A COUNTRYMAN'S CALENDAR, Sayings for the months.
Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, 1927. 31p. Illustrated with 17 wood engravings, including vignettes. Bound in quarter canvas over black boards with title in silver on upper cover. More
Private Presses
A GERMAN IDYLL.
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, (1932). No. 307 of 307 copies signed by H. E. Bates. 8vo. (iv), 40p. Illustrated with nine wood engravings by Lynton Lamb, the frontispiece and title full page, the others around and within the text. Bound by Sangorski & Stucliffe in gilt-titled quarter red leather..... More
WOOD ENGRAVING.
Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, 1920. 50 copies. First Edition. (iv), viii, 40p. Introduction and Appendix by Eric Gill. Illustrated with 32 wood engravings mostly by Eric Gill, 2 by Desmond Chute. Bound in original untitled quarter linen spine over printed brown boards. Gill No. 410. More
GREGYNOG POETS.
Newton, Wales: 1987-1990. No. 122 of 400 sets. Complete set of 12 booklets each containing one poem with an accompanying wood engraving. Each hand sewn in card cover with printed wrappers in various colors. Housed in a tan solander box with paper spine label and gilt design wrapping around the..... More
BENCH, SAW & PLANE, A Cotswold Apprenticeship.
Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, (1988). 300 copies signed by Frank Berry. (vi) 21p. Illustrated from tipped-in photos. Bound in string-tied printed wrappers. Whittington 96. More
NEBUCHADNEZZAR and the story of the Fiery Furnace.
Stand on the Green: The Fulcrum Press, [1929[. No. 165 of 220 copies. 12mo. Unpaged. 8 pages including the title and colophon. Illustrated with wood engravings by Lynton Lamb. Bound in pattern paper boards with paper cover label;. Ridler p. 129, no. 1. More
THE BOOK OF AHANIA.
London: Trianon Press, 1973. First edition thus, limited to 808 copies on Arches paper. Folio. Color facsimile reproduction of the illuminated pages by the collotype and stencil process. Gilt-titled morocco spine with marbled boards. More
WILLIAM BLAKE'S WATER-COLOURS ILLUSTRATING THE POEMS OF THOMAS GRAY.
Chicago: J. Philip O'Hara in association with the Trianon Press, Paris, 1972. First trade edition. 4to. A facsimile in black and white with 16 pages reproduced in full color. Gilt-titled blue cloth. Introduction and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. More
THE WILLOW DALE PRESS 1879:
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1975. 1 of 70 copies with an original issue of the press in an envelope inside the back cover - this with Vol. 1, No. 6. (Total edition 132 copies). 19p, colophon. Illustrated. Bound in gilt-titled quarter black cloth over pale green illustrated boards. More
A SUMMER'S FANCY.
London: The Beaumont Press, 1930. No. 321 of 324 copies. Twenty-fifth book of the press. 54p. The cover, title-page, wood cut illustrations and decorations designed by Randolph Schwabe. Typography and binding arranged and the book produced by Cyril William Beaumont. Bound in gilt-titled quarter linen over marbled boards. More
A POSY OF WILD FLOWERS, Gathered in the Countryside of English Literature and Furnished with appropriate Sentiments.
London and Somerset: Acorn Press and Exmoor Press, (1983). New revised edition. No. 181 of 350 copies signed by the author. 126p, colophon. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Bound in full linen cloth with paper spine and cover labels. More
THE BOOK OF TOBIT FROM THE APOCRYPHA.
Middlesex: The Raven Press, 1931. Limited to 274 copies, this no. 135. 8vo. 34p. Illustrated by Horace Walter Bray with wood-engravings, five full-page in black and tan, and many head- and tail-pieces and initials in multi colors. Bound in quarter vellum over marbled boards, t.e.g., gilt spine titles and gilt..... More
FOUR POEMS FOR CHRISTMAS.
Oxfordshire: Paulinus Press, 1986. No. 27 of 50 copies signed by the author and engraver, and with an extra suite of the three proofs signed in pencil by the engraver (total 250 copies). Unpaged. 10 leaves, including half-title, title and colophon. Illustrated with wood engravings by Simon Brett. Bound with..... More
THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART, THE CRANACH PRESS OF COUNT HARRY KESSLER.
