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See More... (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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See More... (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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See More... 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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See More... (Workshop Press) Arman, Mark A DIARY OF ENGRAVINGS & LINOCUTS.
Dunmow The Workshop Press 1986 small 4to. half cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. xii, 60 pages.
Limited to 160 signed and numbered copies. Printed by hand and including many illustrations with 12 in color. Arman describes 40 years of making blocks for illustrations in this book.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 17364

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See More... (Workshop Press) Arman, Mark LETTERPRESS, PRINTERS' TYPES AND DECORATIONS, FIVE ARTICLES BY MARK ARMAN WHICH WERE INCLUDED IN THE WHITTINGTON PRESS ANNUAL PUBLICATION MATRIX BETWEEN 1987 & 1991.
Thaxted Essex The Workshop Press (1993) tall 8vo. quarter leather, leather cover label. viii, 48 pages.
Limited to 110 signed and numbered copies of which this is one of a few copies bound thus (number "7" of run). Specimens are printed in various colors for variety and include some large foldout broadsides and tipped-in specimens.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 52869

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) Colebrook, Frank WILLIAM MORRIS: MASTER-PRINTER, A LECTURE GIVEN ON THE EVENING OF NOVEMBER 27, 1896 TO STUDENTS OF THE PRINTING SCHOOL, ST. BRIDE FOUNDATION INSTITUTE IN LONDON.
With an introduction by William S. Peterson. Wood engravings by John DePol. Council Bluffs, IA Yellow Barn Press (1989) small 4to. cloth, paper spine and cover labels. xii, 34, (2) pages.
Limited to 155 numbered copies. Printed by letterpress on Rives paper and engraved by John DePol. Reproduces a lecture which first appeared in The Printing Times and Lithographer of November 1896. A fascinating lecture, excellently illustrated. Presentation from the illustrator, John DePol, dated 1989 on the front pastedown. Accompanied by a handwritten letter in red ink from DePol on his stationary addressed to the same recipient commenting on this book.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 25900

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) DePol, John PATTERNS: DRAWN AND ENGRAVED ON WOOD.
Introduction by Renee I. Weber. Appreciation by Don Wesely. Council Bluffs The Yellow Barn Press 1986 8vo. cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards. xv, 39 pages followed by 4 pages each containing a tipped-in example of patterned paper.
Limited to only 150 numbered copies and hand-printed by Neil Shaver at his Yellow Barn Press. With 39 pages containing numerous examples of designs printed in color.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 13756

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) Fraser, James (editor) JOHN ANDERSON AND THE PICKERING PRESS, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. WITH A PICKERING PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY BY JOHN ANDERSON, JAMES FRASER AND ELEANOR FRIEDL.
N.P. Yellow Barn Press and Fairleigh Dickinson University (1995) tall 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, slipcase 70 pages and 20 plates.
Limited to 150 copies and printed letterpress by Neil Shaver at his Yellow Barn Press on dampened Rives paper. With 20 plates showing Anderson's work including work using color. An excellent look at American typography during the 1940s onward with glimpses into Frederic Goudy, Peter Beilenson, Arthur Rushmore, Robert Middleton, Elmer Adler, Sol Hess, Joseph Blumenthal, Grant Dahlstrom, Claire van Vliet and John DePol. An excellent tribute to John Anderson, perhaps the "last of the great commercial letterpress printers working on the East Coast." With prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 41674

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) Hoover, Herbert A BOYHOOD IN IOWA.
With a Foreword by Will Irwin. And Wood Engravings by John Depol. Council Bluffs The Yellow Barn Press 1986 8vo. cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 34, (2) pages.
Limited to 125 numbered copies. Printed by Neil Shaver at his private press on Rives paper. With some impressive woodcuts by Depol. With errata slip loosely inserted which has been signed by Shaver. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 15703

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) McChesney, Mary BEACHCOMBING
Omaha Yellow Barn Press 1981 8vo. cloth-covered boards (6), 32 pages.
Number 43 from limited edition of 150. (Walsdorf A2.) Presentation copy from Neil Shaver to Alan Dietch, who sold Shaver the press used for the book. Printed during the press's twelve month period in Omaha. Minor spotting on front cover.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 93845

