Search

Intended by Count Kessler as the crowning glory of his private Cranach Press, Hamlet was 17 years in gestation from when he had seen Gordon…

Inscribed by Warren Chappell on the title page: ‘Warren & Lydia Chappell for Bill and Virginia’ [Ogg]

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…

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…

Each letter depicts a pair of disparate types of people put together each representing that letter.

Booklabel of Hanson on front pastedown.

A biography of printer Elihu Stout, who published the first newspaper in the American state of Indiana, in 1804.

Accompanied by 2 single leaf examples [each approx. 18 x 13 cms] from the Sumac Press, both printed in 1992: ‘Comping About Words’ and a…

Campbell Dodgson’s copy, with his booklabel. Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) was the famous art historian who was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.…

Although known for his work in developmental biology and genetics, the brilliant young Conrad Hal Waddington was also passionate about poetry and art. Whilst at…

From the library of Jean B. Barr. Later with a book label from the Graphic Arts Collection in Honour of Mary B. Eilbeck.

Together with a signed, handwritten letter by Sally Lou Smith from her home in London and dated 18 November 1996 describing the book’s provenance to…

A beautifully printed and unusually laid out book in square format, the second published by Hammer’s Anvil Press.
With a printed slip inserted loose advising that…

Arguably the masterpiece from the Shakespeare Head Press, and a superb example of Bernard Newdigate’s printing using Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners’s translation from the…