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.....
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...
A literary rogue in Australia. Pp. [vi]+28+[2] (including free endpapers), 2 full page facsimiles, title page printed in red & black; printed folded paper wrappers, a trifle marked, with corners a trifle creased; bookplate on upper pastedown; The Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1944. First edition. Farmer p. 56. *500 copies printed...
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...
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...
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.
A biographical essay by Mark Pattison. Illustrated with original leaves from books printed by the three greatest members of that distinguished family. Pp. [xiv]+42+[2](colophon, blank), printed in red & black, pictorial title page, text decorations; f'cap. folio; cloth backed dark pink papered boards, printed paper title label on spine, gilt.....
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...
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;.....
Pp. 48+[2](blank, colophon); tan cloth, printed paper title label on upper board; dust wrapper; Sullivan's Cove, Adelaide, 1983. Edition limited to 155 numbered copies, hand-set and hand-printed at the Nag's Head Press.
Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books. Pp. 328, frontispiece, numerous illustrations (several full page), list of works consulted, notes, index; super roy. 8vo; full blue morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board featuring a device designed for the Press by Norman Lindsay of a faun riding a flying horse;...
Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books. Pp. 328, frontispiece, numerous illustrations (several full page), list of works consulted, notes, index; super roy. 8vo; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board featuring a device designed for the Press by Norman Lindsay of a faun riding a flying horse; Private...
A survey. Based upon books in his collection. With Preface by Jack Lindsay. Pp. [ii]+82(processed, last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 2 plates; post 4to; printed textured paper wrappers, edges faded and a trifle rubbed;The Wentworth Press, Sydney, 1976. First edition. Studies in Australian Bibliography No. 23.
Pp. [ii]+20+[2](colophon, verso blank), title page decorations printed in red; printed paper wrappers with flap folds, faintly creased, edges a trifle rubbed; uncut; name in pencil next to the ink stamp of Inn Nursery School at head of upper free endpaper, the free endpapers slightly offset, pages faintly creased, a......
Pp. [x]+68; printed papered boards, the lower board slightly marked near top fore-corner; dust wrapper, a trifle marked; a little light foxing; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1972. First edition; being one of 450 copies. [together with] PRIVATE PRESSES AND AUSTRALIA. A First Supplement. Pp. 16; printed paper wrappers; [the author]...
Being an historical and descriptive fs24 account of the national game of Scotland, by 'A Keen Hand', and originally published in l857 and now reprinted with an introduction by Bernard Darwin. Pp. [vi]+xii+84+[4](last colophon, blank), frontispiece and pictorial headpieces by John O'Connor, glossary, appendix; demy 12mo; qr. green linen, spine.....
from Balboa to Capt. Cook's first voyage, 1513 to 1770. Pp. 16, headpiece illustration; printed red paper wrappers, stabbed and tied, tiny nick to centre of both bottom edges; uncut; Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1943. Edition limited to 1000 copies, privately printed for the author. Magee 381.
In two volumes. Edited by Charles Stonehill. Pp. xxxvi+402(last colophon)+[vi]+444(last colophon), chronological table, textual notes, explanatory notes; cr. 4to; qr. navy buckram with printed paper title labels on spines, light blue/grey Ingres papered boards, a trifle soiled, edges lightly worn, surface graze near centre of spine Volume II; uncut; bookseller's.....
Decorative initials by James Emery. Pp. 100+[4](blank, colophon, blank), 18 hand-tipped facsimile plates, the title page decorations, text figures and decorative initials printed in brown; tall demy 4to; beige cloth with printed paper title label on upper board; uncut; dust wrapper, edges silverfished; within card slipcase, silverfished and slightly soiled;...
With an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. Pp. x+[2]+80+[2]; demy l2mo; qr. cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, a trifle dulled, brown papered boards, corners slightly bruised; uncut; lacking dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1926. One of 450 copies on Batchelor handmade...
A Turn-of-the-Century tragedy. Pp. [ii]+4+[2](colophon, verso blank), full page illustration, the title page printed in blue with press device in red; med. 8vo; printed stiff paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip faintly faded; The Pump Press, Aldgate, South Australia, 1967. Edition limited to 75 copies. Farmer p. 39;...
A poem. Pp. [20](including outer blanks and colophon); small f'cap. 4to; cream textured paper wrappers, stapled, upper wrapper printed in black, slightly soiled and browned, bookseller's sticker on verso of upper wrapper; top fore-corners of leaves faintly creased; Talkarra Press, Cremorne, 1959. First edition, limited to 275 copies, signed by...
preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c., by Geoffrey Rawson. With engravings by John Buckland Wright. Pp. 100+[2](map, colophon), 9 wood engravings printed in dark green, full page map, chronological table; narrow roy. 4to; green canvas, lettered and decorated in gilt, the...
Illustration by Alex Watson. Pp. [8], printed (in brown) on one side only, title page vignette plus full page illustration and tailpiece; printed paper wrappers; Cellar Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1973. One of 200 copies. Cellar Press Poem Nine.
A Dissertation on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin and Uncle Tom Shows. Pp. 38(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 3 plates, title page vignette; black cloth spine with printed paper title label, brown batik-style papered boards; fore and bottom edges uncut; blind patterned tissue paper dust wrapper, edges slightly chipped...
