Underappreciated monuments to our heritage. A Leaf Book. Pp. 348+[4], 58 coloured plates (including frontispiece), black & white author portraits, text illustrations of medals (some printed in blue), title and text decorations printed in blue, notes, appendices, bibliography, index; bound by the Campbell-Logan bindery in full tan morocco, with gilt..... More
Pp.[vi]+18+[2](colophon, verso blank); narrow demy 4to; navy cloth backed green marbled papered boards, the gilt lettering on upper board quite dulled, boards lightly marked and grazed, edges rubbed; uncut; The Hours Press, Chapelle-Reanville, Eure, France, 1929. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. Ransom Selective Checklistp. 62..... More
Large multi-folded sheet forming 32 pages (some of which are irregularly shaped and feature simulated 'burn marks' at edges), illustrated in colour and incorporating occasional small die-cuts; housed in a plain stiff paper portfolio within an oblong 4to red cloth box (28 cm. x 36.5 cm.) with tab side-fastening and..... More
Pp. [viii]+xiii+160(last blank)+xiv-xxxv(last colophon), 40 hand-tipped coloured plates with tissue guards, black & white title page vignette and text illustrations (a few of which are tinted), 4 tinted maps, the title, text and plates all within red rule border, appendix, glossary; super roy. folio; full navy leather, lettered and decorated..... More
With a new Introduction by the author, and illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. In three volumes. Title page vignettes, 9 lithographic plates, numerous text illustrations; med. 8vo; full rust coloured linen, stamped in colours and gilt; top edges green; within slipcase, edges lightly worn, printed title label on spine; Limited..... More
Coloured wood-engravings by Willi Harwerth. Pp. 32(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), hand-coloured title page vignette and text illustrations, plus an extra suite of the illustrations housed in a pocket on the lower pastedown; qr. parchment with 4 thongs, the spine lettered in black, beige papered boards with coloured illustration on upper..... More
With notes by Hugh Anderson & decorations by Ronald G. Edwards. Pp. 20(last colophon, blank), printed in red & black, text decorations and music; med. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers with flap folds, a trifle soiled, corners lightly creased; outer leaves slightly browned; Rams Skull Press, Ferntree Gully, Victoria, 1956. First..... More
With notes by Hugh Anderson & Lino Cuts by Ronald G. Edwards. Pp. [20](last colophon, verso blank), the title page printed in dark red & black, linocuts in either dark red or yellow & red; roy. 8vo; text block stabbed & tied; loose within untanned cowhide wrappers, lightly rubbed at..... More
A Ballad. With notes by Hugh Anderson & Lino Cuts by Ronald G. Edwards. Pp. [16], linocuts printed in dark red, the title page printed in red & black, 1 page music score; roy. 8vo; text block stabbed & tied with leather thongs; loose within untanned cowhide wrappers, lightly rubbed..... More
[Poems]. Pp. 88; roy. 8vo; parchment backed gray papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, corners of boards slightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, lower edge with several splits and a chip at foot of backstrip; free endpapers browned; Secker, 1929. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by..... More
From the French of L'Abbe Prevost. With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. With decorations by John Austen. Pp. [vi]+x+144(last colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece and 11 plates, black & white title page vignette and pictorial head and tailpieces, the title, all text and colophon within decorative blue border; roy..... More
Edited & with an introduction by R. P. Lister. Pp. xxviii+78(last blank)+[4](blank, colophon), the title page printed in red/brown & black, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece (from a watercolour portrait of Enid Bagnold by Claud Lovat Fraser), plus 4 monochrome hand-tipped plates, printed endpapers; roy. 8vo; Laura Ashley rust coloured floral patterned..... More
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage, with an Introduction by Francois Mauriac, and illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Pp. xviii+318(last colophon), coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, and text illustrations (some full page); narrow impl. 8vo; qr. navy morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, corners a...... More
With decorations by Frank Medworth. Pp. [x]+216(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), coloured frontispiece portrait and 11 full page illustrations, grey & white pictorial endpapers, title page printed in pink & black, colophon device printed in green & purple, bibliography; cr. 4to; qr. maroon leather, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, grey..... More
Their romantic origin and artistic development. Pp. 196(last colophon, verso blank), with 133 illustrations of which 34 are tipped-in plates, 3 being signed by the artists (2 by John Barclay Godson, both of which are Remarque proofs, and 1 by Ella Dwyer), index; cr. 4to; crocodile patterned cloth with printed..... More
Pp. 58, illustrated throughout; narrow super roy. 4to; beige papered boards, lettered and decorated in grey; uncut; within tan cloth portfolio; occasional light foxing; Old Stile Press, Llandogo, Gwent, Wales, 1998. Edition limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. *The Affectionate Shepheard was originally published anonymously in..... More
Australia's First Children's Author. Pp. 36(last blank), frontispiece (facsimile title page) and 2 full page illustrations, references; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled, the lower wrapper a trifle silverfished, short split at head of backstrip; Wentworth Books, Sydney, 1980. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author. *Previously..... More
By Peter Bennet, Rosemary Scott and Dave Stagg. Pp. [20]; printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1983. Number 23 of 50 copies signed by the three poets. More
A Cotswold apprenticeship. Pp. [vi]+24(last colophon, verso blank), hand-tipped frontispiece and 2 plates, the title page printed in dull gilt & black, 2 small decorative initials printed in dull gilt, glossary; med. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers with flap folds; uncut; The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, 1988. Edition limited to 350..... More
Pp. xii(printed on yellow paper)+36, printed in red & black, 7 plates (including a double page map), index; gilt lettered black art. leather, the spine extremities and top fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Lowden Publishing Co., Kilmore, 1974. Edition limited to 200..... More
Women artists of South Australia. Pp. [84], illustrated in colour and black & white; demy 4to; corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, backstrip faintly faded; occasional slight soiling; Sydenham Gallery, Adelaide, 1976. First edition; being one of 1,500 copies, signed by the author. More
and the circumstances that led thereto, drawn up for posterity by Dr. William Bland. With a Report of the Trial, Rex v. Bland, Randall and Fulton, before the Recorder of Bombay, 14th and 17th April, 1813 (Extracted from the Bombay Courier) and a Memoir of Dr. William Bland. Pp. 40..... More
Designed by Mike Hudson. Long single sheet printed in a variety of colours on one side only and folded concertina-style to form 25 pages, illustrated with relief printed collographs and monoprints which have been further illuminated by painting directly on individual pages; med. folio; within a pictorial cream cloth box..... More
Edited by Somerset De Chair. With a special preface by M. Gerard Hubert. Pp. liv+606, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 2 plates, 4 maps (2 folding), appendices (including a folding table), index; handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full navy morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised..... More
