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Printing & the Arts of the Book
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PART I - Fine Printing & Book Production
1 ALEMBIC PRESS. BOLTON, Claire M. Fancy Papers. The Alembic Press, Marcham,
2001. £60100 copies printed; pp.32; 34 tipped-in paper samples with tissue guards, bound into oversewn
cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label. A wonderful display of fancy papers collected from
the Sanderson's archive in 1950 by the author's father, including a great range of leather-effect
papers & others used chiefly in the fancy box trade. Claire Bolton provides an essay on the
manufacture & history of the trade. PAPER SAMPLES.
2 ALEMBIC PRESS. LAWSON-HALL, Claire. An Autumn Garden. [with leaf prints
and linocut illustrations by Muriel Mallows printed in colours.] The Alembic Press,
Marcham, 2000 £48100 numbered copies printed, square miniature format (75 x 75mm.); Eight thick cards providing
16 'pages' of text overprinted with delicate leaf prints alternating with variously coloured linocuts;
ingeniously ribbon 'bound' in Jacob's Ladder format so that the leaves 'tumble' by the manipulation
of the first card. The third in Claire Bolton's imaginative series.
3 ALEMBIC PRESS. LAWSON-HALL, Claire. A Summer Garden. The Alembic Press,
Marcham, 1999 [2000] £48Limited to 100 numbered copies in 9pt Old Style, (75 x 75mm) 16pp. accordian-folded in a twisting
'garden path' within red Maziarczyk pastepaper boards, which unfolds to reveal the full text within
hand-coloured garden drawings by Muriel Mallows with bright red poppy in three-coloured linocut
on verso. Uniform with the ingenious Spring Garden (though differently folded).
4 ALEMBIC PRESS. LAWSON-HALL, Claire. A Winter Garden. [with eight
hand-coloured etchings by Muriel Mallows.] The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2001. £48100 numbered copies printed, square miniature format (75 x 75mm.); pp.38; printed in grey on
heavy hand-made paper with eight etchings hand-coloured by the artist; printed stiff grey wrappers
with silk oversewing. The fourth & final miniature of the series.
5 ALPHABET BOOK. MARTINEAU, Luke [Illustrator] & BINGHAM, Kate. Every
Girl's Alphabet. Paintings by Luke Martineau and words by Kate Bingham. Artists'
Choice Editions, 2010. £35FIRST EDITION limited to 240 copies, signed & numbered by author & artist; sm.4to., pp.(64);
illustrations in colour throughout; new in pictorial wrappers. A charming alphabet book in the
Nicholson tradition with a wry & tender commentary by Bingham, beautifully produced at
Northend Creative Print.
6 ALPHABET BOOK. MARTINEAU, Luke [Illustrator] & BINGHAM, Kate. Every
Girl's Alphabet. Paintings by Luke Martineau and words by Kate Bingham. Artists'
Choice Editions, 2010. £120FIRST EDITION, signed & numbered by author & artist, one of 56 deluxe copies, specially bound
in crimson leather-backed pictorial boards with additional linocut, signed & numbered by the artist,
in card folder and slip-case; sm.4to., pp.(64); illustrations in colour throughout.
7 BAWDEN, Edward. SKIPWITH, Peyton. Entertaining A La Carte. Edward Bawden
and Fortnum & Mason. The Mainstone Press, 2007. £90FIRST EDITION limited to 1000 copies, 4to, (346 x 251mm), pp.126; new in cloth binding. Over
200 colour illustrations from the archives of Fortnum & Mason with an introductory essay by
Bawden's friend and former director of the Fine Art Society, Peyton Skipwith. A beautiful
production, designed by Brian Webb, which collects the catalogues, brochures, order forms,
envelopes and other ephemeral advertising material designed by Bawden for the firm before and
after the Second World War.
8 BAWDEN, Edward. SKIPWITH, Peyton. [Editor] Edward Bawden 1903-1989 A
Centenary Celebration. [Catalogue of an exhibition with introductory essay.] The Fine
Art Society, 2003. £20FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.48; frontispiece & 50 colour plates; a fine copy of this attractive
catalogue in original decorated card covers.
9 BAWDEN, Edward. YORKE, Dr Malcolm. Edward Bawden and his circle. The
Inward Laugh. Antique Collectors' Club, 2007. £35FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.272; over 300 illustrations in colour, line & half-tone; new in
dust-wrapper; revised & expanded from the Fleece Press limited edition of 2005. Yorke explores
Bawden's career through his social and artistic friendships with illustrations from many sources
including much previously unpublished material, reflecting his work for the Curwen Press, book
illustration, advertising, transport posters, murals on ships, churches, boardrooms and colleges,
editioned prints, wallpapers and personal watercolours.
ONE OF TWENTY-FIVE COPIES
10 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. POPE, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical
Poem in five cantos. Embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Leonard
Smithers, 1896. £3,500DELUXE EDITION on Japanese Vellum and bound in full vellum, limited to 25 copies; 4to.,
pp.xiv,47; frontispiece, six full-page & two smaller illustrations in line by Beardsley; some slight
dust-soiling but well preserved in original full vellum blocked in gold on upper cover to Beardsley's
design, top edge gilt, others uncut; original prospectus & order form (spotted) laid in. 'One of
Beardsley's most complete achievements,' John Russell Taylor. Mason 355.
11 BINDING. Book Box. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS. Book-form box so labelled in
lizard-grained maroon calf, marbled sides, morocco label. (230 x 150 x 50mm.) £40
12 BIRD & BULL PRESS. GORDON CRAIG, Edward. Paris Diary 1932-1933. Edited
with a prologue by Colin Franklin. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa., 1982. £95FIRST EDITION, no.27 of 350 copies; pp.154 + colophon; 8 colour facsimiles of pages from the
diary; printed in Baskerville on Bugrabutten mouldmade paper; a fine copy in original
morocco-backed Japanese paper boards, morocco label & tips, uncut; prospectus laid in.
AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
13 BLACK PENNELL PRESS. M'ALPINE, John. Genuine Narratives and Concise
Memoirs of some of the most interesting exploits and singular Adventures of John
M'Alpine a native Highlander. From the time of his Emigration from Scotland to
America 1773...Greenock, 1780. [Reprinted with wood-engravings by Kathleen M.
Lindsley and a new preface by Thomas Rae.] Black Pennell Press, Greenock, 1985. £65No. 152 of 200 copies, pp.xiv,82 + colophon, frontispiece facsimile of the title-page of the 1780
edition, title device & eight wood-engraved vignettes; hand-set in Caslon old face and printed damp
on Zerkall mould-made paper, the wood-engravings printed separately; hand bound in
leather-backed Japanese wood veneer boards, uncut. A fine copy of the most substantial book of the
Press. A fascinating account of M'Alpine's experiences in the British Army in America under
Generals Carleton and Burgoyne.
14 BLAKE, William. Jerusalem. The Emanation of The Giant Albion. [Facsimile with
Commentary and Bibliographical History by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.] The Trianon Press
for The William Blake Trust, 1974. £200No.338 of 500 copies, folio; pp.(16); 29 facsimile plates in colour, four in sepia, printed on rectos
only; a very good copy of this magnificent facsimile in original morocco-backed marbled boards
and matching morocco-trimmed slip-case.
15 BLAKE, William. The Song of Los. Lambeth, Printed by W. Blake 1795. [A facsimile
with Commentary and Bibliographical History by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.] The Trianon
Press for The William Blake Trust, 1975. £255
No.9 of 400 copies in tan morocco-backed marbled boards & matching morocco-trimmed slip-case;
printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match that used by Blake; lg.4to., eight leaf collotype
facsimile with hand-colouring through stencils, facsimile sketch & 8pp. accompanying text; a fine
copy. A beautiful facsimile of this dramatically colourful work, reproduced from one of only five
known copies. Publisher's presentation notelet (Blake's Divine Image) laid in: 'Special delivery...
f[rom] Blake Trust. Yours A[rnold] F[awcus]'
16 BLUE BELL HILL PRESS. S., G.V. Tinker Tailor. Rimes by G.V.S. with cuts by S.H.
Printed at the Blue Bell Hill Press in 1936. £45FIRST EDITION, pp.(20); 8 verses with accompanying illustrations in linocut (?) on facing pages;
an attractive production in cloth-backed decorated boards. A chalk ridge between Rochester &
Maidstone, Blue Bell Hill is well located for the paper-making area of Kent, but we have been
unable to identify either the Press or the two initialled protagonists. No limitation is stated but we
have been unable to locate another copy; not listed in Copac or WorldCat.
17 BOAR'S HEAD PRESS. HAWORTH-BOOTH, Digby. Kleinias. Poems. At the Sign
of the Boar's Head in Heathercombe, Manaton, Devon. 1932. £55FIRST EDITION, no.173 of 200 copies, sepia printed in Baskerville on Van Gelder hand-made
paper; pp.30 + colophon; vignette title wood-engraving, 'The Mill House', by Lettice Sandford; a
very good uncut copy in original marbled cloth; extremities rubbed but sound. An early production
of Christopher Sandford's press. Chambers 4.
18 BOAR'S HEAD PRESS. SAPPHO. [Selected Poems] The text arranged with
translations an introduction & notes by E.M. Cox. [Illustrated with wood-engravings by
Lettice Sandford.] Boar's Head Press, Manaton, Devon, 1932 £135No.192 of 225 copies on mould-made paper; pp.81 + colophon; six full-page wood-engravings by
Lettice Sandford; very good in original Niger morocco-backed Cockerell marbled boards, lettered in
gold, top edge gilt, others uncut. Illustrations strongly influenced by her mentor, Blair
Hughes-Stanton, who wrote enthusiatically from Gregynog. 'One of the finest books [of the Press],
graced with six magnificent full-page engravings... A tall octavo, set in New Hellenic Greek and
Caslon OF, for the Greek and English texts.' Chambers 9
19 BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. HUTTON, Edward [Editor] Thirteene Most Pleasaunt and
Delectable Questions [of Love], Entituled, A Disport of Diverse Noble Personages...
Englished anno 1566 by H[umphrey] G[ifford?]. To which is prefixed an Introduction by
Edward Hutton. [Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, for] Peter Davies, 1927. £35520 copies printed in a fount reconstructed from one designed & made by Peter Schoeffer
(1420-1500), 'some sixty matrices of which were acquired by Joh. Enschedé in...1768', from a direct
descendant of the original maker. Pp.xxiv,102; initials in blue; a handsome production on Van
Gelder paper; edges & colophon lightly browned, otherwise well preserved in green buckram, paper
label.
20 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. BALSTON, Thomas. The Cambridge
University Press collection of Private Press Types. Printed by the University Printer for
his Friends, Cambridge, 1951. £110FIRST EDITION limited to 350 copies; 4to., pp.x,46; 15 collotype plates of pages from
Whittingham's Basle Roman, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Eragny, &c., to the Cranach Gothic; a very
good copy in the original buckram, gilt. 'A valuable addition to the literature of the subject;
incidentally it was also an effective piece of propaganda, since many more items have since found
their way into our possession.' Crutchley p.24. One of the most desirable books in the series.
21 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. CRUTCHLEY, Brooke. A Printer's Christmas
books. With a foreword by Euan Phillips. Cambridge, privately printed at the University
Printing House, 1974. £45FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies, sm.4to., pp.42; illustrations throughout, one folding, some
with colour; a very good copy of the final volume of the series in original cloth-backed decorated
boards.
22 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. CRUTCHLEY, Brooke. The University
printing houses at Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Cambridge,
Christmas 1962. £30FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies; pp.(2)16, many illustrations, three in colour; very good in
original cloth with gilt motif on upper cover; Cockerell-paper slip-case with morocco label. Issued
to celebrate the move to the present site.
23 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. FLOWER, Desmond. [Editor.] Voltaire's
Essay on Milton. Cambridge, Privately Printed, 1954. £40FIRST EDITION limited to 400 copies; pp.xiv(2)30 + colophon; a very good copy in original
cloth-backed boards lettered in gold. A celebration of Baskerville, 'set in type produced from copies
of the original Baskerville punches...on paper specially manufactured by W. & R.
Balston...successors to the James Whatman who is credited with providing Baskerville with the first
wove paper to be used in Europe.' Brooke Crutchley.
24 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. MORISON, Stanley. Talbot Baines Reed.
Author, bibliographer, typefounder. Cambridge. Privately Printed, 1960. £48FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies; pp.(10)80; frontispiece, 10 other illustrations & type
facsimiles in text; a very good copy in original pictorial cloth. 'Reed's varied interests and
achievements yielded a surprising range of illustrative material, though few, if any, of the types and
ornaments issued by the Fann Street Foundry in Reed's time were such as to recommend themselves
to Morison's own taste.' Crutchley p.30. Appleton 213.
25 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. MORISON, Stanley. A Tally of Types cut for
machine composition and introduced at the University Press, Cambridge. Privately
Printed, 1953. £55FIRST EDITION limited to 450 copies, pp.viii,102; title lettering & head-pieces by Reynolds Stone
printed in russet; very good in original cloth, gilt. Brooke Crutchley provides a preface. 'More
historically interesting and aesthetically satisfying than we had ever hoped'.
26 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. RASTELL, John. The four elements. Edited by
Roger Coleman... Cambridge, 1971. £30Limited to 500 copies; pp.vi,73; 5 drawings (printed in red) by Charles Keeping, music &
facsimiles; a fine copy in original buckram-backed printed boards. With an introduction by
Coleman 'discussing (inter alia) Rastell's claims to be the first English printer of a play and a major
innovator in the printing of music.' Crutchley.
27 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. ROGERS, Bruce. Report on the Typography of
the Cambridge University Press. Prepared in 1917 at the request of the Syndics by Bruce
Rogers and now printed in honour of his eightieth birthday. Printed for his friends by
The University Printer, Christmas, 1950. £65FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies, sm.folio, pp.viii(4)31 + colophon; printed in red & black;
very good in lightly dust-soiled original buckram-backed decorated boards, one corner bumped;
glacine wrapper. With an introduction by Brooke Crutchley and 13 illustrations of type & ornament.
28 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. ROGERS, Bruce. Report on the Typography of
the Cambridge University Press. Prepared in 1917 at the request of the Syndics by Bruce
Rogers and now printed in honour of his eightieth birthday. Printed for his friends by
The University Printer, Christmas, 1950. £75FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies, sm.folio, pp.viii(4)31 + colophon; printed in red & black;
very good in slightly soiled original buckram-backed decorated boards, glacine wrapper (worn).
With an introduction by Brooke Crutchley and 13 illustrations of type & ornament.
29 CARROLL, Lewis. LORD, John Vernon. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice
Found There. With illustrations and an Afterword by John Vernon Lord and textual
corrections and a Foreword by Selwyn Goodacre. Artists' Choice Editions, 2011. £98First Edition thus, limited to 320 signed & numbered copies (+98 specials), folio, 310 x 190mm,
pp.138(6); illustrations in line & colour throughout (12 full-page, one double-page); new in
cloth-backed pictorial boards, lettered in gold. A wonderful celebration of Carroll's masterpiece
with vibrant illustrations both original and wholly appropriate.
30 CARROLL, Lewis. LORD, John Vernon. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice
Found There. With illustrations and an Afterword by John Vernon Lord and textual
corrections and a Foreword by Selwyn Goodacre. Artists' Choice Editions, 2011. £320First Edition thus, one of 98 deluxe copies, folio, 310 x 190mm, pp.138(6); illustrations in line &
colour throughout (12 full-page, one double-page); specially bound in quarter leather with a
separate folder containing four signed giclée prints and a 24pp. illustrated select bibliography,
Lord's List, containing details of 58 of his publications; all contained within matching slip-case.
The giclée prints include one for 'The Wasp in a Wig' a suppressed chapter which does not appear
in the book.
31 CARROLLIANA. WIGFIELD, Miles. The Bellman's Return. The Reading Room
Press, 2012 £18FIRST EDITION, 'At least 150 copies' printed; 122 x 156mm., pp.(14); ornaments in various single
colours throughout; new in printed wrappers; printed in Lutetia & Ornata titling on Zerkall
mould-made paper. 'These lines, penned by the printer in the small hours, are offered as yet another
attempt to conclude The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll, another insomniac.'
MOVING SLAVE TRADE TESTAMENT
32 CHEVINGTON PRESS. WAKEFIELD, D.R. Resistance is Useless. Portraits of
Slaves from The British West Indies. The Chevington Press, 2004. £1,850FIRST EDITION, no.46 of 50 copies, signed by the author/artist; folio (400 x 290mm.); Sixteen
coloured etched portraits & captions with letterpress text, together with screen-printed coloured title
leaf & letterpress half-title, preface & colophon leaves; fine in morocco-backed decorated boards,
lettered in gold on backstrip; preserved in matching cloth slip-case. Text printed by hand on an
Albion press, the etchings pulled on a 19thC star wheel rolling press, on R.W.S. hand-made by
Barcham Green. A remarkable tour-de-force of great poignancy & beauty by artist Bob Wakefield,
best known for his etchings of fish, whose early career was spent at Leonard Baskin's Gehenna
Press. 'Of the millions of Africans transported to the Americas, precious little of a personal nature
remains to testify to their existence... This collection of etchings is a sympathetic endeavour to add
faces to the names whether their origins be reasonable, irrational, bizarre, or accidental.'
33 CIRCLE PRESS. KING, Ronald. Alphabeta Concertina. [Double-sided concertina
pop-up alphabet book. Designed, printed, cut & creased by Ronald King.] Circle Press,
Guilford, 2007 £40Third printing, revised; 26 pop-up capital letters cut & creased onto heritage paper, glued to red
screen-printed heritage board; new in acetate tray & sleeve.
34 CIRCLE PRESS. KING, Ronald. alphabeta concertina miniscule [Double-sided
concertina pop-up alphabet book.] Circle Press, Guilford, 2007 £40FIRST EDITION; 26 pop-up lower-case letters cut & creased onto heritage paper, glued to blue
screen-printed heritage board; new in acetate tray & sleeve.
35 CIRCLE PRESS. PRICE, Richard. little but often. [Double-sided concertina pop-up
alphabet book. Designed, printed, cut & creased by Ronald King.] Circle Press, Guilford,
2007 £40FIRST EDITION, limited to 350 copies signed by author & printer; 26 pop-up lower-case letters
with accompanying text printed in red; cut & creased onto heritage paper, glued to red
screen-printed heritage board; new in acetate tray & sleeve. 'King at his most elegantly minimalist
and sculptural with a new suite of love poems by Price at his most witty and tender. As Price says of
letter 'm': 'may I suggest we both invest / in a high frisk mutual trust?'
36 COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J. Ecce Mundus. Industrial Ideals and The Book Beautiful.
Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1902. £65FIRST EDITION, c500 copies printed, sm.4to., pp.(38); well printed at the Chiswick Press in Doves
style on handmade paper, a very good unopened copy in original vellum-backed boards.
37 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Kubla Khan. Drawings by Clarke Hutton. Penmiel
Press, 1991. £20Lg.4to., limited to 75 copies; pp(8); two drawings by Clarke Hutton & other vignettes; fine in
original cut-out green printed wrappers, printed purple film overlays on title & colophon used to
dramatic effect; silk ties, glacine wrapper.
38 CONRAD, Joseph. Conrad's Manifesto: Preface to a Career. The History of the Preface
to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' with facsimiles of the manuscripts. Edited with an essay
by David R. Smith. [Printed at The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts for the
Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation] Philadelphia, 1966. £55No.375 of 1100 copies; lg.4to., pp.79 + colophon; woodcut frontispiece portrait of Conrad by
Leonard Baskin, printed from the block, and 13pp. facsimile of Conrad's original manuscript;
printed in Monotype Van Dijck on Fabriano paper; a very good copy in original marbled boards,
paper label, card folder & slip-case.
39 CRAHAN, Marcus Esketh. Early American Inebrietatis. Review of the Development of
American Habits in Drink and the National Bias and Fixations Resulting therefrom.
[Printed by Saul & Lillian Marks, The Plantin Press for] The Zamorano Club, Los
Angeles, 1964. £40FIRST EDITION; pp.x(6)62; title-border & vignette illustrations throughout by Marion Kronfeld; 8
facsimile plates of pages from early books on drink; a very good copy in original buckram-backed
decorated boards, paper label.
40 CRAIG, Edward Anthony [aka Edward Carrick] Submarine Interior. Original pen &
ink sketch with monochrome ink wash. Signed & dated, lower left, 'Edward Carrick
1943'. £320195 x 325mm. Well preserved in modern mount & gilt-lined frame. Edward Anthony Craig
(1905-1998) was the son of the artist and stage designer, Edward Gordon Craig, and grandson of
the actress Ellen Terry. He adopted the name Edward Carrick in the late 1920s to assert his own
identity as his career developed in art, film and theatre. Seconded to the Crown Film Unit which
had been developed from the GPO Film Unit to make wartime propoganda films, Craig was artistic
director from 1939 to 1946. This drawing evidently relates to one such film on the war at sea.
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH SIGNED PROOF BOOKPLATE
41 CRAIG, Edward Gordon. Woodcuts and some words. With an introduction by
Campbell Dodgson. J.M. Dent, 1924. £320FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, no.3 of 160 copies, signed by Craig, pp.xx,122; frontispiece,
58 tipped-in plates and several head- & tail-pieces; very good copy in original brown buckram, top
edge gilt, others uncut; extra-illustrated with proof woodcut bookplate design for Charles E. 'Roche,
1901' on Japanese paper, tipped-in at beginning, no. 27 of 50 copies initialled and dated 1924 by
Craig (creased at upper margin). 'I made a nice little bookplate for Roche'. Craig, Index to the Story
of my Days, quoted by Blatchly 133.
