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1 Advent List, 2014 Collinge & Clark 13 Leigh Street London WC1H 9EW United Kingdom t (0) m (Adagio Press) Bahr (Leonard F.). A Manner of Printing. 8vo, 23p, Adagio Press, Harper Woods, Michigan, Handset in Palatino, with display in Michelangelo and Jaguar. One of 298 signed and numbered copies printed in black and olive-green on Mohawk Superfine paper. Sewn into Gold and Brown Strathmore Beau Brilliant paper wrappers titled in black. Original yellow paper envelope, titled in black. A fine copy (Alcuin Press) A Specimen of Some Printing Types in Use at the Alcuin Press, with a note on the press and its aims. [By H.P.R. Finberg.] 4to, 28.5cm, 15p, The Alcuin Press, Chipping Camden, One of 50 copies printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper and bound in Cockerell marbled paper-covered boards, linen back. Spine just a little soiled. A very good to fine copy. 200 Also issued in an unlimited edition on mould-made paper, limp paper covers. 3.(Alembic Press) A 40 Line Wood Letter Alphabet. Chequebook 8vo, [36]pp., The Alembic Press, Winchester, Number 9 of 70 copies set in 40 line Antique Elongated, printed on Zerkall paper. Sewn into three sections, glued into card covers with Ingres paper wrappers printed in black. A fine copy (Alembic Press) Bolton (Claire). The Alembic Press Bibliography, Royal 8vo, pp.58, The Alembic Press, Oxford, Number 66 of 95 (100) copies typeset in Bembo and printed on Hahnemuhle paper. 11 tipped-in specimens from previous books and other illustrations within the text. Quarter maroon cloth with printed spine label, marbled paper-covered sides. A fine copy (Alphabet and Image) Harling (Robert), editor. Alphabet and Image [1-8]. 4to, 8 issues, complete set, 80 p each, published by James Shand at the Shenval Press, London, Spring 1946 to December Plates, inserts and illustrations in colour; four issues of in plastic spiral binding as issued, paper covers. A fine set with the exception of the front panel of the covers to A&I5 which are slightly torn. A&I STOP PRESS (including the details of the competition run by Ian Fleming) are present in 5, 7 and (Details of principal contents upon request.)

2 6.(Appleton Christmas Book) A Handlist of English Language Editions printed on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni, With a supplement of books designed and printed by Giovanni Mardersteig for The Limited Editions Club. 12mo, 19cm, [20]p, Tony Appleton, Brighton, Christmas, One of 100 copies signed by Tony Appleton and printed in Mardersteig's Dante type; mustard wrappers, sewn, with Offbod device on the front. A fine copy (Austin & Sons) Oriental and Foreign Types used by Stephen Austin & Sons, Ltd. Oriental and General Printers, Hertford, England. 8vo, 25cm, 38 leaves printed on one side only, Hertford : Stephen Austin & Sons, Oriental types printed within blue border surrounds; roped into grey wrappers (a bit freckled) titled in blue. A very good copy (Azania Press) [Mrs Elizabeth Wainwright] The Receipt Book of a Lady of the Reign of of Queen Anne. With a foreword by John Shirley-Fox. Foolscap 8vo, 17cm, pp.vii,100, viii-xi, The Azania Press, Medstead, Hampshire, Set in 16pt Arrighi Italic and printed on unbleached Arnold hand-made paper. Decorative period ornaments. One of 250 copies. Full green vellum, lettered in gilt, rather marked on upper cover. A very good copy with the prospectus loosely inserted. 140 The first printing of a unique household recipe book date 13th Jany., It contains more than 200 receipts, many contributed by well-known people. One finds Lady Bety Wentworths Gravey Soup, Lady Midelton's Oatmeal Puding, Mrs Womersley's Pipen Jeley; culinary and medicinal receipts by Lord Lonsdall, Lady Allen, Lady Lowther, Mrs Wombwell and others, Much good old fare is given - Wiggs, Veall pye, Tanseys, Gofers, Slipcoat Chees, Ginger Bread, Cakes, home-made wines, &c. 9.Banks (Colin). True to Type: Introducing Letterpress Printing & the Works of Small Presses. Narrow 8vo, [40]pp., printed at the Libanus Press, Marlborough, for the Crafts Council, Typeset in Joanna and printed on pink recycled paper; 4pp duotone plates by the Senecio Press, printed Rivoli card covers. A fine copy. 25 Published in July 1994 to accompany the exhibition 'True to Type'. This copy with a very lengthy inscription from Colin Banks to Ian Rogerson (about the exhibition going to the John Rylands) at the front. 10.(Bastien Brothers) Bastien Typographica.[Edited by Alfred Bastien]. Large 4to, 31cm, pp.[vi],206, inserts, Bastien Brothers, [West Drayton, Middlesex] n.d. (1937). Set in Monotype Times Roman with Juno for display and initials in Select; many inserted leaves in colours, black-and-white reproductions in the text (many photographic), and with a very extensive display of type specimens at the rear. Grey cloth, upper board titled in gilt. Piece cut from pp.81-82, pp cut into bits, otherwise a very good copy of an excellent productions, issued occasionally from Especially eye-catching are: King's English and the Merchant Prince, by T.E. Elias; Printing Under the White Ensign, by Col. Sgt. F. C. Sheppard, R.M.; Australian Printing History, by John Gartner.

