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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 15.
Herefordshire Whittington Press 1995 4to. limp boards, dust jacket. (vi), 234, (2) pages.
Limited to 950 copies. Filled with tipped in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "Letters are Things: The Wood-engraved initials of Eric Gill" by Sebastian Carter, Fiona MacCarthy on William Morris, Ruari McLean on "Typography and Parsons," Ward Ritchie on "Paul Landacre and the Ward Ritchie Press, Henry Morris on his Bird & Bull Press, John Dreyfus on Fernand Baudin, and many others including an index to Matrix 11-15.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 57773

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 16.
Herefordshire Whittington Press 1996 4to. limp boards, dust jacket. (vi), 203, (3) pages.
Limited to 925 copies. Filled with tipped in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "The Hammersmith Hot-house" by John Dreyfus, "Making a Visible Spirit" by Dan Carr, "Cave Paper" by Bridget O'Malley and Amanda Degener, "Borders designed by Edward Bawden" by Michael Johnson, "Weather Bird and Disney" by Vance Gerry, "The Wood engravings of Joan Hassall" by Ruari McLean, "David Kindersley" by Lottie Hoare, "The Story of a Book, Illustrations by Henri Matisse" by Albert Skira, "Merle Armitage" by Ward Ritchie and many others. Includes a review of press books published in 1995 by David Chambers. Minor wear at head of spine.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 46634

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 19
Herefordshire Whittington Press 1999 4to. paper-covered limp boards, dust jacket. (vi), 246 pages, with many additional pages of plates and other materials.
Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 720 copies which are bound in stiff wrappers. This issue of the Matrix contains 24 articles including David Chambers on the Circle Press, Theo Rehak on the Kelmscott Press, John Dreyfus on American Proprietary Typefaces, John DePol on John Fass, John Dodson on German Type Specimens, Roderick Cave on Will Ransom and the Cunninghams, followed by 11 book reviews. Well illustrated with many tipped-in specimens printed on special papers, color plates, wood engravings printed on special paper, etc. Scholarly and finely printed. Minor jacket chipping at top.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 58263

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 21 WINTER 2001.
A review for printers and bibliophiles. Herefordshire Whittington Press 2001 small 4to. paper-covered limp boards, dust jacket with two color wood engraving (vi), 238 pages, with additional pages of plates and other materials
Printed in an edition limited to 825 copies, this being one of 745 copies which are bound in stiff paper wrappers. This issue of Matrix contains thirty articles including "Memories of an Apprentice Typefounder," by James Mosley, "Engraving a Dead Man," by Gaylord Schanilec, "Cockerel's Forgotten Partner, and Eric Gill's Last Commission," by Roderick Cave, "Frederic Prokosch: a Passion for Self-Publishing," by James Lorson, "Book-jackets," by Michael Harvey, "Earth Pigments in Plant Papers," by Maureen and Brian Richardson, "., ; : ' ( ) ! ?" by John Grice, "Private Press Books 2000: a Review," by David Chambers and more. Illustrated throughout with photographs, wood engravings, and sample papers as well as an extensive variety of tipped-in specimens printed on special papers. The two-color wood-engraving on the dust jacket is "Blacksmiths II," by Rachel Reckitt. Prospectus for the Matrix index scheduled for publication in 2002 is loosely laid-in.
Price: $ 202.50 other currencies Order nr. 69493

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 28
(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury Whittington Press 2009) 4to. half leather, slipcase (vi), 180, (2) pages plus portfolio of photographs
One of 70 copies of the deluxe version bound thus. The separately issued portfolio contains a suite of photographs by Janet Stone of Myfanwy Piper, Lord David Cecil, Geoffrey Keynes, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Julian Huxley, Doublas Cleverdon, L.P. Hartley & Laurence Whistler. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say that in the future it will be impossible to research fine printing without reference to Matrix. This issue contains essays by Alan Powers on The Curwen Story, Andrew Anderson on Eric Gill, Humphrey Stone on the photographers, Janet Stone, David Hughes on the Baynard Press, James Fergusson on The Amate Press, Michael Harvey on Janet the Typeface, Hal Bishop on Ronald Salmond, John Randle on The Offizin Haag-Drugulin, Jerry Cinamon on Leipzig rambling, Andrew Dolinski on Poltawski, Barbara Henry on producing the Vandercook Book, Katherine McCanless-Ruffin on The Shinola Vandercook, and many more. Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs. color plates, etc. Card regarding Matrix 29 loosely laid-in.
Price: $ 605.00 other currencies Order nr. 103108

