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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. LIPPMANN, Walter.
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Poverty and Plenty.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1932
More details Price: £25.00
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SABBATTINI, Nicolo.
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Practica di fabricar scene, e machine ne'teatri.
Ravenna
Pietro de Paoli e Gio. Battista Giovannelli
1638
First complete edition of the first book exclusively devoted to stage design, stage architecture, machinery and special effects. The first part was first published the…More details Price: £25,000.00
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MATHESON, James, of the firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co of Canton
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Present Position and Prospects of the British Trade With China; together with an outline of some leading occurrence in its past history.
London
Smith, Elder & Co
1836
INSCRIBED by the author to ‘Col. Oswald with the Author’s Compts.’
An assessment of the history and present state of trade in China. A man of…More details Price: £5,200.00 -
MUSÉE GRÉVIN.
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Principaux Tableaux du Musée reproduits par la photographie. Première Serie et Deuxieme Serie.
Paris
Musee Grevin
c.1890s
The first two series of photographs souvenirs of the tableaux on show at the waxwork museum in boulevard Montmartre. It was founded in 1882 by…More details Price: £200.00
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[PRINTING]. SIMON, Oliver.
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Printer and Playground. An Autobiography.
London
Faber and Faber
1956
Simon was the director of The Curwen Press and the editor of typography journals ‘The Fleuron’ and ‘Signature’.More details Price: £30.00
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OLD SCHOOL PRESS. OULD, Martyn. DANIEL PRESS.
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Printing at The Daniel Press, being a description and analysis of fifty-two proof and rejected sheets from the press of the Reverend Henry Daniel at Worcester College, Oxford...with some deductions regarding his printing practices.
Bath
Old School Press
2011
Also included in the book is a reprint of the fine obituary of Daniel by the writer Edmund Gosse.
Ould examined some 52 pages of proofs…More details Price: £84.00 -
WORKSHOP PRESS. ARMAN, Mark.
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Printing from Metal and Wood Using Hand Presses and 18th & 19th Century Types, Blocks Electros and Decorations The Story of an Obsession with Printing.
Thaxted, Essex
Workshop Press
1985
More details Price: £50.00
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SIMON, Oliver. RODENBERG, Julius.
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Printing of To-day. An Illustrated Survey of Post-war Typography in Europe and the United States.
London
Peter Davies Limited
1928
The essays are ‘Printing in England’ by Oliver Simon, ‘Printing in the United States’ by Paul Beaujon [Beatrice Warde] and ‘Continental Printing’ by Julius Rodenberg.…More details Price: £80.00
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley.
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Printing Types Their History, Forms and Use. A Study in Survivals.
Cambridge, MA.
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
1962
More details Price: £50.00
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[PRIVATE PRESSES]. MUIR, Percy.
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Private Presses. An Address.
Amsterdam
Printed for members of the Gezelschap ‘Nonpareil’
1966
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RANSOM, Will.
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Private Presses and Their Books.
New York
R. B. Bowker Co
1929
More details Price: £75.00
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OLD STILE PRESS. GILL, Eric. MATHERS, E. Powys.
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Procreant Hymn - I. Original Version, II. Alternative Version.
Llandog, Monmouthshire
Old Stile Press
2010
The words and the images appear as the defining text of Gill’s life. Physical love as a gift from God.
When engraving the images for the…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
CAYME PRESS. OGILVIE, Alexina.
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Profitable Proverbs.
London
printed by hand by Philip Sainsbury at the Cayme Press number xxxvi Queen’s Gate Mews Kensington
1923
The total edition was of 275 copies. The primitive style woodcuts are actually rather effective and the proverbs chosen often unusual: “I am black but…More details Price: £100.00
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KINMONT, Ben.
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"Promised Relations; or, thoughts on a few artists’ contracts". Prospectus 1988-2010, Forty-Two works by Ben Kinmont.
Antinomian Press
2011
A prospectus of Kinmont’s projects which are the descriptions of the experience he wrote up once he had finished with a project. Kinmont writes:
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GREGYNOG PRESS.
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Prospectus: The Gregynog Press and its Books.
Wales
Gregynog Press
[c.1936]
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GWASG GREGYNOG. WILLIAMS, Kyffin.
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Pryderi.
Newtown
Gwasg Gregynog
1998
Pryderi is the only character to appear in all four stories known as The Four Branches of the Mabinogi - which is The great work…More details Price: £380.00
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. WALDNER, Laure.
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Psaume CIII.
France
1912-1913
An glorious illuminated manuscript of Psalm 103 by a French female illuminator.More details Price: £1,500.00
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PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. OLD STILE PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William.
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Pyramus and Thisbe.
Monmouthshire
Old Stile Press
2003
Jones has taken this tale from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and reflected the story - particularly noticeable in his use of opaque acrylic to represent…More details Price: £3,250.00
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NONESUCH PRESS. PINDAR. GOODEN, Stephen.
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Pythian Odes.
London
Nonesuch Press
1928
An important translation of Pindar by the famous Maurice Bowra and H. Wade-Gery delicately printed within borders on each page and with Gooden’s little cooper…More details Price: £70.00
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LIBANUS PRESS. GILI, Phillida. BUTLER, Samuel.
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Quis Desiderio..?
Marlborough
Libanus Press
1987
Samuel Butler’s digressive and eccentric essay recounting his visits to the British Museum and its lack of sloping desks – upon which he needs in…More details Price: £40.00