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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 -
[ROSSI, Domenico de]. ~ ‘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 -
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
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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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KIEFFER, René, bookbinder. LOUŸS, Pierre. CALBET, Antoine. ~ Aphrodite Moeurs Antique. Paris Albin Michel, Les Grands Livres du XXe Siecle n.d. [1923]
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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 -
WILLIAMSON, Elaine. ~ 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: £2,200.00 -
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 -
GILL, Eric. ~ Art and Manufacture. London Printed by the Fanfare Press for the New Handworkers’ Gallery 1929
Here are Gill’s thoughts, eloquently put, on what is Art and what it is for. “The artist is a man who makes things - that…More details Price: £450.00 -
C & C McLeish, bookbinders. DOBSON, Austin. ~ At the Sign of the Lyre. London Kegan, Paul 1885
Charles McLeish, the Elder, was born in 1859 and, after working for Riviere, joined the Doves Bindery when it was first formed as finisher. He…More details Price: £950.00 -
HOYEM, Andrew. ~ 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 -
EHMCKE, F.H. POPP, Dr. J. ~ Ausstellung F.H. Ehmcke. Munich Bucherstube am Siegestor Horst Stobbe 1917
Includes a dated bibliography of works up to 1917 by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878-1965), the German graphic artist, type designer, illustrator and book designer who…More details Price: £45.00 -
[SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. THORP, Joseph. ~ B.H. Newdigate Scholar–Printer 1869-1944. Oxford Basil Blackwell 1950
With the book label of D.G. Bridson.More details Price: £30.00 -
FARLEIGH, John. SHAW, [George] Bernard. ~ Back to Methuselah [A Metabiological Pentateuch]. New York Limited Editions Club 1939
With the advertising card for this publication, The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club from July, 1939, Number 119. with the title “If there…More details Price: £80.00 -
SCHANILEC, Gaylord. MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES. HAUTMAN, Pete. ~ Bad Beat with Joe Crow’s Rules for Poker and Life. [Stockholm] Midnight Paper Sales 1998
With the original prospectus inserted loose.
Novelist Pete Hautman is a player. Early one morning the rest of us were moving as quickly as we could…More details Price: £100.00