42 CRAIG, Edward Gordon. NEWMAN, L.M. [Editor] Black Figures. 105
reproductions with an unpublished essay. Presented with Introduction & Documentation
by L.M. Newman. Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1989. £95FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies, folio, pp.164 + colophon leaf; 104 numbered (full-page)
figures and six further illustrations to accompany Lindsay Newman's introduction & Gordon Craig's
essay 'Black-Figures'; a very good copy of this fine production in blind-decorated black cloth, paper
label, glacine wrapper. Pencilled endpaper inscription, 'From the library of John Dreyfus'.
43 CRANE, Walter. Hazelford Sketch Book. A Sampler with Autobiographical Notes from
the Manuscripts in the Caroline Miller Parker Collection in the Harvard College Library.
John Barnard Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1937. £25FIRST EDITION limited to 700 copies, sm.folio, pp.30(2); illustrations in line throughout; a fine
copy in original cloth-backed pictorial boards, glacine wrapper.
44 DAVID, Villers. Advice to my Godchildren. With an introduction by John Saumarez
Smith. Maggs Brothers, 2012 £81000 copies printed; pp.55; frontispiece portrait of David by Augustus John; new in card wrappers.
First published by Duckworth in 1951, Advice cannot have had a large circulation. This reprint
includes a vivid Self-Portrait and an introductory memoir by the editor. A witty collection of
aphoristic bon-mots, the more acerbic observations nicely leavened by the lightness of Villers
David's touch. 'Travel for pleasure only. Do not be misled when you hear also that 'travel broadens
the mind'. This is an empty phrase, justifying the envy of those who have not travelled, and the
complacency of those who have. Travel is a physical movement; and this has nothing to do with
education. It it had, then air-stewards and naval ratings would be the most educated of men.
Education is quite a diferent thing.'
45 DOVES PRESS. TIDCOMBE, Marianne. The Doves Press. [A History of the Press &
Bibliography of its books.] The British Library, 2002. £75FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.xii,258; 18 colour plates & 122 illustrations & facsimiles in monotone;
new in dust-wrapper. An excellent study of Cobden-Sanderson and his Press together with a full
illustrated bibliography of its books & ephemera. Essential reading & reference and a companion to
Tidcombe's earlier studies of the Doves Bindery and Cobden-Sanderson's binding designs.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY PIPER
46 DROPMORE PRESS. SITWELL, Sir George. On the Making of Gardens. With an
introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell and decorations by John Piper. The Dropmore Press,
1949. £120FIRST EDITION, no.195 of 1000 copies in Bembo on Hodgkinson's handmade paper;
pp.(8)xvi,113 + colophon; six lithograph plates on coloured ground (3 double-page) by John Piper;
a very good uncut copy in original green cloth blocked in gold, dust-wrapper (slightly browned &
rubbed). Nash D25.
47 ENSCHEDE. Text Book for the Annual Sermons, during Christmas, Lent, Good Fiday,
Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost, in the English Reformed Church at Amsterdam. To be
sold for the benefit of the English Orphan House. John Enschedé and Sons, 1819. £45FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,64; a remarkably fresh copy in original stiff wrappers. A handsome piece
of restrained typography on good quality paper, four type-faces & ornament give colour to the most
attractive title.
48 ERAGNY PRESS. GENZ, Marcella D. A History of the Eragny Press 1894-1914. Oak
Knoll Press [&] The British Library, 2004. £40FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.240; illustrations & facsimiles throughout; new in dust-wrapper. An
important history & study with a full descriptive bibliography of the 32 books produced by Lucien
Pissarro's Press.
A CELEBRATION OF CONTEMPORARY WOOD-ENGRAVING
49 EVANS, George Ewart. Ask the Fellows who cut the Hay. Introduction by Alun
Howkins. Wood engravings by Harry Brockway Anthony Christmas David Gentleman
Miriam Macgregor Howard Phipps Peter Reddick & George Tute. Ploughman's Parrot
Press, 1999. £150Limited to 280 copies (& 56 specials); lg.8vo., pp.153 + colophon; 20 wood-engravings including
reaper vignette by Harry Brockway which is used to excellent effect in repetition on the
buckram-backed decorated boards of the binding; printed in Joanna at the Libanus Press on Zerkall
mould-made paper. A fine production, beautifully conceived & designed to form a remarkably
harmonious whole despite the variety of artistic styles employed.
50 EVANS, George Ewart. Ask the Fellows who cut the Hay. Introduction by Alun
Howkins. Wood engravings by Harry Brockway Anthony Christmas David Gentleman
Miriam Macgregor Howard Phipps Peter Reddick & George Tute. Ploughman's Parrot
Press, 1999. £350One of 56 special copies, as previous item but specially bound in morocco-backed decorated boards
with slip-case in matching decorated paper and a separate portfolio of proofs of the
wood-engravings, each numbered & signed by the artist. An excellent edition entirely deserving of
this deluxe treatment.
51 FANFROLICO PRESS. LINDSAY, Jack. Helen comes of age. Three Plays. The
Fanfrolico Press, 1927. £55FIRST EDITION no.51 of 500 copies on Basingwerk Parchment, signed by the author; 4to.,
pp.(8)221; a very good copy in original red buckram, uncut, lightly soiled dust-wrapper with line
illustration by Norman Lindsay. Ransom 11.
52 FANFROLICO PRESS. THEOCRITUS. The Complete Poems translated by Jack
Lindsay with woodcuts by Lionel Ellis. Fanfrolico Press, [1929] £95FIRST EDITION, no.249 of 500 copies; lg.8vo., pp.xxiv,163; 20 full-page wood-engravings by
Lionel Ellis; a very good copy of this noble edition printed at the Westminster Press; original green
stained parchment with gilt-blocked vignette on upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut; backstrip
faded as usual. Ridler 4.
53 FLEECE PRESS. FRANCIS, Julian. Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of
Modern Art. Fleece Press, 2012. £365FIRST EDITION limited to 210 special copies, 4to., 333 x 335mm.; c.300pp., tipped-in frontispiece
wood-engraving and 15 other tipped-in wood engravings printed from the original blocks, other
illustrations throughout including virtually all Chadwick's known work; new in cloth-backed
patterned boards & slip-case. A fine showing and appreciation of the work of this accomplished
wood-engraver, held in high esteem by fellow students Gwenda Morgan and Rachel Reckitt, whose
life was tragically cut short at El Alamein. Publication is scheduled for December 2012; orders
received before publication will be supplied post free.
54 FLEECE PRESS. FRANCIS, Julian. Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of
Modern Art. Fleece Press, 2012. £200FIRST EDITION limited to 150 standard copies, 4to., 333 x 335mm.; c.300pp., tipped-in
frontispiece wood-engraving printed from the original block, other illustrations throughout
including virtually all Chadwick's known work; new in cloth-backed patterned boards. Publication
is scheduled for December 2012; orders received before publication will be supplied post free.
55 FLEECE PRESS. FREEDMAN, Barnett. Tone, texture, light and shade. A Barnett
Freedman Picture Album. Introduced by Ian Rogerson. The Fleece Press, 2011 £190FIRST EDITION, folio, limited to 250 copies; pp.140 + colophon; one original lithograph and
illustrations in colour throughout, many tipped-in and ten folding; fully captioned and with an
informative introductory essay by Professor Rogerson; new in crimson cloth-backed decorated
boards, paper label, by the Fine Book Bindery. A wonderful celebration of Freedman's work, his
vibrant colours faithfully reproduced by J.W. Northend.
INSCRIBED FROM THE PRINTER TO THE EDITOR
56 FLEECE PRESS. HASSALL, Joan. Dearest Joana. A selection of Joan Hassall's
lifetime letters and art. Edited by Brian North Lee. With an introduction by John
Dreyfus. [In two volumes.] Printed in Denby Dale at The Fleece Press, 2001. £350FIRST EDITION limited to 300 sets; 2vols., pp.300(3); 'over 60 engravings, all but three printed
from the wood, and around 60 line drawings and colour plates either tipped-in or printed as inserted
sections, mostly full-page'. Brian North Lee contributes a substantial biographical introduction, and
John Dreyfus recalls his experiences of working with Joan. Bound in quarter cloth, marbled boards,
paper labels & cloth slip-case. A fine tribute beautifully put together. Fully subscribed before
publication. Presentation inscription from the Printer to the Editor: 'For Brian, with much gratitude
for all your hard work over several years - Simon [Lawrence] September 19th 2001'
57 FLEECE PRESS. YORKE, Malcolm. To War with Paper & Brush. Captain Edward
Ardizzone, Official War Artist. The Fleece Press, 2007. £190FIRST EDITION limited to 700 copies, landscape format; pp.169 + colophon; 124 illustrations,
many in colour including several tipped-in plates; new in buckram with paper label, slip-case. An
attractive addition to the Ardizzone canon, the illustrations expertly produced and presented.
58 GIBBINGS, Robert. A Tale of two benches. Illustrated with wood-engravings by
Robert Gibbings and Simon Brett. The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2000 £30FIRST EDITION limited to 120 numbered copies printed by Claire Bolton in Perpetua on Zerkall
paper; pp.19 + colophon leaf; two wood-engravings; cloth-backed printed boards. Gibbings'
account of purchasing wood from Pointer's timber yard in Marcham to make himself a bench is here
reprinted from 'Till I End My Song' together with his engraving thereof, here first printed from the
wood. Claire Bolton adds an account of the Pointer family & yard which is illustrated with one of
their benches in an engraving by Simon Brett.
59 GIBBINGS, Robert. KINGLAKE, Alexander. Engraved by Robert Gibbings. A
Portrait of Lady Hester [Stanhope] from Alexander William Kinglake's Eothen. Libanus
Press, 1987. £65250 numbered copies (+ 50 specials), pp.32; ten vignette wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings
(seven printed from the blocks) originally commissioned by Michael Clapham for a Kynoch Press
Specimen book; a handsome production on Rives rag paper; very good in linen-backed decorated
boards. This copy extra-illustrated by the insertion of proof sheet with two small engravings on
Japanese hand-made paper, one of the 8 issued with the deluxe edition.
60 GIBBINGS, Robert. KINGLAKE, Alexander. Engraved by Robert Gibbings. A
Portrait of Lady Hester [Stanhope] from Alexander William Kinglake's Eothen. Libanus
Press, 1987. £220300 copies printed, this no.21 of 50 specials in morocco-backed decorated boards with extra suite of
the engravings on eight sheets of Japanese hand-made paper in folder & slip-case; pp.32; ten
vignette wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings (seven printed from the blocks) originally
commissioned by Michael Clapham for a Kynoch Press Specimen book; a fine copy of this
handsome production.
61 GIBBINGS, Robert. SIGURJONSSON, Johann. Loftur. A play translated from the
Icelandic by Jean Young & Eleanor Arkwright with engravings on wood by S. Maberly
Smith. [Printed by Robert Gibbings at the] University of Reading, 1939. £85FIRST EDITION in English, no.18 of 105 copies; pp(8)67(3); five wood-engraved vignettes; a very
good copy in original niger morocco-backed boards, blocked in gold, top edge gilt, others uncut; a
handsome production on Van Gelder paper and very much in the Golden Cockerel Press style. One
of a handful of books printed by Gibbings while he was Lecturer in Typography & Book Production
at the University of Reading 1936-42.
62 GILL, Eric. SKELTON, Christopher. [Compiler] The Engraved Bookplates of Eric
Gill 1908-1940. With an introduction by Michael Renton and an afterword by Albert
Sperisen. The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1986. £45FIRST EDITION, limited to 600 copies (+ 400 copies for Private Libraries Assoc.); pp.80 +
colophon; 54pp. of illustrations (a few in red & black); a very good copy of this handsome
production of Christopher Skelton's September Press in original red silk cloth & pictorial
dust-wrapper; ex libris James Strohn Copley.
63 GOGMAGOG. COX, Morris. Conversation Pieces. Humorous situations revealed in
fragments of dialogue. 1st Series. The Gogmagog Press, 1962. £24050 copies, printed on Japanese Tonosawa paper. this no. '11/11 o/s', signed by Morris Cox; 25
leaves printed on one side only & joined at fore-edge; 15 monochrome printed with captions in red
Rockwell Italic; display text in Figaro, Rockwell Bold & Jefferson Gothic, printed in various
colours; a fine uncut copy in original pearlessent fancy paper-covered boards, printed label, acetate
wrapper. A 'light-hearted and satirical series of prints... These shapes and textures...reach in this
elegant book a higher art than their own humour.' Chambers & Franklin 8.
64 GOGMAGOG. COX, Morris. Paintings & Prints. [Illustrated exhibition catalogue.]
Katharine House Gallery. McWhirter, 2005. £10FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.(28); colour illustrations throughout, many full-page; fine in pictorial
card wrappers. 80 items including Gogmagog Press books; introductory essay by Bradford Haas.
65 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BANNET, Ivor. The Amazons. Engravings by
Clifford Webb. Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. £165No.264 of 500 copies, sm.folio, pp.252+colophon; 12 wood-engravings (the majority full-page) by
Webb and 3 sketch-maps; printed in Poliphilus with Centaur initials on Arnold's mould-made
paper, slight edge browning but a very good copy in original half brown morocco, marbled sides,
top edge gilt, others uncut, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Cockalorum 181.
66 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAMBERS, David & SANDFORD, Christopher.
COCK-A-HOOP. A bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press Sept. 1949- Dec. 1961..
with a list of prospectuses 1920-62 and illustrations from the books. Private Libraries
Association for the G.C.P., 1976. £18FIRST EDITION, pp.126, many illustrations throughout; very good in original cloth &
dust-wrapper. The final publication of the Press (Cock-a-Hoop 214); particularly useful for the
detailed listing of the ephemera issued throughout the press's history.
67 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. COPPARD, A.E. Count Stefan. [Illustrated with
wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.] Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. £75FIRST EDITION, no.517 of 600 copies printed by Gibbings on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made
paper; pp.(4)57 + colophon; frontispiece portrait & three vignette wood-engravings by Gibbings; a
very good uncut copy in original yellow buckram-backed Cockerell marbled boards and pictorial
dust-wrapper (faded along backstrip fold). Schwartz p.54; Chanticleer 57.
68 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. DE CHAIR, Somerset. The Silver Crescent.
Published by Permission of the War Office. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. £85FIRST EDITION, no.384 of 500 copies; 4to., pp.126 + colophon; collotype plates; printed on
Arnold's mould-made paper; a very good copy in original blue morocco-backed cream canvas sides
(slightly soiled) top edge gilt, others uncut. Author's endpaper sketch-maps of the Levant-Caspian
Front, showing the route of Brigadier Kingstone's Column from Baghdad to Palmyra in June 1941.
Pertelote 157.
69 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. ELLIS, Havelock. Kanga Creek... An Australian
Idyll. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. £40FIRST EDITION, 1375 copies; pp.68; uncut in original yellow buckram-backed boards, paper label,
uncut; a little browned but a good copy of this surprisingly uncommon title. Chanticleer 5.
70 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert [Illustrator] Samson and
Delilah. From the Book of Judges according to the Authorised Version. [With
wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings] Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. £420No.105 of 325 copies; 4to., pp.(2)18 + colophon; title & colophon vignettes, two full-page & four
half-page wood-engravings by Roberrt Gibbings at his most muscular, including two of his most
celebrated images; a very good uncut copy of this first in the series of GCP 'quarto picture-books';
original cream linen & printed dust-wrapper (Frayed with 30% loss of plain backstrip fold).
Chanticleer 30. Ownership inscription of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel,
November 1925, with his three-leaf Hatchard's annual account for April 1925-26. An
Australian-born diplomat, Kerr's was ambassador to Stalin's Russia from 1942 to '46 and wrote
memorably from Moscow in 1943 to his friend Lord Pembroke: 'My Dear Reggie, In these dark
days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker
than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not
want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I
propose to share with you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has
given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt. We all feel
like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put
it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr H.M. Ambassador'
71 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. JONES, David. The Chester Play of the Deluge.
Edited by J. Isaacs, with engravings on wood by David Jones. Printed and published at
the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927 £950No.165 of 275 copies printed by Gibbings on handmade paper; 4to., pp.iv,16 + colophon; ten large
wood-engravings by David Jones; a nice uncut copy in original maroon buckram, pictorial
dust-wrapper differentially faded and a little frayed with minor loss at head of backstrip fold. 'In the
opinion of some the engravings in this book are the greatest graphic achievement of the Press. They
are, however, very poorly printed in the book.' Chanticleer 52.
72 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. THE TENBURY LETTERS. Selected & edited by
Edmund Fellowes & Edward Pine. Golden Cockerel Press, 1942. £30FIRST EDITION, no.135 of 300 copies; pp.225 & 7 collotype facsimiles (including letters of Scott,
Mrs Piozzi, Horace Walpole & Thomas Jefferson); original buckram slightly marked, backstrip a
little faded, top edge gilt, others uncut. Discovered in the library at St Michael's Coll., Tenbury, the
collection includes naval, military, political & literary documents, mainly 18th & 19thC, including
Byron, Crabbe, Davy, Babbage & Faraday.
73 GOUDY, Frederic W. BANNING, Kendall. Songs of the Love Unending. A Sonnet
Sequence. [Printed by Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the Village Press, New York, for
the] Brothers of the Book, Chicago, 1912. £28375 copies printed, pp.16; gravure frontispiece of George Frederick Watts' 'Love & Life';
wood-engraved floriated initials & Press device on colophon; a handsome first showing of Goudy
Old Style on 'crown, sceptre & book' watermarked hand-made paper; well preserved in original
holland-backed printed boards, uncut.
74 GRABHORN PRESS. GRABHORN, Robert. Nineteenth Century Type displayed in
18 fonts cast by United States Founders now in the cases of the Grabhorn Press. Sold by
David Magee, San Francsisco, 1959. £120FIRST EDITION, limited to 300 copies (250 for sale) signed by Robert & Edwin Grabhorn; oblong
format, pp.(48); printed in various colours with ornaments & decorations; with an introductory
essay by Robert Grabhorn; a very good copy in original buckram-backed decorated boards,
morocco label.
75 GRABHORN PRESS. HELLER, Elinor Raas & MAGEE, David & Dorothy.
Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press. 1915 - 1956. [First published in two volumes at the
Grabhorn Press, 1940 & 1957. Now reprinted in facsimile by] Alan Wofsey Fine Arts,
San Francisco, 1975. £85Folio, 500 copies printed; 2vols. in one, pp.xiv(6)193((3); xvi(6)120; illustrations & facsimile pages
throughout; printed in red & black Grabhorn types; a very good copy of this useful facsimile edition
in original buckram.
76 GRAHAM, Rigby. Paddy upon the Canal. [An anonymous 19thC 'canal song' about an
Irish navvy and his success with the girls. Illustrated with four drawings by Rigby
Graham.] [Bonnefant Press] Banholt, 2012. £20Edition limited to 56 numbered copies; pp.(16); four drawings by Rigby Graham 'from the 1960s',
printed in different single colours; hand-set in Post-Medieval and printed on handmade Magnani
paper; new in pictorial yellow double-folded card wrappers.
77 GRAHAM, Rigby. McGEE, Thomas D'Arcy. A Legend of Antrim. Woodcuts by
Rigby Graham. [Bonnefant Press] Banholt, 2012. £30Edition limited to 56 numbered copies; folio (285 x 200mm.); pp.(16); three large woodcuts by
Rigby Graham; hand-set in Neue Hammer-Unziale and Wallau, printed in black & crimson on
handmade Loisin paper; new in printed grey double-folded card wrappers. A 19thC re-telling of an
ancient Irish legend: young man uses a trick to gain possession of land, and a fair bride.
78 GRAHAM, Rigby. VAN EIJK, Hans. Rigby Graham in Print. A Comprehensive
Bibliography. Azul Press, 2012 £65FIRST EDITION limited to 250 copies, folio, pp.144 + addenda leaf; illustrations in line & colour
throughout; new in burgundy cloth & pictorial dust-wrapper. 276 (+3) books & pamphlets
illustrated by RG over a sixty year period and over 100 others in which his work appears; a
beautifully produced & thoroughly researched work.
79 GREGYNOG PRESS. GRUFFUDD Ab Yr Ynad Coch. Llywelyn 1282. Lament for
Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd. Translated by Joseph P. Clancy. [Edited with a foreword by
Gwyn Thomas.] Gwasg Gregynog, 1982. £25No. 156 of 200 copies on Barcham Green hand-made paper; folio; pp.18 + colophon; ornamented
title & decorative initials in red & black by Jonah Jones; a very good copy in slightly rubbed
original printed red wrappers. Text in Welsh & English.
80 GREGYNOG PRESS. HABERLY, Loyd. Gwendolin seventy-five years on. A
Critique by David G. Lewis, Robin Nicolas [&] Eric Sweet. Gwasg Gregynog, 2010. £90FIRST EDITION, limited to 150 numbered copies; lg.8vo., pp.37 + colophon; two pages from the
1472 Dante reproduced in colour, four facsimile leaves of the Gregynog edition of Bridges' Eros &
Psyche with Burne-Jones' line illustrations for which Haberly designed the Gwendolin type,
hand-set in type newly-cast from the Gwendolin matrices discovered at the Press; other
illustrationsin text; new in decorated boards & slip-case. An interesting exploration of the typeface
and the background to its development.