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 29
(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury Whittington Press 2010 4to. stiff paper wrappers 200 pages
One of 725 copies. MATRIX 29 is already overflowing with plans for topics that include the Hunt type designed by Hermann Zapf (with a specimen of the type in its three sizes on mould-made paper); wood-engravings from a pilgrimage to the south of France; the Firefly Press in Massachusetts; the Architectural Review; Monotype at the Bixlers; wood-type in America; David Godine, the Letterpress Years; Stinehour Press; Tirzah Ravilious; letterpress in Brazil; Robert Harling; Scotch Roman; the Occasional Print Club; Italian Futurist types; the creative possibilities of ad hoc letterpress printing; the golden age of 1960s publishing; and an item currently being vetted by MI5. A particular feature of MATRIX 29 will be the many letterpress inserts from around the world (Italy, USA, Canada, Brazil, UK).
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 105545

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 30
Herefordshire Whittington Press 2012 small 4to stiff paper wrappers 109 pages
Trade edition. Matrix 30, which celebrates the fourth decade of the series. Its customary diverse range of topics includes Kenneth Tynan, the diaries of Tirzah Ravilious, letters from Edward Gordon Craig to his grandson, the Septentrio Press, wood type from the Hamilton Type Museum, printers obituaries, Brazilian favela printing, the Art and Technics series, Klingspor Typefoundry, engraving on the Mississippi, Rowley Atterbury and the Westerham Press, the wood-engravings of Geoffrey Miller, and much else besides, including a rich and varied mixture of broadsides, engravings and prints.

Matrix...a clear and spacious attic, whose dormer windows overlook fields and trees, and in which one comes across new or forgotten, sometimes exotic, treasures.
LINDSAY NEWMAN

...that annual miracle. THE BOOK COLLECTOR

Matrix describes doings by people with great skill. But the real, and enduring strength and greatness is there is not a whisper of greed or commercialism. WILLIAM MASLAND, ARIZONA

Hello again Rosalind, ... I woke up tonight and panicked...I thought Matrix 29 should have been out already and that I missed it!! What a nightmare ... Anyway, I look forward to it, now that I have calmed down...
ULF ENGLEHARDT, STOCKHOLM
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109175

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 7.
Manor Farm Whittington Press 1986 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 166, (2) pages.
Limited to 960 copies of which this is one of the 850 copies of the trade edition. (Butcher 92). Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. Articles by Cleverdon on Morison and Gill, Dreyfus on French Resistance Printing, Carter on Victor Hammer, Cave on Golden Cockerel, Mortimer on Ornamented Types, Thompson on Gordon Craig, Crutchley on the Shape of Books and many others.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 20957

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 7.
Manor Farm Whittington Press 1987 small 4to. quarter bound in leather with pattern paper-covered sides. (viii), 166, (2) pages. Accompanied by a separate case in which is mounted a cassette recording a talk by Stanley Morison on Eric Gill. Both pieces are inserted in a slipcase.
Limited to 960 copies of which this is one of the 110 special copies done in this manner. (Butcher 92).Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. Articles by Cleverdon on Morison and Gill, Dreyfus on French Resistance Printing, Carter on Victor Hammer, Cave on Golden Cockerel, Mortimer on Ornamented Types, Thompson on Gordon Craig, Crutchley on the Shape of Books and many others.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 20959

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 8.
Manor Farm The Whittington Press 1988 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 166, (2) pages.
Limited to 900 copies of which this is one of the 800 copies of the trade edition bound in a pattern paper by Vance Gerry. Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. Articles by Michael Taylor on Douglas Cleverdon, David Butcher on the Curwen Press, Tanya Schmoller on The Fancy Paper Company, David McKitterick on Edward Bawden, Mark Arman on Printing on the Normandy Beach-Head in 1944, and many others. Small tear in paper wrappers along top of front cover.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 23485

