Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. leather_bound. Folio, vi, 119 pages. 29.4 x 21.5 cm. Printed in Troy type (text) and Chaucer type (side notes etc.), woodcut title page, woodcut foliate initials and borders by Hooper after Morris, section headings and side notes in red. Beowulf was a particular labor..... More
Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1931. Blair Hughes-Stanton. Hardcover. 26 pages. 28 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 186 of 250 on Japanese vellum with frontispiece and six characters in costume designed and engraved on wood by Blair-Hughes Stanton. Bright, very fresh copy, wide text margins, the only blemish a slight..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Gibbings, Robert. Boards. 64 pages. 4to, 27 x 19 cm. Twenty wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Music drawn by Glayds Evans. The third book under Gibbings' direction of the Press; this one printed in red and black using Caslon Old Face. Limited edition..... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1931. Leather Bound. 927, 659 pages. 27 x 16 cm. Limited editions: 1227 of 1350 and 280 of 1300 respectively, the two volumes being largely unopened. Text in Greek (parallel with the English translation of Alexander Pope, which was first published in 17250) and printed in red..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1999. First edition thus. Hardcover. 36 x 34 cm. Limited edition, copy 114 of 400 signed by Wayne Thiebaud. Types are Veronese and Twentieth Century on Tiziano mould-made paper by Fabriano. Thiebaud color drawings from photo-polymer plates printed on mylar, backed by color stock in same..... More