London: The Medici Society Limited, 1924. 27 pp. + [9] sample pages, some with color illustrations. Spine faded, minor rubbing to edges. A very good copy. Finely bound by C. and C. McLeish in full reddish-brown morocco, ruled in gilt. Spine with raised bands and title in gilt. Top edge.....
Gainsborough: Printed by H. Mozley, 1809. Second edition. Both the first edition and the present edition are very scarce. OCLC lists only two copies of the first edition (one at the British Library and one at the Morgan Library) and two copies of the present edition (one at UCLA and.....
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[London: 2004]. One of forty signed copies. Illustrated with seven etchings and three lino-cuts by Susan Allix. With tissue guards. Printed letterpress in Centaur capitals on various mould-made papers. Fine. Burgundy morocco over lacquered paper boards with mulberry paper and goatskin onlays. Bronze batik endpapers. In a printed paper folder.....
[London:]: Susan Allix, 2013. One of fourteen copies. Now out of print. The eight prints are etchings with aquatint and hand-coloring and lino-cuts, printed on Barcham Green mould-made paper. Text hand-set in Optima, Roman and Italic, with titling in Roman Open, printed on Zerkall paper. The decorative papers were made.....
[London:]: 2015. One of seventeen numbered copies. Illustrated with prints and photographic reproductions; there is frequent use of lino cut with etching in the prints, and they painted with watercolor, gouache, acrylic or colored ink. The paper is mould-made Velin Arches. Other papers are colored Bugra Butten, blue and green.....
[London :]: Susan Allix, 2017. 3 of the leaves have been cut down into creative shapes (a trapezoid and two cupcakes). With 11 prints in total (3 carborundum prints plus hand-colored etchings and linocuts) and with additional leaves throughout printed with colorful patterns and borders. Also with paper decorations cut.....
[Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1903]. One of 150 copies on paper, 125 of which were for sale, printed by Hornby at the Ashendene Press with type set by Hornby and Meysey Turton. 25 morocco-bound copies on vellum, 20 of which were for sale, were also printed. With a woodcut of an.....
Newspaper clippings, posters, and other campaign promotional items laid in or pasted down on the first [90] pp., except for on a few blank pages. The remaining pages of the scrapbook are blank. Some of the items are in color and many of the newspaper clippings include photographs. Also with.....
Cambridge: Printed by Tho: and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, [1629]. The first King James Bible printed at Cambridge, a model of fine editing, introducing nearly 500 changes that have become standard. Elaborate wood-engraved architectural title-page, woodcut headbands, initial letters and tail-pieces. Text in double columns. Separate.....
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. First edition of the Julia Smith translationl. Strip of dampstaining, about 1 inches wide, along fore-edge of lower board. Red speckled edges. A very good, bright, and fresh copy of the first full translation of the Bible ever published by a woman. Dark brown cloth.....
n.p., France: n.d., ca. 1880], Text in gothic style letters, with elaborate borders, initials, and miniatures in watercolor and gold, in a style reminiscent of the late Middle Ages. A fine and very interesting manuscript, featuring very delicate work of a rather varied nature. Pencil presentation inscription in French to.....
New York: Educational Department, Tampax Incorporated, [n.d., ca. 1941]. Broadside printed with four diagrams of the female reproductive organs in black with red accents. Creasing where the broadside has been folded for storage. The paper on which the broadside is printed was cut imprecisely, leaving the top and bottom edges.....
Strassburg: [Johann Pruss], 1486. Text in double columns, Gothic type. Rubricated throughout, including a 6-line initial letter with a page long flourish on a4 (folio 1). Binding a bit soiled, spine with old white paint. Lacking fore-edge ties. Two line title with old inscriptions of a Salzburg cloister, The Convent.....
Parmae: In Aedibus Palatinis, Typis Bodonianis, 1793. First Bodoni edition. It was reprinted in 1796. Faerno’s Centum Fabulae was first published by Vicenzo Luchino in 1564 with illustrations by Pirro Ligorio. A list of twenty other editions of Centum Fabulae is included at the end of the present work (pp.....
[London:]: Emily Faithfull, Victoria Press, [n.d., 1868]. First edition. Twenty-nine chromolithograph plates (each with a blank protective page) plus 9 pages of descriptions of the plates. The plates include depictions of the Ark of the Covenant with cherubim, enclosed in a 15th century-style border (plate #4); the emblems of 12.....
London: Printed by Darton, Harvey & Co., [n.d., ca. 1813-1819.]. First edition of the rare hand-colored issue of Mary and Her Cat, with the colophon “Printed by C. Squire.” The 1808 reprint does not have a colophon. The Dartons also published eleven reprints of Mary and Her Cat between 1814.....
London: T. Cox, 1729. First edition in English. Copper-engraved title-page vignette. Some wear to back cover, occasional minor soiling. Generally a very good, clean copy. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Gilt-decorated spine with red morocco label. Octavo. [16], 216, [6, index], [2, ads] pp. John Freind (1675-1728), who was educated at Christ.....
[ Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1496 ]. Text in double columns, rubricated throughout in red and blue. The decorative two-line title is from a woodcut. Contemporary ink manuscript notes on front pastedown, occasional contemporary ink marginalia. Remains of a medieval vellum manuscript leaf, used as binder's waste, in front and back.....
Boston: Press of George H. Ellis, 1880. First edition. Dampstaining to back cover and a bit to tail edge of front cover. A bit of chipping to wrappers. A very good, clean copy. Original light blue paper wrappers. 5 in. by 9 in. 81 pp. Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (1805 – 1879) died.....
Flansham, Bognor, Sussex: The Pear Tree Press, 1929. One of ninety copies printed by hand at the Pear Tree Press. This copy is out of the series and is marked "Pear Tree Copy. Title page printed in black and decorated with a blue floral border. The frontispiece is a tipped-in.....
[Vancouver, British Columbia]: HM Editions, 2019. One of 10 deluxe copies in a special full calf binding by Claudia Cohen, with the two added portfolios of pattern prints, and signed by Barbara Hodgson and Cohen on the colophon. 20 regular copies and 6 hors commerce copies were also made. With.....
Lyon: Jacobo Hugetan, 15`2. Title-page in black and red, with a 2 x 3" woodcut of Saint Jerome in his study. Numerous decorative woodcuts of varying sizes throughout. Text in double columns. Foot of spine lightly chipped, back joint starting to crack, but sound, remnants of off-white paint on spine.....
London: Trübner & Co., 1856. First edition in English, a translation of the German Güldenes A.B.C. [26] leaves, each with a mounted decorative initial with an accompanying scriptural verse. Each letter of the alphabet is represented except J and X. Designed by Gustav Koenig and engraved by Julius Caesar Thater.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1813. Text in Black Letter, printed in black and red, with notes in roman type. Wood-engraved decorative initial letters and tail-pieces. Elaborate gilt-ruled turn-ins with parchment doublures and end-leaves, all edges gilt. Corners and bands rubbed, offsetting from turn-in, binding a bit toned. A very.....
Ultrajecti, apud viduam Guiljelmi Clerck, 1690. First edition of this rare ecclesiastical history of Africa. OCLC notes only two copies in North America, at Yale and the University of Chicago. With two title-pages, each printed in black and red. Large folding map of North Africa. Covers lightly soiled, hinges loose.....
