SEPTEMBER LIST 2018
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1.(Alphabets) Alphabets, réunies par Herbert Hoffmann, en collaboration avec Albert Bruckner, Max Hertwig et Rudolf Koch... [Note de Charles Peignot.] Folio, pp.viii, 80 plates, edition de la Revue, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Paris, 3 Rue Seguier, [?1925]. Alphabets printed in black and red on stiff paper with versos blank. Very attractive examples of work from Rudolf Koch, M. Tuleu, A.M. Cassandre, Jakob Erbar, Ernst Schneidler, F.H. Ehmcke, E. Lautenbach - and many other. A few leaves just a little dusty. Blue paper-covered box with linen spine, titled and decorated in silver. Lower front cover reads 'Not to be taken away. Please return to Mr Savory' (formerly in the possession of WPP at their offices Berkeley Square). A very good copy of a scarce item. £300
2.Angell (John). Stenography, or short-hand improved: being the most compendious, lineal and easy method hitherto extant ... Fourth edition, 8vo, 20cm, [4],xlviii,[12]p., XXI plates, London: printed for & sold by M.Angell, B.Martin and John Angell, Dublin, [1787?] Engraved title-page and twenty-one full-page engraved plates.. Initial advertisement leaf. Modern quarter calf with gilt leather spine label, combed marbled paper-covered sides. A fine - or near fine – copy £380 (ESTC T179990, Alston VIII,233)
3.Ashbee (C.R.). Decorative Art from a Workshop Point of View: a paper read at the Edinburgh Art Congress, November 1889. [Title from cover.] 8vo, 11 p. ; 23 cm., no place, no printer, [1889]. Text reasonably well printed on chain-laid paper, the covers rather amateurishly printed in red and black with C.R.Ashbee's 'ash and bee' mark bottom right. Originally sewn into the wrappers, but both of these now detached (although present). Internally very good. A rare item (definitely not printed at Essex House). £250 'Sold for the benefit of the Craftsman Club at a minimum of threepence.' (Front cover)
4.Ashbee (C.R.). A Table of the Arts and Crafts of the Renaissance. Third edition, single sheet folded into an octavo brochure, London: published by the Guild & School of Handicraft, 1892. 'Ash and bee' mark to printed covers; Slight spotting at rear, edges strengthened with tape. A very good copy. £140 1 folded sheet ; 66 x 57 cm. folded to 22 x 15 cm. Title at head of table: A table of the arts and crafts in the 15th & 16th centuries. 5.(Barn Elm Editions) The Acts of the Apostles: Engravings [by] Frances Richards. [With an Afterword by Mel Gooding.] Folio, 38cm, [48]p, Barn Elm Editions, [London] 1980. One of 70 copies (this marked 'Printers Proof') printed in Ehrhardt at Skelton's Press, Wellingborough, signed by the artist upon the colophon and with each of the seven copper plates initialled by the artist. Grey silk chemise titled in silver, grey silk slipcase blocked with the artist's initials in silver. A fine copy £275 A portfolio of seven engravings, six being illustrations to The Acts of the Apostles and the seventh entitled Praying to the Animals were originally engraved in 1929. This is their first showing - although a version of something similiar them appeared in Fleuron VII.
6.(Bird & Bull Press) Subira (Oriol Valls I). A Lively Look At Papermaking. With reproductions of 24 prints. 8vo, 46p, (Henry Morris) Bird & Bull Press, Newtown, PA, 1980. Machine-set in Times Roman, the title in Trump Mediaeval. One of 300 copies printed in black, green and brown on Ingres paper. Bound in patterned paper-covered boards with paper spine label. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy. £40
7.(Black Knight Press) Next Monday Happening. Written, illustrated and printed by Patr’ & Ros Smith, 13.vii.67, at The Black Knight Press with occasional interruptions from Duine Campell. Dedicated to the Offcut Press. [4]p. Full-page illustration splattered in red, black and orange ink, printed on hand-made paper, sewn into grey paper wrappers, titled in black. A fine copy. £30
8.(Black Knight Press) Infant Sorrow. [With four lino cuts by Duine Campbell.] Crown 8vo, [9]pp., (Duine Campbell) Black Knight Press, Leicester, 1970. Number 24 of 100 copies, handset in Bembo, signed by the artist, printed in black (the lino cuts in olive green, rust brown, or blue-green) on green Glastonbury Antique laid paper. Sewn with brown thread into moss green card covers, cut flush, printed in black on the front.Fine copy.£40 Sold with an A.L.s from Duine Campbell (“Toni is as uncontrollable as ever …”)
9.Burg (A.R. Van den). School of Painting for the Imitation of Woods and Marbles as taught and practiced by A. R. Van der Burg and P. Van der Burg. Sixth edition, folio, 48 p., 36 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.); 50 cm, London : Crosby Lockwood and Son 1923 . Chromolithograph and black-and-white plates; linen boards titled in black, quarter black morocco. A few very discreet stamps of Grimsby Public Library. Covers a little soiled. A very good copy. £200 Inserted Warning slip printed in red ink gives notice that the theft of plates from illustrated books renders the offender liable to six months imprisonment with hard labour.
10.(Cherub Press) Thomas (Edward). Bright Clouds. Single tipped-in broadside sheet, 130 X 80mm, The Cherub Press, Solihull, 1984. Handset in Dante and printed on Japanese hand-made paper. Tipped-into a stiff card wrapper titled in black on the front. A fine copy. £40 Loosely inserted an A.L.s from David Butcher on Cherub Press letterhead, 3.1.91; 'The Cardinal Rules of Writing Style' (one of 65 copies set in Dante for the BPS, November 1988); The Cherub Press, Current Publications [New Year 1991]. 11.(Circle Press) Rossetti (Daniel Gabriel). Chimes. Poems. Etchings in relief by Birgit Skiold. Folio, 16" X 12", pp.[46], Circle Press Publications, London, 1969. One of 85 copies (this numbered "A/P") handset in 30pt. Stempel Optima, printed by Derek Redfern on heavy Barcham Green mould-made paper and signed by the artist. 7 full-page blind and embossed etchings, most without colour, a few using one tone. Protective cloth-covered folder in orange with red spine titling, mauve pink slipcase, both by David Collins. Edges uncut. A very good to fine copy. £350 Poems appear left, prints right on the folded sheets. 'Chimes' won the Aigle d'Or prize at the Festival International du Livre, Nice, 1970.
12.(Circle Press) Zen Gardens. Poems by James Kirkup with original prints by Birgit Skiold. 4to, 30cm, [40]p, Circle Press, Guildford, 1973. Number 10 of 75 (100) copies printed in English on Hayle Mill paper in loose folds. Colophon signed by the author and artist. Coloured etchings with blind surrounds by Birgit Skiold. Brown cloth drop-back box, titled in blind on the front. A fine copy. £250 Seven intaglio prints and etchings - no colour on six prints; the seventh with multiple colours. In 1975 James Kirkup won the Keats Award and was known for his poems and prose about Japan.
13.(Circle Press) King (Ron). Turn Over Darling. 12mo, 19cm, [24]p, Ronald King, Circle Press, 1994. Designed and drawn in wire by Ron King and printed at Circle Press on J. Green RWS hand- made paper in a signed limited edition of 75 copies (this marked "10/20 final"). Grey hand- made paper covers titled in light blue, grey paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy. £200 A series of six double-sided blind-embossed images printed in wire, which, when folded and juxtaposed in sequence, make eleven reclining nudes which change position from front to back view. Also an unlimited edition on Khadi Indian hand-made paper.
