MARCH LIST 2016 Collinge & Clark 13 Leigh Street London WC1H 9EW 0044 (0) 20 7387 7105 http://www.collingeandclark.co.uk collingeandclark@aol.com 1.(Alembic Press) A Set of Tales. 12 pamphlets, usually 20pp, boxed set, 24mo, (Claire Bolton) Alembic Press, Oxford, 1979-1989 (1989). Individually issued often in editions of 110 copies, handset in various types printed on different paper stocks (including silver and gold), illustrated with drawings and linocuts etc. This number 50 of 70 sets issued complete in a marbled paper-covered box, with matching chemise, and distributed to members of the British Printing Society Publishing Group. A fine copy. 120 A Tale of Two Witches (1979); A Tale of Two Dragons (1979); A Tale of Two Princesses (1979); A Tale of Silver (1980); A Tale of Old Rose (1981); A Tale of Gold (1983); A Very Long Tale (1984); A Monstrous Tale (1985); A Very Tiny Tale (1986); A Very Light Tale (1987); A Green Tale (1988); The Last Tale (1989). The Tales have a family feel to them. The first was for claire Bolton's daughter Rebecca for Christmas - and is illustrated by her and Melissa Hunter, aged four. A Tale ofv Silver was done for her niece Alexandra's second birthday. A Very Long Tale is printed on single piece of paper 44" X 4", folded to about 3" X 4" 2.Ayrton (Michael). Tittivulus or, the Verbiage Collector. First edition, foolscap 4to, 19.5cm, pp.[iv],138, Max Reinhard, London, 1953. Designed by Will Carter. 1 double-page, 9 full-page, many half-page black-and-white illustrations. Red cloth, spine and upper board gilt. Lithographic dust-jacket in colours. Endpapers lightly marked. A very good bright copy. 45 3.Ayrton (Michael). Archilochos. Introduced, translated and illustrated by Michael Ayrton, with an essay by G.S.Kirk. 4to, 28cm, 47p, Secker & Warburg, London, 1977. 16 full-page black-and-white illustrations; brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, upper board stamped in gilt. Fine in pictorial dust-jacket. 25 4.Barker (George). At Thurgarton Church: a poem with drawings. 8vo, 22cm, 29p,Trigram Press, London, 1969. 5 full-page drawings in sepia and 2 smaller in orange. Number 93 of 100 copies signed by the author. Russet buckram, pictorial gilt upper board, brown paper dust-jacket. A fine copy. 25 Presentation inscription: "To Stanley with much affection [at] Bintry, George."
5.(Beaumont Press) Blunden (Edmund). Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems principally Meditative. [Decorated by Randolph Schwabe.] 8vo, pp.[xvi],60 (including colophon), The Beaumont Press, 75 Charing Cross Road, London, 1925. One of 310 (390) copies (this not numbered) printed on hand-made paper. Text printed in black and the title-page in brown. Cover-design, title-page decoration (in 2 colours), two decorative half-titles and 35 initial letters by Randolph Schwabe. Quarter cream buckram, lettered in gilt up the spine, patterned boards, green and ochre on a light background. A fine copy. 60 A collection of 35 poems dealing with peace and war. 6.(Bird & Bull Press) Bliss (Carey S., editor.) A Pair on Printing: Atkyns' `The Original and Growth of Printing'; [&] William Caslon and the first English type specimen book. 8vo, pp.137, Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, PA, 1982. One of 500 copies on Frankfurt paper with the title-page in blue and black. Dutch linen with printed label on spine. A fine copy. 40 7.Blake (William). Poetical Sketches. Now first Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1783. Edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd. 8vo, 96p. ; 21cm., London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1868. Brown cloth with printed spine label (a little chipped and worn). A very good copy. 90 "Chiswick Press:--printed by Whittingham and Wilkins..." Includes a reproduction of the original title-page. 8.(Bodley Head booklet) John Ryder: Designer and Art Director for The Bodley Head: an exhibition at the Bodleian Library. 1974-75 [by Sonia Newby and Michael L. Turner]. Foolscap 8vo,19cm, pp.39[1], Printed at the Stellar Press for friends of Bodley Head, Christmas 1975. [One of 225 copies.] Printed in black on wove paper (with many illustrations of archive material in red, reddish-brown and green). Sewn into plain card covers with two dust-jackets, one a design from Ryder's bookplate by Yvonne Skargon (black and two colours), the second from an old engravng of the Bodleian Library. A fine copy, inscribed by John Ryder. 65 9.Burton (John Hill). The Book-Hunter, etc. First edition, 12mo, 18cm, pp.vi,384, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1862. Title-page within decorative border, decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces throughout, printed on antique laid paper. Quarter brown buckram with mauve cloth sides (a bit worn at the front), dark brown endpapers with Wiston Old Rectory book label. A very good copy. 250 Numbered "No.141" and inscribed by the author. One of the earliest and greatest of book collecting texts. 10.Chamisso (von Adelbert). Peter Schlemihls Wundersam Gesichte mit Neun Holzstichen von Imre Reiner. 12mo, 21cm, pp.85[1], colophon, Bauerscheren Giesserei, Frankfurt am Main, 1964. Set in Bauer Bodoni and printed French-fold; grey printed paper-covered boards with an illustration by Imre Reiner. Spine just a trifle yellowed. A very good copy. 30 A delightful book designed by Gotthard de Beauclair.
