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(Alembic Press) Bolton, Claire 14-LINE TUSCAN CONDENSED.
Marcham, England The Alembic Press 2001 miniature book (3 x 3 3/4 inches) paper-covered boards, paper cover label Two accordian folded strips fit together with slots
Limited to an edition of 40 numbered copies. The maker of the ornate wooden type used to create this small volume is unknown. The upper case letters were printed in blue and brown on separate strips of paper that were accordian folded and slotted together in a zig zag pattern. Designed, printed and bound by Claire Bolton.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 64595

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(Alembic Press) Bolton, Claire MAZIARCZYK PASTE PAPERS
Oxford The Alembic Press 1991 8vo. quarter cloth, paste paper over boards. 53 pages.
First edition, limited to 175 numbered copies. Contains nineteen samples of Claire Maziarczyk's paste papers, and also describes how they are made. The text includes a history of paste papers and notes on the range of patterns used.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 32939

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(Alembic Press) Durrell, Lawrence FRYING THE FLAG.
Marcham The Alembic Press (1985) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages.
Limited to 250 copies printed by hand by Claire Bolton at her Alembic Press. With line drawings by John R. Smith. A short story involving two old ladies and their newspaper.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 40569

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(Alembic Press) A TALE OF TWO BENCHES.
Marcham Alembic Press 2000 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 19, (3) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 120 numbered copies. A reprint of a chapter from Robert Gibbings' book "Till I End my Song," along with his original wood engraving. Included is an introduction describing how Gibbings came to be in Marcham, a history of the Pointer family and Simon Brett's engraving of one of Bill Pointer's benches, who to this day still lives in Marcham and makes benches.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 60842

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(Allenholme Press) Isaac, Peter. SOME ALNWICK CARICATURES, A NOTE AND A HANDLIST.
Wylam Allenholme Press 1965 large 12mo. paper wrappers. 12 pages.
Printed for private circulation to the Printing Historical Society and the Rounce & Coffin Club. A note on William Davison, printer in Alnwick in the first half of the 19th century, illustrated with reproductions of some of Davison's caricatures.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 49110

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(Appleton, Tony) A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN BUCKLAND DINHAM.
Buckland Dinham, Somerset, England (Tony Appleton) 1983 16mo. decorated stiff paper wrappers (4) pages
Limited to 100 numbered copies. Commemorates Christmas, 1983. No text. Signed letter from Appleton laid in expaining that the press's Christmas book was "one casualty" of relocation along with "subsequent building works and other non-book activities" during the year. Letter refers to the Old School Press.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 115749

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(Ashbee, C.R.) Crawford, Alan C.R. ASHBEE ARCHITECT, DESIGNER & ROMANTIC SOCIALIST
New Haven, London Yale University Press 1985 4to cloth, dust jacket (xii), 499 pages
The first eight chapters are a biography of Charled Robert Ashbee, followed by six chapters of his work as an architect and designer, and the last two draw the book together. He established the Essex House Press in England. Ink inscription on free endpaper.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 104835

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(Ashendene Press) Assisi, Francesco Di. I FIORETTI DEL GLORIOSO POVERELLO DI CRISTO.
Chelsea Ashendene Press 1922 8vo. limp vellum with title stamped in gold on spine, linen ties, enclosed in later clamshell box. (xii), 240 pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 240 copies. (Ashendene no. XXXI; Franklin p.240). Illustrated with 53 wood engravings by Charles M. Gere. Graily Hewitt designed the initial and dropped initials printed in red and blue. Chapter headings and shoulder notes printed in red. Well preserved copy with all ties intact.
Price: $ 2,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 49553

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(Ashendene Press) Hornby, C.H. St J. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOOKS PRINTED AT THE ASHENDENE PRESS MDCCCXCV - MCMXXXV.
Chelsea The Ashendene Press 1935 4to. full leather with a stamped gilt design on the front cover and title in gilt on spine, five raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, original marbled paper-covered slipcase. (viii), 172 pages.
Limited to 390 numbered and signed copies (Bibliography XL; Leaf Book - Chalmers 65). The last book of the press. Printed on paper specially made by Joseph Batchelor & Sons and hand-printed by Hornby. Contains an historical introduction by Hornby followed by the detailed bibliographical descriptions of both the books and the ephemera printed at the press. Illustrated with collotype and photogravures (printed by Emery Walker), showing plates of bindings and several of the hand-painted vellum copies. Also includes examples of woodcuts, facsimile pages from important books, printer's marks, samples of initial letters, watermarks, and a few actual specimens of press work (thus making this a leaf book). With some initial letters filled in by hand by Graily Hewitt. Hornby's introduction is most informative about his goals in establishing the Press, and also reveals his personality and sense of humor - at one point he jokes about collectors' frustrations at obtaining copies of a book with a very small limitation. Four page prospectus of books dated February, 1931, loosely inserted. Slipcase shows minor rubbing. Leather rubbed along hinges with rub through at bottom of spine.
Price: $ 2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 114213