14.(Douglas Cleverdon) Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. With ten engravings on copper by David Jones. [With a note by Douglas Cleverdon.] Super Royal 4to, pp.[viii],37, colophon + inserted plates, printed for Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol, at the Fanfare Press, London, 1929. One of 400 (470) copies (this marked 'for presentation D.C.) handset in Frederic Warde's Arrighi type (with marginal notes in Norstedt's eighteenth-century type), printed under the direction of Stanley Morison on hand-made paper. Head- and tailpiece, 8 full-page copper engravings printed blue-grey by Walter Colls. Quarter white linen buckram, titled in gilt up the spine, green paper sides, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Slight overall wear. A very good copy. Presentation inscription 'To A.A.M. Stols, creator of the Halcyon Press, in sincere homage from Douglas Cleverdon.' Loosely inserted, 'A complete list of books published by the Halcyon Press, 1927- 1929'. £1,500 The plates were printed leaving a thin film of ink over the plate area, partly (in Jones' words) as an aid to the unification of these essentially linear designs. The text was printed four pages at a time due to the small quantity of Arrighi available; it matches the calligraphic quality of the engravings admirably. One of the outstanding inter-war books. (Appleton 280)
15.(Clover Hill Editions) The Engravings of David Jones. A Survey by Douglas Cleverdon. 4to, 32cm, pp.x,58 + fly-title + 96 leaves (rectos only) of engravings, Clover Hill Editions, London, 1981. Text set in 13-point Bembo. Number 140 of 260 (346) standard copies printed on Velin d'Arches paper at the Rampant Lions Press. Green cloth, decorated in gilt on the upper board, gilt leather label to spine, gold top, other edges uncut. Ex libris P. Le Brocq. A near fine copy. £1,350 The bulk of the 96 plates are printed from the original wood-blocks, but where these had been lost, they were reproduced by lithography at Senecio Press. The intaglio subjects reproduced in the plates by half-tones.
16.(Crane & Co.) Concerning Letterheads: Being a set of seventeen designs for various lines of business by leading designers produced on Crane's Business Papers. 4to, 31cm, 20p, portrait frontispiece, 17 samples interleaved with text, Crane & Co Inc, Dalton, Massachusetts, 1924. Portrait of Zenas Crane (1801); many types of paper using various designs for letterheads. Amongst the designers are: Franklin Booth, T.M. Cleland, Oswald Cooper, W.A. Dwiggins, Frederic W. Goudy and Edward A. Wilson. Set in Caslon an dpinted at the Marchbanks Press. Quarter cloth with decorative cream paper-covered boards. Covers a little dusty, some evidence of a label removed on the front endpaper. Generally very good. £60
17.(Curwen Press) Bennett (Arnold). Elsie and the Child. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Crown 4to, 26cm, pp.87 + 7 plates, (Curwen Press for) La Belle Sauvage, Cassell & Co, London, 1929. One of 650 (750) copies printed on handmade paper at the Curwen Press. 7 full-page and 2 smaller drawings richly stencilled in opaque gouache colours by pochoir. Printed biscuit cloth. Black card slipcase with printed spine label. A fine copy. £250 'Part of the stencilling was applied by a sponge and the result was spectacular.' (Oliver Simon in `Printer and Playground'). 'The technical skill of its reproduction is beyond praise, look at the opening text page; a perfect collaboration between Kauffer and Simon' (Desmond Flower). The book is printed in 14- on 16-point Baskerville with Berthold's Walbaum for display, complementing the lavish texture of the paper and illustrations.
18.(Curwen Press) To Reynolds Stone on his 70th birthday [13th March, 1979], we offer in admiration this testimony of our gratitude for the pleasure he has given us by his friendship and his work. 4to, 28cm, [4]p, Simon Rendall at the Curwen Press, [1979]. Set in Foundry Walbaum (printed in black), with very elaborate Curwen borders and ornaments printed in moss-green. About a hundred names are printed pp.2-3. A fine copy. £15
19.(Cygnet Press) Temples of Power. Lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte, with an introduction and architectural notes by Gavin Stamp and a foreword by Sir John Betjeman. Oblong folio, 90p (including 16 full-page colour lithographs), Cygnet Press, Burford, 1979. Number 10 of 250 copies signed by Glynn Boyd Harte and Gavin Stamp; 'Battersea power station' pattern paper-covered boards, blue buckram back, titled in silver. Lacks dust-jacket. A very good to fine copy. £625
20.Davidson (Andrew) & Jonathan Mercer. A selection of woodcut prints from the W H Smith collection. Square 12mo, 14cm, [32]p, W.H. Smith, n.d. [? 1990]. No text. 29 boxwood engravings depicting aspectects of local heritage in towns where W.H. Smith is represented. Black card with red paper dust-jacker. A fine copy. £35 With a TLs from Chris Rule, Company Secretary, on W H Smith letterhead, March 1996, presenting the book.
21. De Bray (Dirk). A Short Instruction in the Binding of Books: followed by a note on the gilding of the edges by Ambrosius Vermerck. With an introduction and a paraphrase by K van der Horst and C de Wolf, Translated by H.S. Lake. 2 vols, boxed, pp.87 & ff.48, Nico Israel, Amsterdam, 1977. One of 600 copies; text (and illustrations) in orange and black; the smaller volume being a colour facsimile of de Bray's work on bookbinding (1658). Both in decorative printed wrappers. Boxed. A fine copy. £60
22.(Cambridge Christmas book) Dreyfus (John). Italic Quartet. A record of the collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker and Edward Prince in making the Cranach Press Italic. [Preface by Brooke Crutchley.] 8vo, pp.viii,50, Cambridge, [Privately printed for Friends of the University Printer], Christmas 1966. One of 500 copies on mould-made paper. 10 collotype plates. Decorative cloth boards with spine label lettered in gilt and matching slipcase. A fine copy. £75 The art nouveau decorations in the book were designed by Martin Battersby, and the cover cloth printed at his studio in Brighton.
23.(Cambridge Christmas book) Lister (Raymond). Hammer and Hand. An essay on the ironwork of Cambridge. [Preface by Brooke Crutchley.] Oblong Royal 8vo, pp.v,42, Cambridge: Printed for his friends by the University Printer, Christmas 1969. One of 500 copies on Abbey Mills toned paper. Frontispiece and 20 other line drawings (14 full- page) by Richard Bawden. Decorative paper-covered sides with the title incorporated into a 'railing' design by Bawden, dark russet morocco lettered in gilt. A near fine copy. £60
24.(Deberny et Cie) Clichés & Gravures: Initiales Entrelacess ... Et sur dessins ... Armes de puissances ... Et de villes ...[etc] Demy 4to, 31cm, p.[290], Deberny et Cie, Paris, Rue d'Hauteville, 58, (c.1919) Title-page in red and black; contains a quite huge collection of initials and ornaments, of almost every description, some dating back a good many years. Six have been excised: a sailing ship, a belt, a bag, the Arms of Portugal, a bed and an oil lamp, a few others have been blue-pencilled. Original thick yellow paper wrappers, titled in red and black, bound up in decorative boards. Slight worming to front endpaper. A very good copy. £500 Text in French, not that there is much. A catalogue of type specimens offered by the Deberny firm, mainly pictures and engravings. Includes municipal coats of arms, commercial symbols, medals. Maps of France and regions therein at end of text. People are vague about the date of this work. I can find no actual date later than 1918 (that twice) within it, also it is suggestive that the map at the rear shows boundaries before the treaty of 1919.
25.Dwiggins (W.A.). Marionette in motion : the Puterschein̈ system diagrammed, described. First edition, xv (i.e. xxv) p. : ill. ; 21 cm., Puppetry Imprints, Handbook XII, Detroit, 1939. Many full-page illustrations within the text; grey paper-covered boards, green cloth back, titled in blue. Lacks dust-jacket. A very good copy. £75
26.Dwiggins (W.A.). WAD to RR: a letter about designing type. 4to, [12] p. : illus., facsim. ; 29 cm., Cambridge, Mass., Harvard College Library, Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1940. 3 colour illustrations (1 on title-page) and plate. Orange paper-covered boards with printed label, matching slipcase (with slight damage to extremities). A very good copy indeed. £80 'This text is a slightly expanded version of a letter written on July 21, 1937, to a Rudolph Ruzicka who wanted to know how one went about designing a type-face.'