11.(Cherub Press) Six Maxims, by Lao-Tze. 64mo, 4cm, 8p, (David & Kim Butcher) The Cherub Press, Solihull, 1986. Text set in 10pt S.B. Caslon. One of 150 copies printed on Colorplan paper, concertina-folded, and glued into orange Colorplan card covers, titled in black on the front. A fine copy. 35 12.Chesterton (G.K.). Eyes of Youth: A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell, Ruth Lindsay, Hugh Austin, Judith Lytton, Olivia Meynell, Maurice Healy, Monica Saleeby & Francis Meynell. With four early poems by Francis Thompson, & a Foreword by Gilbert K. Chesterton. First edition, 12mo, pp.xii, 96, London Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, Ltd, n.d (1912). Title-page in black and red; printed on watermarked antique laid paper; grey paper-covered boards, linen back, title labels superimposed on the spine and upper cover. Slight browning to endpapers, spine label chipped. Engraved book label of A.J.A. Symons. A very good copy. 40 13.(Curwen Press) Between Cup & Lip, by B.H.G. Arkwright. Foolscap 8vo, 17cm, 51p, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1920. One of 500 copies set in Imprint type and printed at the Curwen Press (with the Unicorn press device) on Abbey Mills Greenfield paper. Linen-backed boards with printed labels to spine and upper cover. A near fine copy. 60 A volume of First World War poetry. 14.(Curwen Press) The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse. Transcribed by Thomas Burke. Crown 8vo, pp.[vi]40[2], George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1920. Set in Imprint type with dropped initials, printed on Abbey Mills paper. Grey and orange decorative wrapper, pictorial label by Lovat Fraser featuring a black and yellow design of a scene at Limehouse. Slight wear to extremities. A very good copy. 80 In many books written by Thomas Burke the character Quong Lee features as the "narrator". 15.(Curwen Press) Kensington past and present, by H.Elrington. 8vo, 31 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm., London : Chelsea Publishing Co, 1922. Set in Caslon type and printed at the Curwen Press, decorated with fleurons.inserted black-andwhite plates. Decorated paper-covered boards, titled in black. Spine slightly browned. 35 16.(Curwen Press) A Long Spoon and the Devil: Being fish quaint and queer from the Spoon River, the property of Edgar Lee Masters poached by Henry Savage. Crown 8vo, 19cm, pp.vi,56, Cecil Palmer, London, 1922. Set in Imprint type and printed in red and black on wove paper at the Curwen Press. Two handcoloured vignettes by Claud Lovat Fraser. Quarter grey buckram, decorated paper-covered boards with printed label. Endpapers slightly yellowed. A very good copy. 30
17.(Curwen Press) Ashley (Kenneth). Up Hill and Down Dale. [Poems of the Yorkshire dales.] First edition, wide crown 8vo, pp.x,88 + 4 ads, The Curwen Press for John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1924. Unlimited edition printed in Caslon Old Face on Abbey Mills laid paper. Linen-backed boards with black spine titling, pictorial design by Randolph Schwabe on the front. Lacks dust-jacket. Ownership stamp and inscription. A very good copy. 25 18.(Curwen Press) Blue and other verse, by Charles Edgbaston. Foolscap 4to, 19.5cm, pp.viii,56, Heath Cranton Limited, London, 1924. Set in Monotype Garamond and printed on Abbey Mills 'Greenfield' paper at the Curwen Press. Blue cloth with printed spine label. Printed dust-jacket a little chipped and soiled. Neat ownership signature. A very good copy. 30 19.(Curwen Press) The Night-Jaw: A Play in Three Acts, by E.B. Brown. Crown 8vo 19cm, pp.viii,52, colophon, Privately printed, 1929. Set in Baskerville and printed on Abbey Mills 'Greenfield' paper in an edition of 250 copies at the Curwen Press. Paul Nash patterned paper-covered boards, printed spine label. A near fine copy. 50 Inscribed by the author. 20.(Curwen Press) A Little Book of Cheese, by Osbert Burdett. [Illustrated with wood-engravings by Pauline Baumann.] 8vo, 19cm, pp.[viii],99, London: Gerald Howe Ltd, 1935. Set in Bembo, printed at the Curwen Press, title-page printed with a border of printers' flowers in red and black. Illustrated with 8 wood-engravings. Black cloth, spine gilt. Cream paper dust-jacket, titled in red and with a repeat wood-engraving in red. A very good to fine copy. 45 21.(Curwen Press) Hints on Etiquette and The Usages of Society with a Glance at Bad Habits by Agogos (Charles William Day), Illustrated by Brian Robb. 12mo, 14cm, pp.[viii],68, plates, Turnstile Press Ltd, London, 1946. Set and printed at the Curwen Press with four inserted colour illustrations. Pictorial boards with matching dust-jacket. A fine copy. 30 First published in 1836. 22.(Daedalus Press) Mottram (R.H.). Twelve Poems. With a dedicatory poem by Edmund Blunden & illustrations by Rigby Graham. 8vo, 21pp.,Daedalus Press: [Juliet Standing, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk] 1968. Number 29 of 300 (312) copies handset in Perpetua, printed on maize yellow Tosa Butten paper, signed by the author. 2 illustrations by Rigby Graham. Stitched into greenish-grey Ingres paper wrappers blocked in gold on the front with a design by Rigby Graham. A near fine copy. 30
23.(Doves Press) The Doves Press (2). 8vo, 23.5cm, 4pp.,The Doves Press, Hammersmith, January 1909. Printed in black and red from 'Doves' type on specially watermarked Batchelor hand-made paper. A near fine copy. 100 With an ink inscription in Cobden-Sanderson's hand: "Advt. For Hamlet". 24.(Doves Press) Catalogue Raisonne of Books Printed & Projected at the Doves Press, 1900-1915. 8vo, 8 leaves, 24cm, Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1914. Set in Doves type and prited on specially watermarked handmade paper. Loose leaves. Fine. 90 Books available in fine bindings; books out-of-print; books in order of publication; books projected for 1914. 25.(Dropmore Press) Popham (Hugh). Three Cantos from: To the Unborn - Greetings. Foolscap 4to, 22cm, [32]pp., The Dropmore Press, London, [1946]. Number 46 of 75 (81) copies set in Caslon Old Face, printed in red and black on Barcham Green handmade paper, and signed by the author. Quarter vellum with gilt spine titling, silver linencovered boards stamped in red. Fine copy. 50 26.(Essex House Press) A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman in the Service of the Gospel. 12mo, 15cm, pp.iv,388 + colophon + edition note, Essex House Press for Edward Arnold, London, and Samuel Buckley, New York, 1901. Number 156 of 250 copies printed in black and red in Caslon Old Face on Batchelor handmade paper. Wood-engraved frontispiece by Reginald Savage and wood-engraved initials by C.R.Ashbee. Stiff vellum with yapp edges, lettered in gilt on the spine. A very good to fine copy. 225 One of the most charming of the smaller books from the press. 27.(Essex House Press) Ashbee (C.R.). Echoes from the City of the Sun: Being Songs and Poems. Crown 4to, pp.[iv],58 + colophon, Essex House Press, Chipping Campden, 1905. Number 17 of 250 (251) copies printed in `Endeavour' type on specially watermarked handmade paper. Woodcut decorations. Grey paper-covered boards with printed labels on spine and front cover. Spine label worn and generally a bit rubbed. A very good copy. 145 28.(Fleece Press) Rogerson (Ian). Moods and Tenses: The Portraits and Characters of Peter Reddick. Crown 4to, pp.54[2], colophon [+ 1 folding], Printed and published by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press, Denby Dale, 1999. One of 220 copies set in Scotch Roman and printed in orange and black on Zerkall paper. Illustrated with 30 wood engravings printed from the blocks, many full-page. Quarter orange cloth, printed label inset on the spine, David Esslemont paste paper-covered boards, orange and maroon. Cloth slipcase. A fine copy. 140
