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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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(Bookbinding) Docker, Frances JOHN PAAS & JAMES COOK, PROVINCIAL BOOKBINDING IN THE EIGHTEEN THIRTIES.
Leicestershire The Plough Press 1978 square 8vo. half leather over marbled boards, top edge gilt. 26 pages and 10 plates.
First edition, one of the 25 special copies in leather of the total of 200 numbered copies. Relates the story of the murder of the binding tool producer, John Paas, by the bookbinder, James Cook. Because of the notoriety of the case, the newspaper and some pamphlets were given out showing plates of the binding premise, etc. Some of these illustrations are reproduced in this book thus giving us an excellent idea of what an English 19th century bindery looked like. Another nice effort by the Plough Press of Geoffrey Wakeman.
Price: $ 280.00 other currencies Order nr. 5753

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(Leaf Book) Stannard, William John ANAGLYPTOGRAPHY, MEDALLION ENGRAVING FOR BOOK ILLUSTRATION.
Reprinted, with an Original Anaglyptograph, from the ART EXEMPLAR (1859) by William John Stannard. N.P. The Plough Press 1967 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), ix, (3) pages and a specimen inserted after the half-title.
First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies (Leaf Book - Chalmers 146.5).
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 13331

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(Leaf Book) Wakeman, Geoffrey THE ART OF ANASTATIC PRINTING, THREE MID 19TH CENTURY ACCOUNTS.
Oxford The Plough Press 1986 small 4to. quarter cloth folder with pockets holding three reprints of early books on anastatic printing and an actual anastatic print.
Limited to 150 numbered copies. Reprints of three scarce accounts of anastatic printing including de la Motte's On The Various Applications of Anastatic Printing and Papyrography(1849), Cowell's A Brief Description of the Art of Anastatic Printing(1852), and Jordan's A Treatise on Anastatic Printing(1853). The originals of these booklets had examples of anastatic prints in them; these have been reproduced by offset lithography (some in two colors). (Not in Leaf Book - Chalmers). Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 15780

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(Plough Press) Kelly, James THE PRINTER, FROM THE PRINTERS' CARNIVAL BY JAMES KELLY.
Oxford The Plough Press 1986 small 4to. paper wrappers. (8) pages.
Limited to 100 copies. Reprint of this 19th century English poem on printing. Humorous. A whimsical production by Geoffrey and Paul Wakeman of the Plough Press. Some wrinkling.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 15784

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(Plough Press) Morris, Ann PRIVATE PRESS IN LEICESTERSHIRE.
Loughborough The Plough Press (1976) small 4to. paper wrappers. (iv), 55 pages.
One of 500 copies. Being a brief history and biography of 23 private presses that have been established in the Loughborough and Leicestershire area of England, with complete checklists of their productions. The presses include, the Twelve by Eight Press of John Mason, the Brewhouse Press, the Plough Press and others. Covers slightly faded.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 4661

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(Plough Press) Wakeman, Frances NOTES TOWARDS AN ACCOUNT OF PAPER MILLS IN OXFORDSHIRE.
Kidlington, England and New Castle, DE The Plough Press (1991) tall 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages.
Limited to 125 numbered copies. Printed by Paul Wakeman at his press in New Castle - the first Plough Press imprint with the dual location. This keepsake, originally intended for the Printing in Oxford and Leiden Exchange, describes the papermills of the Oxford area including proprietors, machinery used and kind of paper made.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 32124

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(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey and Graham Pollard FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING.
New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England The Plough Press 1993 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 96 pages with six tipped-in handmade facsimile samples of cloth bindings and 31 other illustrations in black and white.
Limited to 180 numbered copies of which this is one of the 125 cloth-bound copies. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at the Plough Press. Three separate essays provide a fascinating study of English trade binding from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. In "Illustrations of English Trade Bindings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Geoffrey Wakeman describes what an ordinary book of the period looked like. Pollard's essay "Changes in the Style of Bookbinding, 1550-1830" originally appeared in "The Library" in 1956. The third article is again by Wakeman and is entitled "Bookbinding Styles in the Loughborough and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Parish Libraries." This article is based on illustrated slide lectures Wakeman gave while teaching at Loughborough and was meant to demonstrate to students the changes in binding style over the period covered in Pollard's article. These slides are reproduced as plates which are contained in a pocket in the back of the book. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Also present is a prospectus to the book and a letter from Paul Wakeman meant to accompany this complimentary copy.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 98809

