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
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
The illustrations cut on the wood by Stephen Bone. Pp. 296(last colophon), frontispiece, title page vignette, and text illustrations (several full page); green buckram, with printed paper title label on spine; fore and bottom edges uncut, partly unopened; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, with a couple of tiny chips..... More
