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ADAGIO PRESS.
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Typographic Embellishers. Some Specimens from the collection used at the Adagio Press.
Harper Woods
Adagio Press, the Private press of Leonard F. Bahr
1968
Beautifully printed specimen book of typographic ornaments collected by the Adagio Press for use in its publications.More details Price: £50.00
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NONESUCH PRESS. GOODEN, Stephen. DORN, Marion. MOORE, George.
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Ulick and Soracha.
London
Nonesuch Press
1926
Loosely inserted in the book is a pencil drawing on glacine paper reputed to be an image of the Australian graphic designer Ruby Lindsay, sister…More details Price: £120.00
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GILL, Eric. POWYS, T.F. CLEVERDON, Douglas.
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Uncle Dottery, A Christmas Story.
Bristol
Douglas Cleverdon
1930
The two wood engraved vignettes by Gill are Physick numbers 385 & 386. Cleverdon writes that these blocks were originally engraved by Gill in 1926…More details Price: £100.00
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GILL, Eric. POWYS, T.F. CLEVERDON, Douglas.
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Uncle Dottery, A Christmas Story.
Bristol
Douglas Cleverdon
1930
The two wood engraved vignettes by Gill are Physick numbers 385 & 386. Cleverdon writes that these blocks were originally engraved by Gill in 1926…More details Price: £100.00
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NONESUCH PRESS. BECKFORD, William.
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Vathek.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
The chromolithographs by Dorn, McKnight Kauffer’s wife, were the first to be printed at the Curwen Press for book illustration.
Vathek combined popular Oriental elements with…More details Price: £90.00 -
DOVES PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William.
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Venus and Adonis
Hammersmith
Doves Press
1912
The text of Shakespeare’s narrative pastoral poem with which he launched his career as a poet comes from the first edition printed in 1593 by…More details Price: £2,200.00
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BREMER PRESSE. HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von.
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Versuch Über Victor Hugo.
Munich
printed at Mandruck A.G. for the Bremer Presse
1925
One of the series of “Werkdrucke” issued commercially by the Bremer Presse between 1923 and 1930. The books were designed in the Press’s workshop using…More details Price: £60.00
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ASHENDENE PRESS.
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Vita di Santa Chiara Vergine
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1921
Reprinted from the fifteenth century Florentine manuscript by Ugolino Verino which was in the private collection of Hornby, having been bought by him at Sothebys…More details Price: £1,800.00
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TRIANON PRESS. BLAKE, William. GRAY, Thomas.
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Water-Colour Designs For The Poems Of Thomas Gray. A Facsimile with Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
London
printed in Paris at the Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust
1972
In this, one of Blake’s most extravagant tours de force, he took Gray’s poems as a springboard for epic watercolors. Mounting the text on a…More details Price: £1,400.00
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O’CONNOR, John. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. RUTTER, Owen.
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We Happy Few. An Anthology by Owen Rutter. I. Britain at War; II. Britain at Sea; III. Britain in the Air.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1946
A celebration of the end of the War and the last book to be prepared by Rutter before he died. John O’Connor completed all the…More details Price: £70.00
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[RAMPANT LIONS PRESS]. CARTER, Will. TARLING, Alan.
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Will Carter, Printer.
London
The Galahad Press
1968
More details Price: £30.00
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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE.
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Willi’s Wishful Thinking.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1938
The original postcards, some of them in colour, are held at the Bibliothéque et Musée de la Guerre at the Chateau de Vincennes.More details Price: £30.00
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[MORRIS, William]. MACKAIL, J.W. HAMMERSMITH PUBLISHING SOCIETY.
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William Morris. An Address Delivered the XIth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith before the Hammersmith Socialist Society by J.W. Mackail.
Hammersmith
printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society
1902.
An address given by Mackail, Burne-Jones's son-in-law, after encouragement by Annie Cobden-Sanderson, the suffragette, wife of Thomas Cobden-Sanderson of the Doves Press and friend of…More details Price: £250.00
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FANFROLICO PRESS. ARISTOPHANES.
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Women in Parliament by Aristophanes, done into English by Jack Lindsay.
London
printed at the Chiswick Press for the Fanfrolico Press, for sale to subscribers only
1929
Lindsay’s gently erotic and witty illustrations compliment this finely printed edition of Ecclesiazusae.More details Price: £280.00
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HAMMER CREEK PRESS. DEPOL, John.
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Wood Engravings by John DePol for the Hammer Creek Press.
New York
Hammer Creek Press
1957
John Strobble Fass (1890-1973) was a graphic designer and printer of fine press books who designed books for the leading American publishers of limited edition…More details Price: £750.00
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TIDELINE PRESS. STAFFORD, William.
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Wyoming Circuit.
Tideline Press
1980
More details Price: £120.00
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GREGYNOG PRESS. MILLER PARKER, Agnes.
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XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk Tales, collected by John Sampson.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1933
John Sampson was an Irish linguist and scholar, best known for The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales (1926) and for his examination of Welsh…More details Price: £2,200.00
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PRESS OF APPLETREE ALLEY. PATTEN, Karl. SHANNON, Colleen.
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Yes, Of Course, But No.
Pennsylvania
Press of Appletree Alley
1997
With the original folded 4 pp prospectus inserted loose.More details Price: £30.00
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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