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MULHOLLAND John
Victoria Cross Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The standard bibliography. Lists books relating to the VC and books written by recipients.
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BROCKMAN H.A.N.
The Caliph of Fonthill. [With a Foreword by Nikolaus Pevsner]. (William BECKFORD).
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 plates, 4 illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps in red and black; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The work includes a select bibliography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BOOKPLATE SOCIETY.
A Brief History of Bookplates in Britain. with reference to Examples at the Victoria & Albert Museum BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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SITWELL Sacheverell
Great Flower Books 1700-1900. A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books. With a Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. [Second Edition] FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous fine coloured plates; navy cloth, gilt back, dove gey endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The bibliography is edited by Patrick M. Synge and compiled by W.T. Stearn, Sabine Wilson and Handasyde Buchanan. Much-needed, high-quality reissue of the scarce original limited edition of 1956.
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SKELTON R.A.
Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries. A revised Edition of 'Old Decorative Maps and Charts' by A.L. Humphreys. With eighty-four Reproductions and a new Text. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 12 coloured plates and 72 monochrome plates; burgundy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The first form of this work, by Humphreys, appeared in 1926 designed as a picture book to illustrate the wealth of a notable collection. Skelton's classic reworking serves both as a specimen book and a guide to the study of maps printed from wood blocks or copper-plates from the birth of mapmaking to the eve of scientific cartography. The majority of plates in the original work have been retained and twenty-two new illustrations added, together with a bibliography.
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BERNARDO Gabriel Adriano
A Critical and Annotated Bibliography of Philippine, Indonesian and other Malayan Folklore. Compiled by Gabriel A. Bernardo. Edited by Francisco Demetrio y Radaza. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
Roy., 8vo., First Edition, with full-page illustration in the text; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.board and backstrip with divisional emblem blocked in red and lettered in black, uncut, one corner bruised, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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BARTY-KING Hugh
Her Majesty's Stationery Office. The Story of the First 200 Years 1786-1986 FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A presentation copy from the Director of Supply, HMSO, 1986, with his signed holograph inscription on front free endpaper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FORDHAM H.G.
The Road-Books & Itineraries of Great Britain 1570 to 1850. A Catalogue with an Introduction and a Bibliography. 550 COPIES WERE PRINTED
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt and blind, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 201). Perkins & Parry, p.105
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BARON CORVO, pseud.
Letters to Harry Bainbridge. Edited with an Introduction by Miriam J. Benkovitz. 350 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES.
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CHILCOTT Tim
A Publisher and his Circle. The Life and Work of John Taylor, Keats's Publisher. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. In addition to many of Keat's most famous editions, the well-known house of Taylor & Hessey also published for Carlyle, Clare, Coleridge, De Quincey, Hazlitt and Lamb among many others. A fascinating study incorporating much original material.
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MOWL Timothy
William Beckford. Composing for Mozart. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Carter John
Taste and Technique in Book Collecting. A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States. [The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography 1947. Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression; original ochre cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly soiled and browned at backstrip. A much-loved standard reference. Published a year after the first edition.
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HOWARD Michael S.
Jonathan Cape, Publisher. Herbert Jonathan Cape. G. Wren Howard. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; original brown buckram gilt, gilt back, dark top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ATTENBOROUGH John
A Living Memory. Hodder & Stoughton Publishers 1868-1975. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates; red cloth gilt back a near fine copy in dustwrapper the latter lightly and unevenly sunned at backstrip.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
Notes and Queries. Twelfth Series. Volume III. January - December 1917. A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc. FIRM COPY IN LIBRARY CLOTH
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in brown library cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a bright, firm copy. Sold from an insitution with its bookplate on front paste-down and neat stamps on title.
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SPINK & SON.
Catalogue of Valuable Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters of Sir Richard Francis Burton 1821-1890. Many recorded for the first time. Including a fine Portrait in Oils. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, coloured plates and monochrome illustrationsmin the text; printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 221 items.
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MCKERROW Ronald B.
An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. McKerrow's classic text was first published in 1927; the revised second edition first appeared in 1928. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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WORMSLEY LIBRARY.