27.(Enschede en Zonen) Letterproef van Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Lettergieterij te Haalem. Deel II. Fantasie-Letter. Super royal 4to, 40cm, pp.[iv],184, French-folded, Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, [May 1889]. Scripts and ornamented letters printed French-fold, mostly in black but with initials printed in red and black. Brown cloth, titled and decorated in black. A fine copy of a monumental specimen book. £750
28.(Essex House Press) Prospectuses and Lists. 5 items, demy 8vo, 4p or 8p, Essex House Press, Guild of Handicraft, London & Chipping Campden, 1900-1902. A small but attactive collection, comprising 9 prospectuses and lists, some with woodcut initials, some with press-marks, printed in black or red and black in Caslon Old Face or C.R. Ashbee's `Endeavour' type, all on hand-made paper, some specially watermarked. In fine or near fine condition. £135 Present are: (1) Shelley's Adonais (Jauary 1900), (2) The Poems of Shakespeare (Apr. 1900), (3) Walt Whitman's Hymn on the Death of Lincoln (March 1901), (4) A Coronation Masque Entitled The Masque of the Edwards (May 1902), (5) Chaucer's The Flower and the Leaf (Oct. 1902), Much information is found in the prospectuses that is not elsewhere to be found.
29.(Fleece Press) Lee (Brian North). Bookplates and Labels by Leo Wyatt. Introduced by Will Carter. Demy 8vo, 117pp., 8 extras, (Simon Lawrence) The Fleece Press, Netherton, Wakefield, 1987. Handset and printed in Spectrum, with Lectura for display, on Zerkall paper. Illustrated with 60 wood engravings printed from the blocks either in red or black, 16 reproductions of copper engravings and 4 tipped in photographs by Colin Cuthbert. This one of 30 (300) special copies with 8 tipped-in extra copper engravings, quarter bound in leather with paste paper boards. Quarter rust cloth with printed label and Sage Reynolds paste paper-covered boards. A fine copy in slipcase. Prospectus loosely inserted. £500
30.(Florin Press) John Keats, Song. Oblong 16mo, [8]p, (Graham Williams) The Florin Press, [Kingston upon Thames] 1970. Number 6 of 8 copies printed on hand-made paper, blindstamped with a florin and signed by Graham Williams at the rear. Sewn into brown card covers, titled in blind, blue endpapers. £65 Loosely inserted, a brief A.L.s from Graham Williams presenting the book ('latest offering') to Walter Tracy. Also inserted, an attractive wood-engraving of an oast house printed on handmade paper, signed Graham Williams, '79, Artists proof.
31.(Flying Fame) Lovat Fraser (Claud). Captain Macheath. Broadside 28 X 20cm, Printed by A.T. Stevens, for R.H., L.F., and H.J., at the Sign of Flying Fame, 45 Roland Gardens, London, 1913. Drawing in black by Lovat Fraser reproduced on thin crimson paper. [One of 400 copies, with Flying Fame device top left.] A fine copy. £90
32.(Tipográfica Richard Gans) Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans Madrid Barcelona Muestrario. Edicion V. 4to, 32cm, [254]p, Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans, Madrid, Barcelona, (1908). Many ornate types, rules and ornaments printed on different coloured paper stocks with decorative endpapers. Splendid advertising layouts. Printed paper-covered boards (a little worn), leather back. The pages have been numbered by hand. Missing are: 58-61, 78-81, 158-165 (torn out), 172-175, 185-187,224-231 (torn out). A rare art nouveau type £500 Imprenta y fundición tipográfica Richard Gans was a type foundry in business from 1888–1975. Founder, Richard Gans was the son of a doctor from Karlsbad, Austria who emigrated to Spain in 1874 where he founded the business in 1888. After his death in 1925 the foundry was led by Mauricio Wiesenthal until 1936. Before 1925, the foundry cast almost no original types, taking designs from German foundries, principally those of the Woellmer Type Foundry and Edmund Koch.
33.(Gee & Watson) Scrapatone Blocks by Gee & Watson. 5 specimens (3 folding), 26cm, Gee & Watson, Process Engravers, Shoe Lane, London, n.d. (early 1950s?) Advertisements done on newspaper stock and "printed under normal machine room conditions", demonstrating the superiority of the appallingly-named 'Scrapatone' process over normal 65-screen half-tones. Grey card folder, titled in black. A fine copy. £35 Gee & Watson existed as process engravers, photographers, advertisement typesetters, electrotypers and stereotypers at least between 1937 and 1963.
34.Gentleman (David). Suite of lithographs for the Jungle Book. Suite of 15 colour lithographs, 26cm, [For the Limited Editions Club, 1968]. 15 (of 16) richly coloured illustrations on white cartridge paper, within a glassine envelope and manilla paper envelope addressed to Hans Schmoller, Down Place, Windsor. Fine condition.£40 A note in H.S.'s fine calligraphic hand on the glassine envelope, explains the absence of the sixteenth lithograph: 'David Gentleman's colour illustrations for Kipling's Jungle Book (The Limited Editions Club, 1968)). His favourite illustration signed - framed.'
35. Gill (Eric). Engravings 1928-1933. 4to, 32cm, ff.xvi, 104, Printed by Hague & Gill, High Wycombe, for Faber & Faber, London, 1934. One of 400 copies printed on one side of the page only (verso and recto alternately). 133 wood- engravings, seven not previously published. Green linen, lettered in gilt on the spine. Ex Cheltenham Public Library copy with labels to endpapers and each plate stamped at the corner of the page (no damage to images). A good copy. £350
36.(Gogmagog Press) Cox (Morris). An Impression of Winter [Spring, Summer, Autumn]. A Landscape Panorama. Three embossed reversed/direct offset prints joined into a continuous strip, a folded to make nine double-page openings. 4 volumes, (each 26 leaves joined at the fore- edges). 8vo, 201 X 122mm., London: The Gogmagog Press, 1965-66. Set in Bodoni Ultra Bold. Each one of 100 copies printed in black and blue (Winter), black and green (Spring), black and yellow (Summer), black and brown (Autumn) on Hosho paper with the prints done in a wide range of colours. Ingres paper boards printed monotypes in various colous, front, back and spine. Pale grey pastedowns. Acetate dust-jackets. A near fine set. £1,850 The Seasons are reckoned the peak of Cox's achievement as a printer, and they belong together. Each of the four starts with a short poem, the rest is all colour printing. The panoramas folded into pages achieve their effects. Each possesses more undisciplined colour embossing, nature-printing with seeds and leaves, than exists in the rest of his books and prints.
37.(Golden Cockerel Press) Miscellaneous Writings Of Henry the Eighth King of England, France & Ireland: in which are included Assertion of the Seven Sacraments, Love letters to Anne Boleyn; Songs; Letter to the Emperor; Two Proclamations; Will. Edited by Francis Macnamara. Crown 4to, 26cm, pp,218, colophon, Printed & Published at The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1924. Handset in Caslon and printed in red and black. One of 35 (365) special copies printed on hand- made paper, signed by the editor and illustrator, and specially bound. Illustrated with four wood- engravings by Robert Gibbings. Binding of quarter maroon leather, spine gilt, the boards covered with dull red paper; in gold upon the front Henry VIII's device. Armorial bookplate of Norman Bruce. Spine dulled, extremities bumped. A good copy. £435
38.(Golden Cockerel Press) - Miracle Play. The Chester Play of the Deluge. Edited by J. Isaacs, with engravings on wood by David Jones. Royal 4to, pp.iv,16, Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1927. Number 165 of 275 copies handset and printed in Caslon on Batchelor handmade paper. 10 large wood engravings by David Jones. Maroon buckram lettered in gilt on the spine, top edge trimmed others uncut. Front endpaper a little freckled. A very good copy. £850
39.(Golden Cockerel Press) Bates (H.E.). Flowers and Faces. Engravings by John Nash. Crown 4to, 25cm, 56p, Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1935. Set in 14pt Golden Cockerel type. Number 243 of 259 (325) copies signed by the author, quarter bound in green morocco with gilt spine titling, t.e.g., hand-marbled cloth sides. Illustrated with 5 wood engravings by John Nash. Spine just very slightly faded. Small neat ownership inscription dated 1943. A very good to fine copy. Sold 40. (Gruffyground Press) Fuller (John). The Ship of Sounds. With a wood-engraving by Garrick Palmer. 8vo, [16]pp., Printed by Richard-Gabriel Rummonds at the Plain Wrapper Press, Verona, for the Gruffyground Press, Sidcot, November 1981. One of 124 (130) copies printed in Spectrum on Fabriano Roma hand-made paper, signed by the author and artist. Sewn into dull-green Veronese hand-made paper wrappers, titled in black on the front. A fine copy with an A.L.s from Garrick Palmer loosely inserted. £85 A poem sequence commissioned by the Leicestershire Schools Festival of Music (where the musical setting was by Bryan Kelly).
