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ROLLINS, Carl Purington.
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A Printer's Solutions of Some Printer's Problems.
New Haven
Yale University Press
1955
One of 500 copies printed as a keepsake in celebration of Rollins’s 75th birthday, with a list of 55 of the printer’s favourite books produced…More details Price: £30.00
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ROGERS, Bruce. GARGAZ, Pierre-André. EDDY, George Simpson.
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A Project of Universal and Perpetual Peace Written by a former Galley-Slave and Printed by Benjamin Franklin at Passy in the Year 1782.
New York
George Simpson Eddy
1922
A gift from the publisher George Simpson Eddy to the New Jersey Historical Society, with the society’s book label and Eddy’s printed ‘with compliments’ slip…More details Price: £25.00
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[ROGERS, Bruce]. RALEIGH, Walter.
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A Report of the Truth Concerning the Last Sea-Fight of the Revenge.
Cambridge
Riverside Press
1902
Inserted loose is a prospectus for Shakespearean scholar Mark Liddell’s series, ‘The Elizabethan Shakespeare’, including specimen pages and a small printed biographical note on Liddell.More details Price: £80.00
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PRESS OF THE INDIANA KID. WEYGAND, James Lamar.
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A Second Book of Pressmarks, Gathered from America's Private Presses and from Others Not so Private.
Nappanee
Private Press of the Indiana Kid
1959
A really charming and deep guide to America’s small fine presses.More details Price: £100.00
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. LABOUREUR, J.E. STERNE, Laurence.
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1928
More details Price: £120.00
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GRABHORN PRESS. WYNKYN DE WORDE.
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A Short Account of the Life and Work of Wynkyn de Worde, with a leaf from The Golden Legend printed by him at the sign of The Sun in Fleet Street, London, the Year 1527.
San Francisco
Printed by the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California
1949
The texts used here on Wynkyn de Worde and on the textual and printing history of the Golden Legend, were compiled from various sources by…More details Price: £450.00
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ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. BAKER, Fr. Augustin.
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A Spirituall Life in a Secular State, being an addition to ‘The Abridgment of a Spirituall Life’ by Father Augustin Baker, Religious of the hold order of St. Bennit. Taken from a manuscript at St. Gregory’s Abbey, Downside.
Ditchling
St. Dominic's Press
1927
Taken from the 17th century manuscript at Downside.
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NONESUCH PRESS. LAVER, James.
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A Stitch in Time; or, Pride Prevents a Fall.
London
Nonesuch Press
1927
Laver’s pastiche of Pope’s ‘Rape of the Lock’, ‘transposed into modern times’.
James Laver (1899-1975) was the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the V…More details Price: £50.00 -
VERDIGRIS. ROTHCHILD (Judith) & LINTOTT (Mark).
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A Study of Two Pears/Etude de deux poires.
Octon,
Verdigris Press
2004
A sumptuous feast for the eye. Rothchild and Lintott producing yet another remarkable work of art.More details Price: £800.00
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[PRINTING]. RYDER, John.
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A Suite of Fleurons or A Preliminary Enquiry into the History and Combinable Natures of Certain Printers' Flowers.
Phoenix House, London
Tinlings of Liverpool
1956
With the booklabel of Robert Elwell.More details Price: £40.00
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ALEMBIC PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert.
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A Tale of Two Benches.
Marcham
Alembic Press
2000
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…More details Price: £45.00
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[MONOTYPE CORPORATION]. MORISON, Stanley.
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A Tally of Types Cut for Machine Composition and Introduced at the University Press Cambridge.
Cambridge
Privately Printed at the University Press
1953
Morison’s fascinating account of 17 typefaces, and why they were cut at his instigation and under his supervision by the Monotype Corporation between 1922 and…More details Price: £190.00
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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. DWIGGINS. W.A.
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A Technique for Dealing with Artists.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1941
More details Price: £30.00
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ASHENDENE PRESS. BERNERS, Dame Juliana.
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A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1903
This charming book is taken from the Boke of St. Albans printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496. This was the first printed book on…More details Price: £1,600.00
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ASHENDENE PRESS. BERNERS, Dame Juliana.
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A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1903
Inscribed by C.H. StJohn Hornby, the printer and owner of the Ashendene Press to W. Faux in May 1904 on the front free endpaper.
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AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. STINEHOUR PRESS. KELLY, Jerry. PEICH, Michael.
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A Type Miscellany Twentieth Anniversary Broadside Portfolio.
American Printing History Association
1994
“A shared interest in type has brought together this collection of broadsides; for, without type, there would obviously be no American Printing History Association....the group…More details Price: £450.00
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DREYFUS, John. GILL, Eric. Bound by CLARE SKELTON.
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A Typographical Masterpiece. An Account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Four Gospels in 1931.
London
Bain & Williams
1991
This handsome study considers in detail the process behind the design and printing of the great Golden Cockerel Press Four Gospels. Dreyfus writes about the…More details Price: £550.00
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RAVEN PRESS. SOUTHEY, Robert. BYRON, Lord.
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A Vision of Judgement by Robert Southey and The Vision of Judgement by Lord Byron.
Harrow Weald
Raven Press
1932
With the original prospectus inserted loose.More details Price: £150.00
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GRANT, James Augustus.
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A Walk Across Africa, or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journal.
Edinburgh
1864
In 1846 Grant obtained a commission in the 8th native Bengal infantry and during his time in India he met John Hanning Speke, they became…More details Price: £4,500.00
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ZAPF, Hermann.
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ABC-XYZapf. Fifty Years of Alphabet Design.
Offenbach / London
Bund Deutscher Buchkünstler / The Wynken de Worde Society
1989
A festschrift for Hermann Zapf, being collection of essays on his professional and personal life, with contributions by Max Caflisch, John Dreyfus, Jerry Kelly, Giovanni…More details Price: £45.00