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THOMAS, Peter and Donna.
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A Collection of Paper Samples from Hand Papermills in the United States of America.
Santa Cruz
Peter & Donna Thomas
1993
27 papermakers are represented with samples each of which has a statement of their process and/or philosophy printed on a specific sample of their paper…More details Price: £1,200.00
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SCOTT, Walter; illuminated by WINDSOR, G. P
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The Fire King. Translated from the German by Walter Scott.
[London Privately published] 1877An unusual and beautifully produced edition of Sir Walter Scott’s fantastical ballad ‘The Fire King’, vibrantly embellished throughout by the artist G. P. Windsor, wonderfully…More details Price: £650.00 -
SAWADA, Yoichiro, artist.
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Sekai Monyo-shu [Patterns from around the World]
Kyoto
Unsodo,
Taisho 4 [1915]
More details Price: £1,250.00
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[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
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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]
More details Price: £2,800.00
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HASLEWOOD BOOKS. LOWINSKY, Thomas. MORTIMER, Raymond.
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Modern Nymphs, being a series of fourteen fashion plates with an introductory essay on clothes.
London
Printed by the Westminster Press for Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 192 Church Street Kensington W8
1930
Lowinsky produces stunning Art Deco fashion plates based on classical nymphs for Mortimer’s amusing but serious essay on fashion, issued during one of its greatest…More details Price: £1,400.00
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. DE CHAIR, Somerset. WEBB, Clifford.
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The Story of a Lifetime.
London
privately printed at the Golden Cockerel Press
1954
“An unorthodox account of the events in the life of Jesus between the Resurrection and the Ascension, as revealed to the author in what he…More details Price: £500.00
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GEORGE PHILIP & SON.
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Philips' Planisphere showing the Principal Stars Visible for Every Hour in the Year.
London,
Made in Germany for George Philip & Son.
1890s
More details Price: £400.00
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GAVIN DOVEY, designer bookbinder. MONGIN, Morina. MOUCHA, Miroslav.
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Touchez Voir.
Paris
2018
The binder writes that “the design reflects the modest and minimal nature of the illustrations, with the cover in white and the inside mirrored in…More details Price: £3,500.00
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EDUCATION.
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Children's lithographic wooden puzzle blocks with the original chromolithographic picture guide sheets.
Probably Germany
c.1880s
More details Price: £300.00
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DOVEY, Gaven. BASKIN, Leonard. HECHT, Anthony.
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The Gehenna Florilegium.
Maine
Gehenna Press
1998
A remarkably fine binding by Gavin Dovey who, after training the UK, set up shop in the US in 2004 and now works as a…More details Price: £8,500.00
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DOVES PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William.
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus.
Hammersmith
Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson at The Doves Press...Compositor: William Jenkins. Pressmen: H. Gage-Cole and Albert Lewis.
1914
Coriolanus was announced for publication in September or October in the Catalogue Raisonné of April 1913. It was about half printed when Cobden-Sanderson became ill…More details Price: £1,500.00
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DICKENS, Charles.
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Two Original Photographs of Charles Dickens, gifted by his daughter Mary "Mamie" Dickens.
c.1866
Two original photographs depicting Charles Dickens (1812-1870) presented by his eldest daughter Mary ‘Mamie’ to Eliza Davis (1817-1913), a notable correspondent of Dickens.
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CRANACH PRESS. GILL, Eric.
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Canticum Canticorum Salomonis.
[Weimar
Cranach Presse
1931]
A superb copy. Inserted loose is a 4 page list of former publications of the Cranach Press, plus two prospectuses with an original Gill engraving,…More details Price: £3,600.00
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COURBOULEIX, Leon.
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Le Cantique des Cantiques [The Song of Songs].
[Paris]
n.d. [c.1920]
Leon Courbouleix (1887-1972) was a painter, illustrator and noted printmaker. We are offering an outstanding example of Courbouleix’s work where he made entire books on…More details Price: £800.00
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THE CALEDONIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON.
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS: I. The President's Log Book 1909-1910 and II: The President's Log Book 1920-1921.
London
1909-1921
Together with a volume presented to John Douglas (President of the Caledonian Society of London 1920-21 and Secretary 1909-10) organised by the Federated council of…More details Price: £800.00
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C & C McLeish, bookbinders. DOBSON, Austin.
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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
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BIRD AND BULL PRESS. FAVRE, Maurice.
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La Relieuse. Charles Meunier's Plaquette, 1900: A rare and beautiful depiction of The Bookbinder in medallic art.
Newtown, PA
Bird & Bull Press
[1996]
The text, written with the help of Marianne Tidcombe, relates that the French bookbinder Charles Meunier (1865-1940) had the original plaquette of a woman sewing…More details Price: £120.00
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ASHENDENE PRESS. JAMES, Henry.
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Refugees in Chelsea.
Chelsea
Printed by C.H. StJohn Hornby at the Ashendene Press for private circulation only
1920
The piece first appeared in the Times Literary Supplement of March 23, 1916, an original copy of which is included with this book, and was…More details Price: £3,600.00
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ASHENDENE PRESS.
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I Fioretti del Glorioso Poverello Di Cristo S. Francesco di Assisi.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1922
With a presentation headed post card from Hornby to Professor Linetta de Castelvecchio dated March 1922, the year of publication. Also with an inscription on…More details Price: £2,200.00