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(Ashendene Press) Malory, Sir Thomas THE NOBLE AND JOYOUS BOOK ENTYTLED LE MORTE D'ARTHUR.
Chelsea Ashendene Press 1913 folio full brown leather, five raised bands, titling in gilt, cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. xxii, (ii), 300, (2) pages.
Limited to 145 copies printed on hand-made paper and 8 on vellum; this is one of the paper copies (Descriptive Bibliography, no.XXVI; Franklin 102). Printed by hand by St. John Hornby. All but three of the illustrations were drawn by Charles M. Gere; the other three were drawn by Margaret Gere. Cut on wood by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain. The text was taken from Southey's reprint of 1817 of Caxton's edition. Reprints Caxton's foreword. "In this, for the first time, blue was used alternately with red for the large initials. The chapter-headings are all printed in red. For this book Graily Hewitt designed two or three alphabets of fine initials." Colin Franklin calls this "a marvellous achievement, a glorious book." Faintly written in the back is the name Leonard Baskin. As typical with this book, the original Brown cowhide binding has been recreated by a later binder (WB) with part of the original spine (lettering) inlaid on spine. Some rubbing along edges; minor fading of covers. Foxing along edges of free endpapers from turn-ins.The later clamshell box is faded.
Price: $ 7,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 107188

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(Barbarian Press) Clough, Arthur Hugh AMOURS DE VOYAGE
An Epistolary Novella in Verse. (Mission, BC) Barbarian Press 2007 8vo. quarter cloth, illustrated paper-covered boards (viii), 78,(2) pages
Limited to an edition of 125 copies. Edited by Patrick Scott with an afterword by Crispin Elsted. Illustrated with wood engravings by Abigail Rorer, which were printed from the blocks. We hear the written voices of various tourists, who are intertwined socially, as they discover Italy during Garibaldi's bid for Rome. The text is set in 12pt Van Dijck and printed on Zerkall Soft White Wove. Design, typography and cover drawing are by Crispin Elsted. Jan Elsted printed the edition. It won a Judge's Award at the Oxford Book Fair 2007.
Price: $ 395.00 other currencies Order nr. 96580

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(Baynard Press) Merrick, Leonard. FOUR STORIES.
London The Baynard Press 1925 large 8vo. original limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. 101, (3) pages.
Limited to 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. Printed by hand in two colors on Kelmscott handmade paper. Four stories by Merrick. The 6th in the Vine Books series, produced by Wilfred Pardington, and issued to subscribers from the office of The Bookman's Journal. The two small woodcuts are by Norman Janes. Covers slightly age yellowed.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 59159

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(Beaumont Press) Beaumont, Cyril W THE FIRST SCORE.
Bronxville Nicholas T. Smith (1980) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xi), 96, (3) pages.
Reprint of the first edition, originally printed in 1927 and limited to 390 copies. The history of this press with bibliographical information on the first twenty books issued. With much on book production. Some fading of jacket spine.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 555

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(Beaumont Press) Beaumont, Cyril W THE FIRST SCORE.
Bronxville Nicholas T. Smith (1980) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xi), 96, (3) pages.
Reprint of the first edition, originally printed in 1927 and limited to 390 copies. The history of this press with bibliographical information on the first twenty books issued. With much on book production. Dust jacket is faded.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 96945

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(Beaumont Press) Blunden, Edmund. TO NATURE
Westminster Beaumont Press (1923) 8vo. quarter cloth with patterned paper-covered boards, fore and bottom edges deckled (xii), 50, (2) pages
Limited to 390 numbered copies (Beaumont, pp.70-72). The cover decorations, endpapers. and 34 Initial Letters designed by Randolph Schwabe, The typography and binding arranged by Cyril William Beaumont on his Press at 75 Charing Cross Road, Westminster. An advance copy of the book was acknowledged by Edmund Blunden: "It is a book which almost topples over my stern faith in the art of earlier printers as compared with the modern, and will stand in honor on my shelves...Mr. Schwabe's little pictures have my warm praise and gratitude." Slight cover soiling.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 62299

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(Beaumont Press) Constantini, Angelo THE BIRTH, LIFE, AND DEATH OF SCARAMOUCH.
London C.W. Beaumont 1924 8vo. quarter parchment, decorated paper-covered boards, label on front board, top edge cut, other edges uncut xlii, 83, (3) pages
Limited to 390 numbered copies, 80 on handmade parchment vellum, 310 on handmade paper. Not listed in Beaumont's 1927 bibliography, The First Score. This copy one of the 80 on parchment vellum. Signed by translators (from the original French) Cyril W. Beaumont and Edmund Blunden. Frontispiece and three other illustrations. Translator's preface and list of works consulted. List of illustrations. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed at edges. Bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 115082

