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Printing & the Arts of the Book Printing & the Arts of the Book _____________________________________________________________ PART I - Fine Printing & Book Production 1 ALEMBIC PRESS. BOLTON, Claire M. Fancy Papers. The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2001. £60 100 copies printed; pp.32; 34 tipped-in paper samples with tissue guards, bound into oversewn cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label. A wonderful display of fancy papers collected from the Sanderson's archive in 1950 by the author's father, including a great range of leather-effect papers & others used chiefly in the fancy box trade. Claire Bolton provides an essay on the manufacture & history of the trade. PAPER SAMPLES. 2 ALEMBIC PRESS. LAWSON-HALL, Claire. An Autumn Garden. [with leaf prints and linocut illustrations by Muriel Mallows printed in colours.] The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2000 £48 100 numbered copies printed, square miniature format (75 x 75mm.); Eight thick cards providing 16 'pages' of text overprinted with delicate leaf prints alternating with variously coloured linocuts; ingeniously ribbon 'bound' in Jacob's Ladder format so that the leaves 'tumble' by the manipulation of the first card. The third in Claire Bolton's imaginative series. 3 ALEMBIC PRESS. LAWSON-HALL, Claire. A Summer Garden. The Alembic Press, Marcham, 1999 [2000] £48 Limited to 100 numbered copies in 9pt Old Style, (75 x 75mm) 16pp. accordian-folded in a twisting 'garden path' within red Maziarczyk pastepaper boards, which unfolds to reveal the full text within hand-coloured garden drawings by Muriel Mallows with bright red poppy in three-coloured linocut on verso. Uniform with the ingenious Spring Garden (though differently folded). 4 ALEMBIC PRESS. LAWSON-HALL, Claire. A Winter Garden. [with eight hand-coloured etchings by Muriel Mallows.] The Alembic Press, Marcham, 2001. £48 100 numbered copies printed, square miniature format (75 x 75mm.); pp.38; printed in grey on heavy hand-made paper with eight etchings hand-coloured by the artist; printed stiff grey wrappers with silk oversewing. The fourth & final miniature of the series. 5 ALPHABET BOOK. MARTINEAU, Luke [Illustrator] & BINGHAM, Kate. Every Girl's Alphabet. Paintings by Luke Martineau and words by Kate Bingham. Artists' Choice Editions, 2010. £35 FIRST EDITION limited to 240 copies, signed & numbered by author & artist; sm.4to., pp.(64); illustrations in colour throughout; new in pictorial wrappers. A charming alphabet book in the Nicholson tradition with a wry & tender commentary by Bingham, beautifully produced at Northend Creative Print. 6 ALPHABET BOOK. MARTINEAU, Luke [Illustrator] & BINGHAM, Kate. Every Girl's Alphabet. Paintings by Luke Martineau and words by Kate Bingham. Artists' Choice Editions, 2010. £120 FIRST EDITION, signed & numbered by author & artist, one of 56 deluxe copies, specially bound in crimson leather-backed pictorial boards with additional linocut, signed & numbered by the artist, in card folder and slip-case; sm.4to., pp.(64); illustrations in colour throughout. 7 BAWDEN, Edward. SKIPWITH, Peyton. Entertaining A La Carte. Edward Bawden and Fortnum & Mason. The Mainstone Press, 2007. £90 FIRST EDITION limited to 1000 copies, 4to, (346 x 251mm), pp.126; new in cloth binding. Over 200 colour illustrations from the archives of Fortnum & Mason with an introductory essay by Bawden's friend and former director of the Fine Art Society, Peyton Skipwith. A beautiful production, designed by Brian Webb, which collects the catalogues, brochures, order forms, envelopes and other ephemeral advertising material designed by Bawden for the firm before and after the Second World War. 8 BAWDEN, Edward. SKIPWITH, Peyton. [Editor] Edward Bawden 1903-1989 A Centenary Celebration. [Catalogue of an exhibition with introductory essay.] The Fine Art Society, 2003. £20 FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.48; frontispiece & 50 colour plates; a fine copy of this attractive catalogue in original decorated card covers. 9 BAWDEN, Edward. YORKE, Dr Malcolm. Edward Bawden and his circle. The Inward Laugh. Antique Collectors' Club, 2007. £35 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.272; over 300 illustrations in colour, line & half-tone; new in dust-wrapper; revised & expanded from the Fleece Press limited edition of 2005. Yorke explores Bawden's career through his social and artistic friendships with illustrations from many sources including much previously unpublished material, reflecting his work for the Curwen Press, book illustration, advertising, transport posters, murals on ships, churches, boardrooms and colleges, editioned prints, wallpapers and personal watercolours. ONE OF TWENTY-FIVE COPIES 10 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. POPE, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem in five cantos. Embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Leonard Smithers, 1896. £3,500 DELUXE EDITION on Japanese Vellum and bound in full vellum, limited to 25 copies; 4to., pp.xiv,47; frontispiece, six full-page & two smaller illustrations in line by Beardsley; some slight dust-soiling but well preserved in original full vellum blocked in gold on upper cover to Beardsley's design, top edge gilt, others uncut; original prospectus & order form (spotted) laid in. 