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- Keyword = Fine Bookbinding
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PATTINSON, Alice. GOSSE, Edmund.
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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.
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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 -
NICKY OLIVER, designer bookbinder. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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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 -
RICKETTS, Charles. DE TABLEY, Lord.
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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.
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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 -
GARTH WHILE, designer bookbinder & calligrapher. STONE, Reynolds & CLARK, Kenneth.
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Reynolds Stone Engravings: with an introduction by the artist.
London
John Murray
1977
Garth While trained in bookbinding under De Coverley at Morley College and studied calligraphy with Dorothy Mahoney, a student and assistant of the great Edward…More details Price: £2,500.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. NASH, Paul & FISHER, George.
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Shaw Gives Himself Away. An Autobiographical Miscellany.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1939
The book contains extracts and short pieces by Shaw, specially edited with some revisions by Shaw for this edition.More details Price: £1,000.00 -
DE NERVAL, Gerard. CLOUZOT, Marianne. DESMULES, R.
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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 -
ROGER POWELL, bookbinder. ST. DOMINIC'S PRESS. GILL, Eric.
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The Dressmaker and Milkmaid.
Ditchling
St. Dominic’s Press
1929
Two verses by Pepler - both beginning “Our Lady was a....”
Roger Powell was born in 1896 and began binding seriously in 1930 when he studied…More details Price: £480.00 -
SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE. GEORGE V.
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The Form and Order of the Service that is to be Performed and of the Ceremonies that are to be Observed in The Coronation of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary in the Abbey Church of S. Peter, Westminster, on Thursday, the 22nd Day of June, 1911. With the music that is to be sung, edited by Sir Frederick Bridge.
London
Novello & Co
1911
A remarkable and elaborate printing of the Coronation Service with all its glorious music including Parry’s “I Was Glad”, Handel’s “Zadok the Priest”, Purcell’s ‘Let…More details Price: £750.00 -
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ITALIAN DECORATIVE BINDING. [DRUMMOND, Henry].
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -
HAEIN SONG, designer bookbinder. CAMUS, Albert.
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.
London
Hamish Hamilton
1971
Camus' philosophical essay compares the absurdity of man's life with the Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology, who was condemned to repeat forever the same…More details Price: £1,700.00 -
PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. DINE, Jim. APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume.
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The Poet Assassinated.
London
Rupert Hart-Davies
1968
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[DOVES BINDERY]. RUSKIN, John.
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
Sunnyside, Orpington
George Allen
1898
Reputedly the copy belonging to Cobden-Sanderson’s son Richard hence why it is in an unsigned Doves binding.More details Price: £900.00 -
ESSLEMONT, David. GENTLEMAN, David.
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The Wood Engravings of David Gentleman.
Montgomery
David Esslemont
2000
With an introduction by Fiona Maccarthy.
Inserted loose is a letter from David Esslemont presenting this first special copy which describes his binding process:
“My design is…More details Price: £2,500.00 -
ERI FUNAZAKI & DANNY FLYNN, book artists.
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Theatre Dog.
ff [Flynn & Funazaki]
2013
The text is an excerpt from a play involving two dogs having a heated conversation about their daily life (ie waiting to be told where…More details Price: £1,200.00
![The Greatest Thing in the World: An Address. by ITALIAN DECORATIVE BINDING. [DRUMMOND, Henry].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8781---800.jpg?v=1653071607)
![The Seven Lamps of Architecture. by [DOVES BINDERY]. RUSKIN, John.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/10262---800.jpg?v=1653073253)
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