Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1932. Limited edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. 59, (5)pp. Cased in white buckram heavily blocked in gilt with designs by Rickets. Top edge gilt in the rough. Finely printed by George W. Jones at the Dolphin Press on Van Gelder paper with the Nonesuch watermark, One of... More
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Vellum spine, paper over boards. One of 325 copies of which this is No. 239. Vellum a little rough in places, paper worn at corners and a small chip on the reverse, else this is a very good copy. The... More
Cambridge: The Riverside Press; Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Limited edition. Hardcover. Tall folio, beautifully bound in ¼ vellum, gllt title, decorative paper boards, vellum tips. Translated from the French by Isabel Butler. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Handset in French Gothic and Civilité types. Printed in four colors and gold on handmade... More
North Hills, PA. Bird & Bull Press, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. 13 pages plus catalogue facsimile in pocket at rear board. Cloth spine with marbled paper boards. Typical slight discoloration in gutters which continues into text, but fades as it gets away from boards, appears to... More
Boston; Lexington: David R. Godine; The Anvil Press; Stamperia Valdonega, 1978, Limited editions. Hardcover. Two volumes, 4to. Both finely printed at the Stamperia Voldonega by Martino Mardersteig. The first volume is limited to 500 copies, this copy unnumbered. the second volume is numbered 550 copies, of which this is No... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books ;BIrd & Bull Press, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 55(5)pp. Deep red quarter cloth, leather label, gilt; side papers based on an original Remondidi pattern printed over a paste-colored background. With woodblocks and engravings. A fine copy. One of 250 numbered copies of which this... More
Santa Fe: The Press of the Palace of the Governors, 2013. Softcover. Accordion style book, 5 inches high by about 8 inches long. Printed in silver on black paper. An excerpt from 'Macbeth': "Tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow...." he text is bound into black boards, with the upper board simply... More
Santa Fe: The Press of the Palace of the Governors, 2013. Limited edition. Softcover. Accordion style book, 7 inches high by about five feet long. Printed in silver on Arches Cover Black paper on the Press' Vandercook 4. The typography is properly labeled in the Colophon as iconoclastic 'Shishkabob' which... More
Provo: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1975. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. (xi), 59pp. Includes the essays by Spartano, "Dante Alighieri, Universal Poet", and Flake, "Boninus de Boninis in the History of Printing". Red cloth spine, white buckram printed in a design taken from a woodcut. Finely printed at... More
Flemington, N.J. St Teresa's Press, (1966). Limited edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto. Unpaginated. Finely printed on handmade paper, handset in Solemnis Uncial with handpainted capitals derived from the Book of Kells. Quarter calf, Japanese paper boards, the upper board blocked in gilt with the title. Hand-coloring throughout. A fantastically beautiful... More
Flemington, N. J. St. Teresa's Press, 1967. Limited edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. 30pp. Quarter green Oasis Niger goatskin, Japanese Kinho paper boards. Gilt spine title, illustration blind stamped on the upper board. A dozen psalms printed in handset Cancelleresca Bastarda, each beginning with an original hand drawn initial and illustration... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golkden Cockerel Press, 1925. Wood engravings by John Nash. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 35, (3) pp. Vellum spine, decorated paper over boards. One of 380 numbered copies of which this is no. 361. Light wear to edges and corners else a near fine copy, finely printed... More
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, (2008). Limited edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Five finely printed broadsides in a portfolio. The portfolio has a blue cloth spine, brown paper over boards,title printed on marbled paper and inset onto the upper board, linen ties. The broadsides are printed..... More
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1903. Grace Fournier. Hardcover. Thin folio. 36pp. One of a few 'tall' copies printed on Roycroft handmade paper. Roycrofter records for this period are scant so the total print run of tall copies is unknown but is believed to be fairly limited. The 1905... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (6),x,631,(5) pp. plus 6 inserts. Full morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title. Gilt "I.W." within oval frame on the upper board. Inner dentelles wit simple gilt lines, Marbled endpapers... More
London: Lanston Monotype Corpn Ltd, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 114pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt spine titles and ornaments, title and ornaments on upper board, gilt. Decorated endpapers in designs made up of monotype ornaments. Includes a large section of monotype ornaments printed in color on decorative papers. "All ornaments... More
Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, 2004. Illustrations by Glenys Cour. Limited edition. Hardcover. Square folio. Unpaginated. Blue and white covers incorporating imagery by the artist. Black endpapers. Finely printed on Fabriano Tiziano with Omega typeface. Illustrated with collage images made from blocks made at the press. With a dedication by... More
London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1958. Illustrated by Leslie Jones. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Suede spine, cover of offset printing on linen after a watercolor by Denton Welch, with gilt title. Pictorial endpapers .Illustrations in both black and white and color. Frontispiece portrait. One of 200 numbered copies of... More
Seattle: Montford Press, n.d. Broadside. Single sheet 7½ by 13 inches, finely printed in red and black on heavy stock by Carl Montford on an iron handpress. The poem is set in an uncial-style type, headed by the title in red and captioned with an original woodblock print by Montford... More
London: Sylvan Press, 1930. With Wood Engravings by Norman Janes. Limited edition. Folio. Unpaginated. Finely printed on Barcham Green hand-made paper. Bound in coarsely woven red cloth blocked in gilt with a design by the illustrator on both the upper an lower boards. Top edge gilt. Contains twelve of William's... More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1983. Limited edition. Hardcover. Oblong 12mo. 64pp. followed by 14 mounted marbled paper samples, identified. Blue morocco spine, gilt title, marbled paper boards. Finely printed at the Press and bound by E. G. Parrot. One of 350 numbered copies; this is number 87. A.... More
London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1959. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 100pp. Beige linen printed in orange and blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. 18pp of introduction followed by the facsimile of the 1574 edition setting forth English, French and Bastard secretarial hands, as well as... More
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, (2012). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 53,(3)pp. Black cloth spine, black lettering label printed in silver, decorated paper boards printed with the title on the upper board. One of 110 numbered copies, this being copy no, 74, finely printed at the... More
London: Printed for W. Wood, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 188, (2)pp. With 2300 Figures. Thirty-eight full page plates of shell in two states: One hand-colored followed by one uncolored. Contemporary full long grained red leather. Spine in five compartments with raised bands; two with gilt titles and the... More
La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press, 1967. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (24)pp. Tan cloth stamped in black. Illustrated with title page and text woodcut vignettes, as well as a facsimile title page of the Typographia. Tipped-in is an original leaf from the 1824 edition, this one illustrating Syriac (Aramaic) type. One... More
