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Published in the year of D.H. Lawrence’s death this is a fitting tribute with some superb large wood engravings by Hughes-Stanton.

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…

Schanilec cut the type from cherry boards. The direct and raw text is based on a break up with his then girlfriend.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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-…

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…

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…

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…

Hanscomb’s minutely observed copper engravings, accompanied by his poetic texts, beautifully capture the intimacy of the Cornish landscape.

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…

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…

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…