29.(Galahad Press) Memories of the Chambers Brothers : an account by William Chambers of the early struggles of himself and his brother Robert in Edinburgh 1813-22. [Edited by Derek Maggs.] Square 8vo, 67p.,ill.,23cm., London : Galahad Press, 1967 (36 Sherard Rd., London SE9). Text set in Scotch Roman, printed in red and black in an edition of 200 copies on wove paper. Old Edinburgh illustrations. Maroon cloth, titled and stamped in gilt.fine in like dust-jacket. 45 With a short TLs from Derek Maggs on Galahad Press letterhead loosely inserted. 30.Gill (Cecil), Beatirce Warde & David Kindersley. The Life and Works of Eric Gill: Papers read at a Clark Library Symposium, 22 April 1967. Introduction by Albert Sperisen. Royal 8vo, 25cm, pp.xii,67[4], plates, Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop, 1968. Printed at the Plantin Press in black and red on antique laid paper with inserted illustrations; quarter cloth with printed spine label, decorative paper-covered sides. A fine copy. 50 31.Ginsberg (Louis). The Everlasting Minute and other lyrics. First edition, 8vo, 19cm, pp.xiii,155, Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 1937. Rust cloth, black labels titled in gilt. Orange and mauve paper dust-jacket (faintly rubbed at extremities). A near fine copy of the author's first book. 100 With an inscription on the front endpaper: "August 22, 1967, London from I.C.A.., to HanoverTerrace, evening of poetry shared with Stanley Eher [Ehev?]& Allen Ginsberg & his father Louis Ginsberg, who was moved by the eloquence of Allen's introduction.." With a complimentary ticket for the reading by both father and son at the I.C.A. In an envelope addressed by Louis Ginsberg. 32.(Golden Cockerel Press) Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the Latin Text. Crown 4to, 252 X 180mm, pp.viii + 24, The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1926 Number 80 of 250 copies handset in Caslon and printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper. Initial letters, title-page and 5 other wood-engravings by Eric Gill. Full bound in white buckram, spine gilt, edges uncut. Lacking dust-jacket (which repeats the title-page), but otherwise a fine clean copy, with the book label of the wood-engraver Peter Foster,. 950 33.(Golden Cockerel Press) Smith (Aaron). The Atrocities of the Pirates; being a faithful narrative of the unparalleled sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the pirates of the island of Cuba; with an account of the excesses and barbarities of those inhuman freebooters. Decorated throughout with engravings by Eric Ravilious. Demy 8vo, pp.[viii],156, colophon [+ frontispiece], The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1929. Number 87 of 500 copies printed in Caslon on Dutch hand-made paper. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Quarter black buckram, spine gilt, scarlet paper-covered boards, t.e.g. A very good bright copy. 275 First published in 1824. (Chanticleer 68)
34.(Golden Cockerel Press) Ghose (Sudhin). Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India. With illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile. Imperial 8vo, 320 X 195mm., 180pp., Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1961. Set in Bembo. Number 421 of 400 (500) copies on mould-made paper with 6 'whiteline' illustrations printed in brown and black on special paper. Brown cloth boards, stamped in gilt, edges uncut, decorative endpapers.fine. 90 35.Hindley (Charles). The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London. 8vo, pp.xlii, fly-title, 308, London: Charles Hindley, Booksellers' Row, Strand, 1887. Title and some 20 other pages printed against tinted backgrounds, upwards of 200 wood-engravings within the text (some coloured, some full-page). Maizie buckram, printed labels on spine and upper board. A very good bright copy. 95 36.Hirschman (Jack). Yod. 4to, 29cm, [40]p, accordion-fold, Trigram Press, London, 1966. Done by silkscreen and letterpress reproducing the author/artist's holograph with much use of colour and different paper stocks. Number 2 of 60 (200) signed copies. Cream paper wrappers with glassine contained within a linen-backed chemise with gilt spine titling and gold paper-covered sides (light spotting to spine), decorative card box. A very good copy indeed. 100 Design and production by Paul Vaughan and Pip Benveniste. 37.Horovitz (Michael). Nude Lines for Larking in Present Night Soho. Square 8vo, 19cm, 8p, Designed by Barry Hall & Tom Raworth, Goliard Press, 1965. One of 160 copies. With a drawing of a fox and a lady's leg on the title-page, plus many manuscript alterations, etc, the author's hand, including two on the wrapper that turn "Larking" into "Barking". A fine copy. 40 Presentation inscription "Newsvendor's sign '65: POLICE COMB SHEPHERD'S BUSH FOR NUDES I'd watch out, Stanley - they'll be combing your archives soon - Michael Horovitz, 23 August 67." 38.Horovitz (Michael) & Maria Simon. Strangers; poems. 8vo,24.5cm, [24]p, Printed by David Osler and Frank, Ltd., [1965]. [One of only 26 copies each with a different manuscript poem at the rear (not so stated).] 11 perspex sculptures by Maria Simon, photographed by Eileen Deste. Single manuscript correction in the author's hand. Silver card covers, decorated and titled in black. A very good to fine copy. 50 The title of the MS poem is In re The Law / vis-a-vis THE Law. 39.(Incline Press) Barlow (Derek). Bullrushes: Poems. 8vo, 22cm, pp.33 + press-mark, Incline Press, Oldham, 1995. Number 32 of 175 numbered copies signed by the author and artist, this marked "Inspection copy" by the printer, specially bound and the words "and has been made for Ray Lawrence" printed underneath the colophon. 7 full-page wood engravings by Anna Ravenscroft printed either in Mossgreen or reddish-brown. Ingres endpapers.quarter green cloth with brown cloth sides and printed label. A fine copy. 70 [Colophon:] "Printed in Garamond type on Lana Royal Crown paper, treadling the Arab press like billio to keep from seizing up through cold December nights."