Laubach and Berlin and Williamstown: Triton Verlag, Laubach and Berlin & Williams College, 2005. Second edition in English. Quarto. 453p + colophon. Printed in red and black and fully illustrated in color throughout. Bound in gilt-titled red fabric and housed in black paper-covered slipcase. A beautifully produced volume that includes..... More
STATELY PROGRESS, A TALE OF DUCAL PPROFLIGACY & PROVIDENCE.
New York: Grenfell Press, (1980). No. 14 of 111 copies. Printed in black with occasional red, green, and gilt on hand-made Japanese etching paper and bound by Beverly Miller of the Mindora Bindery. Illustrated by S. W. Brooke with 14 drawings, one on each verso. 8vo. Pattern cloth with paper..... More
ON DREAMS.
London: Alexander Moring Limited, The De La More Press, n.d. (1919/20). No. 1 of 21 copies on real vellum. 14p. Frontispiece and decorations by I. and B. Lockyer. Bound in quarter green morocco over marbled boards with gilt title on upper cover. Number II in the Saint George Series. Ridler..... More
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash for William Andrews Clark, 1927. Limited to 250 copies (this no. 126). Folio and 12mo volumes in slipcase. Frontispiece portrait in dry-point by William Wilke after a bas-relief by Helen Hall Culver. Ornamental borders around frontispiece and title page. Folio volume in gilt-titled vellum spine..... More
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
London: The Cresset Press, 1928. Limited to 195 copies (copy no167) on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. Two volumes. Folio. (viii), 174p, colophon; (viii), 162p, colophon. Illustrated with ten brilliant wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton (6) and Gertrude Hermes (4). Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in black dyed vellum with titles..... More
TWELVE POEMS.
Bath: The Old School Press, 1994. Nol 33 of 135 copies signed by author and artist. Folio. Unpaged. Half-title, title with engraving + 12 leaves with engravings on the rectos with poem facing, colophon. Test by Burnett, engravings by Tournour. The small engravings and texts are printed in very small..... More
VINES.
Oxfordshire: The Rocket Press, 1984. No. 6 of 50 hardbound copies with additional signed prints (total edition 200). Unpaged. 10 leaves, including the colophon. Hand-set in Bell type on Zerkall mould-made paper. Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith with two full-page prints of engravings. Bound in quarter brown cloth over marbled..... More
VINES.
Oxfordshire: The Rocket Press, 1984. No. 51 of 150 copies in wrappers (total edition 200). Unpaged. 10 leaves, including the colophon. Hand-set in Bell type on Zerkall mould-made paper. Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith with two full-page prints of engravings. Bound in sewn wrappers of marbled paper with paper cover..... More
TAM O' SHANTER, A TALE BY ROBERT BURNS.
Surrey: The Samson Press, (1934). No. 24 of 230 copies. (i), 13p. Illustrated with wood engravings by Iain Macnab. Bound in black quarter cloth over paper-covered boards in green and black from a linocut by Macnab, paper spine label, t.e.g. More
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Limited to 750 copies, this no. 749. Two volumes. Folio. xv [i], 299p, [v]; [viii], 301-588, [viii]. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Gilt-titled parchment vellum spines with Italian pattern paper sides. Printed by the Westminster Press on Dutch cream laid paper with the Nonesuch watermark. "Kauffer's..... More
BUTLERIANA SB.
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1932. First printing, limited to 800 copies, this no. 2. 8vo. xvi, 172p. Gilt-titled leather spine with marbled boards. Dreyfus 84. More
THE GALLIC WARS.
Verona: The Officina Bodoni for The Limited Editions Club, 1954. Limited to 1500 copies signed by Giovanni Mardersteig and Bruno Bramanti, this no. 513. xxvii, 228p. Illustrated with engravings by Bruno Bramanti. 4to. Gilt-titled tan cloth spine with pattern paper boards. Translated by John Warrington. More