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GREGYNOG PRESS. XENOPHON.
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Cyrupaedia: the institution and life of Cyrus, the first of that name, King of Persians. Eight bookes treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, warlike stratagems, perparations & expeditions: wirtten in Greeke by the sage Xenophon.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1936
The English translation of Philemon Holland of Coventry taken from the 1632 edition printed for Robert Allot.More details Price: £1,000.00 -
VALE PRESS. RICKETTS, Charles.
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De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus Fabula Anilis.
London
Hacon & Ricketts & Iohannes Lane, [Vale Press]
1901
One of Ricketts’s most powerful books, the woodcuts being among his best illustrations. A design for one of the woodcuts was reproduced in ‘The Pageant’…More details Price: £900.00 -
BREMER PRESSE. BORCHARDT, Rudolf, translator.
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Die Grossen Trobadors.
Munich
printed at Mandruck A.G. for the Bremer Presse
1924
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: £55.00 -
ERNST LUDWIG PRESSE. KLEUKENS, Christian Heinrich.
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Die Handpresse.
Darmstadt
Printed by Christian H. Kleukens at Ernst Ludwig Presse
1927
A brief history of the printing press written by Christian Kleukens and dedicated to members of the Gutenberg Society. Another edition had been printed the…More details Price: £50.00 -
BREMER PRESSE. VOSSLER, Karl.
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Die Romanischen Kulturen und Der Deutsche Geist.
Munich
printed at Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co for the Bremer Presse
1926
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: £50.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. NASH, John. SWIFT, Rev. Jonathan.
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Directions to Servants.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1925
Swift’s hilarious satirical advice to English servants which was unfinished when he died “redundancies in the text must be taken merely as an indication of…More details Price: £1,900.00 -
CRANACH PRESS. HOGARTH PRESS. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita and Edward. RILKE, Rainer Maria. GILL, Eric.
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Duineser Elegien. Elegies from the Castle of Duino.
Weimar
printed at the Cranach Press for The Hogarth Press
1931
A fine translation by cousins Vita and Edward Sackville-West of Rilke’s great Elegies which he had begun in 1911-12 at the castle of Duino in…More details Price: £6,000.00 -
KELMSCOTT PRESS. HAMMERSMITH SOCIALIST SOCIETY. MORRIS, William.
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Early Hammersmith Socialist Archive.
1890s
Included is:
1) Original membership card of the Socialist League, Hammersmith Branch for Mrs Catterson Smith in 1899, signed by William Morris and Emery Walker as…More details Price: £2,200.00 -
COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J. HAMMERSMITH PUBLISHING SOCIETY.
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Ecce Mundus. Industrial Ideals and The Book Beautiful by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson.
Hammersmith
printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society
1902
Two important texts by Cobden-Sanderson including his theory of The Book Beautiful “The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful is a composite thing made up of…More details Price: £250.00 -
NASH, John Henry.
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Ecclesiastes or the Preacher.
San Francisco
1920
With the book label of Edmund Gress Geiger, authority on typography and editor of ‘The American Printer’.More details Price: £50.00 -
BREMER PRESSE. FIELD, William B. Osgood.
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Edward Lear on My Shelves.
Munich
Bremer Presse
[1933]
The collection includes first editions of Lear, original water colour drawings, sketch books and manuscript diaries. The book includes a new interpretation of Lear’s life…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
RODALE PRESS. O'CONNOR, John. GRAY, Thomas.
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Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.
London
The Rodale Press
1955
Booklabel of Hanson on front pastedown.More details Price: £90.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. LAMB, Charles.
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Elia and The Last Essays of Elia.
Newton
The Gregynog Press
1929-1930
A collection of essays by Lamb who is the Elia of the title. They were personal and conversational and were a huge hit in the…More details Price: £350.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. LAMB, Charles.
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Elia and The Last Essays of Elia.
Newton
The Gregynog Press
1929-1930
This copy signed by Thomas Jones and Gwendoline Davies of the Gregynog Press.
A collection of essays by Lamb who is the Elia of the title.…More details Price: £1,500.00 -
S. DOMINIC'S PRESS. GILL, Eric.
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Essential Perfection. An Essay by Eric Gill, reprinted from "The Game" January number, A.D. 1918.
Ditchling
S. Dominic’s Press
[1918]
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BARCLAY, John. HARRIS, Derrick.
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Euphormio's Satyricon.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1954
Originally written by a Scotsman resident in France this is the first English translation of the book. Sandford writes: “I chose a new artist, Derrick…More details Price: £150.00 -
BREMER PRESSE. GOETHE.
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Faust.
Tölz
Bremer Presse
1920
The seventh book from the press and an elegantly printed response to the Doves Press Faust which was issued in two parts in 1906 and…More details Price: £1,750.00 -
ERNST LUDWIG PRESSE. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
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Faust. Eine Tragödie von Goethe.
Darmstadt
Printed by the Kleukens Press in Frankfurt am Main for the Ernst Ludwig Presse
1922-3
Two volumes of three, the last being published in 1924 being a small volume entitled ‘Urfaust & Paralimpomena’ The colophon declares that two Frankfurt men,…More details Price: £1,250.00 -
MILL HOUSE PRESS.
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Five Christmas/New Year Keepsakes.
Stanford Dingley
Mill House Press
1947-1953
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India by Sudhin N. Ghose.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1961
One of the last productions from the Press with stories from all over India, illustrated in the traditional eighteenth century Bengali style with sharp white…More details Price: £320.00
