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CRANACH PRESS. SHAKESPEARE (William). ~ Die Tragische Geschichte Von Hamlet Prinzen Von Daenmark. Weimar Printed at the Cranach Press by Henry Kessler. 1928-9
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…More details Price: £15,000.00 -
PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. CARY, Melbert B. CHAPPELL, Warren. ~ Digressions for the Traveller in England. New York Press of the Woolly Whale 1933
Inscribed by Warren Chappell on the title page: ‘Warren & Lydia Chappell for Bill and Virginia’ [Ogg]More details Price: £65.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. NASH, John. SWIFT, Rev. Jonathan. ~ 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: £1,600.00 -
SPIRAL PRESS. SHAHN, Ben. ~ Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher. New York Spiral Press 1965
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BREMER PRESSE. ECKARDT, Annette. FIELD, William B. Osgood. ~ 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 -
KREDEL, Fritz. MAX DORN PRESSE. ~ Ein lustiges ABC der Moden, Trachten un Kostüme. Frankfurt privately printed at the Max Dorn Presse in Offenbachfor D. Stempel c. 1950
Each letter depicts a pair of disparate types of people put together each representing that letter.More details Price: £40.00 -
RODALE PRESS. O'CONNOR, John. GRAY, Thomas. ~ Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard. London The Rodale Press 1955
Booklabel of Hanson on front pastedown.More details Price: £90.00 -
PRESS OF THE INDIANA KID. WEYGAND, James Lamar. ~ Elihu Stout: Printer to the Territory. Nappanee Private Press of the Indiana Kid 1955
A biography of printer Elihu Stout, who published the first newspaper in the American state of Indiana, in 1804.More details Price: £50.00 -
PRESS OF THE INDIANA KID. ~ Elmer F. Gleason and The Stratford Press. A History & Bibliography. Nappanee Private Press of the Indiana Kid 1965
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SUMAC PRESS. WULLING, Emerson G. WULLING, Thomas E.
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Emerson G. Wulling 75 Years a Printer.
Minneapolis
Sumac Press
1991
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…More details Price: £30.00
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VALE PRESS. ARNOLD, Matthew. ~ Empedocles on Etna. A Dramatic Poem. London printed at the Ballantyne Press 1896
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.…More details Price: £320.00 -
RIVERSIDE PRESS. BALLARD, Joseph.
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England in 1815 as seen by a Young Boston Merchant Being the Reflections and Comments of Joseph Ballard on a Trip through Great Britain in the Year of Waterloo.
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
1913
More details Price: £30.00
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S. DOMINIC'S PRESS. GILL, Eric. ~ 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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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE.
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Excerpts from the work of the Press of the Woolly Whale.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
[n.d.]
More details Price: £25.00
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LOFT PRESS. WADDINGTON, C.H., UPWARD, Edward. GURNEY, H.G., AUSTIN LEE &c. ~ Fanfreluche: A Miscellany, Number Two Cambridge Loft Press, printed by C.H. Waddington 1925
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…More details Price: £200.00 -
ROGERS, Bruce. ~ Fine Book Pages. Printed by William Edwin Rudge for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company [n.d. circa 1929].
From the library of Jean B. Barr. Later with a book label from the Graphic Arts Collection in Honour of Mary B. Eilbeck.More details Price: £60.00 -
MILL HOUSE PRESS. ~ Five Christmas/New Year Keepsakes. Stanford Dingley Mill House Press 1947-1953
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SMITH, Sally Lou. ~ Four Lectures by T.J. Cobden Sanderson. San Francisco The Book Club of California 1974
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…More details Price: £6,800.00 -
HAMMER, Victor. ANVIL PRESS. HEBEL, Johann Peter. ~ Francisca and Other Stories. Lexington, Kentucky Anvil Press 1957
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…More details Price: £220.00 -
SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. FROISSART, Jehan. BOURCHIER, Sir John. ~ Froissart's Cronycles. Stratford-upon-Avon Published for the press by Basil Blackwell 1927
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…More details Price: £1,500.00