London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 111 pages followed by eight pages of plates each depicting numerous items. No.12 of the 1979/1980 season. Illustrations throughout text. Corner bumped. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 70288
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1983. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 389 pages. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Cave has revised the first edition of 1971 and added a new chapter on private press printing in the United States and Great Britain from 1970 to 1983. Spine of jacket lightly faded, with a hint of moisture staining to the tail of the jacket. Very minor shelfwear. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with..... READ MORE about THE PRIVATE PRESS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 1182
N.P. The Celtic Cross Press, 2003. broadside (8 1/2 by 7 inches). Commemorates Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. With quotation from Daniel Berkeley Updike and illustration. Printed in black and red. This English press no longer is printing books. READ MORE about THE PRACTICE OF PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 127069
Suffolk: Circle Press (Guildford), 1972. tall 4to. cloth, gilt on spine. (14) pages. One of only 220 special copies in cloth with raised relief blocks by Ronald King. A fine copy. Issued without dustwrapper. Twenty-four poems scattered with five relief blocks by King. READ MORE about LOOKS LIKE NOTHING THE SHADOW THROUGH AIR
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 136794
London: Circle Press, 1994. Narrow 12mo, 19cm. Loose as issued, in printed covers, laid in publisher's linen and blue morocco chemise with die-cut outer panel. (8) pages. Designed and printed by Ronald King af Circle Press in a limited edition of 75 copies, made up of three sections and an unlimited one made up of two sections, of which this is thus. With the bookplate of Thomas M. Whitehead on inside front cover. A fine..... READ MORE about ECHO BOOK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 138204
Surrey: Circle Press, 1976. small 4to. Publisher's printed portfolio, original ties, custom morocco backed clamshell box. Not paginated. Limited to 25 numbered copies sign by the printer / artist. This particular copy is numbered 'A.P.' for Artist Proof. The first of three intended volumes with 10 hand-coloured etchings by Ronald King on the theme of a band of Brazilian cangaçeiros of the 20s and 30s led by the notorious Lampião. Each etching signed by King..... READ MORE about CANGA
Price: $1,750.00 Order nr. 136792
Bath, England: Clear Press, n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Prospectus for William Pryor (editor), Virginia Woolf & the Riverats: a Different Sort of Friendship. READ MORE about Publication Announcement by Clear Press
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133077
London: Jonathan Cape, (1940). 8vo. cloth. 384 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Some shelfwear. Front hinge tender. Else very good. With letters from William Morris, T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Charles Ricketts and many others. READ MORE about FRIENDS OF A LIFETIME, LETTERS TO SYDNEY CARLYLE COCKERELL
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 55418
Oxford: Daniel Press, 1921. square 8vo. cloth-backed boards. viii, 200 pages and 15 full-page plates. First edition, limited to 550 copies and 100 copies respectively, this being one of 550. The first 36 pages contain a memorial of Dr. Daniel, followed by the bibliography of the press. Each book is thoroughly described with notes. Very light soiling to the covers and spine. Front gutter tender. Includes some newspaper clippings and auction records loosely inserted of..... READ MORE about DANIEL PRESS, MEMORIALS OF C.H.O. DANIEL WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRESS, 1845-1919
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 114671
With an introduction by Renato Rabaiotti.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1989. 6.5 x 9 inches. quarter leather with acetate dust jacket, slipcase. 79, (3) pages. With an introduction by Renato Rabaiotti. First edition, limited to 250 copies. Printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona on Magnani mould-made paper. A hitherto unpublished notebook reproduced in facsimile and accompanied by corresponding readings from the 1824 first edition of the Library Companion. It contains Dibdin's comments on books, manuscripts and..... READ MORE about HORAE BIBLIOGRAPHICAE CANTABRIGIENSES: A FACSIMILE OF DIBDIN'S CAMBRIDGE NOTEBOOK 1823 WITH...
