EASTER LIST 2015 Collinge & Clark 13 Leigh Street London WC1H 9EW 0044 (0) 20 7387 7105 http://www.collingeandclark.co.uk collingeandclark@aol.com 1.(Abattoir Editions) Hahn (Robert). Routine Risks. 8vo, 21cm, 68p, (Harry Duncan) Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1976. Handset in Romulus Italic and Bold. Number 191 of 200 copies printed in black and blue on Wookey Hole special hand-made paper, damped before printing. Bound in light brown Tarei paper boards, with white paper labels printed in black on the front and spine. A fine copy. 25 2.(Abattoir Editions) In Place: A Sequence by John Hollander. 8vo, 22cm, 48p, Abattoir Editions, The University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1978. Handset in Cloister Old Style Roman with Spectrum Italic lowercase. One of 271 copies (this being one of 247 on Imago hand-made paper) damped before printing, bound in dark grey cloth boards, printed spine label. A fine copy. 30 3.(Abattoir Editions) Father of Waters, poems 1965-1976 by Ben Howard, with an introduction by E.L. Mayo. 8vo, 19.5cm, 88p, (Harry Duncan) Abbatoir Editions, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1979. Handset in Walbaum with Ultra Bodoni for display. Number 093 of 175 press-numbered copies on Gutenberg Laid paper printed in black and sage-green. Bound in light grey green cloth boards with a text paper label, on the spine. A fine copy. 20 4.(Acorn Press) A Posy of Wild Flowers Gathered in the Countryside of English Literature and Furnished with appropriate Sentiments by Victor Bonham-Carter and illustrated with woodengravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Square 8vo, 19cm, 128p, Set at The Whittington Press; printed by Jonathan Stephenson at The Rocket Press; published by The Acorn Press, London, 1983. Set in Monotype Bell and printed in several colours on Zerkall paper. One of 360 copies signed by Bonham Carter, Illustrated with 50 wood-engravings, nearly all printed from the blocks. Bound in flax canvas with a wood-engraving inset of the front cover, A fine copy. 40 Revised edition, first published in 1946. This edition published jointly by The Acorn Press, London, and The Exmoor Press, Dulverton.
5.(Aliquando Press) Cobden-Sanderson (Thomas James). Credo. 8vo, 21.5cm, 21p, (William Rueter), The Aliquando Press, Toronto, 1980. Handset in Bembo and printed in black, with orange and yellow for display.. Number 10 of just 15 (100) copies printed on Frankfurt White paper with Torinoko endpapers. Honey half buckram with Cockerell marbled paper, printed spine label. A fine copy of an attractive book. 100 6.Alloway (Lawrence). Dimensions. British Abstract Art 1948-1957. Arranged by Lawrence Alloway, additional research by Toni del Renzio, with the co-operation of the I.C.A. O'Hana Gallery, London 1958. 8vo, 25cm, 20p, O'Hana Gallery, 13 Carlos Place, 1957. Original paper covers with embossed lettering. Printed on green and pink papers. Chronology, 65 item catalogue. Designed by Toni del Renzio, A very good to fine copy. 120 Works by Adams, Ayres, Avary-Wilson, Blow, Bowen, Cattleugh, Cohen B, Cohen H., Cooper, Cordell, Davie, Denny, Ernest, Feiler, Frost, Gear, Green, Hamilton, Heath, Hepworth, Hill, Hilton, Hull, Heron, Irwin, Kinley, Lanyon, Martin K, Martin M., McHale, Moynihan, Nicholson, Paolozzi, Pasmore, Rumney, Scott, Smith, Stroud, Turnbull, Wilde, Wynter. 7.Baro (Gene). Nine poems, by Gene Baro; Images, by Gordon House. 8vo, [21]p, Tillotsons Ltd, Bolton, January 1968. One of 200 copies on antique laid paper. Full-page illustrations. Near fine in pictorial laminated boards. 20 8.Benham (Charles Edwin). Essex Ballads. Illustrated by Andrew Dodds. 8vo, 47pp., Benham and Company, Colchester, 1960. Limited edition for private distribution. Title-page in moss-green and black, 14 line illustrations some printed full-page. Black cloth, titled in gilt up the spine, russet label on the front board, pictorial endpapers. A very good to fine copy. 30 Presentation copy: "To Edward J. Moss, Esq., to whom I owe much with best wishes Andrew Dodds" 9.(Bodley Head booklet) Ambler (Eric). The Jealous God. Foolscap 8vo, pp.16,the Bodley Head, London, December 1964. One of 200 copies printed at the Stellar Pressfor private distribution by the Bodley Head. Sewn into orange paper wrappers, title printed in a private typeface, Grot R, drawn by Michael Harvey. A fine copy. 35 10.(Bodley Head booklet) William Daniell's A Voyage Round Great Britain, 1814-1825: a note on its production & the subsequent history of the aquatint plates now owned by Nattali & Maurice. By Iain Bain. Foolscap 8vo, pp.32 (inc colophon), folding plate,the Bodley Head, London, December 1966. One of 300 copies (including 100 for sale) printed at the Stellar Press, illustrated with details from seven of the pictures in monochrome, a folding plate in colour and a photograph of a colour plate. Sewn into red pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. 45 The story of the aquatint plates subsequently purchased by the Tate Gallery. (Lambert & Ratcliffe 6)
11.(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 1977. 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. 175 (Lambert & Ratcliffe 17) 12.Burnett (David). Hero & Leander. A Poem. Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. 8vo, [45]pp., privately printed at Oxford University Press,1975. One of 200 copies (this marked out-of-series and not signed by the author). 18 linocuts printed in pink, various sizes. Sewn and glued into white paper covers with pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy with a loosely inserted T.L.s from David Burnett addressed to the Literary Editor of The New Review asking to review the book. 45 First edition. For the engravings, which were done in 1969, Shirley Smith took an unpaid term off from his teaching at Marlborough. 13.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, 1948. Rust cloth, spine gilt, lacks dust-jacket. A very good copy. 100 "for the printer from a completely satisfied author 26 Oct 48." 14.(Richard Clay & Sons) Twenty-seven specimen pages arranged to show types suitable for book printing set up from the last chapters of Moby Dick. 8vo, 22cm, pp.[iv],28, Richard Clay & Sons, The Chaucer Press, Bungay, 1931. Decorative paper-covered boards, black buckram back titled in gilt. A fine copy. 60 15.(Douglas Cleverdon) Farquhar (George). The Beaux Stratagem: A Comedy. With seven engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur, and an introduction by Bonamy Dobree. 8vo, pp.xxviii,128 + extra set of prints at the rear, Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge, for Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol, 1929. Number 67 of 70 (527) copies signed by the artist, printed upon Batchelor hand-made paper and with an extra set of the engravings in the final state in a pocket at the rear. 7 engraved plates by J.E. Laboureur and with an extra set of engravings loose in a compartment on the rear paste-down. Quarter stiff vellum, titled in gilt on the spine, stamped in gold with a design by the artist on the upper boards. Armorial bookplate of Stanley William Sykes. A fine copy. 295 The second issue, printed by Walter Lewis at Cambridge University Press. The first issue, printed at the Garden City Press, New York, to the design of Stanley Morison in 1928, proved so disappointing that the English half of the edition (the odd numbers) was suppressed and this reprint commissioned. Of this second edition, 77 copies in various states, are specially bound with an extra set of plates.
