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ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. ASHBEE, C.R.
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American Sheaves & English Seed Corn: being a series of addresses mainly delivered in the United States, 1900-1901.
London
printed at the Essex House Press in Bow, published by Edward Arnold and Samuel Buckley in New York
1901
With the decorative booklabel of R.T. Gibbon and one of the noted collector John Lewis. Ashbee served on the council of the National Trust between…More details Price: £300.00 -
TALLONE. TASSO, Torquato.
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Aminta. Favola Boschereccia.
Alpignano
Alberto Tallone
1967
Italian 16th century poet Tasso’s pastoral play, the story of Aminta’s unrequited love for the beautiful nymph Sylvia.
With the booklabel of Robert Wayne Stilwell.More details Price: £80.00 -
MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B.
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An Account of the Dedication of The West Window of St. John's Church, Beverly Farms, Whitsunday, May 31st 1925.
Boston
The Merrymount Press
1925
The dedication of the west window of St. John’s Church, finely printed by Updike, and with a plate, diagram and explanation of the symbolism of…More details Price: £180.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal, written by Himself.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1925
The 1740 colourful memoir of the British actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate Colley Cibber (1671-1757). He had great comical success but was considered brash and…More details Price: £120.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry.
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An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews by Mr Conny Keyber [Henry Fielding].
Waltham Saint Lawrence
printed by Robert Gibbings at the Godlen Cockerel Press
1926
Edited and with an introcution by R. Brimley Johnson.More details Price: £35.00 -
PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. BLADES, William. REED, Philip G.
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An Extract from Enemies of Books.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
[n.d. circa 1934]
Blades’s 19th century diatribe on biblioclasts and book preservation, this extract on the perils of women and children in the library.More details Price: £30.00
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. MILLER, Patrick. WEBB, Clifford.
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Ana the Runner, A Treatise for Princes & Generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1937
Sandford wrote of printing this work: “To print a new manuscript with which one has falled in love is to deck the beloved. When one…More details Price: £250.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GEDDES, Elizabeth.
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Animal Antics.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1937
A rather lovely little book printed for Christmas and dedicated by the author to Robert Gibbings.More details Price: £20.00
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GILL, Eric.
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Art and Manufacture.
London
Printed by the Fanfare Press for the New Handworkers’ Gallery
1929
Here are Gill’s thoughts, eloquently put, on what is Art and what it is for. “The artist is a man who makes things - that…More details Price: £450.00 -
HALCYON PRESS. MELVILLE, John.
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Batavia. A Poem by John Melville.
Maastricht
printed by A.A.M. Stols at the Halcyon Press
1931
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[ROLLINS, Carl Purington]. LIVINGSTON, Luther S.
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Benjamin Franklin's Parable Against Persecution With an Account of the Early Editions.
Cambridge
Montague Press
1916
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PRICKLY PAIR EDITIONS.
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Billets-Doux. Being an Exquisite Nosegay, or Posy, now newly pluckt from popular Letter-writing Manuals of Yore, that is to say, the early Nineteenth Century. Here offered as an edifying Guide to affairs of the heart for the Amorous, the Pestered, or the merely Confused.
El Cerrito, California
Prickly Pair Editions
1998
With the original prospectus inserted loose. The fourth and final title from Prickly Pair Editions.More details Price: £90.00 -
HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. CRESSET PRESS. LAWRENCE, D.H.
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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 -
ROGERS, Bruce. JOHNSON, Herbert H.
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BR Today A Selection of His Books, With Comments.
New York
Grolier Club
1982
More details Price: £28.00
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SCHANILEC, Gaylord. MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES.
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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 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. GREVILLE, Fulke, Lord Brooke.
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Caelica.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1936
The Gregynog Press produces a beautiful printed and bound edition the poems of Greville, the Elizabethan writer, statesman and friend of Philip Sidney.
Booklabel of John…More details Price: £320.00 -
SILVER BUCKLE PRESS.
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Calendar of ornamental material from the Silver Buckle Press.
Madison, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin – Madison Libraries
1988
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CRANACH PRESS. GILL, Eric.
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Canticum Canticorum Salomonis.
[Weimar
Cranach Presse
1931]
A superb copy. Inserted loose is a 4 page list of former publications of the Cranach Press, plus two prospectuses with an original Gill engraving,…More details Price: £2,900.00 -
ASHENDENE PRESS. HORACE.
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Carmina Alcaica & Carmina Sapphica.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press “in aedibus St.J. Hornby
1903
Two superb copies of these connected but separately printed books both illuminated with Hewitt's simple and beautiful initials.
Both volumes with the booklabel, printed in Kelmscott…More details Price: £7,200.00 -
[PRAIRIE PRESS]. PEICH, Michael.
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Carroll Coleman and the Prairie Press.
Alabama
The University of Alabama Parallel Editions
1991
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