NONESUCH PRESS. DONNE, John. The Courtier's Library, or Catalogus Librorum Aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium. Edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson. With a translation.
The Nonesuch Press,. 1930. No.829 of 950 copies printed in the Fell types on Auvergne handmade paper; sm.8vo., pp.(4)94; title in red & black; a very good uncut copy in original turquoise paper-covered buckram-backed boards, morocco label. Backstrip & sides differentially faded but paper free from wear; ex libris Sir Frederick Richmond. An important edition of Donne's elaborate jest. Dreyfus 71. (Book ref. 16418) £45.00
KING, A. Hyatt. Some British Collectors of Music c1600-1960. [The Sandars Lectures for 1961.]
Cambridge,. 1963. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xvi,178; 8 plates; a very good copy in slightly frayed dust-wrapper. SANDARS LECTURES. (Book ref. 4202) £18.00
ARDIZZONE, Nicholas. Edward Ardizzone's World. The Etchings and Lithographs. An introduction and Catalogue Raisonné. With a foreword by Christopher White and a preface by Paul Coldwell.
Unicorn Press and Wolseley Fine Arts,. 2000. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.144; illustrations in colour & half-tone throughout; new in pictorial dust-wrapper. 91 images catalogued & illustrated with interesting introductory material and useful indexes & bibliography. Published at £30, we have a small quantity at reduced price. (Book ref. 2949) £20.00
STANDING, Juliet. [Curator] The Private Press Today. [Catalogue of an exhibition.]
Kings Lynn Festival,. 1967. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.(24); 15 illustrations, some full-page; a good copy in original printed wrappers. Duplicated list of the 142 exhibits laid in. Printed by James Pick. RC (Book ref. 14576) £15.00
MOSHER, Thomas Bird. BISHOP, Philip R. Thomas Bird Mosher Pirate Prince of Publishers. A Comprehensive Bibliography & Source Guide to The Mosher Books. Reflecting England's National Literature & Design.
Oak Knoll Press & The British Library,. 1998. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.xvi,536; illustrations & facsimiles throughout; new in dust-wrapper. Published at £60, this remarkably comprehemsive & wide-ranging account is now available at a bargain price. (Book ref. 14486) £20.00
APPLETON, Tony. A Typological Tally. Thirteen Hundred Writings in English on Printing History, Typography, Bookbinding and Papermaking.
Appleton, Brighton,. 1973. FIRST EDITION, pp.94 + colophon; very good in dust-wrapper; inscribed by the author to 'Jimmy from Tony'. (Book ref. 13808) £12.00
WHISTLER, Laurence. Rex Whistler 1905-1944. His life and his drawings.
Art and Technics,. 1948. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.104; illustrations throughout; a good copy in rubbed dust-wrapper with some loss. (Book ref. 1138) £25.00
DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography. [In three volumes.]
Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and Co.,. 1817. FIRST & ONLY EDITION, ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES with the extra plates; Royal 4to. (280 x 190mm); 3vol., pp.(6)vi(2)ccxxv(1),410(2); (4)535(3); (4)544(4); errata leaves in each volume & imprint leaf at end of vol.3; 37 engraved plates (as listed) plus the portrait frontispiece and Veronesi's 'Presentation at the Temple' in vol.I as called for in LP sets. The additional 'Portrait of Los Rios' is not present in vol.III but is clearly an extra-illustration in the copies where located by Windle, thus neither called for nor worthy to be included; folding facsimile woodcut & many wood-engraved illustrations in text (many on india paper mounted), one vignette printed in two colours, several in red, specimen of gold printing on red with printed binder's slip, original tissue guards; occasional light spotting of plates (chiefly marginal) but a fine set of this deluxe production in the best format on high quality paper; magnificent full crimson morocco, gilt, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, by F[rancis] Bedford; ex libris John Porter. Arguably the most ambitious of Dibdin's works; 'a bibliographer's classic that marks the beginning of the general recognition of bibliomania as a plaything for wealth'. Dibdin states that £4500 was spent on its production, the composition alone amounting to six guineas a sheet. Hart 186; Jackson 40; Isaac 172; Windle & Pippin A28. EXEMPLARY LARGE PAPER COPY OF ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE CENTURY IN MAGNIFICENT DRESS (Book ref. 14147) £3500.00
WILTSHIRE. GODDARD, Canon Ed. H. Wiltshire Bibliography. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Pamphlets and Articles bearing on the History, Topography and Natural History of the County.
Wilts Education Committee,. 1929. FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,276; very good in original olive cloth. Arranged in two parts: by county and individual parish. (Book ref. 13375) £30.00
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SANDFORD, Christopher. Cockalorum being a bibliography of the...Press June 1943 - December 1948. Foreword and notes by Christopher Sandford.
