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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B.
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An Account of the Dedication of The West Window of St. John's Church, Beverly Farms, Whitsunday, May 31st 1925.
Boston
The Merrymount Press
1925
The dedication of the west window of St. John’s Church, finely printed by Updike, and with a plate, diagram and explanation of the symbolism of…More details Price: £180.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal, written by Himself.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1925
The 1740 colourful memoir of the British actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate Colley Cibber (1671-1757). He had great comical success but was considered brash and…More details Price: £120.00 -
![An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews by Mr Conny Keyber [Henry Fielding]. by GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11075---200.jpg?v=1761566244)
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry.
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An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews by Mr Conny Keyber [Henry Fielding].
Waltham Saint Lawrence
printed by Robert Gibbings at the Godlen Cockerel Press
1926
Edited and with an introcution by R. Brimley Johnson.More details Price: £35.00 -
![An Enquiry into the Causes of the Miscarriage of the Scots Colony at Darien. or an Answer to a Libel entitled A Defence of the Scots Abdicating Darien. Submitted to the consideration of the Good People of England. by [RIDPATH, George].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/9948---200.jpg?v=1740499230)
[RIDPATH, George].
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An Enquiry into the Causes of the Miscarriage of the Scots Colony at Darien. or an Answer to a Libel entitled A Defence of the Scots Abdicating Darien. Submitted to the consideration of the Good People of England.
Glasgow
1700
One of the most important of the few existing Darien tracts being a detailed explanation of why the Colony failed and a defence of the…More details Price: £2,500.00 -
PENTAGRAM PRESS. TARACHOW, Michael. DOSTALE, Mercedes.
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An Exploration of the Granjon Arabesques.
Minneapolis
Pentagram Press
1990
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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. BLADES, William. REED, Philip G.
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An Extract from Enemies of Books.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
[n.d. circa 1934]
Blades’s 19th century diatribe on biblioclasts and book preservation, this extract on the perils of women and children in the library.More details Price: £30.00
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FERGUSON, James.
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An Introduction to Electricity. In six sections.
London
W. Strahan & T. Cadell
1770
Elihu Thomson’s copy with his signature and bookplate of the Elihu Thomson Collection of the Franklin Institute Library, deaccessioned. Initially Ferguson’s lectures dealt mainly with…More details Price: £1,900.00 -
NEW YORK CHAPPEL.
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An Uncommonplace Book; The Second Uncommonplace Book.
New York
The New York Chappel
1960; 1961
Volume 1 was the first book printed by the New York Chappel, and has the book label and signature of Joseph Francis Weiler (formerly of…More details Price: £80.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. MILLER, Patrick. WEBB, Clifford.
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Ana the Runner, A Treatise for Princes & Generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1937
Sandford wrote of printing this work: “To print a new manuscript with which one has falled in love is to deck the beloved. When one…More details Price: £250.00 -
![‘ANCIENT & MODERN STATUES’ - two LATE 18TH CENTURY DECOUPAGE ALBUMS CONTAINING CUT-TO-SHAPE ENGRAVINGS TAKEN FROM RACCOLTA DI STATUE ANTICHE E MODERNE’ by [ROSSI, Domenico de].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12242---200.jpg?v=1761567256)
[ROSSI, Domenico de].
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‘ANCIENT & MODERN STATUES’ - two LATE 18TH CENTURY DECOUPAGE ALBUMS CONTAINING CUT-TO-SHAPE ENGRAVINGS TAKEN FROM RACCOLTA DI STATUE ANTICHE E MODERNE’
[Rome
Gaetano Zenobi
c.1704]
An unusual pair of late 18th century albums containing 150 engravings largely taken from Domenico de Rossi’s celebrated collection of classical, Renaissance and Baroque sculpture.…More details Price: £2,800.00 -
‘DG’. ILLUMINATED CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT
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Andante.
[Worthing, Sussex]
1948
The text, apparently by the scribe, is in effect a guide to walks on the South Downs in Sussex around Worthing. The routes are very…More details Price: £2,500.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GEDDES, Elizabeth.
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Animal Antics.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1937
A rather lovely little book printed for Christmas and dedicated by the author to Robert Gibbings.More details Price: £20.00
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ERNI, Hans. SOPHOCLES.
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Antigone.