3 A huge array of types is shown in many colours, mostly in full fount. Some of the less usual ones are: Bernhard Tango, Flamingo, Gayton, Gillies Gothic, Holla script, Lettres Ombrees, Motor, Nova, Onyx, Park Avenue, Schaeffer-Versalien, Signal, Trafton, Trojan. 11.Bawden (Edward, illustrator) & Dell Leigh. East Coasting. 8vo, 25cm, pp.64, Printed at the Curwen Press, Issued by the London and North Eastern Railway, (1931). Title-page and 8 headpieces in colours, 14 line drawn vignettes. Rules, ornaments and borders, mostly in black but with some in red, green or yellow. Stapled into orange paper wrappers, titled in black on the front within a border or rules. Very slight wear to extremities and offsetting of orange from the covers to the rear and title-page, A very good copy indeed. 475 One of the most attractive of Edward Bawden's pre-war commissions with its humorous portrayals of Victorian seaside resorts ("great fun", Bliss p.41). Typefaces used for display include Centaur, Cochin, Fournier-le-Jeune, Koch Italic, Maximilian Antiqua, Moreau-le-Jeune, Perpetua and Walbaum. 12.Bawden (Edward). Hold Fast by Your Teeth [& other stories]. Medium 4to, [64]pp., Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, Illustrated with 55 coloured lithographs printed by W.S. Cowell. Pictorial boards from a lithograph by the artist, matching dust-jacket. Bookplate. A fine copy in matching dust-jacket. 350 `Take the Broom' was originally published by Rainbird McLean in an edition of 500 copies in The text of this has been very much altered. Otherwise, this is the first appearance of the other eight stories, all of which were told by Bawden to his children. In the story Right Away Driver, Richard Bawden may be identified as the engine-driver of the Cheltenham Flyer, Joanna Bawden is the girl in the Schiaparelli hat, and Edward himself is Mr Draw de Nedwab. 13.Bawden (Edward). Take the Broom. Oblong 16mo, 10 X 12.5cm, 32p (including wrappers), Reproduced from Bawden's original by Judd Street Gallery, London, Designed by Webb & Webb; printed by Aspect Press. 7 full-page colour illustrations after the originals by Edward Bawden. Wrappers illustrated from a lithograph by Edward Bawden. New copy in its blue presentation envelope. 15 The book is one of a set of six tales drawn by Edward Bawden for his children, Richard and Joanna, during It was first published, in the original size,, redrawn for lithographic printing, in an edition of 500 copies by George Rainbird and Ruari McLean in 1952 for presentation to friends. A new edition of Take the Broom, differing greatly in size and detail, was contained within Hold Fast by Your Teeth (Routledge, 1963). Awarded the Order of the Garter in terms of stocking-fillers for Christmas 2014 by Collinge & Clark. 14.( The Bazaar ) Artistic Amusements: Being Instructions for a Variety of Art Work for home Employment, and Suggestions for a Number of Novel and Saleable Articles for Fancy Bazaars. Illustrated. Series One and Two, 8vo, 20cm, Half-title, 112p + 16p advertisements, London "The Bazaar" Office, n.d. (1878). Profusely illustrated with engravings and decorated with fancy types and ornamental initials. Plum

4 cloth, spine and upper board titled and stamped in gilt. A very good to fine copy. 50 Bored children on Boxing Day? Try: Colouring photographs; Imitation stained glass; Decalcomanie; Queen shell work; Painting on china; Japanese lacquer work; Stencilling; Painting magic lantern slides; Menu and guest cards; Frosted silver work; Illuminated and symbolical colouring, etc. 15.(Benham and Company) 366 Days: A Zodiacal calendar for 1960, with verse by Colin Pearson and drawings by Broom Lynne. 8vo, 23cm, 56 + loosely inserted Christmas card, Benham and Company, Colchester and London, Set in Monotype Ehrhardt and printed in blue and black on art paper; with 13 full-page colour plates and decorative endpapers. Cream paper-covered boards, titled in gilt up the spine, blocked in gilt on the upper board. A very good to fine copy. 75 With an attractive loosely inserted Christmas card inscribed: 'This seems to be a duplication but never mind! Tom.' 16.(Bewick) Wood Engravings of Thomas Bewick. Reproduced in collotype, selected, with a biographical introduction, by Reynolds Stone. Crown 4to, pp.53[1] + [124]pp plates, Rupert Hart- Davis, London, Number 131 of 1000 copies printed on Japon and signed by the author. Title-page vignette and 351 other illustrations. Maroon buckram with gilt spine titling, top edge tinted, grey hand-made paper dust-jacket. A fine copy (Bewick) Thomas Bewick Birds: Being Impressions from original wood-blocks. Royal 8vo, pp.xvii[1], 24 leaves, printed on one side of the page only, pp (including colophon), Newcastle: David Esslemont, Handset in Scotch Roman, the title in Old Face Open, printed in black (the title-page in blue and black, engravings titled in grey) on BFK Rives paper. Number 126 of 147 (250) copies in the standard binding. Illustrated with 24 birds and several tailpieces printed from the blocks. Quarter blue cloth, gilt, patterned paper-covered boards, matching dust-jacket. A fine copy (Birmingham School of Printing) Exempli Gratia: Book pages composed & cast on the Linotype in various sizes of Venezia, Bookprint, Estienne, Granjon, Caslon, Bodoni, Baskerville, to, 38 pages in various pagings ; 26 cm, [Birmingham] : City of Birmingham School of Printing Printed in various colours and sewn into grey paper wrappers titled and decorated in orange. A fine copy. 28 "Specimen book pages set on the Linotype and printed by students attending classes at the City of Birmingham School of Printing, Central School of Arts and Crafts, Margaret Street, Blades (William). The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer. First edition, 8vo, 22cm, pp.viii,383, London: Trubner & Co, Ludgate Hill, Strassburg: Karl I. Trubner, plates and many illustrations within the text; decorative paper-covered boards in yellow and black, marbled endpapers. Spine a little darkened, but otherwise a very attractive copy of this seminal work. 140