16.(Cuckoo Hill Press) The Apostles' Creed. [With 15 wood-engravings by Philip Ross.] Demy 8vo, [20]pp., Cuckoo Hill Press, Pinner, for Philip Ross, Great Ayton, 1965. One of 82 (84) copies handset in Monotype Albertus and printed in black (the opening page in red and black) on Barcham Green's hand-made paper. Dark blue Mi-teintes Canson endpapers. Bound by Rigby Graham and Trevor Hickman in blue buckram, with gilt spine titling and a gilt cross, designed by Graham on the front cover. A fine copy. 100 Scarce. Published by the artist, Beech House, High Street, Great Ayton, Yorkshire. Immaculately printed by David Chambers. 17.(Cuckoo Hill Press) Count Potocki of Montalk. Meillerie. [With a wood-engraving by Mark Severin.] 8vo, 16pp., Cuckoo Hill Press, Pinner, [1973]. One of 139 (173) copies set in Monotype Sabon, revised by hand, printed on hand-made paper. Honey-coloured buckram, spine gilt. A fine copy. 35 Printing was completed in 1972, but not bound until 1973. 3 copies were printed on pink paper; 31 had a signed proof of the engraving on Japanese paper loosely inserted. 18.(Curwen Press) G.B. Bodoni's Preface to the Manuale Tipografico of 1818. Now first translated into English, with an introduction by H.V. Marrot. Foolscap 4to, pp.57, [Curwen Press for] Elkin Mathews Ltd, London, 1925. Number 191 of 310 copies printed on Van Gelder paper. Pink paper-covered boards, titled in black, slightly worn and faded. A very good copy. 50 Printed in Monotype Bodoni at the Curwen Press 19.(Curwen Press) Woodward (William Harrison). Elena. Demy 8vo, 22cm, pp.[iv], 256, London: The Medici Society, 1929. One of 25 de luxe copies on 'Ellerslie'paper (this not numbered); decorative borders in red and black. Bound in full red cloth, spine gilt, decorative dust-jacket a little chipped and soiled. A very good copy. 100 Curwen Press file copy with a shelf-mark in pencil on the front free endpaper and various neat notes in ink on the rear of the dust-jacket. 20.(Curwen Press) A Working Handbook of Types in use at the Curwen Press. 12mo, 18cm, 38 pages, The Curwen Press, London, January, 1931. Printed on a highly fibrous paper; photographic wrappers showing the words 'Curwen Press' spelled out in pieces of metal type, upper cover very slightly worn. A very good to fine copy of a rare item - well in advance of its time. 150 Quite definitely uncommon, the specimen book has a rather Germanic feel to it. Listed in extenso are Caslon, Walbaum, Lutetia, Baskerville, Imprint, Garamond, Bembo, Plantin, Koch Kursiv, Kennerley, Bernhard, Cloister, Vesta, Maximilian, Cable, Curwen Sanserif, Cloister Black.
21.(Cygnet Press) Lindsay (Maurice). The Run from Life, more poems 1942-1972. 8vo, 21cm, 46p, Printed & published by the Cygnet Press, Burford, 1975. Machine- and handset, text in Ehrhardt, title in Castellar. One of 125 copies printed in black (titlepage printed in black and brown). Sewn and glued into Glastonbury Fawn Antique Laid wrappers cut flush, printed in brown. A fine copy. 25 Actually a proof copy, this is not numbered and is printed on grey paper rather than cream antique laid. 22.(Doves Press) In Principio. [The Bible: Genesis, First chapter.] Small 8vo, six leaves unnumbered, The Doves Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, 1911. Set in Doves face type and printed in red and black upon specially watermarked handmade paper. This is a full set of the sheets, sewn, but unbound. Near fine condition. 120 (DP26) 23.Dwiggins (W.A.). Layout in Advertising. First edition, 8vo, 22.5cm, pp.xii,200, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1928. Decorative vignettes by the author; illustrations within the text. Decorated red paper-covered sides, black cloth back, lettered in gilt. Lack dust-jacket, but a very good to fine copy. 160 24.Fairbank (Alfred). A Handwriting Manual. Second edition (revised), 8vo, 21.5cm, 40p + 21 plates, The Dryad Press, Leicester, 1947. Black-and-white plates, illustrations in the text, printed at the Curwen Press. Blue cloth, titled in white. A very good clean copy. 40 Presentaion copy: "For Vera [Law] from Fred." 25.Fairbank (Alfred). A Book of Scripts. Revised edition, crown 8vo, pp.40 + 64 plates, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1960. Line illustrations in the text and plates. Decorative paper-covered boards. A fair copy lacking backstrip and dust-jacket. 100 From the library of the author. With extensive and valuable pencil corrections in his hand. 26.Fell (John). A Specimen of the Several Sorts of Letter given to the University by Dr. John Fell Oxford, 1693. The first English Type Specimen Book, reproduced in collotype facsimile from the most perfect copy known. With an Introduction, Census and Handlist. 8vo, 16 p. : facsim.: front., 27 l. ; 23 cm., London : J. Tregaskis & Son, 1928. One of 250 copies printed at Oxford University Press on handmade paper; handsome marbled paper-covered boards damaged at pull-out of slipcase. Black paper-covered slipcase. Generally, a very good tissue-guarded copy. 70 Inscribed by Hugh Tregaskis. 27.(First Edition Club) Symons (A.J.A., editor). A Bibliographical Catalogue of the First Loan Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts held by the First Edition Club. Demy 8vo, pp.[xii],178, Privately printed [by the Curwen Press] for The First Edition Club, London, 1922. Number 406 of 500 copies printed from Caslon Monotype on Haesbeek handmade paper.