81 GREGYNOG PRESS. VON ESCHENBACH, Wolfram. The Romance of Parzival
and the Holy Grail. Retold by Carl Lofmark. With wood engravings by Stefan
Mrozewski. Gwasg Gregynog, 1990 £300Large Folio, 460 x 340mm, no.42 of 195 copies (+ 15 specials), printed in red & black 14 & 16pt
Bembo on Zerkall mould-made paper; pp.x,32(2); 12 full-page wood engravings of great intricacy;
calligraphic initial & Press device by Ieuan Rees, designed by David Esslemont; a fine copy in
original crimson leather-backed decorated boards by Alan Wood; prospectus sheet & GG
compliments slip laid in. One of the finest productions of the revived Press which was originally
commissioned by the Gregynog Press in 1933. Mrozewski's engravings are here reproduced from a
set of signed proofs taken from the original woodblocks in 1936.
82 GRIMM, Brothers. BLAMIRES, David. Danger & Destiny in the fairytales of the
Brothers Grimm. [with] Jorinde and Joringel. Newly translated by David Blamires and
illustrated by Clifford Harper. Incline Press: Oldham: 2012 £45FIRST EDITION limited to (fewer than) 300 numbered copies; pp.49 + colophon; 8 tipped-in
facsimile plates in colour, various illustrations in line including new full-page & title vignette
illustrations in line by Clifford Harper; new in buckram-backed decorated boards, paper label. A
handsome production for the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Grimm's fairytales which
first examines how the German original was compiled and altered by the Grimms through their
various editions, then analyses the role of the forest in the tales: 'a setting of mystery and danger that
is rarely described though well understood'.
83 GUTHRIE, Stuart. MILLER, Geoffrey [Illustrator] The Beatitudes from The Gospel
according to St. Matthew. The Private Press of S. Guthrie Chichester 1935. £85EDITION LIMITED to 120 copies, this unnumbered; 150 x 120mm, 16 leaves printed in magenta
with Bell types on Barcham Green hand-made, rectos only; wood-engraved frontispiece by Geoffrey
Miller, fleuron title-border & head-piece; a very good, unopened copy of this scarce item in original
cloth-backed gold-decorated boards.
84 HAMMER CREEK PRESS. BURKE, Jackson [& others] John S. Fass & The
Hammer Creek Press. Essays by Jackson Burke, Eugene M. Ettenberg. Check-List by
Herman Cohen and Foreword by Aveve Cohen. David R. Godine, Boston, 1998. £25FIRST EDITION, 1000 copies printed at Stinehour; pp.36(4) + 16pp. of facsimiles in several
colours; new in cloth boards, gilt; a fine production, designed by Jerry Kelly, a useful introduction
to the Press with 56-item check-list.
85 HARRAP, George G. [Editor] ROSENKRANTZ, Baron Arild [Illustrator] Love
Lyrics from Five Centuries. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. George G. Harrap,
1932. £65FIRST EDITION, no.104 of 125 deluxe copies printed at Oxford on Millbourn hand-made rag
paper; sm.4to., pp.198(2); frontispiece & four other tipped-in colour plates with a
fantasy/neo-romantic feel; a fine copy of this handsome production in original full vellum, glacine
wrapper & slip-case; top edge gilt, others uncut.
86 HEARN, Lafcadio. Insects and Greek Poetry. William Edwin Rudge, 1926. £55FIRST EDITION limited to 550 copies on hand-made paper; 12mo., pp.(20) + colophon; very good
in original blue boards, lettered in gold, uncut; glacine wrapper.
87 HIGH HOUSE PRESS. JONES, Sir William [Translator] The Poem of Amriolkais.
One of the seven Arabian poems or moallaka which were suspended on the temple at
Mecca. Rendered into English by Sir William Jones... With four wood-engravings by
Eileen Mayo... now reprinted by James E. Masters at the High House Press Shaftebury
Dorset 1930 £55No.91 of 150 copies on mould-made paper (+ 50 specials); sm.4to., pp.(4)28 + colophon; four fine
full-page white-line wood-engravings; a very good unopened copy of this uncommon title in later
tan calf-backed decorated paper boards. Ridler 8.
88 HOPPE, E.O. KING, Richard. The Book of Fair Women. Jonathan Cape, 1922. £265FIRST EDITION limited to 560 copies, this marked 'Presentation', sm.4to., pp.27(3) + colophon; 32
tipped-in photogravure plates from photographs by Hoppé with captions on facing page; printed at
Curwen Press; a good copy of this scarce work in original cloth-backed decorated boards, paper
labels; lightly rubbed & soiled, a little wear at extremities but sound. From the library of author &
publisher John Hadfield.
POLIPHILUS & BLADO SPECIMEN
89 JONSON, Ben. The English Grammar made by Ben Jonson for the Benefit of All
Strangers Out of His Observation of the English Language Now Spoken and in Use. [first
published 1640.] Printed & Published by the Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1927. £85FIRST EDITION, 16mo., pp.64; 3pp. types and double fold-out specimen of the newly cut
Poliphilus & Blado types as a first showing of which this was printed; some light spotting but well
preserved in original boards (rubbed), paper label. Designed by Stanley Morison with his note on
the types at p.61. Extremely scarce and not to be confused with the enlarged second edition which
appeared the following year. Appleton 269.
90 LANE CHRISTMAS BOOK. LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Limited Editions. A Prose
fancy: together with Confessio Amantis A Sonnet. Privately Printed for Richard Le
Gallienne, Elkin Mathews, John Lane and their friends, Christmas, 1893. £40First Separate Edition, 700 copies printed; 16mo., pp.(4)12(4); a very good uncut copy in original
glazed paper-backed printed canson wrappers, slightly soiled, & glacine wrapper (frayed). Nelson
75.
91 LEWIS, Wyndham. The Role of Line in Art. With six drawings to illustrate the
argument. Edited and with an introduction by Paul W. Nash. The Strawberry Press,
Witney, 2007. £110FIRST EDITION limited to 156 copies (+ ten specials); 4to., pp.37(3); 12 plates (6 in colour) of
Lewis's drawings; hand-printed on Zerkall mould-made paper with titling & initials in red; a
handsome production in russet cloth, decorated in gold, and slip-case. Written in 1938 for the
Corvinus Press but never issued, the sheets and plates having been destroyed by bombing in May
1941. This edition has been recreated from the sole surviving copy, with an historical introduction
by the printer.
92 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. JONSON, Ben. Volpone or The Fox. A Comedy... first
acted in 1605. With a new introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by René
Ben Sussan. [designed by Francis Meynell and printed at the University Press] Oxford,
for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1952. £48No.982 of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator, on specially made paper; folio, pp.xxvi,163 +
colophon; 18 collotype plates, hand-coloured through stencils after Ben Sussan's original
water-colours; a fine copy of this excellent edition in original buckram-backed decorated
paste-paper boards. matching slip-case, uncut & largely unopened. Newman 236.
93 LION & UNICORN PRESS. GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas. The letters...Edited by
Mary Woodall. Lion & Unicorn Press, 1961. £45FIRST EDITION no.36 of 400 copies, sm.folio; pp.176; frontispiece & 26 collotype plates printed
at the Chiswick Press; original morocco-backed decorated paper-covered boards with embossed seal
on upper cover, lettered in gold along backstrip. Text & covers printed & bound by the Lion &
Unicorn Press at the Royal College of Art, designed by Timothy Gocher. A very good copy.
Includes several letters published here for the first time.
94 LUBBOCK, J.G. From Garden to Galaxy. Original prints and text. Rota, 1980. £320FIRST EDITION, lg.4to., no.5 of 80 copies, signed by the author/artist; pp.50; 12 colour prints (5
double-page) from copperplates worked by engraving, etching, aquatint and soft-ground etching,
the colours printed intaglio and relief with some applied additionally by hand; printed by Will
Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on heavy hand-made paper; a fine copy in original maroon
morocco, blocked in gold to the author's design, top edge gilt, others uncut, by George Percival;
decorated paper slip-case. Some of Joe Lubbock's finest work with several plates approaching
abstraction from figurative inspiration found in the natural world from the author's native Suffolk to
the mountains of Central Asia.
95 LUBBOCK, J.G. Life Force. Original hand-coloured prints and text... [Designed and
printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.] Bertram Rota, 2009 £350Edition limited to 30 copies (27 for sale) numbered & signed by the author/artist, this one of 13
regular copies; lg.4to., (360 x 280mm) pp.(32); nine prints (one double-page, five single & three
half-page) from copper plates, worked by etching, deep etching, aquatint and engraving with
colours applied by hand in intaglio and relief, and completed with watercolour. Printed in red, black
& grey on heavy Somerset mould-made paper; bound in morocco-backed gold-blocked with stag
beetle design on upper cover and preserved in Compton marbled paper slip-case. 'The thoughts and
images record home lands and waters and all that they still sustain for the enhancement of life at
three score years and thirty three'. A remarkable achievement by the redoubtable nonagerian whose
first 'final' book appeare nearly a decade ago! Though his editions have now become very small, Joe
Lubbock still produces work of great energy and enthusiasm. A fine livre d'artiste.
96 LUBBOCK, J.G. Perceptions of the Earth. Original prints and text. Rota, 1977. £350No.33 of 70 copies, signed by the author; folio (330 x 250mm.) pp.(4)20; eleven prints (six
double-page) 'hand-made by the artist from copper-plates worked by engraving, etching, aquatint &
soft-ground etching. The colours are applied from intaglio & relief, and additional colours are added
by hand...' Typography & printing by Will & Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on
hand-made paper; hand bound in full green niger morocco by George Percival with Lubbock design
blocked in gold on upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut. A fine copy in glacine wrapper &
slip-case. Butcher 5.
97 LUBBOCK, J.G. Reflections from the Sea. Original prints and text. The Twelve by
Eight Press, Leicester, 1971. £350No.51 of 85 copies, signed by the author; folio (330 x 250mm.) pp.26 + 15 leaves of colour & 2
uncoloured illustrations printed by the artist from copper-plates worked by engraving, etching,
aquatint & other processes, the colour printed by intaglio & relief methods with some added by
hand. Typography & printing by Will & Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on Auvergne
hand-made paper; hand bound in full blue niger morocco by George Percival with Lubbock design
blocked in gold on upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut. A fine copy in glacine wrapper &
morocco-trimmed slip-case with original tissue guards; John Mason's printed 'note on the
endpapers', laid in at front. Butcher 3.
98 MARTIN, Frank. Drawn from Life. Grove Park Press, Chiswick, 2004 £45FIRST EDITION, folio, no.5 of 100 copies (+ 48 specials); pp.(22) + colophon; illustrations in line
throughout; well preserved in original printed wrappers; 4pp. prospectus laid in. A charming
selection from the artist's sketchbooks of the 1950's & '60s with his memories of Camberwell, his
Fulham studio in the shadow of Stamford Bridge, and the models who came there.
99 MARTIN, Frank. The Wood-Engravings of Frank Martin. A Selection of the
wood-engravings, small woodcuts, linocuts & vinyl engravings, and a Catalogue of all
the Relief Prints compiled by Hal Bishop.. With a Foreword by Victor Arwas and an
Afterword by The Artist. Previous Parrot Press, 1998. £110No.60 of 360 copies, signed by author & artist; folio, pp.147 + colophon; vignette & full-page
engravings throughout; a fine copy in original cloth-backed pictorial boards; various related
ephemera laid in. A beautiful production by Dennis Hall.
100 MASON, J.H. A selection from the notebooks of a scholar-printer made by his son John
Mason. Illustrated by Rigby Graham. [Hand-set at the Orpheus Press for] The Twelve by
Eight, 1961. £18FIRST EDITION, pp.(44), 12 full-page illustrations by Rigby Graham; a very good copy in original
Linson-backed decorated boards, lettered in gold on backstrip. John Mason's biographical notes
augment his father's recollections of working at the Doves & Cranach Presses, and Cockerell,
Johnston, Ricketts, &c.
101 MOORE, George. GOODEN, Stephen [Illustrator] The Brook Kerith. A Syrian Story.
With twelve engravings by Stephen Gooden. William Heinemann, 1929. £65FIRST EDITION limited to 375 numbered copies, signed by author & artist; pp.(8)362; 9 full-page
& 3 vignette copper-engraved illustrations; a very good uncut copy of this deluxe edition on
hand-made paper in original full-vellum; a little darkened.
102 MORRIS, William. SHAW, G. Bernard. YEATS, W.B. & Elizabeth. Printing as Art.
William Morris & His Circle of Influence. Introduction by Charles Mann. Wood
Engravings by Linda Holmes. Edited by Mary Chenoweth Stratton. The Press of
Appletree Alley, 1994. £85FIRST EDITION, limited to 150 copies; pp.45 + colophon; three full-page and nine smaller
wood-engravings printed from the blocks; hand-set & printed in Van Dijk & Caslon on Rives
Heavyweight; a very good copy in original Morris willow-pattern cloth over boards, morocco label,
by Don Rash; pictorial bookplate also by Linda Holmes. Letters from Morris to Cobden-Sanderson
on starting a book-binding business; from Elizabeth Yeats to Emery Walker and from W.B. Yeats
on setting up the Dun Emer Press, and G.B. Shaw on Modern Typography.
103 NEWCOMB, Tessa. GATHORNE-HARDY, Jason. An Artist in the Garden. A year in
a Suffolk walled garden. Foreword by Ronald Blythe. Full Circle Editions, 2012. £50FIRST EDITION, one of 100 numbered & slip-cased copies signed by the three contributors;
sm.4to., pp.192; illustrations in colour throughout, some full-page; new in pictorial boards,
dust-wrapper & decorated slip-case. The month-by-month story of a year in the 200-year-old walled
kitchen garden of Glemham House, home to the Gathorne-Hardys for nearly a century; illustrated by
the celebrated Suffolk artist who spent three years painting it.
104 NEWCOMB, Tessa. GATHORNE-HARDY, Jason. An Artist in the Garden. A year in
a Suffolk walled garden. Foreword by Ronald Blythe. Full Circle Editions, 2012. £25FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.192; illustrations in colour throughout, some full-page; new in
pictorial boards & dust-wrapper.
105 NONESUCH PRESS. BIBLIA. The Apocrypha reprinted according to the Authorised
Version 1611. The Nonesuch Press, 1924. £75No.764 of 1250 copies printed at Oxford on japon vellum; folio, pp.(4)237(5); engraved title-page,
head- and tail-piece by Stephen Gooden; a very nice uncut copy in original cream boards, gilt,
imitating vellum. Dreyfus 20.
106 NONESUCH PRESS. CONRAD, Joseph. Letters from Conrad 1895 to 1924. Edited
with an introduction & notes by Edward Garnett. With two portraits. Nonesuch Press
[1928] £55FIRST EDITION, no.153 of 925 copies printed by Clark on Arches paper; pp.xxxiv,334(2); 2
plates; backstrip faded as usual but a very good copy in original maroon buckram, top edge gilt on
the rough, others uncut; Stephen Gooden bookplate of Sir Frederick Richmond. An important
correspondence; Conrad invited Garnett's detailed criticism of his work and for several years sent
him all he wrote, often chapter by chapter as it was written. Dreyfus 52.
107 NONESUCH PRESS. DICKENSIANA. The Nonesuch Dickens retrospectus and
prospectus. 1937 £20FIRST EDITION, pp.130, illustrations; a very good uncut copy in slightly rubbed original cloth.
Contains Arthur Waugh's essay on Charles Dickens & his illustrators; Hatton's bibliographical list
of the original illustrations to the works of Dickens; retrospectus of previous editions & prospectus
for the Nonesuch Dickens. Various facsimiles & inserts.
108 NONESUCH PRESS. DONNE, John. A Sermon of Valediction at his going into
Germany... 1619. Printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole
manuscripts and from XXVI Sermons. Edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson. Nonesuch
Press, 1932. £40No.569 of 750 copies on Auvergne hand-made paper, printed at Oxford in the Fell types; sm.folio,
pp.(6)80 + colophon; slight spotting as usual but largely confined to first & final blanks and
fore-edges; original blind-stamped boards, backstrip darkened, acetate wrapper; ex libris Sir
Frederick Richmond. Dreyfus 86.
109 NONESUCH PRESS. HARVEY, William. The Anatomical Exercises... The first
English text of 1653.. newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Nonesuch Press, [1928] £90No.1023 of 1450 copies printed by Enschedé on Dutch hand-made; pp.xvi,202 + colophon; folding
copper-plate after Stephen Gooden; edges a little browned but a very good copy in slightly soiled
original niger morocco, gilt, top edge gilt on the rough, others uncut. Dreyfus 51.
110 NONESUCH PRESS. HOTSON, J. Leslie. The Death of Christopher Marlowe. The
Nonesuch Press, 1925. £28FIRST EDITION, pp.76; folding frontispiece facsimile and four other plates & maps; a very good
copy in original brown buckram, uncut; flourished ownership signature of 'Audun Franck Burleigh
Jr. Atty at Law, Detroit, Michigan May 5th - 1925' on front pastdown. 'The first publication of
original documents [discovered at the Public Record Office] connected with the death of Marlowe...
which puts the details of its manner and circumstances beyond further questioning.' Dreyfus 22.
GOODEN ENGRAVINGS
111 NONESUCH PRESS. PINDAR. Pythian odes. Translated by H.Y. Wade-Gery & C.M.
Bowra. Nonesuch Press, 1928. £30No.882 of 1550 numbered copies; pp.xlvi,165 + colophon; title-page & two other vignettes
engraved on copper by Stephen Gooden. A very good uncut copy in original buckram, top edge gilt
on the rough; ex libris Sir Frederick Richmond with his Gooden bookplate. Dreyfus 53.
112 NONESUCH PRESS. RAPER, Elizabeth. The Receipt Book. And a portion of her
Cipher Journal. Edited by her great-grandson the late Bartle Grant with a portrait and
decorations by Duncan Grant. Written 1756-1770 and never before printed. The
Nonesuch Press, 1924. £65FIRST EDITION, no.714 of 850 copies; pp.(6)96; designed by Meynell and printed at the Kynoch
Press. The manuscript was prepared for the press by Duncan Grant's father who died shortly before
its publication. A good uncut copy in original blue buckram, backstrip faded as usual; Stephen
Gooden bookplate of Sir Frederick Richmond. Dreyfus 18.
113 O'CONNOR, John. KILVERT, Rev. Francis. A View of Kilvert. Passages from the
Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert selected and illustrated in colour by John O'Connor and
introduced by John Ryder. Foulis Press Archive, Glasgow, 1979. £150FIRST EDITION, no.50 of 50 copies, signed by the author; folio; comprises prelims., subscribers'
list & colophon and ten unsewn bifolia each with full-page line & colour wash illustrations with
accompanying extract from the diary on facing leaf; well preserved in original pictorial portfolio &
slip-case.
114 OFFICINA BODONI. BARDUZZI, Bernardino. A Letter in Praise of Verona [1489]
In the original Latin text with an English translation by Betty Radice. [Officina Bodoni]
Verona, 1974. £220No.2 of 150 copies, pp.55 + colophon; decorated with large initial and half-titles in red, blue,
yellow & black, after manuscripts by the 15thC Veronese calligrapher Felice Feliciano, and
facsimile inscription by him (in Latin & English texts); printed in Dante type on Pescia hand-made
paper, a very good copy in original vellum-backed decorated boards, top edge gilt, others uncut;
glacine wrapper & slip-case; 6pp. prospectus laid in. Mardersteig 190.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY SIMON BRETT
115 OLD SCHOOL PRESS. FLINTOFF, Eddie. Punting to Islip. Old School Press, 1994.
£33FIRST EDITION limited to 135 numbered copies, signed by the artist; 26 leaves french-folded &
silk-sewn Japanese-style into hand-made Richard de Bas stiff paper wrappers; printed in Gill Sans
on hand-made Kawanaka paper; full-page & vignette wood & linocuts by Simon Brett in blue, the
linocut printed in a paler colour under the wood-engraving; calligraphic title by Ros Prichard. An
evocative narrative poem sympathetically brought to the page by Martyn Ould; the pictorial
title-page is a triumph.
116 OLD SCHOOL PRESS. TONGE, George. Tonge's Travels. The diary of an Oxford
undergraduate touring the Mediterranean by boat in 1857 illustrated by John Watts and
edited by Martyn & Angela Ould. The Old School Press, 2001. £120FIRST EDITION limited to 330 numbered copies, signed by the artist; landscape folio (230 x
300mm), pp.119(3) + colophon; 20 full-page & vignette watercolours & 6 illustrations in line by
John Watts, beautifully reproduced, calligraphic headings by Patricia Gidney throughout; printed in
Monotype Centaur on Mohawk Superfine paper; new in tan cloth by Rachel & Richard James with
pictorial dust-wrapper printed by Martyn Ould. An imaginative production, realized with great
panache; the manuscript diary (bought at auction in 1993) makes entertaining reading as Tonge
sails from London via Gibraltar to Genoa, (Pisa), Naples..., Patras, Corinth..., Athens, Vastitza &
Algiers.
117 OULD, Martin. Oxford's Ornaments. A showing of the extant typographical ornaments
of Oxford University Press... together with notes on their origins. The Old School Press,
2007. £95FIRST EDITION limited to 123 copies (74 in this format); 4to., pp.63(3); 4pp. tipped-in specimen
on hand-made paper from the OUP stock, fold-out Synopsis from 'Fell Typographic Designs', & 16
colour plates; new in plum cloth, paper label & dust-wrapper. A handsome complement to the
Press's early Fell Type studies. The edition was sold out before publication.
118 OULD, Martin. Oxford's Ornaments. A showing of the extant typographical ornaments
of Oxford University Press... together with notes on their origins. The Old School Press,
2007. £140FIRST EDITION limited to 123 copies, this one of 42 in deluxe quarter leather with Ann Muir
marbled paper boards & cloth slip-case; 4to., pp.63(3); 4pp. tipped-in specimen on hand-made
paper from the OUP stock, fold-out Synopsis from 'Fell Typographic Designs', & 16 colour plates.
