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- Keyword = Illustrated
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HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. CRESSET PRESS. LAWRENCE, D.H. ~ Birds, Beasts and Flowers: Poems by D.H. Lawrence. London Cresset Press 1930
Published in the year of D.H. Lawrence’s death this is a fitting tribute with some superb large wood engravings by Hughes-Stanton.More details Price: £180.00 -
ROCKET PRESS. SMITH, John R. ~ Bookish Quotations. Blewbury Rocket Press 1985
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PENGUIN BOOKS. LANE, Allen. ~ Boxwood & Graver. A Miscellany of Blocks. Kent Privately Printed Christmas 1958
A selection of wood engravings, which had appeared in Penguin books from 1949, and collected together here by publisher Allen Lane, printed from the original…More details Price: £50.00 -
BRAQUE, Georges. PAULHAN, Jean ~ Braque Le Patron. Geneva Editions des Trois Collines 1947
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SCHANILEC, Gaylord. MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES. ~ Buffaloed. Five Woodcuts and a few Words. Saint Paul Midnight Paper Sales 1983
Schanilec cut the type from cherry boards. The direct and raw text is based on a break up with his then girlfriend.More details Price: £420.00 -
LIBANUS PRESS. BARRETT, Angela. VOLTAIRE. ~ Candide, or Optimism. Marlborough Libanus Press 1996
A beautifully produced edition of Voltaire’s magnum opus being satirical tales involving political, literary, religious and philosophical matters in 18th century Western Europe, ‘an awesome…More details Price: £350.00 -
JEFF CLEMENTS, designer bookbinder. CRANACH PRESS. GILL, Eric. ~ Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, quod hebraice dicitur Sir Hasirim. [Weimar Cranach Presse 1931]
A superb copy bound for the collector Lord Wardington by Jeff Clements, with Wardington’s booklabel on the lower pastedown. Sold at the Wardington Library sale…More details Price: £6,000.00 -
GILL, Eric. JONES, David. ~ Christianity and Art. Capel-Y-Ffin, Abergavenny Francis Walterson 1927 [actually Jan, 1928]
Opposite David Jones’s splendid allegorical frontispiece of an artist at work, Gill writes “We set out in this essay to make two discoveries. In the…More details Price: £400.00 -
ICART, Louis. LOUYS, Pierre. ~ Chrysis. Paris Charles Meunier 1940
Chrysis forms the subject of Louys’s best known erotic book Aphrodite. Set in Alexandria the book follows the fortunes of the courtesan Chrysis who is…More details Price: £2,000.00 -
GILL, Eric. ~ Clothes. An Essay upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuements Worn by Men and Women. London Jonathan Cape 1931
Large calligraphic inscription on front free endpaper in Gill’s beautiful hand “P.P. from e.g. June, 1931.
P.P. was Prudence Pelham to whom the book is dedicated.…More details Price: £2,600.00 -
ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. GILL, A.E.R. & PEPLER, H.D.C. ~ Concerning Dragons. A Rhyme by H.D.C.P. with engravings by A.E.R.G. Ditchling Printed and published by Douglas Pepler 1920
The first of the ‘Rhyme Booklet Series’.
The Gill engravings are: St. Michael and the Dragon- Physick 66
Child and Nurse - Physick 67
Child in Bed-…More details Price: £80.00 -
MATHIEU, Monique. FRENAUD, Alain. [UBAC, Raoul]. ~ Construire en Marguerite. Paris for Librairie Giraud-Badin November 1981
The poems were written out 26 times by the poet to give to the lenders of the books on display at Monique Mathieu’s exhibition, as…More details Price: £1,800.00 -
[NONESUCH PRESS]. SARDA, Daniel. ~ Conte de Maitre Espapidour. London Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son, under the direction of the Nonesuch Press for Mrs Fern L. Bedaux of New York 1927
Not designed but only supervised in its technical production by Francis Meynell for the French-American management consultant Charles Bedaux and his wife Fern. Bedaux was…More details Price: £200.00 -
GWASG GREGYNOG. GRAHAM, Rigby, 1931-2015. ~ Conwy Castle. Newtown, Wales Gwasg Gregynog 2006
Engraved for the dramatic colour endpapers for ‘Pennant and his Welsh Landscapes’ printed by Gwasg Gregynog in Wales in 150 copies in 2006. The text…More details Price: £350.00 -
WHITTINGTON PRESS. HANSCOMB, Brian. ~ Cornwall: An Interior Vision. Risbury, Herefordshire Whittington Press 1992
Hanscomb’s minutely observed copper engravings, accompanied by his poetic texts, beautifully capture the intimacy of the Cornish landscape.More details Price: £125.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. COPPARD, A.E. ~ Count Stefan. Waltham St. Lawrence Golden Cockerel Press 1928
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. COPPARD, A.E. ~ Count Stefan. Waltham St. Lawrence Golden Cockerel Press 1928
An excellent story by A.E. Coppard (1878-1957) who was well known for his influence on short story writing in Britain. In this one Count Stefan…More details Price: £110.00 -
WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. BROOKE, Rupert.
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Country Scenes: 1 & 2.
Riusbury, Herefordshire
Whittington Press
2001
Volume 1 is a calendar with an engraving for each month. Volume 2 is particularly moving and charming as the twelve engravings of English country…More details Price: £80.00
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RED HOWLER PRESS. MOYER, David. HEINZE, Gretchen. ~ Daniel's Dream. Red Howler Press 2000
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JAEGLE, Martin. HOFFMANN, E.T.A. ~ 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