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PREVIOUS PARROT PRESS. KING, Annie Randall. ~ An Alphabet of Deadly Sins and Lesser Evils Peculiar to the House and Garden. Hanborough Preprandial Parrot Press 1998
An excellent little alphabet.More details Price: £120.00 -
RAVEN PRESS. ~ An Announcement and A First List of Three Books Designed and Printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray at The Raven Press in Harrow Weald Middlesex. Middlesex Raven Press 1931
With the original order form inserted loose.More details Price: £25.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. ~ 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 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry. ~ 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 -
[SANGORSKI, Alberto] GRAY, Thomas. ~ An Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard. c.1910
Gray’s Elegy was one of Sangorski’s favourite texts for illumination, Ratcliffe in Hidden Treasures, lists six copies of the title, including this one.
Loosely inserted are…More details Price: £12,500.00 -
[RIDPATH, George]. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ 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 -
NONESUCH PRESS. GOODEN, Stephen. ~ Anacreon. London The Nonesuch Press 1923
Gooden’s first book which Meynell considered to be his finest.
Ex libris of Edward Sackville West, the novelist and music critic on front pastedown. Sackville-West was…More details Price: £70.00 -
HAMMER, Victor. KREDEL, Fritz. ANVIL PRESS. RACINE. ~ Andromache: A Tragedy as it [was] acted in the Duke’s Theatre, 1675, Freely translated into English in 1674 from Jean Racine's Andromaque by a Young Gentleman & John Crowne. Lexington, Kentucky Anvil Press 1986
More details Price: £580.00 -
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. ~ 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 -
HILL, W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. ~ Antonio Stradivari, His Life and Work (1644-1737). London William E. Hill & Sons, Violin Makers, New Bond St. 1902
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DePOL, John. ~ 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 -
RICHARDSON, Sir John. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ 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