A handsome complement to the Press's early Fell Type studies. The edition was sold out before
publication.
119 OXFORD GUILD OF PRINTERS. Silver Jubilee Compendium. [Sixteen booklet
histories produced by members of the Guild to commemorate twenty-five years of the
Guild. The deluxe issue of c.50 sets in pictorial Clarendon Building box.] Oxford Guild
of Printers, 2007. £75One of 50 deluxe sets from a total edition of less than 200; 26 booklets & title leaf, each up to 215 x
150mm., but various sizes, formats & styles, printed in various colours on a wide variety of papers,
many illustrated; preserved in deluxe custom-built box fashioned to represent the classical facade of
the Clarendon Building of the Oxford University Press, designed & made by Christopher Holmes
with coloured linocut by John R. Smith. A fine celebration of the current state of small presses in
the UK which also provides many interesting accounts of their histories, aims & achievements.
Includes: Alembic, Atlantis, Evergreen, Previous Parrot, Incline, Strawberry, Old School,
Whittington, Celtic Cross, Palliser, Bouncing Acre & Reading Room Press. An entertaining sequel
to the Oxford Guild's Millenium Compendium, the Small Wood Press' contribution offers: 'Epitaphs
& Other Verses loosely connected with Printing or Drinking', while retired GP Miles Wigfield offers
an entertaining autobiography presented as an NHS Patient's Record Card.
120 OXFORD GUILD OF PRINTERS. Silver Jubilee Compendium. [Sixteen booklet
histories produced by members of the Guild to commemorate twenty-five years of the
Guild.] Oxford Guild of Printers, 2007. £35 Fewer than 200 sets; 26 booklets & title leaf, each up to 215 x 150mm., but various sizes, formats &
styles, printed in various colours on a wide variety of papers, many illustrated; preserved in
custom-made box. See previous item for detailed description of contents.
121 PAPER. BIRD & BULL PRESS. An Anthology of Delaware Papermaking. with an
Introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer and four wood engravings by John DePol. The
Delaware Bibliophiles. Oak Knoll Books, 1991. £95FIRST EDITION, limited to 200 copies (this un-numbered); pp.81 + colophon; four large tipped-in
wood-engravings by John DePol; a very good copy of this handsome production printed in Bell
types on Arches mould-made paper by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press; very good in original
cloth-backed boards, morocco label. Includes: Barbara Benson on the history of papermaking in
Delaware; H. B. Hancock and N. B. Wilkinson on 'The Gilpins and their Endless Papermaking
Machine'; 'Papermaker Joshua Gilpin introduces the Chemical Approach to Papermaking in the
U.S.' by Sidney Edelstein; & Patricia Brown on the Curtis Paper Company in Neward, Delaware.
BIRD & BULL PRESS
122 PAPER. CROCKER, Alan. Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne. A history of paper
making in a Surrey valley 1704 to 1875. The Tabard Private Press, 1988. £75FIRST EDITION, no.97 of 195 copies; oblong 4to., pp.xii,77 + colophon; 16 illustrations &
facsimiles, many tipped-in; a very good uncut copy on Saunders mould-made paper in original
buckram, leather label.
123 PELICAN PRESS. GOULD, Gerald. Monogamy. A series of dramatic lyrics. Geo.
Allen & Unwin, 1918. £25FIRST EDITION, (183 x 124mm). pp.viii,30 + advert. & imprint leaves; Tory border in red on
title-page, type & fleuron ornament head-pieces; a good uncut copy in lightly soiled printed wrapper
over boards. Rogerson 36a.
124 PENMIEL PRESS. BIBLIA. St. Paul's Cathedral Royal Wedding The Twenty-Ninth
July 1981. During the Wedding Service of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana
Spencer... The Right Honourable George Thomas Speaker of The House of Commons
read The Lesson that follows... [1st Corinthians: Chapter 13.] Printed for Private
Circulation by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press, Esher, 1981. £20FIRST EDITION limited to 100 copies, 4to., pp.(8) with calligraphic & type ornaments; printed in
black & purple on Dene Mill handmade paper; fine in original silk-tied printed purple stiff wrapper.
125 PENMIEL PRESS. BIBLIA. ISAIAH. Seek ye the Lord. [Isaiah 55 6-12] The happy
success of them that believe. [Penmiel Press, Esher, 1987.] £20EDITION limited to 50 copies, folio, pp.(8); three line drawings by Clarke Hutton and two brightly
coloured Chinese paper cuts; printed in black & orange Baskerville and Perpetua on Barcham Green
handmade paper; very good in original printed orange wrapper with embossed design repeated on
black paper cover.
126 PENMIEL PRESS. BLOOMFIELD, Diana. Tribute to Diana Bloomfield. A
pot-pourri of her wood engravings and drawings. The Penmiel Press, Esher, 1985. £35FIRST EDITION limited to 150 numbered & signed copies; pp.27 + colophon; frontispiece portrait
& 61 vignette wood-engravings & drawings including bookplates; fine in original brown cloth
blocked in gold & card slip-case. A handsome tribute to a wood-engraver first introduced to Edward
Burrett by Beatrice Warde in the 'fifties.
127 PENMIEL PRESS. BURRETT, Edward. Adieu... broadsheet designed & printed by
Edward Burrett. Penmiel Press, 1988. £15Broadsheet, c500 x 330mm, signed; no limitation stated but perhaps 75 copies printed in black &
sepia on tinted Barcham Green handmade paper with abstract design by Clarke Hutton. A
celebratory & poignant farewell to his friends, 'having had a happy and fruitful life in the world of
printing design', for distribution after his death, which Edward Burrett anticipated by more than
seven years! The potted autobiography contains a nice 'typo' which the printer challenges us to find.
'Show a good man his error & he turns it to virtue.'
128 PENMIEL PRESS. BURRETT, Edward. My Wartime Caricatures. The Penmiel
Press, Esher, 1992. £36FIRST EDITION, 4to., limited to 100 copies, signed; printed in red & black on Saunders pure rag
mould-made paper; pp.28; eight tipped-in full colour plates & two in monochrome; drawings &
ornaments throughout; as new in original cream buckram, blocked in gold with printed paper label
& matching card printed slip-case. 'Described by Edward Burrett as his last book, it makes a superb
finale to his work at the press.' - David Chambers in Private Library, Autumn 1991.
129 PENMIEL PRESS. BURRETT, Edward. Swallow Time. [Folded broadsheet with
drawings by Clarke Hutton.] Penmiel Press, Esher, 1991. £15Limited to 50 copies; folio broadsheet folded to give 4pp., (385 x 285mm); full-page & vignette
drawings by Clarke Hutton; printed in black & blue on Saunders mould-made rag paper.
130 PENMIEL PRESS. BURRETT, Edward. Three Christmas Cards designed & made by
Edward Burrett. [Penmiel Press, early 1990s] £10Three very different designs, each with printed text but undated (& unused); two c.220 x 160mm
with Owl and Snowflake design (the later an ingenious piece of paper engineering), the third 270 x
65mm cut from gold card to make a free-standing Christmas tree.
131 PENMIEL PRESS. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Kubla Khan. Drawings by Clarke
Hutton. Penmiel Press, 1991. £20Lg.4to., limited to 75 copies; pp(8); two drawings by Clarke Hutton & other vignettes; fine in
original cut-out green printed wrappers, printed purple film overlays on title & colophon used to
dramatic effect; silk ties, glacine wrapper.
132 PENMIEL PRESS. LINCOLN, Abraham. Thought for Today [and Tomorrow].
Penmiel Press, Esher, 1991. £15Broadsheet, 510 x 345mm, 50 copies printed in red & black on Saunders mould-made pure rag
paper; large wood-engraving by Diana Bloomfield. A splendid piece of typographic design &
printing.
133 PENMIEL PRESS. MILLICAN, John. Inherit All Things. [Designed & Printed by
Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press for] Orchard Press, Esher, 1987. £15FIRST EDITION limited to 75 copies, signed & numbered by the author; pp.32, printed with type
ornaments on tinted paper; a good copy in original coloured wrappers, printed paper label.
134 PENMIEL PRESS. MILLICAN, John. Mountains May Depart [Designed & Printed
by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press for] Orchard Press, Esher, 1983. £15FIRST EDITION limited to 105 copies, this one out of series; pp.32, printed with type ornaments on
tinted paper; a good copy in original coloured wrappers, printed paper label.
135 PENMIEL PRESS. MILLICAN, John. Rivers in the Desert. Edited by Margaret
George. [Designed & Printed by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press for] Orchard
Press, Esher, 1980. £15FIRST EDITION limited to 260 copies, numbered & signed by the author; pp.32, printed with type
ornaments on tinted paper; a good copy in slightly marked original coloured wrappers, paper label.
136 PENMIEL PRESS. MILLICAN, John. To Aid the Soul's Strength. [Designed &
Printed by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press for] Orchard Press, Esher, 1991. £10FIRST EDITION; pp.162, wood-engraved vignette by Diana Bloomfoeld on title; a good copy in
original green stiff wrappers with pictorial design by Clark Hutton.
137 PENMIEL PRESS. ONZEA, Wilfried. Edward Burrett and the Penmiel Press. Penmiel
Press, 1993. £15Limited to 200 copies, signed, 160 x 150mm., pp.18; various illustrations; tipped-in photograph,
printed order form laid in; very good in original printed stiff wrappers. Comprises a brief account of
E.B.'s career, a review of the Press' output together with a check-list & note from the printer. The
last production of the Press.
138 PENMIEL PRESS. PSALM 150. Praise Him. An exhortation to praise God, with all
kind of instruments. Penmiel Press, Esher, 1991. £20Folio, 50 copies printed in Baskerville & Perpetua on Saunders mould-made pag paper; pp.12;
various vignettes throughout printed in several single colours; fine in silk-tied printed purple card
wrappers. Keepsake No.9 of the Press. Onzea gives the limitation as 100 copies but the colophon
states 50.
139 PENMIEL PRESS. ST.PAUL. What can sever us from His love? The Epistle of St.
Paul, the Apostle to The Romans. A keepsake from the Penmiel Press, 1993. £15Folio, limited to 65 copies, pp.(8); printed in blue & black Perpetua & Baskerville on Barcham
Green handmade paper, with three large drawings by Clarke Hutton; very good in original printed
blue stiff paper covers & decorated black wrapper.
140 PENMIEL PRESS. [ONZEA, Wilfried. & Others.] Edward Burrett and the Penmiel
Press. A Founder Member [of the Society of Typographic Designers] and his private
press. Gaillet Press, 1995. £20FIRST EDITION, limited to 1000 copies in decorated stiff paper wrappers; lg.8vo., pp.36(2); 10
tipped-in plates (7 in colour) and several illustrations in text; beautifully printed by Peter Lloyd on
french-folded laid paper; designed by Tania Field. Based on Wilfried Onzea's earlier check-list
which is here augmented by Jeremy Irwin with the addition of 12pp. of tributes from
fellow-typographers. A fine tribute from the Society which Burrett had helped to found in 1928.
141 PLAIN WRAPPER PRESS. PETTITT, Kenneth I. A checklist of books printed by
Richard-Gabriel Rummonds & Alessandro Zanella at the Plain Wrapper Press
1966-1980. With a note on the Press.... Verona, 1980. £15FIRST EDITION, pp.32; frontis. & 6 plates; original printed wrappers. Printed at the Stamperia
Valdonega.
WILL CARTER'S COPY
142 RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth [Illustrator] An Anthology
of Love. Chosen by Anne Smith. The Acorn Press, 1985. £75FIRST EDITION, limited to 100 copies; sm.4to., pp.(44); 15 linocuts printed in various single
colours; a very good copy in original canvas, paper label; hand-printed by Sebastian Carter at
Rampant Lions Press, in Monotype Univers Bold on Zerkall Ingres Terra paper; book label of Will
Carter and inscribed 'Will's copy' on colophon.
143 RAVILIOUS, Eric. HARLING, Robert. Ravilious & Wedgwood. The Complete
Designs of Eric Ravilious. [With a Memoir by Robert Harling and Catalogue by Maureen
Batkin and Robert Dalrymple.] Richard Dennis, 2006. £18Lg.4to., pp.53; 39 colour & 30 illustrations in half-tone & line; a fine copy of this reprint of the
Dalrymple Press edition of 1985 in original pictorial laminated boards.
144 RAVILIOUS, Eric. MORPHET, Richard & SKIPWITH, Peyton. Eric Ravilious in
Context. [Catalogue of an exhibition with essays.] The Fine Art Society, 2002. £15FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.36; 45 colour plates; a fine copy of this handsome production in
original decorated card covers.
145 RAVILIOUS, Tirzah. The Wood-Engravings of Tirzah Ravilious. Compiled by Anne
Ullmann with recollections by Henry Swanzy and Robert Harling. Gordon Fraser, 1987.
£110FIRST EDITION, no.5 of 1000 copies; folio, pp.48; 42 wood-engravings, the majority full-page; a
fine copy in original stiff patterned paper wrappers after the artist's design for the Golden Cockerel
'Heartsease & Honesty' of 1935. A beautiful production, designed by Peter Guy.
146 RICHARDS, Alan [Illustrator] HARRISON, Michael [compiler] Writers and Artists
of the Dorset Coast. With an introduction and observations by Michael Harrison, linocuts
& scraperboard drawings by Alan Richards. Pleromorphic Parrot Press, 2006. £120FIRST EDITION, no.17 of 120 signed & numbered copies, folio, pp.72; vignette, full- &
double-page illustrations throughout including seven two-colour linocuts; printed in Joanna
letterpress on Zerkall paper and litho on Canson paper; fine in buckram-backed pictorial boards. A
fine production arranged in seven topographical sections (Sidmouth, Lyme, Weymouth, Chesil &
Portland, Swanage, Poole & Studland, Bournemouth) with literary contributions from Austen, Colin
Dexter, John Fowles, Hardy, Kilvert, Betjeman & others. Wonderfully vigorous & dramatic
illustrations, the whole put together with customary verve by Denis Hall. Christmas card from the
publisher & designer laid in.
147 ROGERS. KIDD: A Moral Opuscule. The Verse [sic] by Richard J. Walsh. Illustrations
[sick] by George Illian. William Edwin Rudge, New York, 1922. £45FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.(22); full-page & vignette woodcut illustrations throughout in
chapbook style, coloured by hand; printed in large Goudy New Style on heavy tinted hand-made
paper; original pink boards, paper label; backstrip faded, otherwise a well-preserved copy of this jeu
d'ésprit from The Press Gang at Mount Vernon. Warde 161.
148 ROGERS. SYMONS, Arthur. Studies on Modern Painters. William Edwin Rudge,
New York, 1925. £35600 copies printed; pp(6)88 + colophon; title in red & black; a very good copy in original
cloth-backed boards, paper label, uncut & largely unopened. Haas 117.
149 SAINT ALBERT'S PRESS. THOMPSON, Francis. The Mistress of Vision. With a
commentary by the Rev. John O'Connor and a preface by Father Vincent McNabb. Now
reprinted with an Introduction by Joseph Jerome and an Essay on Thompson by Henry
Williamson. Saint Albert's Press, 1966. £30No.221 of 500 copies; pp.(6)xx,23(3); a very good copy in original cloth & glacine wrapper; well
produced at the Roundwood Press for Brocard Sewell.
150 SIMON KING PRESS. MEREDITH, George. Three Poems. [Illustrated with six
wood-engravings by Simon King.] Simon King Press, 1999. £165Limited to 50 copies (& 15 specials), folio (342 x 226mm.); pp.34; one quarter-page and five
full-page wood-engravings; printed in Baskerville on Mohawk paper; bound by Designer
Bookbinder David Sellars in quarter green morocco, lettered in gold, paste paper sides (designed by
Victoria Hall). Wonderful large wood-engravings of great strength & beauty, printed from the wood
by the artist with delicacy & precision; illustrating Love in the Valley. The Orchard and the Heath,
and The Lark Ascending, which have proved apt inspiration for one of the most accomplished
contemporary wood-engravers in his most ambitious production.
151 SITWELL, Pauline. Green Song. Poems and wood engravings. Opal Press, 1979. £38FIRST EDITION, no.38 of 150 copies signed by the author/illustrator; lg.8vo., pp.(8)24; 10 full-
and half-page wood-engravings; hand-printed by Ian Mortimer in 24pt. Caslon Old Face on Arches
Vélin paper; a very good uncut copy in original boards, paper label; original illustrated prospectus
laid in.
152 STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS. ROBERTSON, Alec. Contrasts: The Arts and
Religion. Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1980. £30Edition limited to 250 copies (+100 specials); pp.xviii,166(2) + colophon; 3 tipped-in colour plates
after Blake, El Greco & Van Gogh; a fine copy in original green cloth gold-blocked with device by
Margaret Adams. Butcher A37.
153 STARWHEEL PRESS. SCANNELL, Vernon & others. States of Undress. [An
Anthology of Poems by Annemarie Austin, Vernon Scannell, Giles Scupham, Craig
Raine & Kevin Crossley-Holland, and Etchings by Clarissa Upchurch, Emma Rose,
Michael Murfin, Hilary Rosen and Elizabeth Scott.] The Starwheel Press [Hitchin] 1984.
£165Broadside Portfolio, 300 x 220mm., no.23 of 50 sets, comprising five hand-made leaves printed on
rectos only, each with letterpress poem & accompanying etching, signed & numbered by artist &
author; two preliminary leaves printed in two tints & black with additional illustration by the
printer, George Szirtes; fine in original card folder, paper label.
154 STARWHEEL PRESS. SZIRTES, George & others. Cloud Station. An Anthology of
Poems [by Lyn Dawes, Christopher Pilling, Rodney Pybus, William Scammell & David
Scott] & Etchings [by Michael Murfin, Peter Jacques, Clarissa Upchurch, George Szirtes
& Mary Norman]. The Starwheel Press [Hitchin] 1983. £110Broadside Portfolio, 300 x 220mm., no.24 of 55 sets, comprising five leaves of heavy Somerset
cartridge printed on rectos only, each with letterpress poem & accompanying etching, signed &
numbered by artist & author; two preliminary leaves printed in blue & black with additional
illustration by the printer, George Szirtes; fine in original card folder, pictorial paper label. From
1976 to 1986 'I ran The [Starwheel] Press [with my wife Clarissa Upchurch] from our house in
Hitchin, on a big letterpress machine and an etching press in the cellar. It existed to bring together
artists and mostly well-known poets... There were five individual sheets of poems with etchings, in
a card portfolio, all signed and hand-printed. We did one portfolio a year, working right through
summer, not paying ourselves. The editions ran to 55 copies. They were sold at book, not art prices,
and naturally they disappeared into collections.' George Szirtes, who now lectures on the creative
writing course at UEA.
155 STEPHENS, James. On Prose and Verse. Bowling Green Press, New York, 1928. £281000 copies printed; 12mo., pp.41; well printed by William Rudge on laid paper; uncut in slightly
soiled original decorated cloth; typography by Frederic Warde.
156 SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Dead Love and other inedited pieces. Thomas B.
Mosher, Portland, Maine, 1901. £85No.8 of 35 copies on Japan vellum, 155 x 115mm; pp.(4)48; frontispiece in line, 'Lawless, 1862',
laid in; title in red & black with book & dolphin device; a fine unopened copy in original printed
wrappers over card. A scarce collection of 'six inedited, if not wholly disowned, pieces of prose and
verse by the greatest living English poet.. here brought together from sources unlikely of wider
public access.' Hatch 194 notes the frontis. 'laid in, in some copies', but not this deluxe printing.
157 SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Hide-and-Seek. With notes by John S. Mayfield.
The Stourton Press, 1975. £55FIRST EDITION, sm.folio, no.84 of 250 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper; pp.16;
printed in Gill's Aries type in black & sepia within blue borders; a very good copy in original
half-leather, cloth sides.
158 TESSIMOND, A.S.J. BRETT, Simon [Illustrator] Night Club Girl. Six new poems
and a letter to Beatrice Warde. Illustrated by Simon Brett. The Reading Room Press,
Quenington, 2011. £40FIRST EDITION, limited to 104 numbered copies; pp.(32) + corrigenda slip; full- and half-page
wood engraved illustrations, printed from the blocks by Miles Wigfield who printed the book on his
Albion Press in Melior, Palatino, Festival and Monotype Typewriter types, in red & black, on
Zerkall mould-made paper, and provides a fascinating introduction. New in cloth-backed decorated
& printed boards. Six previously unknown & unpublished poems about a night-club hostess with
whom Tessimond was involved, with his long letter about the affair to the typographer Beatrice
Warde.
159 THOMAS, Glynn. Nepal an illustrated journal. [Printed for the author by] Breckland
Print, Attleborough, [1997] £30FIRST EDITION, no.130 of 200 deluxe copies on special acid-free paper, signed by the
author/artist; pp.(104) printed in colour, reproducing the original manuscript journal with pen &
wash drawings and colour photographs throughout; very good in deluxe full leather binding,
blocked in silver. A handsome celebration of a 50th birthday trip of a lifetime by the Suffolk artist.
We can also offer the standard edition in laminated pictorial card, signed by the author on title, at
£10.
160 THOMAS, Glynn. Nepal an illustrated journal. [Printed for the author by] Breckland
Print, Attleborough, [1997] £10FIRST EDITION, signed by the author/artist; pp.(104); printed in colour reproducing the original
manuscript journal with pen & wash drawings and colour photographs throughout; new in
laminated pictorial card. A handsome celebration of a 50th birthday trip of a lifetime by the Suffolk
artist.
