Printing & the Arts of the Book

Printing & the Arts of the Book PART I - Fine Printing & Book Production 1 ALEMBIC PRESS. BOLTON, Claire M. Fancy Papers. The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2001. 60 100 copies printed; pp.32; 34 tipped-in paper samples with tissue guards, bound into oversewn cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label. A wonderful display of fancy papers collected from the Sanderson's archive in 1950 by the author's father, including a great range of leather-effect papers & others used chiefly in the fancy box trade. Claire Bolton provides an essay on the manufacture & history of the trade. PAPER SAMPLES. 2 ALEMBIC PRESS. LAWSON-HALL, Claire. An Autumn Garden. [with leaf prints and linocut illustrations by Muriel Mallows printed in colours.] The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2000 48 100 numbered copies printed, square miniature format (75 x 75mm.); Eight thick cards providing 16 'pages' of text overprinted with delicate leaf prints alternating with variously coloured linocuts; ingeniously ribbon 'bound' in Jacob's Ladder format so that the leaves 'tumble' by the manipulation of the first card. The third in Claire Bolton's imaginative series. 3 ALEMBIC PRESS. LAWSON-HALL, Claire. A Summer Garden. The Alembic Press, Marcham, 1999 [2000] 48 Limited to 100 numbered copies in 9pt Old Style, (75 x 75mm) 16pp. accordian-folded in a twisting 'garden path' within red Maziarczyk pastepaper boards, which unfolds to reveal the full text within hand-coloured garden drawings by Muriel Mallows with bright red poppy in three-coloured linocut on verso. Uniform with the ingenious Spring Garden (though differently folded). 4 ALEMBIC PRESS. LAWSON-HALL, Claire. A Winter Garden. [with eight hand-coloured etchings by Muriel Mallows.] The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2001. 48 100 numbered copies printed, square miniature format (75 x 75mm.); pp.38; printed in grey on heavy hand-made paper with eight etchings hand-coloured by the artist; printed stiff grey wrappers with silk oversewing. The fourth & final miniature of the series. 5 ALPHABET BOOK. MARTINEAU, Luke [Illustrator] & BINGHAM, Kate. Every Girl's Alphabet. Paintings by Luke Martineau and words by Kate Bingham. Artists' Choice Editions, 2010. 35 FIRST EDITION limited to 240 copies, signed & numbered by author & artist; sm.4to., pp.(64); illustrations in colour throughout; new in pictorial wrappers. A charming alphabet book in the Nicholson tradition with a wry & tender commentary by Bingham, beautifully produced at Northend Creative Print. 6 ALPHABET BOOK. MARTINEAU, Luke [Illustrator] & BINGHAM, Kate. Every Girl's Alphabet. Paintings by Luke Martineau and words by Kate Bingham. Artists' Choice Editions, 2010. 120 FIRST EDITION, signed & numbered by author & artist, one of 56 deluxe copies, specially bound in crimson leather-backed pictorial boards with additional linocut, signed & numbered by the artist, in card folder and slip-case; sm.4to., pp.(64); illustrations in colour throughout. 7 BAWDEN, Edward. SKIPWITH, Peyton. Entertaining A La Carte. Edward Bawden and Fortnum & Mason. The Mainstone Press, 2007. 90 FIRST EDITION limited to 1000 copies, 4to, (346 x 251mm), pp.126; new in cloth binding. Over 200 colour illustrations from the archives of Fortnum & Mason with an introductory essay by Bawden's friend and former director of the Fine Art Society, Peyton Skipwith. A beautiful production, designed by Brian Webb, which collects the catalogues, brochures, order forms, envelopes and other ephemeral advertising material designed by Bawden for the firm before and after the Second World War.

8 BAWDEN, Edward. SKIPWITH, Peyton. [Editor] Edward Bawden 1903-1989 A Centenary Celebration. [Catalogue of an exhibition with introductory essay.] The Fine Art Society, 2003. 20 FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.48; frontispiece & 50 colour plates; a fine copy of this attractive catalogue in original decorated card covers. 9 BAWDEN, Edward. YORKE, Dr Malcolm. Edward Bawden and his circle. The Inward Laugh. Antique Collectors' Club, 2007. 35 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.272; over 300 illustrations in colour, line & half-tone; new in dust-wrapper; revised & expanded from the Fleece Press limited edition of 2005. Yorke explores Bawden's career through his social and artistic friendships with illustrations from many sources including much previously unpublished material, reflecting his work for the Curwen Press, book illustration, advertising, transport posters, murals on ships, churches, boardrooms and colleges, editioned prints, wallpapers and personal watercolours. ONE OF TWENTY-FIVE COPIES 10 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. POPE, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem in five cantos. Embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Leonard Smithers, 1896. 3,500 DELUXE EDITION on Japanese Vellum and bound in full vellum, limited to 25 copies; 4to., pp.xiv,47; frontispiece, six full-page & two smaller illustrations in line by Beardsley; some slight dust-soiling but well preserved in original full vellum blocked in gold on upper cover to Beardsley's design, top edge gilt, others uncut; original prospectus & order form (spotted) laid in. 'One of Beardsley's most complete achievements,' John Russell Taylor. Mason 355. 11 BINDING. Book Box. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS. Book-form box so labelled in lizard-grained maroon calf, marbled sides, morocco label. (230 x 150 x 50mm.) 40 12 BIRD & BULL PRESS. GORDON CRAIG, Edward. Paris Diary 1932-1933. Edited with a prologue by Colin Franklin. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa., 1982. 