5 20.(Bodley Head Booklet) Thomas Bewick: from the letters of [Edited by Iain Bain and John Ryder.] Foolscap 8vo, pp.39 (inc. Colophon), The Bodley Head, London, December One of 200 copies printed by the Stellar Press. Sewn in white printed wrappers printed in blue and black, Bewick's magpie on the front and a detail from a portrait of Bewick by James Ramsay on the back (Seven engravings by Bewick are included in the text.) A fine copy (Bodley Head Booklet) The Land of Beulah: Being an extract from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Newly illustrated by Edward Ardizzone [and with an afterword by him concerning his special interest in illustrating this text.]. Foolscap 8vo, pp.24 (inc. colophon), The Bodley Head, London, December One of 350 copies on art paper. 6 pen-and-ink illustrations within the text. Sewn into plain card covers. Hand-made paper dust-jacket, unlettered, with an additional ink-and-wash drawing in black and grey-blue by the artist. A fine copy 225 Privately printed at the Stellar Press for distribution by the artist and publisher.these illustrations have not been reproduced elsewhere. One of the twenty-four Bodley Head Booklets, , which were all printed at The Stellar Press, including illustrations and covers, under the direction of Bill Hummerstone. The texts were set in Ehrhardt metal types (excepting No.5). A special paper was made for the press at Hollingworths' Mill in Maidstone and became know as Stellar Laid. This was first used in No.8 and thereafter in all issues except Nos 12 and 14. The booklet were issued to friends of the authors and the publisher, mostly at Christmas. 22.(Bodley Head Booklet) Boland (Maureen). Garden Lore: Extracts from Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners. Foolscap 8vo, pp.16 (inc. colophon), Printed at the Stellar Press for private distribution by the publishers for Christmas One of 250 copies on wove paper. 6 full-page illustrations in green taken from sixteenth-century herbals. Sewn into plain card covers, buff paper dust-jacket with an additional illustration on the front and rear panel. A fine copy (Bodley Head Booklet) Greene (Graham). A Wedding Among the Owls: An extract from The Human Factor. Foolscap 8vo, 15pp. + colophon, Printed at the Stellar Press for private distribution by the author and the publisher for Christmas One of 250 copies on wove paper. Sewn into plain card covers. Grey Ingres paper dust-jacket printed with a typographical two-colour design using Bodoni braces. A fine copy (Bodley Head Booklet) Cooke (Alistair). The State of the Language. Foolscap 8vo, pp.32 (inc colophon), The Bodley Head, London, December One of 250 copies printed at the Stellar Press for private distribution by the Bodley Head. Sewn into white paper covers with the title and the author printed in brown and an engraved image of Thomas Bodley by David Gentleman in light ochre. A fine copy of the last Bodley Head Christmas book. 50 Inscribed 'To Quentin, With Best Wishes, Max, David.' The booklet contains a speech by Alistair Cooke (San Francisco, 1979) from his collection The Patient Has the Floor, published by the Bodley Head in the following year, 1985.

6 25.(Bookbinding) Cockerell (Douglas). Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: a text-book for bookbinders and librarians by Douglas Cockerell with drawings by Noel Rooke and other illustrations. First edition, 8vo, 342p., plates, London: Published by John Hogg, Photographic plates, many figures and drawings within the text. Green paper-covered boards, canvas back, spine and upper board titled in black. Some fading to boards. A very good copy (Bookbinding) McLean (Ruari). Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Paper. First edition, Tall 4to, pp.112, The Gordon Fraser Gallery, London, illustrations, about half in colour. Quarter blue cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial paper-covered sides by John Lawrence. A fine copy in its original printed glassine wrapper. 35 Ownership signature and book label of Ruari McLean. 27.(Bookbinding) Zaehnsdorf (J.). A Short History of Bookbinding and a glossary of styles and terms used in binding. With a brief account of the celebrated binders and patrons of bookbinding from whom the various styles are named, description of leathers, etc. First edition, 8vo, 19.5cm, 38p, colour plate, London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for J. Zaehnsdorf, Colour plate as frontispiece, decorations and ornaments within the text, photographs of the Cambridge works at the rear. Decorative brown printed wrappers. A fine copy (British Printing Society) Small Printing Alphabets. Oblong 8vo, ff.45, The Publishing Group of the British Printing Society, One about 125 copies, each page or group of pages printed by one of twenty-one presses using various typefaces and illustrations on a variety of papers on the theme of alphabets. Plastic combbound with printed card covers by Claire Bolton of the Alembic Press. A fine copy. 40 With contributions by Greg Barnett, Claire Bolton, Conant Brodribb, Michael Browning, E & S Davidson, John Easson, John Eickhoff, B.K. Foster, Ursula Freeman, Kenneth Hardacre, Benedict Heal, Alf Jones, E.D. Jordan, Alfred Lubran, Carolyn Macey, Ruth & Peter Moore, John Munroe, Eric Phoenix, Colin Smith, Eric Stevens, Bill Taylor. 29.(British Printing Society) Small Printing Printing Presses. 8vo, pp.94, The Publishing Group of the British Printing Society, London, One of about 125 copies, each page or group of pages printed by one of twenty-four presses using various typefaces and illustrations on a variety of papers on the theme of printing presses. Plastic comb-bound with white covers by Bill Taylor. A fine copy. 40 With contributions by Greg Barnett, Clifford Baxter, Claire Bolton, Alan Brignull, Conant Brodribb, Sue Davidson, John Easson, John Eickhoff, Bryan Foster, Benedict Heal, John Holmes, Ian Johnson, Alf Jones, Alfred Lubran, Dennis McLeavey, Peter Moore, Ruth Moore, Ray Nimmo, Geoffrey Osborne, Eric Phoenix, John Reid, John & Marigold Smart, Colin Smith, Bill Taylor. 30.(British Printing Society) Small Printing, Printing People. Oblong 8vo, [100]pp., The Publishing Group of the British Printing Society, London, One of about 125 copies, each page or group of pages printed by one of 26 presses using various typefaces and illustrations on a variety of papers on the theme of famous printers. Plastic comb-