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(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey and Graham Pollard FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOOKBINDING.
New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England The Plough Press 1993 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 96 pages with six tipped-in handmade facsimile samples of cloth bindings and 31 other illustrations in black and white.
Limited to 180 numbered copies of which this is one of the 125 cloth bound copies. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at the Plough Press. Three separate essays which provide a fascinating study of English trade binding from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. In "Illustrations of English Trade Bindings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Geoffrey Wakeman describes what an ordinary book of the period looked like. Pollard's essay "Changes in the Style of Bookbinding, 1550-1830" originally appeared in "The Library" in 1956. The third article is again by Wakeman and is entitled "Bookbinding Styles in the Loughborough and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Parish Libraries." This article is based on illustrated slide lectures Wakeman gave while teaching at Loughborough and was meant to demonstrate to students the changes in binding style over the period covered in Pollard's article. These slides are reproduced as plates which are contained in a pocket in the back of the book. Presentation from the printer, Paul Wakeman, on the limitation page.
Price: $ 335.00 other currencies Order nr. 115660

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(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey BRADBURY & EVANS, COLOUR PRINTERS
Oxford The Plough Press 1984 small 4to. half-leather over boards. (vi), 19 pages.
First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, this is one of twenty copies bound thus. A history of this excellent English color printing firm. Contains two tipped-in examples of their work, a specimen sheet from THE OCTAVO FERNS and THE BRITISH SEAWEEDS. Also has six illustrations of equipment.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 2956

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(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey PRINTING RELIEF ILLUSTRATIONS, KIRKALL TO THE LINE BLOCK
Leicestershire The Plough Press 1977 small 4to. two-toned cloth, paper spine label. 29 pages and with plates.
Limited to only 100 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered. Contains six original pages of specimens that have been tipped in to demonstrate illustration techniques, with an additional five specimens tipped in that Bridson has added. Four illustrations in the text. Well printed by this English private press. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson who has added a note that this copy is "with extra illustrations."
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 97872

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(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey XIX CENTURY ILLUSTRATION, SOME METHODS USED IN ENGLISH BOOKS.
Loughborough, (England) The Plough Press 1970 folio quarter cloth portfolio with paper-covered boards, slipcase. (16) cord-tied portfolios.
Printed in an edition limited to only 75 numbered copies. (Bibliography of the Plough Press, p.8). Includes descriptions and actual period examples laid-in for 16 different printing processes utilized during the nineteenth century. Included are familiar processes such as wood engraving, copper and steel engraving, lithography, and aquatint as well as less familiar processes such as omnigraphy, and anastatic printing. An early book from this fine English press. Useful as teaching tool because of the examples of the different processes which are present. This copy has been supplemented by a number of additional samples of the various processes and there is a note in pencil stating that "This is an extra-illustrated copy." Slipcase rubbed and faded along edges.
Price: $ 1,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 42839

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Wakeman, Geoffrey VICTORIAN BOOK ILLUSTRATION, THE TECHNICAL REVOLUTION
Newton Abbot David & Charles (1973) 8vo.. boards, dust jacket. 182 pages.
First edition. With 40 illustrations. Chapters on wood engraving, etching, aquatint, lithography, chromolithography, printing presses of the period, the photomechanical revolution, the 1890s, etc. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson, the author's own copy with some pages of manuscript notes loosely inserted. Jacket spine faded.
Price: $ 145.00 other currencies Order nr. 27793

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