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The 11 unrealised projects were Arabian proverbs, Four Gospels and Aesop’s Fables, together with works by Dante, Philip Sidney, Ambrose Bierce, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Arthur…

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…

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…

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.

A really charming and deep guide to America’s small fine presses.

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…

Inserted loose is a 1970 prospectus for books designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press.

42 religious verses by Faith Ashford who wrote other things published by the Press - Christ, Things Unseen and Poor Man’s Pence.
Inscribed by “Father Brown”…

Taken from the 17th century manuscript at Downside.

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…

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

With the booklabel of Robert Elwell.

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…

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…