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX 9.
Manor Farm The Whittington Press 1989 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 200, (2) pages.
Limited to 925 copies of which this is one of the 820 copies of the trade edition bound thus. (Butcher 103). Filled with tipped in plates and other illustrations. This year's articles include Thoughts on Wood by Robert Gibbings, Notes on the Printing Methods of the Golden Cockerel Press by A. C. Cooper, Jan Tschichold and Chinese Woodblock Printing by Charles Antin and The Printing of the "Alice" Engravings by Jonathan Stephenson and many others.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 27804

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES. [Vol 1-30]
30 volumes, the complete set published to date. Volumes one & two are reprints. Andoversford The Whittington Press 1981-2012 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers with printed and decorated dust jackets for volumes 1-5 and decorated paper-covered boards with printed and decorated dust jackets for volumes 6-22.
All 30 volumes are in as-new condition. With limitations varying from 450 for the first volume to limitations in the 900s for later volumes. The first and second volumes are present in the reprint edition, which are limited to 450 and 475 copies respectively. The first volume contains a three-page historical note by John Randle not present in the first printing. The tenth volume contains an index to the first ten issues. Filled with important articles on all aspects of private printing, historical printing history, book illustration history, and all other subjects of interest to the bookarts person. Illustrated with color, tipped-in illustrations, foldouts, broadsides, samples, etc. Becoming very difficult to find a complete set of this very interesting periodical.
Price: $ 6,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 73416

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(Whittington Press) MATRIX, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES. [VOL 1-30]
31 volumes, the complete set published to date. Volumes one & two are first editions. Includes the deluxe edition of the Index to Volumes 1-20. Andoversford The Whittington Press 1981-2012 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers with printed and decorated dust jackets (for first five volumes) and decorated paper-covered boards with printed and decorated dust jackets (for volume six to seventeen).
All 30 volumes are in as-new condition. With limited runs varying from 350 for the first volume to 900 for later volumes. The tenth volume contains an index to the first ten issues. Filled with important articles on all aspects of private printing, historical printing history, book illustration history and all other subjects of interest to the book-arts person. Illustrated with color, tipped-in illustrations, foldouts, broadsides, samples, etc. This set contains the original volumes of one and two. Becoming very difficult to find a complete set of this very interesting periodical. Fine set.
Price: $ 6,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 47602

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(Whittington Press) O'Connor, John KNIPTON, A LEICESTERSHIRE VILLAGE.
With thirty-five wood-engravings by the artist. Risbury The Whittington Press (1996) small folio quarter Oasis, paper-covered boards. Accompanied by a separate portfolio of eight of the engravings inserted in a cloth-backed paper covered board portfolio. All inserted in a slipcase. (32) pages.
Limited to 200 numbered copies, of which this is one of the 45 lettered copies to be bound thus and to contain the separate portfolio of engravings. Signed by O'Connor. With the woodcuts printed in different colors. The plates in the separate portfolio are all initialed by O'Connor in pencil.
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 44319

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(Whittington Press) Phipps, Howard FURTHER INTERIORS
Lower Marston Farm The Whittington Press 1992 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers tied in the Japanese style with black ribbon, slipcase. 15+(1) pages.
Limited to 300 signed and numbered copies, this being one of 235 bound thus. (Butcher 112). Printed on Zerkall Rosa and Ingras papers using the original woodblocks. Contains 15 wood engravings of interiors, four of them printed in four and five colors. Phipps use of light and shadow gives the engravings an irresitable quality. A beautiful collection.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 35299

