Criteria:
- Keyword = Book
-
OLD SCHOOL PRESS. SUTCLIFFE, John.
~
Lost Colours of the Cyclades.
Seaton
Old School Press
2016
In his capacity as a decorative artist, John has done a great deal of work in the Cyclades, in particular on the small island of…More details Price: £240.00
-
WHITTINGTON PRESS. MORGAN, Gwenda.
~
The Diary of a Land Girl, 1939-1945.
Risbury
Whittington Press
2002
Gwenda Morgan was born in 1908 in Petworth in West Sussex. This diary, illustrated with her own excellent wood engravings, is a remarkable and detailed…More details Price: £450.00
-
WADSWORTH (Edward). BENNETT, Arnold.
~
The Black Country.
London
The Ovid Press
1920
The introduction by Arnold Bennett is reprinted from the Leicester Galleries catalogue which was printed for the January 1920 exhibition of this work. At the…More details Price: £500.00
-
SUSAN ALLIX, book artist.
~
Crocodile: two accounts with figures of that curious animal, drawn and engraved from nature.
London
Susan Allix
2021
Adapted from a book found by the artist in the British Library - The History and Description of the Crocodile by Mr Amable Michel of…More details Price: £550.00
-
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
~
Treasure Island.
London
Cassell & Co
1883
A very important tale of pirates, derring do, exotic isles and ocean voyages which has influenced boys’ literature for over a century.More details Price: £15,000.00
-
STEPHEN CONWAY, designer bookbinder. DUNNING, John & POE, Edgar Allan.
~
The Bookman's Wake; with the Raven.
New York & London
Scribner & Folio Society
1995
The Bookman’s Wake is a murder mystery set in the world of Private Presses and printers. The story revolves around the search for a very…More details Price: £2,500.00
-
ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. [PEPLER, H.D.C.] GILL, Eric. JONES, David.
~
Pertinent and Impertinent, an assortment of verse.
Ditchling
S. Dominic’s Press
1926
Notes at the beginning suggest that “Stock-taking’ might have been a more appropriate title as the material was collected from racks and gallies in the…More details Price: £250.00
-
ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. GILL, Eric. PEPLER, Hilary.
~
In Petra, being a sequel to Nisi Dominus.
Ditchling
St. Dominic's Press
1923
The title is from one of the poems which is for Petra Gill on her seventeenth birthday and which has a chorus line In petra…More details Price: £380.00
-
ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. GILL, Eric.
~
Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae Juxta Ritum Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum Jussu Editae.
Ditchling
S. Dominic’s Press
1923
An extremely attractive printing of the Little Office of Our Lady according to the Dominican rite with plainchant notation between red staves. Printed mainly for…More details Price: £1,400.00
-
ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. GILL, A.E.R. & PEPLER, H.D.C.
~
Concerning Dragons. A Rhyme by H.D.C.P. with engravings by A.E.R.G.
Ditchling
Printed and published by Douglas Pepler
1926
The first of the ‘Rhyme Booklet Series’.
The Gill engravings are: St. Michael and the Dragon- Physick 66
Child and Nurse - Physick 67
Child in Bed-…More details Price: £70.00 -
S. DOMINIC'S PRESS.
~
The Game. A Monthly Magazine. Vol V. January-December, 1922
Ditchling
S Dominic’s Press
1922
Of the beginnings of The Game, which he called ‘that lively magazine’, Pepler wrote “Edward Johnston, Eric Gill and myself decided to print our views…More details Price: £1,500.00
-
RAVEN PRESS. BRAY, H.W.
~
The Book of Tobit from The Apocrypha, according to The Authorised Version.
Harrow
Raven Press, printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard & Horace Walter Bray
1931
The Book of Tobit, named after its hero Tobias, combines Jewish piety and morality with oriental folklore in a fascinating story.
Tobit, a devout and wealthy…More details Price: £400.00 -
PHILIP SMITH, bookbinder.
~
The New English Bible. New Testament.
Oxford & Cambridge University Presses, printed under Brooke Crutchley at the CUP,
1961
From the library of Lord Wardington sold at Sotheby’s 12th July 2006, Lot 210. Since then in a private collection. A remarkably good and rather…More details Price: £5,500.00
-
PEPLER, Douglas. GILL, Eric.
~
The Devil’s Devices or Control versus Service.
Hammersmith, London
published at the Hampshire Hog Workshops, Hampshire Hog Lane,
1915
Seen as the precursor to the S. Dominic’s Press with its early Gill engraving and close collaboration between Gill and Pepler.
At the time this…More details Price: £280.00 -
[PAPER]. D'AMBROSIO, Joseph.
~
David.
[Sherman Oaks, CA]
1989
Cast paper statue of Michelangelo’s David being a maquette for D’Ambrosio’s forthcoming book “D’Ambrosio’s David” which was issued in 1993. In his auto-biography ‘A Memoir…More details Price: £450.00 -
[PAINTED VELLUM BINDING]. DURER, Albrecht. FRANKE, Willibald.
~
Albrecht Durers Zeichnungen.
Liepzig-Berlin
Verlag Grethlein & Co
WWII booklabel of L. Jiranek.More details Price: £320.00
-
OLD STILE PRESS. GILL, Eric. MATHERS, E. Powys.
~
Procreant Hymn - I. Original Version, II. Alternative Version.
Llandog, Monmouthshire
Old Stile Press
2010
The words and the images appear as the defining text of Gill’s life. Physical love as a gift from God.
When engraving the images for the…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
O’CONNOR, John. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. RUTTER, Owen.
~
We Happy Few. An Anthology by Owen Rutter. I. Britain at War; II. Britain at Sea; III. Britain in the Air.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1946
A celebration of the end of the War and the last book to be prepared by Rutter before he died. John O’Connor completed all the…More details Price: £70.00
-
NONESUCH PRESS. VOLTAIRE, Francois. LOWINSKY, Thomas.
~
The Princess of Babylon.
London
The Nonesuch Press
1927
Written by Voltaire in 1768, The Princess of Babylon is a philosophical tale in the manner of Candide. The text used here is taken from…More details Price: £60.00
-
MUSÉE GRÉVIN.
~
Principaux Tableaux du Musée reproduits par la photographie. Première Serie et Deuxieme Serie.
Paris
Musee Grevin
c.1890s
The first two series of photographs souvenirs of the tableaux on show at the waxwork museum in boulevard Montmartre. It was founded in 1882 by…More details Price: £200.00