(Weimar): Cranach Press, 1931. Tall octavo. 31, (1)pp. From an edition of 268 copies, this is one of 200 copies on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper. Printed in red and black and illustrated throughout with wood engravings and decorated initials by Eric Gill. This ancient dialogue between the Bride and Groom is..... More
(Weimar): Cranach Press, 1931. Tall octavo. 32, (2)pp. From the French edition of 164 copies, this is one of 50 on Japon. Printed in blue and black, and illustrated throughout with eleven wood engravings and decorative initials by Eric Gill. This ancient dialogue between the Bride and Groom is one..... More
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1930-1933. Small quarto. Four volumes. 273; 285; 223; 267pp. One of 200 numbered copies printed on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper. The title was designed by Eric Gill, and the initials were done by Aristide Maillol. Initials and title lines printed in red. Volumes 1 through 3 were printed at..... More
Detroit: Cranbrook Press, 1900. Small quarto. 86pp. One of 245 copies. Facsimile photograph and signature of author on frontispiece. A reprinting of John Locke Scripps' biography of Abraham Lincoln. Scripps' work marked the first personal history of Lincoln and is here edited by Scripps' daughter Grace Locke Scripps Dyche. Laid..... More
London: Cresset Press, 1930. Small quarto. xxiii, (i), 133, (2)pp. One of 350 copies. Fully illustrated title page and twelve additional color stenciled illustrations, one for each month, by John Nash. A faithful reproduction of Spenser's cycle of eclogues, heralding both the agrarian bliss of the turning of the year..... More
Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1909. First edition. One of 250 copies. With a long introduction by W. B. Yeats. Synge died shortly before the publication of the book, and Yeats attests to a fruitful relationship between the two men. Bound in blue paper backed with buckram. Some toning to spine..... More
Pinner, Middlesex: Cuckoo Hill Press, 1961. 16mo. (15)pp. One of 111 copies. An accounting of the construction of the Office Press at Cuckoo Hill, with two diagrams as illustrations. Fine in burgundy wrappers. More
(Havana): 1893. Broadside dinner menu printed on yellow silk with hand-embroidery at head. Mounted at top to larger, folded piece of red silk, hand-embroidered with "Mr. R. A. C. Smith." The menu begins with a statement announcing the dinner's honoree: "The Phoenix Tourists, / - to - / Mr. R...... More
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1941. Octavo. (52)pp. One of 300 copies. A fascinating account of mid-nineteenth-century whaling endeavors. Minor soiling to spine, else fine in beige linen. The first book of the Press. More
Chelsea: (Southernwood Press, c. 1915). Small quarto. (23)ff. One of thirty copies printed on handmade paper. Illustrated throughout by Josephine Winser. The drawings illustrate popular nursery rhymes, including Humpty Dumpty, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Jack & Jill, and Sing a Song of Sixpence. Children take center stage in these depictions..... More
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..... More
Hamburg: Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1927. Octavo. (5)ff. A keepsake for the bibliophilic society of Hamburg, designed and edited by Czeschka to display within floral borders Hamlet's famed monologue, which is set in his Antiqua typeface, and printed by Genzsch & Heyse, the firm that released the type specimen book for..... More
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1907-1908. Five small octavo volumes. xvi, 498; (v), 573; (v), 582; xvi, 453; (iii), 383pp. One of 100 copies. Three volumes of the set are devoted to Don Quixote; the other two contain Cervantes' novellas. Each receives a matching—save for the text—double-page title spread of a black..... More
Sherman Oaks, CA: Joseph J. D'Ambrosio, 1982. Octavo. (21)ff. One of fifty copies. Signed by D'Ambrosio at the title page, as well as below each of the four original serigraphs that comprise the book's central section, "Ladies of the Garden." Illustrated throughout with images of flora as backdrops to the..... More
(Albany: Print Club of Albany), 1989. Broadside measuring 15 by 19 inches. One of 100 copies, signed by the artist. The Print Club of Albany's Annual Print for 1988-1989, it's 55th Presentation Print. This lithograph is the last of a series of prints by Dallman that explores industrial and residential..... More
Cambridge, UK: Rampant Lions Press, 1988. Octavo. 94pp. One of thirty copies on handmade paper. Inscribed by the author. A historical consideration of the Daniel Press and some of the more obscure poets published by the Press. Fine in quarter morocco with matching slipcase. More
London: Darton, 1811. 32mo. 16pp., + 16 inserted plates. Each engraved image depicts the titular good boy engaged in less desirable activities, such as throwing stones, feeding scraps to the family pet, and drawing on the walls. Each is accompanied by a pithy couplet drawn from the soliloquy. The author..... More
(London): Dean & Son, (1860). Octavo. (6)ff. A collection of hand-colored engravings accompanied by rhyming stories about fictional people. Each story adopts a humorous tone, though some also bear moral lessons. Throughout its nineteenth-century lifespan, the publishing firm of Dean and Son specialized in innovative printing processes used in the..... More
London: Dean and Son / W. Kent & Co., (c. 1860). Octavo. Three volumes in one. (24); 30; (32)pp. A collection of three illustrated children's books published together by Dean & Son under the name Dean's Coloured Picture Book: The Home First Book. The titles herein are "The Nursery ABC..... More
London: Dean & Son, (c. 1910). Tall quarto. 12ff. First edition. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white by Gladys Hall and Eugenie Richards. A series of poems that follow the activities of the cherubic Peggy and Teddy. The artwork by Hall and Richards is dramatically similar to that..... More
Paris: Guérin Müller & Co, c. 1865. Small quarto. 8ff., printed one side only, with a pop-up image folded over the text. Each pop-up consists of three layers: a background, a middle ground with the characters of the particular scene, and the foreground with small landscape elements at ground level..... More
Ashland, OR: Jubilation Press, (2010). Square octavo. (15)ff., accordion-fold. One of 100 copies. This brightly-colored abecedarium is a celebration of boys' creative, youthful spirits. Each letter is illustrated and surrounded by phrases and words beginning with that letter. For example, the letter "I" shows a child ice skating with his..... More
Ashland, OR: Jubilation Press, (2010). Square octavo. (15)ff., frenchfold. One of 100 copies. This brightly-colored abecedarium is a celebration of the creative, youthful spirits of boys. Each letter is illustrated and surrounded by phrases and words beginning with that letter: the letter "I" shows a child ice skating with his..... More
Maple Shade, NJ: Pickering Press, 1985. Octavo. (28)pp., frenchfold. One of 100 copies printed in black and brown. "A warm, witty, wry collection of observations by famous (& infamous) writers who 'draw the line in such a way as to define themselves.'" (Prospectus). This charming little book is printed in..... More
Tuscaloosa: Legacy Press, 2000. Octavo. x, 154pp., + 5 specimens. One of 130 copies, signed by both Baker and DePol at the colophon. Replete with reproductions of DePol's many pattern designs, both for his papers and from engravings. Baker's accompanying text, which includes a biographical sketch, provides necessary context, both..... More
