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ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. GILL, A.E.R. & PEPLER, H.D.C.
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Concerning Dragons. A Rhyme by H.D.C.P. with engravings by A.E.R.G.
Ditchling
Printed and published by Douglas Pepler
1926
The first of the ‘Rhyme Booklet Series’.
The Gill engravings are: St. Michael and the Dragon- Physick 66
Child and Nurse - Physick 67
Child in Bed-…More details Price: £70.00 -
S. DOMINIC'S PRESS.
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The Game. A Monthly Magazine. Vol V. January-December, 1922
Ditchling
S Dominic’s Press
1922
Of the beginnings of The Game, which he called ‘that lively magazine’, Pepler wrote “Edward Johnston, Eric Gill and myself decided to print our views…More details Price: £1,500.00 -
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 -
NONESUCH PRESS. VOLTAIRE, Francois. LOWINSKY, Thomas.
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The Princess of Babylon.
London
The Nonesuch Press
1927
Written by Voltaire in 1768, The Princess of Babylon is a philosophical tale in the manner of Candide. The text used here is taken from…More details Price: £60.00 -
KING, Ron. CIRCLE PRESS. PRICE, Richard.
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Going, going, gone!
Bosham
Circle Press
2013
Published to present the case for 7 creatures which are being mistreated, which are on the point of disappearing, or have already ‘Gone!’. Ron King…More details Price: £950.00 -
HAMMER CREEK PRESS. FASS, John S.
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Type and Stick at The Hammer Creek Press.
New York
At the Sign of the Turtle, printed by John S. Fass at The Hammer Creek Press
1951
A spectacular display of Fass’s decorative designs, printer’s ornaments and gentle humour.
John Strobble Fass (1890-1973) was a graphic designer and printer of fine press books…More details Price: £700.00 -
HAMMER CREEK PRESS.
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The Work of the Hammer Creek Press 1950-1956.
New York
Hammer Creek Press
1956
The history of the Press with an engraving and bibliographic information on its publications between 1950 and 1956.
John Strobble Fass (1890-1973) was a graphic designer…More details Price: £600.00 -
GWASG GREGYNOG. MILLER PARKER, Agnes. ROGERSON, Ian.
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Agnes Miller Parker: Wood Engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-tales.
Newtown
Gwasg Gregynog
1997
A superb reprinting of the wood engravings executed by Miller Parker for the Gregynog XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales of 1933 which was printed in only…More details Price: £800.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. DE VEGA, Lope.
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The Star of Seville. A Drama in Three Acts and in Verse.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1935
Published in time for the tercentenary of Lope De Vega’s death, although this was a rather curious text being a rather stilted seventeenth century Spanish…More details Price: £500.00 -
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 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. DAVIES, W.H.
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Selected Poems of W.H. Davies arranged by Edward Garnett with a foreword by the author.
Newtown
The Gregynog Press
1928
Simply but beautifully printed edition of the work of the Welsh poet W.H. Davies, known as the ‘tramp poet’. Rather engagingly, Davies writes a foreword…More details Price: £200.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS.
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The Autobiography of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
Newtown
The Gregynog Press
1928
Reviews of this book were lyrical when it was published in 1928. Maynard’s typography is outstanding and looks particularly good on the luxurious Batchelor handmade…More details Price: £2,600.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert. DUNSANY, Lord.
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Lord Adrian, A Play in Three Acts.
Waltham St Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1933
A presentation copy from the artist and printer to ‘Victor and Margaret’, signed ‘Robert’ and dated 12.3.33. Lord Adrian was Gibbings’s last book for the…More details Price: £350.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. DE CHAIR, Somerset. WEBB, Clifford.
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The Story of a Lifetime.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1954
“An unorthodox account of the events in the life of Jesus between the Resurrection and the Ascension, as revealed to the author in what he…More details Price: £650.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John. CABELL, James Branch.
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Jurgen. A Comedy of Justice.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1949
Jurgen is one of the world’s greatest satires but also a great romance, Sir Hugh Walpole rated it very highly : “no book in the…More details Price: £320.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BATES, H.E. LAMB, Lynton.
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A German Idyll.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press
1932
The pages are beautifully designed by the expert printer Robert Gibbings who has incorporated the wood engravings with the text just perfectly. He was a…More details Price: £320.00 -
GILL, Eric. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Waltham St Lawrence
printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at The Golden Cockerel Press
1929
The collaboration between Gill and the Gibbings is a rich one. This stands as one of the great works of the Press and of the…More details Price: £9,500.00 -
ASHENDENE PRESS. BRIDGES, Robert.
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Poems written in the MCMXIII by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1914
This was the first time these 11 poems had been published in book form, and here they were only printed in a small number for…More details Price: £2,000.00 -
ALLEN PRESS. JAMES, Henry. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair.
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The Beast in the Jungle. A Psychological Novel by Henry James.
Kentfield, California
The Allen Press
1963
Whilst illustrating this book Hughes-Stanton was driven by the text and the emotional problems confronting the principal characters: "I feel him blocked by squares or…More details Price: £650.00 -
SANDFORD, Lettice. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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The Song of Songs.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1936
One of Golden Cockerel’s most successful books with its gently erotic engravings by Sandford, the wife of the owner of the Press.
Lettice Sandford (1902-1993) was…More details Price: £2,800.00