161 TOMKINSON, G.S. A select bibliography of the principal modern presses public and
private in Great Britain & Ireland. With an introduction by Bernard Newdigate. First
Edition Club, 1928. £45FIRST EDITION limited to 1000 copies, printed at Curwen on wove paper; pp.xxiv,238;
illustrations & facsimile pages; a very good copy of this deluxe production in original
holland-backed boards, morocco label (slightly chipped); top edge gilt, others uncut; sides a little
differentially faded; ex libris Sir Fredrick Richmond. Still a very useful reference giving full listings
of the major presses (Ashendene, Kelmscott, Vale, Doves, Eragny) & much information on the
middle & lower ranks.
162 TONGE, George. Tonge's Travels. The diary of an Oxford undergraduate touring the
Mediterranean by boat in 1857 illustrated by John Watts and edited by Martyn & Angela
Ould. The Old School Press, 2001. £120FIRST EDITION limited to 330 numbered copies, signed by the artist; landscape folio (230 x
300mm), pp.119(3) + colophon; 20 full-page & vignette watercolours & 6 illustrations in line by
John Watts, beautifully reproduced, calligraphic headings by Patricia Gidney throughout; printed in
Monotype Centaur on Mohawk Superfine paper; new in tan cloth by Rachel & Richard James with
pictorial dust-wrapper printed by Martin Ould. An imaginative production, realized with great
panache; the manuscript diary (bought at auction in 1993) makes entertaining reading as Tonge
sails from London via Gibraltar to Genoa, (Pisa), Naples..., Patras, Corinth..., Athens, Vastitza &
Algiers.
163 TOURNOUR, Sister Margaret. More than many sparrows. Wood engravings. Printed
at The Bewick Studios Northumberland, 1993. £35No.91 of 100 copies signed by the artist; pp.(32); twelve exquisite vignette & larger white line
wood-engravings, designed & hand-printed on an 1857 Albion by Christopher Bacon on Zerkall
mould made paper; fine in printed wrappers.
164 WADDINGTON, Geri [Illustrator] BURNS, Jim. The Five Senses. Wood-Engraved
Illusrtrations by Geri Waddington. Incline Press, 1999. £30First edition thus, no.30 of 200 copies on Zerkall paper, signed by the artist; pp.(6)11 + colophon;
charming frontispiece and two other feline vignettes printed in sepia from the original blocks; very
good in original buckram-backed marbled boards, lettered in silver. Five cards (two inscribed) from
the artist laid in. The story of Hadrian, a bookshop cat, 'which nudged us into using Hadriano, one
of Goudy's typefaces, on the title page. Far worse typographic puns have been perpetrated.' Graham
Moss.
165 WADSWORTH, Edward. CORK, Richard. The Graphic Work of Edward
Wadsworth. [With an extended essay by Richard Cork & Complete catalogue of
Wadsworth's graphic work by Jeremy Greenwood.] The Wood Lea Press, 2002. £95FIRST EDITION, folio, limited to 450 copies (& 50 specials); pp.112; 109 illustrations in colour &
50 black-and-white; very good in original Wadsworth design decorated boards & slip-case;
prospectus & addenda slip laid in. A complete illustrated catalogue of Wadsworth's graphic work
comprising over 50 woodcuts, 5 lithographs, 2 etchings & 23 coloured engravings on copper. A
beautiful production and authoritative catalogue raisonné. Published at £115.
166 WAUGH, Evelyn. DE CHIMAY, Jacqueline The Life and Times of Madame Veuve
Clicquot-Ponsardin. With a preface by Evelyn Waugh. Illustrations by Drian. [Printed at
The Curwen Press for Champagne Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin, Reims, 1961 £30FIRST EDITION, signed by the author on half title; lg,8vo., pp.(8)53 + colophon; full-page &
vignette illustrations in line & wash throughout; a very good copy of this attractive production in
original decorated card covers & glacine wrapper.
167 WEISS, Emil Rudolf. CINAMON, Gerald. E.R. Weiss: The Typography of an Artist.
A Monograph. Printed & Published by Incline Press: Oldham, 2012. £330FIRST EDITION, folio, 360 x 250mm, limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the binder;
pp.178 + colophon; frontis. portrait and 125 other illustrations, the majority tipped-in with
additional colour, including several pamphlets; beautifully printed in Monotype Sabon on Magnani
paper; bound in parchment-backed decorated boards by Stephen Conway with silk headband &
marker, with buckram & board slip-case, printed paper label. Together with: E.R. Weiss - In
Memoriam. A facsimile of the 20pp. memorial booklet, with tipped-in portrait; pictorial wrappers &
card slip-case. Issued in Berlin, 1942, by his friend & colleague Georg Hartmann of the Bauer
typefoundry. Also with an Anglo-German word book: The Anagnostakis Pocket Guide to Austrian
German and Swiss Antiquarian Bookdealers Terminology. originally issued by the Incline Press for
the New Year, 2012. 16pp. sewn into decorated wrappers, paper label. A wonderful celebration of
the work of Emil Rudolf Weiss (1875-1942), Jugendstil painter, illustrator, wood engraver, graphic
designer and calligrapher. He designed wallpapers, fabrics, furniture, stained-glass, ceramics and
murals for ocean liners. This extensive study concentrates on his book and magazine designs, from
typography to binding, dust-jacket, endpapers & title-page. Bauer Typefoundry first commissioned
type metal ornaments and then three text faces and three sets of display initials. Finally, Cinamon
examines the Weiss types in use today with roman & italic fonts available in digital format and as
popular as ever. Several years in the press, this wonderful achievement seems likely to sell out
quicky at what is a bargain price.
168 WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth [Illustrator] HEINE, Heinrich. Doktor Faust A dance
poem. Together with some rare accounts of witches, devils and the ancient art of sorcery.
Done into English, and edited by Basil Ashmore with an introduction by J.C. Trewin.
with engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Peter Nevill, 1952. £35FIRST EDITION, no. 136 of 150 copies specially bound (but unsigned) in crimson morocco-backed
boards, gilt vignette on upper cover, top edge gilt, acetate wrapper; pp.64; full- and half-page
engravings throughout; a very good copy of this handsome showing of Weissenborn in his element.
169 WHITE, Gilbert. Extracts from The Natural History of Selborne. Illustrated with wood
engravings by Mrs H. Faulkner and W. Rose. Birmingham School of Printing, 1950 £10Pp.14; frontispiece & 8 other vignette & half-page engravings; a very nice copy in original printed
card wrappers. Wallis, Leonard Jay p.102.
170 WHITTINGTON PRESS. MATRIX 19. A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles.
Whittington Press, Winter 1999. £120Limited to 800 copies; sm. folio, pp.(8)245; illustrations & facsimiles throughout including colour
plates & various inserted broadsides & pamphlets; fine in decorated boards & printed wrapper.
Includes: David Chambers on Ron King's Circle Press, Jonathan Gili on Warren Editions; Dreyfus
on American Proprietary Typefaces; Alan Dodson on German Type Specimens; The Books of
Natalia Goncharova; Cave on Will Ransom and the Cummingtons; Robert Gibbings' edition of the
Voyage of the Beagle; & much else besides. Many other issues of Matrix are available in stock.
171 WHITTINGTON PRESS. MATRIX 20. A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles.
Whittington Press, Winter 2000. £120Limited to 825 copies; sm. folio, pp.(8)234; illustrations & facsimiles throughout including colour
plates & various inserts; fine in decorated boards & printed wrapper. Includes: Justin Howes on
Caslon's Punches & Matrices; Peterson on the Correspondence of Updike & Cleland; Olive Cook;
Leonard Baskin, Richard-Gabriel Rummonds; Dreyfus & McKitterick on Nonesuch; Rehak on
Arrighi Ornaments; Fiona MacCarthy on Brocard Sewell; Jerry Kelly's Century of best books from
the 20thC; Robin Heyeck on Marbling; Simon Lawrence, Roderick Cave, Sebastian Carter, &c.
172 WHITTINGTON PRESS. BUTCHER, David. British Private Press Prospectuses
1891-2001. The Whittington Press, 2001. £475FIRST EDITION, no. X of 50 specials in half morocco with separate portfolio of prospectuses; 4to.,
pp.xii,147 + colophon; 21 illustrations & facsimiles on 16 plates, 7 illustrations in text & 3
facsimiles in pocket at end; 20 prospectuses in separate folder; a very good copy of this interesting
approach to the Private Press movement of the 20thC.; original half tan oasis morocco, marbled
boards; preserved with folder of original prospectuses in matching slip-case (slight bump on back
edge). Published at £575.
173 WHITTINGTON PRESS. CAVE, Roderick. MATRIX 12 & 18 Offprints. Ceremonial
Papers of the Chinese. Parts One & Three. [Whittington Press, 1992-98] £122 vols., folio, pp.16; 12; tipped-in specimens throughout; very good in wrappers, paper label.
174 WHITTINGTON PRESS. CRAIG, John. Britten's Aldeburgh with eighty-one
engravings and three two-colour linocuts by the author. Whittington Press, 1997. £450FIRST EDITION limited to 440 numbered copies, signed by the author, this no. XXXVII of 60
copies specially bound in Oasis morocco-backed decorated boards with additional portfolio of eight
proof engravings (on 7 sheets), each signed & dated by Craig, in buckram-backed portfolio; folio,
pp.(70); full-page & vignette wood-engravings throughout; 3 fold-out linocuts; backstrip slightly
darkened but a very good copy in original matching slip-case. A wonderful evocation of the land of
Britten & Pears: Aldeburgh, Orford Ness & Shingle St., the river Alde & Sailors Path, Snape.
DESIGNER BINDING BY JAMES BROCKMAN
175 WHITTINGTON PRESS. CRAIG, John. Britten's Aldeburgh with eighty-one
engravings and three two-colour linocuts by the author. Whittington Press, 1997. £850FIRST EDITION limited to 440 numbered copies, signed by the author, this no. xviii of 28 copies
specially bound by James Brockman to a design by himself and John Craig, with additional
portfolio of eight proof engravings (on 7 sheets), each signed & dated by Craig; folio, pp.(70);
full-page & vignette wood-engravings throughout; 3 fold-out linocuts; fine in deluxe designer
binding by James Brockman in light blue morocco, lettered in silver; sides in transparent vellum
over a seascape print on front & back boards, concave morocco spine, silver edges; preserved in
custom made buckram bo with morocco label; binder's single-leaf description of his binding design
& technique laid in.
176 WHITTINGTON PRESS. LISTER, R.P. Allotments. Text and poems by R.P. Lister,
wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor. The Whittington Press, 1985. £250FIRST EDITION, 2vols., no. ii of 35 deluxe copies, signed by author & artist; landscape format,
pp.(32); 41 full-page & vignette wood-engravings; a fine copy of this charming collection in deluxe
morocco-backed decorated boards with a separate portfolio containing proof copies of the ten large
wood-engravings, all initialled by the artist, buckram & board slip-case, paper label.
177 WHITTINGTON PRESS. MACGREGOR, Miriam. Midwinter. Wood-engravings [&
accompanying text] by Miriam Macgregor. The Whittington Press, 2012. £135FIRST EDITION limited to 200 numbered copies (+ 55 specials) signed by the artist; lg.8vo.,
pp.(32); full-, half-page & vignettes engravings throughout, two in three colours; text in sepia,
printed in 14pt Bell on Zerkall mould-made paper; new in decorated boards and slip-case. 'In
February 2009 the North Cotswolds were covered by a brief but deep fall of snow. A fairytale
landscape of changing shapes and patterns appeared overnight... Miriam Macgregor ventured out
into this unfamiliar snowscape with sketchbook and camera, and these engravings, mostly full-page,
are the perfect subject for the medium.'
178 WHITTINGTON PRESS. MACGREGOR, Miriam. Predators in my Garden.
Lorson's Books & Prints & The Whittington Press, 1993 £65FIRST EDITION, 250 numbered copies, signed by the artist, 60 x 47mm, pp.(32); full-page
hand-coloured wood-engravings throughout with letterpress text on facing pages; a fine copy of this
wonderful collection of bugs & beetles in original decorated boards & matching slip-case.
MINIATURE BOOK
179 WHITTINGTON PRESS. MACGREGOR, Miriam. Predators in my Garden.
Lorson's Books & Prints & The Whittington Press, 1993 £220FIRST EDITION, 250 numbered copies, signed by the artist, this no. L of 50 deluxe copies; 60 x
47mm, pp.(32); full-page hand-coloured wood-engravings throughout with letterpress text on facing
pages; fine in deluxe full russet leather with an extra set of proof engravings in silk-bound folder,
the two volumes in original matching clam-shell box. MINIATURE BOOK
180 WHITTINGTON PRESS. MACGREGOR, Miriam. Weeds in my Garden. Lorson's
Books & Prints & The Whittington Press, 1986 £65FIRST EDITION, 175 numbered copies, signed by the artist, 62 x 48mm, pp.(32); full-page
hand-coloured wood-engravings throughout with letterpress text on facing pages; a fine copy of this
attractive miniature in original decorated Japanese paper-covered boards & matching slip-case.
MINIATURE BOOK
181 WHITTINGTON PRESS. MACGREGOR, Miriam. Weeds in my Garden. Lorson's
Books & Prints & The Whittington Press, 1986 £220FIRST EDITION, 175 numbered copies, signed by the artist, no.XXIV of 35 specials; 62 x 48mm,
pp.(32); full-page hand-coloured wood-engravings throughout with letterpress text on facing pages;
a fine copy of this attractive miniature in the special binding of leather-backed decorated boards
with an extra set of proof engravings in silk-bound folder, the two volumes in original matching
clam-shell box. MINIATURE BOOK
182 WHITTINGTON PRESS. McKITTERICK, David. A New Specimen Book of
Curwen Pattern Papers. The Whittington Press, 1987 £200FIRST EDITION, no.213 of 335 copies; 4to., pp.xii,105 + colophon; 32 tipped-in paper specimens
by 16 artists: Bawden, Carter, Lovat Fraser, Friedlander, Hoppé, James, Lowinsky, Marx, Paul
Nash, Nechamkin, Ravilious, Rothenstein, Rutherston, Sutherland, Wilbraham & Willoughby. A
very good copy in original cloth-backed patterned paper boards & slip-case.
183 WHITTINGTON PRESS. O'CONNOR, John. The English Scene. The Whittington
Press, 2004. £180Lg.4to., no.114 of 145 copies (& 55 specials), initialled by the artist; thirty-three full-page blocks
from the early years of the artist's life, many here printed for the first time in colour as he intended.
A fine copy of this beautiful production in original cloth-backed pictorial boards & matching
slip-case. Published posthumously but with the artist's comments on the illustrations which John
Randle recorded just before his death.
184 WHITTINGTON PRESS. O'CONNOR, John. Knipton a Leicestershire village. With
thirty-five wood-engravings by the artist. The Whittington Press, 1996. £120No.123 of 200 copies, signed by the author/artist; folio, pp.(32); tinted wood-engravings of various
sizes throughout; a very good copy in buckram-backed pictorial boards & matching slip-case.
185 WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. London Scenes.
Wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. The Whittington Press, 2001. £45No.19 of 300 copies, sm.4to., printed in 12pt Goudy Modern; pp.(8) + 11 engravings printed from
the wood on 10 leaves of Sunome Senaka paper, french-folded; a fine copy of this well produced
homage in Japanese-style lilac boards, ribbon-tied, paper label.
186 WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. On a Theatre of Marionettes.
[by] Heinrich von Kleist. Translation by Gerti Wilford. [With an introduction by Lesley
Macdonald and engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Printed at the Whittington Press
for the] Acorn Press, 1989. £65FIRST EDITION, 150 numbered copies, hand-set in Caslon and printed on mould-made paper; four
tipped-in photographic plates and nine single-colour etchings, engravings & cuts of various sizes by
Weissenborn. A fine copy in original canvas boards, paper label.
188 WOLFE, Humbert. The Craft of Verse. Oxford Poetry Essay. Crosby Gage, New York,
1928. £35FIRST EDITION, no.173 of 395 copies, signed by the author; lg.8vo., pp.(2)45 + colophon; a very
good copy of this handsome Pynson Printers production on tinted Rives paper; uncut in original
angled-wave decorated cloth, paper label.
189 YELLOW FOX PRESS. GROSS, Philip. Nature Studies. With wood engravings by
Ross Cuthbert. Yellow Fox Press, 1995. £40Edition Limited to 120 numbered copies signed by author & artist; pp.(16); 3 full-page
wood-engravings & title vignette printed by the artist from the wood on Zerkall mould-made paper;
new in stiff tinted cover with repeated title vignette; uniform with following item.
190 YELLOW FOX PRESS. HOROVITZ, Frances. Birdsong and Water. With wood
engravings by Ros Cuthbert. Yellow Fox Press, 1994. £40Limited to 120 copies numbered & signed by the artist; pp.(16); three fine full-page
wood-engravings printed from the blocks by the artist on mould-made Zerkall paper; new in stiff
blue wrappers with additional vignette wood-engraving. Uniform in format with the previous item.
PART II - Pickering, Whittingham & the Chiswick Press
191 [AUSTIN, ALFRED] Observations upon the unprofitable state of country equity and
common law practice; with Suggestions for relieving it from town agency...also Heads of
a Petition to the Legislature, for the establishment of a system of local courts.... William
Pickering, 1837. £85FIRST EDITION (190 x 110mm.), pp.viii,110; title a little marked & soiled, trace of old pencilled
notes on endpapers, otherwise a well preserved copy in original green cloth, paper label along
backstrip includes price '5s'. Extremely scarce, Copac lists Oxford, Cambridge & BL copies only.
Not in Keynes, P&C 708 or Porter.
192 BAILEY, Philip James. Festus A Poem. Fifth edition. William Pickering, 1852. £30Pp.(4)562(2); a very good copy of this enlarged edition, printed by T. Forman, Nottingham, in
contemporary half green morocco, lettered & decorated in gilt & blind. Inscribed 'To Phineas
Deseret Esq. Author of the Introduction & Conclusion of Article on the Gospels in Macphail's [?]
for November 1856, and of the Article on Wilson's Essays and Grahame's Sabbath in December's
number. Myles Macphail.' Not recorded by Keynes who lists two other editions.
193 [BARLOW, John] The Connection between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy.
Second Edition enlarged. William Pickering, 1846. £35Second Edition, enlarged; sm.8vo., pp.x,112; lithograph plate of the brain & one page of
illustrations in line; single leaf list of the Small Books on Great Subjects at front; a very good uncut
copy in differentially faded original green cloth, paper labels on upper cover & backstrip (chipped);
ex libris 'Admiral Mudge. Sydney'. Not recorded by Keynes. Porter 546, with his pencilled endpaper
note of authorship.
194 BATEMAN, John. The Acre-ocracy of England. A list of all owners of three thousand
acres and upwards, with their possessions and incomes arranged under their various
counties, also their colleges and clubs. Culled from The Modern Domesday Book. Basil
Montagu Pickering, 1876. £85FIRST EDITION, pp.xii(2)220; printed by Whittingham and Wilkins with characteristic
wood-engraved head-pieces & initials; a very good uncut copy in original cloth-backed pictorial
boards; extremities rubbed, corners lightly worn, but sound & attractive; ownership signature of
'W[illiam] C[apel] Clarke-Thornhill, Rushton [Hall]' with pencilled amendments to his entry on
p.190 and that for Thomas Clarke on p.40. His wife, Clara Thornhill, a close friend of Dickens, had
purchased Rushton Hall in 1854. The great novelist made several visits and used Rushton as the
model for Haversham Hall in Great Expectations. This statistical compilation, known to historians
simply as ‘Bateman’, went through four editions by 1883. Only this first was published by
Pickering. Harrison & Sons' editions of 1878, '79, & '83, were expanded to cover the British Isles
and retitled The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland.
195 BERJEAU, J[ean] Ph[ilibert. Editor] Calcoen. A Dutch narrative of the second voyage
of Vasco Da Gama to Calicut. Printed at Antwerp circa 1504. With introduction and
translation. Basil Montagu Pickering, 1874 £85FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.(10) title & introduction, (12) facsimile by Armagnac & Co., (14)
translation & imprint; attractively printed with ornaments by Whittingham & Wilkins; slight
spotting of first & final leaves but a very good uncut copy in original blue cloth, paper label (on
upper cover); book labels of 'Amy Wedgwood, Inherited from' 'Francis Wedgwood [of] Barlaston'.
A scarce edition, the facsimile is taken from the BM copy, acquired '10 MA [18]66'. Copac lists 5
copies only; Not in Bodley, nor P&C 708.
196 BROWN, Thomas Redivivus. [pseud.] An exposition of vulgar and common errors
adapted to the year of grace MDCCCXLV. William Pickering, 1845. £30FIRST EDITION, 750 copies printed; pp.(4)132 + advert. leaf; a good uncut copy in original
grained green cloth, paper labels; slightly rubbed but well preserved. The eighth book of the Small
Books on Great Subjects series, edited by Caroline Cornwallis. Keynes p.55. Porter 552 (this copy).
197 CHATELAIN, Chevalier de. Les Moines de Kilcre. Poeme-ballade traduit de l'Anglais
par le Chevalier de Chatelain. Basil Montagu Pickering, 1858. £35FIRST EDITION, 300 copies printed; pp.xvi,224; wood-engraved frontispiece & vignette by H.S.
Marks; a good uncut copy in original cloth,paper label; rather rubbed & soiled but sound, endpapers
renewed; printed by Whittingham. The final 32pp. comprise a prospectus for the same translator's
version of Chaucer which Pickering published 1857-60. Buechler 74 & 75 lists the Chaucer but not
this work. Warren p.174 gives the edition size.
