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DÉZÉ, Louis. LOUYS, Pierre.
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Sanguines.
Paris
Philippe Renouard for Eugene Fasquelle
1903
An excellent signed example of Dézé’s accomplished, if not always tasteful, moulded leatehr bindings on the first edition of Pierre Louy’s first collection of stories.
Louis…More details Price: £2,200.00 -
CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT. LAO TZU. GILES, Lionel.
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Sayings of Lao Tzu.
[London
c.1995].
The calligrapher notes that help has been given with the Chinese characters from Clive Clunas at the V & A Museum.
Lao Tzu was the first…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
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 -
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel. SHAKESPEARE.
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Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare. A classified selection of similes, definitions, descriptions and other remarkable passages in the plays and poems of Shakespeare.
London
Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans
1851
This book was produced by Humphries as a vehicle to demonstrate advances in book decoration and to showcase his studies in the ‘Art of Illumination’.…More details Price: £950.00 -
DE LÉOTARD, Geneviève, bookbinder. COLETTE.
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Sept Dialogues de Bêtes.
Paris
Les Arts et le livre
1927
Geneviève de Léotard 1899 was a precocious book artist. She began studying bookbinding at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1912 when she…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: £1,200.00
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ALBUM AMICORUM.
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'Souvenir'. Highly decorated box containing drawings and writings of friendship.
Jan 1846 - 1852.
The contents, all on the same pieces of gilt edged paper, comprise a superbly executed watercolour of a scene of a naval battle; a detailed…More details Price: £500.00 -
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: £1,200.00 -
STEPHEN CONWAY, designer bookbinder. DUNNING, John & POE, Edgar Allan.
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The Bookman's Wake; with the Raven.
New York & London
Scribner & Folio Society
1995
The Bookman’s Wake is a murder mystery set in the world of Private Presses and printers. The story revolves around the search for a very…More details Price: £2,800.00 -
LORTIC, père, bookbinder. SHAKESPEARE, William.
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.
London
William Pickering
1826
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DOVEY, Gaven. BASKIN, Leonard. HECHT, Anthony.
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The Gehenna Florilegium.
Maine
Gehenna Press
1998
A remarkably fine binding by Gavin Dovey who, after training the UK, set up shop in the US in 2004 and now works as a…More details Price: £8,500.00 -
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STUART, Gloria. RITCHIE, Ward. [JEFFERS, Robinson and Una]
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The Inscriptions at Tor House and Hawk Tower.
[Los Angeles]
Imprenta Glorias
1988
The imprint of Gloria Stuart, possibly best known for her role as the elderly Rose in the film Titanic. She began printing late in life,…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
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: £2,000.00 -
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 -
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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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 -
SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London & Glasgow
Collins
1900
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GREGYNOG PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. DE VEGA, Lope.
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The Star of Seville. A Drama in Three Acts and in Verse.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1935
Published in time for the tercentenary of Lope De Vega’s death, although this was a rather curious text being a rather stilted seventeenth century Spanish…More details Price: £500.00 -
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: £2,200.00
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