(Parma: Stamperia Reale, 1779). Octavo. xii, 296pp. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poetess crowned with a laurel wreath, eleven beautifully-engraved vignettes and twelve culs-de-lamp. This elegantly-printed volume was published in commemoration of the coronation of poet Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez with laurels on the Capitol in... More about Atti della Solenne Coronazione fatta in Campidoglio della Insigne Poetessa D.na Maria Maddalena...

Munich: Bremer Presse, 1931. Quarto. 238, (2)pp. One of 275 copies. A collection of sonnets by various English poets, from Sir Thomas Wyatt to Christina Rossetti, handsomely printed, with initials designed by Anna Simons. Includes Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, E.B. Browning, Spenser, Donne, and Milton, among others. Minor edgewear and slight... More about Sonnets.

Tölz: Bremer Presse, 1920. Small quarto. 246pp. One of 270 copies. Printed in English in the roman type of Dr. Willi Wiegand with title and 60 initial letters by Anna Simons. One of the few books from Bremer Presse to be printed in English. Attractively bound in full vellum by... More about The Essays of Francis Bacon.

Munich: Bremer Presse, 1922. Small quarto. 64pp. One of 200 copies. WIth nineteen initals by Anna Simons. A selection of Holderlin's works, including his seminal "Der Archipelagus", all rendered in a format familiar to the Bremer Presse. This copy rebound with new endpapers into three-quarter leather binding with marbled paper... More about Elegien.

Munich: Bremer Presse, (1923-1924). Folio. (482)pp. One of 615 copies. Printed entirely in Greek, save the appended commentary and colophon. Colin Franklin describes the book as a "magnificent example of controlled printing." Bound in full calf with gilt rules to covers and spine. Fine. Top edge red. (Franklin p.163). More about Odyssey.

(New York & Munich): New York Academy of Medicine & the Library of the University of Munich, 1934. Large folio. (308)pp. One of 615 copies printed at the Bremer Presse from the original wood blocks. A monumental work that reproduces the 1543 Basel edition of Vesalius’s De Humanis Corporis Fabrica... More about Icones Anatomicae.

(Wakefield, Yorkshire): Fleece Press, (1986). Large quarto. (10)pp., + (19)ff. From an edition of 200 copies, this is one of twelve bound by James Brockman. Illustrated with twenty wood engravings printed on handmade paper from the original blocks that were cut by Underwood in the 1920s and ‘30s. Underwood’s Brook... More about Leon Underwood: His Wood Engravings.

Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1993. 16mo. 35, (vi)pp. One of 300 copies. Poems selected and translated by Paul Hansen, who also provided the introduction. He-Jing's verses serve as witness to his own solitary activities, while at the same time providing a broader lens through which the reader may see... More about Lin He-Jing: Recluse-Poet of Orphan Mountain.

Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1930. Small quarto. (70)pp. One of 376 copies, this printed on Dutch Pannekoek laid paper with the watermark of the Halcyon Press. Buckland Wright's characteristically rich woodcuts throughout. This is the first published book of John Buckland Wright, who had exhibited his early work in Belgium and... More about The Collected Sonnets of John Keats.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1903. Folio. 265pp. One of 200 copies. With frontispiece after the portrait of More by Hans Holbein, along with Holbein's renowned "memento mori" image of the island of Utopia fashioned after a skull. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Translated by Ralph Robynson, and appended with... More about Utopia.

NY: Glenn Horowitz, 1988. Small octavo. 9, (2)pp. One of 200 copies. Signed by the illustrator. A fine printing of Winston Churchill's letter of February 18, 1898 to Sir Algernon West, the twice-secretary to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone. Churchill's relationship with West began after Churchill's father's death and West's... More about Winston S. Churchill to Sir Algernon West.

Surrey: Circle Press, 1979. Folio. 11 unbound folios. One of 300 copies, signed by the author, Christopher Logue, and the artist, John Christie. Each folio is designed with the number of the poem or the title printed in red on the first recto, where the poem begins and runs through... More about Red Bird.

NY: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972. Folio. 202, (5)pp. Publisher's facsimile of the famed edition of Hamlet issued by the Cranach Press in 1929. With reprints of Edward Johnston's typography, Edward Gordon Craig's 74 woodcuts, and Eric Gill's contributions of two initials, the title over the first woodcut, and spine titling... More about Facsimile of the Cranach Press Hamlet.