7 bound with covers by Cliff Baxter. A fine copy. 35 With contributions by Reg Allenby, Cliff Baxter, Claire Bolton, Alan Brignull, Conant Brodribb, Fred Collinge, Michael Daniell, James Fleming, Bryan Foster, Kenneth Hardacre, Eric Hardy, John Holmes, Ian Johnson, Alf Jones, Alfred Lubran, Ray Nimmo, Adrian Oates, Penny & Margaret Osborne, Eric Phoenix, John Reid, Muriel Smallwood, John & Marigold Smart, Colin Smith, N. Stevens, Brian Sutcliffe and William Taylor. 31.(British Santas Institution) Specification for Christmas Activities and Celebrations. British Santa: 1976 AD. 8vo, 21cm, 22p, British Santas Institution, Published by Negus & Negus, 1976, With apologies to the British Standards Institution. Illustrations within the text; blue-grey semi-stiff card wrappers, titled in black. A fine copy 25 An enjoyable piece, put together by, inter alia, Barry Rawlinson, Gill Scott, Julie Benbow, Kathy Stone, Stewart Burnett. 32.(Calligraphy) Johnston (Edward). Manuscript & Inscription Letters for Schools & Classes & for the use the of craftsmen. With 5 plates by A.E.R. [Eric] Gill. Portfolio with 16 plates, 310 X 250mm., London, John Hogg, Linen-backed printed boards with ties. A fine copy of a rare item. 140 First edition. The number 486 is written in a neat italic hand both on the inside and outside of the folder. 33.(Calligraphy) Loftie (W.J.). Lessons in the Art of Illuminating: A series of examples selected from works in the British Museum, Lambeth Palace library, and the South Kensington Museum. With practical instructions, and a sketch of the history of the art. First edition, xviii, 34, 4 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 26 cm., London : Blackie & Son, n.d. [1885]. Initials and tail-pieces. Publisher's advertisements on 4 p. at end. "The colored illustrations are printed by W.G. Blackie & Co.... from drawings by J.A. Burt". Tipped-in illustrations heightened with gold. Slight spotting to half-title, otherwise a near fine copy (Calligraphy) Steingruber (Joann David). Architectural Alphabet Thirty-three plates reproduced in facsimile. The text translated by E.M. Hatt. With an Introduction and some account of Steingruber's life and work by Berthold Wolpe, R.D.I. Royal 4to, 35cm, pp order form at rear, The Merrion Press, London,1972. Set in Monotype Van Dijck and Fell. Number 76 of 425 copies printed at Oxford University Press on Wookey Hole Paper. 33 superb plates (one foldng), plus 34 smaller illustrations in the text. Brown buckram, spine gilt, upper board titled and ornamented in black and gold. Fine in dust-jacket. Original cardboard box with printed label. 120 Each of the plates shows an imposing building constructed on a ground plan formed by the outline of a capital letter of the roman alphabet. 35.(Cambridge Christmas book) Goodison (J.W.) Reynolds Stone: His early development as an engraver on wood. 8vo, pp engravings, frontispiece, Cambridge: For Presentation by the University Printer to Friends in Printing & Publishing, One of 200 copies printed on hand-made paper. Gravure frontispiece of Reynolds Stone. Wood-

8 engraved alphabet and 26 other engravings taken from the blocks and printed variously in black, lilac, green-blue and reddish-brown. Decorative paper-covered boards with "burin" motif, reddishbrown cloth back initialled in gilt. Some browning to rear blanks, a very good unbowed copy. 175 The patterned paper and punning `cupressus' colophon were especially done for this book. 36.(Cambridge Christmas book) Susannah Whatman: Her Housekeeping book. Introduced by Thomas Balston. Decorated by Lawrence Josset. [Foreword by Brooke Crutchley.] 8vo, pp.viii,40, Cambridge: For the Friends of the University Printer, One of 250 copies on special Whatman hand-made paper. Engraved title-page by H.K.Wolfenden, the monogram thereon being copied from a James Whatman watermark of Collotype portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with 14 etchings by Lawrence Josset. Dark grey cloth with maroon label titled in gilt on the front, spine gilt. A very good copy indeed (Cambridge Christmas book) Bridges on the Backs: a series of drawings by David Gentleman. Introduced by Peter Eden. Oblong 4to, Title, pp.6,sub-title,9 plates (6 with one or more hinged overlays) Cambridge: Printed for his Friends by the University Printer, One of 500 copies printed in Monotype Times Wide on Spicer's cartridge paper. Illustrated with 9 drawings, touched with colour, by David Gentleman, with another on the front endpaper and titlepage. Green canvas portfolio binding, lettered in gilt, with `Father Cam' device blocked in gold and black. Card slipcase. A fine copy. 280 `Bridges on the Backs is unique - it opens like a lady's handbag; unique in other ways too and, I think, my favourite of the larger books, perhaps of them all. David Gentleman's drawings are delightfully reminiscent of youthful Cambridge in summertime. Peter Eden in his text and captions carries his erudition with consummate grace, and the overlapping illustrations, a la Humphrey Repton, never fail to surprise.' (Brooke Crutchley) 38.(Cambridge Christmas book) Sparrow (John). Line upon Line. An epigraphical anthology. {Preface by Brooke Crutchley.] 8vo, pp24, 46 epigraphs + colophon + booklet, [Cambridge: Privately printed, 1967]. One of 500 copies on Basingwerk Parchment. 46 inscriptions reproduced typographically each faced by a short note on its location and history. 'Translations of Latin, Italian & French Inscriptions' given in a 12pp booklet done on India paper, contained in a pocket at the rear. Grey paper boards titled in white on upper and lower covers (designed by Reynolds Stone), blue cloth back titled in gilt. A fine copy in the matching slipcase. 80 A book that's worth possessing for the absolutely dreadful printer's error on the title-page - if you can spot it. 39.(Cambridge Christmas book) Eden (Peter). Waterways of the Fens: an essay on the commercial archaeology of the Cambridge region. With drawings by Warwick Hutton. [Preface by Brooke Crutchley.] Foolscap 4to, pp.70, [Cambridge: Privately printed at the University Press, Christmas 1972.] One of 500 copies on toned paper. 17 illustrations in line by Warwick Hutton, mostly full-page or double-page, of mills, bridges, etc. Decorative endpapers. Brown paper-covered boards blocked in

9 gold, natural linen spine. A fine copy. 50 The gilt device blocked on the boards, however attractive, was an error. The idea had been to depict a typical fen craft, but the wrong model was taken. 40.(Cambridge Christmas book) Franklin (Colin). Emery Walker: Some light on his theories of printing and on his relations with William Morris and Cobden-Sanderson. Royal 4to, pp.viii,36, Cambridge: Privately printed [Christmas] One of 500 copies. Portrait of Emery Walker and 2 other illustrations in text. 3 facsimiles in a pocket at the rear. William Morris design pattern paper sides, blue crushed morocco with gilt spine lettering. A fine copy (Cambridge University Press) To the Right Honourable Lord Stanhope. [Text from Stower's, Printer's Grammar, 1808.] Poster, 70 X 51cm, Cambridge University Press, n.d. (?1939). Set in Bell type and printed with fleurons as a border surround on fine wove paper. Slight dustsoiling and edgewear. A very good copy. 100 With a presentation inscription at the top left: "S.M. [Stanley Morison] This is a proof of what we propose to affix to the Stanhope Press in the Entrance Hall BC [Brooke Crutchley]." The date, other than general appearance is little more than a guess. The Bell type had been revived by SM in the 1920s, BC taken on at CUP in the early thirties.. 42.Carter (John). Taste and Technique in Book Collecting. A study of recent developments in Great Britain and the United States. First edition, 8vo, pp.xi[1],201[3], Cambridge: At the University Press, Rust cloth, spine gilt, printed dust-jacket rather spotted, with some chips, repaired along spine. A good copy Carter (John) and Graham Pollard. The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co. Footnote to An Enquiry. Crown 8vo, pp.95, London: Rupert Hart-Davis & Charles Scribner's, New York, plates, blue paper wrappers titled in red on spine and upper cover. A very good copy. 25 Demonstrating the fraudulence of the four Swinburne pamphlets produced under this fictitious imprint. 44.Cave (Roderick) & Sarah Manson. A History of the Golden Cockerel Press, to. xi pp. includes appendices, bibliography, and index. The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, With more than 160 illustrations in black & white, from photographs and facsimiles, as well as an additional 16 pages of color plates. Blue cloth, spine gilt. Fine in like pictorial dust-jacket (Circle Press) Courtney (Cathy). The Looking Book: a pocket history of Circle Press, mo, 16 X 12cm, 179 pages, Circe Press Publications, London, Illustrated with colour plates, pop-ups, etc, stiff blue paper covers with orange wire-embossed wrappers, initialled by Ron King. A fine copy. 35

