containing the compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspicuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respectability by Samuel Johnson, M.A. Pp. [4]: title page, with wood engraved device plus full page wood engraving, by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve, specimen page 21, prospectus; demy 8vo; Arnold unbleached white laid...
By F. L. Lucas. Pp. [4]: title page printed in black and gold, with wood engraving by Dorothea Braby, full page wood engraving by Braby, specimen page of text, prospectus with printed details for Sole Agents for Australia Walter Standish and Son, Sydney; roy. 8vo; cream laid paper; The Golden...
A novel by Ivor Bannet. Pp. [4]: title page printed in black, with title page roundel and full page wood engraving by Clifford Webb, specimen page of text, prospectus with printed details for Sole Agents for Australia Walter Standish and Son, Sydney; impl. 8vo; cream wove paper; light horizontal crease...
Translated from the Greek of Musaeus by F. L. Lucas. Pp. [4]; title page and full page copper engraving by John Buckland-Wright, reproduced by collotype, specimen page of text, prospectus; demy 8vo; white wove paper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, l949. Cock-a-Hoop Pl83.
A Sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote ... Pp. [2], title page with wood-engraved border and cockerel device by Mark Severin, prospectus on verso with printed details for Sole Agents for Australia Walter Standish and Son, Sydney; roy. 8vo; cream laid paper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, n.d.[1950]. Cock-a-Hoop Pl84.
A Poem by A. C. Swinburne. Pp. [4], title page and one full page copper engraving, reproduced by collotype, by John Buckland-Wright, prospectus; med. 8vo; white wove paper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1950. Cock-a-Hoop Pl85.
By John Amos Komensky. Pp. [4], title page printed in brown and black, title page device, full and half page drawings in brown & black by Dorothea Braby, prospectus with printed details for Sole Agents for Australia Walter Standish & Son, Sydney; roy. 8vo; white wove paper; horizontal crease at...
A modern rendering by Somerset de Chair. Pp. [4], title page portrait of Caesar and specimen plate wood-engraved by Clifford Webb, specimen page of text, prospectus with imprint of Sole Agents for Australia, Walter Standish & Son, Sydney; 28.2 x 19.7 cm.; white wove paper, edges slightly creased and browned;...
By Phyllis Hartnoll. Pp. [4], single fold: title page letterpress with aquatint within border of cockerels plus specimen plate, being aquatints by John Buckland -Wright reproduced by collotype, specimen page of text; 31.6 cm. x 18.7 cm.; cream wove paper; imprint of Walter Standish and Son, Sydney; light horizontal crease...
A prose translation with introductory essay by Gwyn Jones. Pp. [4], title page with wood-engraving in black plus specimen plate of wood-engraving in 6 colours by Dorothea Braby, specimen page of text, prospectus with imprint of Sole Agents for Australia, Walter Standish & Son, Sydney; 31.3 x 19 cm.; white...
Edited by Geoffrey Rawson. Pp. [4], wood-engraved title page and specimen plate by Geoffrey Wales, specimen page of text, prospectus with imprint of Sole Agents for Australia, Walter Standish & Son, Sydney; 31.3 x 19 cm.; cream wove paper, edges lightly browned; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1953. Cock-a-Hoop Pl9l.
Pp. [2], title page headpiece drawn by Lettice Sandford, coloured by hand in pink and blue, hand coloured initial letter, imprint of Sole Agents for Australia Walter Standish and Son Sydney included on verso; roy. 8vo; white wove paper, light horizontal crease at centre, edges lightly browned; Golden Cockerel Press...
By Somerset de Chair. Pp. [4], single fold: title page with wood engraved device, plus full page wood engraving by Clifford Webb, specimen page of text, prospectus; 32 cm. x 19 cm.; cream wove paper; horizontal crease at centre; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, l954. Cock-a-Hoop Pl95.
By John Barclay. Translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner. Pp. [4], single fold: title page with wood engraved portrait of John Barclay, and specimen plate of wood engraving by Derrick Harris, both within decorative red border, specimen page of...
Pp. [4], printed in black and grey-blue and brown, title page with collotype in brown of a drawing by Sir William Russell Flint, 2 specimen pages (both with text and drawing by Flint), prospectus with imprint of Sole Agents for Australia, Walter Standish & Son, Sydney; 27.5 x 18.5 cm.;...
Translated from the Latin by Paul Turner. Pp. [4], title page with copper engraving by Mark Severin, plus specimen plate (by Severin). specimen page of text, prospectus; 25 x 19 cm.; cream laid paper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1956. Cock-a-Hoop P203.
Pp. xii+280, 16 coloured plates, numerous black & white illustrations, appendices (including bibliography), index; demy 4to; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2002. First edition.
Pp. [28](including 2 blank interleaves); med. 8vo; half dark blue vellum, lettered and decorated in gilt, pale blue platted manilla papered boards, the spine quite faded, cloth lightly foxed, the leather slightly rubbed or grazed at a couple of points; t.e.g., others uncut; Corvinus Press, London, 1936. One of 60...
A tale, supposed to be written by himself. Pp. [iv]+212(last colophon), printed in red & black, frontispiece portrait etching (signed in pencil by the artist, Harry George Webb), decorative initials and borders; full limp vellum, spine lettered in black (the publisher's imprint slightly faded at foot of spine), the vellum.....
Original hardboard prints Sidney Fetter. Pp. [28], printed on stiff light brown paper and including 3 full page illustrations; f'cap. 4to; dark grey/black paper over bevelled boards, the upper board lettered in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed; The Levite Press, Melbourne, n.d.[1967?]. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by...
Pages from various books printed at The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, l928-l940. 15 original leaves of various sizes (one coloured, some printed in red & black), plus 4 page title and introduction, together with a 3 page typescript, with pencilled corrections, of a humorous address to members of the 'Quart-Ho...
Pp. [12](last blank), decorative initial (from a Bruce Rogers design); med. 4to; printed paper wrappers, stabbed and tied, edges a trifle creased; uncut; printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem for the opening of the exhibit of The Grabhorn Press at the San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, 1969. Edition...
Edited by Robin Graham Bell. Pp. [32], frontispiece portrait; med. 8vo; printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1990. With loosely inserted prospectus, which explains that this is a new venture for the press, being published in offset litho rather than letterpress.
Pp. [20]; printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1981. One of 250 copies.
A Tale of the Maine Woods, narrated by Ed Grant of Beaver Pond, Maine. Pp. [16](including blanks), title within decorative border; printed blue/grey paper wrappers, edges faded, backstrip slightly split at extremities; fore-edges uncut; Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1939. First separate edition, being one of 1000 copies printed for Francis...
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