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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: £2,500.00 -
PHILIP SMITH, bookbinder.
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The New English Bible. New Testament.
Oxford & Cambridge University Presses, printed under Brooke Crutchley at the CUP,
1961
From the library of Lord Wardington sold at Sotheby’s 12th July 2006, Lot 210. Since then in a private collection. A remarkably good and rather…More details Price: £5,500.00 -
![Albrecht Durers Zeichnungen. by [PAINTED VELLUM BINDING]. DURER, Albrecht. FRANKE, Willibald.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11925---200.jpg?v=1727514546)
[PAINTED VELLUM BINDING]. DURER, Albrecht. FRANKE, Willibald.
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Albrecht Durers Zeichnungen.
Liepzig-Berlin
Verlag Grethlein & Co
WWII booklabel of L. Jiranek.More details Price: £320.00 -
MIDDLETON, Bernard.
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You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover: A Brief Survey of Materials.
North Hills
printed by Henry Morris for Mel Kavin
1994
A charming publication with Bernard Middleton’s text about book binding accompanied with de Pol’s charming illustrations, beautifully designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by Henry…More details Price: £480.00 -
JILL PROLE, designer bookbinder.
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The Periodic Table by Primo Levi.
London
Folio Society
2011
A very accomplished bookbinding by Jill Prole which won the J. Hewit & Sons prize in the 2012 Designer Bookbinding Competition. It was exhibited in…More details Price: £2,400.00 -
HUGHES-STANTON, Blair.
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Epithalamion. A poem by Ida Graves.
Colchester
Gemini Press
1934
This book was printed by Hughes-Stanton and Graves at their Gemini Press in 1934. Hughes-Stanton who had left his wife Gertrude Hermes to join Ida…More details Price: £580.00 -
HANNAH BROWN, designer binding. TORMIS, Veljo.
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The Word Was Sung/Lauldad Sona.
Tallinn
published for the Estonian Designer Bookbinders by Trukikoda Folger Art
2008
Printed in both Estonian and English, transcribed using recordings and notes by Urve Lippus.
Hannah Brown is a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders and a…More details Price: £4,000.00 -
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 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, JOHN.
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Pervigilium Veneris. The Vigil of Venus.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1939
A beautiful and very limited edition. The process used gives an intensity to Buckland Wright’s gently erotic engravings. The text with its superbly balanced refrain…More details Price: £3,600.00 -
GILL, Eric.
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Toilet.
1923
After a drawing by Norval Gray whose initials are engraved in the block.
Extremely scarce thus - no edition is recorded by Physick.More details Price: £1,200.00 -
![Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814---200.jpg?v=1727514505)
ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.
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Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements].
Paris
Jeanne Bucher
1934
Max Ernst’s ‘Une Semaine de Bonté’ is one of the great artist’s books and a landmark of the Surrealist movement. Ernst created his 182 images…More details Price: £12,000.00 -
DENISE LUBETT, designer bookbinder. LAWRENCE, T.E.
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
London
Jonathan Cape
1935
Lubett’s sumptuous binding of TE Lawrence’s epic masterpiece was exhibited at ‘The art of the book William Morris and after 1892-1977’ in the Fitzwilliam Museum,…More details Price: £4,500.00 -
CEDRIC CHIVERS. GRANVILLE FELL, Herbert.
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The Song of Solomon.
London
Chapman and Hall
1897
Inscription on front blank from Halsway Manor in Somerset for Easter 1928.
Cedric Chivers of Bath had patented his ‘vellucent’ binding method in 1898 which involved…More details Price: £25,000.00 -
BINDING SAMPLE BOOK FOR THE BIBLE.
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The Holy Bible. According to the Authorized Version, with the marginal readings and parallel references, printed at length and the Commentaries of Henry and Scott, condensed by the Rev. John McFalane LLD.
Glasgow, Edinburgh & London
William Collins, Sons & Company
c.1871
A remarkable survival and fascinating insight into the importance of choosing a family Bible and how the options were presented to the plentiful customers.More details Price: £3,600.00 -
THE AQUILA PRESS. RODKER, John.
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Adolphe 1920.
London
printed by Geo. W. Jones for the Aquila Press
1929
Together with: List of Books to be Published by The Aquila Press, Printers & PUblishers of 15a Lenthall Place, Gloucester Road, London SW& during the…More details Price: £950.00 -
RICHARD ZAUFT EDITIONS. BASHO, Matsuo.
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Enso. Four Haiku for the Seasons.
Massachusetts
Richard Zauft Editions.
2023
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is considered by many Japanese to be their country’s greatest poet, almost single handedly being responsible for the raising the esteem of…More details Price: £650.00 -
BICHON. PAUL-MARGUERITTE, Lucie. MARTIN, Charles.
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Le singe et son violon.
Paris
Albin Michel
1918.
« Combien d’hommes se marient sans savoir ce qu’est une femme ! Combien ont procédé avec elle comme le singe de Cassan avec son violon…More details Price: £1,750.00 -
WECKESSER ET SON FILS, bookbinder.
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Conterfeytsel Afcomste ende Commissie van Don Ian van Oostenrijck, Gouverneur van het Neder-landt 1577.
Holland
c.1880
The Dutch faux-16th century manuscript is probably copied from W. Baudartius - ‘Afbeeldinge ende beschryvinghe van alle de veldslagen, belegeringen ende and’re notabele geschiedenissen ghevallen…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
JAEGLE, Martin. HOFFMANN, E.T.A.
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Das Ode Haus.
Hamburg
Maximilian-Gesellschaft
1964
The Legatoria Artistica Ascona in Switzerland produced many of the best European binders of this period including Martin Jaegle. The design is very much of…More details Price: £1,400.00 -
GRAS, Madeleine, binder. MAILLOL, Aristide. LONGUS.
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Daphnis & Chloe.
Paris
Gonin
1937
Madeleine Gras (1891-1958) was a Parisian bookbinder whose work was first exhibited at the 1922 Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Her first teacher…More details Price: £3,800.00
![Albrecht Durers Zeichnungen. by [PAINTED VELLUM BINDING]. DURER, Albrecht. FRANKE, Willibald.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11925---800.jpg?v=1727514546)
![Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814---800.jpg?v=1727514505)
![Another image of Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814_10---800.jpg?v=1727514506)
![Another image of Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814_2---800.jpg?v=1727514506)
![Another image of Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814_3---800.jpg?v=1727514506)
![Another image of Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814_4---800.jpg?v=1727514507)
![Another image of Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814_5---800.jpg?v=1727514507)
![Another image of Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814_6---800.jpg?v=1727514508)
![Another image of Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814_7---800.jpg?v=1727514508)
![Another image of Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814_8---800.jpg?v=1727514508)
![Another image of Une Semaine de Bonté ou Les Sept Éléments Capitaux, [A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements]. by ERNST, Max. MERCHER, Daniel-Henri.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/11814_9---800.jpg?v=1727514509)