40.(Incline Press) Spaul (Jo). Urban Birds, a collection of cuts. Illustrated with a suitable selection of verse. Crown 4to, 60pp., Incline Press, Oldham, 1999. One of 170 (200) copies printed for the most part in Hyperion type on Zerkall jute paper. Woodcut title-page, 17 woodcuts printed full-page and 4 woodcut vignettes by Jo Spaul printed in several colours. Black buckram titled in silver on spine and upper board, upper board stamped in blind with a blackbird. A fine copy. 85 42.(Julian Editions) Morison (Stanley). Prospectus of the Julian Editions, [etc.] 16mo, Title +pp.18, Printed at the Fanfare, London, for Ernest Benn Ltd. ("The Julian Editions"), 1925. One of 1000 copies handsomely printed on Van Gelder paper at the Fanfare in types from punches cut c.1740. Sewn into grey printed wrappers. A fine copy. 25 Morison was responsible for the typography of Benn's "Julian Editions", and wrote part of the text of this prospectus. (Appleton 49) 43.(Julian Editions) Meinhold (William). Sidonia the Sorceress. Translated by Lady Wilde. Illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky. Large demy 4to, pp.xviii, sub-title, 483, London: Published for The Julian Editions by Ernest Benn, 1926. One of 225 copies printed in Garamond on Batchelor 'Hammer and Anvil' hand-made paper at Cambridge University Press. Title-page border and 81 other pen drawings (11 full-page). Two-tone buckrame with leather spine label lettered in gilt, gilt top, others uncut. Wear to spine edges, top of spine a little rubbed. About a very good copy. 100 More rarely found in a full vellum binding. The influence of Stanley Morison, then typographic advisor to Cambridge University Press is apparent. 44.(Keepsake Press) - Roy Lewis LXXX [A Festschrift.] 8vo, 18cm, Contents, 28 items from various press for Roy Lewis at The Keepsake Press, November, 1993. One of perhaps eighty sets (some limitations are higher, but I suspect this number), consisting of 28 contributions (including the Keepsake keepsakes) printed on a wide variety of papers by 18 different presses, a few with decoration, ornament, etc. Blue cloth chemise and slipcase with printed label by Chris Hicks. A fine copy. 120 With contributions from: Alembic Press; Ashby Lane Press (2); Cadenza Press; Cherub Press; Cracked Bell Press; Cuckoo Hill Press (3), Happy Dragons Press (2); Kit-Cat Press; Anne Kritzinger; Langtry Press (2); Mandeville Press (2); F.E. Pardoe (2), Poet & Printer, Priapus Press (2), Toni Savage (2), Tabard Private Press, Whittington Press, Keepsake Press (2). 45.Kendon (Frank) - Small collection, comprising: The Flawless Stone (1942), Each Silver Fly (1946); Cage & Wing (1947); Jacob & Thomas: Darkness (1950), & other ephemera. Four 8vo verse pamphlets, Cambridge University Press, plus various ephemera, 1940s & 1950s. Pamphlets sewn into wrappers and in fine or near fine condition, the first two being inscribed by the author to Henry Warren. Together with ten Christmas cards, printed at Cambridge University Press for frank Kendon, 1937-1953, most with inscriptions to Henry Warren from Frank,& Celia, Alice & Adam, some with extensive verse holograph by Frank Kendon. 100 Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon (September 12, 1893 - December 28, 1959) was an English writer, poet and
academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1948. He was a published poet in the 1920s and later a writer of stories and a novel. From 1935 to 1954 he worked for Cambridge University Press. At the beginning of World War II he was a campaigning pacifist. Kendon had a son named Adam Kendon, born 1934 in London. 46. (Liber Librorum) Liber Librorum. Folio. List of contributors + 42 specimens, Stockholm Royal Library, (1955). One of 1500 sets. Containing 42 (of 43) examples of fine printing by leading designers, each from the Book of Genesis, some illustrated, 16 in English, various sizes, all in fine condition. Decorative cloth folder a little worn, else fine. 180 Published to celebratrate the 500th anniversary of the Gutenberg 42-line Bible. Maximilien Vox missed the deadline so his contribution is merely a short apology for absence. An extraordinary compilation including Gotthard de Beauclair, Bruce Rogers, Hans Schmoller, Hermann Zapf and Jan van Krimpen. 47.(Limited Editions Club) Hugo (Victor). The Toilers of the Sea. In the translation by Isabel F. Hapgood and with an Introduction by Matthew Josephson. Illustrated by Tranquillo Marangoni. Thick 4to, pp.xxii.579, colophon,printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Officina Bodoni in Verona, 1960. Number 175 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator and printer. Profusely illustrated with woodengravings within the text. Quarter blue cloth with morocco spine label, gilt, patterned boards. Printed dust-jacket slightly chipped. Original slipcase a bit rubbed. A very good copy of an attractive book. 65 48.(Limited Editions Club) Aeschylus. The Oresteia. Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Furies. Translated from the Greek by E.D.A.Morshead with an introduction by Rex Warner and illustrations by Michael Ayrton. 4to, 33cm, pp.xx,177, plates, colophon, Limited Editions Club, New York, 1961. Designed by Adrian Wilson and printed in red and black in uncial types by A.Colish. 12 photogravure plates by Michael Ayrton. Number 389 of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Red quarter calf with printed spine label, brown linen sides blocked in gilt, matching slipcase (spine label a trifle worn). A very good to fine copy. 85 49.Lister (Raymond). Apollo's Bird. 8vo, [12] leaves of coloured illustrations ; 22cm., Published by The Windmill Press, Linton, Cambs. 1974. One of twelve copies on antique laid paper designed and coloured (with watercolours heightened with gold) by Raymond Lister. Each copy has one of the original line-blocks inserted. This is copy number 1, signed by the artist. Full aquamarine morocco, gilt-blocked on the front cover, decorative endpapers and slipcase. One or two slight marks to boards. A very good copy indeed. 130
