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VALE PRESS. JAMES I.
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The Kingis Quair.
London
Vale Press
1903
A more elaborate illustrated edition had been planned but it was abandoned in favour or the rather charming simplicity of this version in Rickett’s extraordinary…More details Price: £350.00 -
MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B.
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The Last Will of Williston Fish.
Boston
Alfred Bartlett
1908
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NONESUCH PRESS. GOODEN, Stephen. HAMILTON, G. Rostrevor.
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The Latin Portrait. An Anthology.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
An anthology of Latin and English poetry, with selections from the work of twenty-one important Latin poets rendered into English.
With the armorial book label…More details Price: £60.00 -
OFFICINA BODONI. KREDEL, Fritz. CELLINI, Benvenuto.
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself.
Verona
Printed at the Officina Bodoni for members of the Limited Editions Club
1937
Kredel was a prolific illustrator whose versatile works included drawings, water-colours, type design, book illustrations, maps, political cartoons, paper dolls and the presidential seal for…More details Price: £50.00 -
KELMSCOTT PRESS. CAVENDISH, George.
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The Life of Cardinal Wolsey.
Hammersmith,
printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press.
1893.
Cavendish was an usher in Wolsey's household between 1526 and 1530 and he wrote this book around 1557. It wasn't printed until a century later…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry. TEGETMEIER, Denis.
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The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1932
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. DICKENS, Charles.
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The Life of Our Lord; written during the years 1846-1849. By Charles Dickens for his children and now first published.
New York
Simon and Schuster
1934
Written around the time he was completing ‘David Copperfield’, Dickens wrote this extended letter – a simple account of the life of Jesus – to…More details Price: £80.00 -
NONESUCH PRESS. PLUTARCH. NORTH, Thomas.
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
Thomas North’s translation of Amyot’s French version of Plutarch’s Lives printed from the first edition of 1579 with the addition of 15 lives from the…More details Price: £290.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GILL, Eric.
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The Lord's Song. A Sermon by Eric Gill.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1934
Gill’s sermon on the text in the 136th Psalm: “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” exploring the nature of freedom…More details Price: £140.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HARTZENBUSCH, Juan.
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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.
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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 -
SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. TATIUS, Achilles.
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The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe.
New York
Shakespeare Head Press for Bernard Guilbert Guerney
1923
Achilles Tatius’s only surviving work, and one of the Greek prose romances that would go on to influence the development of the novel centuries later.More details Price: £60.00 -
YOLLA BOLLY PRESS. GLAD, Deanna. SCOTT, J.M. SMITH, Rod.
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The Man Who Made Wine.
Covelo, California
Yolla Bolly Press
1996
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PEAR TREE PRESS. GUTHRIE, John, editor.
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The Manner to Dance Bace Dances.
Flansham
Printed by James Guthrie and John Freeman at The Pear Tree Press
1937
Mabel Johnston was Arnold Dolmetsch's third wife (Dolmetsch being the first to revive early music by rebuilding early instruments with the encouragement of William Morris).…More details Price: £300.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. JOHNSON, Samuel.
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The New London Letter Writer containing the compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspiciuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respectability.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1948
The marbled paper was specially done for Sandford by the famous Sidney Cockerell.
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DOVES PRESS.
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The New Science Museum. A Letter, with additions, Addressed to the Editor of "The Times" 16 September 1913. To the Letter as originally published...have been added Paragraphs I and V.
Hammersmith
Doves Press
1914
Cobden-Sanderson’s thoughts on the proposed building of the Science Museum in South Kensington - “my proposal is that the Cosmos should take the place of…More details Price: £100.00 -
NONESUCH PRESS. SYMONS, A.J.A., FLOWER, Desmond & MEYNELL, Francis.
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The Nonesuch Century. An Appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the Press 1923-1934.
London
Nonesuch Press
1936
A wonderful, elaborate overview of the first 100 books and roughly the first 10 years of the Nonesuch Press.
Booklabel of Clarence B. Hanson, Jr.More details Price: £600.00 -
PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. WROTH, Lawrence C. CARY, Melbert B.
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The Oath of a Free-man.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1939
More details Price: £25.00
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COLT PRESS. STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
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The Old Pacific Capital. Robert Louis Stevenson's Story of Monterey.
San Francisco
Colt Press
1944
No. 1 of the California Classics series. The first separate printing of Stevenson’s classic description of Monterey from when he lived there in 1879.More details Price: £40.00 -
COLT PRESS. STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
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The Old Pacific Capital. Robert Louis Stevenson's Story of Monterey.
San Francisco
Colt Press
1944
No. 1 of the California Classics series. The first separate printing of Stevenson’s classic description of Monterey from when he lived there in 1879.More details Price: £45.00