198 CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. With an essay on his language
and versification, an introductory discourse, notes, and a glossary, by Tho. Tyrwhitt. [In
five volumes.] William Pickering, 1830. £180 500 copies printed; 5vol., portrait & frontispiece engraving of The Canterbury Pilgrimage by
Worthington after Stothard; a good set of this handsome edition printed by Whittingham on laid
paper; contemporary half black morocco, gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut; vol.II rebacked with
original backstrip laid down, hinges of vol. III renewed. Sometimes found without the plates
according to Keynes. A reprint of the 1822 edition which was one of Pickering's earliest antiquarian
ventures, the cost of the first edition being shared with R. & S. Prowett. Scarcer than the 1822
edition in our experience though Keynes (pp.15 & 57*) makes the opposite observation. Porter 143.
199 CHURCHILL, Charles. The Poetical Works. With copious notes and a life of the
author by W. Tooke. [In three volumes.] William Pickering, 1844. £65First Aldine Edition; 1000 copies printed 3 vols.; a good set with the half-titles, engraved portrait &
errata at end of vol.III; original crimson morocco, lettered in gold, ruled in blind, all edges gilt, by
Hayday; extremities rubbed & a little worn but a sound & handsome set of the only Aldine poet not
edited by Mitford, Dyce or Nicolas. Small stamp of Edinburgh booksellers & publishers Edmonston
& Douglas. 'Presumably owing to their late appearance fewer copies were sold than of most of the
series and these volumes are now very difficult to find except at an exorbitant price.' Keynes p.27.
200 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Poetical Works. [In three volumes.] William
Pickering, 1834. £85First Edition in this format, 1000 copies printed; 3vol., pp.xiv,288; vi,338; (4)331+ erratum; advert.
leaf (Aldine Poets & Bridgewater Treatises) in vol.1; a good uncut set with the half-titles in rather
worn original blue cloth, paper labels (browned), corners worn & chipped but sound. Uniform with,
though not part of, the Aldine Poets, this third collected edition was the last to be published in
Coleridge's lifetime. 'Probably prepared and arranged by H[enry] N[elson] Coleridge. Sixty-six
uncollected pieces added to Poetical Works 1829 with some rearrangement.' G. Whalley in NCBEL
III.219. A regularly reprinted best-seller for Pickering.
201 [CORNWALLIS, Caroline] An Introduction to Practical Organic Chemistry with
references to the works of Davy, Brande, Liebig, &c. William Pickering, 1843. £85FIRST EDITION, 750 copies printed; pp.(4)90, including series advert. leaf at front; a good uncut
copy in original green cloth, paper labels on upper cover & backstrip (the latter browned & a little
chipped). No.IV in the Small Books on Great Subjects series and extremely scarce; the first copy we
have handled. Not recorded by Keynes. Porter 547 (this copy).
202 [CORNWALLIS, Caroline] Christian sects in the Nineteenth century. In a series of
letters to a Lady. William Pickering, 1846. £35FIRST EDITION, 750 copies printed; pp.vi,145 + advert. leaf; a good uncut copy in original green
cloth, paper labels (backstrip label slightly chipped & browned). No.XI in Pickering's series of
Small Books on Great Subjects. Includes accounts of the Quakers, Socinians & Unitarians,
Wesleyans, Baptists, Swedenborgians, Plymouth Brethren, Presbyterians & Calvinists. Porter 553.
203 [CORNWALLIS, Caroline] Christian sects in the Nineteenth century. In a series of
letters to a Lady. William Pickering, 1850. £30Second Edition, (c750 copies printed); pp.vi,144 + advert. leaf; a good uncut copy in original green
cloth, paper labels (backstrip label defective); head of backstrip a little worn but sound. No.XI in
Pickering's series of Small Books on Great Subjects. Includes accounts of the Quakers, Socinians &
Unitarians, Wesleyans, Baptists, Swedenborgians, Plymouth Brethren, Presbyterians & Calvinists.
Not recorded by Keynes; Porter 553 (1st ed. only).
204 [CORNWALLIS, Caroline] General Principles of Grammar. William Pickering, 1847.
£65FIRST EDITION, 750 copies printed; pp.(4)118 + advert. leaf for the Small Books on Great
Subjects in which this is no.XII; a good uncut copy of this uncommon title in differentially faded
original green cloth, paper labels (backstrip label rubbed & a little chipped). Ex libris Ezra Otis
Swift and Philip Sperling, neat ms. inscription 'Library, U.S. Department of State' at head of
half-title. Not recorded by Keynes; Porter 554 (this copy).
205 [CORNWALLIS, Caroline] On the State of Man before the Promulgation of
Christianity. William Pickering, 1848. £45FIRST EDITION, 750 copies printed; pp.(4)156 + advert. leaf for the Small Books on Great
Subjects in which this is no.XIV, & 4pp. Pickering catalogue; a good uncut copy of this uncommon
title in original cloth, paper labels browned (backstrip label rubbed). Not in Keynes nor Porter.
206 [CORNWALLIS, Caroline] A brief view of Greek philosophy up to the Age of
Pericles. William Pickering, 1844. £22FIRST EDITION, pp.(2)xviii,99+16pp. Pickering catalogue at end; uncut in original green cloth,
paper labels (that on spine chipped); faint stamp of Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution on
verso of title but a good copy of no.V in the series of Small Books on Great Subjects.
207 [CORNWALLIS, Caroline] A brief view of Greek philosophy up to the age of Pericles.
William Pickering, 1844. £35FIRST EDITION, 750 copies printed; pp.xviii,99 + advert. leaf & 16pp. Pickering catalogue at end;
uncut in original green cloth, paper labels (backstrip label chipped & browned); no.V in the series
of Small Books on Great Subjects. Contemporary inscription, 'J.R.D. from S.S.D.' and later
pencilled signature of publisher & translator Roger Senhouse, the last lover of Lytton Strachey from
whom he inherited many books. Porter 548 (this copy).
208 [CORNWALLIS, Caroline] A brief view of Greek philosophy from the Age of Socrates
to the coming of Christ. William Pickering, 1844. £35FIRST EDITION, 750 copies printed; pp.(4)119; series advert. leaf at front; a good uncut copy in
original blue cloth, paper labels (backstrip label rubbed). Contemporary ownership signature of P.T.
Jackson Jnr. No.VI in the series of Small Books on Great Subjects. Not recorded by Keynes. Porter
549 (this copy).
209 [CORNWALLIS, Caroline] A brief view of Greek Philosophy from the Age of Socrates
to the coming of Christ. Second Edition. William Pickering, 1850. £25750 copies printed; pp.(4)119; a good uncut copy in original blue cloth, paper label on upper cover
(lacks backstrip label). No.VI in the series of Small Books on Great Subjects. Not recorded by
Keynes. Porter 550 (this copy).
210 [DANIEL, George.] The Modern Dunciad. Virgil in London and other poems. William
Pickering, 1835. £55FIRST EDITION of this collection; pp.viii(2)342 + preliminary advert. leaf; label removed from
front pastedown but a good uncut copy in original blue cloth, paper label (browned & chipped).
Waspish satire on the minor poets & journalists of the day, the first two poems originally appeared
in 1814. Keynes p.62.
211 DRURY, Anna Harriet. Annesley and other poems. William Pickering, 1847. £45FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)74(2) + advert. leaf; a good uncut copy of a scarce title in lightly marked
original brown cloth, neatly rebacked. Printed by Whittingham with device ix on title & xi on final
leaf; not listed by Keynes.
212 GRAY, Thomas. The Works. [Edited with a life by John Mitford. In five volumes.]
William Pickering, 1835 -1843. £110FIRST EDITION, 5vols., (each c.300pp); engraved frontis. in vol.1 (lightly browned &
water-stained); a good set in original half green morocco, marbled sides, top edges gilt; old repairs
to 3vols. (vol.IV with only upper half of orig. backstrip retained); contemporary bookplate of Henry
Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham. An interesting example of Pickering's publishing practice and
difficult to find complete. Vol.I is the poetical works from the Aldine Poets with new half-title &
title, vol.V was also issued separately as the Correspondence. Keynes records only these two
volumes and not the complete Works. Buechler 11 records the four-vol. Works '1836' but not the
fifth vol. of Correspondence with Nichols in which several miscellaneous writings were also
published for the first time. Porter 293 records 928 copies printed (+ 20 on thick paper).
213 [HELPS, Sir Arthur.] Essays written in the intervals of business. William Pickering,
1843. £35Third edition, pp.(8)148(4)adverts.; a good uncut copy in original brown cloth, paper label
(browned), slight wear at head & tail of backstrip but sound. Ownership signature at head of title of
'H. Badnale July, 1847' who has inscribed half-title to 'John Cruso a small token of the affectionate
regard of the donor. Dec 1st. 1847.' Published at the author's expense, this collection of advice on
Benevolence, Domestic Rule, Secrecy, Business, Party-spirit, &c., was the first of eight of Helps'
works published by Pickering It became a best-seller with seven editions by 1858. 'If I were to
make money by the book', wrote Helps to his friend Prof. Auster, 'I should change it into coppers,
melt them down, and have a bust, not of myself, but of my publisher... being taken in a thoughtful
attitude, composing... an elaborate puff.' Porter 321.
214 HERBERT, George. The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Pickering,
1838. £35Pp.xxiv,361; engraved portrait frontispiece (lightly browned) & monumental title; a good copy in
contemporary diced maroon calf, gilt, all edges gilt; extremities rubbed but sound; ownership
signature of W[illiam] Maskell whose several theological works were published by Pickering at this
time. Later inscription to 'J. Kenrick R. Wreford from Annie Wreford'. Porter 329.
215 [HUMBOLDT, Wilhelm Von.] Thoughts and Opinions of a Statesman. William
Pickering, 1849. £35FIRST EDITION, 750 copies printed; sm. 8vo., pp.(6)166; a good uncut copy in original green
cloth (a little marked), paper labels (browned & rubbed); ex libris 'Admiral Mudge. Sydney'.
Translated by Catherine Cowper and edited by Sir Arthur Helps, no.XV of the Small Books on
Great Subjects; scarce in this first edition, a second appeared the following year. Not noticed by
Keynes. Porter 556 [this copy].
216 [HUMBOLDT, Wilhelm Von.] Thoughts and opinions of a statesman. Second edition.
William Pickering, 1850. £25750 copies printed; pp.(6)166 + 4pp. adverts; a good uncut copy in differentially faded original
green cloth, paper labels. Translated by Catherine Cowper and edited by Sir Arthur Helps, this is
no.XV of the Small Books on Great Subjects. Not recorded by Keynes. Porter 557.
217 KEMPIS, Thomas A. De Imitatione Christi. [With a life of the author by Charles
Butler.] Guil. Pickering, 1851. £3524mo., 136 x 80mm, ?500 copies printed; pp.xxii,322(2); ornamental title border, headpieces &
initials, printed by Whittingham. Contemporary tan calf, red edges, neatly re-backed; ownership
inscription of 'Samuel Stead, 1854'. An uncommon & attractive edition, Keynes p.75. Porter 373
suggests a print run of no more than 500.
218 KEYNES, Geoffrey. William Pickering Publisher. A Memoir and a Check-List of his
publications. Revised Edition. The Galahad Press, [1969.] £25Second & best edition; 4to., pp.125; two page of devices & 37 facsimile title-pages; a very good
copy in original cloth & lightly soiled dust-wrapper.
219 KEYNES, Geoffrey. William Pickering Publisher. A Memoir and a Check-List of his
publications. Revised Edition. The Galahad Press, [1969.] £55Second & best edition, no.69 of 100 special copies, signed by the author; 4to., pp.125 + colophon;
two page of devices & 37 facsimile title-pages; a very good copy in original canvas, lettered in gold,
printed dust-wrapper; heraldic bookplate of Anthony Richard Wagner; neat shelf no. on title verso.
220 KIRKE WHITE, Henry. The Poetical Works. William Pickering, 1830. £28First Aldine edition, pp.(2)lviii[actually lx],252 + 4pp. Aldine Poets list at front; engraved
frontispiece (light waterstain at foot); a good uncut copy in original blue calico, paper label
(browned); short split in upper hinge but sound; binder's mark 'L[eighton] 5' blind-stamped on rear
pastdown. Prize inscription 'for English Verse [to] James Lynch Fletcher, King William's College,
June 1834', on fly leaf. The only 19thC poet in the series, this first printing is comparatively
uncommon and perhaps rather smaller than the second of 1840 (2000 copies).
221 [MARTIN, Frederic] Illustrations of the Doctrine Principle and Practice of the Church
of England. William Pickering, 1840 £85FIRST EDITION, 12mo., pp.203; well preserved in contemporary half calf, marbled sides &
endpapers, top edge gilt; neatly rebacked. Prompted by the reception of his 'Notes on the Four
Gospels' of 1838, Martin offers 'the present little volume, although complete in itself, as a
continuation and conclusion of the prefatory disquisitions' in the first work. Copac lists John
Rylands & King's, London copies only. Not in Keynes, Porter nor P&C cat.708.
222 MICHEL, Francisque. Bibliotheque Anglo-Saxonne. Paris, Chez Silvestre, Londres,
W. Pickering, 1837. [Facsimile reprint by the Stag Press, 2010] £12Pp.viii,168; new in printed card wrappers. Originally published as the second volume of
'Anglo-Saxonica' by P. Larenaudière and Francisque Michel; includes several Pickering
publications and John Mitchell Kemble's: Letter to M. Michel (pp.1-43), & Corrigenda in Dr
Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik (pp.(45-)63). Pickering published Michel's Charlemagne in 1836.
223 PARNELL, Thomas. The Poetical Works. [Edited with a life by John Mitford.] William
Pickering, 1833. £28First Aldine edition, 1000 copies printed; pp.xxxii,185; engraved frontis; handsome contemporary
half morocco, marbled sides & endpapers, lettered in gold, top edge gilt, others uncut.
224 PICKERING, William. William Pickering's Publications, 177, Piccadilly, [c1841] £25Cr.8vo., 170 x 110mm; pp.(16); drop-head title with type ornament at head; stitched as issued,
uncut. Evidently produced soon after the move to Piccadilly, 'Works nearly ready for Publication'
include: Huber's English Universities; King's Poems and Thomson's Outline of the Laws of
Thought.
225 PICKERING, William. Works published by William Pickering. The following are just
published or nearly ready. William Pickering, 57 Chancery Lane, [c1836] £20Pp.8; drop-head title; stitched as issued, light spotting but well preserved. Page one announces: 'Dr
Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise... Literary Remains of S.T. Coleridge... Malthus on Political
Economy. Second edition with great additions from the author's own MS.' Final page lists
Anglo-Saxon Works, The Gentleman's Magazine... & Thomas Wright's 1836 series of 'Early
English Poetry Printed in the black letter, nearly ready.'
226 PICKERING, William. Works uniformly printed in crown octavo, upon superfine laid
paper, Published by William Pickering, Chancery Lane. [1831] £25190 x 120mm., pp.(6); drop-head title with ornament at head, well printed on laid paper with large
margins, signed 'vol.I [signature] A' at foot; disbound. Lists XXVII deluxe publications from I.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to XXVI. Holbein's Bible Cuts 'Just ready.' XXVII is Holbein's Dance
of Death - 'In the press' but actually published 1833. The deluxe Complete Angler is announced for
publication 'in about Twelve Parts' from 'Early in January...'
TO IMPROVE THE LOT OF THE EMPLOYED
227 [POWER, David.] On the Responsibilities of Employers. William Pickering, 1849. £65FIRST EDITION, 750 copies printed;12mo., pp.(4)200 + advert. leaf; a very good uncut copy in
original green cloth, paper labels, (backstrip label slightly browned & chipped); ex libris Samuel
Courtauld, the textile industrialist and a major employer of the Victorian era. No.XVI in Caroline
Cornwallis's series of Small Books on Great Subjects and perhaps the most scarce. Not recorded by
Keynes and anon. in BM Cat. but listed with the works of the legal writer David Power, of Lincolns
Inn, by Allibone. Inspired by the enlightened approach to employment practice of the Ipswich
engineers Ransome & May, Power examines the state of the employed in manufacturing, agriculture
and domestic service, with appendices on sickness benefit and the cost of annuities, death & child
benefits. Porter 558 (this copy).
228 [TAYLOR, Isaac.] Physical theory of another life. By the Author of Natural History of
Enthusiasm. William Pickering, 1836. £40FIRST EDITION, pp.(2)X,321+ advert. leaf; light water stain across head of first & final gatherings
otherwise a good uncut copy in original blue cloth, paper label (rubbed), sides a little marked,
corners worn, lower cover a little warped by damp. 'A work of pure speculation anticipating a
scheme of duties in a future world, adapted to assume expansion of our powers after death.' DNB.
Not recorded by Keynes.
PART III - Type & Type Specimen Books
229 ATLAS TEXT. 8-line Atlas Text. The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2001. 40 copies printed, (75 x
75); a full alphabet + numerals & ligatures, printed in blue & grey on four concertina-folded leaves,
ingeniously interlocked to form an elaborate 'pop-out' structure within paste-paper boards, paper
label. Atlas Text was cut by Day & Collins and registered in 1899. £20
230 BIGGS, John R. An Approach to Type. Blandford Press, 1949 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.152; 40
text figures & 64pp. of type specimens with accompanying descriptions; a very good copy in frayed
(repaired) dust-wrapper. £12
231 CASLON. Old Face Roman & Italic. Cast entirely from matrices produced from the original
punches engraved in the early part of the eighteenth century in Chiswell Street, London, by
William Caslon. H.W. Caslon & Co., [1924] FIRST EDITION, folio, pp.64; frontispiece & many
other plates & facsimiles in black & colours including large fold-out facsimile of the 1734
specimen. A very good uncut copy of this attractive production by George W. Jones in original
printed wrappers, yapp edges slightly frayed. £25
232 DELACOLONGE. CARTER, Harry [Editor] The Type Specimen of Delacolonge. Les
Caracteres et Les Vignettes de La Fonderie du Sieur Delacolonge [Lyons 1773] Van Gendt,
Amsterdam, 1969. Pp.82 + 121 facsimile leaves (printed on rectos only); a very good copy in
slightly rubbed decorated boards, paper labels. £35
233 ENSCHEDE, Joh. En Zonen. Letterproef. Bevattende, Romein en Cursief, Schreefloos, Compact,
Halfvet, Nederduitsch, Schrijf, Muziek, Teekens en Koperen Lijnen etc. Joh. Enschedé en Zonen,
Grafische Inrichting N.V. Haarlem, 1932. Pp.(8)275; original russet buckram, gilt; backstrip a little
faded, inner hinges cracked but sound, otherwise a well preserved copy of this handsome and
wide-ranging specimen. £85
234 HAAB, Armin. HAETTENSCHWEILER, Walter. Lettera 3. A standard book of fine lettering.
Alec Tiranti, 1968. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.128; specimens & illustrations throughout of 19thC.
ornamental, Egyptian, English-Italian, Art Nouveau, 'new sans-serif creations and... the latest trends
in type face design'; a very good copy in slightly rubbed dust-wrapper. Text in English, German,
French & Spanish; printed in Switzerland. £35
235 HLAVSA, Oldrich. A Book of Type and Design. Peter Nevill, 1960. First English Edition, sm.4to.,
pp.496; types & specimen settings throughout. A well preserved copy in original two-tone cloth of
this splendid Czech specimen. £35
236 HUTCHINGS, R.S. A Manual of Decorated Typefaces... Cory Adams & Mackay, [&] Hastings
House, New York 1965. FIRST EDITION, (US issue), sm.4to., pp.96; a very good copy of this
standard reference in frayed dust-wrapper. £22
237 JOHNSON, A.F. Type Designs: their history and development. Grafton & Co., 1934 FIRST
EDITION, pp.viii,232; 58 facsimile illustrations; ex Wolverhampton Reference Library with
stamps on title several margins; extremities a little worn but a sound copy in original cloth of this
classic study. £15
238 LAMESLE, Claude. JOHNSON, A.F. [Editor] The type-specimens of Claude Lamesle. A
facsimile of the first edition printed at Paris in 1742. With an introduction by A.F. Johnson.