10 46.(Compton Press) Hudson (W.H.). A Shepherd's Life. With wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. [Foreword by Peter Dance.] 8vo, pp.xi[1], tipped-in engravings, The Compton Press, The Old Brewery, Tisbury, Number 58 of 100 copies set in Linotype Pilgrim, printed on Zerkall paper, with 10 additional engravings on India proof paper initialled by the artist at the rear. Title-page vignette and 9 other wood engravings within the text. Quarter dark green morocco, lettered in gold down the spine, gold top, mottled paper-covered boards, predominantly rose, green and pink. Green card slipcase. A fine copy (Cowell) W.S. A Book of Typefaces. With some illustrated examples of text and display setting. [Illustrations after Eduardo Paolozzi, Frederick Gore, Rudolf Koch, Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman and others.] Medium 4to, 24.5cm, pp.vi,74, W.S. Cowell Ltd, Butter Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, Printed in several colours, typefaces usually being shown in the 30pt size. Ring-bound decorative printed cloth. Dust-jacket just slightly chipped at head of spine. 'This copy of A Book of Typefaces belongs to Hans Schmoller. It is numbered 192.' Engraved book label of Tatyana and Hans Schmoller.A near fine copy. 70 Designed by John Lewis. The covers printed by offset lithography on white book cloth from seahorse designs drawn on Plastocowell. Most attractive. 48.(Crabgrass Press) Six Poems. 8vo, 18.5cm, 14p, (Philip L. Metzger) Crabgrass Press, Prairie Village, Kansas, Number 10 of 250 copies handset in Palatino ans Sistina printed in red and black on cream paper. Sewn into orange paper wrappers printed in red on the front. A fine copy. 75 The six winning poems by students in the Kansas City Poetry Competition. Copies 1-40 reserved for the Society of Private Printers. Designed by Harald Peter. 49.Crawhall (Joseph). Chap-Book Chaplets. Royal 4to, first edition, 290 X 220mm, pp.[268], Ye Leadenhalle Presse, London, by Field & Tuer, Simpkin, Marshall [etc.], Original edition with wrappers to each section bound in; approximately 220 hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by Joseph Crawhall, (The edition is necessarily limited".) Linen-backed pictorial boards with black spine titling. Upper board tender, serious wear to top and tail of spine, covers somewhat rather soiled. Internally, generally very bright and fresh, a thing of joy. 375 The works illustrated are: The Barkeshire Lady's Garland; The Babes in the Wood; I Know what I Know; Jemmy and Nancy of Yarmouth; The Taming of a Shrew; Blew-cap for me; John & Joan; George Barnewel. These originals were in most cases issued uncoloured, and naturally all the handcoloured copies differ. Loosely inserted (as an example of one of tiny illustrated books sold for children in the nineteenth-century) is Jack the Giant Killer, A Hero, Banbury: Printed by J.G. Rusher, 8p, illustrated, 9.5cm. 50.(Delos Press) Hamburger (Michael). Life and art, VII-XVI. First edition, 8vo, 22 p. 25 cm., The Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, for The Delos Press, Birmingham, Set in Monotype Bulmer and printed in black (the title-page in black-and grey) on Zerkall mould-

11 made paper. Number 78 of 100 copies (this being one of 25 not signed by the author). Cockerell marbled paper wrappers by the Fine Bindery, decorative printed label. A fine copy (Design Research Unit) Design Research Unit [Folder of recent representative projects by members of the association.] Folder of projects, 4to, 29.5cm, Design Research Unit, London, Aybrook Street, (c1970). Photographically illustrated, printed on different paper stocks, with work for British Rail, the London Zoo, Design News, British Aluminium Company, etc. Illustrations of the new Aybrook Street premises on the covers. All in fine or near fine condition. 120 Rare.Partners of the Design Research Unit were Misha Black, Kenneth Bayes, Christopher Timings, June Fraser, James Williams, William Apps, William Furbisher, Robert Yuill. 52.Dinkel (E. Michael) & Emmy Dinkel-Keat. Christmas greetings cards in the form of triptychs, folding alphabets, etc many picturing The Grange, Bussage, or surrounding area. Various sizes, 13 pieces, 5 hand-coloured triptychs, 2 folding 'alphabets', various other ephemera, Bussage, Stroud, Firstly, the work by Michael Dinkel: Attractively hand-coloured, all with fulsome inscriptions to 'Neil & Patricia'; the triptychs particularly have a strong early Edward Bawden feel to them; the 'alphabets' are not true alphabets - they read CHRISTMAS GREETINGS each letter is a pictorial initial - very pretty. He was outlived by his wife Emmy Dinkel-Keat, the bundle includes a few cards reproducing some of her work, but there are no original pieces. In very good to fine condition. 300 Ernest Michael Dinkel ( ), was a painter, sculptor and designer. He attended the local technical college in Huddersfield, before moving to London. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1925, he studied art and architecture in France and Italy on the Owen Jones Travelling Scholarship. He taught at the RCA ( ), was Head of Stourbridge School of Art ( ), and Head of the School of Design at Edinburgh College of Art ( ). Emmy Keet ( ), born in The Hague, was awarded a scholarship to the RCA, where she was influenced by her tutor Robert Austin, as well as Edward Johnston as Eric Ravilious. After a visit to Hungary in 1934, she began to teach embroidery and design, and subsequently married Michael Dinkel in Dream Children, her collected work was published in (Double Crown Club) The Double Crown Club. The Thirty-fourth Dinner at Café Royal on November 10, [Guest speaker: John Johnson 'Proposals and Prospectuses - II'] Narrow 8vo, 209 X 125mm., [4]pp., Printed at the Sylvan Press, [1932]. Designed by Harold Strong and printed on handmade paper. Illustration and borders in yellow and green by Norman Janes. Edges uncut. A fine copy (Double Crown Club) A Menu for the 130th Dinner of the Double Crown Club in the Wine room at King's College. [Speaker: Stanley Morison: 'On Learned Presses'.] 8vo, 184 X 121mm., [8]pp., Devised by John Dreyfus & printed at the University Press Cambridge, 23 June Printed in red and black on handmade paper. 'MicrocoSMonogram' engraved on wood by Reynolds Stone. Rizzi paper wrappers, black, gold and purple, with a gold paper label printed in black. A fine copy of a particularly attractive menu. 35

