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LECLERC (Emile)
Nouveau Manuel de typographie.
Pt. In-8, 655p. Orné de nombreuses figures in-texte.
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[TYPOGRAPHIE] - ATTINGER (V.)
Annuaire graphique 1909. Revue annuelle des arts et des industries graphiques.
In-4, 210p. Intéressante revue illustrées de nombreuses reproductions in- et hors-texte en noir et en couleurs. Contient notamment: "Les principes de la typographie des groupes" par F. Thibaudeau; "La première exposition de l'Imprimerie en France" par J. Sabatou; "La lithographie d'art en France: L'atelier Eugène Verneau et les estampes d'Henri Rivière" par F. Thibaudeau; etc...
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KUNDIG (André)
Initiation à l'art typographique. L'imprimerie, ses procédés et ses moyens.
Gr. In-8, 67p. Deuxième édition. Intéressant petit ouvrage pour une première approche de la typographie. Avec de nombreuses illustrations et surtout divers échantillons de papiers contrecollés.
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[GID (Raymond)]
Evangile selon Saint Luc.
In-4, non paginé Edition originale numéroté 1/100 exemplaires sur vélin pur fil justifié et signé par le typographe. Intéressante mise en page.
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La sagesse des nations.
In-8 carré, 342p. Edition hors commerce numérotée 1/4000 exemplaires. Rassemble 2000 proverbes du monde entier choisis par Claire Vervin. Présentation et préface de Claude Roy. Illustré de 18 jeux typographiques de Pierre Faucheux. Bel ouvrage.
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THIREAU (Maurice)
L'art moderne et la graphie, suivi de considérations sur l'art et la technique typographique.
Gr. In-8, 131p. Très bel ouvrage sur l'art typographique. Tirage limité à 2000 exemplaires sur papier blanc surglacé Navarre (après 162 ex. sur divers papiers). Illustré de nombreuses planches en noir et en couleurs ainsi que de 2 exemples de cartes contrecollées. Couverture piquée.
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BRAILLARD (Etienne)
Typographie genevoise.
Gr. In-8, 43p. Edition originale numérotée 1/150 exemplaires [tirage total]. Très bel ouvrage publié à l'occasion de l'Assemblée des délégués du personnel dirigeant FST de l'imprimerie, à Genève, les 7 et 8 avril 1962. Importante iconographie en noir et en couleurs relatant par l'exemple l'histoire de l'imprimerie à Genève, des origines au 18e siècle. Contient notamment 3 cartes dépliantes de Genève. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.
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VALOTAIRE (Marcel), dir.
L'imprimerie et les métiers graphiques.
In-4, 168p. Ouvrage très complet sur toutes les méthodes d'imprimerie (de l'époque). Illustré de très nombreux documents en noir. En parfaite condition.
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KLEUKENS Ch. H.
Die Kunst Gutenbergs.
4to., Sole Edition, with title and head-text in red and black, and numerous fine full-page facsimiles printed in red and black (a number heightened with colours); original decorative boards, paper label mnounted on upper cover, a near fine copy of an uncommon work. A copy of the original promotional flier, including a fine extract from the Bible in facsimile (printed in colours and heightened with gold), together with the presentation envelope from 'Der Oberbugermeister der Stadt Mainz', is loosely inserted. Published to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the famous Bible, this charming work is a valuable introduction to the Gutenbergs and their place in the history of printing and typography.
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JAY L.
Letters of the famous 18th Century Printer John Baskerville of Birmingham. Together with a Bibliography of Works printed by him at Birmingham. Collected, compiled & printed under the Direction of Leonard Jay.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the separately printed corrigenda slip loosely inserted. The wood-engraved frontispiece is by Joyce Francis. The works collects fifteen Baskerville letters followed by the first substantial bibliography of Baskverville's Birmingham editions. Scarce.
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BUHLER Curt F.
On the Horace printed in Rome by Wendelinus de Wila or Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with full-page facsimile in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. This study of the undated Horace printed with the de Wila-Guldinbeck type 1: 108R (Proctor 3559) brings to light important points relating to the early history of printing in Rome. The study is based partly on the Pierpont Morgan copy. Offprinted from Bibliofilia, vol. XXXVII. VERY SCARCE.
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CAXTON] [William
The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book printed in England by William Caxton, in 1477. [With a Preface by William Blades]. [Second facsimile re-issue].
8vo., on laid paper, black-letter throughout, neat signature on front free endpaper; original buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. The first facsimile of Caxton's famous work was published by Elliot Stock in 1877.
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DEACON Richard
A Biography of William Caxton. The First English Editor, Printer, Merchant and Translator. EDITOR'S WORKING COPY WITH A.L.s
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and plans (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy. EDITOR'S WORKING COPY, WITH NUMEROUS ANNOTATIONS AND REVISIONS IN A NEAT HAND THROUGHOUT; PAGES 97-98 CUT TO EXCLUDE ONE ILLUSTRATION ('Caxton and his Press from a painting by Vivian Forbes). SOLD WITH TWO A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS EDITOR AUDREY WILLIAMSON (AT FREDERICK MULLER) DISCUSSING WORKS IN PROGRESS (IN PARTICULAR THE AUTHOR'S 'THE HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE SECRET SERViCE' ALSO PUBLISHED BY MULLER IN 1982) AND A RELEVANT CUTTING.