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(Whittington Press) Pissarro, Lucien PASTORALE, WOOD-ENGRAVINGS BY LUCIEN PISSARRO, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BIDWELL, & A MEMOIR BY MIRIAM MACGREGOR.
(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury) Whittington Press 2011 8vo quarter cloth, paper-covered boards 24 pages
One of 160 copies made on Batchelors Crown and Sceptre paper, quarter-bound in pre-war Fabriano Ingres printed sides, in a slipcase. In 1965, Orovida, the daughter of Lucien Pissarro who started the Eragny Press with his wife Esther in 1894, presented most of her father's wood-engravings, and his book of proofs, to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. This edition of some of Lucien's finest engravings was printed at the Whittington Press from the original blocks and was issued to mark an exhibition of the work of the Eragny Press at the Ashmolean in early 2011. Four engravings are printed in colour using a technique pioneered by Lucien using pale and subdued colours to build up images of great charm and subtlety. A unique memento of a much loved and collected early private press, whose small editions are increasingly hard to find.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 107017

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(Whittington Press) Randle, John & Rosalind (editors) MATRIX 23, WINTER 2003, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS & BIBLIOPHILES
Herefordshire, UK Whittington Press 2003 small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 206 pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 715 trade copies. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say that in the future it will be impossible to research fine printing without reference to Matrix. This issue contains twenty-five articles and additional book reviews, including: Anthony Dowd, "Fine Press and the Bookbinder"; Miriam MacGregor, "The Forgotten Pleasure of Hand-Printing"; Lucy Archer, "Working with Olive Cook"; Michael Caine, "My Concatenation of Types"; Dennis Gould, "Latterday Letterpress Printer"; and Simon Lawrence, "Aspects of Golden Gockerel." Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs. color plates, etc. and a 1937 Matisse, "Woman's Head," as frontispiece.
Price: $ 260.00 other currencies Order nr. 76358

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One of Forty Copies

(Whittington Press) Randle, John ONE RAINY DAY
( Andoversford The Whittington Press 2000) small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket, stiff paper sleeve (ii), 6, (2) pages.
Limited to 250 copies of which this is one of 40 copies bound in boards and containing a signed engraving by Miriaim Macgregor and an engraving by Edward Walters , who was in charge of the Marlborough College Press 1942-6. This print is one of a number of his blocks found discarded at the Press about 1958, and now at Whittington. Another appears opposite the colphon.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 78698

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One of 25 with Extra Plates

(Whittington Press) Turner, Jim OTHER DAYS
(Manor Farm, Andoversford) The Whittington Press (1979) small 4to. quarter green cloth with patterned paper covered boards, paper spine labels, slipcase. 32 pages; separate portfolio with prints loosely inserted.
Limited to 525 copies, of which this is one of 25 lettered copies bound thus and containing a signed set of artist's proofs of the engravings. (Butcher 43). Signed by the author and the illustrator. Nine wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor illustrate Turner's poetry. An engraving, repeated from the text, is on the front cover.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 109610

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(Whittington Press) THE WOOD-ENGRAVINGS OF GWENDA MORGAN.
With an Introduction by John Randle Manor Farm, Andoeversford The Whittington Press (1985) small 4to. cloth, paper cover and spine labels. xvi pages (53)
First edition, limited to 335 numbered copies signed by Morgan. Contains fity-two wood-engravings and a line-block reproduction of an engraving by Gwenda Morgan.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 22075

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(Windhover Press) Gioia, Dana DAILY HOROSCOPE
N.P. Windhover Press at the University of Iowa (1982) 8vo. stiff paper wrapper not paginated
Limited to an edition of 225 printed on a Washington press. The type is Palatino, handset. The frontispiece is a linoleum cut by Thomas Kovacs. The author's first book.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 90613

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`Winkelmann-Rhein, Gertraude IT'S A SMALL WORLD
Alliance Private Press of the Haywoods 1965-2008 12mo. stiff paper wrappers 24 issues of this periodical, variously paginated, published "co-operatively by hobby printers in all parts of the world as a demonstration of their mutual interest in the art of printing for its creative satisfaction''.
Includes the issues for 1965 (11th annual edition); 1967 (13th annual edition) through 1988 (34th annual edition) inclusive; and 2008 (54th annual edition), total of 24 issues. Each issue contains contributions printed by various private presses. Produced by William F. Haywood 1955-1995. The 2008 issue was published by Mike Elliston, Printer at the Sign of the Galloping Tortoise, Basildon, Essex, England. Some issues have lightly worn wrappers and tears at spine.
Price: $ 240.00 other currencies Order nr. 115168

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(Woodcraft Press) Legg, Owen RUN OF THE WOODCRAFT PRESS PUBLICATIONS
12 Volumes. Tonbridge Woodcraft Press '73 - '09 various sizes and bindings.
Twelve volumes printed by the Woodcraft Press.