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) Olmstead, Clark METANOIA
Council Bluffs, IA Yellow Barn Press 1979 8vo. cloth, paper spine label (iv), 24 pages
PRINTERS COMMENTS: "I printed this first book in Harry Duncan's class at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. In 1978 Harry offered his first night class since coming to the University in 1972. I jumped at the chance to take the class. It was what I had been waiting for. I had purchased my Washington hand press in 1964. .... At this time I knew nothing about what it took to produce a book. The Washington press used for this book was one of two in the University's shop. ... I remember printing the last signature on the last day of class before Christmas vacation in 1978. The book was bound by Zonne Book Binders in Chicago. .... Clark Olmstead, the author, is an interesting individual. ... By day he was a routeman for the Frito-Lay Company. I had to have a project for the class at the University and in conversation one day with Clark, it was agreed that I would use a collection of his verse." ... (YBP Bibliography excerpt, laid-in front hinge). Portrait drawn by Sue Pospeschil Olson. Edges are lightly rubbed, very light wear to the covers.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 93799

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) Saxe, Stephen O. AMERICAN IRON HAND PRESSES.
Iowa Yellow Barn Press and Fairleigh Dickinson University (1991) 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. xii, 108, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 180 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. The story of the iron hand press in America from the beginning to their final manufacture. Illustrated with fifteen fine wood engravings by John DePol. Slightly bumped at head of spine.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 32657

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) West, Kathleene THE GARDEN SECTION.
Omaha The Yellow Barn Press 1982 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. (viii), 21+(1) pages
Limited to 198 numbered copies. Printed on a Washington handpress with Joanna type on Gutenburg Laid paper. There are seven poems. Presentation on blank page "for Jim - Love from the Iceland Kid - K. West. 6-26-83 (the KFOR 6th Annual)." Covers rubbed and some fading of spine. No dust jacket.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 93702

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) Yellow Barn Press Ephemera
N.P. n.p. n.d. folio many different things enclosed in a cloth clamshell box with a leather spine label
The first item, held in a large envelope, is the publication announcement for The Yellow Barn Press: A History and Bibliography, along with some off-prints and a note, "Donn Here a some off prints to give you a little provenance Neil". The second is a large envelope containing ten items, primarily publication announcements and a somewhat smaller empty envelope postmarked 1987 from the Yellow Barn Press. Per an email dated July 9, 2001, " Dear Donn, There are at present six sets such as you have in the clam-shell box. I still have two here." This email is located in a folder labeled "Items in this folder were issued after orginal ephemera compilation." This folder is the third "holder" from the top. After these come a stiff envelope marked "Nothing inside. This is just filler." Then the come all the loose emphemera - 72 items of various sizes.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 93956

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See More... (Yolla Bolly Press) Gide, André THESEUS
N.P. (but Covalo, CA) Yolla Bolly Press (1998) folio quarter suede, paper-covered boards, slipcase (vi), 42, (8) pages
Translation and afterword by John Russell. Drawings by Sidney Goodman. Signed by Goodman on the colophon. One of eighty-five bound thus by the Cardoza-James Binding Company. Composed in the Walbaum types, the text was printed at the Press. The illustrations were printed by single-pass lithography. The paper is mouldmade Somerset Velvet.
Price: $ 900.00 other currencies Order nr. 90710

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See More... (Zauberberg Press) Housman, A.E. A SHROPSHIRE LAD.
Coffeyville, Kansas Zauberberg Press 1992 4to. cloth, paper spine label (iv), 123 pages
Limited to 20 copies. Poems by A.E. Housman originally printed in 1896. This edition designed, edited, printed and bound by D. von R. Drenner. With twelve wood engravings by John DePol, signed by John DePol and inscribed to Jim Fraser. With an announcement from Zauberberg Press concerning this edition and an extra half title and title page laid-in. Slight rubbing to back cover.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 104077

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See More... (Zauberberg Press) Meredith, George MODERN LOVE
Coffeyville, Kansas Zauberberg Press 1991 4to. quarter cloth, silk over boards, paper spine label (53) pages
Limited to 20 copies, Poetry by George Meredith, originally published in 1862. This edition printed by the Zauberberg Press, with wood engravings by John DePol. Signed and inscribed by John DePol to Jim Fraser. Hand set in Lutetia 14 D on Rives paper. Edited, designed, printed, and bound with an afterword by D. von R. Drenner. Cover and spine slightly faded, with some minor staining to the top of the front right corner.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 104069

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