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HARLING Robert
The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill. Notes by Robert Harling.
Sm. 4to., with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, signature on front free endpaper and title; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Harling's study was first published in 'Alphabet & Image 6' (1948); this is a considerably revised and expanded edition
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SABBE M.
Die Civilite-Schriften des Robert Granjon in Lyon und die Flamischen Drucker des 16 Jahrhunderts. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. folio, First Edition, on laid paper, with title-vignette and 29 full-page facsimiles in the text; original blue-grey boards, backstrip with paper-label lettered in black, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 153).
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PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN
Catalogue of a Display of Printing Mechanisms and printed Materials arranged to illustrate the History of Western Civilisation and the Means of the Multiplication of literary Texts since the XVth Century.
8vo., with 49 plates (one in colour); original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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JEFFERIES Richard
Field and Hedgerow. Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies. Collected by his Widow. LARGE PAPER COPY
Roy., 8vo., First Edition, Large Paper, on laid paper, with a fine etched portrait by Strang on vellum as frontispiece (original tissue guard present but heavily spotted), title in red and black, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, free endpapers (only) lightly browned; original half vellum gilt, straw boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers mildly age-marked and scuffed else a very good, clean copy. LARGE PAPER EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 84). MILLER & MATTHEWS RECORDS THAT OF THE 200 COPIES PRODUCED A TOTAL OF ONLY 102 COPIES WERE ACTUALLY ISSUED. Miller & Matthews, B26.2; NCBEL III, 1061.
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BLADES William
The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges. With a Memoir of the Author and a List of his Works, by Talbot R. Reed. LARGE PAPER 'PENTATEUCH'. 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED.
4to., First Edition, LARGE PAPER, with a frontispiece, decorative and printed titles, and numerous plates (a number folding) and illustrations in the text; publisher's binding of boards, calf back gilt, gilt top, covers lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Sold from an institution with its stamps and accession data. 'The best brief outline of the history of printing. This was the first comprehensiove primer in the English language on the subject and it may still be considered invaluable to the student of historical typography. As the title suggests, the history of the chosen art is traced in its various stages as the great Pentateuch traced the origin and wanderings of the chosen people.'. W. Turner Berry, 1924
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WHITBREAD AND CO
Catalogue of the Collection of Items at the Printer's Devil, Fetter Lane London EC4, illustrating the History of Printing. With Essays and a Glossary of Terms. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrated title, 16plates on 14 and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text, presentation inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Catalogue of the collection of printing specimens and artefacts at the famous Fleet Street pub. Lists 140 items together with essays on The Printed Page by A. Lloyd-Taylor and The Printed Illustration by John Lewis.
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(THE TIMES)
The Times Literary Supplement Printing Number, October 13 1927.
4to., with numerous facsimiles, type-specimens and advertisements in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; boards, leather label, cloth back, a little browned else a very good, clean copy. Scarce. A work of particular interest inasmuch as it appeared at the height of the revival of interest in fine printing and includes types and illustrators of the period.
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STAPLES PRESS LTD
[Catalogue of an] Alphabet Exhibition. The Alphabet throughout the Ages and in all Lands. Sponsored and arranged by Staples Press, London, 1953. [Compiled by] David Diringer. Assisted by H. Freeman.
4to., with a folding frontispiece and numerous illustrations and type samples in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy. Scarce. The advisory panel includes Francis Meynell, Stanley Morison and Mortimer Wheeler.
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POPE Alexander
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. [Aldine Edition]. SPLENDID SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
3 vols., sm. 8vo., with engraved portrait frontispiece and title-vignettes, small neat signature on front free endpaper of first volume, some light and inoffensive age-staining to first few leaves; original blue pebble-grain cloth, backstrips with printed paper labels (lightly browned but entirely unworn), uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean set. WITH THE FINE NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF HENRY WILLIAM POWNALL ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. With 4pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at end at first volume. Aldine Poets, vols. 13, 14, 15 respectively. A landmark in nineteenth century typography and publishing, the Aldine Edition of the British Poets was printed for the house of Pickering by Charles Whittingham at Tooks Court. The Aldine issue of Pope was first published in 1831 (see NCBEL II, 502). 'A complete collection of our Poets, with well written Memoirs, and good readable type is a desideratum; and from the works sent forth we feel assured that the Aldine Editions will supply the want' (Athaneum). A LOVELY SET IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING.
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VAN DORSTEN J.A.
Thomas Basson 1555-1613. English Printer at Leiden. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR ROY STRONG
8vo., First Edition, with 5 plates (one folding an captioned in red) and 5 illustrations and facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [SIR] ROY C STRONG WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. This valuable reference includes an extensive checklist of Basson's works. Sir Roy Strong (1935- ), historian, art critic and garden writer, was educated at the University of London and the Warburg Institute. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 to 1973 and of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987. In 1980 he was awarded the prestigious Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg in recognition of his contribution to the arts in the UK.
