Disraeli's skit and Aytoun's burlesque. Pp. x+76(last blank), title page vignette; qr. black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, edges slightly faded and rubbed, the bottom fore-corners bruised; The Scholartis Press, London, 1927. Edition limited to 525 numbered copies. Nineteenth century Highways and Byways No. 1. Ransom, Private... More about IXION IN HEAVEN and ENDYMION
With a Foreword by the author. Pp. vi+20(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), 2 large decorative initials printed in red & black; med.8vo; printed maroon paper wrappers, stitched, edges lightly worn, backstrip faded; ownership label on recto of upper wrapper; JohnHenry Nash, San Francisco, 1937.One of 600 copies. Contemporary California Short Stories series..... More about THE CRYSTAL BALL
A periodical for all people who find pleasure in fine books. Number 4, Parts I-III. Three volumes, totalling over 350 pages (including advertisements), with numerous text illustrations (a couple full page); tall demy 4to; matching green buckram, lettered and decorated in navy, edges a trifle rubbed, a couple of corners... More about THE DOLPHIN
or Catalogus Librorum Aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium. Edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson. With a translation. Pp. [iv]+94(last colophon), the title page decorative border printed in red, textual notes; f'cap. 8vo; turquoise papered boards with gilt lettered black leather title label on spine, the boards slightly creased, spine quite faded;..... More about THE COURTIER'S LIBRARY
Pp. xii+258, 8 coloured plates, numerous black & text white illustrations, select bibliography, appendices, index; demy 4to; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2002. First edition. More about THE DOVES PRESS
Pp. [12]; printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1976. More about RIVER PEOPLE
Illustration by Mary Norman. Pp. [8], printed (in green) on one side only, title page vignette plus full page illustration and tailpiece; printed paper wrappers; Cellar Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1975. One of 200 copies. Cellar Press Poem Eighteen. More about A SENSATION
Pp. [12]; 24.5 x 18.5 cm.; printed in black, pale blue, & green; Contents: gives details of three books, with four full page illustrations; small rust mark from paper clip top edge p. [2], annotation in ink p. [10]; loosely inserted order form; The Dropmore Press, London, 1952. More about THE DROPMORE PRESS, 1952
Introduction and notes by Samuel Clegg. Pp. 78(last colophon), hand-tipped frontispiece portrait, notes; qr. canvas, blue papered boards with printed paper title label on upper board, the fore-corners (and bottom edge of upper board) bumped; partly unopened; dust wrapper, faintly soiled and creased, edges a trifle chipped and split, small... More about A CYPRESS GROVE
or The World Well Lost. A tragedy, written in imitation of Shakespeare's stile [sic]. Pp. xxiv+98, printed in red & black, pictorial headpieces, the colophon decoration printed in green & black; demy 4to; full vellum, lettered and decorated in gilt, the bottom edges a trifle rubbed; uncut; the free endpapers... More about ALL FOR LOVE
With a Preface by Daphne Du Maurier. Illustrated by the author. Pp. xviii+344+[2](blank, colophon), frontispiece, plus numerous text illustrations, the title and text decorations printed in brown, patterned endpapers; demy 4to; qr. dark brown leather, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, patterned papered boards, the spine slightly rubbed at..... More about PETER IBBETSON
With a Preface by Michael B. Yeats. Pp. 132, printed in red & black, 4 plates, text illustrations (some printed in red); small cr. 4to; pictorial brown paper wrappers with flap folds, primed in red & black, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1973. First trade edition... More about THE DUN EMER PRESS, LATER THE CUALA PRESS
With Foreword by Professor A. R. Chisholm. Pp. 32, corrigenda slip tipped-in at front; cloth backed marbled papered boards, printed paper title label on upper board, edges of boards lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges worn and chipped, with large piece torn from bottom edge of front panel; edges... More about TIME OF ARRIVAL