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 104177
Hammersmith, United Kingdom: Doves Press, The, 1908. 12mo. full leather, five raised bands, by the Doves Bindery and signed "The Doves Bindery" with the only decoration being the title on the front cover and on the spine, all edges gilt. (8) pages. Limited to 250 copies printed on paper and 12 on vellum of which this is one of those printed on paper (Catalogue Raisonne p.23). Leather chipped at the head of spine. Covers showing..... READ MORE about CREDO: PLENI SANT COELI ET TERRA
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 41577
Hammersmith: Doves Press, The, 1906, 1910. 8vo. original limp vellum, custom slipcase. 260, (1); 373, (1) pages. First edition (first part, one of 300 copies on paper; second part, one of 250 copies on paper). From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003). Spine of Part Two lightly age darkened. Some discoloration to vellum, as usual. Housed in a finely-crafted custom cloth slipcase with leather fore-edges to protect both..... READ MORE about FAUST EINE TRAGOEDIE VON GOETHE (PARTS ONE AND TWO
Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 136907
Selected Poems. Selected and Arranged by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson.
London, Hammersmith: Doves Press, The, 1914. 8vo. limp vellum, spine titled in gilt, later slipcase. 203 pages. Selected Poems. Selected and Arranged by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson. Limited to 212 copies, of which this copy is one of 200 on paper. (Catalogue RAISONNE, p.22; Tidcombe DP36; Tomkinson p. 58.). With bookplate, "J. W. R. Brocklebank." The vellum has darkened, albeit naturally. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. Printed in red & black by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson at..... READ MORE about KEATS
Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 137995
Two volumes.
Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1902, 1905. 8vo. original full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine, each enclosed in modern slipcase with cloth dust jacket. 386,(2); 343+(1) pages. Two volumes. Limited to 325 copies printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson (Marianne Tidcombe, The Doves Press, 37-42, Catalogue Raisonne p.20; Ransom no.5&7). Title and margin notes in red. Initials designed by Edward Johnston. The present work is one of Walker and Cobden-Sanderson's earlier productions, and certainty one..... READ MORE about PARADISE LOST, A POEM IN XII BOOKS WITH PARADISE REGAINED A POEM IN IV BOOKS TO WHICH ARE ADDED...
Price: $9,000.00 Order nr. 41140
Hammersmith: Doves Press, The, 1902. 8vo. full limp vellum, gilt, later paper covered boards slipcase. 386, (3) pages. Limited to 325 copies printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson (Marianne Tidcombe, The Doves Press, 37-42, Catalogue Raisonne p.20; Ransom no.5&7). Extremely minor and common foxing along the few of the rear signatures. Some minor cracking to the outer edges of the vellum covers, else tight, bright, and unmarred housed in a later slipcase. Title and margin notes in..... READ MORE about PARADISE LOST, A POEM IN XII BOOKS WITH PARADISE REGAINED A POEM IN IV BOOKS TO WHICH ARE ADDED...
Price: $3,950.00 Order nr. 49646
Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy by John Ruskin.
Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1907. 8vo. limp vellum. 120 pages. Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy by John Ruskin. Limited to 325 copies of which this is one of 300 printed on paper. (Catalogue RAISONNE, p.22; Tomkinson, Ransom no.11). A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. Bound by The Doves Bindery, with bookbinder's ticket on rear pastedown. After establishing the Doves Bindery in 1893, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson partnered with Emery Walker to found the..... READ MORE about UNTO THIS LAST
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 43990
Hammersmith, England: Doves Press, The, 1914. 8vo. stiff vellum. 155, (8) pages. Limited to 200 copies printed by hand by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker of the Doves Press. A fine copy. Printed in red and black throughout. Bound in full vellum by The Doves Bindery, with the Binder's ticket on the rear pastedown. Originally written in 1623 by Shakespeare, Tidcombe notes: "Coriolanus was first mentioned in 'Shakespeare's Plays and Poems', 1912, and in the..... READ MORE about THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 134845
(Hammersmith): Doves Press, The, (October, 1912). small 4to. original limp vellum. (x), 59, (8) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies. (Ransom no.32, Tidcombe 30). The smallest bump to the head of the spine, else a tight, bright, and unmarred copy. From the Text of the First Edition, 1593. Finely printed in black and red. Bound by The Doves Bindery, with the binder's ticket on the rear pastedown. Even though the book was..... READ MORE about VENUS AND ADONIS
Price: $2,750.00 Order nr. 69755
Edited by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
(Hammersmith: Doves Press), 1911. 8vo. full vellum, gilt on spine, house in a later slipcase. 230, (1) pages. Edited by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson. Limited to 212 copies, of which this is one of 200 copies printed on paper. Tidcombe DP-25; Tomkinson, p. 56. With bookplate, "J.W.R. Brecklebank." A fine copy. Bound in vellum by The Doves Bindery, with the binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Printed in red and black. This is an excellent example of..... READ MORE about DECADE OF YEARS.A
Price: $1,750.00 Order nr. 138038
Illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones.