95 FIRST EDITION, no.27 of 350 copies; pp.154 + colophon; 8 colour facsimiles of pages from the diary; printed in Baskerville on Bugrabutten mouldmade paper; a fine copy in original morocco-backed Japanese paper boards, morocco label & tips, uncut; prospectus laid in. AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 13 BLACK PENNELL PRESS. M'ALPINE, John. Genuine Narratives and Concise Memoirs of some of the most interesting exploits and singular Adventures of John M'Alpine a native Highlander. From the time of his Emigration from Scotland to America 1773...Greenock, 1780. [Reprinted with wood-engravings by Kathleen M. Lindsley and a new preface by Thomas Rae.] Black Pennell Press, Greenock, 1985. 65 No. 152 of 200 copies, pp.xiv,82 + colophon, frontispiece facsimile of the title-page of the 1780 edition, title device & eight wood-engraved vignettes; hand-set in Caslon old face and printed damp on Zerkall mould-made paper, the wood-engravings printed separately; hand bound in leather-backed Japanese wood veneer boards, uncut. A fine copy of the most substantial book of the Press. A fascinating account of M'Alpine's experiences in the British Army in America under Generals Carleton and Burgoyne. 14 BLAKE, William. Jerusalem. The Emanation of The Giant Albion. [Facsimile with Commentary and Bibliographical History by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.] The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1974. 200 No.338 of 500 copies, folio; pp.(16); 29 facsimile plates in colour, four in sepia, printed on rectos only; a very good copy of this magnificent facsimile in original morocco-backed marbled boards and matching morocco-trimmed slip-case. 15 BLAKE, William. The Song of Los. Lambeth, Printed by W. Blake 1795. [A facsimile with Commentary and Bibliographical History by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.] The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1975. 255

No.9 of 400 copies in tan morocco-backed marbled boards & matching morocco-trimmed slip-case; printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match that used by Blake; lg.4to., eight leaf collotype facsimile with hand-colouring through stencils, facsimile sketch & 8pp. accompanying text; a fine copy. A beautiful facsimile of this dramatically colourful work, reproduced from one of only five known copies. Publisher's presentation notelet (Blake's Divine Image) laid in: 'Special delivery... f[rom] Blake Trust. Yours A[rnold] F[awcus]' 16 BLUE BELL HILL PRESS. S., G.V. Tinker Tailor. Rimes by G.V.S. with cuts by S.H. Printed at the Blue Bell Hill Press in 1936. 45 FIRST EDITION, pp.(20); 8 verses with accompanying illustrations in linocut (?) on facing pages; an attractive production in cloth-backed decorated boards. A chalk ridge between Rochester & Maidstone, Blue Bell Hill is well located for the paper-making area of Kent, but we have been unable to identify either the Press or the two initialled protagonists. No limitation is stated but we have been unable to locate another copy; not listed in Copac or WorldCat. 17 BOAR'S HEAD PRESS. HAWORTH-BOOTH, Digby. Kleinias. Poems. At the Sign of the Boar's Head in Heathercombe, Manaton, Devon. 1932. 55 FIRST EDITION, no.173 of 200 copies, sepia printed in Baskerville on Van Gelder hand-made paper; pp.30 + colophon; vignette title wood-engraving, 'The Mill House', by Lettice Sandford; a very good uncut copy in original marbled cloth; extremities rubbed but sound. An early production of Christopher Sandford's press. Chambers 4. 18 BOAR'S HEAD PRESS. SAPPHO. [Selected Poems] The text arranged with translations an introduction & notes by E.M. Cox. [Illustrated with wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford.] Boar's Head Press, Manaton, Devon, 1932 135 No.192 of 225 copies on mould-made paper; pp.81 + colophon; six full-page wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford; very good in original Niger morocco-backed Cockerell marbled boards, lettered in gold, top edge gilt, others uncut. Illustrations strongly influenced by her mentor, Blair Hughes-Stanton, who wrote enthusiatically from Gregynog. 'One of the finest books [of the Press], graced with six magnificent full-page engravings... A tall octavo, set in New Hellenic Greek and Caslon OF, for the Greek and English texts.' Chambers 9 19 BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. HUTTON, Edward [Editor] Thirteene Most Pleasaunt and Delectable Questions [of Love], Entituled, A Disport of Diverse Noble Personages... Englished anno 1566 by H[umphrey] G[ifford?]. To which is prefixed an Introduction by Edward Hutton. [Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, for] Peter Davies, 1927. 35 520 copies printed in a fount reconstructed from one designed & made by Peter Schoeffer (1420-1500), 'some sixty matrices of which were acquired by Joh. Enschedé in...1768', from a direct descendant of the original maker. Pp.xxiv,102; initials in blue; a handsome production on Van Gelder paper; edges & colophon lightly browned, otherwise well preserved in green buckram, paper label. 20 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. BALSTON, Thomas. The Cambridge University Press collection of Private Press Types. Printed by the University Printer for his Friends, Cambridge, 1951. 110 FIRST EDITION limited to 350 copies; 4to., pp.x,46; 15 collotype plates of pages from Whittingham's Basle Roman, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Eragny, &c., to the Cranach Gothic; a very good copy in the original buckram, gilt. 'A valuable addition to the literature of the subject; incidentally it was also an effective piece of propaganda, since many more items have since found their way into our possession.' Crutchley p.24. One of the most desirable books in the series. 21 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. CRUTCHLEY, Brooke. A Printer's Christmas books. With a foreword by Euan Phillips. Cambridge, privately printed at the University Printing House, 1974. 45 FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies, sm.4to., pp.42; illustrations throughout, one folding, some with colour; a very good copy of the final volume of the series in original cloth-backed decorated boards.