'One of Beardsley's most complete achievements,' John Russell Taylor. Mason 355. 11 BINDING. Book Box. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS. Book-form box so labelled in lizard-grained maroon calf, marbled sides, morocco label. (230 x 150 x 50mm.) £40 12 BIRD & BULL PRESS. GORDON CRAIG, Edward. Paris Diary 1932-1933. Edited with a prologue by Colin Franklin. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa., 1982. £95 FIRST EDITION, no.27 of 350 copies; pp.154 + colophon; 8 colour facsimiles of pages from the diary; printed in Baskerville on Bugrabutten mouldmade paper; a fine copy in original morocco-backed Japanese paper boards, morocco label & tips, uncut; prospectus laid in. AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 13 BLACK PENNELL PRESS. M'ALPINE, John. Genuine Narratives and Concise Memoirs of some of the most interesting exploits and singular Adventures of John M'Alpine a native Highlander. From the time of his Emigration from Scotland to America 1773...Greenock, 1780. [Reprinted with wood-engravings by Kathleen M. Lindsley and a new preface by Thomas Rae.] Black Pennell Press, Greenock, 1985. £65 No. 152 of 200 copies, pp.xiv,82 + colophon, frontispiece facsimile of the title-page of the 1780 edition, title device & eight wood-engraved vignettes; hand-set in Caslon old face and printed damp on Zerkall mould-made paper, the wood-engravings printed separately; hand bound in leather-backed Japanese wood veneer boards, uncut. A fine copy of the most substantial book of the Press. A fascinating account of M'Alpine's experiences in the British Army in America under Generals Carleton and Burgoyne. 14 BLAKE, William. Jerusalem. The Emanation of The Giant Albion. [Facsimile with Commentary and Bibliographical History by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.] The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1974. £200 No.338 of 500 copies, folio; pp.(16); 29 facsimile plates in colour, four in sepia, printed on rectos only; a very good copy of this magnificent facsimile in original morocco-backed marbled boards and matching morocco-trimmed slip-case. 15 BLAKE, William. The Song of Los. Lambeth, Printed by W. Blake 1795. [A facsimile with Commentary and Bibliographical History by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.] The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1975. £255 No.9 of 400 copies in tan morocco-backed marbled boards & matching morocco-trimmed slip-case; printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match that used by Blake; lg.4to., eight leaf collotype facsimile with hand-colouring through stencils, facsimile sketch & 8pp. accompanying text; a fine copy. A beautiful facsimile of this dramatically colourful work, reproduced from one of only five known copies. Publisher's presentation notelet (Blake's Divine Image) laid in: 'Special delivery... f[rom] Blake Trust. Yours A[rnold] F[awcus]' 16 BLUE BELL HILL PRESS. S., G.V. Tinker Tailor. Rimes by G.V.S. with cuts by S.H. Printed at the Blue Bell Hill Press in 1936. £45 FIRST EDITION, pp.(20); 8 verses with accompanying illustrations in linocut (?) on facing pages; an attractive production in cloth-backed decorated boards. A chalk ridge between Rochester & Maidstone, Blue Bell Hill is well located for the paper-making area of Kent, but we have been unable to identify either the Press or the two initialled protagonists. No limitation is stated but we have been unable to locate another copy; not listed in Copac or WorldCat. 17 BOAR'S HEAD PRESS. HAWORTH-BOOTH, Digby. Kleinias. Poems. At the Sign of the Boar's Head in Heathercombe, Manaton, Devon. 1932. £55 FIRST EDITION, no.173 of 200 copies, sepia printed in Baskerville on Van Gelder hand-made paper; pp.30 + colophon; vignette title wood-engraving, 'The Mill House', by Lettice Sandford; a very good uncut copy in original marbled cloth; extremities rubbed but sound. An early production of Christopher Sandford's press. Chambers 4. 18 BOAR'S HEAD PRESS. SAPPHO. [Selected Poems] The text arranged with translations an introduction & notes by E.M. Cox. [Illustrated with wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford.] Boar's Head Press, Manaton, Devon, 1932 £135 No.192 of 225 copies on mould-made paper; pp.81 + colophon; six full-page wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford; very good in original Niger morocco-backed Cockerell marbled boards, lettered in gold, top edge gilt, others uncut. Illustrations strongly influenced by her mentor, Blair Hughes-Stanton, who wrote enthusiatically from Gregynog. 'One of the finest books [of the Press], graced with six magnificent full-page engravings... A tall octavo, set in New Hellenic Greek and Caslon OF, for the Greek and English texts.' Chambers 9 19 BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. HUTTON, Edward [Editor] Thirteene Most Pleasaunt and Delectable Questions [of Love], Entituled, A Disport of Diverse Noble Personages... Englished anno 1566 by H[umphrey] G[ifford?]. To which is prefixed an Introduction by Edward Hutton. [Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, for] Peter Davies, 1927. £35 520 copies printed in a fount reconstructed from one designed & made by Peter Schoeffer (1420-1500), 'some sixty matrices of which were acquired by Joh.
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