New York: Oriole Editions, 1971. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket, slipcase. (vi), 86 pages. Illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones. First edition. "How William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones attempted to make of THE EARTHLY PARADISE A BIG BOOK ...." Spine of dust jacket and fore-edge of slipcase show minor moisture staining. else a fine copy. READ MORE about THE BOOK THAT NEVER WAS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 2252
(London, England: Essex House Press, 1902). Oblong folio. Rebound by Jan Sobota in illustrated, four-color vellum, in marbled paper-covered boards slipcase. 45, [3] pages. Limited to 320 copies, of whicht his is one of 300 numbered copies printed on paper. Essex House Press Bibliography, page 71. This particular copy has been rebound by Jan Sobota in full vellum with various inlays featuring the crowned King Edward VIII. The drawings are by Edith Harwood, and have..... READ MORE about THE MASQUE OF THE EDWARDS OF ENGLAND. ; BEING A CORONATION PAGEANT TO CELEBRATE THE CROWNING OF...
Price: $6,000.00 Order nr. 137923
London: Edward Arnold, 1901. 8vo. full vellum, gilt on spine. (vi), 52, (1) pages. One of 350 numbered copies. Essex House Press Bibliography, p. 68. Evidence of a bookplate removal "Exlibris Arthur B...." on front pastedown. Else near fine. The blocks and cuts are by George Thomson. The first book printed in Ashbee's new pica type, known as 'Endeavour' type. READ MORE about ENDEAVOUR TOWARDS THE TEACHING OF JOHN RUSKIN AND WILLIAM MORRIS
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 22620
Two volumes
(London: Essex House Press, 1905). 8vo. quarter vellum with paper-covered boards. Vol. I., vii, (i), (192) each chapter paginated separately; Vol.II, (221) pages. Two volumes. Issued in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies on Batchelor hand-made paper, set in Endeavour type, with red and black inkings on the notes and staves (Crawford, 40), [with a further 5 copies on vellum]. Essex House Press Bibliography, p. 75. With bookplate, " From the library of Flora..... READ MORE about THE ESSEX HOUSE SONG BOOK
Price: $1,200.00 Order nr. 69830
Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out; His Dangerous Journey and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country.
London: Essex House Press, 1899. small 8vo. original full vellum. (ii), 426, (4) pages. Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out; His Dangerous Journey and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country. Limited to 750 numbered copies. (Ashbee p.65; Ransom no.4). A fine copy. Edited from the earliest editions by Janet E. Ashbee and printed in Caslon in black and red. With a woodcut frontispiece by Reginald Savage. A most ambitious project by C.R...... READ MORE about THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF...
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 36298
Strand, London: Edward Arnold, 1900. small 4to. full vellum. (x), 391, (vii) pages. Printed in an edition of 200 numbered copies. (Ransom, Tompkinson no.12). A handsome book in very good condition, with one of the four silk ties loosely inserted, , vellum slightly soiled. Done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby. Edited from the Cambridge University Library copy of the "Editio Princeps" of 1561, by Janet E. Ashbee, and carried out under the supervision of C.R...... READ MORE about COURTYER OF COUNT BALDESSAR CASTILIO, DIVIDED INTO FOURE BOOKES. VERY NECESSARY FOR YONGE...
Price: $325.00 Order nr. 44383
