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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 -
TOD, Helen T. NEEDLEWORK BINDING.
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Floral Emblems.
[Scotland?]
1832
A beautifully written and laid out ‘dual-dictionary’ of 274 flowers detailing their names in both English and French and their assigned emotion or message written…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
RICHARD ZAUFT. 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: £700.00 -
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 -
LORTIC, père, bookbinder. SHAKESPEARE, William.
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.
London
William Pickering
1826
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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 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. WYNNE, Ellis.
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Visions of the Sleeping Bard. Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1940
The penultimate book printed at the Gregynog Press with, as Harrop remarks, “one of the most pleasing...bindings”
Ellis Wynne (1671-1734) was a Welsh cleric whose Visions…More details Price: £400.00 -
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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FORE-EDGE PAINTING. BALFOUR, Clara L, editor.
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A Whisper to a Newly Married Pair from a Widowed Wife.
London
printed for Houlston and Stoneman
1850
The fore-edge painting was probably done in the second half of the 20th century and compliments the subject matter of the book perfectly, if rather…More details Price: £950.00
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DUBOUCHET, Prof. G.
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L'Art de L'Etain grave, repousse, modele, cisele, mosaique et patine
Paris
Bourgeois Aine
[1912]
The box is illustrated on p.19 of the booklet where it is advertised for sale at 16 francs. Our box includes a set square which…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
DREYFOUS, Edouard, binder. DE FINOD, J., editor.
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A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness.
London
William Paterson
1890
The gilt hand tooling is quite elaborate and reflects the high quality of this luxury designer and retailer. Edouard Dreyfous was not only a designer…More details Price: £950.00 -
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 -
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Embroidered German letter case with a poem and an image of a temple.
Germany
1800
The poem, which was a common poem in German friendship albums of the first quarter of the 19th century, is in German and in translation…More details Price: £1,900.00 -
SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London & Glasgow
Collins
1900
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MARTIN, Pierre-Lucien, binder. VERLAINE, Paul. BONNARD, Pierre.
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Parallèlement.
Paris
Ambroise Vollard
1900
Pierre-Lucien Martin (1913-1985) designed this floral-decorated binding reflecting the two colours of Bonnard’s lithographs, in homage to Marius Michel. In the same spirit, Martin designed…More details Price: £35,000.00 -
JOHNSON, Arthur, binder. PICASSO, Pablo.
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Picasso’s Erotic Gravures.
New York
Avant Garde Media Inc.
September 1969
The bold design with a very keen sense of colour is a typical example of Johnson’s work, which always achieved drama and witalongside superb technique.…More details Price: £5,000.00 -
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 -
VERNIER, Renaud, bookbinder. CHAR, Rene
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L'Une et L'Autre.
Alès
[P.A. Benoit]
1957
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STUART, Gloria.
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Writing a Poem about Flying a Kite
[Los Angeles]
Imprenta Glorias
1987
An errata on gampi paper with cut out sheet with birds before it, states “I started writing a poem about flying a kite whilst walking…More details Price: £950.00 -
SMITH, Sally Lou.
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Four Lectures by T.J. Cobden Sanderson.
San Francisco
The Book Club of California
1974
Together with a signed, handwritten letter by Sally Lou Smith from her home in London and dated 18 November 1996 describing the book’s provenance to…More details Price: £5,800.00
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