Illustrations in text. Mottled paper-covered boards, white buckram back with red printed labels on spine and upper board and spares tipped in at the rear. Endpapers slightly browned. A very good clean copy with the stamp of Blackwell Antiquarian Dept. Ship Street, Oxford to the title-page. 40 Presentation inscription [from A.J.A. Symons]: "Archibald Campbell-Murdoch very gratefully from his friend the editor." 28. (First Edition Club) Jackson (Holbrook). Maxims of Books and Reading. Small 8vo, pp.33, colophon, The First Edition Club, London, 1934. One of 400 copies printed in Erasmus type on Pannekoek paper by A.A.M Stols at the Halcyon Press. Pale blue semi-stiff wrappers. A fine copy, uncut and unopened. 40 29.(Fleece Press) Thomas (Helen). A Memory of W.H. Hudson. Foreword by Myfanwy Thomas. With a wood engraving by Michael Renton. 8vo, 16pp., (Simon Lawrence) Fleece Press, Wakefield, 1984. One of only 40 (190) copies specially bound, and signed by Myfanwy Thomas. Handset and printed in SB Caslon on Velin Arches Blanc. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece. Quarter cloth with patterned paper (designed by Edwina Ellis), covered boards. A fine copy. 150 30.(Fleece Press) Thomas (Helen). A Memory of W.H. Hudson. Introduced by Myfanwy Thomas & illustrated by Michael Renton. Square 8vo, [16]pp., The Fleece Press, Wakefield, 1984. One of 300 (recte 190) copies set in SB Caslon and printed on Velin Arches Blanc paper. Woodengraved portrait by Michael Renton. Blue Zerkall Ingres paper-covered boards with printed spine label. A near fine copy with the loose insert announcing that the book was, by miscalculation, printed in an edition of 150 copies only, plus the 40 specials, rather than the 300 copies stated on the colophon. 75 31.(Fleece Press) Richards (Vyvyan). T.E. Lawrence: book designer, his friendship with Vyvyan Richards. Wide Demy 8vo, pp.[viii],20 + colophon, Fleece Press, Wakefield, 1985. One of 200 (250) copies handset in SB Caslon and printed on Velin Arches Blanc paper. Woodengraved portrait frontispiece by Peter Reddick. Quarter maroon cloth with printed spine label, Sage Reynolds paste paper-covered boards. A fine copy with a prospectus and brief note from Simon Lawrence loosely inserted. 95 First published in 1937. 32.(Fleece Press) Lee (Brian North). Bookplates by Simon Brett. 8vo, 19cm, pp.57, colophon, Fleece Press, Wakefield, 1989. One of 220 copies printed in red and black on Zerkall paper. 28 wood engraved bookplates, 1 being tipped in. Special paper-covered sides by Simon Brett, grey linen spine with printed label. A fine copy. 85 33.(Fleuron) Symons (A.J.A.). Emin: The Governor of Equatoria. Foolscap 4to, 21.5cm, pp.[viii],47, London: The Fleuron Ltd, 1928. Set in Lutetia type (the first book in England thus) and printed at the Curwen Press on fine wove paper. Number 25 of 300 copies. Curwen patterned paper-covered sides, black cloth back, titled in
gilt. A fine copy. 130 "inscribed for Sidney and P.J. In hearty acknowledgement of their suggestions and criticisms, and as a tribute to their unexampled patience during the construction of this masterpiece very cordially AJA Symons" Also with an ALs on First Edition Club letterhead regretting that due to the greed of the publisher they owe him the unreasonable sum of 12s. 6d. 34.Gill (Eric). Sacred & Secular &c. 8vo, pp.200, London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., for Hague & Gill Ltd, 1940. Printed in Joanna type on wove paper. 7 full-page illustrations and a tailpiece from line drawings by Denis Tegetmeier. Red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Grey paper dust-jacket printed in red, slightly chipped at the head of spine. A very good copy. 60 Evan Gill's copy with his marginal notes in pencil. (Gill 45) 35.Gill (Eric). Letters of Eric Gill. Edited by Walter Shewring. First edition, 8vo, pp.480, Jonathan Cape, London, 1947. 12 illustrations printed separately; red cloth, spine gilt, lacks white paper dust-jacket. A very nice copy with two of Evan Gill's carbons loosely inserted. 30 Inscribed: "To Peter from his father Evan R. Gill, January 1948, See p.264." 36.(Glade Press) Printing's excellencie, the Latin poem 'Typographiae excellentia', 1718 by Claude Louis Thiboust, in the 1745 version of his son Claude Charles Thiboust. With an introduction and English translation by A.S. Osley. 12mo, 17cm, 24p, (A.S. Osley) Glade Press, Wormley, 1978. Handset in Romanee, the title in Open Kapitalen. One of 24 copies (this not numbered) printed in black on white Basingwerk Parchment. Bound in red buckram, with a buff paper label, printed in black, Abbey Mills Marigold endpapers. A fine copy. 50 A.S. Osley's copy. 37.(Glade Press) Correct writing, an extract from Johannes Nemius' Orthographiae Ratio (1572), introduced and translated by A.S. Osley. 12mo, 17.5cm, 19p, (A.S. Osley) The Glade Press, Wormley, 1980. Handset in Plantin, Hyperion, Pegasus and Albertus. Number 19 of 20 copies printed in black and brown on white wove paper. Bound in blue cloth boards with a blue paper label, printed in black. Blue Tre Kroner endpapers. A fine copy. 50 38.(Golden Cockerel Press) Strong (L.A.G.). The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons. Being Random Reflections upon the Silver Jubilee of King George V. [With Illustrations by Eric Ravilious.] 8vo, pp.43[1], colophon, Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1935. Standard edition; one of 1,000 (1,212) copies printed on Basingwerk Parchment. Type: Perpetua. One full-page and one half-page wood engraving, fifteen other wood-engraved vignettes (some repeats), by Eric Ravilious. Quarter blue cloth with blue marbled paper-covered sides.extremities somewhat worn, but internally a very good copy. 120