50.Lloyd-Jones (Emma) & Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley. Letters for the Millennium: Why we cut letters in stone. Crown 8vo, 20cm, 78p, Cardozo Kindersley, Cambridge, 1999. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and colour with reproductions of slate cut lettering. Pictorial semi-stiff covers. A fine copy. 50 Presentation copy inscribed by both Emma Lloyd Jones and Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley and with an A.L.s from Emma Lloyd-Jones loosely inserted. 51.Logue (Christopher). Selections from a Correspondence between an Irishman and a Rat. Oblong 24mo, [16]p, Goliard Press, London, 1966. One of 150 copies set in Gotesque types and printed on good quality paper; sewn into printed olivegreen wrappers. A fine copy. 30 52.Lowell (Robert). The Voyage and other versions of poems by Baudelaire. Illustrated by Sidney Nolan. 4to, 31cm, 60p, Faber & Faber, London, 1968. Number 174 of 200 (210) copies signed by the author and artist; 24 full-page illustrations, 8 of which are in colour. Quarter black buckram, spine titled in gilt, mauve cloth sides with bevelled edges and acetate dust-jacket. Matching mauve cloth slipcase. A fine copy. 220 53.Lucie-Smith (Edward, editor). The Liverpool Scene: Recorded Live along the Mersey Beat. Square 8vo, 18.5cm, Frontispiece, 80p, Donald Carroll, London, 1967. Number 2 of 100 de luxe copies, signed and numbered by the editor. 9 inserted "Liverpool" photographs by Philip Jones Griffiths. Laminated pictorial boards and typography by Lawrence Edwards. A fine copy. 135 Presentation inscription on the colophon: "Stanley, it's ALL happening (somewhere)! Best wishes, Ted.". In addition, a printed invitation to the publishers' party at The Cavern, Liverpool, has been inscribed Stanley - come, it'll be wild! Edward." The book contains poems by Roger McGough, Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Pete Brown and Spike Hawkins. 54.Lucie-Smith (Edward). British Drawing Today: Catalogue for Two Exhibitions: A Preview Exhibition in Brighton and at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London : April-May 1967. Square 8vo, 22cm, [26]p, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1967. Printed on different coloured tissues and hand-made paper with the text to the two exhibitions tetebeche; photomontage wrappers. A fine copy. 25 Signed: "No.3 Edward Lucie-Smith." 55.(Medici Society) The Light Fantastic: A Short Programme of Dances.Decorations by Claud Lovat Fraser. Crown 8vo, 17cm, 80p, London & Boston: The Medici Society, (1928). Set in Garamond and printed at the Curwen Press with line-block illustrations. Quarter green cloth with spine label, Lovat Fraser paterned paper-covered boards with printed label. Dust-jacket titled in green. A near fine copy. 30
56.(Mergenthaler Linotype) A True Description of All Trades: Published in Frankfort in the Year 1568. With six of the illustrations by Jobst Amman. 8vo, 19.5cm, 19p, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, New York, 1930. One of 400 copies printed in Linotype Granjon on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Quarter parchment with marbled paper-covered boards, original glassine dust-jacket. A fine copy. 35 The trades represented are: Printer; Bookbinder; Typefounder; Papermaker; Draughtsman; Woodcutter. 57.(Officina Bodoni) Pastonchi: A specimen of a new letter for use on the "Monotype". [With an Introduction by Hans Mardersteig.] Royal 8vo, pp.72 (including 13 specimens & 2 tipped-in plates), The Officina Bodoni, Verona, for the Lanston Monotype Corporation, London, 1928. One of 200 copies printed on Fabriano paper and specially bound.. Title-page in blue and black, colophon device in blue. Half vellum with marbled paper-covered sides, spine blocked in gold. Light spotting on pages facings inserted specimens.engraved bookplate. A very good copy. 180 58.(Old Bourne Press) The Elf; A Sequence of the Seasons. Summer. By James Guthrie. 12mo, 24[2]pp (rectos only), [Holborn, London:] The Old Bourne Press, [November] 1902. Number 58 of 250 copies handset in Caslon and printed in black and red on hand-made paper. Halftitle vignette, engraved title-page and 5 other full-page plates, many half-page illustrations, decorative endpapers in green and pictorial covers by James J. Guthrie. Linen-backed boards. A fine tissueguarded copy. 100 59.(Old School Press) Ould (Martyn) & Martyn Thomas. The Fell Revival: describing the casting of the Fell Types at the University Press, Oxford, and their use by the press and others since 1864, being the year of the revival of their use since their bequest to the University by Bishop John Fell in 1686. Including a handlist of some of the books printed in the Fell types since that year. Demy 4to, [2] pp.xiv,186 + colophon, Old School Press, Hinton Charterhouse, 2000. One of 250 standard (+ 50 specials + 50 in sheets) copies with the text printed litho on Mohawk Superfine in Galliard. 8 tipped in Fell specimens printed letterpress at the Old School Press on handmade paper and 18 full-page half-tone reproductions of archive materials in the text. Full blue cloth with inset printed spine label and letterpress dust-jacket..a near fine copy. 75 An excellent commentary which also provides much background material on the subject and the characters connected with it. Of special interest is the light the book sheds on the part played by Horace Hart in the revival, but with a cast of characters including Daniel, Hornby, Nacy and Morison. The handlist includes some 275 titles printed in Fell. 60.(Old Stile Press) Tanner (Heather & Robin). A Country Alphabet. First edition, crown 4to, 64pp., The Old Stile Press, Blackheath, 1984. Number 39 of 160 (186) copies typeset in Poliphilus and Blado at the Whittington Press, printed on Zerkall paper, and signed by Heather and Robin Tanner on the half-title. Illustrated with 26 penand-ink drawings by Robin Tanner. Quarter purple leather with gilt spine titling, special pattern paper-covered boards, slipcase. A fine copy. 220 Each illustration is a country scene, usually based on the Wiltshire area, over which is drawn a large calligraphic letter. These relate to the scene; that is, D bears the caption Dolmen, Downland, Distance, Daisy, Dandelion, and all appear in the illustration.