41.(Halcyon Press) Poe (Edgard Allen). The Fall of the House of Usher. With 10 aquatints by Alexandre Alexeieff. Crown 4to, 26cm, pp.68, colophon, The Halcyon Press, A.A.M. Stols, Maastricht, 1930. Number 235 of 325 (365) standard copies on Pannekoek paper and printed by Enschede en Zonen in the Fleischman roman types of 1739. Illustrated with ten aquatints. Blue-green balloon line, gilt-blocked on the front with a device by John Buckland-Wiright, titled in gilt at the spine (spine a bit faded). Title-page offset, a little spotting (mainly to prelims). A very good copy. £275
42.(Haslewood Books) Modern Nymphs: Being a series of fourteen fashion plates by Thomas Lowinsky. With an introductory essay on clothes by Raymond Mortimer. Small folio, pp.73[1], London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, [The Haslewood Books,] 1930. One of 150 copies set in Caslon and printed at The Westminster Press on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper. Title-page decoration, endpiece, 14 full-page drawings (done on the rectos only), hand-coloured through stencils. Quarter brown cloth with gilt spine titling, pattern paper- covered boards by the artist. Original glassine. A fine copy. £950 ‘Modern Nymphs contains Lowinsky's finest book art, and will surely be remembered as one of the great private press books. It is a particularly delightful example of Lowinsky's satirical side.' (Myers 11)
43.Hassall (Joan). A small bundle of Christmas cards, ephemera, and A.L.s Includes various notepapers for The Old Rectory, Warmington, with wood-engravings, five Saltire Society pamplets (1950s), engraved publicity for the National Book League and two A.L.s from the artist, Out of the Whirlwind: A Play, by Christopher Hassall, (Westminster Abbey, 1953) also two obituary notices and a Beauchamp Bookshop Catalogue. Near fine condition £120
44.(Hermit Press) Prys-Jones (A.G). A Memory of T.E. Lawrence. With two wood-engravings and a linocut printed in two colours on the boards by Anthony Christmas. Oblong 16mo, 31p, (Anthony Christmas) Hermit Press, Buxton, 1997. Text set in 12-point Joanna. One of 150 copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound in printed paper-covered boards. A fine copy. £40
45.Howard (Frank). The Sketcher's Manual, or, The whole art of picture making reduced to the simplest principles: by which amateurs may instruct themselves without the aid of a master. 12mo, 20cm, pp.xvi,79 + 28 inserted plates, London: Darton and Clark, 1846. 28 inserted lithographic plates and other reproducions within the text. Original green blindstamped cloth, titled in gilt on the upper board. Title-page slightly torn without loss. A very good copy. £50 46. (I.M. Imprimit) Richards (Anthony). From a satyric country, poems by Anthony Richards. With ten wood-cuts by Ian Mortimer. 4to, 29cm, 63p, (Ian Mortimer), I.M. Imprimit, Fellows Road, London, 1971. Handset in Plantin. One of 120 copies signed by the author and artist, printed in black on Barcham Green white wove mould-made paper. Text printed, at the Circle Press, Guildford; wood-cuts printed by the artist. Eight unsewn gatherings, contained in a box covered in grey Swedish Tre Kroner paper, lined with dark blue Japanese paper, with canvas spine. A fine copy. £285 The first book from the Press
47. Jochumsson (Matthias). 1616-1916 : On the Tercentenary commemoration of Shakespeare Ultima Thule sendeth greeting, an Icelandic poem by Matthias Jochumsson, with translation into English by Israel Gollancz. 4to, [10] p. ; 29 x 22 cm., [London]: H. Milford, Oxford University Press [1916]. Set in Caslon and printed on good quality wove paper. Parallel texts in English and Icelandic; sewn into grey paper wrappers titled in black. Very near fine copy. Loosely inserted note presenting the book 'To the Members of The Viking Society for Northern Research in Memory of Matthias Jochumsson and W.P. Ker. Presented by Sir Israel Gollancz.' £50 'This poem, in the ancient mother-tongue of Scandinavia and in the old Northern Kviða, was intended for the ʿBook of homage,' but was belated owing to the great disturbance of mail routes and navigation... The translation was printed in the Times Literary Supplement of September 14.' (Prefatory note)
48.Johnston (Edward). Manuscript & Inscription Letters for Schools & Classes & for the use the of craftsmen. With 5 plates by A.E.R. [Eric] Gill. Portfolio with 16 plates, 310 X 250mm., London, John Hogg, 1909. Linen-backed printed boards with ties. Ownership signature of Basil Oliver, April 1911. A near fine copy of a rare item. £500 First edition.
49.(George W.Jones) Shakespeare Tercentenary Observance in the Schools and Other Institutions. 8vo, 23cm, 31p, Geo. W. Jones at The Sign of the Dolphon, Gough Square, London, 1916. Designed by Fred Richards, set in 'Venezia' and printed in red and black on Abbey Mills paper with elaborate use of ornament and initials. Linen-backed marbled paper- covered boards, predominantly green, blue and bistre. A fine copy. £100 An important piece of printing, this was the first use of Venezia. Despite being ornate, this seems to me one of the best programmes printed by Jones.
50.(George W. Jones) Two Centuries of Typefounding: annals of the letter founder established by William Caslon in Chiswell Street, London, in the year 1720. [By John Findlay McRae.] 4to, 31cm, pp.xvi,96, London: Printed by George w. Jones at The Sign of the Dolphin, 1920. Set in Caslon Old Face and printed on hand-made paper. Numerous illustrations, many full- page, colour frontispiece and two folding specimen sheets. Grey card covers, titled in black and embossed decoration. A very good copy indeed. £40
51.Jessen (Peter). Meister der Schreibkunst aus drei Jahrhunderten: 200 Bildtafeln herausgegeben von Peter Jessen. Folio, 12 p., 200 pl. on 100 * : illus., facsims. ; 33 cm., Stuttgart : J. Hoffmann [1923]. No. 417 of a limited edition, text in German. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards titled in black and gilt. Extremities a little faded and worn. A very good copy. £65
52.Kane (J.J.). Progress of British newspapers in the nineteenth century, illustrated. 4to, 209, [13]p : ill., ports. ; 28cm., London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [1901]. Profusely illustrated;decorative red cloth, titled in gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very good copy. Book label of J Walter Thompson library, Berkeley Square. £85 Preface, which credits "Captain J.J. Kane... who suggested the idea for the book...," subscribed: Swan Electric Engraving Company. Partial contents: London newspapers, J.R. Fox-Bourne; Newspaper work when the century was young, E. Porritt; English provincial newspapers, A. Paterson; Irish newspapers, Sir J. Henderson; History of Scottish journalism, J. Strang, Welsh newspapers; Earliest newspapers (from 1625-1801), Notable press prosecutions of the past, John Forster's memorials of prominent press men, The press, what I have known of it, G.A.Sala, Newspapers and their nomenclature.