22 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. CRUTCHLEY, Brooke. The University printing houses at Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Cambridge, Christmas 1962. 30 FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies; pp.(2)16, many illustrations, three in colour; very good in original cloth with gilt motif on upper cover; Cockerell-paper slip-case with morocco label. Issued to celebrate the move to the present site. 23 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. FLOWER, Desmond. [Editor.] Voltaire's Essay on Milton. Cambridge, Privately Printed, 1954. 40 FIRST EDITION limited to 400 copies; pp.xiv(2)30 + colophon; a very good copy in original cloth-backed boards lettered in gold. A celebration of Baskerville, 'set in type produced from copies of the original Baskerville punches...on paper specially manufactured by W. & R. Balston...successors to the James Whatman who is credited with providing Baskerville with the first wove paper to be used in Europe.' Brooke Crutchley. 24 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. MORISON, Stanley. Talbot Baines Reed. Author, bibliographer, typefounder. Cambridge. Privately Printed, 1960. 48 FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies; pp.(10)80; frontispiece, 10 other illustrations & type facsimiles in text; a very good copy in original pictorial cloth. 'Reed's varied interests and achievements yielded a surprising range of illustrative material, though few, if any, of the types and ornaments issued by the Fann Street Foundry in Reed's time were such as to recommend themselves to Morison's own taste.' Crutchley p.30. Appleton 213. 25 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. MORISON, Stanley. A Tally of Types cut for machine composition and introduced at the University Press, Cambridge. Privately Printed, 1953. 55 FIRST EDITION limited to 450 copies, pp.viii,102; title lettering & head-pieces by Reynolds Stone printed in russet; very good in original cloth, gilt. Brooke Crutchley provides a preface. 'More historically interesting and aesthetically satisfying than we had ever hoped'. 26 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. RASTELL, John. The four elements. Edited by Roger Coleman... Cambridge, 1971. 30 Limited to 500 copies; pp.vi,73; 5 drawings (printed in red) by Charles Keeping, music & facsimiles; a fine copy in original buckram-backed printed boards. With an introduction by Coleman 'discussing (inter alia) Rastell's claims to be the first English printer of a play and a major innovator in the printing of music.' Crutchley. 27 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. ROGERS, Bruce. Report on the Typography of the Cambridge University Press. Prepared in 1917 at the request of the Syndics by Bruce Rogers and now printed in honour of his eightieth birthday. Printed for his friends by The University Printer, Christmas, 1950. 65 FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies, sm.folio, pp.viii(4)31 + colophon; printed in red & black; very good in lightly dust-soiled original buckram-backed decorated boards, one corner bumped; glacine wrapper. With an introduction by Brooke Crutchley and 13 illustrations of type & ornament. 28 CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK. ROGERS, Bruce. Report on the Typography of the Cambridge University Press. Prepared in 1917 at the request of the Syndics by Bruce Rogers and now printed in honour of his eightieth birthday. Printed for his friends by The University Printer, Christmas, 1950. 75 FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies, sm.folio, pp.viii(4)31 + colophon; printed in red & black; very good in slightly soiled original buckram-backed decorated boards, glacine wrapper (worn). With an introduction by Brooke Crutchley and 13 illustrations of type & ornament.

29 CARROLL, Lewis. LORD, John Vernon. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With illustrations and an Afterword by John Vernon Lord and textual corrections and a Foreword by Selwyn Goodacre. Artists' Choice Editions, 2011. 98 First Edition thus, limited to 320 signed & numbered copies (+98 specials), folio, 310 x 190mm, pp.138(6); illustrations in line & colour throughout (12 full-page, one double-page); new in cloth-backed pictorial boards, lettered in gold. A wonderful celebration of Carroll's masterpiece with vibrant illustrations both original and wholly appropriate. 30 CARROLL, Lewis. LORD, John Vernon. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With illustrations and an Afterword by John Vernon Lord and textual corrections and a Foreword by Selwyn Goodacre. Artists' Choice Editions, 2011. 320 First Edition thus, one of 98 deluxe copies, folio, 310 x 190mm, pp.138(6); illustrations in line & colour throughout (12 full-page, one double-page); specially bound in quarter leather with a separate folder containing four signed giclée prints and a 24pp. illustrated select bibliography, Lord's List, containing details of 58 of his publications; all contained within matching slip-case. The giclée prints include one for 'The Wasp in a Wig' a suppressed chapter which does not appear in the book. 31 CARROLLIANA. WIGFIELD, Miles. The Bellman's Return. The Reading Room Press, 2012 18 FIRST EDITION, 'At least 150 copies' printed; 122 x 156mm., pp.(14); ornaments in various single colours throughout; new in printed wrappers; printed in Lutetia & Ornata titling on Zerkall mould-made paper. 'These lines, penned by the printer in the small hours, are offered as yet another attempt to conclude The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll, another insomniac.' MOVING SLAVE TRADE TESTAMENT 32 CHEVINGTON PRESS. WAKEFIELD, D.R. Resistance is Useless. Portraits of Slaves from The British West Indies. The Chevington Press, 2004. 1,850 FIRST EDITION, no.46 of 50 copies, signed by the author/artist; folio (400 x 290mm.); Sixteen coloured etched portraits & captions with letterpress text, together with screen-printed coloured title leaf & letterpress half-title, preface & colophon leaves; fine in morocco-backed decorated boards, lettered in gold on backstrip; preserved in matching cloth slip-case. Text printed by hand on an Albion press, the etchings pulled on a 19thC star wheel rolling press, on R.W.S. hand-made by Barcham Green. A remarkable tour-de-force of great poignancy & beauty by artist Bob Wakefield, best known for his etchings of fish, whose early career was spent at Leonard Baskin's Gehenna Press. 'Of the millions of Africans transported to the Americas, precious little of a personal nature remains to testify to their existence... This collection of etchings is a sympathetic endeavour to add faces to the names whether their origins be reasonable, irrational, bizarre, or accidental.' 33 CIRCLE PRESS. KING, Ronald. Alphabeta Concertina. [Double-sided concertina pop-up alphabet book. Designed, printed, cut & creased by Ronald King.] Circle Press, Guilford, 2007 40 Third printing, revised; 26 pop-up capital letters cut & creased onto heritage paper, glued to red screen-printed heritage board; new in acetate tray & sleeve. 34 CIRCLE PRESS. KING, Ronald. alphabeta concertina miniscule [Double-sided concertina pop-up alphabet book.] Circle Press, Guilford, 2007 40 FIRST EDITION; 26 pop-up lower-case letters cut & creased onto heritage paper, glued to blue screen-printed heritage board; new in acetate tray & sleeve. 35 CIRCLE PRESS. PRICE, Richard. little but often. [Double-sided concertina pop-up alphabet book. Designed, printed, cut & creased by Ronald King.] Circle Press, Guilford, 2007 40 FIRST EDITION, limited to 350 copies signed by author & printer; 26 pop-up lower-case letters with accompanying text printed in red; cut & creased onto heritage paper, glued to red screen-printed heritage board; new in acetate tray & sleeve. 'King at his most elegantly minimalist and sculptural with a new suite of love poems by Price at his most witty and tender. As Price says of letter 'm': 'may I suggest we both invest / in a high frisk mutual trust?'