61.(Oxford University Press) - Merton College. Injunctions of Archbishop Kilwardby, Merton College, 1276. [Edited by Heathcote William Garrod] 4to, 26cm, 15 p., Oxford : University of Oxford 1929. Set in the Fell types and printed on handmade paper. Introduction in English, text in Latin. Sewn into grey Ingres paper wrappers, inscribed by the editor by the title. A very good copy indeed. 30 62. (Pear Tree Press) Four Poems by William Strode (1602-1645). In Commendation of Musick, On Westwell Downes, A Watch Sent home to Mrs Eliz. King Wrapt in Theis Verses, A Sonnet. Folio, [2] f[6] [1], 29cm, Flansham, Bognor Regis, At the Pear Tree Press, 1934. Number 12 of 100 copies written out by Helen Hinckley and printed in orange, mauve, green, maroon and golden-brown from intaglio plates engraved by James Guthrie, on hand-made paper. Canvas-backed boards with an intaglio label superimposed on the front. A near fine copy. 425 63.(Pelican Press) Moore (Marianne). Poems. First edition, 8vo, 21,5cm, 24p, London: The Egoist Press, 1921. Fancy paper wrappers, black and red, title label with type ornament border. Some loss to spine, light spotting, small and neat ownership signature. A very good bright copy. 290 The author's first book. 64.(Poet & Printer) One Little-Press Year: a Portfolio from Poet & Printer. The Sermon, [by Peter Redgrove]; Establishment Songs [by Christopher Logue]; Five Quiet Shouters, [an anthology of assertive verse, edited by Barry Tebb]; Scapegoats and Rabies, [a poem in five parts by Ted Hughes]. Four pamphlets in a folder with sleeves, crown 8vo, each 19p (or so), (Alan Tarlin) Poet & Printer, Woodford Green, 1966 & 1967 (1967). The first three handset in Poliphilus and Blado, the last in Bembo; respectively, one of 500, 350, 350 and 400 copies, so 350 constitutes the maximum possible number of sets. Cream paper folder, titled in violet. A fine copy. 120 One Little-Press Year - a portfolio of work comprising the four pamphlets presented by the publishers to poets, their readers and students of poetry. and in this edition offered principally to bibliophiles. 65.(Poet & Printer) Poems, by Frances Horovitz. 8vo, 21cm, 16pp, Published by St Albert's Press, Aylesford, 1967. Handset in Monotype Bembo and Blado. Line-bock of author's signature on title-page. Copy E of 26 (526) copies on special paper, lettered A to Z, signed by the author, specially bound in olivegreen buckram, lettered in gold on the front. Fine in original glassine. 70 66.(Poet & Printer) Redgrove (Peter). Work in Progress, poems. 8vo, 60pp (+ half-title) (Alan Tarlin) Poet & Printer, Woodford Green, 1968 (1969). Handset in Poliphilus and Blado. 400 copies printed in black on Glastonbury paper, this being lettered F of 26 signed copies. Bound in off-white Elephant hide printed in olive, with olive endpapers. A fine copy. 35 Introduction by D.M. Thomas.
67.Potter (Stephen). Professor of Taste: A Paper Read to the Saintsbury Club by Stephen Potter 23 April, 1936. 8vo, 25cm, pp.[iv],20, folding plan, Printed at the Fanfare Press for Francis Meynell and presented by him to the Saintsbury Club, 1936. Set in Poliphilus and Blado and printed by Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press on antique laid paper watermarked "Nonesuch". Overlapping pink paper wrappers with decorative title label. A very good to fine copy. 500 Presentation inscription: "John Hayward from his friend Stephen Potter, 1936". A very early Stephen piece and an excellent association copy. 68.(Rampant Lions Press) Playfair (Kate). The Narrow Ledge. 8vo, 18cm, 29p, Rampant Lions Press, 1968. One of 300 copies printed on antique laid paper. Scarlet paper-covered boards with printed label. A fine copy inscribed by the author and with a 2p A.L.s from her loosely inserted. 25 69.(Rampant Lions Press) Edward Thomas, A Centenary Celebration. [Poems by Thomas, etchings by Arthur Neal, foreword by Jeremy Hooker.] 4to, 28.5cm, 36pp. + portfolio, printed at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, distributed by Eric and Joan Stevens, 1978. Set in 14pt Ehrhardt and printed in reddish-brown and black on Saunders mound-made paper. One of 25 (75) copies (this out-of-series) accompanied by 4 loose etchings in a cloth-covered portfolio, selected from the book and individually signed by the artist. The book is illustrated with 6 etchings on copper printed by Neal facing the text & signed by him upon the colophon. Bound by Gray of Cambridge in beige linen, leather spine label. Slipcase. A fine copy. 475 The poet Edward Thomas was born in 1878 and killed at Arras in 1917. Arthur Neal an artist from Kent, illustrated a selection of his poems and the prose piece 'Olwen' with etchings of the countryside in subtle tones of grey. 70.(Rampant Lions Press) William Golding. Nobel Lecture 7 December 1983. 8vo, 21cm, [20]p, Designed and Printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press for R A Gekosi, The Sixth Chamber Press, Leamington Spa, 1984. One of 500 (550) copies printed on Basingwerk Parchment and bound in brown paper wrappers. A fine copy. 25 Inscribed by Rick Gekoski. 71.(Reading Room Press) An Advertiser s Alphabet, by A.S.J. Tessimond and Ceri Richards. 8vo, 25cm, [61]p, 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 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 new 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.