53.(Keepsake Press) Miss Austen's History of England from the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st by a Partial, Prejudices & Ignorant Historian. Embellished with Seven Linocuts by Elizabeth Lewis. 8vo, 20cm, 23p, (Roy Lewis and Daughters), Keepsake Press, 6 Ravenscourt Square, London, 1962. Handset in Bell and Madonna Bold. One of about 75 copies printed in black and violet (the frontispiece in violet and pale yellow) on white wove paper. Standard binding of brown Ingres Canson paper wrappers printed all over in orange, title in Ashley Script in white. Fine copy. £40 Claimed by the Keepsake Press to be only the second edition of this piece of Jane Austen's juvenila, after the 1925 rediscovery of it by G.K. Chesterton; but by a coincidence the Folio Society brought out a grander edition in the same year.
54.(Kelmscott Press) Poems chosen out of the Works of Robert Herrick. [Edited by F.S.Ellis.] 8vo, pp.xiv + blank + woodcut title + 296, William Morris, Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1895. One of 250 (258) copies printed in black and red in Kelmscott 'Golden' type on specially watermarked Batchelor handmade paper. Decorated with woodcut borders, 6-,10 and 12-line initials, by William Morris; a few leaf ornaments in red. Full vellum with green silk ties (two lacking), lettered in gilt on the spine. Light spotting from front endpaper, just extending through to title. A very good copy. £1,775
55.Lamb (Lynton). County Town: Backs and Fronts in Kennelsford. With sixty-one drawings by Lynton Lamb. First edition, 8vo, pp.xiv, 144, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. Black cloth, spine gilt, pictorial dust-jacket a little chipped at extremities. Presentation inscription from the author / illustrator to Hans Schmoller. A very good copy. £45 Loosely inserted a single page A.L.s, 17 July 1975, from Lynton Lamb ("Larry") to Hans Schmoller,thanking him for 'your kind letter about my RDI, an honour which I owe much to the encouragment of those who have been associated with me in my work'.
56.(Latin Press) Bristol, Clifton, and West of England Zoological Society. [An open letter soliciting members, by Reginald E. Greed, Superintendent, together with the terms of membership.] 4to, 292 X 228mm., [4]pp., (Guido Morris) Hick's Hay, Langford, East Somerset, 1935. Handset and printed in Bembo on a single sheet of fine wove paper folded into four. Some spotting at extremities. A very good copy. £150 An attractively printed piece that benefits from its size. Is it just possibly a spoof? Aside from the author's name, there are some distinctly convoluted - not to say odd - Terms of Membership, viz. 'Family Subscriptions: To admit Subscriber & his Wife, his children if living at home, Governess or Servants not exceeding two, having care of his children; at all times when the Gardens are open (Including Fetes). The Subscription includes the privilege of introducing two friends on Sundays.'
57.(C. & E. Layton) Type Faces. Folio, 38cm, C. & E. Layton, Farringdon Street, London, (1932). Typefaces tabbed in sections. Really quite impressive with a large selection of Ludlow types. Bound in black leatherette, gilt, additionally stamped in gilt 'J. Walter Thompson' on the front cover. Some wear to edges, early leaves a little soiled. A very good copy of the best Layton type book. £80
58. McGrath (Raymond). Six Christmas cards, various sizes, done for Reginald and Eileen Ross Williamson, Condalkin, Dublin, 1943-1950. Various papers (one handmade) , mostly folding. Christmas card for 1950 a little creased, otherwise in excellent condition. A minute pencil hand ascribes these to the ownership of Jim Richards. New Zealand born Raymond McGrath was Senior Architect at the Office of Public Works, Dublin, 1940-1968. £100 1943, Bridges of Dublin; 1944, Lights of Dublin Bay; 1945, Some Towers, Spires & Domes of Dublin; 1946, The Temple, Drumcondra House [etc]; 1948, Riverine Keystones, Dublin Custom House; 1950, Dublin Railway Stations.
59.Madan (Falconer). Books in Manuscript. A Short Introduction to their Study and Use. With a Chapter on Records. 12mo, pp.xv[1],188 + 8 inserted plates, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893. Engraved half-title; printed on quality laid paper (the title-page in red and black). Plum buckram with lettered in gilt on spine and upper boards. Spine a little faded A very good copy indeed. £25
60.Maupassant (Guy de). Bel-Ami. [Lithographies en couleurs de Jean-Denis Malcles.] 2 vols, 4to, 24cm, 216p & 216p, Editions de Cluny, Paris, 1944. Title-pages in green and black. One of 900 (1,120) sets printed on fine wove paper. Very fully illustrated with colour lithographs, many full-page. Pictorial printed wrappers with original glassine, chemise and slipcase. A fine set. £175
61.Morison (Stanley). The English Newspaper: Some account of the physical development of journals printed in London between 1622 & the present day. Folio, pp.xii,335, Cambridge, At the University Press, 1932. Frontispiece and 5 other inserted plates, 156 illustrations within the text. Rust cloth, gilt on the spine and upper board. Corners a little bumped. Lacks dust-jacket. A very good copy. £50 61.(Nonesuch Press) X Sermons preached by that Late Learned and Rev. Divine John Donne, Doctor in Divinity, once Deal of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul. Chosen from the whole body of Donne's sermones by Geoffrey Keynes. 4to, pp,vi,162, The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923. Set in Monotype Garamond, with swash italics and decorated initials; half title and running heads in black letter, printed by the Kynoch Press on Dutch paper. Titles and texts in red. Quarter canvas with brown Ingres paper-covered boards and matching endpapers, spine label a little worn. A very good copy indeed. £130
62.(Nonesuch Press) The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson, with Love and Truth & miscellaneous writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 8vo, pp.[x],631, + insets, The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1929. Number 1162 of 1,600 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper. 6 copper engravings by Charles Sigrist and 10 drawings of fish by T.L.Poulton stencilled in colours at the Curwen Press. Full natural morocco with marbled endpapers, gilt spine lettering, upper board stamped in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Edges of slipcase smoothed. Else a fine copy. £220
63.(Odd Volumes) Hollingsworth (Alexander T.) Blue and White China. By Alexander T. Hollingsworth, Artificer, to The Sette of Odd Volumes. Delivered at a Meeting of the Sette held at Limner's Hotel on Friday, February 6th, 1891. [Appendix. By Joseph Grego. Marks on old blue and white Nankin china:" p. [41]-54.] 12mo, 70 p. : ill. ; 15 x 12 cm., London : Chiswick Press, 1891. Title vignette, publisher's device on p. [71]. Edition limited to 245 copies. Bound up in card folded into pictorial parchment wrappers. A near fine copy. £50 Privately printed opuscula issued to members of the Sette of Odd Volumes No.26.
64.(Offcut Press) Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Introduction by Jean Roberts. Synopsis by Duine Campbell. 12mo, 18cm, [12]p, Offcut Private Press, June 26th, 1972. 39 Connaught Street, Leicester. One of 75 copies handset at the press, printed on chain-laid paper and signed by the authors. 5 linocuts in colour. Sewn into purple semi-stiff card wrappers. A fine copy. £35
65.(Officina Bodoni) – Type specimen. 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. Card slipcase. A fine copy. £190 Designed by F.Pastonchi and E.Cotti. The serifs are small and bracketed.
66.(Officina Bodoni) - Type specimen. An Excerpt from A Sentimental Journey, by Lawrence Sterne. [Original English text of the chapter "In the Desobligeant".] 8vo, 20cm, 16p, Officina Bodoni, Montagnola, 1926. Set in Bodoni Cuneo 12 point roman and italic. One of just 25 copies on paper of the Papeteries du Marais, bound in Putois marbled paper-covered boards with printed spine label. Slight wear to extremities. A very good copy. £450 In an extended colophon Mardersteig expressed his disappointment over the postponement of his projected visit to England because of the General Strike: 'A journey, it would seem, is at the mercy of political factions, not sentiment, which is the motive of all good journeys. In a sentiment of admiring affection for the heroic island where I hope to journey - when the railway wheels should move again - this greeting was printed with Giambattista Bodoni's twelve-point Cuneo, here used for the first time since his death.' The correctly spelt first name of the author is Laurence.