The Wormsley Library. A Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty. Compiled by H. George Fletcher, Robert J.D. Harding, Bryan D. Maggs, William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck. Edited by George H. Fletcher. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous fine coloured photographs throughout and photographic endpapers; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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VAUGHAN H.M.
Catalogue (with Notes) of the Aneurin Williams Collection of Book Plates. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece; tan boards, beige buckram back lettered in black, a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. The collection is notable for numerous examples of bookplates of poets, authors, artists, lawyers and clerics.
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DAVIDSON James
Bibliotheca Devoniensis. A Catalogue of Printed Books relating to the County of Devon. THE ORIGINAL EDITION WITH SUPPLEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY HALF CALF
Sm. 4to., First Edition, title and preliminaries very lightly spotted; attractively bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back with raised bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, marbled edges, county coloured map sections as paste-downs, marbled free endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With the list of subscribers and [first] Supplement bound in. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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[SWISS GRAPHIC DESIGN]
Publicite et Arts Graphiques 1946/1947. Revue de la Publicite et des Arts Graphiques en Suisse. Edited by Maurice Collet. FIRM COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (many full-page and mounted); pictorial wrappers, uncut, covers moderately age-soiled, fore-edges lightly browned else a good, firm copy. Valuable annual survey of printed graphic design in Switzerland. Includes essays by Tschichold, Wenger, Neubold and others.
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PHILLIPS, ed. Euan
Tribute to Brooke Crutchley. on his Retirement as University Printer. Edited by Euan Phillips [and others]. 650 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; patterned boards (from a design by Reynolds Stone), black cloth back lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright,clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 650 COPIES.
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MURRAY, ed. George
The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901. Edited by George Murray. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Presented to the Expedition and issued by the Royal Geographical Society. [Facsimile reissue]. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., with 3 large folding maps and very numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text; blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. This work, prepared for Scott's British Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904, contains a valuable and wide-ranging storehouse of scientific and practical Antarctic data by acknowledged authorities. It includes a particularly extensive bibliography of Antarctic exploration and research compiled by Hugh Robert Mill (formerly librarian to the RGS). Spence, 829 (recording the scarce original edition of 1901).
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READE, pseud. Rolf F.
Registrum Librorum Eroticorum. Compiled by Rolf F. Reade. [Preface by T.O.I.] 200 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, on hand-made paper, INTERLEAVED THROUGHOUT WITH BLANKS, free endpapers very slightly browned; original black buckram, backs with black leather labels framed and lettered in gilt, gilt tops, uncut, boards very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 136). Prior to Kearney this is the most comprehensive bibliography of erotic literature ever attempted, listing more than 5,000 separate works and including, importantly, those in the holdings of the British Library and the Vatican.
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WORDSWORTH Christopher
The Old Service-Books of the English Church. [Antiquary's Books]. FIRM,CLEAN WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 37 plates in monochrome, title and fore-edges very lightly spotted, text block clean and crisp; original series binding of decorative red buckram, sides with multiple frame border enclosing title all in gilt, gilt back, backstrip faded and chipped at headband, joints rubbed else a good, firm working copy. Sold from an institution with its press-mark and pocket on front endpapers. With publisher's 40pp general catalogue bound in at rear. One of the scarcest titles in Methuen's excellent 'Antiquary's Books' edited by J. Charles Cox.
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WISE Thomas J
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne. [Facsimile Reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FACSIMILE REISSUE
2 vols., 4to., Second Edition, with portrait frontispieces and plates; blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the wrappers chafed at heads of tails of backstrips. Facsimile reissue of the original limited edition of 1919-20.
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KEYNES Geoffrey
William Pickering Publisher. A Memoir and a Check-List of his Publications. Revised Edition. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Revised Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and numerous facsimiles and illustrations in the text; sand cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. Revised and updated version of the original Fleuron edition of 1924.
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COCHRANE James Aikman
Dr. Johnson's Printer. The Life of William Strahan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KING Arthur
The House of Warne. One Hundred Years of Publishing. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 10 fine coloured plates and very numerous monochrome illustrations (many full-page) in the text; pictorial ivory cloth blocked in gilt and colours, gilt back, yellow top, a near fine copy. Includes the firm's associations with Kate Greenaway, Randolph Caldecott and (perhaps most significant commercially) Beatrix Potter.