"Born in a suburb of London which had provided David Jones and Jack London, I grew up amongst the ruins of a bombed city. We played on bombed sites and watched birds among the semi derelict sports fields of South London. Our training was with the Boy Scouts who sent us everywhere camping and hiking, thus my love of the countryside and nature. My father was a great gardener and that stimulated my interest in gardens and growing vegetables. In fact my garden here is practically self supporting and is decorated with topiary. The best example is of an enormous peacock in the front garden which is a topic for the local agricultural college.

From school I went to British Columbia for six weeks on the British Schools Exploring Society's expedition. Straight after that It was Hospital Medical School and eyes down to qualify. As thought, to go onto surgery. National Service came along and as I was a conscientious objector, I went to Congo as a voluntary missionary. My son was born on the Equator. Back In England, I tried for my Surgical exams and failed seven times. Obviously, that wasn't for me so 1 switched to General Practice in 1966 and moved to Tonbridge.

All this time I had been sketching and .oil painting, but not really developing artistically. Not until started printmaking at the college of further education in nearby Tunbridge Wells did my Ideas start to solidify. not ossify, but develop. Linocuts for me limit the possibilities, but generate the ideas. Moving from prints I wanted text to accompany the image so used hand written poetry or cut lettering. This lead onto my first book in 1973 (the Armourer's Play) where Images of Knights and nudes, are combined with the text of a mystery play. This was exhibited during the .1973 York Festival. As time progressed, so my books have changed. Each as a result of my interests and preoccupations of the time. Many after long years of thought, others pretty instantaneous. The William Morris was finished on the morning when I set out as a medical Officer with the BSES expedition to Iceland. Thoughts of a Young Explorer was written and printed as a fund-raiser for my stint on the expedition to Alaska in .1999. Soon after that I retired from medicine, but my speed of book-making does not seem to have increased. produce sculpture from time to time and recently had an exhibition of these at Chatham. Now I am working full time on my current project Danse Macabre, a fifteenth century French poem with modern translation, illustrated by murals from a French church and footballers dancing with skeletons. My prints and books are scattered round the world Including the British library, Greenwich print Collection, Graphotek Berlin, Manchester University and Columbia university. I have exhibited widely In England, but also one man shows in Wales and France. I have belonged to the Free Painters & Sculptors for 4.1 years, exhibit regularly with them and have been their Hon Sec for 10 years."
-Owen Legg

The twelve titles are below:

(Woodcraft Press) Butterfield, Frederick William Lois and Bill Griffiths. BATTLE OF MALDON.|THE. N.P. (but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 2003, square 8vo., cloth, glassine dust jacket. not paginated.
Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, printer/proprietor of the press. This is the sixth book in the 30 years of the Woodcraft Press. The text is two translations of an Anglo-Saxon lament: the first, by Butterfields, was originally privately printed in 1903 and the second, by Griffiths, is a modern literal translation. There are linocut prints and borders in several colors - different on each page. The paper is white laid 100 gsm , recycled 12pt Gill hand set with a 4pt leading and wood type for the titling. Per the colophon " as each sheet has been though the press at least a dozen times there are thumb prints and off-set marks on some sheets in most copies." Glassine has a few tiny tears and chips.