67.(Old School Press) Gill on letters. Chequebook 8vo, 12p, (Martyn Ould) The Old School Press, Hinton Charterhouse, 1991. Text set in 24 point Gill Shadow. One of 25 copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper and sewn Japanese-style into Judd Street paper covers. A fine copy. £40
68(Old School Press) Rhyme in Ronde. Chequebook 8vo, 12p, (Martyn Ould) The Old School Press, Hinton Charterhouse, 1994. Text set in 24 point Gill Shadow. Set in all six sizes of SB Parisian Ronde. One of 25 copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper and sewn Japanese-style into original Curwen patterned paper covers. Illustrations by John Watts. A fine copy. £50
69.(Old School Press) Burnett (David). Chesil Beach: a poem, with a wood-engraving by Christopher Wormell. Large 8vo, 27cm, [16]p, The Old School Press, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, 1997. Hand-set in SB Caslon. One of 225 copies printed on Zerkall paper with Canson-Mi-Teintes endpapers and Larroques mill hand-made paper-covered boards. Yellow linen back. A fine copy. £40
70.Ongania (Ferdinando). Early Venetian printing illustrated. [L'Arte della stampa nel rinascimento Italiano Venezia. English.] Small folio, [7]-228 pages, 1 leaf : including illustrations facsimiles (part color) ; 31 cm, London: John C. Nimmo [etc.], 1895. Title vignette (portrait of Aldus Manutius); plus a collection of facsimile illustrations of pages from early printed books, initials, borders, title-pages, printers' marks, art bindings, etc., with short introductions by Carlo Castellani (p. 9-[20]) on Venetian printing, printers' marks, water- marks and music printing; also a note on bindings (p. 217-218). Clotted-cream linen decorated and titled in reddish-brown and black, edges rather dust and a bit bumped. A good copy of an attractive book. £400
71. (Oriole Press) The Atheist's Prayer, by Jean Richepin (of the French Academy) and other poems by Victor Hugo, Eugene Pottier & John Henry Mackay. English versification by Benj. R. Tucker. 8vo, 19cm, [36]p, (Josph Ishill) The Oriole Press, Berkeley Heights, 1934. One of 200 copies set in Garamond type and printed in black and reddish-brown on Strathmore laid paper. Paper-covered boards with silver label, black cloth back. Inner hinges a bit stained. A good copy of an uncommon title. £40
72.(Oriole Press) Mesnil (Jacques). Frans Masereel. Translated from the French by Rose Freeman-Ishill. Small 8vo, 19cm, pp.21, colophon, Published and printed privately by the Oriole Press, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, 1934. Set in Bookman and Hadriano types and printed in black and red on Strathmore Bay Path paper. Nine reproductions of Masereel's woodcuts selected by himself. One of 200 copies. Bound in batik paper-covered boards, burnt orange and dark blue, parchment spine with printed label. Spine slightly darkened. A very good copy indeed. £120
73.Palmer (Arnold). Movable Feasts: A Reconnaissance of the Origins and Consequences of Fluctuations in Meal-Times with special attention to the introduction of Luncheon and Afternoon Tea. [Illustrated by Lynton Lamb and others.]. First edition, first printing, 8vo, pp.[x],153, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, London, 1952. Set in Caslon and printed on good quality wove paper. 13 illustrations, 4 being credited to Lynton Lamb, others to Rowlandson, B.R. Haydon, T.H. Shepherd, George du Maurier. Quarter black cloth, spine titled in gilt, decorative paper-covered boards, pictorial dust-jacket. Book label of Tatyana and Hans Schmoller with a presentation inscription to them from Lynton Lamb for Christmas 1952. A couple of spots to rear panel of dust-jacket, else a fine copy. £250 The rare first issue with 1952 upon the title-page. Loosely inserted an A.L.s, 1 page, 8vo, 4 Dec. 1952, on Reform Club letterhead, from Lynton Lamb ("Larry") saying he is pleased with the design of the book and asking for comment - perhaps at tonight's Double Crown Club meeting.
74.(Pear Tree Press) Guthrie (James), editor. Root and Branch: A Seasonal of the Arts, Number Two, No.3, Number One, Volume Two, September 1917; Number Two, Volume Two, December 1917; Number Three, Volume Two, March 1918; Number Four, Volume Two, June 1918. Six issues, 230 X 150mm, pp.15-50 & pp.[ii],84, Mostly Walter Bradley at the Morland Press for The Pear Tree Press, Flansham, 1912 & 1917-1918. Set in Caslon Old Face and one of 200 (212) copies on cartridge paper. Copiously illustrated with full-page drawings by James Guthrie, Reginald Hallward, Jack Yeats, Bernard Sleigh and others. Sewn into overlapping brown pictorial wrappers. Occasional slight wear, but very good condition indeed. £400 Literary contributors include Gordon Bottomley, W.H. Davies, Edward Thomas, Vivian Locke Ellis, Katharine Tynan, Eleanor Farjeon and Alan Dyce. Artistic contributors include Reginald Hallward, Pickford Waller, Jack Yeats, Frederick Carter and Bernard Sleigh. Any unsigned pieces -of either sort - are by James Guthrie.
75.(Pear Tree Press) A Chap Book for Little Chaps. Collected, edited and partly written by Stuart Guthrie. 8vo, 21cm, Half-title, frontispiece, 25p, colophon, (Stuart Guthrie) The Pear Tree Press, Flansham, 1920. Set in Myrtle type and printed in black (the illustrations in many colours) on wove paper. One of 100 copies. Frontispiece, title-page and 18 other woodcut illustrations in colours (some slight offsetting). This an unbound copy (rather than blue paper-covered boards), outer wrapper a little dusty. Otherwise very good condition. £200 Two rather intruiging box camera photographs of a man with his child loosely inserted.
76.(Pear Tree Press) A List of Original Modern Hand-Printed Books. 8vo, 18cm, [12]p (including covers), The Pear Tree Press, Flansham, near Bognor, Sussex, 1924. Handset in Caslon and printed on Abbey Mills paper. Intaglio image by James Guthrie on front cover, single woodcut in text. Self-wrappered. Some spotting to exterior. A good copy. £38 On the blank final p.[12] is a pencil fragment of about two paragraphs. It is very hard to read, yet was clearly written at the time and concerns the Pear Tree Press and its operation.
77.(Penmiel Press) Carroll (Lewis). Eight or nine wise words about letter writing. 8vo, 12p, (Edwarrd Burrett) Penmiel Press, Esher, 1981. Text set in Monotype Baskerville. One of 75 copies printed in black (with type ornaments in green) on Dene Mill hand-made paper. Sewn into paper wrappers by Legatoria Piazzesi of Venice with ornamental title label superimposed on the front cover. A fine copy inscribed by the printer at the rear. £85
78.(Plough Press) The Art of Making Paper, taken from The Universal Magazine. [Foreword by Colin Cohen and Geoffrey Wakeman.] 8vo, 21cm, 32p, 6 plates, portrait frontispiece, Republished by The Plough Press, Loughborough, 1978. Text reset and printed on Glastonbury by offset lithography at Skelton's Press. 6 plates (folding) and a lithographic frontispiece of la Lande. Full orange buckram, blocked in gold, printed endpapers. A near fine copy. £85 The Universal Magazine was a successful eighteenth-century magazine devoted to serious articles, with engraved plates. One of these was the first illustrated account of paper making in England, published in 1752. It is reprinted with the first English translation of J de la Lande's 'L'Art de Faire le Papier'. This great work was published in 1761 and translated into English in 1762 and 1763.