36 COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J. Ecce Mundus. Industrial Ideals and The Book Beautiful. Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1902. 65 FIRST EDITION, c500 copies printed, sm.4to., pp.(38); well printed at the Chiswick Press in Doves style on handmade paper, a very good unopened copy in original vellum-backed boards. 37 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Kubla Khan. Drawings by Clarke Hutton. Penmiel Press, 1991. 20 Lg.4to., limited to 75 copies; pp(8); two drawings by Clarke Hutton & other vignettes; fine in original cut-out green printed wrappers, printed purple film overlays on title & colophon used to dramatic effect; silk ties, glacine wrapper. 38 CONRAD, Joseph. Conrad's Manifesto: Preface to a Career. The History of the Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' with facsimiles of the manuscripts. Edited with an essay by David R. Smith. [Printed at The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts for the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation] Philadelphia, 1966. 55 No.375 of 1100 copies; lg.4to., pp.79 + colophon; woodcut frontispiece portrait of Conrad by Leonard Baskin, printed from the block, and 13pp. facsimile of Conrad's original manuscript; printed in Monotype Van Dijck on Fabriano paper; a very good copy in original marbled boards, paper label, card folder & slip-case. 39 CRAHAN, Marcus Esketh. Early American Inebrietatis. Review of the Development of American Habits in Drink and the National Bias and Fixations Resulting therefrom. [Printed by Saul & Lillian Marks, The Plantin Press for] The Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, 1964. 40 FIRST EDITION; pp.x(6)62; title-border & vignette illustrations throughout by Marion Kronfeld; 8 facsimile plates of pages from early books on drink; a very good copy in original buckram-backed decorated boards, paper label. 40 CRAIG, Edward Anthony [aka Edward Carrick] Submarine Interior. Original pen & ink sketch with monochrome ink wash. Signed & dated, lower left, 'Edward Carrick 1943'. 320 195 x 325mm. Well preserved in modern mount & gilt-lined frame. Edward Anthony Craig (1905-1998) was the son of the artist and stage designer, Edward Gordon Craig, and grandson of the actress Ellen Terry. He adopted the name Edward Carrick in the late 1920s to assert his own identity as his career developed in art, film and theatre. Seconded to the Crown Film Unit which had been developed from the GPO Film Unit to make wartime propoganda films, Craig was artistic director from 1939 to 1946. This drawing evidently relates to one such film on the war at sea. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH SIGNED PROOF BOOKPLATE 41 CRAIG, Edward Gordon. Woodcuts and some words. With an introduction by Campbell Dodgson. J.M. Dent, 1924. 320 FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, no.3 of 160 copies, signed by Craig, pp.xx,122; frontispiece, 58 tipped-in plates and several head- & tail-pieces; very good copy in original brown buckram, top edge gilt, others uncut; extra-illustrated with proof woodcut bookplate design for Charles E. 'Roche, 1901' on Japanese paper, tipped-in at beginning, no. 27 of 50 copies initialled and dated 1924 by Craig (creased at upper margin). 'I made a nice little bookplate for Roche'. Craig, Index to the Story of my Days, quoted by Blatchly 133. 42 CRAIG, Edward Gordon. NEWMAN, L.M. [Editor] Black Figures. 105 reproductions with an unpublished essay. Presented with Introduction & Documentation by L.M. Newman. Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1989. 95 FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies, folio, pp.164 + colophon leaf; 104 numbered (full-page) figures and six further illustrations to accompany Lindsay Newman's introduction & Gordon Craig's essay 'Black-Figures'; a very good copy of this fine production in blind-decorated black cloth, paper label, glacine wrapper. Pencilled endpaper inscription, 'From the library of John Dreyfus'.

43 CRANE, Walter. Hazelford Sketch Book. A Sampler with Autobiographical Notes from the Manuscripts in the Caroline Miller Parker Collection in the Harvard College Library. John Barnard Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1937. 25 FIRST EDITION limited to 700 copies, sm.folio, pp.30(2); illustrations in line throughout; a fine copy in original cloth-backed pictorial boards, glacine wrapper. 44 DAVID, Villers. Advice to my Godchildren. With an introduction by John Saumarez Smith. Maggs Brothers, 2012 8 1000 copies printed; pp.55; frontispiece portrait of David by Augustus John; new in card wrappers. First published by Duckworth in 1951, Advice cannot have had a large circulation. This reprint includes a vivid Self-Portrait and an introductory memoir by the editor. A witty collection of aphoristic bon-mots, the more acerbic observations nicely leavened by the lightness of Villers David's touch. 'Travel for pleasure only. Do not be misled when you hear also that 'travel broadens the mind'. This is an empty phrase, justifying the envy of those who have not travelled, and the complacency of those who have. Travel is a physical movement; and this has nothing to do with education. It it had, then air-stewards and naval ratings would be the most educated of men. Education is quite a diferent thing.' 45 DOVES PRESS. TIDCOMBE, Marianne. The Doves Press. [A History of the Press & Bibliography of its books.] The British Library, 2002. 75 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.xii,258; 18 colour plates & 122 illustrations & facsimiles in monotone; new in dust-wrapper. An excellent study of Cobden-Sanderson and his Press together with a full illustrated bibliography of its books & ephemera. Essential reading & reference and a companion to Tidcombe's earlier studies of the Doves Bindery and Cobden-Sanderson's binding designs. ILLUSTRATIONS BY PIPER 46 DROPMORE PRESS. SITWELL, Sir George. On the Making of Gardens. With an introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell and decorations by John Piper. The Dropmore Press, 1949. 120 FIRST EDITION, no.195 of 1000 copies in Bembo on Hodgkinson's handmade paper; pp.(8)xvi,113 + colophon; six lithograph plates on coloured ground (3 double-page) by John Piper; a very good uncut copy in original green cloth blocked in gold, dust-wrapper (slightly browned & rubbed). Nash D25. 47 ENSCHEDE. Text Book for the Annual Sermons, during Christmas, Lent, Good Fiday, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost, in the English Reformed Church at Amsterdam. To be sold for the benefit of the English Orphan House. John Enschedé and Sons, 1819. 45 FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,64; a remarkably fresh copy in original stiff wrappers. A handsome piece of restrained typography on good quality paper, four type-faces & ornament give colour to the most attractive title. 48 ERAGNY PRESS. GENZ, Marcella D. A History of the Eragny Press 1894-1914. Oak Knoll Press [&] The British Library, 2004. 40 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.240; illustrations & facsimiles throughout; new in dust-wrapper. An important history & study with a full descriptive bibliography of the 32 books produced by Lucien Pissarro's Press. A CELEBRATION OF CONTEMPORARY WOOD-ENGRAVING 49 EVANS, George Ewart. Ask the Fellows who cut the Hay. Introduction by Alun Howkins. Wood engravings by Harry Brockway Anthony Christmas David Gentleman Miriam Macgregor Howard Phipps Peter Reddick & George Tute. Ploughman's Parrot Press, 1999. 150 Limited to 280 copies (& 56 specials); lg.8vo., pp.153 + colophon; 20 wood-engravings including reaper vignette by Harry Brockway which is used to excellent effect in repetition on the buckram-backed decorated boards of the binding; printed in Joanna at the Libanus Press on Zerkall mould-made paper. A fine production, beautifully conceived & designed to form a remarkably harmonious whole despite the variety of artistic styles employed.

