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- Keyword = Fine Bookbinding
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[BOUND FOR BUMPUS LTD]. VALE PRESS. SHELLEY. ~ Lyrical Poems of Shelley. London Printed at the Ballantyne Press under the supervision of Charles Ricketts and sold by Hacon & Ricketts 1898
Bumpus Ltd of Oxford Street was a department store which sold bindings with its own signature on the turn-in but which were actually bound by…More details Price: £450.00 -
BARTA, Ladislas Laszlo. ARISTOPHANES. ~ Lysistrata. Fontenay-aux-Roses Editions de la Cicogne 1932
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PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. HUGO JONES. ~ Men at Work. [2014]
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DE COSTER, Germaine & DUMAS, Hélène. DUFY, Raoul. DERYS, Gaston. ~ Mon Docteur le vin. Paris Draeger Frères 1936
A fabulous binding on an excellent book describing all the benefits of wine from preventing obesity, giving vitamins, curing typhus, depression, appendicitis, diabetes and helping…More details Price: £6,800.00 -
ALLIX, Susan. ~ MYTH. Myths of the Greeks selected from Accounts by Hesiod, Homer, Apollodorus, Aeschylus, Ovid & others. London Susan Allix 2011
An extraordinary piece of work for which Susan Allix won the Judge's Choice award at the Oxford Fine Press Fair in 2012.
The artist combines accounts…More details Price: £4,250.00 -
PATTINSON, Alice. GOSSE, Edmund. ~ On Viol and Flute. London C. Whittingham & Co at the Chiswick Press for Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co 1890
Alice Pattinson was a pupil of Douglas Cockerell and her bindings, particularly this one with its central rose and leaf pattern and choice of goatskin,…More details Price: £2,900.00 -
ERI FUNAZAKI & DANNY FLYNN, book artists and designer bookbinder. ~ One & Two. ff[Funazaki & Flynn] 2011
“The prose by Flynn involves a sad battle of wits and the humorous missed communications between a man and a woman. Illustration of the urban…More details Price: £1,300.00 -
BIRKENRUTH, Johanna. ~ Pair of leather bookends. London 89 Cromwell Road c.1897
Johanna Birkenruth (1853-1929), began binding around 1888 and was a fascinating example of an enterprising, independent woman of the time who made a living out…More details Price: £1,500.00 -
NICKY OLIVER, designer bookbinder. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. ~ Pasiphae. London Golden Cockerel Press 1950
Nicky Oliver’s design notes read: Pasiphae: the immortal daughter of the sun god Helios, wife of King Minos of Crete. Legend has it that her…More details Price: £3,500.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, JOHN. ~ Pervigilium Veneris. The Vigil of Venus. London Golden Cockerel Press 1939
With two gatherings proof pages of 4 pages each including the two title pages with 4 copper engravings and a 4 page gathering with 2…More details Price: £4,500.00 -
RICKETTS, Charles. DE TABLEY, Lord. ~ Poems Dramatic and Lyrical by John Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley. London & New York Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Macmillan & Co 1893
With the bookplates of Sir John Leslie of Glasnough Castle and his son Shane Leslie who has added an ink inscription “Shane Leslie, in Limerick,…More details Price: £500.00 -
PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. OLD STILE PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William. ~ Pyramus and Thisbe. Monmouthshire Old Stile Press 2003
Jones has taken this tale from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and reflected the story - particularly noticeable in his use of opaque acrylic to represent…More details Price: £3,250.00 -
RIVIÈRE & SON. POGANY, Willy. KHAYYAM, Omar. ~ Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London George G Harrap & Co [c. 1916]
Robert Rivière came from a Huguenot family of artists and was apprenticed to a London firm before setting up business in 1829 in Bath as…More details Price: £6,800.00 -
DE NERVAL, Gerard. CLOUZOT, Marianne. DESMULES, R. ~ Sylvie. Paris Marcel Lubineau 1944
Semi-autobiographical, Nerval’s story is of three lost loves. Proust style (in fact Proust was a great fan of the book), a paragraph in the newspaper…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
ZAEHNSDORF, Joseph W. ~ The Art of Bookbinding. London George Bell & Sons 1880
Joseph Zaehnsdorf senior (1816-1886) was both in Austria-Hungary, coming to London in 1837 where he was taught to bind by a notable binder called James…More details Price: £5,600.00 -
ITALIAN DECORATIVE BINDING. [DRUMMOND, Henry]. ~ The Greatest Thing in the World: An Address. London Hodder and Stoughton 1912
A book on the greatest thing in the World - Love - affectionately inscribed in memory of a visit to Bath in 1912.
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ROGER POWELL, bookbinder. OSTLER, George. ~ The Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Oxford Clarendon Press 1957
Together with the two original metal blocks used to blind-tool the letters A and Z.
The binding is unsigned but comes with a letter from The…More details Price: £2,900.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HARTZENBUSCH, Juan. ~ The Lovers of Teruel, A Drama in Four Acts in Prose and Verse. Translated from the Spanish by Henry Thomas. Gregynog Press 1938
A really good binding design: "there are no records extant which mention the origin of the binding design, but its character suggests that it was…More details Price: £450.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HARTZENBUSCH, Juan. ~ The Lovers of Teruel, A Drama in Four Acts in Prose and Verse. Translated from the Spanish by Henry Thomas. Newtown Gregynog Press 1938
A really good binding design: "there are no records extant which mention the origin of the binding design, but its character suggests that it was…More details Price: £400.00 -
GIANNINI, Giuseppe. ~ The Masterpieces of Van Dyck. London & Glasgow Gowans & Gray 1908
A classic of the genre of bindings produced by the famous Giuseppe Giannini of Florence for the English tourist trade.More details Price: £390.00