39. (Golden Cockerel Press) Apollonius of Tyre, Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri, translated from the Latin by Paul Turner. [With an Introduction.] Line-engravings by Mark Severin. Crown 4to, 68pp., The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1956. One of 225 (300) copies (this not numbered) printed in Bembo on Saunders mould-made paper at the Chiswick Press. 6 copper engravings reproduced in collotype. Quarter orange morocco, spine gilt, maroon canvas boards, with a design by Severin in gold on the front, top edge gilt. Bookplate. A fine copy. 160 40.(Grian-aig Press) [Cave (Roderick.] The Private Press: Handbook to an exhibition held in the School of Librarianship. 8vo, 22cm, iv,30p, Printed at the Grian-aig Press, Greenock, for Loughborough Technical College, Leics., 1968. One of 450 (600) copies in paper wrappers, 19 illustrations in the text. A fine copy. A brief but sound historical survey of the private press from its rise soon after the birth of printing in Mainz to its efflorescence in Leicestershire in the 1960s. 60 Presentation copy, inscribed in gold ink: "Congratulations to Roderick Cave from Beatrice Warde, May 6 1968". 41.(Grian-aig Press) Prince (Joan). Poems. 8vo, 26pp., (Thomas Rae) Grian-aig Press, Greenock, 1969. Number 219 of 240 copies printed in Perpetua on Mellotex paper and signed by the author. This one of forty copies for distribution to the Society of Private Printers. White card covers with moss-green wrappers printed in gold on the front. A very good to fine copy. 15 42.(Gruffyground Press) Scupham (Peter). Natura. With a wood-engraving by Peter Reddick. Narrow 8vo, [16]pp., Printed at the Windhover Press, University of Iowa, for the Gruffyground Press, Sidcot, 1978. One of 450 copies handset in Romanee printed in black on white wove Windhover hand-made paper with the Press watermark, signed by the author and artist. Sewn into overlapping pink-brown Barcham Green hand-made paper covers printed in black on the front. A fine copy. 25 43. (Gruffyground Press) Thwaite (Anthony). Telling Tales, with a wood engraving by Simon Brett. 8vo, 25cm, 14pp, The Florin Press, Biddenden, for the Gruffyground Press, Sidcot, 1981. Text set in Lutetia. One of 230 copies, signed by the author and artist, printed on white Zerkall mould-made paper. Sewn into white card covers with yellow-brown Kozo hand-made paper wrappers, printed label. A fine copy. 60 44. (Karuba Press) Jung (Ruth M.). Haiku from Telegraph Hill. With six lino cuts by Mary Ellen Cranston. 12mo, 15cm, 24p, Karuba Press, San Francisco, 1963. Handset in Weiss roman. One of about 200 copies printed in black (the linocuts in yellow-orange, bistre, violet, brown and olive) on Corsican Antique wove paper interleaved with blue, yellow and pink Neenah onionskin paper. Sewn into turquoise Teton paper wrappers printed in black and yellow-olive on the front. A fine copy. 50 The use of the semi-transparent coloured interleaves producing different combinations of text and illustrations is effective.
45.(Kit-Cat Press) Damon the Mower. Four Poems by Andrew Marvell. With eight drawings by Frederick Palmer. 8vo, 21cm, 22p, Kit-Cat Press, Hunton Bridge, 1975. Handset in Palatino. One of 200 copies printed in black (the drawings in green) on Mellotex paper. Sewn into white card covers cut flush, pasted into grey green Ingres paper wrappers printed on the front. A fine copy. 20 46.(Kit-Cat Press) Marvell (Andrew). Daphnis and Chloe. Narrow Crown 8vo, pp.12, Kit-Cat Press, Moreton-in-Marsh, 1986. Number 32 of 250 copies handset and printed in Lutetia with a linocut frontispiece by Colin Reeve. Strawberry Glastonbury cover boards with strawberry board wrappers printed in blue and black. A fine copy. 15 47.Lamesle (Claude). The Type-Specimens of Claude Lamesle: a facsimile of the first edition printed at Paris in 1742. With an Introduction by A.F. Johnson. 8vo, pp.11 + [91] specimens, printed on one side of the page only], Menno Herztberger 7 Co., 1965. Printed in black (with occasional use of red) on good quality paper; Blue paper-covered boards, a little faded at the head and on the spine, decorative title label on the upper board. Near fine. 45 48.(Laverock Press) Bain (Iain). John Sharpe, Publisher and Bookseller, Piccadilly; a preliminary survey of his activities in the London Book Trade 1800-1840. 8vo, 21.5cm, 21p, 3 illus (half-tone), Laverock Press, Newnham Baldock, 1960. Set in Bembo. One of 40 copies printed on Abbey Mills Greenfield paper. Sewn in Candlewick Green paper covers printed with a device used by Sharpe for his 'Library of the Belles Lettres' of 1830. A fine copy. 40 49.(Laverock Press) James Bain Ltd, Retrospectus and Prospectus 1961. 8vo, 20cm, Privately printed by Laverock Press for James Bain Ltd, 14 William IV Street, London, 1961. Set in Garamond and Bembo. 150 copies printed in black and green on white Abbey Mills Greenfield paper. Wire stitched in white Glastonbury covers printed in black and green. Just slightly yellowed. A very good copy. 20 50.(Laverock Press) Bain (Iain). John Bell's Album de Novo Castro: a description of a Commonplace Book together with a brief Life of its first Owner, Bookseller, Land Surveyor and Collector, 1783-1864. With line-block reproductions, one of a sketch of Bell by Joseph Crawhall, and another of Bell's devices. 8vo, 20.5cm, 26p, Laverock Press, Newnham, 1963. Handset in SB Caslon Old Face. One of 80 copies printed in black (the Bewick engraving on the title-page and the press-mark in brown) on Grosvenor Chater paper. This one of 68 copies sewn and glued into Cornwall Stone paper wrappers, cut flush, printed in black and brown with a device on the front cover. A fine copy. 60 Printed for the PLA Society of Private Printers. An account of a noteworthy commonplace album which contains a fine store of early nineteenth century Newcastle anecdote.