50 EVANS, George Ewart. Ask the Fellows who cut the Hay. Introduction by Alun Howkins. Wood engravings by Harry Brockway Anthony Christmas David Gentleman Miriam Macgregor Howard Phipps Peter Reddick & George Tute. Ploughman's Parrot Press, 1999. 350 One of 56 special copies, as previous item but specially bound in morocco-backed decorated boards with slip-case in matching decorated paper and a separate portfolio of proofs of the wood-engravings, each numbered & signed by the artist. An excellent edition entirely deserving of this deluxe treatment. 51 FANFROLICO PRESS. LINDSAY, Jack. Helen comes of age. Three Plays. The Fanfrolico Press, 1927. 55 FIRST EDITION no.51 of 500 copies on Basingwerk Parchment, signed by the author; 4to., pp.(8)221; a very good copy in original red buckram, uncut, lightly soiled dust-wrapper with line illustration by Norman Lindsay. Ransom 11. 52 FANFROLICO PRESS. THEOCRITUS. The Complete Poems translated by Jack Lindsay with woodcuts by Lionel Ellis. Fanfrolico Press, [1929] 95 FIRST EDITION, no.249 of 500 copies; lg.8vo., pp.xxiv,163; 20 full-page wood-engravings by Lionel Ellis; a very good copy of this noble edition printed at the Westminster Press; original green stained parchment with gilt-blocked vignette on upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut; backstrip faded as usual. Ridler 4. 53 FLEECE PRESS. FRANCIS, Julian. Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Fleece Press, 2012. 365 FIRST EDITION limited to 210 special copies, 4to., 333 x 335mm.; c.300pp., tipped-in frontispiece wood-engraving and 15 other tipped-in wood engravings printed from the original blocks, other illustrations throughout including virtually all Chadwick's known work; new in cloth-backed patterned boards & slip-case. A fine showing and appreciation of the work of this accomplished wood-engraver, held in high esteem by fellow students Gwenda Morgan and Rachel Reckitt, whose life was tragically cut short at El Alamein. Publication is scheduled for December 2012; orders received before publication will be supplied post free. 54 FLEECE PRESS. FRANCIS, Julian. Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Fleece Press, 2012. 200 FIRST EDITION limited to 150 standard copies, 4to., 333 x 335mm.; c.300pp., tipped-in frontispiece wood-engraving printed from the original block, other illustrations throughout including virtually all Chadwick's known work; new in cloth-backed patterned boards. Publication is scheduled for December 2012; orders received before publication will be supplied post free. 55 FLEECE PRESS. FREEDMAN, Barnett. Tone, texture, light and shade. A Barnett Freedman Picture Album. Introduced by Ian Rogerson. The Fleece Press, 2011 190 FIRST EDITION, folio, limited to 250 copies; pp.140 + colophon; one original lithograph and illustrations in colour throughout, many tipped-in and ten folding; fully captioned and with an informative introductory essay by Professor Rogerson; new in crimson cloth-backed decorated boards, paper label, by the Fine Book Bindery. A wonderful celebration of Freedman's work, his vibrant colours faithfully reproduced by J.W. Northend. INSCRIBED FROM THE PRINTER TO THE EDITOR 56 FLEECE PRESS. HASSALL, Joan. Dearest Joana. A selection of Joan Hassall's lifetime letters and art. Edited by Brian North Lee. With an introduction by John Dreyfus. [In two volumes.] Printed in Denby Dale at The Fleece Press, 2001. 350 FIRST EDITION limited to 300 sets; 2vols., pp.300(3); 'over 60 engravings, all but three printed from the wood, and around 60 line drawings and colour plates either tipped-in or printed as inserted sections, mostly full-page'. Brian North Lee contributes a substantial biographical introduction, and John Dreyfus recalls his experiences of working with Joan. Bound in quarter cloth, marbled boards, paper labels & cloth slip-case. A fine tribute beautifully put together. Fully subscribed before publication. Presentation inscription from the Printer to the Editor: 'For Brian, with much gratitude for all your hard work over several years - Simon [Lawrence] September 19th 2001'

57 FLEECE PRESS. YORKE, Malcolm. To War with Paper & Brush. Captain Edward Ardizzone, Official War Artist. The Fleece Press, 2007. 190 FIRST EDITION limited to 700 copies, landscape format; pp.169 + colophon; 124 illustrations, many in colour including several tipped-in plates; new in buckram with paper label, slip-case. An attractive addition to the Ardizzone canon, the illustrations expertly produced and presented. 58 GIBBINGS, Robert. A Tale of two benches. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings and Simon Brett. The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2000 30 FIRST EDITION limited to 120 numbered copies printed by Claire Bolton in Perpetua on Zerkall paper; pp.19 + colophon leaf; two wood-engravings; cloth-backed printed boards. Gibbings' account of purchasing wood from Pointer's timber yard in Marcham to make himself a bench is here reprinted from 'Till I End My Song' together with his engraving thereof, here first printed from the wood. Claire Bolton adds an account of the Pointer family & yard which is illustrated with one of their benches in an engraving by Simon Brett. 59 GIBBINGS, Robert. KINGLAKE, Alexander. Engraved by Robert Gibbings. A Portrait of Lady Hester [Stanhope] from Alexander William Kinglake's Eothen. Libanus Press, 1987. 