79.(Poetry Bookshop) Dobell (Sydney). The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston. Rhyme sheet, 22.1" X 8.2", The poetry Bookshop, 35 Devonshire Street, n.d. (c.1915). [First impression:] with two hand-coloured decorations by Claud Lovat Fraser. Folded once. A very good copy. £45
80.(Poetry Bookshop) Susan. Poem by J. Murray Allison. Decoration by Edy Legrand. Broadside, 42cm, Tollmer et Cie, The Poetry Bookshop, 35 Devonshire Street, n.d (1925). Printed on smooth wove paper and illustrated by pochoir. Folded once. A very good to fine copy. £40 (Woolmer B3:9) For this third series the name was changed to 'New Broadsides'. 23 were published between 1923 and 1931 of which this is the ninth. 81.(Printers' International Specimen Exchange) The Printers' International Specimen Exchange: in connection with The Paper and Printing Trades Journal; Vol.V, 1884. Thick demy 4to, 29cm, pp.13 + specimens London: Office of the Paper and Printing Trades Journal, Field & Tuer, "Ye Leadenhalle Presse" (1884). [One of 375 copies.] Title-page in red and black, Contributions from 205 firms worldwide, on various paper stocks, mostly highly ornate with much use ofcolours and gold in the then fashionable 'artistic' style. Half-vellum laced with catgut, lettered in gilt, considerable wear to boards, but all sound and internally a very good copy. £600 The Printers' International Specimen Exchange was established in England in 1880. Organised by the typographer, Andrew White-Tuer, editor of the Paper and printing trades journal. Each subscriber at a cost of one shilling provided a certain number of typographic specimens representing their best work. These were then collected into sets so that each subscriber received 200 incoming specimens, all different, in place of his own 200 outgoing specimens, all the same,
82.(Printers' International Specimen Exchange) The Printers' International Specimen Exchange.With an Introduction by the Editor of The Paper and Printing Trades Journal; Vol.VII, 1886. Thick demy 4to, 29cm, pp.15 + specimens London: Office of the Paper and Printing Trades Journal, Field & Tuer, "Ye Leadenhalle Presse" [One of 400 copies.] Title-page in red and black, Contributions from 218 firms worldwide, on various paper stocks, mostly highly ornate with much us of colours and colours and gold in the then fashionable 'artistic' style. Half-vellum laced with catgut, lettered in gilt. A very nice bright copy. £800
83.(Printers' International Specimen Exchange) The Printers' International Specimen Exchange. Volume XIII. With an Introduction by the Editor of "The British Printer" [Robert Hilton]. Thick demy 4to, 29cm, pp.[xii], 361, London: Office of The British Printer, 1892. [One of 400 copies.] 361 specimens, of which 33 are from Germany,12 from Austria-Hungary, 5 from Switzerland, but only 5 from the U.S.A. Elaborate use of ornaments and colours in the "artistic" manner, especially gold. Purple half morocco with gilt spine lettering, grained cloth sides and marbled endpapers. Spine a little rubbed. A very good bright copy. £750
84.Reed (Talbot Baines). A History of the Old English Letter Foundries. With notes historical and bibliographical on the rise and progress of English typography. A new edition revised and enlarged by A.F. Johnson. New edition, revised and enlarged, 4to, pp.xiv,400 [+ folding frontispiece], Faber and Faber, London, 1952. Printed in Bell type on fine wove paper at Oxford University Press. 95 illustrations within the text. Blue-green buckram, titled in gilt on the spine. Dust-jacket a bit chipped and soiled. A very good copy. £35 First published in 1887 this is the third and best edition. The revision was originally planned by Stanley Morison who, due to pressure of work, passed his notes to A.F. Johnson.
85.(Rocket Press) Stephenson (Rev Dr Alan). The Victorian Archbishops of Canterbury. 8vo, pp.41 + colophon, The Rocket Press, Blewbury, 1996. One of 450 (525) copies (this o/s) printed in black and purple in Baskerville type on Zerkall paper. 6 tipped-in portraits. Purple cloth, inset with printed labels on the spine and upper board. A fine copy. £30 86.(Royal College of Art) Adams (John, editor & others). The R.C.A, Students Magazine, Monthly. [January 1912 to Autumn 1914.] 9 issues, broken run, 8vo, 26cm, [24]p each, Royal College of Art, London, 1912-1914. Printed by George W. Jones at the Sign of the Dolphin, Gough Square, with his printer's mark on the lower cover. Reproductions of drawings, tipped-in illustrations, loose woodcuts and etchings, plus articles including common room gossip, social events and news. Woodcut initials, decorations in text. Blue paper covers, titled in black. Spines faded, but very good. £420 Interesting for student gossip from a better world, but notable contents do include, Issue II: Colour woodcut by Charles Shannon, Gordon Craig and the Modern Stage, by Norman Webb; Issue V: 'Rivets and Reamers' loose etching by Constance Pott, Ospovat at the RCA, by Oliver Onions; Issue VIII Farms for Art Students, by J.P. Corns; Issue IX: "The Dance" by [Vera] Willoughby, Issue XIII: Illustration of Figure Painted Out-of-Doors by Leon Underwood, loose etching by Langford Jones; Issue XV: Sandro's Jonah; Issue XVIII: H.Walker, Lettering; Issue XXIII F.C. Richards, loose etching of Venice (and frontispiece), R.A. Ray, Historic Chelsea; Issue XXIV; RCA Recruiting.
87.(Saint Nicolas Press) Cornford (Frances). On a Calm Shore. With 29 designs by Christopher Cornford. First edition, demy 8vo, 95p, The St Nicolas Press, Cambridge, (1960). Handset in Vendome. Printed in black (with illustrations in black and seven colours) on Basingwerk Parchment, on a platen press. 135 copies bound in vellum lined with red paper, 15 copies bound in velvet; 1,350 copies (published by the Cresset Press, London) OF WHICH THIS IS ONE, bound in paper-covered boards with a design by Christopher Cornford , printed in black and green, blocked in gold on the spine, the copy is however, numbered 134/150. Near fine condition with prospectus loosely inserted. £120 With a short A.L.s from Nicolas Barker to Hans Schmoller, undated, "I'm afraid it's not as good as I could have wished: inking and register could both be much better but 1500 is a lot (too much) on a hand press." Also the A.L.s from Christopher Cornford, various dates. The prospectus recalls how Frances Cornford died just before the very last sheet was printed.
88.(Skargon) Yvonne. [The Twelve Months. Wood engravings and design by Yvonne Skargon with poems by S.T. Coleridge,] Gilbert White, Francis Kilvert, John Clare, etc.] 8vo, [16]pp., n.p., n.d. (Christmas, c.1970) 12 half-page and 2 smaller wood engravings printed on Basingwerk Parchment. Sewn without wrappers. A little yellowed. A very good copy. £15 Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist: `Christmas Greetings, Yvonne Commander'. The engravings were originally commissioned by Christophers for their Wine and Food leaflets.
89.(Stephenson, Blake) Lining Type, Borders, Ornaments, Brass Rules, Printing Materials, Machinery. Third edition, 4to, 30cm,, pp.xii,518,72, Stephenson. Blake & Co. Ltd, Sheffield, 1914. Illustrations (partly coloured), printed in red and black, with many advertisements for display. Olive-green cloth, titled and stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers. A few leaves loose at the rear, otherwise a very good copy of an excellent specimen book. £225
90.Sutherland (William) and William George Sutherland. The Art of Graining and Imitating Woods. Large folio, 48 X 35cm, 2 parts in 1, Title, 34 pages + 20 chromo plates, Printed & Published by the Decorative Art Journals Co., Manchester, (1892). Original decorative beige cloth folder, titled in black with armorial designs in russet, pocket for the plates (a few very slight chips to extremities) at the rear. Vignettes and illustrations within the text. A little occasional yellowing to text, damage to spine, but a very good copy of a very scarce book. £875 Sold for 36 shillings in parts, 2 guineas bound. Collated perfect and complete.
