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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 -
OLIVER, Nicky.
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The British Sign Language Alphabet.
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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 the music including Parry’s “I Was Glad”, Handel’s “Zadok the Priest”, Purcell’s ‘Let my…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.More details Price: £380.00 -
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
Produced by the famous Giuseppe Giannini of Florence for the English tourist trade.More details Price: £390.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. PEACOCK, Thomas Love.
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The Misfortunes of Elphin.
Newtown, Montgomeryshire
Gregynog Press
1928
First published in 1829, Peacock’s Misfortunes of Elphin is an Arthurian based fantasy, incorporating many Welsh legends.
Bray’s joyous wood engravings give, as Harrop suggests, “an…More details Price: £5,000.00 -
HAEIN SONG, designer bookbinder. CAMUS, Albert.
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.
London
Hamish Hamilton
1971
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Bound by ‘L.C.B.’. MARDERSTEIG, Giovanni. SCHMOLLER, Hans, editor & translator.
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The Officina Bodoni: An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977.
Verona
Edizioni Valdonega
1980
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PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. DINE, Jim. APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume.
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The Poet Assassinated.
London
Rupert Hart-Davies
1968
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RIVIERE BINDING. NONESUCH PRESS. THOMSON, James.
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The Seasons.
London
Nonesuch Press
1927
An extremely handsome copy, with the booklabel of Grace Le Roy on the front pastedown.More details Price: £950.00 -
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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 -
SMYTH, Dorothy Carlton. GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART. CHIVERS OF BATH.
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The Sundering Flood by William Morris.
London
Longmans, Green & Co.
1898
Dorothy “Dodo” Carlton Smyth (1880-1933), born in Glasgow, trained under Walter Crane at the Manchester School of Art between 1893 and 1897 and then went…More details Price: £6,800.00 -
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 -
CAPON, Lester. MILLER-PARKER, Agnes. BATES H.E.
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Through the Woods.
London
Victor Gollancz
1936
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PHILIP SMITH, designer bookbinder.
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Time & Colour with ‘Consciousness’, A Credo of 1998.
1998
Philip Smith was one of the greatest British bookbinders of the 20th century and was well-known for inventing several techniques including the ‘lap-back’ structure which…More details Price: £2,200.00
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![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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