51.(Libanus Press) Clarke (Roger). Zagreus & other poems. 8vo, 21cm, 48p, Libanus Press, Marlborough, 1985. Text set in Bembo. Number 36 of 75 copies printed on Velin d'arches hand-made paper, signed by the author. Title-page in blue and black. Decorative blue and white linen boards, titled in black. A fine copy. 50 Libanus Contemporary Writings.Also issued in an unlimited edition. 52.Meynell (Francis). English Printed Books. With 8 plates in colour and 21 illustrations in black & white. 8vo, pp.48 + colour plates, Collins, London, 1946. Decorative paper-covered boards with matching dust-jacket.. A very good copy indeed. 20 Presentation copy, inscribed: "George Hamilton from Francis Meynell, October 2 1946". 53.(Monotype Recorder) Volume xxxvi, Number 1 of The Monotype Recorder for Spring 1937. Black Letter: its Origin & Current Use [by Stanley Morison]. 4to, 28p, Monotype corporation, London, Spring 1937. 10 illustrations; printed wrappers. Just very slightly spotted. A very good copy indeed. 20 (Appleton 146) Morison had commissioned a condensed black-letter face from Berthold Wolpe, and the first showing of Sachsenwald, in 11 sizes, appears on the back cover. 54.(Monotype Recorder) The Monotype Recorder: Centenary Issue. New series: number 10 1997. One Hundred Years of Type Making, 1897-1997. Edited by Andrew Boarg and Lawrence Wallis. Foreword by John Dreyfus. 4to, p.56, Monotype Typography, 1997. Profusely illustrated; grey semi-stiff wrappers, titled in green. A fine copy. 15 55.(Nonesuch Press) Lovely Food: a cookery notebook by Ruth Lowinsky with table decorations invented & drawn by Thomas Lowinsky. 8vo, [16] 127 [1]p, The Nonesuch Press, London, 1931. Unlimited edition on wove paper; Caslon type, printed at the Fanfare Press. Light brown cloth lettered in gilt down the spine, green paper dust-jacket a bit faded at the spine and with slight loss at the top of the front panel. A very good clean copy. 100 Underneath the printed dedication 'For each of their and our greedier friends', the book is inscribed:"molly and Bobby from Francis & Vera [Meynell] Christmas 1931." 56.(Nonesuch Press) Hopkins (Gerard Manley). Selected poems. [Edited by Francis Meynell.] 12mo, 16.5cm, pp.[viii],104, colophon, The Nonesuch Press, London, 1954. Number 181 of 1100 copies set in times New Roman and printed by the Stellar Press on Zerkall paper. Type ornaments and wood-engraving in red on the title-page by Kenneth Lindley. Quarter parchment with brown, cream and gold paper-covered boards, title gilt down spine, lacks slipcase. A very good copy. 35
57.(Nonesuch Press) Meynell (Francis). Poems & Pieces, 1911 to 1961. 8vo, pp.59[5], Nonesuch Press, London, 1961. One of 750 copies (this marked "Out-of-Series") printed in Monotype Bembo by the Stellar Press on prewar Van Gelder handmade paper with Nonesuch watermark. Terracotta cloth, spine gilt, black Ingres paper dust-jacket with title gold-blocked down spine. A near fine copy. 40 (Dreyfus 128) Presentation copy, inscribed: "for Mary, from Francis 7 August 1961". 58.(Pelican Press) The Best of Both Worlds. Poems of Spirit and Sense by Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell. Chosen with words and notes by Francis Meynell. Narrow crown 8vo, pp.60 + colophon, At the Pelican Press, Gough Square, for George Allen & Unwin, London, Lady Day [25th March], 1918. Printed on Japon. Fancy paper boards with printed label in red on the upper cover. A very good bright copy. 35 Printed in Monotype Plantin italics with special Pelican Press ligatures. [Francis Meynell in 'My Lives':] '...I added 'Notes' to my selection and I determined that the first sentence should run to exactly one hundred words. What silliness!' 59.(Pelican Press) Gould (Gerald). Monogamy: A Series of Dramatic Lyrics. First edition, 8vo, pp.viii,32, printed at the Pelican Press for Geo. Allen & Unwin, London, 1918. Printed in Caslon Roman and Italic types on Japon vellum with typographic ornaments (with a Tory border printed in red on the title-page). Decorative paper boards. Very good copy. 20 60.(Perpetua Press) Saint Frideswide, Patron of Oxford. The Earliest Texts edited and introduced by John Blair. With wood-engravings by Kathleen Lindsley. 8vo, 44pp., 221 X 135mm., (Vivian Ridler) The Perpetua Press, Oxford, 1988. Text set in Baskerville. Number 79 of 150 copies printed on Basingwerk Parchment and signed by the editor. Illustrated with 5 wood engravings and 1 map. Blue-grey Ingres paper-covered boards, spine and front board with pictorial labels printed in two colours. A fine copy. 65 61.(Piazza Press) Catulli Carmina. The Poems of Catullus with complete verse translations and notes, by F.C.W. Hiley, and illustrations by Vera Willoughby. Small Pott 4to, pp.xvi,216 + 8 inserted plates, The Piazza Press, Issued to Subscribers by Peter Davies, London, 1929. Number 186 of 500 (510) copies on wove paper. Illustrated with 8 black-and-white plates and 4 decorations in line. Full parchment with gilt spine titling, t.e.g., others uncut. Boards slightly curved. A very good to fine copy. 50 Printed at the Curwen Press. 62.(Rampant Lions Press) Mitchell (David M.). Translations from the Greek Anthology. 8vo, 22cm, 36p, Rampant Lions Press, 12 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, 1965. One of 500 copies on wove paper. Sewn and glued into pink paper wrappers titled in russet. A fine copy. 25
