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Philip Smith was one of the greatest British bookbinders of the 20th century and was well-known for inventing several techniques including the ‘lap-back’ structure which…

The text is culled from Animate Creation, a popular edition of Our Living World by Rev. J.G. Wood, Vol. II Birds 1885.
A remarkable, imaginative and…

“A House in the Country” contains four essays by Mary Logue which document the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on…

A House in the Country contains four essays by Mary Logue which document the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on…

A remarkable book with some really interesting wood engravings held almost encaged within unopened pages - Schanilec writes “As it turned out my mid-life vessel…

The ephemera designed, printed and often illustrated by Schanilec includes book prospectuses for Schanilec’s books, price lists, various iterations of Gaylord Schnailec’s business cards and…

A stunning production, signed by Philip Pullman who has also written out a quotation from the book in pencil.

Alexander William Kinglake’s portrait of Lady Hester Stanhope, originally published as a chapter in ‘Eothen’. Lady Hester went to the Middle East in 1810, where…

Weissenborn’s charming wild flower illustrations, except in a few cases, are printed from the original wood engravings.

A sumptuous feast for the eye. Rothchild and Lintott producing yet another remarkable work of art.

The inks were largely ground by hand from dry pigment and prepared varnish and several are different colours than those which appeared in the book…

The Tale of Two Benches is taken from Gibbings’s book Till I End My Song, being the chapter about the village where the Alembic Press…

Frink’s first illustrated book. She was later to work on the monumental Canterbury Tales with Waddington, her main dealer, and an edition of Homer.
Elisabeth Frink…

An excellent little alphabet.