![THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD [Member of the Institute]. Anatole France](/pictures/thumb/133778.jpg?v=1640044543)
The translation by Lafcadio Hearn. With an Introduction by A. S. W. Rosenbach and illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. Pp. viii+190+[2](blank, colophon), printed in red & black, coloured frontispiece, 8 plates, title page vignette, and pictorial headpieces; med. 4to; dull green linen, lettered in gilt and decorated in darker green, fore-corners..... More
Pp. 58+2](last colophon); roy. 8vo; natural linen backed grey papered boards, with printed paper title label on upper board; fore and bottom edges uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; privately printed for the author by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 1986. One of..... More
By A. F. (1838). With engravings by Hester Sainsbury. Pp. [x]+56(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), 4 plates, title page decoration; f'cap. 8vo; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, floral patterned pink papered boards, a trifle foxed, parchment faintly discoloured; fore and bottom edges uncut; ribbon marker; free endpapers lightly offset, a couple..... More
More conversations for authors. Pp. [viii]+xiv+56(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), title page printed in light green & black, publisher's specification slip tipped-in at end; f'cap 8vo; printed card, lightly soiled, the edges and spine slightly faded; a little light foxing; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1953. Edition limited to 450 copies, handset by..... More
Notes on his career written by his daughter, Mary Ann. With an introduction and commentary by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Averil MacKenzie-Grieve. Pp. 54, frontispiece, title page decoration (repeated at colophon) and 10 illustrations (2 full page); tall impl. 8vo; dark blue canvas, lettered and decorated in gilt, slightly..... More
The story of William Parmer Fuller. Frontispiece portrait, text illustration; roy. 8vo; qr. canvas, printed label on spine, edges a trifle worn, blue papered boards; privately printed, Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1939. Presentation copy, inscribed by W. P. Fuller, Jr. on upper free endpaper. More
A modern commentary on the original 15th century ordinances established to regulate the Southwark brothels of the Bishops of Winchester. Edited and illustrated by Mike Hudson. Pp. [48](last colophon, verso blank), printed in red & black, with hand coloured pictorial title page, text illustrations and decorative initial, plus numerous smaller..... More
Pp. [viii] +46+[4](last advertisement, verso blank), 3 plates (2 hand-tipped, one of which is folding), 2 hand-tipped facsimile letters (one folding), facsimile title page of The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, cloth backed marbled papered boards, printed paper title label on spine, top edges of boards slightly foxed, the corners..... More
A play by Simon Gantillon. Paraphrased into English by Virginia & Frank Vernon. With XIII wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Pp. 96(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece, 5 full page illustrations and 7 pictorial tailpieces; roy. 8vo; maize buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards slightly scuffed, edges and spine browned and..... More
Pp. [14](last colophon), decorations printed in red; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1937. One of 230 copies, printed by Stuart Taylor Pty. Ltd. from hand-set type composed by..... More
With the preface by the author, an introduction for the modern reader by Jacques Barzun and hand-colored illustrations by Andre Dugo. Pp. xlvi+300+[2](colophon, verso blank), 10 plates and 9 text illustrations hand-coloured in the studio of Charlize Brakely, the half-title and title pages printed in blue & black; impl. 8vo;..... More
A true cannibal tale of the South Sea Islands told in fifteen wood-engravings and precisely one hundred and eighty nine word by Robert Gibbings. Pp. [iv]+16(last blank+[2](colophon, verso blank), title page vignette, 15 text illustrations; narrow cr. 8vo; qr. yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt, red & white papered boards..... More
Pp. 24+[2](colophon, verso blank), title page printed in red & black; post 12mo; red cloth with printed paper title label on upper board; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; Sullivan's Cove, Adelaide, 1985. Edition limited to 210 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. *Originally published in the Adelaide Observer in February 1883..... More
Pp. [vi]+18+[2](colophon, blank), 2 copper engraved plates, title page vignette; narrow post 8vo; red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, the cloth slightly faded, edges a trifle rubbed; uncut; dust wrapper, faintly marked, slightly creased and split at top edge, tiny faded spot to bottom edge of back panel, the backstrip..... More
[Text in Latin]. Pp. 32+[2](colophon, blank), text printed in red & black, 11 wood-engraved illustrations (7 full page), and 18 decorative initials by Eric Gill; narrow roy. 8vo; qr. vellum, spine lettered in gilt, buff papered boards with vellum corner tips; t.e.g., others uncut; plain dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges..... More
An essay on the nude. With engravings on wood by the author. Pp. [ii]+16+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece, plus 3 plates, title page vignette, cockerel device [by David Jones] on reverse of final plate; narrow med. octavo; scarlet buckram, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, boards a trifle bowed and faintly..... More
With decorations by Eric Gill. Pp. [ii]+270(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), 645 wood-engraved illustrations and decorative initials (4 full page), large cockerel device on title page; f'cap. folio; half white pigskin, spine lettered and ruled in gilt with 5 raised bands, maize buckram boards, lightly foxed (as often), bottom fore-corner of..... More
A sermon. Pp. 16, wood engraved frontispiece, title page decoration and initial by the author; narrow super roy. 12mo; white buckram, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle sprung, with a couple of tiny spots of foxing to upper board; uncut; book label of David Levine..... More
![PASSIO DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI. [The Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ]. Eric Gill](/pictures/thumb/162746.jpg?v=1640045736)
Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the latin text. Pp. [ii]+16+[2](colophon, blank), title page vignette plus 5 wood engravings by Eric Gill (2 full page), the title and 6 large initials printed in red; cr. 4to; cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt; uncut; dust wrapper..... More
Illustrated by George Szirtes. Pp. [16], frontispiece and colophon illustration printed in green; printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1981. One of 200 copies. More
Four volumes, totalling nearly 350 pages, each with a decorative title page and numerous illustrations from the books (many full page), list of books published by the press and an index in the last volume; all roy. 8vo; each different coloured qr. leather, spines lettered in gilt, various coloured cockerel..... More
A sequel to Chanticleer, Pertelote and Cockalorum, being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, September, 1949-December, 1961. Compiled ... with a list of Prospectuses, 1921-1962 and illustrations from the books. Pp. 126, frontispiece, pictorial title page, and numerous text illustrations, index; roy. 8vo; top edges blue; top fore-corner of..... More
A sequel to Chanticleer. Being a bibliography of The Golden Cockerel Press, October 1936-1943 April. Foreword & Notes by the Partners [Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter]. Illustrations from the books. Pp. 52, frontispiece, pictorial title page, and numerous text illustrations; med. 8vo; light blue/grey cloth, spine and upper board lettered..... More
![AUTUMN BOOKS FROM THE WORKSHOP OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS [cover title]. Golden Cockerel Press...](/pictures/thumb/154213.jpg?v=1647080285)
Pp [32]; small cr. 8vo; cream wove paper self wrappers, stapled, staples rusted, outer wrappers with floriated initial "A" by Eric Gill, cockerel C3R between two pairs of cockerel CIR, engraved by Robert Gibbings, cockerel A engraved by Desmond Chute in text. Gives details of new and recent books, including..... More
Single leaf [2] pp.; cr. 4to; Luxor antique cream laid paper, a trifle soiled, with fold at centre; Contents: cockerel C1R [engraved by Robert Gibbings] before title and at colophon; reviews of four related titles: Men in Print, Secret Despatches from Arabia, and Crusader Castles, all by T. E. Lawrence..... More