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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 -
OLIVER, Nicky. ~ The British Sign Language Alphabet.
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ROGER POWELL, bookbinder. ST. DOMINIC'S PRESS. GILL, Eric. ~ 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. ~ 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 -
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.More details Price: £380.00 -
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
Produced by the famous Giuseppe Giannini of Florence for the English tourist trade.More details Price: £390.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. PEACOCK, Thomas Love. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ The Poet Assassinated. London Rupert Hart-Davies 1968
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RIVIERE BINDING. NONESUCH PRESS. THOMSON, James. ~ 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 -
[DOVES BINDERY]. RUSKIN, John. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ Through the Woods. London Victor Gollancz 1936
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PHILIP SMITH, designer bookbinder. ~ 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