Manchester, Gregynog Press, 1990. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 28 pages. An exhibition catalogue of the Gwasg Gregynog collection for Manchester Polytechnic Library. Preface by Ian RogersonThere are some handwritten editing notes throughout. READ MORE about GWASG GREGYNOG: THE BOOKS IN MANCHESTER POLYTECHNIC LIBRARY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 124642
N.P. Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1987. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 22 pages. Includes a list of the National Art Library's holdings. Nicely illustrated. Top and bottom edges bumped. READ MORE about AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GREGYNOG PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 51069
Translated by David Jenkins.
N.P. Welsh Arts Council, 1976. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 39 pages. Translated by David Jenkins. Well-illustrated guide to the exhibition. With text in Galic and English. READ MORE about PRINTING AT GREGYNOG, ASPECTS OF A GREAT PRIVATE PRESS
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 11673
With a Foreword by L.F. Thompson.
Merrickville: Greyweathers Press, 2010. 4to. cloth-backed paper covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. 6, 13 wood cuts, (2) pages. With a Foreword by L.F. Thompson. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies. Wood engravers toiling away at their trade during the last quarter of the nineteenth century could be forgiven for feeling a touch of despair. Since the early 1800s, they had practiced a viable trade, with graver in hand over an endgrain block..... READ MORE about GRAVEN IMAGES: A PORTFOLIO OF NINETEENTH CENTURY WOOD ENGRAVINGS PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL BLOCKS
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Providence, RI: Providence Athenaeum, 2004. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 38+(1) pages. Catalogue of an exhibition by the New England Chapter, Guild of Book Workers, presented at the Providence Athenaeum November-December 2004. Shows calligraphy, private press work, fine bindings and artists' books. READ MORE about NEW ENGLAND VIGNETTES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 106833
London, England: Sims, Reed & Fogg, n.d. square 16mo. self paper wrappers. 15+(1) pages. Introduction with biographical sketch of Guthrie. A catalogue of books, drawings, and prints published by the Pear Tree Press. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about JAMES GUTHRIE AND THE PEAR TREE PRESS
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Horsham: Stuart Guthrie, (1937). small 4to. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (vi), 23+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 250 copies. A collection of poems written by May Chesshire, selected from letters to her brother Llewelyn. They were selected and arranged by Diana Harding, with a preface by John Cowper Powys. It is illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece. Minor discoloration of the spine and the corners are slightly rubbed. Split along..... READ MORE about AN ANTHOLOGY
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Long Crendon: Seven Acres Press, 1927. 8vo. modern quarter calf, decorated paper-covered boards. (ii), 10, (2) pages. Limited to 125 copies of which this one is out of series. First two words of text in red, rest in black. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Some capitals are woodcuts made to look like illuminated letters although in black only. Author is also illustrator and printer. READ MORE about JOHN APOSTATE AN IDYL OF THE QUAYS
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 78529
N.P. The Regents of the University of California, 1982. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages. A checklist of Gill's works, posters and one-page job printings omitted, and a lengthy introduction by James Davis. With a list of works typeset by Hague and Gill but printed elsewhere, and a chronology. Illustrated with devices by Gill. READ MORE about PRINTED BY HAGUE AND GILL, A CHECKLIST PREPARED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBIT "A...