65 250 numbered copies (+ 50 specials), pp.32; ten vignette wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings (seven printed from the blocks) originally commissioned by Michael Clapham for a Kynoch Press Specimen book; a handsome production on Rives rag paper; very good in linen-backed decorated boards. This copy extra-illustrated by the insertion of proof sheet with two small engravings on Japanese hand-made paper, one of the 8 issued with the deluxe edition. 60 GIBBINGS, Robert. KINGLAKE, Alexander. Engraved by Robert Gibbings. A Portrait of Lady Hester [Stanhope] from Alexander William Kinglake's Eothen. Libanus Press, 1987. 220 300 copies printed, this no.21 of 50 specials in morocco-backed decorated boards with extra suite of the engravings on eight sheets of Japanese hand-made paper in folder & slip-case; pp.32; ten vignette wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings (seven printed from the blocks) originally commissioned by Michael Clapham for a Kynoch Press Specimen book; a fine copy of this handsome production. 61 GIBBINGS, Robert. SIGURJONSSON, Johann. Loftur. A play translated from the Icelandic by Jean Young & Eleanor Arkwright with engravings on wood by S. Maberly Smith. [Printed by Robert Gibbings at the] University of Reading, 1939. 85 FIRST EDITION in English, no.18 of 105 copies; pp(8)67(3); five wood-engraved vignettes; a very good copy in original niger morocco-backed boards, blocked in gold, top edge gilt, others uncut; a handsome production on Van Gelder paper and very much in the Golden Cockerel Press style. One of a handful of books printed by Gibbings while he was Lecturer in Typography & Book Production at the University of Reading 1936-42. 62 GILL, Eric. SKELTON, Christopher. [Compiler] The Engraved Bookplates of Eric Gill 1908-1940. With an introduction by Michael Renton and an afterword by Albert Sperisen. The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1986. 45 FIRST EDITION, limited to 600 copies (+ 400 copies for Private Libraries Assoc.); pp.80 + colophon; 54pp. of illustrations (a few in red & black); a very good copy of this handsome production of Christopher Skelton's September Press in original red silk cloth & pictorial dust-wrapper; ex libris James Strohn Copley. 63 GOGMAGOG. COX, Morris. Conversation Pieces. Humorous situations revealed in fragments of dialogue. 1st Series. The Gogmagog Press, 1962. 240 50 copies, printed on Japanese Tonosawa paper. this no. '11/11 o/s', signed by Morris Cox; 25 leaves printed on one side only & joined at fore-edge; 15 monochrome printed with captions in red Rockwell Italic; display text in Figaro, Rockwell Bold & Jefferson Gothic, printed in various colours; a fine uncut copy in original pearlessent fancy paper-covered boards, printed label, acetate wrapper. A 'light-hearted and satirical series of prints... These shapes and textures...reach in this elegant book a higher art than their own humour.' Chambers & Franklin 8.

64 GOGMAGOG. COX, Morris. Paintings & Prints. [Illustrated exhibition catalogue.] Katharine House Gallery. McWhirter, 2005. 10 FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.(28); colour illustrations throughout, many full-page; fine in pictorial card wrappers. 80 items including Gogmagog Press books; introductory essay by Bradford Haas. 65 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BANNET, Ivor. The Amazons. Engravings by Clifford Webb. Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. 165 No.264 of 500 copies, sm.folio, pp.252+colophon; 12 wood-engravings (the majority full-page) by Webb and 3 sketch-maps; printed in Poliphilus with Centaur initials on Arnold's mould-made paper, slight edge browning but a very good copy in original half brown morocco, marbled sides, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Cockalorum 181. 66 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAMBERS, David & SANDFORD, Christopher. COCK-A-HOOP. A bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press Sept. 1949- Dec. 1961.. with a list of prospectuses 1920-62 and illustrations from the books. Private Libraries Association for the G.C.P., 1976. 18 FIRST EDITION, pp.126, many illustrations throughout; very good in original cloth & dust-wrapper. The final publication of the Press (Cock-a-Hoop 214); particularly useful for the detailed listing of the ephemera issued throughout the press's history. 67 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. COPPARD, A.E. Count Stefan. [Illustrated with wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.] Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. 75 FIRST EDITION, no.517 of 600 copies printed by Gibbings on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper; pp.(4)57 + colophon; frontispiece portrait & three vignette wood-engravings by Gibbings; a very good uncut copy in original yellow buckram-backed Cockerell marbled boards and pictorial dust-wrapper (faded along backstrip fold). Schwartz p.54; Chanticleer 57. 68 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. DE CHAIR, Somerset. The Silver Crescent. Published by Permission of the War Office. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. 85 FIRST EDITION, no.384 of 500 copies; 4to., pp.126 + colophon; collotype plates; printed on Arnold's mould-made paper; a very good copy in original blue morocco-backed cream canvas sides (slightly soiled) top edge gilt, others uncut. Author's endpaper sketch-maps of the Levant-Caspian Front, showing the route of Brigadier Kingstone's Column from Baghdad to Palmyra in June 1941. Pertelote 157. 