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An expertly hand-coloured copy, possibly by Sauvage himself
SAUVAGE, Sylvain. CASANOVA, Giacomo.
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Une Aventure de Casanova. Histoire complète de ses amours avec la belle C.C. et la religieuse de Muran.
Paris
Chez l’artiste, 16, rue Cassini
1926
Sylvain Sauvage (1888-1948), whose real name was Felix Roy, was an illustrator and engraver who published his own artist’s books with the imprint of his…
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A fine copy of the landmark of the Surrealist movement superbly bound by Mercher
ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.
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Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements].
Paris
Jeanne Bucher
1934
Max Ernst’s ‘Une Semaine de Bonté’ is one of the great artist’s books and a landmark of the Surrealist movement. Ernst created his 182 images…
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GILL, Eric. TEGETMEIER, Denis.
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Unholy Trinity.
London
printed by Hague and Gill & published for them by J.M. Dent & Son
1928
11 short pithy one page pieces by Eric Gill, illustrated with cartoons by Tegetmeier. The Unholy Trinity is Power, Respectablility and Money ‘the product of…
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GILL, Eric. TEGETMEIER, Denis.
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Unholy Trinity.
London
printed by Hague and Gill & published for them by J.M. Dent & Son
1928
11 short pithy one page pieces by Eric Gill, illustrated with cartoons by Tegetmeier. The Unholy Trinity is Power, Respectability and Money, ‘the product of…
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Elegantly written out by the Jewish Berlin calligrapher Peter Moser
MOSER, Peter, calligrapher in Berlin in the 1920s. ROSSETTI, Christina.
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Uphill.
Berlin
1923
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ROGERS, Bruce. MORE, Thomas.
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Utopia.
New York
Limited Editions Club
1934
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ANGELO, Valenti. MERIDEN GRAVURE CO.
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Valenti Angelo, Author, Illustrator, Printer: An Autobiographical Story.
Bronxville, New York
printed by The Meriden Gravure Co. for the press of Valenti Angelo
c.1970
The fascinating life of the noted artist and printer Angelo who worked with the Grabhorns, the Limited Editions club and for his own press.
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KINDERSLEY, David.
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Variations on the Theme of Twenty-Six Letters.
Wellingborough
David Kindersley and Christopher Skelton
1969
The alphabets are from original 30 x 22 inch drawings printed in black line and individually painted, now in the collections of universities, museums and…
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NONESUCH PRESS. BECKFORD, William.
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Vathek.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
The chromolithographs by Dorn, McKnight Kauffer’s wife, were the first to be printed at the Curwen Press for book illustration.
Vathek combined popular Oriental elements with…
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“And how magnificent are the lines of Shakespeare” (Cobden-Sanderson)
DOVES PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William.
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Venus and Adonis
Hammersmith
Doves Press
1912
The text of Shakespeare’s narrative pastoral poem with which he launched his career as a poet comes from the first edition printed in 1593 by…
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BREMER PRESSE. HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von.
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Versuch Über Victor Hugo.
Munich
printed at Mandruck A.G. for the Bremer Presse
1925
One of the series of “Werkdrucke” issued commercially by the Bremer Presse between 1923 and 1930. The books were designed in the Press’s workshop using…
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WILLIAMS, Kyffin (1918-2006)
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Villages of Carmel and Cesarea.
Gwasg Gregynog
2009
Kyffin Williams, RA, the noted Welsh landscape painter, worked with the Gregynog Press in Newtown, Wales on many occasions. He left them 6 original linocuts…
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Large-scale illuminated manuscript with 20 large original watercolours by the francophile artist, son-in-law of Wilfred Scawen Blunt and close friend of Sydney Cockerell
BULWER-LYTTON, Neville. BAUDELAIRE.
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Vingt poèmes de Charles Baudelaire illustrés par Neville Lytton. [Twenty poems by Charles Baudelaire].
[France]
1934
A spectacular and unique interpretation of Baudelaire by Neville Lytton including twenty original watercolours with illuminated borders. Each of Lytton’s images is in the visionary…
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Initials designed by Graily Hewitt
ASHENDENE PRESS.
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Vita di Santa Chiara Vergine
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1921
Reprinted from the fifteenth century Florentine manuscript by Ugolino Verino which was in the private collection of Hornby, having been bought by him at Sothebys…
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ROGERS, Bruce. MAISTRE, Xavier de.
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Voyage Autour de ma Chambre.
Cambridge
de l’Imprimerie de Riverside, Chez Houghton Mifflin & Cie.
1901
With the original publisher’s note in English inserted loose.
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The first overland expedition to reach the Pacific north of Mexico across North America.
MACKENZIE, Alexander.
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Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Fur Trade of that Country.
London
T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, Cobbett and Morgan & W. Creech
1801
In 1789, Mackenzie's crew which included French-Canadian voyagers, his wife and several others, paddled off in a birchbark canoe from Fort Chipewyan in Central Canada.…
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EHMCKE, F.H.
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Wahrzeichen Warenzeichen.
Charlottenburg
Werbedienst
1921
Ehmcke on trademarks and logos.
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One of only fifteen deluxe copies, specially bound in full morocco swith extra suites of signed wood engravings and photographs
SCHANILEC, Gaylord, SCHNEIDEMAN, Alex and RANDLE, Patrick.
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Want More. A selection of thirteen photographs by Alex Schneideman with wood engraved interpretations by Gaylord Schanilec.
London
Golborne Editions, printed by Patrick Randle at the Whittington Press
2019 [2020]
13 wood engravings interpreting 13 photographs with a conversation with Schanilec and Schneideman about the creative process and the differences between two mediums. The book…
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SCHANILEC, Gaylord, b.1955.
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Washington Street.
2011
Original wood engraving for The Bicycle Diaries; One New Yorker’s Journey through September 11th by Richard Goodman, which was illustrated and printed by Gaylord Schanilec…
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TRIANON PRESS. BLAKE, William. GRAY, Thomas.
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Water-Colour Designs For The Poems Of Thomas Gray. A Facsimile with Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
London
printed in Paris at the Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust
1972
In this, one of Blake’s most extravagant tours de force, he took Gray’s poems as a springboard for epic watercolors. Mounting the text on a…