Richard of Handsworth. Pp. [16](last colophon, verso blank), title page printed in green & black; qr. khaki cloth, beige papered boards with printed paper title label lettered and decorated in green on upper board; dust wrapper with printed paper title label on front panel, the backstrip and edges browned and... More about FIRST ELEVEN
Numbers 1 to 3 (of 5); each single leaf, printed on both sides, with mast head vignette and an illustration at on reverse (nos. 1 & 2 by Hugh Anderson, no. 3 by Ray Crooke; 19.5 cm. x 13.8 cm. on cream paper, printed in red and black; The Rams... More about THE 'MARCO POLO' CHRONICLE
Numbers 1 to 4 (of 5); each single leaf, printed on both sides, with masthead vignette and an illustration at on reverse (nos. 1 & 2 by Hugh Anderson, no. 3 by Ray Crooke, no. 4 a decoration from 'Songs of Billy Barlow'); nos. 1-3 19.5 cm. x 13.8 cm... More about THE 'MARCO POLO' CHRONICLE
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[Compiled by John Manifold]. 8 broadsides, each featuring the words and music of a colonial ballad and a pictorial headpiece by R. G. Edwards; narrow impl. 8vo; contained in a pocket within pictorial paper wrappers, upper wrapper with title and central illustration printed in dark red, stapled, edges lightly faded... More about BANDICOOT BALLADS. Numbers 9-16 [cover title
Illustrated by Adrian Feint. Pp. xvi+202(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), coloured title page vignette, and 3 full page illustrations, plus several black & white text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, bibliography; tall cr. 4to; full maroon calf over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind; uncut; patterned dust wrapper, with small publisher's..... More about THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CAPTAIN JOHN PIPER
A series of Elizabethan Dialogues and Monologues illustrating Daily Life and the Conduct of a Gentleman on the Grand Tour, extracted from Ortho-Epia Gallica, a book on the correct Pronunciation of the French Language written by John Eliot and published in the year 1593. Edited by Jack Lindsay. Pp. 120(last... More about THE PARLEMENT OF PRATLERS
Composer, Frank R. Denke; Orchestrations by Eral O. Zindars; Director, James Robert Minser. Pp. [xii]+42+[10], frontispiece, decorated title page printed in red, pale ochre & black, headings printed in red; med. 8vo; brown textured papered boards, the upper board decorated in darker brown; uncut; top edges of leaves a trifle... More about NOAH
Pp. 240, frontispiece and numerous text illustrations, bibliography, index; demy 4to; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle & London, 2004. First edition. *'In creative vision, original style, and meticulous production skills, no other private press of the Arts and Crafts period surpassed the art of an Eragny... More about A HISTORY OF THE ERAGNY PRESS 1894-1914
Six items, comprising: 1. The Song of Honour, 1992; 2. A Letter to Norah, 1993; 3. The Cat that Walked by Himself, 2000; 4. How is a Man Commonplace Book, 2001; 5. Henry Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, 2003; 6. Genesis, 2004; The Escutcheon Press, Sydney, 1992-2004. More about Six prospectuses for THE ESCUTCHEON PRESS, 1992-2004
Pp. [38](last blank), frontispiece portrait of the author by Meredith Peach, plus 4 pictorial headpieces wood engraved by the author, the title page and colophon ornaments printed in maroon; maroon stiff paper wrappers with flap folds, printed paper title label on upper wrapper; Croft Press, Cobargo, 1991. Edition limited to... More about A COLLECTION OF SIMPLE VERSE
Transcribed and furnished with a Preface and Notes by Geoffrey Keynes. Pp. xiv+104+[2](colophon, verso blank), title and text decorations, editor's notes; f'cap. 12mo; gilt lettered limp natural parchment with yapp edges, decorated in blind with a design including Evelyn's monogram, faintly spotted and a trifle sprung; uncut and partly unopened;..... More about MEMOIRES FOR MY GRAND-SON
Pp. 48+[2](blank, colophon); tan cloth, printed paper title label on upper board, light bruise to top edge of boards; dust wrapper, with 2 small indentations near bottom edge of front panel; Sullivan's Cove, Adelaide, 1983. Edition limited to 155 numbered copies, hand-set and hand-printed at the Nag's Head Press. More about REPORTS OF THE EXPEDITION TO KING GEORGE'S SOUND, 1841, and the Death of Baxter