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CIRCLE PRESS. LEGGE, Willow. b. 1934
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The Shrimp.
London
Circle Press
1979
This print originates from Willow Legge’s work ‘An African Folktale’ with the Circle Press, founded by Ron King. She studied sculpture at Chelsea School of…
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ROGERS, Bruce. WOLFE, Humbert.
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The Silver Cat and Other Poems.
New York
Bowling Green Press
1928
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The first copy off the press
GRABHORN PRESS. STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
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The Silverado Squatters.
San Francisco
Grabhorn Press
1952
A pencil written note on the first blank declares this was the “first copy off the press - binding incomplete. Given to me by Ed…
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ROGERS, Bruce. CONRAD, Joseph.
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The Sisters.
New York
Crosby Gaige
1928
With the book label of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel.
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BLAKE, William.
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The Song of Los.
London
printed in Paris at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust
1975
One of the richest and most elaborate Trianons.
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One of only 32 deluxe copies.
TRIANON PRESS. BLAKE, William.
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The Song of Los.
London
printed in Paris at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust
1975
One of the richest and most elaborate of the Trianon Press Blake facsimiles.
The Song of Los, dated 1795, is closely related to The Book…
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One of the largest and most dramatic vellucent Chivers bindings designed by Herbert Granville Fell in Pre-Raphaelite style
CEDRIC CHIVERS. GRANVILLE FELL, Herbert.
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The Song of Solomon.
London
Chapman and Hall
1897
Inscription on front blank from Halsway Manor in Somerset for Easter 1928.
Cedric Chivers of Bath had patented his ‘vellucent’ binding method in 1898 which involved…
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One of only 40 copies
HAMMER CREEK PRESS.
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The Song of Solomon.
Hammer Creek Press
1959
John Strobble Fass (1890-1973) was a graphic designer and printer of fine press books who designed books for the leading American publishers of limited edition…
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SANDFORD, Lettice.
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The Song of Songs.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1936
One of Golden Cockerel’s most successful books with its gently erotic engravings by Sandford, the wife of the owner of the Press.
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Gill’s masterful depiction of Divine Love
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GILL, Eric.
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The Song of Songs, called by many the Canticle of Canticles.
Waltham St Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1925
Chanticleer announces that at this point ‘Eric Gill has come to work only for the Golden Cockerel Press’ - the beginning of a great collaboration.…
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Thomas Balston’s special copy of Gill’s “damn fine” Song of Songs, with a letter from the printer
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GILL, Eric.
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The Song of Songs called by many the Canticle of Canticles.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press
1925
A really fine copy of the rare special of the Song of Songs. It has a tiny ownership inscription of Thomas Balston and a tipped…
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NICHOLSON, William. WAUGH, Arthur.
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The Square Book of Animals.
London
William Heinemann
1900
It is extremely unusual to find this book strong condition, presumably due to its use in the nursery.
A rarity.
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Squire, 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 Squire, from The Canterbury Tales.
Circle Press
1967
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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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Squire, III 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. RAVILIOUS, Eric. ARCHER, Caroline & HARLING, Robert.
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The St. Bride Notebook.
Oldham
Incline Press
2003
A very attractive reprint of the Kynoch Press Notebook of 1933 with Ravilious’s vignettes printed from the original blocks. With two excellent essays by Harling…
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In a handsome Moorish-style binding
GREGYNOG PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. DE VEGA, Lope.
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The Star of Seville. A Drama in Three Acts and in Verse.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1935
Published in time for the tercentenary of Lope De Vega’s death, although this was a rather curious text being a rather stilted seventeenth century Spanish…
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[ROGERS, Bruce]. HERRICK, R.
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The Star Song A Carroll to the King.
William Edwin Rudge
1924
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. LYESKOFF, Nikolai Semyonovitch.
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The Steel Flea.
Boston
Privately Printed for the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers
1916
Styled as a Russian folk tale, this story is an uproarious account of a Russian gun-maker seeking technical and artistic mastery over his British counterparts.
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Only of only 110 copies
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. DE CHAIR, Somerset. WEBB, Clifford.
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The Story of a Lifetime.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1954
“An unorthodox account of the events in the life of Jesus between the Resurrection and the Ascension, as revealed to the author in what he…