12 55.Dreyfus (John). Typorum Conspectus MCMLVII:Specimen of Types assembled by John Dreyfus for his Paper on Trends in Type Design. 8vo, pp.143, At Cambridge University Press and presented to Members of the Congress, Lausanne, Decorative wrappers. A fine copy (Dulau & Co.) A Catalogue for Typophiles of Books of Typographical Interest. Preceded by "Typophily" by Holbrook Jackson. Also a letter by Francis Meynell, and a note by Moira Gibbings. 8vo, pp.62, Dulau & Co., London, March Grey wrappers printed in blue. A fine copy (Enschede Christmas book) Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Narrow 8vo, 41 p ; 21 cm., Haarlem : Enschede en Zonen, Christmas, Blue cloth with gilt spine titling, upper board blocked in gilt. A fine copy (Enschede Christmas book) Goethe (J.W. von). Novelle. Small 8vo, Title + pp.33, colophon [+ loose insert], Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Christmas Printed in blue and black in 8-point Romulus on fine wove paper. Blue paper wrappers with printed label. A fine copy with a Christmas card from the printer loosely inserted. 80 Designed by Jan van Krimpen. 59.(Fell types) Specimens of Books printed at Oxford with the Types given to the University by John Fell. [Edited by R.W. Chapman.] Folio, xii, 127p ; 46cm., Oxford : At the Clarendon Press One of 550 copies printed in the Fell types; title page within ornamental border; added halftitle. Tipped-in illustrations, some printing in red and black. Full navy cloth with gilt spine titling, upper board blocked in gold, wood-engraved bookplate of John Dreyfus. Slight browning to endpapers. A very good to fine copy of a rare and handsome book. 300 Pt.I. Illustrations in type-facsimile ; pt.ii. Illustrations in type-facsimile ; pt.iii. Miscellaneous pieces. 60.(Firefly Press) Hopkins (Gerard Manley). Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty. Dennis Crowley to his friends, Christmas mo, 17cm, 10p, Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, One of 100 copies handset in Kennerley and printed in black (type ornaments in other colours) on Mohawk paper. Blue Canson Mi-Teintes wrappers, titled in gilt. A fine copy (Firefly Press) An Anonymous English XIV Century Laud to the Virgin. Dennis Crowley to his friends, Christmas vo, 25cm, [8]p, Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, One of 100 copies handset in Van Dijck and printed in blue and black on Ragston paper. Frontispiece by John Hutton. Blue paper wrappers, titled in grey. A fine copy (Fleece Press) Wilson (Enid). A Lakeland Diary; with wood-engravings by Kathleen Lindsley and Edward Stamp. Crown 4to, 26.5cm, pp.[48], Printed at The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Published by The Fleece Press, Wakefield, Number 9 of 25 (325) special copies bound in full Oasis goatskin, spine gilt, gold top, with Whittington marbled endpapers and matching slipcase. Set in 12pt Bell type and printed at the

13 Whittington Press on Zerkall paper. Illustrated with 20 wood engravings (ten by each artist). A fine copy with an engraved flyer loosely inserted. 400 A selection of Enid Wilsons's contributions to The Guardian's Country Column. All reflect life in the Lake District. 63.Fleuret (Fernand). Histoire de la Bienheureuse Raton Fille de Joie. Illustrations de Chas-Laborde. 4to, 24.5cm, 65p + plates, Editions Mornay, Paris, Title-page printed in mauve and black, one on 300 (317) on specially watermarked Rives paper. Decorated with hand-coloured initials, borders, vignettes, 17 full-page inserted hand-coloured mildly erotic copper engravings. Decorative wrapper, hand-coloured, original glassine a little frayed. Marbled paper-covered slipcase strengthened at extremities. A little light spotting, otherwise a very good copy. 300 Presentation copy, inscribed in purple ink: " Au Docteur Leport, Breton et Granvillais en hommage de l'auteur et un souvenir d'une ville regrettee. Fernand Fleuret." 64.(Florin Press) Hazlitt (William). Character of John Bull. Drawings by Graham Williams. Crown 8vo, 16pp., Florin Press, Staplehurst, Kent, 1978 (1979). Number 97 of 200 copies handset in Bembo, printed on Barcham Green handmade paper and signed by the illustrator/printer.5 line drawings and 2 initials in reddish-brown by Graham Williams. Quarter brown cloth with grey paper boards titled in black on the front. A fine copy. 35 The first book from Graham Williams' press. Dated 1978, but binding was not completed until (Folk Art Press) Fisher (John Robert) & others. Pennsylvania Dutch Designs.Collected and printed by John Fisher, Thomas Harris, Gilbert Lugar, and Roy Bitzer. 4to, Introduction + 10 loose plates; The Folk Art Press, Millersville, Lancaster Co., Pa., State Teachers College [1946]. A portfolio of ten hand-printed silk screens done at the State Teachers Office Millersville, Pennsylvania, the designs being from Pennsylvania Dutch furniture, needlework, pottery and tin ware. Blue pictorial card folder. Scarce. A very good to fine copy with a few stencil sheets loosely inserted. 180 (1) Designs from a Goose Neck Coffee-Pot; (2) Dower Chest Panel; (3) Red, Tole ware Coffee Pot; (4) Birth Certificate, 1823; (5) Tea caddy; (6) Dower chest decorations dated 1790; (8) Dower chest panel; (9) Maple syrup jug; (10) Distelfink, Flowers and Angel from a Fractur Painting. 66.(Freehand Press) Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). Cubla Khan, The Crewe Manuscript. Illustrated by Jessica Mycroft. 45 X 36cm, 17 leaves, 8 etchings, Freehand Press, London, individually signed etchings on zinc, printed in 3 to 5 colours, incorporating the text in 24pt Baskerville on Barcham Green mould made paper. Number 8 of 50 copies. Sheets in cloth-covered drop back box blocked with title. A fine copy. 300 The second Freehand Press book. The work includes a lineblock facsimile of Coleridge's original manuscript, an introduction, plate list and artist's notes.