69 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. ELLIS, Havelock. Kanga Creek... An Australian Idyll. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. 40 FIRST EDITION, 1375 copies; pp.68; uncut in original yellow buckram-backed boards, paper label, uncut; a little browned but a good copy of this surprisingly uncommon title. Chanticleer 5. 70 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert [Illustrator] Samson and Delilah. From the Book of Judges according to the Authorised Version. [With wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings] Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 420 No.105 of 325 copies; 4to., pp.(2)18 + colophon; title & colophon vignettes, two full-page & four half-page wood-engravings by Roberrt Gibbings at his most muscular, including two of his most celebrated images; a very good uncut copy of this first in the series of GCP 'quarto picture-books'; original cream linen & printed dust-wrapper (Frayed with 30% loss of plain backstrip fold). Chanticleer 30. Ownership inscription of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel, November 1925, with his three-leaf Hatchard's annual account for April 1925-26. An Australian-born diplomat, Kerr's was ambassador to Stalin's Russia from 1942 to '46 and wrote memorably from Moscow in 1943 to his friend Lord Pembroke: 'My Dear Reggie, In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt. We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr H.M. Ambassador'

71 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. JONES, David. The Chester Play of the Deluge. Edited by J. Isaacs, with engravings on wood by David Jones. Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927 950 No.165 of 275 copies printed by Gibbings on handmade paper; 4to., pp.iv,16 + colophon; ten large wood-engravings by David Jones; a nice uncut copy in original maroon buckram, pictorial dust-wrapper differentially faded and a little frayed with minor loss at head of backstrip fold. 'In the opinion of some the engravings in this book are the greatest graphic achievement of the Press. They are, however, very poorly printed in the book.' Chanticleer 52. 72 GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. THE TENBURY LETTERS. Selected & edited by Edmund Fellowes & Edward Pine. Golden Cockerel Press, 1942. 30 FIRST EDITION, no.135 of 300 copies; pp.225 & 7 collotype facsimiles (including letters of Scott, Mrs Piozzi, Horace Walpole & Thomas Jefferson); original buckram slightly marked, backstrip a little faded, top edge gilt, others uncut. Discovered in the library at St Michael's Coll., Tenbury, the collection includes naval, military, political & literary documents, mainly 18th & 19thC, including Byron, Crabbe, Davy, Babbage & Faraday. 73 GOUDY, Frederic W. BANNING, Kendall. Songs of the Love Unending. A Sonnet Sequence. [Printed by Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the Village Press, New York, for the] Brothers of the Book, Chicago, 1912. 28 375 copies printed, pp.16; gravure frontispiece of George Frederick Watts' 'Love & Life'; wood-engraved floriated initials & Press device on colophon; a handsome first showing of Goudy Old Style on 'crown, sceptre & book' watermarked hand-made paper; well preserved in original holland-backed printed boards, uncut. 74 GRABHORN PRESS. GRABHORN, Robert. Nineteenth Century Type displayed in 18 fonts cast by United States Founders now in the cases of the Grabhorn Press. Sold by David Magee, San Francsisco, 1959. 120 FIRST EDITION, limited to 300 copies (250 for sale) signed by Robert & Edwin Grabhorn; oblong format, pp.(48); printed in various colours with ornaments & decorations; with an introductory essay by Robert Grabhorn; a very good copy in original buckram-backed decorated boards, morocco label. 75 GRABHORN PRESS. HELLER, Elinor Raas & MAGEE, David & Dorothy. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press. 1915-1956. [First published in two volumes at the Grabhorn Press, 1940 & 1957. Now reprinted in facsimile by] Alan Wofsey Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1975. 85 Folio, 500 copies printed; 2vols. in one, pp.xiv(6)193((3); xvi(6)120; illustrations & facsimile pages throughout; printed in red & black Grabhorn types; a very good copy of this useful facsimile edition in original buckram. 76 GRAHAM, Rigby. Paddy upon the Canal. [An anonymous 19thC 'canal song' about an Irish navvy and his success with the girls. Illustrated with four drawings by Rigby Graham.] [Bonnefant Press] Banholt, 2012. 20 Edition limited to 56 numbered copies; pp.(16); four drawings by Rigby Graham 'from the 1960s', printed in different single colours; hand-set in Post-Medieval and printed on handmade Magnani paper; new in pictorial yellow double-folded card wrappers. 77 GRAHAM, Rigby. McGEE, Thomas D'Arcy. A Legend of Antrim. Woodcuts by Rigby Graham. [Bonnefant Press] Banholt, 2012. 30 Edition limited to 56 numbered copies; folio (285 x 200mm.); pp.(16); three large woodcuts by Rigby Graham; hand-set in Neue Hammer-Unziale and Wallau, printed in black & crimson on handmade Loisin paper; new in printed grey double-folded card wrappers. A 19thC re-telling of an ancient Irish legend: young man uses a trick to gain possession of land, and a fair bride.