Golden Cockerel Press,. [1949]. FIRST EDITION, pp.112; very good in original cloth & slightly word dust-wrapper. Profusely illustrated throughout with articles on Braby, Buckland Wright, Ravilious and the Art of Printing. Cock A Hoop 184. (Book ref. 14478) £40.00
WHITTINGTON PRESS. BUTCHER, David. The Whittington Press A Bibliography 1982-93. Compiled by David Butcher with an introduction and notes by John Randle.
The Whittington Press,. 1996. No.35 of 244 copies (+ 136 specials); folio, pp.(8)179 + colophon, various illustrations & inserts in text throughout; a fine copy in original buckram-backed willow decorated boards & slip-case. A beautiful celebration & record of the work of the second decade of the Press. (Book ref. 14009) £120.00
WHITTINGTON PRESS. BUTCHER, David. The Whittington Press A Bibliography 1982-93. Compiled by David Butcher with an introduction and notes by John Randle.
The Whittington Press,. 1996. No.6 of 244 copies (+ 136 specials); folio, pp.(8)179 + colophon, various illustrations & inserts in text throughout; a fine copy in original buckram-backed willow decorated boards & slip-case. A beautiful celebration & record of the work of the second decade of the Press. (Book ref. 13612) £135.00
WHITTINGTON PRESS. BUTCHER, David. The Whittington Press A Bibliography 1971-1981. Compiled by David Butcher with an introduction and notes by John Randle.
The Whittington Press,. 1982. No.125 of 200 copies (+120 specials); folio, pp.(10)83 + colophon, various illustrations & inserts in text throughout; a fine copy in original buckram-backed marbled boards. Single leaf list of books 'still available at the time of going to press', laid in; together with printed compliments slip inscribed by John Randle. (Book ref. 14010) £150.00
WEST, Nathaniel. WHITE, William. Nathaniel West. A Comprehensive Bibliography.
Kent State University Press,. 1975. FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,209(3)adverts.; frontispiece & 4 plates; fine in original cloth. Detailed dscriptions of books, plays (unpublished), movies & unpublished stories. Also includes 60pp. of uncollected writings here printed in book form for the first time. (Book ref. 1314) £15.00
WALEY. JOHNS, Francis A. A Bibliography of Arthur Waley. Second Edition.
The Athlone Press,. 1988. Pp.xiv,160; new in original cloth & dust-wrapper. Revised & enlarged from the original edition of 1968. In print at £55. (Book ref. 561) £15.00
TRAGARA PRESS, HALLIWELL, Steven. Fifty years of hand-printing: A Bibliography of the Tragara Press.
Rivendale Press,. 2005. FIRST EDITION, one of 50 specials, numbered & signed, with additional 8pp. pamphlet poem (Matthew Arnold's The Buried Life), specially printed by Alan Anderson; sm.4to., pp.xviii,174; 8 pages of facsimiles; new in gold-blocked green cloth & matching slipcase, printed paper label. (Book ref. 11784) £55.00
TRAGARA PRESS, HALLIWELL, Steven. Fifty years of hand-printing: A Bibliography of the Tragara Press.
Rivendale Press,. 2005. FIRST EDITION limited to 400 copies, sm.4to., pp.xviii,174; 8 pages of facsimiles; new in gold-blocked green cloth. A complete listing of nearly 300 A (Tragara Press publications) & B (private commissions) plus ephemeral & aborted items, with useful indexes and an introduction by David Burnett 'which charts the important role played by Alan Anderson and the Tragara Press...' from 1954 to his retirement in 2004. (Book ref. 11783) £30.00
TOMKINSON, G.S. A select bibliography of the principal modern presses public and private in Great Britain & Ireland. With an introduction by Bernard Newdigate.
First Edition Club,. 1928. FIRST EDITION limited to 1000 copies, printed at Curwen on wove paper; pp.xxiv,238; illustrations & facsimile pages; a very good copy of this deluxe production in original holland-backed boards, morocco label (slightly chipped); top edge gilt, others uncut; sides a little differentially faded; ex libris Sir Fredrick Richmond. Still a very useful reference giving full listings of the major presses (Ashendene, Kelmscott, Vale, Doves, Eragny) & much information on the middle & lower ranks. (Book ref. 15864) £45.00
TARR, Rodger L. Thomas Carlyle. A descriptive bibliography.
Clarendon Press, Oxford,. 1989. Pp.xxii,543; facsimile illustrations throughout; very good in dust-wrapper. (Book ref. 8334) £20.00
SUMMERS. D'ARCH SMITH, Timothy. Montague Summers. A Bibliography.
Aquarian Press,. 1983. Pp.171; 4 plates; fine in dust-wrapper. A revised & expanded version of the original edition of 1964. (Book ref. 339) £10.00