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HASSALL, W.O. DROPMORE PRESS.
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The Holkham Bible Picture Book.
London
Dropmore Press
1954
William Hassall was librarian to the Earl of Leicester, who owned the 14th century manuscript before it went to the British Museum in 1952, and…More details Price: £450.00
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BINDING SAMPLE BOOK FOR THE BIBLE.
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The Holy Bible. According to the Authorized Version, with the marginal readings and parallel references, printed at length and the Commentaries of Henry and Scott, condensed by the Rev. John McFalane LLD.
Glasgow, Edinburgh & London
William Collins, Sons & Company
c.1871
A remarkable survival and fascinating insight into the importance of choosing a family Bible and how the options were presented to the plentiful customers.More details Price: £3,600.00
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ROGERS, Bruce.
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The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's Special Command.
Oxford
Printed at the University Press
1935
Bruce Rogers’s magnum opus. "The Oxford Lectern Bible represents the full flowering of Bruce Rogers's genius as a designer of books. In the grandeur of…More details Price: £13,500.00
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SEVERIN, Mark.
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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1948
Greek text translated into English verse by F.L. Lucas.
Using Mark Severin to illustrate this book was part of Christopher Sandford’s policy of trying to commission…More details Price: £1,800.00 -
WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. BERNEN, Robert.
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The House on the Cove.
London
Printed at The Whittington Press for The Acorn Press
1987
Bernen’s account of life on a Greek island, interspersed with his poem, ‘Floor Boards’.More details Price: £50.00
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GILL, Eric.
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The Human Person and Society.
London
Printed by Hague Gill & Davey for The Peace Pledge Union
1940
More details Price: £10.00
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert. COPPARD, A.E.
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The Hundredth Story.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1931
The first of the successful ‘Guinea series’ of illustrated modern authors, printed in the new Golden Cockerel type designed especially for Gibbings by his friend…More details Price: £60.00
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OFFICINA BRINDABELLA. MURRAY, Les A. ATKINS, Rosalind.
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The Idyll Wheel. Cycle of a Year at Bunyah, New South Wales, April 1986 – April 1987.
Canberra
Officina Brindabella
1989
A lovely example of Australian Alec Bolton’s fine printing combined with the natural wood engravings of the Australian artist Rosalind Atkins. Bolton was a creative…More details Price: £400.00
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ROGERS, Bruce. BOOTH, Franklin. ESAREY, Logan.
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The Indiana Home.
Bloomington
Indiana University Press
1953
With the original prospectus inserted loose.
The artists, Rogers and Booth, were both natives of Indiana.More details Price: £30.00 -
CURWEN PRESS. DISRAELI. AUSTEN, John.
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The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli the Younger.
London
printed at The Curwen Press for William Jackson
1929
With a bibliography of books with illustrations by John Austen at the rear.More details Price: £40.00
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. ROSS, Gordon. SURTEES, R.S.
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The Jaunts and Jollities of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks of St. Botolph Lane and Great Coram Street.
New York
Limited Editions Club
1932
Robert Surtees began writing about the inimitable sporting hero John Jorrocks – a cockney grocer with a penchant for fox hunting – in the early…More details Price: £50.00
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. RUZICKA, Rudolph.
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The Jonny-Cake Papers of 'Shepherd Tom' Together with Reminiscenes of Narragansett Schools of Former Days by Thomas Robinson Hazard.
Boston
The Merrymount Press
1915
Rhode Island’s Thomas Robinson Hazard’s whimsical reminiscences of Narragansett and his family’s generation-proven method for baking ‘jonny-cakes’, originally a Native American dish, made of corn…More details Price: £60.00
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OLD STILE PRESS. LEMAIRE, Angela.
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The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer.
Monmouthshire
Old Stile Press
2000
Lemaire engraved the blocks in the text especially for an edition of ‘Thomas the Rhymer’ and the engravings, depicting the seasons, that appear throughout the…More details Price: £100.00
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VALE PRESS. JAMES I.
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The Kingis Quair.
London
Vale Press
1903
A more elaborate illustrated edition had been planned but it was abandoned in favour or the rather charming simplicity of this version in Rickett’s extraordinary…More details Price: £350.00
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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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GREGYNOG PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair.
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The Lamentations of Jeremiah.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1933
A spectacular work from the Press, and I would argue one of the greatest from any Press around this time, with an abundance of astonishing…More details Price: £2,200.00
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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