14 67.(Gaberbocchus Press) Barnard (Gwen). The Shapes of the River. Text by Eugene Walter. Crown 4to, [44]pp., Gaberbocchus Press, 31 King's Road, London, Printed in Modern type in red, blue, green and black. Illustrated with a sequence of 26 monoprints by Gwen Barnard, printed in many colours by litho-offset, some double-page, many full-page, a few smaller. Grey cloth with blue spine titling. Lacks the pictorial dust-jacket. A very good copy. 40 A book of colour monoprints of the London Thames. The patterns of barges and cranes, the river and its traffic are all recorded with zest and swiftness, and often accompanied with such unorthodox tools as the wheel of a toy bicycle. The text with its play on words, the verses repeated in green ink for reading in a mirror, creates an alert commentary on the images. 68.(Gezelschap Nonpareil) Des Livres: Chapitre X, Livre II, des Essais de Messire Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Chevalier de l'ordre du Roy et Gentilhomme Ordinaire de sa Chambre Maire et Govverneur de Bourdeaus. Small 8vo, 31pp. + colophon, Printed for the Gezelschap Nonpareil, Amsterdam, by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Printed in Romulus on laid paper. Marbled paper-covered boards, predominantly lilac, white and brown, with a printed label on the front cover. Just a touch worn at extremities. A very good copy indeed. 100 Presentation copy, inscribed: "To Hans & Tany Schmoller with the best wishes for 1952 from Toos & Jan van Krimpen." The initials of the seventeen members of the Gezelschap Nonpareil are printed upon the colophon. Perhaps inevitably, van Krimpen was president. 69.Gill (Eric). Nativity in Cave. (Christmas card.) [Ditchling, Christmas 1915.] Woodcut, printed on tissue, image size: 67.5 X 53mm., unsigned and unnumbered. Loose in a paper folder inscribed in Eric Gill's hand: "With best wishes for Xmas from Eric & Ethel Gill Xmas 1915". Both the woodcut and the folder spotted at extremities. A good copy (Gill) Addendum and Corrigenda to The Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill. Compiled, with an introduction, by David Peace. 8vo, 36 p., 21 cm., San Francisco : Brick Row Book Shop, One of 275 copies printed in Joanna type at the Grabhorn-Hoyem Press on fine wove paper; inserted plate. Grey paper-covered boards with printed spine label. A near fine copy Gill (Bob). Bob Gill's Portfolio. Introduction by Alan Fletcher & Colin Forbes. Second enlarrged edition, 1 v, [53] leaves of plates on the rectos only : ill. (part col.) ; 22 cm., London : Lund Humphries Over 100 illustrations on art paper (mostly colour); pictorial wrappers. A near fine copy Goethe (J.W von). Goethes Englische Werk: Privatdruck. [Text in German and English.] Wide 8vo, 19 p. incl. front ; 26 cm., [Westerham, Kent] : [Westerham Press] Set in Monotype Bulmer and printed in red and black on grey wove. Portrait frontispiece of the author. Gold paper wrappers (a little rubbed), printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. 30 "Dieser Druck wurde zur Feier des funfzigjahrigen Bestehens der Maximillian-Gesellschaft im Oktober 1961 von den in England lebenden Mitgliedern gestiftet. Den Text besorgte Richard Friedenthal.".

15 73.(Golden Cockerel Press) Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the Latin Text. Crown 4to, 252 X 180mm, pp.viii + 24, The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Number 80 of 250 copies handset in Caslon and printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper. Initial letters, title-page and 5 other wood-engravings by Eric Gill. Full bound in white buckram, spine gilt, edges uncut. Lacking dust-jacket (which repeats the title-page), but otherwise a fine clean copy, with the book label of the wood-engraver Peter Foster. 1,000 (Chanticleer 35, Gill 276) 74.(Golden Cockerel Press) Bates (H.E.). Flowers and Faces. Engravings by John Nash. Crown 4to, 25cm, 56p, Golden Cockerel Press, London, Set in 14pt Golden Cockerel type. Number 201 of 259 (325) copies signed by the author, quarter bound in green morocco with gilt spine titling, t.e.g., hand-marbled cloth sides. Illustrated with 5 wood engravings by John Nash. Spine just a trifle faded. A very good copy indeed (Golden Cockerel Press) Hartnoll (Phyllis). The Grecian Enchanted. With eight aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Small folio, pp.80 + plates, Golden Cockerel Press, London, Number 260 of 300 (360) copies printed in black, grey, blue, and pink on Arnold paper. Title-page border, vignette and 7 full-page aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Half-blue and pink cloths stamped with a JBW device of fighting cocks, gilt spine titling, t.e.g., others uncut. Fine copy (Graphic Design) Katzumie (Masaru), editor. Graphic Design 8. July to, 30cm, pp.86 [+8], Diamond Publishing Co., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, July Inserts, different paper stocks, profusely illustrated with both colour and black-and-white photographs, text in Japanese and English. Cover design by Ohashi Tadashi. Just a little dusty. A very good copy of an outstanding periodical. 120 Principal contents: New Wave in Graphic Design, by Masaruru Katumie; Polish Film Posters, by Masayoshi Iwabuchi; Port Yokohama, by Tota Takezawa; Selected Works of Tadashi Ohashi; Design Policicy of the Steendrukkerij de Jong. 77.(Griggs) Alexander (Russell George). The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs, A.R.A., R.E. Etchings & Dry-Points, : a catalogue. 8vo, 29.5cm, pp.xviii,93, Stratford-upon-Avon at the Shakespeare Head Press, One of 325 copies printed at OUP on English hand-made paper. Black cloth, spine and upper board gilt. A fine copy Grimm (Jacob & Wilhelm) & Maurice Sendak, illus. The Juniper Tree and other tales from Grimm. Translated by Lore Segal, with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. 2 volumes, first thus, small 8vo. (vi), 168; (iv), pp, The Bodley Head, London, full page black-and-white drawings by Maurice Sendak, with jackets and slipcase designed by Atha Tehon. Brown cloth, titled and stamped in gilt, printed dust-jackets and pictorial slipcase. A fine set. 250 Presentation copy: 'For Peter Sampson - Maurice Sendak, Dec '75.'

