 lives from the…
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STAMPERIA VALDONEGA. FIUME, Salvatore. SUETONIUS, Gaius.
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
Verona
Limited Editions Club
1963
With the Limited Editions Club monthly newsletter for August 1963 and original prospectus inserted loose.
Kenneth Auchincloss’s booklabel to front pastedown.
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One of 15 signed proofs
GILL, Eric.
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The Lost Child.
1934
The engraving was made for the frontispiece forThe Lost Child and Other Stories by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Messrs. J.A. Allen & Co.…
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GREGYNOG PRESS. HARTZENBUSCH, Juan.
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The Lovers of Teruel, A Drama in Four Acts in Prose and Verse. Translated from the Spanish by Henry Thomas.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1938
A really good binding design: "there are no records extant which mention the origin of the binding design, but its character suggests that it was…
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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. TATIUS, Achilles.
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The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe.
New York
Shakespeare Head Press for Bernard Guilbert Guerney
1923
Achilles Tatius’s only surviving work, and one of the Greek prose romances that would go on to influence the development of the novel centuries later.
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With an original leaf printed on vellum, inscribed by the author to Kenneth Auchincloss
MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. HUTNER, Martin.
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The Making of The Book of Common Prayer of 1928.
Southbury, Connecticut
Chiswick Book Shop
1990
With the original prospectus loosely inserted. Warmly inscribed by Martin Hutner to “my fellow Grolierite” Ken Auchincloss on the first blank.
A chronicle of the production…
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Extraordinary presentation copy from John Farleigh to John Mason - his friend, colleague and collaborator
FARLEIGH, John. MASON, John.
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The Man Who Died.
London,
printed at Cambridge University Press for William Heinemann
1935
A fine association copy between two artistic collaborators and friends who believed in bringing the best in hand-press production values to the machine age. With…
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YOLLA BOLLY PRESS. GLAD, Deanna. SCOTT, J.M. SMITH, Rod.
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The Man Who Made Wine.
Covelo, California
Yolla Bolly Press
1996
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No.1 of 10 proofs signed by the artist
GILL, Eric.
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The Martyrdom of St. Saturus.
1929
This image was engraved for The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, published in 1930.
Physick 559
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Elaborate illuminated vellum binding from Florence
GIANNINI, Giuseppe.
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The Masterpieces of Van Dyck.
London & Glasgow
Gowans & Gray
1908
A classic of the genre of bindings produced by the famous Giuseppe Giannini of Florence for the English tourist trade.
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KELLY WINTERTON PRESS. HOMER.
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The Meeting of Achilleus and Priam from the Iliad Book Twenty-Four.
New York
The Kelly Winterton Press
1982
A fine example of typographic design by the Kelly Winterton Press.
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By Edward Johnston’s daughter, aged 6 and with wood-engravings by Ronald Seal aged 11, and David Pepler, 10.
ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. JOHNSTON, Priscilla.
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The Mill Book.
[Hammersmith & Ditchling
Printed and published by Douglas Pepler, Hampshire House
1917
A lovely juvenile book, satisfying to the eye and enchanting to read.
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RAVERAT, Gwen (1885-1957)
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The Mill Pool.
1930