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WILSON, George Washington & VALENTINE, James. MAUCHLINE WARE BINDING.
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Scottish photograph album bound in a fine Mauchlineware binding.
c. 1865
George Washington Wilson (1823-1893) began life as a painter becoming a portrait photographer in 1852. He was based in Aberdeen and because of his proximity…More details Price: £2,000.00 -
W[erner] & S[chumann]
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Papieren Bloemen. Sneeuwbal, Appelbloesem, Kersebloesem. [Paper Flowers. Snowball (Hydrangea), Apple Blossom, Cherry Blossom]
Berlin
Werner & Schumann
c.1900
A few of the paper flowers have been started and threaded with wire but most are untouched in original condition. Making paper flowers was a…More details Price: £900.00 -
WERKMAN, Hendrik Nicolaas. BOUTENS, P.C.
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Reizang van burgers, terugkeerend uit de ballingschap [Travel song of citizens returning from exile].
[Groningen]
De Blauwe Schuit [The Blue Barge]
1944
A poem by Pieter Cornelis Boutens (1870-1943) from his Middelburg’s Overgang, here printed by Werkman to be distributed amongst the members of De Blauwe Schuit,…More details Price: £1,450.00 -
WALLER, John Green.
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Fifteen wooden printing blocks with fine pencil drawings on each depicting the vestments of various monastic orders.
c.1850-1870
The blocks are an unusual survival, showing an important part of the process of creating illustrations for a printed book. His detailed drawings formed the…More details Price: £2,100.00 -
TOD, Helen T. NEEDLEWORK BINDING.
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Floral Emblems.
[Scotland?]
1832
A beautifully written and laid out ‘dual-dictionary’ of 274 flowers detailing their names in both English and French and their assigned emotion or message written…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
TERN PRESS. MOORE, Thomas. PARRY, Nicholas.
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Five Odes of Anacreon.
Market Drayton
Tern Press
1985
A selection of the Greek poet Anacreon’s gently erotic odes, suitably illustrated.
Begun in 1973 in Shropshire by Nicholas and Mary Parry. In Matrix 5 Nicholas…More details Price: £100.00 -
ST. DOMINIC'S PRESS. GILL, Eric & PEPLER, Hilary.
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Nisi Dominus.
Ditchling
St. Dominic’s Press
1919
A heavily illustrated selected of 28 ‘rimes’ by Pepler. All the illustrations are printed from the original blocks.More details Price: £320.00 -
[SELF-IMPROVEMENT & MEMORY TRAINING]. ENNEVER, William J.
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Pelmanism, Lessons I-XII. [I. First Principles; II. Purpose; III. Knowledge & the Senses; IV. Will and Effort; V. Concentration; VI. Mental Connection; VII. Imagination & Originality; VIII. Pursuit of Truth; IX.On Personality; X. Books & Reading; XI. Your Subconscious Mind; XII. Pelmanism in Action].
New York
The Pelman Institute of America
1927-28
Self-improvement course to train memory and mental acuity. Pelmanism was immensely popular at the time, and one of its memory-based exercises using cards became a…More details Price: £300.00 -
RICHARD ZAUFT. BASHO, Matsuo.
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Enso. Four Haiku for the Seasons.
Massachusetts
Richard Zauft Editions.
2023
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is considered by many Japanese to be their country’s greatest poet, almost single handedly being responsible for the raising the esteem of…More details Price: £700.00 -
R. SPENCER & SONS, Chemists, Druggists, Brandy Merchants, and Tea-Dealers at the Phoenix, in the Cow-Market, Leeds.
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Trade Card advertising a new import of Cognac Brandy, Jamaica Rum and Holland’s Gin as well as Madeira and other British Wines &c
Leeds
printed by Thomas Wright
January 18, 1801
R. Spencer & Sons were a chemist and alcohol merchants in Leeds who imported good Brandy and rum from the Caribbean as well as Gin…More details Price: £250.00 -
PIPER, John.
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Brighton Aquatints. Twelve original aquatints of modern Brighton with short descriptions by the artist and an introduction by Lord Alfred Douglas.
London
printed at the Curwen Press for Duckworth
1939
The introduction is by Lord Alfred Douglas who lived in Brighton at that time. Each image has a short but fully felt description by the…More details Price: £3,200.00 -
NASH, Paul. NONESUCH PRESS.
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Genesis.
London
Printed at the Curwen Press for the Nonesuch Press
1924
A seminal Modernist piece in which Nash examines the evolution of primary form using the woodcut. The first of the the cuts ‘The Void’ is…More details Price: £4,500.00 -
NASH, Paul. CURWEN PRESS.
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A Specimen Paper Book of Pattern Papers designed for and in use at The Curwen Press.
London
published for The Curwen Press by The Fleuron Ltd
1928
Nash’s introduction relates the history of pattern papers, noting the exquisite end papers produced in Italy and France and much later in Augsburg during the…More details Price: £6,200.00 -
NASH, Paul. BROWNE, Sir Thomas. CURWEN PRESS.
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Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus.
London
printed at Curwen Press for Cassell & Co.
1932
This justly famous book was published during the height of the depression, when the market for deluxe books was in a severe slump. As a…More details Price: £9,500.00 -
NASH, Paul. BEAUMONT PRESS. DRINKWATER, John.
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Loyalties: A Book of Poems.
Westminster
printed by hand at the Beaumont Press
1918
Printed and bound by hand by Cyril Beaumont (1891-1976), the dance historian, critic, bookseller and publisher, at his press in Westminster. A very rare Nash…More details Price: £950.00 -
[MORRIS, William. KELMSCOTT PRESS]. DE ROOS, S.J.
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Kunst en Maatschappij [Art and Society], Lezingen van William Morris.
Amsterdam
A.B. Soep
1903
Together with the very rare original publisher’s prospectus and order form, 6pp., folded in 3. 12mo, each with an engraved border printed in yellow and…More details Price: £950.00 -
MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES. SCHANILEC, Gaylord.
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Sylvae.
Wisconsin
Midnight Paper Sales
2007
Twenty wooded acres surround Midnight Paper Sales in western Wisconsin. The book documents the journey of Ben Verhoeven and Gaylord Schanilec into the woods to…More details Price: £4,000.00 -
MAUCHLINE WARE BINDING. BURNS, Robert.
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns with a Memoir of the Author's Life and A Glossary.
London
Milner & Company
c. 1850s
Mauchline ware was a decorative technique that originated in the 1830s in the Scottish town of Mauchline in which a transfer print of a wood…More details Price: £300.00 -
MAILLOL, Aristide. LONGUS.
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Daphnis and Chloe.
London
A. Zwemmer, printed in Paris
December 7th, 1937
With a personal presentation note on blue paper inserted loose “With love & best wishes from Aristide, 7th December 43”.
Translated into English from the original…More details Price: £2,800.00 -
LORTIC, père, bookbinder. SHAKESPEARE, William.
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.
London
William Pickering
1826
More details Price: £2,600.00






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