16 79.(Gruffyground Press) Shakespeare (William). The Phoenix and Turtle. 16mo, 152 X 100mm, 12pp, The Bieler Press, Marina, California, for Anthony Baker, The Gruffyground Press, Sidcot, Designed and printed in the Lettre Francoise Civilite of Robert Granjon by Gerald Lange at the Bieler Press on Frankfurt cream laid paper. One of 220 copies. Sewn into grey Curtis Flannel covers. A fine copy. 35 With an interesting T.L.s, from Anthony Baker, June 4th 2004: "... It was strange to find Phoenix actually happening, after all, decades after the original project with Sem Hartz. I rather wish, now, the edition had been dedicated to his memory (there would have been space, on the title verso); proofs of his setting which I sent Gerald Lange were the starting point, though our exchanges led to modifications. (There is now much more use of swash, especially the flamboyant lower-case d.)..." 80.(Guiness) Nash (John), illus. Happy New Lear. [A parody of Edward Lear illustrated by John Nash.] Small 4to, 230 X 160mm., [16]pp., Designed for Guiness by S.H. Benson Ltd., Illustrations by John Nash, Printed by W.S. Cowell, Ipswich, n.d. (1957). Printed on John Dickinson's Evensyde white offset cartridge paper; 14 whole-page colour line illustrations by John Nash, stapled into overlapping paper wrappers with illustrations in four colours by John Nash. A very good bright copy. 75 "The final result is a sheer delight, each drawing is wonderfully witty and light with Nash's deftness of pen providing the required energy to spirit our eye from one scene to another." 81.(Hall School) Gautier (Leon, trans.). La Chanson de Roland. Le texte est pris de la traduction en Francais moderne de l'ancien manuscrit d'oxford. Crown 4to, ff.38, The Hall school, Weybridge, Number 33 of 50 copies done on one side of the leaf only. 19 large lithographed or linocut illustrations, the majority printed in colour or coloured by hand, lithographed text with further illustrations and decorations. Yellow cloth, titled in black on the spine and upper board. Upper board badly soiled, lower board discoloured. Only a good copy, but an excellent association insofar as it bears the book label of Michael Sadleir, who married Eva Gilpin after her retirement as headmistress. Also with a loosely cyclostyled letter, dated Dec, 1930, signed in ink by Eva Gilpin headed 'On the making of this Book'. 150 The illustrations and writing were the work of pupils at the Hall School, their average age being just under thirteen years. 82.Hardy (Thomas). The Dynasts: An epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts, and one hundred and thirty scenes, the time covered by the action being about ten years. 3 vols, 4to, 271 X 190mm, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited large paper edition printed in black and red of 525 copies, signed by the author. Etched portrait frontispiece by Francis Dodd, signed in pencil by the artist. Vellum-backed batik papercovered boards, spines gilt, some occasional light spotting, dust-jackets torn with some loss, stains from previous adhesive tape repair to one dust-jacket. A very good set. 400

17 83.(Haslewood Books) Poisonous Plants: Deadly, Dangerous and Suspect. Engraved on wood and with an introduction by John Nash. With brief descriptions by W. Dallimore. Edited by Dr. A.W. Hill. Small folio, pp.xii,85, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, The Haslewood Books, London, One of 350 copies printed in Walbaum on Renker's Ingres paper at the Curwen Press. Illustrated with 20 full-page engravings plus two smaller. Quarter green buckram with gilt spine titling, brown cloth sides gold-blocked with a design by Nash on the upper board. A near fine copy with the remains (torn and split into two sections) of the rare printed pictorial dust-jacket (which bears the engraved form of the gilt device on the upper board). 550 Frederick Gores in `John Nash', R.A., 1967; of `Poisonous Plants':) `The skill which Nash gained as an engraver combined with his passion for plants to make some very beautiful prints with a delicate incisive line and blacks that bloom softly.' 84.Hayter (Stanley William). Nageuse. Zinc etching, first impression, 41 X 32.5cm, Etching and scorper on zinc plate printed intaglio black, hard roller red, soft phthalo green on B.F.K. Rives paper; one of 50 copies.signed, titled and numbered in pencil. A near fine example, recently mounted, framed and glazed. 800 There are three states:. The first edition was printed (partly on Barcham Green) in 28 copies, with a second of being pulled on BFK Rives, c It seems dubtful whether the limit of 50 was in fact reached. On (Black and Moorehead 241) 85.(High House Press) Old English Wines and Cordials. Rules and Receipts for making all sorts of English Wines and all the choicest Cordials for the Closet, Compiled by J.E.M. and decorated with wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone. Demy 8vo, pp.31 + colophon, At the High House Press, Bristol, Number 97 of 190 (215) copies handset in Monotype Bembo, printed on Basingwerk Parchment. Title-page vignette and 7 other wood engravings. Old Rose Glastonbury paper-covered boards, maroon buckram back with gilt spine lettering, front board titled in maroon. Slight freckling to front endpaper. A near fine copy Hodgson (Ralph). The Skylark and other poems. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Royal 8vo, pp.viii,95 + colophon, Printed for Colin Fenton, London, One of 300 (350) copies done in Walbaum on Basingwerk Parchment and signed by the illustrator. Designed by Will Carter and printed at the Curwen Press. Title-page vignette, tailpiece and 5 fullpage engravings.full black buckram with black spine titling. Curwen Press Library book label. A fine copy (Iliffe and Sons) - Specimens of Printing Types. 8vo, 21cm, 53p, Iliffe and Sons Limited, London and Coventry,n.d. (c.1905). Green cloth, titled in dark green. A very good copy indeed. 90 An uncommon specimen book. It features Ionic, Gothic, Cheltenham, Haddon, Windsor, Morland, Hogarth, Hogarth, Hawarden, Bradley, Washington, and other types, many with outline and stipple variants. Borders and decorations are also shown.