Hertzberger, 1965. Pp.(12) + 78 leaves collotype facsimile of types & ornaments & 12 leaves of
music types; original boards, paper labels, differentially faded but sound; shelf mark & oval stamp
of Loughborough School of Librarianship on verso of title. Epitomises 'the output of French
foundries during the last quarter of the XVIIth & first half of the XVIIIth century. The collection of
types is remarkably fine.' Updike, Printing Types I.270; Bigmore & Wyman I.419. £35
239 MORISON, Stanley. A Tally of Types. With additions by several hands. Edited by Brooke
Crutchley. Cambridge at the University Press, 1973. No.117 of 300 copies of this deluxe version of
the enlarged second edition; pp.138 + colophon; frontispiece portrait by Wm. Rothenstein; very
good in original linen-backed decorated boards & slip-case. The 17 type designs of Morison's
original Tally of 1953 are augmented by Van Dijk, Ehrhardt & Romulus described by Netty
Hoeflake, Harry Carter & John Dreyfus respectively. Appleton 190a. £65
240 McGREW, Mac. American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century. Second, revised, edition.
Oak Knoll Books, Delaware, 1993. Lg.4to., pp.xx,376 + colophon; very good in pictorial laminated
card covers; pencilled ownership signature of Roderick Cave. A wide-ranging specimen of 1600
typefaces, 300 were added to this second edition, with useful historical & technical notes. £35
241 ROOKLEDGE, Gordon. PERFECT, Christopher. Rookledge's classic international type finder.
The essential handbook of typeface recognition and selection. Revised by Phil Baines & with a
foreword by Adrian Frutiger. Laurence King Publishing, 2004. 4to., pp.279; new in laminated card
covers. Over 700 typeface specimens, all fully cross-referenced, & 50 short biographies of leading
type designers. £20
242 ROSART, Jacques-Francois. The Type Specimen of Jacques-Francois Rosart. Brussels 1768. A
facsimile with an introduction and notes by Fernand Baudin and Netty Hoeflake. Van Gendt &
Co., Amsterdam, 1973. Pp.82 + 72 facsimile leaves (largely on rectos only); a good copy in lightly
soiled original boards, paper label. Includes a fine section of ornaments & borders. £35
243 SCHMOLLER, Hans. The Western Type Book. Analysed specimens of Monotype Linotype and
Intertype faces suitable for bookwork... With a foreword by Hans Schmoller. Hamish Hamilton for
Western Printing Services, 1960. FIRST EDITION, pp.xvi,196; designed by John Ryder; a very
good copy in original cloth & slightly frayed dust-wrapper; two card masks laid in. £15
244 SILVER, Rollo G. Typefounding in America, 1787-1825. University Press of Virginia, 1965.
FIRST EDITION, pp.xiv,139 + colophon; 36 illustrations of type & machinery; very good in
original cloth-backed decorated boards. £22
ALEMBIC PRESS
245 TUSCAN CONDENSED. 14-line Tuscan Condensed. The Alembic Press, Marcham, [2001] Forty
copies printed, (95 x 75mm); a full alphabet of the fine ornate 'Tuscan' wood letter, printed in blue
& brown on two accordian-folded sections of 18pp., which slot into each other to form an
ingenious honeycomb design within brown printed boards. £15
246 UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types their history, forms and use. A study in survivals. [In
two volumes.] Second Edition. Dover Publications, New York, 1980. Facsimile reprint of the
second edition, revised, of 1937; 2vol., pp.xl,292; xx,326; 367 illustrations & facsimiles, some
folding; a very good set in original laminated card covers. 'At once a revelation and an inspiration.'
Morison to Updike, March 1937. £28
247 WARDE, Beatrice. The Crystal Goblet. Sixteen Essays on Typography. Selected and edited by
Henry Jacob. The Sylvan Press, 1955. FIRST EDITION, pp.(2)221; a very good copy in original
cloth & frayed dust-wrapper. £35
248 WOODFALL, Henry. GOULDEN, Richard J. The Ornament Stock of Henry Woodfall
1719-1747. A Preliminary Inventory Illustrated. Bibliographical Society, 1988. FIRST EDITION,
A4 format; pp.xii,86; 390 ornaments illustrated; very good in laminated card wrappers. £8
PART IV - Bibliography, Typography & Books about Books
249 ARK 34. NASON, Gerald [Editor] Ark 34. The Journal of the Royal College of Art. RCA,
Summer 1963. 4to., pp.43(44) adverts.; illustrated throughout; a good copy in original decorated
card wrappers; inserts for Ark 35 & Japan Interior Design laid in. Cover by Melvyn Gill,
contributors include Michael Bartlett, Ken Baynes & Richard Hamilton. £15
250 ARTMONSKY, Ruth. Bringers of Good Tidings. Greetings Telegrams 1935-1982. Artmonsky
Arts, 2009. FIRST EDITION, landscape format; pp,96; illustrations in colour throughout with
designs by Ardizzone, Bawden, Barbara Jones, Rex Whistler, & others; new in pictorial card
wrappers; a most attractive production. £12
251 BAYNES-COPE, A.D. Caring for Books and Documents. With line illustrations by Sture
Akerstrom. British Museum, 1981. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.32; illustrations in line & half-tone; a
good copy in original laminated boards. £8
252 BENTLEY, Richard. CHESNEAU, Ernest [& others] Richard Bentley & Son. Reprinted from
'Le Livre' of October 1885 with some additional notes. Privately Printed [by R. & R. Clark,
Edinburgh] July, 1886. 250 copies printed; pp.(8)40; Cruikshank etching & two engraved plates,
other illustrations & decorations in text; a fine unopened copy of this deluxe production on
hand-made paper; original half tan cloth, fancy embossed decorated boards & dust-wrapper (plain
& frayed). Chesneau's essay & Charles Pascoe on Bentley's Miscellany printed in French, other
essays on the Standard Novels & Romances, Samuel Bentley and Bangor House, in English. £55
253 BERGER, Sidney E. Edward Seymour & The Fancy Paper Company. The story of a British
marbled paper manufacturer. Oak Knoll Press, Delaware, 2006. FIRST EDITION limited to 300
numbered copies; sm.4to., pp.x,80 + colophon & errata leaf; 18 illustrations & facsimiles and 20
tipped-in original samples of marbled & other fancy papers produced for the bookbinding &
packaging trades from 1919 to 1971. New in leather-backed decorated boards & matching
slip-case. £75
254 BEWICK, John. TATTERSFIELD, Nigel. John Bewick: Engraver on Wood 1760-1795. An
appreciation of his life together with a Catalogue of his Illustrations and Designs. The British
Library, 2001. FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.256; 150 black & white illustrations; new in
dust-wrapper. An important new contribution to the history of book illustration & children's books
which draws extensively on unpublished correspondence, Bewick's own ledger and the British
Museum collection of Bewick material. In print at £45. £25
255 BLACK SUN PRESS. MINKOFF, George Robert. A Bibliography of The Black Sun Press. With
an introduction by Caresse Crosby. G.R. Minkoff, Great Neck, New York, 1970. FIRST EDITION
limited to 1250 copies; 4to., pp.(14)60 + colophon; frontispiece portrait; a very good copy in
original buckram. £24
256 BLAKE, Quentin, GENTLEMAN, David [& others] HARE, Steve [Editor] Penguin by
Illustrators. With an introduction by Phil Baines. [Essays by Dennis Bailey, Romek Marber, Jan
Pienkowski, Tony Lyons and Jon Gray, and two further chapters by Quentin Blake and David
Gentleman] Penguin Collectors Society, 2009 FIRST EDITION, lg.landscape format, pp.197;
coloured illustrations in half-tone & line throughout; new in pictorial card covers. Essays by five of
the great Penguin designers and additional chapters by Quentin Blake and David Gentleman. A
further 27 artists contribute short essays on particular books or short series they illustrated for
Penguin. £30
257 BLAKE, William. HAMLYN, Robin, PHILLIPS, Michael William Blake with essays by Peter
Ackroyd and Marilyn Butler. Tate Publishing, 2000 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.301; illustrations in
colour and half-tone throughout; a very good copy of this important catalogue in pictorial card
covers. £15
258 BLUNT, Wilfrid. Cockerell. Sidney Carlyle Cockerell, friend of Ruskin and William Morris and
Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Hamish Hamilton, 1964. FIRST EDITION,
pp.xviii,385; 23 illustrations in half-tone; endpapers renewed, neat stamp of Nottingham Library on
verso of title, otherwise a good copy in original cloth & worn dust-wrapper of this authoritaive &
uncommon account. £12
259 BOCKWITZ, Dr. Hans. Buch und Schrift. Zur Geschichte des Kuperferstichs und der
Lithographie. Jahrbook des Deutschen Vereins fur Buckwesen und Schrifttum. V. Jahrgang 1931.
Buchwesen und Schrifttum zu Leipzig, 1931. Lg.4to., pp.50(4)19 + colophon; illustrations and
facsimiles throughout; a good copy in lightly soiled printed wrappers, snag at bottom edge but
sound; signed presentation slip from the author laid in. £15
260 BOOKBINDING. ABBEY, Major J.R. An Exhibition of Modern English and French Bindings
from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey. The Arts Council, 1949. FIRST EDITION, pp.32; 16
plates; very good in lightly edge-rubbed original decorated wrappers. 131 items with detailed
descriptions and biographical notes on the binders; with an introduction by Philip James. £15
261 BOOKBINDING. ABBEY, Major J.R. Modern British and French bookbindings from the
collection of J.R. Abbey. The Arts Council, 1965. FIRST EDITION, pp.28; 16 plates; very good in
original decorated card covers. 125 items with detailed descriptions and biographical notes on the
binders; with an introduction by Howard Nixon. £15
262 BOOKBINDING. LOUDON, J.H. James Scott and William Scott, Bookbinders. Scolar Press in
association with the National Library of Scotland, 1980. FIRST EDITION, pp.xxvi,414; coloured
frontispiece & 170 half-tone plates of virtually all known bindings by these 18thC Edinburgh
binders; very good in dust-wrapper & card slip-case. £32
263 BOOKBINDING. MIDDLETON, Bernard C. The Restoration of Leather Bindings. Drawings
by Aldren A. Watson. American Library Association, Chicago, 1976. 4to., pp.xxii,201; 93
illustrations in line & half-tone; a good copy of this standard manual in original pictorial card
covers. LTP Publication No.18. £35
264 BOOKBINDING. PACKER, Maurice. Bookbinders of Victorian London 1837-1901. The British
Library, 1991. FIRST EDITION, pp.352; new in original cloth & dust-wrapper. An important
addition to the study of Victorian book production. £40
265 BOOKBINDING. WALKER, Edward. The Art of Book-binding, its Rise and Progress;
Including a Descriptive Account of the New York Book-Bindery. New York, 1850. [Facsimile
reprint] edited with an introduction by Paul S. Korda. Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, [Delaware]
1984. Pp.111; various illustrations & woodcut facsimiles; fine in original cloth. Incorporates a
photo-facsimile of Walker's original 64pp. manual together with his 4pp. poetical advertisement
(c.1880) for The Great New-York Book-Bindery. £25
266 BOOKBINDING. ZAEHNSDORF, Joseph W. The Art of Bookbinding. A Practical Treatise.
With Plates and Diagrams. Second Edition, revised and enlarged, George Bell, 1890. [Facsimile
reprint by Gregg Press, 1967] Pp.xx,190 + advert. leaf; 8 plates of binding styles & various vignette
illustrations in line; very good in green cloth, gilt. £15
267 CAVE, Roderick. Fine Printing And Private Presses. Selected Papers. The British Library, 2001.
FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,267; 69 illustrations and facsimiles; very good in dust-wrapper. 29 essays
reflecting the typographic & geographical range of Cave's writings on fine printing over nearly fifty
years from Boars Head & Brewhouse, through Doves, Gogmagog & Golden Cockerel, to Latin,
Montalk, Pontine, Signet & Zauberberg, among others. From the library of the Author. Published at
£45. £20
268 CHAUNDY, T.W. BARRETT, P.R. & BATEY, Charles. The Printing of Mathematics. Aids for
Authors and Editors and Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford.
1954. FIRST EDITION, pp.x,105; 5 plates & 4 figures in text, many sample settings & specimens
at end; very good in dust-wrapper. £20
269 CLAIR, Colin. A History of European Printing. Academic Press, 1976. FIRST EDITION,
pp.x,526; 91 illustrations & facsimiles; a sound copy in worn (repaired) dust-wrapper of this
detailed chronological overview with useful bibliography & appendices. £18
270 CLOUGH, E.L. A short-title catalogue, arranged geographically, of books printed and
distributed by printers, publishers and booksellers in the English provincial towns and in Scotland
and Ireland up to and including the year 1700. Library Association, 1969 FIRST EDITION, folio;
pp.(4)199; very good in price-clipped dust-wrapper. Excludes items in: Aldis, Scotland before
1700; Dix, Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601-1700; and Madan, Oxford Books [to 1680]; so
Clough's entries for six Scottish towns, Dublin and Oxford to 1680 are supplementary. Cambridge
(34 pp.), Dublin (24pp.), Edinburgh (18 pp.), & Oxford (19 pp) are the principal entries, but c100
other towns & cities are listed. £15
271 COHEN, Henry. Guide de L'Amateur de Livres a Vignettes (et a figures) du XVIIIe Siècle.
Quatrième Edition, revue, corrigée et enrichie de près du double d'articles... Chez P. Rouquette,
Paris, 1880. Lg.8vo., limited to 1003 copies; pp.xvi(296); decorative headpieces & initials; a very
good copy in contemporary half brown morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Auguste Fontaine.
The standard bibliography of 18thC French illustrated books. £110
272 COLAS, René. Bibliographie Général do Costume et de la Mode. Description des suites, recueils,
séries, revues et livres Français et Etrangers relatifs au costume civil, militaire et religieux, aux
modes, aux coiffures et aux divers accessoires de l'habillement... Reprinted by Hacker Art Books,
New York, 1963. 2vols., pp.viii(706)69,iii (index & table methodique); a good copy in original
buckram of this facsimile reprint of the standard bibliography which lists over 3000 books. £85
273 CRUM, Margaret. [Editor.] First-line index of English Poetry 1500-1800 in manuscripts of The
Bodleian Library Oxford. [In two volumes.] Oxford, 1969 FIRST EDITION, folio, 2vol.,
pp.xii,630; (2)(631-)1257; a good set in original blue cloth. £80
274 CUNDALL, H.M. A History of British Water Colour Painting. With a biographical list of
painters. John Murray, 1908. FIRST EDITION, pp.xiv,279; 58 colour plates with captioned guards;
a good copy in original blue cloth, backstrip a little faded & rubbed, top edge gilt, others uncut. £20
275 DAY, Kenneth. [Editor.] Book Typography 1815-1965. In Europe and the United States of
America. Ernest Benn, 1966. First English Edition, revised; pp.xxiv,402; 192 plates; very good in
dust-wrapper. A collection of nine essays with good supporting facsimile illustrations. 'The only
worthwhile general survey of type and book design in the machine-press period.' Gaskell. £20
276 DICKENS. SMITH, Harry B. [Editor]. The Dickens-Kolle letters. Supplemental to the letters
from Charles Dickens to Maria Beadnell. The Bibliophile Society, Boston 1910. FIRST EDITION,
limited to 483 copies for members only; pp.xii,90; engraved title & colophon leaf, etched portrait,
facsimile letter & pencil sketch portrait (here first published); slight spotting on edges but a very
good copy printed on Van Gelder paper, in original half japon & matching slipcase (a litle worn);
top edge gilt, others uncut. £45
277 DOVES PRESS. BAKKER, Stephen A. A proof copy of the first item printed at the Doves Press
1900. Catalogue One. Antiquariaat De Zilverdistel, 1992. 850 copies printed; pp.32; 7 plates, three
in colours showing the broadside, an excerpt from Cobden-Sanderson's essay on bookbinding
which first appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine, May, 1891, and is here reprinted in full.
Very good in printed card, inscribed by Bakker on the front free endpaper. £15
278 FAWCETT, Trevor & PHILLPOT, Clive. The Art Press. Two centuries of Art Magazines. Art
Book Company, 1976. FIRST EDITION, A4 format; pp.(4)63; 9 plates & facsimiles; fine copy in
original printed stiff wrappers. Seven essays covering art journals from the 19thC, Fin de Siècle,
Dada & Surrealism, Illustration & Design, and Periodicals since 1945. Published for the
International Conference on Art Periodicals held at the V. & A. £10
279 FLEISCHMANN, Gerd. Irish Country Posters. Foreword by Hildegard Hamm-Brücher.
Deutsches Plakat Museum, Essen, 1982. FIRST EDITION, pp.224, illustrations throughout, some
in colour; printed laminated card covers; text in English & German. A study of poster printing with
wood types as developed in the 19thC and still surviving in provincial Ireland. We hold the
remaining stock of this book - trade terms available. £10
280 FOLIO SOCIETY. NASH, Paul W. Folio 50. A bibliography of The Folio Society 1947-1996.
The Folio Press, 1997. FIRST EDITION, sm. folio, pp.331; 32 colour plates of illustrations &
bindings and other illustrations throughout; a fine production in decorated cloth & pictorial
slip-case; new. Exemplary bibliography with excellent details & indexes, and essays by Sue
Bradbury, Valerie Grove, Frank Delaney, Robertson Davies, Douglas Martin, Charles Ede, Quentin
Blake, Roderick Cave and the compiler. £25
281 GLAZIER, Richard. A Manual of Historic Ornament. Treating upon the evolution, tradition and
development of architecture and other applied arts. B.T. Batsford, 1899. FIRST EDITION,
pp.viii,136,iv(index),viii(adverts.); 470 line illustrations by the author; a good copy in original blue
cloth, gilt. £20
282 GOGMAGOG. CHAMBERS, David. Gogmagog. Morris Cox and the Gogmagog Press. [With
chapters by] David Chambers, Colin Franklin & Alan Tucker, Private Libraries Association, 1991.
FIRST EDITION limited to 1650 copies (500 for sale); sm.folio, pp.183; 16 colour plates & many
illustrations in line & half-tone; very good in decorated orange silk cloth. A splendid celebration of
the work of Morris Cox which prints his poems, prefaces & letters to Corrie Guyt, with essays on
his work & a detailed bibliography of the Gogmagog Press with commentaries by David Chambers
& Colin Franklin. £20
283 GOLDMAN, Paul. TAYLOR, Brian [Editors] Retrospective Adventures. Forrest Reid: Author
and Collector. Scolar Press... with Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1998. FIRST EDITION, folio,
pp.xii,98; illustrations in line; very good in original pictorial card covers. An interesting catalogue
of 80 items with nine essays including Robin de Beaumont on Reid & the illustrators of the
'Sixties. £10
284 GUTENBERG. RUPPEL, Dr A. Das Grab Gutenbergs. Verlag der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft,
Mainz, 1930. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.37,iv + colophon; 7 maps; a good copy of the 13th
publication of the Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, in original stiff wrappers, paper label. From the library
of Percy Muir. £12
285 HARDIE, Martin. English Coloured Books. With an introduction by James Laver. Fitzhouse
Books, 1990. Lg.8vo., pp.xxiv,340; 28 plates; a fine copy in dust-wrapper of this facsimile reprint
of Hardie's classic study, with a new introduction. Published @ £40. £15
286 HARTHAN, John. Books of Hours and their Owners. Thames and Hudson, 1978. Folio, pp.192;
89 illustrations, 72 in colour; a very good copy in the dust-wrapper. £15
287 HASSALL. CHAMBERS, David. Joan Hassall. Engravings & Drawings. With an introductory
memoir by Joan Hassall and an appreciation of her technique by George Mackley. Private
Libraries Association, 1985. FIRST EDITION, pp.lxii + 158pp. of book illustrations, occasional
blocks & bookplate designs and 2pp. index; fine in original cloth, blocked in gold. An excellent
study listing 91 books illustrated and 42 bookplates. £24
288 HAZELL'S. KEEFE, H.J. A century in print. The story of Hazell's 1839-1939. Hazell Watson &
Viney, 1939. FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.xvi,224; 29 photogravure plates & many illustrations in
line; very good in original cloth. £12
289 HENTY. DARTT, Capt. Robert L. G.A. Henty A Bibliography. John Sherratt and Son, 1971.
FIRST EDITION, pp.xviii,184; frontis. & 12 plates; a very good copy in the dust-wrapper. £25
290 HOBSON, Anthony. Great Libraries. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. FIRST EDITION, lg.4to.,
pp.320; 60 colour & 330 half-tone illustrations; a very good copy in frayed (repaired) dust-wrapper.
Essays on 32 libraries & their treasures. £45
291 HUTT, Allen. Fournier. The Compleat Typographer. Frederick Muller, 1972. FIRST EDITION,
sm.4to., pp.xiv,89; illustrations & type facsimiles throughout; a very good copy in dust-wrapper of
this excellent introduction to the work of Pierre Simon Fournier 'le jeune'. £12
292 ILLUMINATION. BACKHOUSE, Janet. The Illuminated Manuscript. Phaidon, Oxford, 1979.
FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.80; 70 plates, 28 in colour; a very good copy in the dust-wrapper of this
useful introduction. £15
293 ILLUMINATION. PARKES, M.B. The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College Oxford. A
descriptive catalogue with summary descriptions of the Greek and Oriental manuscripts. Scolar
Press, 1979. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.xxii,363(2)table; 16 colour & 176 half-tone plates of
illuminations & bindings; new in original cloth, dust-wrapper & card slip-case. Detailed description
& analysis of 71 Western, 5 Greek & 13 Oriental manuscripts & a number of fragments. Published
at £75 and recently in print at £95, we have purchased the few remaining copies. £35
294 IRISH POSTERS. FLEISCHMANN, Gerd. Irish Country Posters. Foreword by Hildegard
Hamm-Brücher. Deutsches Plakat Museum, Essen, 1982. FIRST EDITION, pp.224, illustrations
throughout, some in colour; printed laminated card covers; text in English & German. A study of
poster printing with wood types as developed in the 19thC and still surviving in provincial Ireland.
