Risbury: The Whittington Press, 1999. Folio. Limited edition. #27 of 300 copies. Original half green buckram, gilt, with Fabriano Roma paper boards. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. With 40 full-page mounted sheets on black Ingres. In buckram and paper-covered slipcase as issued. Fine in slipcase.
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2006. 4to. Limited edition. One of 500 copies. Original red buckram with paper label to spine. DVD of the film, 'The King's Stamp', housed inside the rear board. Illustrated throughout with numerous reproductions in colour, some folding and tipped-in. Fine. A beautiful celebration of the...
Westerham: Dalrymple Press, 1982. Tall 8vo. Limited edition. #101 of 475 copies. (First published privately in 1926.) Original dark blue cloth, lettered in red. Top edge stained red. In acetate jacket as issued. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh. Illustrated throughout. Fine. 'For a young...
Liverpool: The Wood Lea Press, 1987. Folio. Limited edition. One of 750 standard copies (from a complete edition of 811). Bound by Smith Settle in quarter green cloth over floral-patterned paper boards. Matching cloth-covered slipcase. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece. Numerous illustrations throughout, some in colour and tipped-in. Spine faded to blue...
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1982. 4to. Limited edition. #207 of 350 copies hand-set in Caslon type, printed from the original wood-engravings on Zerkall mould-made paper by John and Rosalind Randle and Miriam Macgregor. Bound in quarter green buckram over Whittington marbled paper boards by Smith Settle & Co. Top edge...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 4to. Limited edition. #419 of 1475 copies. Original orange-stained vellum, gilt. Top edge gilt 'on the rough', others untrimmed. Double page illustrations from Botticelli's drawings in Berlin and Rome. Spine faded, as usual. Boards unwarped and contents clean. Near fine.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924. 16mo. Limited edition. #626 of 1050 copies. Original natural quarter buckram with Japanese paper-covered boards, gilt. All edges untrimmed. Printed in Monotype Garamond on Arnold unbleached handmade paper. Covers a bit rubbed and slightly foxed. Near fine. This translation was pirated by The Fortune Press...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 16mo. Limited edition. #1064 of 1550 copies. Original white buckram with bevelled boards, gilt. All edges untrimmed, top edge gilt 'on the rough'. In brown stencilled, patterned paper slipcase, as issued. Printed in Monotype Bodoni on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Engraved title page, the headpiece to...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. 12mo. Limited edition. #143 of 1500 copies. Original quarter parchment with vellum tips, and combed marbled paper sides, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In plain dust-wrapper, as issued. Line block illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky. The d/w spine has split with loss (which is why...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 8vo. Limited edition. #828 of 1250 copies. Original full limp parchment with pigskin thongs, gilt. In slipcase as issued. Hand-set Janson, composed at the Nonesuch Press, on Van Gelder handmade paper. Fine in fine slipcase.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 8vo. Limited edition. #776 of 1250 copies. Original full limp parchment with pigskin thongs, gilt. In slipcase as issued. Hand-set Janson, composed at the Nonesuch Press, on Van Gelder handmade paper. Fine in fine slipcase.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 8vo. Limited edition. #348 of 1600 copies. Original full limp vellum with leather thongs, with arrangement of astrological signs on front cover and title in gilt down the spine. All edges untrimmed, top edge gilt 'on the rough'. Dark green paper-covered slipcase decorated with stars...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. 8vo. Limited edition. #613 of 625 copies. Original quarter dark red stained parchment, with cream and red Italian patterned paper-covered boards and endpapers, gilt. In matching slipcase. Ink presentation inscription on prelim. Slipcase is split and missing a portion of the back. Near fine in good slipcase.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo. Limited edition. #192 of 1210 copies. Original boards loosely covered with patterned paper, with green paper label on front cover. The whole placed in a loose green paper covered folder, with patterned doublures and white paper spine label within rules. In patterned paper slipcase...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1934. 8vo. Limited edition. #387 of 1000 copies. Original green cloth over bevelled boards. Title in gilt on the spine and three inlaid silver foil panels on front board printed in black. All edges untrimmed. Frontispiece wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Covers a bit dust-soiled. Near fine...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1953. 8vo. Original grey cloth printed with blue arabesque patterns. All edges untrimmed. In glassine dust-wrapper as issued. Wood-engraving on title page by Joan Hassall after the so-called Ermine portrait at Hatfield attributed to William Segar. D/w has a few tiny chips and tears. Fine in...
London & New York: The Nonesuch Press & The Dial Press, 1924. 4to. Limited edition. #1120 of 1250 copies on Japon vellum. Original cream paper-covered boards, blocked in gilt with Granjon type ornaments and rules. All edges untrimmed. Printed in Monotype Plantin with some revisions. Engraved title-page, headpiece on page...
Campden & London: The Essex House Press, 1908. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Paper label on spine. Half-tone illustrations throughout. Cocked. Corners worn. Bump to top edge of back board. Covers rubbed and toned. Some foxing to the label. Contents clean. Very good +.
Sparham: The Mainstone Press, 2008. 4to. Limited edition of 750 copies. Navy cloth lettered in silver with a printed paper label to the upper board. In navy card slipcase as issued. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. As new. 'High Street' is one of the most collectable artist's...
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1980. 8vo. First edition. One of 600 unnumbered copies from a limited edition of 630. Original ring-bound stiff card covers. Eight front and back views of country figures are split horizontally in three to enable incongruous characters to be formed. The bespectacled old woman in a....
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1986-2001. 8vo. 22 volumes, a run. Original stiff covers and printed wrappers. Numerous photographic plates and other illustrations (many of them folding or tipped-in) throughout each volume. Fine in fine dust-wrappers. Matrix is a fabulous celebration of all things concerned with printing. This run would make...