63.(Rampant Lions Press) Carter (Sebastian). First Principles of Typography in the 1970s. 8vo, 21.5cm, 19p, Bowaters United Kingdom Paper Company Limited, 1973. Machine-set in 10pt Ehrhardt. One of 525 copies on Nimrod cartridge paper printed in lilac and black. Pamphlet sewn at RLP, with printed wrappers. A fine copy. 60 "In a moment of enlightenment the Bowater Paper Company offered prizes for essays on a choice of topics in the theory of typography, a worthy attempt to promote discussion relatively unencumbered with standard works. The judges were Michael Twyman, Hans Schmoller and Peter Stockham. The response was o slight that the attempt was short-lived, and in this first year no first prize was awarded. This essay came second - in other words third - but Bowaters generously sponsored the printing of it." (RLP 55) 64.(Rampant Lions Press) Boston (Lucy M.). Time is Undone: Twenty-five poems. 8vo, 22cm, 31p, Privately printed, Lucy M. Boston, Hemingford Grey, 1977. One of 750 copies designed and printed by Sebastian Carter. Type: Monotype Ehrhardt. Stapled into pink decorative wrappers with a printed label. A fine copy. 35 65.(Rampant Lions Press) Carter (Sebastian). The Book Becomes: the making of a fine edition. Small 8vo, pp.96, The Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 1984. Unlimited edition printed in black (the title-page in blue and black) in Ehrhardt on wove paper. 16 illustrations within the text reproduced from `The Earthly Paradise'. William Morris `Willow' patterned paper-covered boards, parchment back with gilt spine titling. Original glassine. A fine copy. 35 66.(Reading Room Press) An Advertiser s Alphabet, by A.S.J. Tessimond and Ceri Richards. [Foreword by Mel Gooding.] 8vo, 25cm, [61]p, (Miles Wigfield) The Reading Room Press, Quenington, 2014. One of 150 copies set in Lutetia and Romulus open and printed in red and black (the illustrations in many colours) on BFK Rives paper. 25 stunning vignettes in colours by Ceri Richards reproduced by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press. Quarter scarlet cloth, gilt-blocked down the spine, black cloth boards with decorative label on the upper cover (from a design thought to be by Ceri Richards). A fine copy. 60 Lying in Tessimond s archive, not much more than a cardboard-box, has been a stapled booklet signed by both Tessimond and Richards on the first page and dated 1930. Tessimond appears to have entered alphabetically, words relating to his trade as an advertising copywriter such as Brand Name, Habit, and Psychology. Richards has painted 25 (there is no A ) delightful gouache vignettes while Tessimond has added his own interpretation of the art and guile of the advertising business. A delightful book, which to many will be reminiscent of Eric Ravilious's High Street. 67.Ridler (Colin), Toyo Yoshizaki & Peter Saugman. Three Ways to Change: The Impact of the west on Turkey, Japan and Nigeria. vo, 22cm, 51pages of text plus 24 pages of b&w photographs, Book Publishing Course, Oxford Polytechnic, 1974. Set in Monotype Ehrhardt and printed on Abbey Mills Suede paper; full brown cloth, upper board titled in gilt. A fine copy. 25
68.(Riverside Press) Songs & Sonnets of Pierre de Ronsard, Gentleman of Vendomois. Selected & translated into English verse by Curtis Hidden Page. With an introductory essay and notes. Crown 8vo, pp.xxxvi,138 + BR thistle-mark, Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1903. Number 356 of 425 copies designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Riverside Press on handmade paper. Elaborately decorated with type ornament in red and swash lettering. Pink papercovered boards, printed spine label and spare, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Spine a little faded; a very good copy 95 BR30 (Warde 37) 69.(Riverside Press) Wordsworth (William). LXXV Sonnets. Square 8vo, 21.5cm, ff.[5],75, colophon, printed on the rectos only, The Rivrside Press, Cambridge, 1910, for Houghon Mifflin Co. One of 440 copies printed on hand-made paper on one side of the leaf only; grey paper-covered boards, tan buckram back (a little darkened), printed spine label and spare. A very good copy indeed. 60 Designed by Bruce Rogers. 70.(Rock & Co.) Rock's Views of Cambridge, 1851. 8vo, 22cm, ff.[20], Published by David Bickersteth, Cambridge, 1970. Facsimile reprint with the views of Cambridge done two to a page on the rectos only. Stapled into semi-stiff wrappers. A near fine copy with a T.L.s from David Bickersteth to Reynolds Stone asking him for a review in the Times Literary Supplement. 25 Title-page and introduction set by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. 71.(Rocket Press) de Bijl (Jordana). Salute to Celia Fiennes. 8vo, 222 X 160mm, 20pp, Published by Melmillo, Oxford, Printed by the Rocket Press, Steventon, 1982. Text set in Bell italic. Number 178 of 250 copies printed on Glastonbury antique laid paper. 7 penand-ink drawings by John R. Smith. Sewn into card covers with Conqueror card wrappers. A fine copy. 15 72.(Rocket Press) Vines: poems by David Burnett, wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. 8vo,21cm, 20p, The Rocket Press, Steventon, Abingdon, 1984. Text set in 14 point Bell italic. And printed in black and reddish-brown on Zerkall paper. Number 16 of 50 (200) specially bound copies signed by the artist upon the colophon with two additional signed engravings in folders at the rear. Bound with marbled paper from Compton Marbling and Richard de Bas hand-made endpapers, matching slipcase with printed label. A fine copy. 135 73.Rosart (Jacques-Francois). The Type Specimen of Jacques-Francois Rosart, Brussels, 1768, a facsimile with an introduction and notes by Fernand Baudin and Netty Hoeflake. Facsimile reprint, 8vo, pp.82 + ff.[72] (mostly rectos), Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1973. Contains attractive music types and ornaments. Pink paper-covered boards, printed labels on the spine and front. A fine copy. 50
