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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…

There was also an English edition, published by The Fleuron, London, the same year.
From the library of Herman M. Schroeter, with his bookplate designed by…

With a tls from St John Hornby on his headed notepaper printed at the Press presenting this final list of books: “a List of my…

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…

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…

A very good example of the hand-coloured edition, there was a also an uncoloured version.

Printed in December 1925 on the 31st anniversary of the founding of the Press. It states in the colophon "since December 1894 the Press has…

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…

Written under the pseudonym of ‘Ambrose Hoopington’ by Cecil Binney, a practising barrister and the founder of ‘Cherwell’ magazine. He also published a popular manual…

With two original pencil drawings by John Leech pasted in, one of a cartoon man on a horse with another horse on the same sheet…