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YORKE Malcolm
Eric Gill. Man of Flesh and Spirit. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frntispiece and numerous photographs throughout; green cloth, back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth. Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996. With a complete list of the Society's Publications. Edited by R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and illustrations in the text; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards framed in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Effectively a bibliography of the Society's First and Second Series, with invaluable summary description of each volume's contents and coverage. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. 183.
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CRUTCHLEY Brooke
Two Men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge. Printed for his Friends by the University Printer, Christman 1968. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, plates, and several mounted type specimens at end; patterned boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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CZECH Dr. Kenneth P.
An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1999. [Second and Best Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with 16pp of coloured plates; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Considerably expanded version of the first edition of 2000. In addition, the terminal date is extended from 1950 to 1999.
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PEARSON Neil
Obelisk. A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and coloured and monochrome plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes a bibliography of Obelisk Press titles.
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DORNBUSCH C.E.
Unit Histories of the United States Air Forces and United States Air Force History. Compiled by C.E. Dornbusch and Lawrence J. Paszek [respectively]. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Anniversary reissue of the original edition of 1958.
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LAW Derek G.
The Royal Navy in World War Two. An Annotated Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Indispensable English-language reference with valuable assessments.
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PERKINS Roger
Regiments of the Empire. A Bibliography of their Published Histories. Compiled by Roger Perkins. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DORNBUSCH C.E.
Unit Histories of the United States Air Forces , including Privately Printed Personal Narratives. Compiled by C.E. Dornbusch. GOOD, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-faded else a good, clean copy.
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ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS.
Catalogue of the Royal Institute of British Architects Library. Volume I: Author Catalogue of Books and MSS. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., original grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy . Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and neat stamp on title verso (only). Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1937.
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HUTNER Martin
A Century for the Century. Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999. [Revised Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text;blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York.
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DYSON PERRINS C.W.
[Sale Catalogue of] The Dyson Perrins Collection. Illuminated Manuscripts. Part 1 (THIS PART ONLY). With an Introduction by Professor Francis Wormald.. 9 December 1958. Sale Code: CAROLUS BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY WITH PRICE LIST
8vo., First Edition [Unillustrated Issue]; original printed wrappers, covers lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. The calaogue lists 50 lots.
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WARNER Oliver
Chatto & Windus. A Brief Account of the Firm's Origin, History and Development. Updated by P.J. Turner and Others. [Updated Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Updated version of the original edition of 1973.
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AVERY Gillian
Children and their Books. A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie. With a Foreword by Iona Opie. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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HODGES Sheila
Gollancz. The Story of a Publishing House 1928-1978. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8 and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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FOTHERGILL Brian
Beckford of Fonthill. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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QUAYLE Eric
Old Cook Books. An Illustrated History. Photographs by Gabe Monro. [First US Edition.] FIRST US EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs, illustrations and facsimiles throughout; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GILL Evan R.
The Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill. An Inventory. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and 16 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled, and unevenly browned at backstrip and rear panel. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HUTCHINS Michael
Printing at Gregynog. Aspects of a great Private Press. Translated by David Jenkins. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. 4to., First Edition, text in English and Welsh, with coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) throughout; original printed wrappers, small mark on lower wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published on the occasion of the 1976 Gregynog Press Exhibition.
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ENSER A. G. S.
A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War and the Aftermath. [Complete set]. Vol.I: 1939-1974; Vol. II: 1975-1987. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (red/black respectively); gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. Near fine set of an indispensable English-language reference to 1987. Includes invaluable index of invididual titles.
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CLEVERDON Douglas
Stanley Morison and Eric Gill 1925-1933. 230 COPIES WERE PRINTED: MICHAEL HARVEY'S COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in brown and black, and plates; original marbled wrappers, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 230 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 108). THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SUBSCRIBER MICHAEL HARVEY: LOOSELY INSERTED ARE A P.L.s FROM CLEVERDON AND A PROOF LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Printed for the subscribers [list included] and for presentation to Cleverdon on his eightieth birthday. The text is based on a talk given to the Double Crown Club, the Wynkyn de Worde Society and on several other occasions.
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