74.(Press of W.E. Rudge) Hergesheimer (Joseph). The Presbyterian Child. 8vo, 22cm, 66p, colophon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Number 622 of 950 copies printed from Monotype Scotch Roman by Bruce Rogers on antique laid paper at the Press of William Edwin Rudge. Floral patterned boards, black cloth back with spine label. A fine copy. 30 75.(Press of W.E. Rudge) Putnam (Elizabeth Lowell). XXVIII Sonnets. 8vo, 22cm, pp.[iv],29[1], colophon, Press of William Edwin Rudge, New York, 1925. Designed by Bruce Rogers. One of 250 copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Chinese red paper-covered boards, white silk spine (just faintly soiled), printed spine label. A near fine copy. 45 76.Ryder (John). A Suite of Fleurons or, A Preliminary Enquiry into the history and combinable natures of certain printers' flowers. First edition. Narrow 12mo, 18cm, 56pp, Phoenix House Ltd, London, 1956. Text set in Monotype Bell and printed in reddish-brown and black on Basingwerk Parchment. Two drawings by Heather Copley, plus attractive displays of fleurons with the text. Parchment-backed boards with gilt spine titling, Cockerell marbled paper-covered boards. A fine copy. 85 Presentation copy: "To John Hayward with the author's compliments". Also with a TLS from John Ryder on Phoenix Group letterhead, presenting the book to John Hayward. 77.(Scholartis Press) Disraeli (Benjamin). Ixion in Heaven and Endymion: Disraeli's Skit and Aytoun's Burlesque. [Introduction by Eric Partridge.] 8vo, 22cm, pp.viii[2],75, London: The Scholartis Press, 1927. Set in Caslon and printed at the Curwen Press on laid paper; Title-page cartouche by Percy Smith. Number 355 of 525 copies bound in marbled paper-covered boards, black buckram back titled in gilt. Pictorial bookplate of Francis E. Bliss. 30 78.(Signet Press) Riddell (Maria). Robert Burns: A Memoir. [With an Introduction by Thomas Rae, and a photograph by S.F. James of the portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence.] 8vo, pp.[ii],14 + colophon, The Signet Press, Greenock, 1966. Number 17 of 100 copies printed in Caslon, with the title in SB Old Face Open, on T.H. Saunders' mould-made paper and signed by the printer. Title-page in russet and black. Quarter bound in Linson vellum, printed in russet on the spine, with Japanese wood veneer paper boards. Slipcase covered in matching wood veneer, with a brown silk pull. A fine copy. 65 79.(Stanbrook Abbey Press) Christmas Lyrics: Fifteenth Century. Large Post 8vo, pp.vi,30, The Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, 1957. [Second printing, one of 400 copies.] Handset in Perpetua and printed in red and black on W.S. Hodgkinson hand-made paper. One hand-drawn initial in burnished gold and 14 in red, blue and green by Margaret Adams. Full white limp parchment with silk bands laced through the covers, titled in gilt up the spine, Cockerell marbled paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy. 250 The first book with initials by Margaret Adams. The fifteen carols and poems were taken from manuscripts in the British Library. (Butcher A2)
80. (Stanbrook Abbey Press) Samaan-Hanna (A.). Moods that Endure. Poems. 12mo, pp.[viii],26, Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, 1978 (1979). Handset in Cancellaresca Bastarda. One of 140 copies printed on Kakumidare Japanese hand-made paper with a pressed pattern, folded at the fore-edges. Russet paper boards patterned with flowers. Title gilt down the spine. A fine copy. 200 Only the first 100 copies on Kujyakyu paper include a portrait of the author. 81.(Tragara Press) Anderson (Alan). The Tragara Press 1954-1979: a bibliography. 8vo, 23cm, 23p, Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1979. Machine set in Baskerville. Number 22 of just 25 (135) special copies on cream Barcham Green Tovil hand-made paper, signed by the printer, quarter bound in black cloth with green paper boards. Gilt spine titling. A fine copy in its original acetate dust-jacket. 100 82.Tschichold (Jan). Der chinesische und der japanische mehrfarbige Holtzafeldruck technisch. 8vo, 21cm, 30[2]p, Published by Der Papierhandelsgesellschaft Bucherer, Kurrus & Co, Basel, Switzerland, 1959. One of 1200 copies printed in black and reddish-brown; sewn into green paper wrappers, titled in black. A fine copy. 25 83.(Whittington Press) Bagnold (Enid). Poems. [With an offset litho half-tone reproduction of a photograph of the author.] 8vo, 18.5cm, 27p, The Whittington Press & William Heinemann, 1978. Handset in Bell, the title in SB Modern. One of 150 signed and numbered copies printed in black (the title and the tipped-in frontispiece in Chinese red) on Zerkall mould-made paper. One of 140 copies quarter bound in red buckram, blocked in gold on the spine, front and back, Whittington marbled boards, maroon endpapers. A fine copy. 85 Presentation copy, inscribed: "For John Gielgud, With very much love from Enid 1979". 84.(Whittington Press) Macgregor (Miriam). Country Chaos. [16 vinyl engravings by Miriam Macgregor.] 8vo, [16]pp., Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1980. One of 630 copies printed in black on buff card with each leaf divided horizontally into three sections. This number 6 of only 30 copies signed and numbered with the drawings hand-coloured by the artist, bound in paper-covered boards, titled in scarlet, with one of the text engravings in dark brown on the front cover, printed spine label. Slipcase. A fine copy. 325 16 engravings with which to play heads, bodies and legs. 85. (Whittington Press) An exhibition of books printed at The Whittington Press from 1971 to 1981 and of engravings, lithographs & drawings by four artists who have worked with the Press: Richard Kennedy, Miriam Macgregor, Hellmuth Weissenborn, Judy Ling Wong at King Street Galleries, from 4th to 19th December, 1981. Imperial 16mo, [16]pp., The Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1981. Number 35 of 60 (1500) special copies bound in Dilwyn patterned paper and signed the four artists and John and Rosalind Randle; printed in black (with four illustrations in brown) on Glastonbury
