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‘18 Poems’ was Thomas’s first collection of poetry, the winner of a contest sponsored by the ‘Sunday Referee’ in 1934. It contains the poem, ‘The…

With the booklabel of Carl and Margaret Rollins. Carl Rollins was a Massachusetts printer and a typographic advisor to Yale University Press.

First printed edition of this selection of recipes from a 1719 manuscript of Thomas Newington, the butler to a household in Brighthelmstone.

From Kafka’s story collection, ‘Parables and Paradoxes’, published by Schocken Books, New York, 1935.

With a correction in red ink, done at the press, altering the number of paper copies of the Vita di S. Chiara.

American statesman, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and US Secretary of State, John Milton Hay’s private letters to Hannah Angell, the younger sister of Hay’s…

Robin Tanner’s illustrated alphabet was transferred onto blocks and then printed by Nicholas MacDowall at his press in Blackheath. Tanner’s wife Heather wrote beautiful pastoral…

All bound in contemporary calf with ‘Misc. R.’ on the spine label in gilt and with the booklabel of Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court…

Tipped in is a publisher’s label for Humphrey Milford who presumably took over the distribution of the book.
John Taylor was a Thames waterman who rose…

Together with 2 other pieces of Adagio Press ephemera:
1. ‘A Gathering of Typographic Odds and Ends rescued from sundry sources and now protected in the…