(Woodcraft Press) West, Gilbert. GARDENS OF STOWE.|THE. N.P. ( but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 2006, 8vo., silk cloth, matching slipcase. not paginated.
Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, printer/proprietor of the press. The text is taken from Descriptions of Lord Cobhan's Garden at Stowe 1700-1750 edited by G. B. Clarke. Legg says that on his first visit to the gardens he imagined them peopled by nymphs and satyrs with perhaps nudes in the foreground. "Over the years this memory remained and has led me to produce a series of prints combining Stowe's follies with famous paintings." There are twelve full-page prints plus a print of Gilbert West from an engraving in the National Portrait Gallery. Printed in handset Burlington, 18pt, 2pt leaded on Fabriano No.5 . Spine of slipcase a little faded.

(Woodcraft Press) Jones, Ken. CHRISTMAS LETTERS FROM A FRIEND. Letters written by Ken Jones to Owen Legg 1985-1996. N.P. ( but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1997, oblong 4to., cloth, dust jacket. not paginated.
Limited to 175 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, printer/proprietor of the press. Ten years of seasonal letters. Jones and Legg have been friends for over 60 years. Illustrated primarily with photographs. Each letter has at least one illustration and/or photograph and most have a story to go with it. Introduction by Helen Legg. A charming book. Dust jacket is all stars and looks a bit like gift wrap.

(Woodcraft Press) Sackville-West, Vita. GARDEN.|THE. Illustrated by Owen Legg. N.P. (but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1989, large 4to., cloth, slipcase. 136, (4) pages.
Limited to 200 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, this being one of 180 on Fabriano 5 paper.. A very nice setting of Sackville-West's poem with five full-page, full-color linocuts of Sissinghurst plus additional ornaments in the text. The type is 18pt Perpetua, roman and italic. Woodblock letters for the titling and initial capitals. Prospectus laid-in.

(Woodcraft Press) Graves, Robert and Omar Ali-Shah (translation). RUBAIYYAT OF OMAR KHAYAAM.|THE. Illustrated by Owen Legg. Tonbridge: Woodcraft Press, 1980, 4to., full goatskin, Mylar jacket, cloth slipcase. not paginated.
Limited to 40 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg and the bookbinder (signature illegible). The colophon as printed states 45 copies, but the limitation that is handwritten is 40 and that number has been verified by Mr. Legg. There are 30 linocut illustrations. The paper is handmade from rag pulp, colored with wool fleck. Handset in 18pt Dante italic. The binding is quite striking - the dark top board has a large rectangle cut-out with a smaller rectangle in-set which in turn as a circle cut-out with a silver quarter moon in-set. The spine repeats the quarter moon motif. Lovely production.

(Woodcraft Press) Legg, Owen. ADVICE TO A YOUNG EXPLORER. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1999, square 8vo., stiff paper wrappers, cord tied. not paginated (8 pages).
Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg. Illustrated with one linocut of a grizzly bear printed in three colors. " The poem is an attempt to bring the friendly childhood bear into the real wild world of ecology and conservation." Legg was a medical officer to the 1999 British Schools Exploring Society's expedition to the Talkeetna and Cugach National Parks. A couple of tiny creases at the corners.

(Woodcraft Press) Palsson, Hermann and Paul Edwards. EGIL'S HEAD RANSOM. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 2001, square 8vo., stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. not paginated (8 pages).
Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg. Illustrated with two full page linocuts. An excerpt from a translation of Egil's Saga which saved his life when Egil recited it before the court of King Eric Bloodaxe in 948. The frontispiece is based on a helmet in the York Jorvik Viking Centre, which dates from the period of this poem. A couple of tiny creases at the corners.

(Woodcraft Press) Morris, William. ON FIRST SEEING ICELAND. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1992, 8vo., blue stiff paper wrappers. not paginated (8 pages).
Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, but this one has the number (92/100) crossed-out and Artist's Copy written in. William Morris first published this poem in a collection called "Poems by the Way" in 1892 having written in after visits to Iceland in 1871 and 1873. The Woodcraft edition was printed to mark Legg's departure for Iceland with the British Schools Exploring Society. Printed on handmade white Wilcox 100 cotton, made at Wookey Hole Mill. The type is Dante 16pt. The illustration is printed on Japanese mulberry paper.