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(Beaumont Press) Flecker, J.E. THE LETTERS OF J.E. FLECKER TO FRANK SAVERY.
(Westminster Beaumont Press 1926) 8vo. quarter vellum with illustrated paper-covered boards 125+(1) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 390 numbered copies of which this is one of 310 printed on handmade paper. The twenty-first book issued by the Beaumont Press. The typography and binding produced by Cyril William Beaumont on his press at 75 Charing Cross Road, the decorated cover designed by B. Claudia Guercio, and the title page by Randolph Schwabe. These letters include the author's service in World War I, ending with his death circa 1915. "I'm damned frightened the Germans are going to win and steal a third of France...the world will be hell if they do."
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 62266

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(Beaumont Press) Gibson, W.W. HOME
A Book of Poems (Westminster Beaumont Press 1920) small 8vo. quarter cloth, patterned paper-covered boards (iv), 41,(3) pages
(Cyril W. Beaumont, The First Score, 42-46; Ransom, 210). Limited to 260 copies printed on handmade paper. This is the tenth book issued by the press. The cover and decorations designed and cut on wood by Ethelbert White. Boards rubbed and soiled.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 94573

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Bellamy, B.E. PRIVATE PRESSES & PUBLISHING IN ENGLAND SINCE 1945.
London K.G. Saur and Clive Bingley (1980) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 168 pages.
First edition. With a Foreword by Roderick Cave. Discussion of the following presses: Cuckoo Hill, Shoestring, Keepsake, Kit-Cat, Poet & Printer, Plough, Mandeville and Basilisk.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 23390

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(Bird & Bull Press) Atkyns, Richards and William Caslon A PAIR ON PRINTING.
Introductions by Carey S. Bliss. North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1982 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. 141 pages.
One of 500 copies. This is the first reprinting in facsimile of two important first books on printing in English. The first is Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing(1664) which is the first book devoted to the subject of printing; the second is William Caslon's first type specimen book, also the first English type specimen book. Carey Bliss, the curator of rare books at the Huntington Library, has written introductions for both books.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 1353

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(Bird & Bull Press) Feather, John ENGLISH BOOK PROSPECTUSES, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Newtown Bird & Bull Press and Minneapolis: Daedalus Press 1984 8vo. quarter morocco with tips, Dutch Gilt sides reproduced from an 18th century German decorated paper, plus 14 larger facsimiles in a separate accompanying portfolio. 109 pages.
Limited to 325 copies. The history of this important piece of publishing ephemera from its beginning in 1610 up through the 19th century and accompanied by 24 facsimile prospectuses from 2 to 10 pages in length. As the exact size was maintained, it was necessary to place 4 of the facsimiles in a separate portfolio. All but one of the prospectuses done in facsimile come from the Bodleian Library. This book is the kind of private press book that Oak Knoll likes to handle; an important new text presented in a superb format. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 2685

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(Bird & Bull Press) Middleton, Bernard C. RECOLLECTIONS, MY LIFE IN BOOKBINDING.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1995 8vo. quarter leather, printed paper sides, leather spine label, slipcase. 105, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies. Printed by hand on Arches mouldmade paper in Dante types composed by Golgonozza Letter Foundry. Bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery. With a foreword by Marianne Tidcombe. Autobiographical notes by one of the most famous bookbinders of our day. Includes numerous illustrations showing Middleton at different stages of his life and also includes a number of full color reproductions of Middleton bindings. Contains a bibliography of his writings in the back. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 43726

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(Bird & Bull Press) PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE VAT PAPER MAKERS HELD AT THE BELL HOTEL, MAIDSTONE ON TUESDAY 8TH, MARCH 1853.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1970 4to. hand-sewn paper wrappers in a stiff blue paper box. 54 pages.
Taylor A10. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies. Copied from a hand-written manuscript, this account of a meeting of workers in a hand-made paper mill accurately depicts the working conditions of the day. Social problems brought along by mechanical paper making and allowing women to do certain jobs are discussed. Prospectus loosely inserted. Outer folder is foxed as usual.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 1351

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(Bird & Bull Press) Stewart-Murphy, Charlotte A. A HISTORY OF BRITISH CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, THE BOOK LABELS AND EPHEMERA OF THE PAPANTONIO COLLECTION.
Newton, PA Bird & Bull Press 1992 tall 8vo. quarter leather, decorated paper over boards. 153, (2) pages.
Limited to 185 numbered copies. Printed on Arches mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at The Bird & Bull Press. Gives a history of British circulating libraries through the use of the Papantonio collection of library book labels and book related ephemera of the eighteenth and nineteenth century by the noted English collector Sir Ambrose Heal. The author has thoroughly researched the subject and has produced an interesting account of the libraries and the increase of literacy among the poorer classes. With related information on the printers, booksellers, engravers and bookbinders of the period. Illustrations of sixty-four labels, trade cards and prints are included.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 34912

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(Birmingham School of Printing) Simon, Herbert OPPORTUNITIES.
Birmingham Birmingham School of Printing 1951 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 13, (3) pages.
Wallis p.104. Printed by hand by the students of the School in black and pale blue. Reprint of a talk given by Simon to the students about his life in printing and their opportunities in the field.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 33334

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