91.Tacq (Christine). Sleep walking through trees. An anthology for those born later. [A selection of poems, illustrated with intaglio and relief prints by Christine Tacq.] Royal 4to, 395 X 325mm, pp.[50], colophon, The p's and q's Press, Thame, 2004. Set in 24-point Monotype Garamond and printed in black (the title-page in brown and black, the illustrations in many colours) on very heavy Somerset rag paper. One of 30 (45) standard copies, housed in a linen slipcase.. The book is signed by the artist, illustrated with seven full-page etchings and four smaller ones, the full-page etchings with magnificent softground etched colour printed overlays and small collagraph printed areas. Endpapers blind embossed from a relief block. Bound in screen-printed linen canvas, purple, lime-green and red, in a "tree motif". Slipcase with printed label on the front. A fine copy. £750 . Amongst the poems illustrated are: 'As I Wandered' by William Blake; 'A Talk with a Wood' by Brian Patten; 'Everything Changes' by Cicely Herbert; from 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson; 'Arbre Mon Ami', by Minou Drouet; 'Solstice Poem', by Margaret Attwood. A magnificent achievement.
92.(Tern Press) Jeffries (Richard). The Water Colley. 8vo, 18cm, [26]p, Tern Press, Market Drayton. [1984]. One of 90 copies printed in Caslon on Hayle Mill hand-made paper. Wood-engraved illustrations in colours by Nicholas and Mary Parry and signed by the former upon the colophon. Woodcut paper-covered boards with label, white paper back titled in green. Edges of spine a bit soiled. A very good copy. £45
93.(Tetrad Press) Power (Kevin) & Ian Tyson. Quercy Spine. Folio, 39cm, [20]p, Tetrad Press, Limehouse Wharf, 1980. Text handset and printed letterpress by Mike Oakes at Norwich School of Art on thick handmade paper. One of 30 copies (this marked "A/P") signed by the author and the artist, with each plate individually initialled by the artist. 4 full-page etchings proofed by the artist and editioned by Studio Prints Ltd. Grey silk chemise, matching slipcase. A fine copy. £335
94.Tschichold (Jan). Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst: Meisterwerke der Kalligraphie aus vier Jahrhunderted auf Zweihundert Tafeln. First edition, oblong 4to, pp.15[1] + 199 plates, Verlag Birkhauser, Basel, 1945. Superb plates; bound in linen-backed floral paper-covered boards, titled in brown on the spine. Dust-jacket creased and somewhat soiled, but contained within the original packing case. Front endpapers creased and also somewhat soiled. . A good copy. £70
95.(Typography) Harling (Robert), editor. Typography 6. A Quarterly. 4to, 60pp + inserts, published by the Shenval Press, Summer 1938. Illustrated in colour and black-and-white, various type facsimiles, etc. Ring-bound in printed card covers. A near fine copy. £50 The Typography of the Provincial Press, by S.L. Righyni; An Autobiographical Fragment by Imre Reiner; Ecclesiastical Typography, by John Betjeman.
96.(Typography) Harling (Robert, editor). Typography 7: A quarterly. 4to, pp.60, published by James Shand at the Shenval Press, Winter 1938. Profusely illustrated within the text; some use of different paper stocks and colours, type specimens, etc. Ring-bound into semi-stiff card wrappers. A very good to fine copy. £50 Holbrook Jackson: The Dictatorship of the Lay-out Man; Ashley Havinden: Visual Expression; Roland Knaster: Early children's ABC's: Denis Megaw: Twentieth-century Sans Serifs; John Carter: The Typography of the Cheap Reprint Series.
97.(Typography) Harling (Robert, editor). Typography 8: a quarterly. 4to, 58p.+ inserts, Published by the Shenval Press, London, Summer 1939. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white, with tipped-in colour plates. Ring bound printed card wrappers. A very good to fine copy. £50 Noel Carrington: Victorian Street Balllads; Robert Harling Tographical Typography; Edith Olivier: Rex Whistler's Book Decorations.
98.(Vale Press) Poems from Wordsworth. [Chosen and edited by T. Sturge Moore.] 8vo, pp.183[1] + colophon, (Vale Press) Hacon & Ricketts, London, 1902. One of 310 copies printed in Vale type on specially watermarked handmade paper. Illustrated with 6 woodcuts by T. Sturge Moore. White buckram with gilt spine titling, a bit soiled. A family copy in very good condition. £750 From the library of Joseph Herbert Moore ("Bertie"), 1876-1952, brother of Thomas Sturge Moore and G.E. Moore, O.M. Five proof engravings by Moore are loosely inserted, along with a presentation note to Bertie.
99.Warde (Frederic). Printers Ornaments as applied to the composition of decorative borders, panels and patterns. 4to, 29cm, 114p, Lanston Monotype Corporation, London, 1928. 114pp of ornaments, of which 38 are printed in a variety of colours and patterns on different coloured papers. Bright red cloth, titled and gilded with ornaments the front cover and the spine. Decorative endpapers. Some damage to spine edges. A good bright copy. £70 A book of Monotype ornaments, including a substantial selection applied as decorative patterns in a variety of coloured inks on a range of coloured papers. The standard issue (the existence of the special is not acknowledged.)
100.(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, The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Andoversford, 1989. Number 35 of 100 (125) copies handset in SB Caslon and printed on handmade paper (the preliminaries on Silurian mould-made paper). 8 copper engravings printed on the artist's etching press. Bound Japanese-style, lacd 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 near fine copy. £225 101.(Whittington Press) Hanscomb (Brian). Cornwall: an interior vision. [9] Copper engravings & texts. Royal 4to, 12 double leaves folded at the fore-edges + separate folder, Whittington Press, Risbury, 1992. Handset in SB Caslon and printed on F.J. Head hand-made paper, signed by the artist upon the colophon. Number XXXIII of XXXV (135) special copies with the copper engravings INDIVIDUALLY SIGNED BY THE ARTIST and with a separate set of engravings in a folder. Bound Japanese-style, laced with black ribbon, in light blue paper covers, printed label inset on the front, matching slipcase with printed spine label. A fine copy. £450
102. (Whittington Press) A bundle of posters and proofs from the Whittington, Compton and Hand & Eye Presses. Folio, nine items, mostly 1970s. All in excellent condition, some with wood-engravings (notably by John Lawrence). £100
103.(World's End Press) Christopher (A.B.). The Word Accomplished. With 17 etchings by Natalie d'Arbeloff. 4to, 36 leaves ( 18 double folds) printed on one side only, (Anne Brunskill) World's End Press, London, 1974. Set in Garamond. Number 33 of 80 copies signed by the author and artist, printed in black (the etchings in various colours, signed and dated in pencil, one done in blind) on Barcham Green white mould-made paper. This, one of fifty copies issued unbound, in a box with a natural Oasis morocco spine and hand-made paper sides, upper cover embossed, a little soiled at extremities, but internally fine and in general a very good copy. £750
104.Wornum (Ralph N.) Analysis of Ornament. The Characteristics of Styles: An Introduction to the Study of Ornamental Art. Second edition, 8vo, pp.112 + plates, London, Chapman and Hall, 1860. 26 full-page plates (1 folding) and plentiful illustrations within the text. Mauve blindstamped cloth, titled in gilt on the spine and front. An exceptionally fresh bright copy. £50
105. Zapf (Hermann). Variations Typographiques. Recherches illustrees par 78 examples. Avant propos de Charles Peignot. [Translated into German and English.] Small folio, pp.[viii], 78 leaves + [viii], Hermann, Paris, 1965. Number 290 of 300 copies printed by A.G. Stempel on handmade Hahnemuhle handmade paper and signed by the author. 78 title-pages, etc., some tipped in and done on the rectos only. Slate-green paper-covered boards with vellum back and tips, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in printed dust-jacket. £175