Private Presses
SANDY MACPHERSON BOOK COLLECTOR.
Council Bluffs, IA: The Yellow Barn Press, 1998. No. 52 of 150 copies. Unpaged. 25p. Printed on Rives paper and illustrated with linocuts by Bill Jackson. Bound in quarter brown cloth over marbled paper boards,paper spine label. More
PARVUS.
[Oldham, UK: Incline Press, 2000. No. 50 of 200 copies. 65p. Written and illustrated by Ljungberg with 45 wood engravings, all but a few printed from the original wood blocks, printed in 6 different blacks. With a tipped-in frontispiece signed in pencil by the artist. Translated unto English by Rosemary..... More
MY ROD MY COMFORT.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1949. No. 135 of 550 copies printed on a hand press on paper hand made by Hodglinson of Wells. The binding is by Evans of Croydon. Quarto. [vi], 75p. Colophon. Illustrated with full-page wood engravings by J. Gaastra. Bound in quarter vellum over green cloth with..... More
ALLOTMENTS.
Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, (1985). First edition. No. 171 0f 335 copies signed by artist and author. Oblong quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated by Miriam Macgregor with forty-one vignette and full-page wood engravings. Bound in quarter brown cloth over boards with repeating pattern from Macgregor's designs, paper spine label. Housed in brown..... More
DIARY OF AN APPLE TREE.
Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, (1997). No. 182 of 300 copies bound in pattern paper boards (of a total edition of 385). Square quarto. Unpaged, two pages text. Illustrated by Miriam Macgregor with 13 full-page wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound at The Fine Bindery. Housed in original slipcase..... More
WHITTINGTON, ASPECTS OF A COTSWOLD VILLAGE.
Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, (1991). No. 135 of of 350 copies bound in paper with a design by the artist (of a total edition of 350). Signed by Macgregor. Imperial 8vo. Unpaged [44p]. Illustrated by Miriam Macgregor with 34 wood engravings (one in four colors) and a line block reproduction..... More
THE DECORATIVE PAINTINGS IN CHRIST'S HOSPITAL CHAPEL 1913 - 1923.
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, (1925). Written and illustrated by Macklin and Rigby. Oblong quarto. (22) pp. With five illustrations after Frank Brangwyn's paintings, each with title and text facing. Bound in quarter white linen over blue paper covered printed boards. Taylor & Sewell A134. More
TWENTY-THREE WOOD-ENGRAVINGS FOR THE SONG OF THE FOREST.
Gwent: The Old Stile Press, (1987). No. 53 of 160 copies. Small 8vo. Unpaged, but frontispiece and one leaf for each of the 23 wood engravings plus a leaf of "interlude". Bound in quarter cloth over marbled paper boards, paper spine label. More
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[A BOOK ON] VEGETABLE DYES.
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1931. Fifth edition. 12mo. (vi) 89p. (vi, ads., one with actual cloth sample). Illustrated with head- and tail-pieces, 2 engraved devices and 5 late eighteenth-century wood engravings. Bound in quarter black linen over patterned paper boards. Taylor & Sewell A1d. More
TIMING DEVICES.
Boston: Godine, (1979). First Trade edition. Tall 8vo. Illustrated with five wood engravings by Barry Moser (without the single, folding five-panel reprise in the limited edition). Red cloth with gilt spine title and cover title in blind. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Mariani on title page. More
PATRIARCH TREE, THIRTY POEMS BY RAISSA MARITAIN.
Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1965. No. 352 of 500 copies. Quarto. xvii, (v), 81p (v). Preface by Robert Speaight. Translated into English by A Benedictine of Stanbrook. Text in French on the versos and in English on the rectos. Tipped-in portrait lithographed after a photo. Title and devices by Margaret..... More
BEACHCOMBING.
Omaha: The Yellow Barn Press, 1981. No. 131 of 150 copies. 31p. Printed on Rives paper. Bound in full white cloth with paper spine label. More
GOD'S BOOK AND OTHER POEMS.
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1930. No. 79 of 480 copies. Frontispiece (vi) 39p. Illustrated with three wood engravings by Thomas Derrick and Eric Gill's engraved press device on title page. Bound in gilt-titled quarter black cloth over purple paper-covered boards. Taylor and Sewell, A188. More
GEOFFREY CHAUCER, A Study in Genius & Ethics.
Ditchling: Pepler and Sewell, Saint Dominic's Press, 1934. No. 267 of 300 copies on Head's Hand-made paper. (Stones from the Brook: No. 1.). [44p]. Small title engraving by Philip Hagreen. Bound in brown quarter cloth over green paper-covered boards titled in black. Taylor and Sewell, A234. More
LETTERS OF GEROGE MEREDITH TO ALICE MEYNELL WITH ANNOTATIONS THERETO 1896-1907.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Limited to 850 copies. 102p. Gilt-titled cloth over boards. The second book of the Nonesuch Press. Dreyfus #2. More
SEVENTEEN POEMS.
New York: Nonesuch Press, 1945. Limited to 1000 copies. 29p. Gilt-titled red cloth. Dreyfus 116c. More
PARADISE LOST, A Poem in Twelve Books, and PARADISE REGAIN'D, A Poem in Four Books.
London: The Cresset Press, 1931. No. 134 of 195 copies (both volumes). Two volumes. Folio (14 5/8"). xii, 442p, colophon; vi, 88p, colophon. Illustrated with 20 wood engravings, including head- and tail-pieces, by D. Galanis. Title-page and initial letters designed by Anna Simons. Printed by Bernard H. Newdigate at the..... More
THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON,
Boston: R.H. Hinkley Company. Limited to 550 copies printed on hand-made paper printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press (this no. 21), [1908]. Four volumes. Illustrated with title-page design, borders, head- and tailpieces, and colophon decorations by W.A. Dwiggins printed in red. The 16 illustrations were adapted from Flaxman..... More
MONCRIF'S CATS.
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1961. No. 255 of 400 copies. 187p. Illustrated with collotype reproductions of 10 etchings by T. Otten after designs by Coypel. Translated by Reginald Bretnor. Bound in blue cloth with red cloth panels gilt. "Les Chats, a collection of eleven letters and the poems on cats..... More
A COMMUNICATION TO MY FRIENDS.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1933. Limited to 1000 copies. 86p. 8vo. Gilt-titled leather spine over paper-covered boards. Dreyfus 87. More
PURE POETRY, AN ANTHOLOGY.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1924. Limited to 1250 copies. Tall 8vo. Quarter parchment with gray boards in Japon vellum d.j. Dreyfus 16. More
THE XII PROPERTEES OR CONDICYONS OF A LOVER, by Johan Picus, Erle of Myrandula, a grete Lord of Italy, expressed in Balade by Sir Thomas More Knyghte Sometime Lo. Chancellour of England.
Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, 1928. No. 211 of 250 copies on Batchelor hand made paper. Quarto. (vi), 15 leaves printed on rectos only, colophon. Bound in original linen boards with paper cover label. More
OUR WEEKEND WITH OAK KNOLL.
Newton, MA: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. Unpaged. Printed in red and black, Illustrated with tipped-in photo, a keepsake in a pocket, a folding reprint of a piece printed by the Incline Press for the occasion, and tipped-in photos of $5.00 bills in the rear. Bound in full red cloth..... More
THE SMILE OF THE SPHINX.
London: The Beaumont Press, (1920). No. 76 of 260 copies. This signed by the author. Eleventh book of the press. 58p. The cover and wood cut decorations by Ethelbert White, the title page and endpapers in three colors. Typography and binding arranged by Cyril William Beaumont. Bound in gilt-titled quarter..... More