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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…
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The red-deer charmingly hiding in the forest - a rich and witty binding by the important British binder Kate Holland
KATE HOLLAND, designer bookbinder. GREGYNOG PRESS. FORTESCUE,The Hon. J.W.
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The Story of a Red-Deer.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1935
Fortescue’s book was a very interesting choice of text. It was written for the author’s 9 year old nephew and tells the story of a…
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GREGYNOG PRESS. FORTESCUE,The Hon. J.W.
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The Story of a Red-Deer.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1935
Fortescue’s book was a very interesting choice of text. It was written for the author’s 9 year old nephew and tells the story of a…
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GILL, Eric. [DOUBLE CROWN CLUB]
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The Story of how Amnon ravished his sister Thamar for which Absalom Killed him as it is written in the Second Book of Kings.
Pigotts, nr Speen, Bucks
Rene Hague & Eric Gill
1930
This exquisite little booklet was never published, only a few copies being distributed to friends and then later as a keepsake at a Double Crown…
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First edition, first issue of Winston Churchill’s first book
CHURCHILL, Winston.
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The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War.
London
Longman, Green & Co
1898
Churchill’s first book which is about his time with Sir Bindon Blood’s expedition of 1897 on India’s Northwest Frontier.
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Summoner, 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 Summoner, 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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One of only 70 copies
TERN PRESS. CLARE, John. PARRY, Nicholas & Mary.
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The Summons.
Tern Press
1989
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One of 300 copies
PRESS IN TUSCANY ALLEY. WILSON, Joyce Lancaster.
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The Swing.
San Francisco
Press in Tuscany Alley
1981
With the original prospectus with a slightly chipped fore edge.
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Original signed wood engraving for the Golden Cockerel Canterbury Tales
GILL, Eric.
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The Tale of Melibeus.
1929
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. LAMB, Charles.
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The Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret.
London
printed by the Golden Cockerel Press for Frank Hollings
1928
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GILL, Eric.
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The Tennis Player.
Proof signed by Gill
1923
One of Gill’s white on black, line wood-engravings, a classic image. Like The Skaters, it was based on a photograph in the 1923 Daily Mirror.…
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RUDGE, William Edwin Rudge. BRIDGES, Robert.
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The Testament of Beauty.
New York
Oxford University Press
1929
With the book label of Brian Douglas Stilwell. The publisher’s printed note on the text is inserted loose.
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LIBANUS PRESS. SMITH, Richard Shirley.
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The Testament of Charlotte B.
Marlborough
Libanus Press
1988
The fascinating 18th century letters of Charlotte Biggs, in which she relates stories of love, intrigue, abduction and rape.
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The very first printed presentation of Hutton’s theory - the foundation of modern geology
HUTTON, James.
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The Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution and Restoration of Land upon the Globe. In: ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. I, 1788’, pp. 209-304 + plates I-II with explanation leaf.
Edinburgh
J. Dickson
1788
Hutton gave his ground breaking address in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1785 and this 1788 printing was the Society’s…
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[ROGERS, Bruce]. LANG, Andrew. THEOCRITUS.
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The Third Idyll of Theocritus.
New York
1928
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INCLINE PRESS. LIDDELL, John.
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The Tree House.
Oldham
Incline Press
2001
An enchanting graphic tale with no text telling the story in linocuts of a tree house over the years.
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The only book handset by Rogers and the first to be printed at the Thistle Press
ROGERS, Bruce. BRETON, Nicholas.
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The Twelve Moneths and Christmas Day from 'Fantastickes'.
New York
Clarke and Way
1951
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24 wood engravings by Eric Ravilious - an extraordinarily good copy
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. RAVILIOUS, Eric.
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The Twelve Moneths by Nicholas Breton.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1927
Ravilious’s sensitive engravings chart the course of the year for nature and mankind.
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With many fine examples of typography
[PRINTING] MORISON, Stanley. DAY, Kenneth.
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The Typographic Book 1450-1935. A Study of Fine Typography Through Five Centuries.
London
Ernest Benn
1963
A superb and important examination of typography.