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EVANS Joan
The Endless Web. John Dickinson and Co., Ltd., 1854-1954.
Roy. 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, title in red and black, 49 plates, an endpaper pedigree and an endpaper map, fore-edges lightly spotted; buckram, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled and creased (without material loss) at edges
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SABBE Maurits
Christopher Plantin. Translated from the Flemish by Alice Van Riel-Goransson. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, 11 tipped-in illustrations in red by Pennell, neat signature on front paste-down, page-edges lightly browning; boards gilt, small tear at extreme head of backstrip, blank lower outer corner removed from one leaf (not affecting text), a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned, frayed at edges and wanting most of backstrip. Pennell's pen drawings first appeared in Devinne's 'Christopher Plantin and the Plantin Museum' published for the Grolier Club in 1888.
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MORAN J.
Stanley Morison. His typographic Achievement.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous typographic facsimiles (some in red and black and many full-page) in the text; cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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MORISON Stanley
A Brief Survey of Printing History and Practice. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous type-facsimiles in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original boards, cloth corners and backstrip, paper label, boards very lightly rubbed else an unusually bright, clean copy in the scarce dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. . A small portion of the contents appeared in a more condensed form in a printing supplement issued with the Manchester Guardian, 23 May 1922. Scarce in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Appleton 18.
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MORISON Stanley
Four Centuries of Fine Printing. Two Hundred and Seventy-Two Examples of the Work of Presses established between 1465 and 1924. With an Introduction. [Second, revised, Edition].
8vo., on laid paper, with 271 fine plates of facsimiles; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Appleton A35a.
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CRUTCHLEY E.A.
A History and Description of the Pitt Press. Pitt for the Use of the University Printing Press AD 1833, altered and restored AD 1937. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with folding coloured frontispiece and plates in monochrome; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, unevenly sunned dustwrapper.
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UPDIKE D.B.
Printing Types. Their History, Forms, and Use. A Study in Survivals. Second Edition.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Impression thus, with numerous type facsimiles in the text; original buckram, gilt backs, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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MEYNELL Francis
My Lives. WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR
8vo. First Edition with plates and facsimiles in the text; terracotta cloth gilt back blue endpapers a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR LOOSELY INSERTED. The letter is dated 18 September 1974 and written from Meynell's residence at The Grey House, Lavenham, Suffolk. It is highly characteristic, referring as it does to the design shortcomings of a published document -'the matter of the Report is full of interest - but its presentation - ugh! What conceivable justification is there for the vast head-of-page margins (and diminutive tail-margins) on type pages - made all the sillier by the full page arrangements of illustrated pages.' A copy of a newspaper obituary of the author is also included. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY OF MEYNELL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY , ACCOMPANIED BY A TYPICALLY FORTHRIGHT CREATIVE OPINION FROM ONE THE LEADING BRITISH DESIGNERS AND TYPOGRAPHERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, NEW YORK
Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955. Masterpieces of Typography through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. [With an Essay by Joseph Blumenthal. Third Impression]. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, Third Impression, with numerous fine full-page facsimiles throughout; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with the Aldine emblem, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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WILLIAMSON Richard
The Great Yew Forest. The Natural History of Kingley Vale. WITH TYPESCRIPT REVIEW
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This copy was formerly in the library of naturalist Joyce Pope, with her pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper and a carbon copy of her typsescript review loosely inserted.
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CRUTCHLEY Brooke
Two Men. Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE; 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portraits and facsimiles; blue boards, red buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. A Cambridge Christmas book.
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SIMON Oliver
Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series. Volumes 1-18. NEAR FINE RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AND CLOTH
18 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout; two volumes in original cloth, the remainder in printed wrappers with tissue dustwrapper, a near fine run. A GOOD RUN IN UNUSALLY BRIGHT CONDITION.
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GILL Eric
Letters of Eric Gill. Edited by Walter Shewring. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece in red and black, and plates; red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, , red top (lightly faded), fore-edge mildly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
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MORISON Stanley
Stanley Morison and D.B. Updike. Selected Correspondence. Edited by David McKitterick. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title in blue and black, and 20 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARKER Nicolas
Stanley Morison. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, red top, fore-edge spotted else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at edges and fold-ins.
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GILL Eric
Autobiography. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; handsomely bound in dark red full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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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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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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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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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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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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DICKSON Robert
Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title-vignette and numerous full-page facsimiles (all original tissue guards present) in the text; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 352).
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PARTRIDGE Walter
Journeyman. A Printer's Impressions through Eighty Years in a rapidly changing World. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARKER Nicolas
Stanley Morison 1889-1967. A Radio Portrait compiled from Recollections by T.F. Burns, Arthur Crook, Francis Meynell, John Carter, Brooke Crutchley, Graham Pollard, Janet & Reynolds Stone, Beatrice Warde. 800 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; black cloth, upper board blocked in silver, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 800 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 116).
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GILL Eric
The Four Gospels. Preceded by a Personal Reminiscence by Robert Gibbings, Proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press 1924-1933. [Facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous fine typographical illustrations throughout; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, grey endpapers, grey silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case blocked in gilt. Gill, 285 (recording the original edition).
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