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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 -
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 -
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 -
KELMSCOTT PRESS. MORRIS, William.
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The Water of the Wondrous Isles.
Hammersmith
sold by the trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press
1897
Morris’s dramatic Arthurian fantasy Romance which referenced his socialistic beliefs and concerns for contemporary Britain which is portrayed in the book as ‘Unsought’, an island…More details Price: £7,800.00 -
KAMISAKI, Sunao.
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Chimei ateji ehon [Picture Book of Place Names]; with, Bunbutsu ateji ehon [Picture book of cultural objects]; and, Jinmei-ateji ehon [Picture Book of People].
Tokyo
Kosho Tsushinsha
[Showa 62, ie 1987]
A charming set designed as a trio centred on a general theme of Western ‘names’ - of people, places and things (bunbutsu, or ‘cultural objects).
The…More details Price: £750.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. WYNNE, Ellis.
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Visions of the Sleeping Bard. Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1940
The penultimate book printed at the Gregynog Press with, as Harrop remarks, “one of the most pleasing...bindings”
Ellis Wynne (1671-1734) was a Welsh cleric whose Visions…More details Price: £400.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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The Birth of Christ from the Gospel according to Saint Luke.
Waltham St. Lawrence
The Golden Cockerel Press
1925
A beautifully designed Christmas book by Noel Rooke for the Golden Cockerel Press. Rooke (1881-1953) was a key figure in the revival of British wood…More details Price: £320.00
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GILL, Eric.
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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 -
FORE-EDGE PAINTING. BALFOUR, Clara L, editor.
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A Whisper to a Newly Married Pair from a Widowed Wife.
London
printed for Houlston and Stoneman
1850
The fore-edge painting was probably done in the second half of the 20th century and compliments the subject matter of the book perfectly, if rather…More details Price: £950.00
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ERAGNY PRESS. FLAUBERT, Gustave.
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La Legende de Saint Julien L'Hospitalier.
London
Eragny Press, sold by Hacon & Ricketts
1900
In 1896 Camille Pissarro suggested that Lucien should think of printing works by Flaubert which were not in copyright which led to him printing these…More details Price: £400.00 -
DUBOUCHET, Prof. G.
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L'Art de L'Etain grave, repousse, modele, cisele, mosaique et patine
Paris
Bourgeois Aine
[1912]
The box is illustrated on p.19 of the booklet where it is advertised for sale at 16 francs. Our box includes a set square which…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
DELAHAUT, Jo.
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Bruxelles
le seriegraphe Jean-Luc Stas, mis en page par Joelle Pontseel for Delahaut
1985
The painter Jo Delahaut (1911-1992) is one of the pivotal figures of the geometric abstraction in Belgium. He was born in Liège and studied at…More details Price: £900.00 -
DELAHAUT, Jo.
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AB...
Bruxelles
le sérigraphe Bernard Villers, mis en page par Jacques Everard for Delahaut
1970
In this publication, illustrated with double page geometrical abstract silk prints, he publishes some of his manIfesto and ideas about abstract art and the relation…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. MALLARMÉ, Stéphane.
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L'Apres Midi d'un Faune.
London & The Hague
JBW editions
1956
The last of the three JBW editions, the others were Cupid’s Pastime and Cupid and Psyches which were published in 1935 and 1936. L’Après Midi…More details Price: £5,000.00 -
ADAMS, Cuthbert Harry. [DA VINCI, Leonardo].
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Art. Revealing the Emotions and the Soul; The Head of Christ by Leonardo Da Vinci. From the ‘Ministry of Art’ by J.G. [John Gibbins].
1932
A fine piece of work by the Birmingham illuminator and artist Harry Cuthbert Adams (1894-1974) reproducing Da Vinci’s work is a spectacular manner alongside an…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London & Glasgow
Collins
1900
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