72.(Riverside Press) The History of Oliver and Arthur. Written in French in 1511, translated into German by Wilhelm Liely in 1521, and now done into English by William Leighton and Eliza Barrett. Small 4to, pp.[x],108 + colophon, Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, in November 1903, for Houghton Mifflin and Co., Boston and New York. Number 301 of 330 copies, numbered in type, printed in double column in red and black. Designed by Bruce Rogers, with his device and initials on the colophon. Illustrated throughout with small black-and-white woodcuts. Title-page feature a woodcut illuminated with red, blue and gold. Tan cloth backstrip over green paper boards, red-stamped paper label to spine (and spare). Just minor wear to boards, tips of corners worn. A very good to fine copy. 275 72.(Riverside Press) The Diamond Necklace, by Thomas Carlyle. 8vo, 20.5cm, pp.viii,168, colophon, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Number 362 of 400 copies printed in black (with vignettes and decorative ornaments in green) on hand-made paper. Quarter cream buckram, spine gilt, green paper-covered boards. A fine copy. 25 73. (Royal College of Art) Words and Images [a maual]. Adaptation of Rene Magritte's work of the same title (Les Mots et les Images, 1929). Design and photography by Frank Philippin. 24mo, 10.5cm, 18 leaves, Printed by J.W. Northend, Royal College of Art, 1999. Typeface: DIN, printed in white on variously coloured paper stocks, each page of text facing one of photographic illustration. Yellow paper covers, titled in green. A fine copy. 35 74.(Rudge) Eight Songs of Blake. 8vo,ff.13, William Edwin Rudge, Christmas 1926. One of 200 copies printed on handmade paper on the rectos only. Decorative title-page. Silvered grey paper-covered boards with decorative label on front cover, edges uncut. Boards somewhat roughened. Armorial bookplate of Norman Bruce. Ownership signature of Ruthven Todd. A near very good copy. 50 75.(Septentrio) Gemini & Virgo, by R.S. Calverley. 8vo, 21cm, 16p, (E.D. Jordan), Septentrio, Hexham, 1972. Handset in Bembo. One of 120 copies, signed by the printer, printed in black, orange and yellow on Abbey Mills paper. Sewn into overlapping blue antique laid paper covers, printed in black. A fine copy. 25 76.(Septentrio Press) The Phoenix and the Turtle, by William Shakespeare. 12mo, 15cm, 11p, (E.D. Jordan) Septentrio Press, Hexham, 1981. Text set in Blado. One of 140 copies printed on antique laid paper. Sewn into brown and white paper wrappers. A fine copy. 20 77.(Shakespeare Head Press) Sleigh (Herbert). The Great Hope and Other Poems. With an Introduction by Oscar Browning. 8vo, pp.viii,80, Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1921. Set in Caslon and printed on hand-made paper; quarter linen, decorated paper boards, printed labels. Dust-jacket a bit chipped and browned. Neat presentation inscription. A very good copy. 30
78.(Shakespeare Head Press) Drayton (Michael). Nimphidia, The Court of Fayrie. Newly printed from the folio of 1627. [With an Introduction by J.C. Squire.] Small 4to, pp.iv,44, Stratford-upon- Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1924. Printed throughout in black and blue in Caslon Old Face with wood-engraved initial letters. Blue cloth-covered boards lettered in gold, cream paper dust-jacket with an all-over pattern of type ornaments printed in blue and lettered in black on spine and front cover. A near fine copy. 30 Shakespeare Head Quartos No.2. 79.(Shakespeare Head Press) Drayton (Michael). Endimion & Phoebe: Ideas Latmus. Edited by J. William Hebel, Professor of English Literature at Cornell University. Small 4to, pp.xviii,52, Stratford-upon-Avon: printed at the Shakespeare Head Press; & published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1925. Set in Caslon Old Face. Number 11 of 100 (1050) copies printed on Arnold's Unbleached handmade paper and specially bound in full limp vellum with green silk ties, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. A fine copy. 300 The colophon of the standard edition does not mention the existence of the one hundred specials - suggesting that the specials were printed as an afterthought. 80.(Shakespeare Head Press) Drayton (Michael). The Ballad of Agincourt and the Ode to the Virginian Voyage. [Illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky.] Small 4to, pp.xviii,24, Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1926. Printed in black and red in Caslon Old Face on smooth machine-made paper. Title-page vignette, 5 pen drawings and device by Thomas Lowinsky. White paper wrappers patterned in red and lettered in black on spine and front cover. A fine unopened copy. 40 Shakespeare Head Quartos No.5. 81.(Shakespeare Head Press) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, decorated by Thomas Lowinsky. [With an Introduction by V.M.D.] Small 4to, pp.vii[1],37, Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1926. Printed in red and black in Caslon Old Face on wove paper. Title-page, 2 head- and 3 tailpieces by Thomas Lowinsky. Blue patterned wrappers, titled in black. A near fine copy. 100 Shakespeare Head Quartos No.6. The rarest in the series it is more often found with a Houghton Mifflin imprint, often dated 1927. 82.(Shakespeare Head Press) Woolley (G.H.). The Epic of the Mountains. Crown 8vo, 19cm, 13[3]p Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1929. Set in Caslon and printed on wove paper. Sewn into paper wrappers, titled in black on the front. A fine copy. 45
83.(Shakespeare Head Press) Price (J. Willis). The Tomb of Columbus and Other Verses. [With wood-engravings by Margaret Willis Price.] Wide crown 8vo, 19cm, pp.v, 53, Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Sold by Basil Blackwell, 1933. Set in Caslon and printed on smooth wove paper; two inserted wood-engravings. Overlapping cream paper wrappers titled in black. A near fine copy. 20 84.Stafford (William). All About Light. First edition, 8vo, 21.5cm, [16]p, Croissant & Company, Athens, Ohio, 1978. Pictorial title by Matthew Platt. Number 85 of 176 (426) copies signed by the author. Overlapping lilac paper covers, just a trifle faded at the spine. A near fine copy. 45 Croissant Pamphlets No.9 85.(Stourton Press) Marloe (Christopher). Hero and Leander. 8vo, pp.36 + note + colophon, (Fairfax Hall), Stourton Press, Westminster, 1934. One of 200 copies printed in Eric Gill's `Aries' type on Batchelor handmade paper. Side-notes and 3-line initials in red and green. Patterned paper-covered boards, red and white, light blue buckram back with gilt titling. Spine a little sunned. Fulsome inscription from Fairfax Hall to Marjorie Gill, dated 1951. A very good copy. 75 `Aries' was the proprietory type of the Stourton Press, specially cut by Eric Gill. The pressman for this book was H. Gage Cole, printer of the Doves Bible, Kelmscott Chaucer, Ashendene Bibliography and Ecclesiaticus. All of the copies were given away aside from one hundred sold to Quaritch in 1961. (See: The Stourton Press, by Fairfax Hall, PLA Quarterly, Summer 1969.) 86.