Islip: Strawberry Press, 1994. Octavo. (19)pp. One of 100 copies. Printed in black and red inks is an Introduction by Paul Nash, a prefatory letter sent by Bowden in 1902 to the then-Printer to the University of Oxford, Horace Hart, and its accompanying memorandum in which Bowden concisely and clearly.....

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Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1977. (16)ff. From an edition of 250 copies illustrated in color by Marcie Collin and printed by Carol Cunningham, this copy is in a designer binding by Sonya Sheats. Evoking the fierce battle between the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat, the artist envisioned "a.....

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London: Soncino Press, 1930. Small quarto. xl, (3), 209pp. One of nine copies printed on Roman Vellum, signed by the editor, Cecil Roth, and the illustrator, Albert Rutherston. With fourteen full-page stencilled illustrations, plus seventy small ornaments, all in color. Rutherston's bright depictions of the Passover story, including illustrations of.....

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(NY: Center for the Book Arts, 2015). 16mo. Unpaginated. One of twenty-one copies, signed by the artist. Illustrated in Cordeiro's characteristic atmospheric and multimedia style with woodcuts, photopolymer plates, linocuts, and tipped-in photographs. A keen and skillful meditation on the oft overlooked limp vellum binding and on the historic standards.....

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Harper Woods: Adagio Press, 1969. Folio. 54pp. With a Preface by Strouse and a Note by the Printer, Leonard F. Bahr. From an edition of 329, this is one of seventy-five copies with a Bible leaf on handmade paper and a quarto leaf on vellum. In this copy, the paper.....

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Rotterdam: W. L. & J. Brusse, 1903-1910. Octavo. (vi), vii, (v), 159, (3)pp. A deluxe copy of the translation of Morris' work into Dutch, the regular edition of which was printed in 1903. Drawn title page and frontispiece, along with five Morris-like illustrations interspersed throughout. With typography in red and.....

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(Watertown, MA): Anne and David Bromer, 1977. (24)pp. The text is printed on Japanese paper with ornamentation in green. Wood engravings by Sarah Chamberlain, as her first miniature book commission. This is the first miniature book published by the Bromers. Midori Kunikata-Cockram captures the whimsical nature of the text, which.....

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(London): Essex House Press, 1902. Oblong folio. 49pp. From an edition of 300 copies, this is one of twenty printed on vellum. Illustrated with ten lithographs by Edith Harwood, eight of which are double-page and show the coronation processions of the eight Edwards. As a deluxe copy, the illustrations are.....

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Berlin: Einhorn-Presse, 1927. Tall quarto. (24)pp. From an edition of 600 copies, this is one of only five printed on vellum and with text calligraphed by Melchior Lechter. In addition to writing the text, Lechter also designed the book, including initial letters of gold backed with green leather and onlaid.....

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Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1973. 55pp. The text is printed with large ornamental initials in red by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. In a striking designer binding by Stephen Conway, evoking ancient wood and stone. Conway writes that his bindings "have a tactile quality, in keeping with the three.....

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(Berlin): Officina Serpentis, 1926. Folio. 45pp. From an edition of 340 copies, this is one of seven printed on vellum, with initials added by hand in gold by Hanns Thaddaus Hoyer. A stunning example of manuscript proficiency that highlights typographic expertise, Officina Serpentis' edition of three letters from Plato to.....

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1928. Small octavo. (5)ff. An illuminated manuscript on vellum of the Apostle Paul's famous discourse on love, as written in his epistle to the Corinthians. Holtz's hand evinces calligraphic sharpness via his Gothic letterforms and the outlines of his initials, and his eye for color and illumination shows careful study.....

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