78 GRAHAM, Rigby. VAN EIJK, Hans. Rigby Graham in Print. A Comprehensive Bibliography. Azul Press, 2012 65 FIRST EDITION limited to 250 copies, folio, pp.144 + addenda leaf; illustrations in line & colour throughout; new in burgundy cloth & pictorial dust-wrapper. 276 (+3) books & pamphlets illustrated by RG over a sixty year period and over 100 others in which his work appears; a beautifully produced & thoroughly researched work. 79 GREGYNOG PRESS. GRUFFUDD Ab Yr Ynad Coch. Llywelyn 1282. Lament for Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd. Translated by Joseph P. Clancy. [Edited with a foreword by Gwyn Thomas.] Gwasg Gregynog, 1982. 25 No. 156 of 200 copies on Barcham Green hand-made paper; folio; pp.18 + colophon; ornamented title & decorative initials in red & black by Jonah Jones; a very good copy in slightly rubbed original printed red wrappers. Text in Welsh & English. 80 GREGYNOG PRESS. HABERLY, Loyd. Gwendolin seventy-five years on. A Critique by David G. Lewis, Robin Nicolas [&] Eric Sweet. Gwasg Gregynog, 2010. 90 FIRST EDITION, limited to 150 numbered copies; lg.8vo., pp.37 + colophon; two pages from the 1472 Dante reproduced in colour, four facsimile leaves of the Gregynog edition of Bridges' Eros & Psyche with Burne-Jones' line illustrations for which Haberly designed the Gwendolin type, hand-set in type newly-cast from the Gwendolin matrices discovered at the Press; other illustrationsin text; new in decorated boards & slip-case. An interesting exploration of the typeface and the background to its development. 81 GREGYNOG PRESS. VON ESCHENBACH, Wolfram. The Romance of Parzival and the Holy Grail. Retold by Carl Lofmark. With wood engravings by Stefan Mrozewski. Gwasg Gregynog, 1990 300 Large Folio, 460 x 340mm, no.42 of 195 copies (+ 15 specials), printed in red & black 14 & 16pt Bembo on Zerkall mould-made paper; pp.x,32(2); 12 full-page wood engravings of great intricacy; calligraphic initial & Press device by Ieuan Rees, designed by David Esslemont; a fine copy in original crimson leather-backed decorated boards by Alan Wood; prospectus sheet & GG compliments slip laid in. One of the finest productions of the revived Press which was originally commissioned by the Gregynog Press in 1933. Mrozewski's engravings are here reproduced from a set of signed proofs taken from the original woodblocks in 1936. 82 GRIMM, Brothers. BLAMIRES, David. Danger & Destiny in the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm. [with] Jorinde and Joringel. Newly translated by David Blamires and illustrated by Clifford Harper. Incline Press: Oldham: 2012 45 FIRST EDITION limited to (fewer than) 300 numbered copies; pp.49 + colophon; 8 tipped-in facsimile plates in colour, various illustrations in line including new full-page & title vignette illustrations in line by Clifford Harper; new in buckram-backed decorated boards, paper label. A handsome production for the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Grimm's fairytales which first examines how the German original was compiled and altered by the Grimms through their various editions, then analyses the role of the forest in the tales: 'a setting of mystery and danger that is rarely described though well understood'. 83 GUTHRIE, Stuart. MILLER, Geoffrey [Illustrator] The Beatitudes from The Gospel according to St. Matthew. The Private Press of S. Guthrie Chichester 1935. 85 EDITION LIMITED to 120 copies, this unnumbered; 150 x 120mm, 16 leaves printed in magenta with Bell types on Barcham Green hand-made, rectos only; wood-engraved frontispiece by Geoffrey Miller, fleuron title-border & head-piece; a very good, unopened copy of this scarce item in original cloth-backed gold-decorated boards. 84 HAMMER CREEK PRESS. BURKE, Jackson [& others] John S. Fass & The Hammer Creek Press. Essays by Jackson Burke, Eugene M. Ettenberg. Check-List by Herman Cohen and Foreword by Aveve Cohen. David R. Godine, Boston, 1998. 25 FIRST EDITION, 1000 copies printed at Stinehour; pp.36(4) + 16pp. of facsimiles in several colours; new in cloth boards, gilt; a fine production, designed by Jerry Kelly, a useful introduction to the Press with 56-item check-list.

85 HARRAP, George G. [Editor] ROSENKRANTZ, Baron Arild [Illustrator] Love Lyrics from Five Centuries. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. George G. Harrap, 1932. 65 FIRST EDITION, no.104 of 125 deluxe copies printed at Oxford on Millbourn hand-made rag paper; sm.4to., pp.198(2); frontispiece & four other tipped-in colour plates with a fantasy/neo-romantic feel; a fine copy of this handsome production in original full vellum, glacine wrapper & slip-case; top edge gilt, others uncut. 86 HEARN, Lafcadio. Insects and Greek Poetry. William Edwin Rudge, 1926. 55 FIRST EDITION limited to 550 copies on hand-made paper; 12mo., pp.(20) + colophon; very good in original blue boards, lettered in gold, uncut; glacine wrapper. 87 HIGH HOUSE PRESS. JONES, Sir William [Translator] The Poem of Amriolkais. One of the seven Arabian poems or moallaka which were suspended on the temple at Mecca. Rendered into English by Sir William Jones... With four wood-engravings by Eileen Mayo... now reprinted by James E. Masters at the High House Press Shaftebury Dorset 1930 55 No.91 of 150 copies on mould-made paper (+ 50 specials); sm.4to., pp.(4)28 + colophon; four fine full-page white-line wood-engravings; a very good unopened copy of this uncommon title in later tan calf-backed decorated paper boards. Ridler 8. 88 HOPPE, E.O. KING, Richard. The Book of Fair Women. Jonathan Cape, 1922. 265 FIRST EDITION limited to 560 copies, this marked 'Presentation', sm.4to., pp.27(3) + colophon; 32 tipped-in photogravure plates from photographs by Hoppé with captions on facing page; printed at Curwen Press; a good copy of this scarce work in original cloth-backed decorated boards, paper labels; lightly rubbed & soiled, a little wear at extremities but sound. From the library of author & publisher John Hadfield. POLIPHILUS & BLADO SPECIMEN 89 JONSON, Ben. The English Grammar made by Ben Jonson for the Benefit of All Strangers Out of His Observation of the English Language Now Spoken and in Use. [first published 1640.] Printed & Published by the Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1927. 85 FIRST EDITION, 16mo., pp.64; 3pp. types and double fold-out specimen of the newly cut Poliphilus & Blado types as a first showing of which this was printed; some light spotting but well preserved in original boards (rubbed), paper label. Designed by Stanley Morison with his note on the types at p.61. Extremely scarce and not to be confused with the enlarged second edition which appeared the following year. Appleton 269. 90 LANE CHRISTMAS BOOK. LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Limited Editions. A Prose fancy: together with Confessio Amantis A Sonnet. Privately Printed for Richard Le Gallienne, Elkin Mathews, John Lane and their friends, Christmas, 1893. 40 First Separate Edition, 700 copies printed; 16mo., pp.(4)12(4); a very good uncut copy in original glazed paper-backed printed canson wrappers, slightly soiled, & glacine wrapper (frayed). Nelson 75. 91 LEWIS, Wyndham. The Role of Line in Art. With six drawings to illustrate the argument. Edited and with an introduction by Paul W. Nash. The Strawberry Press, Witney, 2007. 110 FIRST EDITION limited to 156 copies (+ ten specials); 4to., pp.37(3); 12 plates (6 in colour) of Lewis's drawings; hand-printed on Zerkall mould-made paper with titling & initials in red; a handsome production in russet cloth, decorated in gold, and slip-case. Written in 1938 for the Corvinus Press but never issued, the sheets and plates having been destroyed by bombing in May 1941. This edition has been recreated from the sole surviving copy, with an historical introduction by the printer.