We hold the remaining stock of this book - trade terms available. £10
295 JAMES, Philip. Children's Books of Yesterday. Edited by C. Geoffrey Holme. Studio Ltd., 1933.
FIRST EDITION, folio, pp.128; 8 colour & numerous half-tone illustrations; a very good copy in
lightly soiled original wrappers, backstrip defective. £25
296 JONES, Herbert. Type in Action. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1938. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.105;
79 illus. & sample settings in line & half-tone; very good in slightly frayed dust-wrapper. £12
297 KEENE. HUDSON, Derek. Charles Keene. Pleiades Books, 1947. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.56;
3 tipped-in colour plates, 8 text illustrations & 54 monochrome plates; a good copy in slightly
marked original cloth. £15
298 KELMSCOTT PRESS. PETERSON, William S. The Kelmscott Press. A History of William
Morris's Typographical Adventure. University of California Press, 1991. FIRST EDITION, 4to.,
pp.xiv,372; 97 illustrations & facsimiles in line and half-tone; very good in dust-wrapper; review
slip & invoice laid in. An important account by the Morris scholar which draws on a wide range of
unpublished letters and diaries. With three appendicesThe first book-length account of the press to
be published since 1924. Extensively illustrated and handsomely printed. Three appendices
comprise: A Checklist of the Kelmscott Press books; Emery Walker's 1888 Lecture 'Letterpress
Printing & Illustration'; and Kelmscot Press Expenses. £55
299 KING, A. Hyatt. Some British Collectors of Music c1600-1960. [The Sandars Lectures for 1961.]
Cambridge, 1963. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xvi,178; 8 plates; a very good copy in slightly
frayed dust-wrapper. SANDARS LECTURES. £18
300 LAMB, C.M. [Editor] The Calligrapher's Handbook. Essays by Fairbank, Cockerell, Wolpe [&
eight others] Faber & Faber, 1956. FIRST EDITION, pp.252; 50 plates & 52 text figures; a very
good copy in the dust-wrapper. £10
301 LAMB, Lynton. Lynton Lamb. Illustrator. A selection of his work arranged and introduced by
George Mackie. Scolar Press, 1978. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xxxii,104; illustrations
throughout in various media, some in colour; very good in lightly rubbed pictorial dust-wrapper.
Best known for his book illustration in line & lithograph, Lamb also studied bookbinding with
Douglas Cockerell. Mackie's assessment is followed by over 150 examples of Lamb's drawings,
lithographs, engravings and dust jacket designs, some in several colors, and checklists of his work.
Ex libris Roderick Cave. £12
302 LE BRUN, Nicolas Contat. Anecdotes Typographiques...[1762] with DUFRESNE. La Misere des
Apprentis Imprimeurs. [1710]. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Giles Barber. Oxford
Bibliographical Society, 1980. Pp.viii,163; 6 plates, facsimile decorations & vignettes in text; a
very good copy in original holland-backed boards. £18
303 LEWIS, John. A Handbook of Type and Illustration. With notes on certain graphic processes and
the production of illustrated books. Faber, 1956. FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,203; illustrations in
colour throughout by Bawden, Gentleman, Ardizzone, Minton & others; a good copy of this
splendid book produced by Cowells whose lithographic work is showcased within. Original
decorated cloth; backstrip faded, extremities a little rubbed but sound; ownership signature of
Roderick Cave who has obliterated an earlier signature on endpaper. £18
304 LEWIS, John. Printed ephemera. The changing uses of types and letterforms in English and
American printing. Faber, 1969. 4to., pp.128; illustrations & facsimiles throughout in various
single colours; a very good copy of the selected paperback edition of Lewis's classic study. £10
305 [LEWIS, Walter] An Exhibition of Printing at the Fitzwilliam Museum. [for the Gutenberg
Quincentenary] 6 May to 23 June 1940. Cambridge at The University Press, 1940. FIRST
EDITION, pp.xii,136(6); original printed wrappers slightly soiled & rubbed but well preserved;
review slip laid in. The precursor to Printing & the Mind of Man: 641 exhibits from '1439' to 1939
were assembled but sadly not shown. 'As the catalogue goes to press, it has been reluctantly decided
to close the Exhibition, owing to the increased danger of damage from air-raids.' £15
306 LINDLEY, Kenneth. The Woodblock Engravers. David & Charles, 1970. FIRST EDITION,
pp.127; illustrations in sepia throughout; a very good copy in original cloth & dust-wrapper.
Includes chapters on Bewick & his successors, with much on technique & block-making. £12
307 MADAN, Falconer. Books in manuscript. A short introduction to their study and use. Second
edition, revised. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1920 Pp.xvi,208; 8 plates; a good copy in
original cloth, paper label (slightly rubbed). £20
308 MCLEAN, Ruari [Curator] The Art of the Letter. [Catalogue of an exhibition at the] Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art, 1970. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.36; illustrations & facsimile
throughout; a very good copy in pictorial card covers; from the library of Ruari McLean who
organized the exhibition and wrote the catalogue with Fianach Jardine. £12
309 MCLEAN, Ruari. Joseph Cundall, a Victorian publisher. Notes on his life and a check-list of his
books. Private Libraries Assoc., 1976. FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.viii,96; profusely illustrated
some in colour. A very good copy in frayed dust-wrapper. £10
310 MERGENTHALER. MENGEL, Willi. Ottmar Mergenthaler and the printing revolution. With
an introduction by Lin Yutang. Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, 1954. FIRST
EDITION, pp.63; colour frontispiece & line illustrations throughout; a very good copy in original
vellum-backed decorated boards, printed presentation slip laid in. Issued to commemorate the
centenary of Mergenthaler's birth. £15
311 MINET, Paul. Late booking. My first twenty-five years in the secondhand book trade. Frantic
Press, 1989. FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)199; 9 plates, new in dust-wrapper. Entertaining, informative
& provocative in more or less equal measure. £12
312 MONOTYPE CORPORATION. The 'Monotype' Keyboard Operator's Manual. Monotype
Corporation, 1950. FIRST EDITION, pp.(12)204; illustrations in line & half-tone; very good in
original cloth & lightly browned dust-wrapper. £15
313 MORAN, James. Henry George. Printer, bookseller, stationer and bookbinder. Westerham
1830-c.1846. An essay by James Moran with illustrations by Thomas Streatfield and George
Cruikshank. Westerham Press, 1972. FIRST EDITION, pp.55 + 12pp. of facsimiles of George's
publications including The Old Oak Chair illustrated by Cruikshank & the Westerham Journal.
Very good in original brown cloth, paper label. An interesting account of various aspects of the
book trade including a chapter on George's purchases at the Strawberry Hill sale of 1842. £10
314 MORAN, James. Stanley Morison. His typographic achievement. Visual Communication Books,
New York, 1971. FIRST EDITION, sm.folio, pp.184; well illustrated in line & half-tone throughout
including many facsimiles, some in colour; very good in original boards, frayed dust-wrapper. £10
315 MORISON, Stanley. Early Italian Writing-Books. Renaissance to Baroque. Edited by Nicolas
Barker. David Godine, Boston, 1990. FIRST EDITION; pp.219 + colophon; 21 plates & folding
table; a fine copy in original cloth & dust-wrapper; printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona.
Morison's last major work was left in manuscript at his death and is here published for the first
time. £24
316 MORISON, Stanley. First Principles of Typography. Cambridge University Press, 1936. Second
impression (same year as first); 12mo., pp.(6)29; a good copy in lightly soiled original cloth-edged
printed boards & frayed printed glacine wrapper. 'The clearest and most closely-reasoned
exposition of the subject that I know,' Bruce Rogers. £15
317 MORISON, Stanley. Four centuries of fine printing. 192 facsimiles of pages from books printed
at presses established between 1465 and 1924. With an historical introduction. New edition.
Ernest Benn, 1960 Fourth edition, revised; pp.254; 192 plates; very good in dust-wrapper. £18
318 MORISON. Stanley Morison 1889-1967. A radio portrait compiled by Nicolas Barker & Douglas
Cleverdon from recollections by T.F. Burns, John Carter, Arthur Crook, Brooke Crutchley,
Francis Meynell, Graham Pollard, Janet & Reynolds Stone, Beatrice Warde. W.S. Cowell Ltd.,
Ipswich, 1968. FIRST EDITION limited to 800 copies; pp.38, frontispiece; a very good copy in
original cloth. £10
319 NASH, John. Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings. Royal Academy of Arts, 1967. Pp.xvi,32;
frontispiece portrait; original pictorial card covers. 11pp. essay by Frederick Gore; 263 pieces
catalogued. £8
320 PAPER. BALSTON, Thomas. William Balston paper maker 1759-1849. Methuen & Co., 1954
FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,172; 14 plates & illustrations in text; printed on Balston's Whatman
hand-made paper; a very good copy in spotted dust-wrapper,uncut, some cockling of cloth on lower
cover. Inscribed by the author 'To John N. M[avrogordato] most patient adviser and perfect
proof-reader...Tom B. Feb. 1955,' The recipient was Oxford Professor of Byzantine & Modern
Greek. £55
321 PAPER. HUNTER, Dard. My Life with Paper. An Autobiography. Knopf, New York, 1958.
FIRST EDITION, pp.xiv,237,x; 58 illustrations including two tipped-in paper samples; original
cloth lightly rubbed but sound. Roderick Cave's copy with leaf of his ms. notes laid in. £25
322 PAPER. SOTERIOU, Alexandra. Gift of Conquerors. Hand papermaking in India. Mapin
Publishing [India, Grantha Corp., USA] 1999. Oblong folio (260 x 295mm), pp.246; signed by
author on dedication page & laid in letter on handmade jute paper; 218 illustrations in colour &
map; a lavishly produced study of the history & modern production of an astonishing variety of
papers; as new in dust-wrapper and cloth-backed fancy paper clamshell box. £70
323 PAPER. TURNER, Silvie & SKIOLD, Birgit. Handmade Paper Today. A worldwide survey of
mills, papers, techniques and uses. Lund Humphries, 1983. FIRST EDITION, sm.folio, pp.280;
line & half-tone illustrations throughout; very good in original cloth & dust-wrapper. An excellent
account of great range & detail. £28
324 PAPER. WILSON, Neill C. [Editor] Deep Roots. The history of Blake, Moffitt & Towne pioneers
in paper since 1855. With decorations by Mallette Dean. Privately Printed, San Francisco, 1955.
FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., (12)112; illustrations and facsimiles thoughout; a very good copy of this
handsome account in original cloth; printed on a new paper, Strathmore Impress, 'the first
consignment from the mill to be used in a book'. £25
326 PENGUIN BOOKS. BLAKE, Quentin, GENTLEMAN, David [& others] Penguin by
Illustrators. With an introduction by Phil Baines. [Essays by Dennis Bailey, Romek Marber, Jan
Pienkowski, Tony Lyons and Jon Gray, and two further chapters by Quentin Blake and David
Gentleman. Edited by Steve Hare.] Penguin Collectors Society, 2009 FIRST EDITION,
lg.landscape format, pp.197; coloured illustrations in half-tone & line throughout; new in pictorial
card covers. Essays by five of the great Penguin designers and additional chapters by Quentin
Blake and David Gentleman. A further 27 artists contribute short essays on particular books or
short series they illustrated for Penguin. £30
327 PENGUIN BOOKS. PEARSON, Joe. Drawn Direct to the Plate. Noel Carrington and the Puffin
Picture Books. Penguin Collectors Society, 2010. FIRST EDITION, large landscape format (19.5 x
26cms), pp.216; 380 illustrations, the majority in colour; new in pictorial card copvers. A
comprehensive survey of Carrington's celebrated series, placed in the context of its lithographic
precursors, principally Russian and French children’s books, and others published by Country Life.
It also covers many of the Puffin Picture Books’ wartime rivals, such as Transatlantic Arts and
Bantam Picture Books, as well as other works by many of the Puffin illustrators. Baby Puffins,
Puffin Cut-out Books and Carrington’s later Harlequin Books are also examined in detail. Pearson
concludes with a section on Carrington and the Art of Lithography with an extended selection of
Carrington’s own writings. £30
328 PEPYS, Samuel. WILSON, Edward M. & CRUIKSHANK, Don W. Samuel Pepys's Spanish
Plays. The Bibliographical Society, 1980. FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)196; various facsimiles &
illustrations in text; fine in original cloth. £8
329 PISSARRO, Lucien. PERKINS, Geoffrey. The Gentle Art. A Collection of Books and Wood
Engravings by Lucien Pissarro. L'Art Ancien, Zurich, 1974. FIRST EDITION, 350 copies, pp.55;
illustrations & decorations in line throughout; a very good copy of this excellent catalogue of a
wonderful collection, includes Ricketts' file copies of many Eragny Press titles; original boards,
paper label. £25
330 PORTER, Catherine. Collecting Books. Miller's, 1995. FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.192; colour
illustrations throughout; very good in dust-wrapper. Excellent introduction arranged by subject with
contributions from specialist dealers & collectors including: Early Printed Books, Literature, Fine
Printing, Bindings, Children's & Illustrated, Natural History, Travel, Science, Cookery, &c. £12
331 RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. TARLING, Alan. Will Carter, Printer. An illustrated study. The
Galahad Press, 1968. FIRST EDITION, one of '20 additional copies printed out of series for
presentation to Will Carter'; 4to., pp.46 + colophon; 3 half-tone plates and specimens of printing in
various colours throughout; a very good copy, specially bound for presentation in full buckram,
gilt, and slip-case; backstrip uniformly faded. We can also offer the ring-backed version at £15. £30
332 REINER, Imre. Modern and Historical Typography. An illustrated guide. Zollikofer & Co., St.
Gall, Switzerland, 1946. First English Edition, sm.4to., pp.(127); printed in red & black with
facsimile illustrations throughout; a very good copy in original printed boards and slightly frayed
dust-wrapper. Arranged in 13 sections to include; title-pages, trade cards, type ornaments,
bookplates, Bewick, &c. £20
333 RICKETTS, Charles. A Defence of the Revival of Printing. [Vale Press, 1899. Now reprinted in
facsimile by] Battery Park Book Company, New York, 1978. Pp.(2)37(3); woodcut borders &
initials; a very good copy of this useful facsimile in original cloth. £15
334 RUMMONDS, Richard-Gabriel. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress.
With selected readings. Foreword by Stephen O. Saxe. [In two volumes] Oak Knoll Press & The
British Library, 2004. FIRST EDITION, 2vol., sm.4to., pp.xxxviii,482; lviii,(483-)1051; 480
illustrations; new in dust-wrapper. A remarkable account of printing techniques derived from the
study of printers' manuals from Moxon's Mechanick Exercises (1683) to Southward's Practical
Printing of 1900. 'Rummonds has distilled a half-millenium's worth of printer's wisdom into one
well-written and incredibly researched masterpiece.' John Lewis. £85
335 SEDDON, Laura. Victorian Valentines. A Guide to the Laura Seddon Collection of Valentine
Cards in Manchester Metropolitan University Library, 1996. FIRST EDITION, A4, pp.viii,20; 37
items illustrated in colour & 12 in half-tone; fine in pictorial coloured wrappers. Some 400 items
described & categorised with an introductory note. £8
336 SHAW, Graham. Printing in Calcutta to 1800. A description and checklist of printing in late
18th-century Calcutta. The Bibliographical Society, 1981. FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,249; 8
facsimile plates; a fine copy in original cloth. £8
337 SHIPCOTT, Grant. Typographical Periodicals between the wars. A critique of The Fleuron,
Signature and Typography. Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1980. FIRST EDITION, no.51 of 100
hardback copies; lg.8vo., pp.xvi,112; frontis. & 50 facsimile pages; very good in dust-wrapper.
Comparative study with useful appendices listing full contents of the periodicals studied. £25
338 SIMON, Oliver. Printer and Playground. An Autobiography. Faber & Faber, 1956. FIRST
EDITION, pp.xvi,156; 38 illustrations & 4 collotype plates which were omitted from the remainder
issue; a very good copy in original cloth & slightly rubbed dust-wrapper. £20
339 STERNE, Harold E. A Catalogue of Nineteenth Century Printing Presses. Oak Knoll Press & The
British Library, 2001. Second Edition, revised & expanded; folio, pp.xii,258; facsimile illustrations
throughout; new in original cloth & dust-wrapper; published at £48. £28
340 STONE, Herbert Stuart. First Editions of American Authors. A Manual for Book-Lovers... with
an Introduction by Eugene Field. Stone & Kimball, Cambridge, Mass. 1893. FIRST EDITION,
12mo., pp.xxiv,223 + colophon; title in red & black; a nice copy of this attractive production in
original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut; head & tail of backstrip rubbed; ex libris
Alban and Austin Dobson. £40
341 SULLIVAN. THORPE, James. E[dmund] J. Sullivan. Art & Technics, 1948. FIRST EDITION,
sm.4to., pp.95; illustrations in line throughout; a good copy in worn dust-wrapper of this useful
monograph with check-list in the English masters of Black & White series. £12
342 SYMONS. CARROLL. LEHMANN-HAUPT, Dr. H. Lewis Carroll 1832-1932 Zum 100.
Geburtstag. Gedruckt von der Offizin Haag-Drugulin AG in Leipzig als Beilage fur das
Philobiblon... verlag Herbert Reichner, Wien, 1932. FIRST EDITION, pp.16; 18 plates &
facsimiles; very good in stiff wrappers, paper label. £15
343 TALLMAN, Susan. The Contemporary Print from Pre-Pop to Postmodern. Thames and Hudson,
1996. FIRST UK EDITION, 4to., pp.304; 334 illustrations, 161 in colour; a very good copy in the
dust-wrapper. £120
344 TRACY, Walter. The Typographic Scene. Gordon Fraser, 1988. FIRST EDITION, pp.94(2)index;
facsimiles & type specimens throughout; fine copy in dust-wrapper. Essays on design &
typography and studies of several of the most influential figures of the century including De Vinne,
Updike, Morison, Gill, Warde & Tschichold. £10
345 TSCHICHOLD, Jan. The New Typography. A handbook for modern designers. Translated by
Ruari McLean. With an introduction by Robin Kinross. University of California Press, 1995.
FIRST EDITION of this translation, pp.xliv,236; illustrations & facsimiles in red & black
throughout; a very good copy in the dust-wrapper; from the collection of the translator. £25
346 TSCHICHOLD. HOCHULI, Jost. [Editor] Jan Tschichold. Typograph und Schriftentwerfer
1902-1974. Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, 1976. FIRST EDITION, pp.78; many illustrations &
facsimiles printed in red & black; original printed wrappers slightly soiled but a good copy of this
important catalogue, planned & selected by Max Caflisch, Jost Hochuli and Rudolf Hostettler. £15
347 TSCHICHOLD. MCLEAN, Ruari. Jan Tschichold. A Life in Typography. Lund Humphries
1997. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.128; illustrations & facsimiles throughout, some in colour; a very
good copy in original laminated card covers. £25
348 WALES, Geoffrey. CHAPMAN, Hilary. Geoffrey Wales. Contemporary British Wood
Engravers. Series Editor: Simon Brett. Primrose Hill Press, Oak Knoll Press, 1998. FIRST
EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xvi,131; 18 illustrations & 45 full-page plates of Wales' work; new in
original pictorial card covers. £15
349 WANLEY, Humfrey. The Diary of Humfry Wanley 1715-1726. Edited by C.E. & Ruth C. Wright.
In two volumes. Bibliographical Society, 1966. FIRST EDITION, 2vol., pp.xcvi,518; a fine set in
original cloth & glacine wrappers. The first full printing of the Journal of the Library-Keeper of
Robert Harley. 'It records the visits of booksellers and negotiations with them; lists of mss. &
printed books offered for sale, purchased or received by gift; conversations with various people
about library business; the visits of scholars and others to the library, &c.' £18
350 WARDE, Frederic. Bruce Rogers Designer of Books. With a list of the books printed under Mr
Rogers' supervision. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1925. FIRST EDITION, pp.(6)78 + 15
illustrations & facsimile pages; a good copy in original cloth, paper label, uncut. £30
351 WATERMARKS. HERDEG, Walter. Editor. Art in the Watermark. Introduction by Armin
Renker. Amstutz & Herdeg, Zurich, 1952. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.103 + colophon; 363 marks
illustrated & described; original cloth a little worn at one corner, tape marks on endpapers, but
sound. Text in English, French & German. £20
352 WEST, Nathaniel. WHITE, William. Nathaniel West. A Comprehensive Bibliography. Kent State
University Press, 1975. FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,209(3)adverts.; frontispiece & 4 plates; fine in
original cloth. Detailed dscriptions of books, plays (unpublished), movies & unpublished stories.
Also includes 60pp. of uncollected writings here printed in book form for the first time. £15
353 WILLIAMS, George Walton. The Craft of Printing and the Publication of Shakespeare's Works.
Folger Books, Washington, 1985. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.103; frontispiece & 35 facsimile
plates; a very good copy in pictorial dust-wrapper. £15
354 WILLIAMS, Iolo A. Seven XVIIIth Century Bibliographies. John Armstrong, William Shenstone,
Mark Akenside, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Churchill, Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Dulau & Co., 1924. FIRST EDITION, pp.244; a good copy in original cloth, top edge gilt, others
uncut, minor rubbing at extremities; card of David's Cambridge bookstall tipped-in at front. With
an essay to accompany each bibliography. £25
355 WILLIAMSON, Hugh. Methods of Book Design. The practice of an industrial craft. Oxford,
1956. FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.xvi,430; 87 plates & figures in text; a very good copy in
dust-wrapper of this excellent study. £15
356 ZAPF, Hermann. Typographic Variations designed by Hermann Zapf on themes in contemporary
book design and typography in 78 book- and title-pages. With prefaces written by Paul Standard...
G.K. Schauer... and Charles Peignot... together with commentary notes and specifications. The
Myriade Press, New Rochelle, N.Y., 1978 Pp.(2)vi, 78 specimen leaves (6) index & colophon; a
good copy of this uncommon edition in lightly edge-rubbed original card covers. Originally
published 1964 in a limited edition folio. £30
357 ZAPF. STANDARD, Paul [Compiler] Hermann Zapf calligrapher, type-designer and
typographer. [With an introduction by Noel Martin] An exhibition arranged... by The
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 1960. FIRST EDITION, 12mo., pp.(62); various facsimile
illustrations in black & red; 170 items & check-list of Zapf's type designs & publications; a very
good copy in original wrappers, paper label; printed by Stempel in Frankfurt. £15