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 47250
(Gravesend, England): Woodlands Press, (1900). 4to. original stiff paper wrappers, edges uncut, ribbon tied. unpaginated. No. VI in a series of six works published under the heading Vox Humana (Rare Books Club website). Author (1858-1948) was a painter, stained glass artist, illustrator and designer (Houfe 330). Script lettering and drawings throughout text, some in color. Two tipped-in plates. Extra plate loosely inserted. Wrappers slightly bent at edges. Light foxing on loosely inserted plate. READ MORE about THE VOX HUMANA. LITTLE COPSE WOOD AND OTHER VERSES
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 123050
[Aldington, Kent: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952]. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 251-284 pages. Author's first book. In later books used the form of name Gabriel Fielding. Poems in pamphlet IX. Printed at the Ditchling Press in Sussex. Near fine in lightly darkened printed wrappers. Lightly foxed. READ MORE about THE FROG PRINCE AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 112357
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, (1953). tall 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 46 pages. First edition thus. Poetry. READ MORE about SURVIVOR’S LEAVE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 80105
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, (1953). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 69 pages. Original printed wraps. READ MORE about THE EAGLE OF PROMETHEUS
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Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 244 pages. Limited to 2,000 copies printed. READ MORE about 10000 THINGS ARE 1
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Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 383 pages. The complete set. Consists of twelve numbered parts and the editors notes. The influential Poems in Pamphlet series ran for two years, 1951 and 1952. The set offered here comprises the complete set for 1952, together with the editors notes for this series. Poets include Jon Manchip White, Hal Summers, Frederic Vanson, Ursula Wood, R.L. Cook, Thomas Fassam, Michael Hamburger, R.H...... READ MORE about POEMS IN PAMPHLET 1952. NOS. 1-XII. (complete
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 80277
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, (1955). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 47 pages. First edition. READ MORE about SOME POEMS. A SMALL SELECTION WRITTEN BETWEEN 1930 & 1953
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 80457
London, England: (The Hand and Flower Press), 1946. oblong 32mo. paper-covered boards, all edges uncut. 23, (3) pages. Limited to 750 copies. Translated from the French by Thomas Fassam. Cover sunned at bottom. READ MORE about CARESSES
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Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1953. small 8vo. cloth. 21 pages. Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture No. I. READ MORE about DIALOGUE IN NOVELS & PLAYS
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Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, (1956). small 8vo. red cloth stamped in gilt. 29 pages. Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture No. III. READ MORE about THE WRITER IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
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With a Foreword by Roy Campbell.
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, (Printed at the Curwen Press(, 1952. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket, top edge gilt. 148, (2) pages. With a Foreword by Roy Campbell. 2,000 copies printed. READ MORE about IL PARADISO DI DANTE. AN ENGLISH VERSION
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[Aldington, Kent: The Hand and Flower Press, (1952). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (121)-144 pages. First edition. Poems in Pamphlet V. Lightly soiled stapled printed wrappers. READ MORE about THE ROUT OF SAN ROMANO AND OTHER POEMS
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London: Joiner and Steele, 1932. 8vo. cloth, gilt lettering on spine and gilt signature on front cover, top edge gilt. 38 pages. Printed by The Alcuin Press, Gloustershire, in an edition limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the author (Gibbs A7a). James Hanley (1901-1985) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and playwright, who ran away from home at the age of thirteen to become a merchant seaman, returning ten years later. He was..... READ MORE about STOKER HASLETT
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(Oxford): Hanborough Parrot, 1990. large 4to. marbled cloth-covered boards, paper spine and cover labels. 53, (3) pages. Printed in a limited edition of 170 numbered copies, of which this is one of 85 copies to contain original pouchoir illustrations by Sylvia Stokeld. This copy is out of series. The book presents the work of artists and engravers such as John Nash, Edward Wadsworth, and Gino Severini, whose work adorned the livres d'artiste published by Haselwood..... READ MORE about HASELWOOD BOOKS: THE BOOKS OF FREDERICK ETCHELLS & HUGH MCDONALD
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Church Hanborough: Hanborough Parrot, 1990. 4to. cloth over boards, paper label, slipcase. 53 pages. First edition, limited to 170 numbered copies signed by the author. This copy has the following limitation written in "V/LX" and is one of the copies that has the four pouchoir colored plates executed by Sylvia Stokeld. Printed litho and bound by The Fine Bindery. An interesting history of this fine publishing firm. Well-illustrated with wood engravings by John Nash, Hester..... READ MORE about HASLEWOOD BOOKS, THE BOOKS OF FREDERICK ETCHELLS & HUGH MACDONALD
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Loughborough: (Hedgehog Press), 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (iv), 10+(1) pages. Limited to 200 copies. With six tipped-in facsimiles of printing produced by this 19th century English printer. Clark ran a private press in Totham between 1828 and 1862. Head of spine slightly bumped. READ MORE about CHARLES CLARK, THE BARD OF TOTHAM ... PRESENTING PIECES, POEMS AND BIOGRAPHICAL BITS, PERTAINING...
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