(Swan Press) An Eighteenth Century Miscellany. [Edited by L.D'O. & M.H.H. Walters.] 8vo, pp.[vi],22 + colophon, The Swan Press, Chelsea, 1930. Number 40 of 100 copies handset in Baskerville and printed on Hodgkinson hand-made paper. Quarter cream linen with printed spine label, blue and white Swan pattered paper-covered boards. A very good to fine copy. 25 87.(Tidal Press) Andrew Young: Remembrance & Homage. Compiled and Introduced by Leslie Norris. Monotypes and Wood-engravings by Charles E. Wadsworth. 8vo, 24cm, pp.[x],63, colophon, The Tidal Press, Maine, 1978. Set in Deepdene and printed on white and greenish papers and the Furbush-Roberts Press. Number 31 of 50 (1250) de luxe copies bound in quarter leather with marbled boards by Gray Parrot. Dropback bock with green leather spine label titled in gilt. A fine copy. 70 88.(Tragara Press) Adlard (John). One Evening of Light Mist in London: the story of Annie Playden and Guillaume Apollinaire. 8vo, 23cm, 33p, colophon, (Alan Anderson) Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1980. Machine set in Barbou with display in Baskerville. One of 145 copies printed on Glastonbury paper with two inserted reproductions of photographs. Sewn, and glued into brown card wrappers, printed in black on the front. A fine copy. 20
89.Traherne (Thomas). Traherne's Poems of Felicity. Edited from the MS by H.I. Bell. 8vo, xxxii, 150 p., ii leaves of plates : facsims. ; 20 cm., Oxford : Clarendon Press 1910. Printed in the Fell types on wove paper; cream paper-covered boards decorated in blind, spine titled in black. A very good copy. 20 Contains not only a considerable altered text of various poems found in Dobell's edition, but also thirty-eight hitherto unpublished poems", with two poems by the poet's brother, Philip Traherne. 90.(Trinity Closet Press) A Printer's Glossary adapted from James Alexander's The literary Conjurur, Cork 1808. 8vo, 22cm, 12p, Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1985. Hand-printed in an edition of 50 copies on wove paper. Sewn into overlapping card covers with an ampersand printed in red on the front. A fine copy. 50 91.(Vale Press) Tennyson (Alfred Lord). In Memoriam. [Seen through the press by C.J. Holmes.] 8vo, 23cm, pp.125 + colophon + press-mark, (Vale Press) Hacon & Ricketts, 1900. One of 320 (330) printed in Vale type on specially watermarked handmade paper. "Willow" border, half border, initials and ornaments by Charles Ricketts. White buckram with gilt spine titling. Raymond Lister book label and ownership signature.. A very fresh bright copy. 200 92.(Whittington Press) Turner (Jim). Cotswold Days: Poems, with seven wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Imperial 8vo, pp.24, The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Andoversford, 1977. One of "about 800 copies", hand-set in Bell and printed in black on Basingwerk Parchment. Amber paper wrappers printed in black and brown with an engraving repeated. Head of spine a trifle creased. A near fine copy. 50 The stated limitation of this, Miriam Macgregor's first commissioned work, was 1,000 copies. However, this was reduced through spoilage to "about 800". (Whittington Press 28) 93.(Whittington Press) Real Sky, by P.J. Kavanagh. With wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor. 8vo, [35]pp., Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Andoversford, 1980. One of 500 (525) copies handset in Bell, printed on Basingwerk Parchment, and signed by the author. Illustrated with 7 wood-engravings. Antoinette Jacobson paste paper wrappers with a cream paper label printed in red, on the front. Slightly untidy presentation inscription, otherwise a fine copy. 45 94.(Whittington Press) Sun, Sea and Earth. Copper-engravings by Brian Hanscomb, with texts by Richard Jefferies, John Clare, Edward Thomas & the artist. Imperial 8vo, 11 double leaves, folded at the fore-edge, extra suite,the Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Andoversford, 1989. Number 3 of 25 (125) special copies printed on Hammer & Anvil handmade paper, with an extra suite of prints in a folder and all prints (whether extra or not) signed by the artist. Handset in SB Caslon. 8 copper engravings printed on the artist's etching press, plus extras. Bound Japanese-style, laced with black ribbon, in blue-grey handmade paper covers, with title label inset on upper cover. Black paper-covered slipcase with printed spine label. A fine copy. 500 Superlative copper engravings, at times reminiscent of Eric Gill.
95.(Whittington Press) Taylor (Michael). Saint Dominic's Press, a Bibliography 1916-1937. With a memoir by Susan Falkner, an introduction by Brocard Sewell, a preface by Michael Taylor, and an appendix by Adrian Cunningham. Crown 4to, pp.[x],190, colophon, [+ inserted plates] The Whittington Press, Lower Marston, Risbury, 1995. Number 31 of 300 (400) copies typeset in Caslon and printed on Zerkall paper. Illustrated with type facsimiles, line-block and lithographic reproductions of Saint Dominic's printing and photographs (some colour, some tipped in, some folding). Quarter red-brown cloth with gilt spine titling, papercovered boards with matching slipcase. 160 An invaluable work. 96.(Whittington Press) Bidwell (John). Fine papers at the Oxford University Press. Folio, 39cm, 97pp + 40 leaves of specimens mounted on black Ingres, The Whittington Press, Risbury, 1999. Two reproductions, forty full-page mounted sheets. Text set in Centaur, this one of 300 copies printed on Zerkall paper (in light brown and black) half-bound in cloth with green paper-covered boards in a slipcase. A fine copy. 250 97.(Whittington Press) Butcher (David). British private press prospectuses 1891-2001. With a woodengraving by Eric Ravilious, type facsimiles and lithographic reproductions of prospectuses. 4to, 28cm, 159p, Whittington Press,Risbury, 2001. Text set in Poliphilus and printed on Zerkall paper. One of 260 (350) copies half-bound in buckram, spine gilt, with printed paper-covered boards.. Slipcase. A fine copy. 160 98.(Whittington Press) Cave (Roderick). Chinese ceremonial papers: an ilustrated bibliography. With 38 specimens of papers and a seal cut by Judy Ling Wong. Folio, 35c, 79p, folder, The Whittington Press, Risbury, 2002. Text set in Fournier. One of 200 copies printed on Hahnemuhle handmade paper, this being one of 150 half-bound in buckram with paper-covered boards, with a specimen in a paper folder in a slipcase. A fine copy. 170 99.(Whittington Press) [Pietro Andrea] Mattioli's herbal: a short account of its illustrations [by John Bidwell] With a print from an original woodcut block. 4to, 31cm, 21p + print,the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 2003. Text set in 16 point Centaur. One of 300 (350) copies printed on Zerkall paper half bound in buckram with patterned paper-covered sides. A fine copy with prospectus loosely inserted. 95 The type was set at the Whittington Press, and the book was published by the Pierpont Morgan Library. Each copy contains a print pulled from the original woodblock, Asarum, from "Mattioli's Herbal" of 1562.