Lausanne
Andre Gonin
1949
Hans Erni was an important Swiss artist well known for his posters, murals, designs for stamps, ceramics and theatre sets as well as his elegant…More details Price: £1,000.00 -
KIEFFER, René, bookbinder. LOUŸS, Pierre. CALBET, Antoine.
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Aphrodite Moeurs Antique.
Paris
Albin Michel, Les Grands Livres du XXe Siecle
n.d. [1923]
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DePOL, John.
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Archive of John DePol wood engravings, prospectuses, Christmas cards and keepsakes.
1940-1990
John DePol (1913-2004) was a New York wood engraver. He was inspired by his city and was well known for his work with John Fass…More details Price: £750.00 -
WILLIAMSON, Elaine.
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Archive of pottery designs for Crown Staffordshire, Coalport and Poole Pottery amongst others.
1970s-1990s
Elaine Williamson studied at Manchester College of Art and then went on to post-graduate study at Stoke-on-Trent, the centre of the English ceramic industry. Her…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
RICHARDSON, Sir John.
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Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat Voyage Through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under command of Sir John Franklin
London
1851
First edition of this account of a voyage to the Arctic regions, in search Sir John Franklin's expedition, by Sir John Richardson (1787-1865). Richardson studied…More details Price: £3,200.00 -
RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. MILTON, John.
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Areopagitica. A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.
Cambridge
Deighton, Bell & Company
1973
The most widely read of Milton’s prose works, his famous defence of the freedom of the press, written in opposition to the parliamentary order that…More details Price: £350.00 -
GILL, Eric.
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Art and a changing civilisation.
London
John Lane and Bodley Head
1934
From The Twentieth Century Library series edited by Krishna Menon.More details Price: £30.00 -
![Aurifodina or, Adventures in the Gold Region, a fantastical ‘49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigley [G.W. Peck]. by HOYEM, Andrew.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/6279---200.jpg?v=1740500322)
HOYEM, Andrew.
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Aurifodina or, Adventures in the Gold Region, a fantastical ‘49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigley [G.W. Peck].
San Francisco
printed at the press of Andrew Hoyem for the Book Club of California
1974
A reprint of the first novel written by an American to be set in California. Aurifodina is a fantasy utopian country inhabited by a race…More details Price: £40.00
![An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews by Mr Conny Keyber [Henry Fielding]. by GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11075---800.jpg?v=1761566244)
![An Enquiry into the Causes of the Miscarriage of the Scots Colony at Darien. or an Answer to a Libel entitled A Defence of the Scots Abdicating Darien. Submitted to the consideration of the Good People of England. by [RIDPATH, George].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/9948---800.jpg?v=1740499230)
![Another image of An Enquiry into the Causes of the Miscarriage of the Scots Colony at Darien. or an Answer to a Libel entitled A Defence of the Scots Abdicating Darien. Submitted to the consideration of the Good People of England. by [RIDPATH, George].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/9948_2---800.jpg?v=1740499972)
![‘ANCIENT & MODERN STATUES’ - two LATE 18TH CENTURY DECOUPAGE ALBUMS CONTAINING CUT-TO-SHAPE ENGRAVINGS TAKEN FROM RACCOLTA DI STATUE ANTICHE E MODERNE’ by [ROSSI, Domenico de].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12242---800.jpg?v=1761567256)
![Another image of ‘ANCIENT & MODERN STATUES’ - two LATE 18TH CENTURY DECOUPAGE ALBUMS CONTAINING CUT-TO-SHAPE ENGRAVINGS TAKEN FROM RACCOLTA DI STATUE ANTICHE E MODERNE’ by [ROSSI, Domenico de].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12242_2---800.jpg?v=1761567205)
![Another image of ‘ANCIENT & MODERN STATUES’ - two LATE 18TH CENTURY DECOUPAGE ALBUMS CONTAINING CUT-TO-SHAPE ENGRAVINGS TAKEN FROM RACCOLTA DI STATUE ANTICHE E MODERNE’ by [ROSSI, Domenico de].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12242_3---800.jpg?v=1761566465)
![Aurifodina or, Adventures in the Gold Region, a fantastical ‘49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigley [G.W. Peck]. by HOYEM, Andrew.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/6279---800.jpg?v=1740500322)
![Another image of Aurifodina or, Adventures in the Gold Region, a fantastical ‘49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigley [G.W. Peck]. by HOYEM, Andrew.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/6279_2---800.jpg?v=1740500360)