(Woodcraft Press) PRAYER FOR TODAY.|A. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1994, narrow 4to., single sheet held in printed folder.
Limited to 100, numbered and signed by Owen Legg at the end of the poem. A satirical look at modern life. The poem began as a joke over lunch by a group of friends, one of whom completed it and passed it on to her doctor [presumably Mr. Legg, who is a doctor as well as a fine press printer/artist]. The full page linocut is based on a cheese display at a local delicatessen. Printed on handmade cotton rag Wookey hole Mill paper using Dante 16pt. type. Quite attractive and fun!

(Woodcraft Press) Legg, Owen and Leslie Grinsell. CUT IN THE CHALK. Tonbridge: (Woodcraft Press), 1977, folio, half leather, paper-covered boards. not paginated.
Limited to 40 copies, numbered and signed by Owen Legg. Text by Grinsell, illustrations by Legg. Eleven full-page prints of hill figures illustrate the archeological information. Extra suite of prints housed in a folder affixed to the rear pastedown. Set in 24 pt Ehrhardt, type and linocuts are printed on Barcham Green Chrisbrook. The duplicate set of linocuts was printed on Japanese handmade paper. The second book of the press.

(Woodcraft Press) ARMOURERS' PLAY.|THE. Adam et Eva, Angellus cum vanga et oolo assignans, eis laborem. (Tonbridge: Woodcraft Press), 1973, folio, loose leaves contained in a folder which is housed in a slipcase. 10 leaves.
This is the artist's proof, numbered and signed by Owen Legg on each illustration. The text is from the York Cycle of mystery plays: modern English text by J.S. Purvis, middle English text by Lucy Toulmin Smith. Originally written over 400 years ago, various Guilds took responsibility for the pageant, costumes and actors. Thus the Armourers' Company maintained the sixth play in the cycle; that in which Adam and Eve are thrust out to till the earth. The plates are printed from linoleum blocks, usually in three colors. All the lettering is cut by hand and printed in colors to match the figures. The ten prints have been made on Barcham Green Waterleaf handmade paper in Double Elephant size which was subsequently halved to give a sheet size of 20" x 271/2". The folder of hand-made Japanese paper, along with the matching slipcase, has the coat of arms of the Armourers. This paper is made from mulberry leaves flecked with silk strands. Prospectus laid-in. Both the folder and the slipcase have some fading.

(Woodcraft Press) DANSE MACABRE.|LA. (Tonbridge, Woodcraft Press), 2009, 4to, leather boards silver-stamped with decoration, mylar dust jacket, slip case. Limited edition of 40. Text from a leaflet supplied by the chapel of Kermaria-an-Isquit, Plouha, Côtes d'Armor, France, from frescoes uncovered in 1866, when they were translated into modern French. Translated into English 2008. Printed on a Soldan press. Handset 18 pt italic Perpetua, 3 pt leaded used for the text. Printed on Fabriano no. 5. Linocuts of the frescoes taken from a post card supplied by the Kermaria church. Other prints based on football (soccer) photographs.
Price: $ 3,970.00 other currencies Order nr. 101099

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(Wood Lea Press) Greenwood, Jeremy RAVILIOUS ENGRAVINGS
(Woodbridge, Suffolk) The Wood Lea Press 2008 folio cloth, slipcase 287+(1) pages
Limited to 800 copies bound thus as the standard edition. Introduction by John Craig. Contains well over 400 engravings, many letters, preparatory drawings and associated illustrations. Some of the engravings and illustrations are in color. Also has a list of prints exhibited by Ravilious at the Society of Wood Engravers. As far as is known, these are the only exhibitions at which Ravilious's engravings were shown during his lifetime. The chronology has, among other things, the titles of books which include wood-engravings. Much additional material. Bibliography. Index.
Price: $ 620.00 other currencies Order nr. 99692

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Woolf, Virginia JACOB'S ROOM
Richmond Hogarth Press 1922 12mo. cloth, paper spine label 290, 14 pages
First edition (Kirkpatrick A6). With 14 pages of advertisements. Cover soiled, paper cover label chipped. Corners and edges bumped. Cloth worn at corners. Minor library markings on the front pastedown. Pencil notations on rear pastedown. Inside hinges cracked but solid.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 104596

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