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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Knight's Horse, II from The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.
Circle Press
1978
Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ text accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask-like prints representing the major…More details Price: £90.00
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ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. ASHBEE, C.R.
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The Last Records of a Cotswold Community: being the Weston Subedge Field account book for the final twenty-six years of the famous Cotswold Games, hitherto unpublished, and now edited with a study on the old time sports of Campden and the village community of Weston by C.R. Ashbee.
Campden
Printed at the Essex House Press by the Guild of Handicraft
1904
A remarkable copy being inscribed and signed by C.R. Ashbee, the author and founder of the Essex House Press and Guild of Handicraft, to E.G.…More details Price: £1,600.00
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B.
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The Last Will of Williston Fish.
Boston
Alfred Bartlett
1908
More details Price: £15.00
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NONESUCH PRESS. GOODEN, Stephen. HAMILTON, G. Rostrevor.
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The Latin Portrait. An Anthology.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
An anthology of Latin and English poetry, with selections from the work of twenty-one important Latin poets rendered into English.
With the armorial book label…More details Price: £60.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. LABOUREUR, J.E. STERNE, Lawrence.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1929-1930
Laboureur’s work was very much in vogue at this time being a great favourite both of Stanley Morison and Eric Gill amongst others.More details Price: £180.00
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BOSWELL, James.
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The Life of Johnson..in two volumes.
London
printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly
1791
W. Strong is addressed in the letter as Rev.d Archdeacon Strong – he has used the blank page of the letter to make notes on…More details Price: £15,500.00
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry. TEGETMEIER, Denis.
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The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1932
More details Price: £80.00
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry. TEGETMEIER, Denis.
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The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1932
More details Price: £50.00
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. DICKENS, Charles.
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The Life of Our Lord; written during the years 1846-1849. By Charles Dickens for his children and now first published.
New York
Simon and Schuster
1934
Written around the time he was completing ‘David Copperfield’, Dickens wrote this extended letter – a simple account of the life of Jesus – to…More details Price: £80.00
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GREGYNOG PRESS.
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The Life of Saint David.
Newtown,
Gregynog Press
1927
The text is based upon the Latin Life by the 11th century Rhygyfarch and the charming engravings illustrate each short chapter in the Welsh patron…More details Price: £4,200.00
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CIRCLE PRESS. LEGGE, Willow. b. 1934
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The Lion.
London
Circle Press
1982
This print originates from Willow Legge’s work with the Circle Press, founded by Ron King. She studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art in the…More details Price: £95.00
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STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS. RUSSELL FLINT, William.
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The Lisping Goddess.
A Figurehead Fantasy: Comments & conversations, Philosophical, Romantical, Facutal & Mendacious, Poetical & Impertinent by Loquacious Mariners, Discreetly Recounted & Advantageously Delineated by W R F. Worcester Private printed for William Russell Flint at the Stanbrook Abbey Press 1968A major piece of work by the Stanbrook Abbey Press where Russell Flint found the typographical marvel Dame Hildelith Cumming remarkably open minded about producing…More details Price: £600.00 -
ROGER POWELL, bookbinder. OSTLER, George.
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The Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English.
Oxford
Clarendon Press
1957
Together with the two original metal blocks used to blind-tool the letters A and Z.
The binding is unsigned but comes with a letter from The…More details Price: £2,900.00 -
NONESUCH PRESS. PLUTARCH. NORTH, Thomas.
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
Thomas North’s translation of Amyot’s French version of Plutarch’s Lives printed from the first edition of 1579 with the addition of 15 lives from the…More details Price: £350.00
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NONESUCH PRESS. PLUTARCH. NORTH, Thomas.
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
Thomas North’s translation of Amyot’s French version of Plutarch’s Lives printed from the first edition of 1579 with the addition of 15 lives from the…More details Price: £290.00
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STAMPERIA VALDONEGA. FIUME, Salvatore. SUETONIUS, Gaius.
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
Verona
Limited Editions Club
1963
With the Limited Editions Club monthly newsletter for August 1963 and original prospectus inserted loose.
Kenneth Auchincloss’s booklabel to front pastedown.More details Price: £60.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HARTZENBUSCH, Juan.
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The Lovers of Teruel, A Drama in Four Acts in Prose and Verse. Translated from the Spanish by Henry Thomas.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1938
A really good binding design: "there are no records extant which mention the origin of the binding design, but its character suggests that it was…More details Price: £400.00
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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. TATIUS, Achilles.
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The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe.
New York
Shakespeare Head Press for Bernard Guilbert Guerney
1923
Achilles Tatius’s only surviving work, and one of the Greek prose romances that would go on to influence the development of the novel centuries later.More details Price: £60.00
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. HUTNER, Martin.
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The Making of The Book of Common Prayer of 1928.
Southbury, Connecticut
Chiswick Book Shop
1990
With the original prospectus loosely inserted. Warmly inscribed by Martin Hutner to “my fellow Grolierite” Ken Auchincloss on the first blank.
A chronicle of the production…More details Price: £400.00 -
YOLLA BOLLY PRESS. GLAD, Deanna. SCOTT, J.M. SMITH, Rod.
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The Man Who Made Wine.
Covelo, California
Yolla Bolly Press
1996
More details Price: £70.00