Antique laid paper. Dilwyn patterned paper-covered boards, pink paper back, printed label on front cover. Invitation loosely inserted. A fine copy. 200 86.(Whittington Press) Stubble Burning: Poems by Roland Gant. With five wood-engravings by Howard Phipps. Imperial 8vo, pp.[24] + colophon, The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Andoversford, 1982. Number 45 of 175 (200) copies hand-set in Van Krimpen Romulus, printed with the titles in reddish-brown on Zerkall paper and signed by the author and artist. Flax canvas boards with spine label and a repeated engraving inset into the front cover. A fine copy. 120 The first use of this typeface at Whittington. This copy neatly inscribed to the typographer Frank Overton. 87.(Whittington Press) Randle (Rosalind). Rose's Aga Recipes. Illustrated with six linocuts by Judith Verity. First edition, Imperial 16mo, 19cm, [44]pp., The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Andoversford, 1984. Text set in 12-point Bell. One of 30 (250) de luxe copies signed by Rosalind Randle and Judith Verity and hand-coloured by the artist. Done in black (the illustrations in reddish-brown) on Zerkall Silurian paper. Bound in decorated fabric, red and blue, with a title label printed in red inset on the upper board, black cloth box. A fine copy. 400 The de luxe state of the first edition of this mini-bestseller. Judith Verity obtained the lino by pulling up part of the floor of the village school nearby and the first job in printing was to scrape the cement off the back of each cut. 88. (Whittington Press) Randle (Rosalind). Rose's Aga Recipes compiled by Rosalind Randle illustrated with linocuts by Judith Verity.Second edition, Imperial 16mo, 19cm, 43pp, The Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1985. Machine-set in Monotype Bell. One of 600 copies printed in black, the linocuts and title in rust red, on Zerkall Silurian paper. Bound by Smith Settle in red and white checked cloth with a deep pink oval title label, scarlet endpapers. A fine copy. 80 The text was completely reset for this edition and five recipes added (cold cucumber soup, fish pie, chocolate mousse, bread and butter pudding and chocolate biscuit cake. 89.(Whittington Press) Randle (Rosalind). Rose's Aga Recipes compiled by Rosalind Randle illustrated with linocuts by Judith Verity. Third edition, Imperial 16mo, 19cm, 43pp, The Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1988. Machine-set in Monotype Bell. One of 650 copies printed in black, the linocuts, press-name and title in red, on Zerkall Silurian paper. Bound in red floral patterned boards cloth with a circular buff title label, scarlet endpapers. A fine copy. 75 This edition contains three additional recipes (for potato, onion and bean soup, fake syllabub and Mrs Byrne's Aga porridge.
90.(Whittington Press) Martin (Caroline, compiler). Lap Games & other songs for children. Illustrated with linocuts by Judith Verity. Crown 8vo, [40]pp., The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Andoversford, 1989. One of 630 (650) copies set in Bell type and printed on Zerkall Silurian mould-made paper. 20 linocuts printed in yellowish-brown. Pattern cloth-covered boards with an oval printed label on the front. A fine copy 50 91.(Whittington Press) Further Interiors: wood-engravings by Howard Phipps. Crown 4to, 19 double leaves folded at the fore-edges + folder, Whittington Press, Risbury, 1992. Handset in Cochin, printed on Zerkall Ingres and cream mould-made papers and signed by the artist. Number XLII of XLV (300) copies specially bound in silk with an individually signed set of proof engravings in a folder. 16 full-page wood-engravings (4 with colour by linocut). Laced into dark blue Indian silk-covered boards, printed label inset on the front cover. Black paper-covered slipcase with printed spine label. A fine copy. 300 In this second collection by Howard Phipps, the engravings include people and are not all strictly interiors: they include the dining room and fireplace at John and Rosalind Randle's former home, Manor Farm, Andoversford. 92. (Whittington Press) Butcher (David). The Whittington Press: a bibliography, 1982-93. With an introduction by John Randle. Small folio, pp.[viii],179[1] + colophon + 2 inserted plates + 42 extra specimen pages, Whittington Press, Risbury, 1996. Number 18 of 80 (380) special copies quarter bound in vellum with marbled paper-covered boards, with 42 additional tipped-in specimen papers, in a slipcase. Text set in Caslon and printed in black with occasional use of other colours on Zerkall mould-made paper. With 27 wood-engravings (some colour), two linocuts, two pochoir illustrations, line-block reproductions, tritone plates, tipped-in specimens and type facsimiles, twelve tipped-in (mostly full-page), and 32 additional specimen pages from books, minor publications, broadsheets, etc., tipped-in at the rear. Quarter vellum, titled and ruled in gold down the spine, Whittington marbled paper-covered boards, orange, cream and bistre, by Rebecca Gryspeerdt, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Slipcase. A fine copy. 700