Search Results: PRIVATE PRESSES from First Folio

Newtown, Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 1991. No. 188 of 500 copies. Fine. No. 188 of 500 copies. Small oblong 8vo. Title, half title, and each of the letter pages illustrated by Peter Allen with linocuts hand-colored by pochoir. In a printed wrapper.

Darien, GA: The Ashantilly Press, 1969. 500 copies. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with minor chips, the back panel with wrinkling from damp. 500 copies. viii, 124p. Text and printed music. Bound in gilt-titled blue cloth with Ursa Major constellation on upper cover.

Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1990. No. 25 of 50 copies. Fine in gilt-titled paper slipcase with sun fade to upper portion. No. 25 of 50 copies. 12mo. Unpaged. Ten leaves sewn French style. Illustrated by Donna Thomas with deeply impressed line drawings,each facing the fable in letterpress by Peter Thomas on his hand-made paper. Bound in full green suede with gilt cover title. Two green paper frog silhouettes bound in.

Wakefiled: The Fleece Press, 1990. Limited to 241 copies, this inscribed and signed by Simon Lawrence, publisher. Fine. Limited to 241 copies, this inscribed and signed by Simon Lawrence, publisher. Oblong quarto. 88p. Colophon. Illustrated from the block and with tipped-in plates of the artist. Bound in quarter blue cloth over colorful paste paper boards, paper spine label and housed in a cloth slipcase with paper label.

Oxford: Private Press of H. Daniel, 1902. No. 47 of 130 copies. Fine. No. 47 of 130 copies. 12mo. (iv) 68p. (viii). In the original blue-gray wrappers and bound by Zaehnsdorf in full red crushed morocco with silk endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with vertical gilt titles, the covers with double-ruled borders and large panels of densely gilt roses and vines, dentelles. A Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding with the appropriate mark on the rear endpaper. With the leather bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, and two bookplates of John Morgan, book collector. Tomkinson No. 54.

Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1985. First edition. No. 171 0f 335 copies signed by artist and author. Fine. First edition. No. 171 0f 335 copies signed by artist and author. Oblong quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated by Miriam Macgregor with forty-one vignette and full-page wood engravings. Bound in quarter brown cloth over boards with repeating pattern from Macgregor's designs, paper spine label. Housed in brown boards slipcase with paper spine label.

New York: The Powgen Press, 1936. All are near fine in dust jackets, the slipcase is worn. A series of five delightful small 8vo books in a cardboard slipcase, each book illustrated with designs by different artists. The book are: Poe's Descent Into the Maelstrom illustrated by Charles E. McCurdy; Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow with drawings by Mary Dana; Whitman's Song of Myself with decorations by Joseph A. Low; Emerson's Compensation with designs by Barney Moore; and Hawthorne's Legends of the Province House with illustrations by Jean Lamont.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Limited to 750 copies, this no. 749. Spines with some light soil, else quite ffesh and crisp copies, uncut and unopened. These are very difficult to find in nice condition, and these are the best copies we have ever seen. Limited to 750 copies, this no. 749. Two volumes. Folio. xv [i], 299p, [v]; [viii], 301-588, [viii]. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Gilt-titled parchment vellum spines with Italian pattern paper sides. Printed by the Westminster Press on Dutch cream laid paper with the Nonesuch watermark. "Kauffer's illustrations for Burton's text provoked some spirited public arguments. Sir Edmund Gosse declared them 'hideous and irrelevant, and that a child would deserve to be smacked for drawing them'. But they were stoutly defended by Roger Fry... whose remarks were later reprinted as 'Book Illustration and a Modern Example' in Transformations (1926)." Dreyfus 28, p. 191.

Lexington, KY: The Anvil Press, 1986. No. 19 of 100 copies. Fine in d.j.. No. 19 of 100 copies. Quarto. 10, (ii), 51p, colophon. Illustrated plates not included in the pagination. Printed throughout in red and black in Victor Hammer's American & Andromaque uncial types, the tableaux printed at the Windell Press. Foreword by Desmond Flower. Bound in quarter black cloth over terra-cotta boards, the spine with paper title label, the upper cover with a Fritz Kredel illustration.

Guilford, England: Circle Press, 1979. Limited to 300 copies signed by the artist, this no. 182. One rear hinge of the portfolio is cracked, all else fine. Limited to 300 copies signed by the artist, this no. 182. Portfolio (16") . Three-page essay by Keith Please 'The Elusive Absolute'. Text printed throughout in black and blue with the silk screen or lithographed illustrations beside and interspersed in the text. The opening act features a cutout kite with loose strings on either side. There is a signed and numbered litho laid in. Housed in a portfolio of cloth and blue morocco, the upper cover with a cutout kite shape. An amazing production.

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1932. Limited to 200 copies - this copy not numbered. Near fine but for repaired tear to lower corner of the first calendar sheet and corresponding loss to the tipped-in sheet. Limited to 200 copies - this copy not numbered. Twelve leaves.7 1/2 X 5". Printed in red and black on heavy hand-made paper and string tied to a board backing, the cover with blue paper cover printed in black and red with a wood-engravings of the virgin and child. The calendar pages have a wood-engraving by Philip Hagreen and a simple red border. Tipped-in publication note. Taylor and Sewell C17.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press with the Madison Public Library, Madison, New Jersey, 2005. No. 108 of 170 copies signed by Monroe Causley. Fine. No. 108 of 170 copies signed by Monroe Causley. Quarto. xviii, 174p. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with tipped-in samples of the press' work and paste papers. Bound in gilt-titled cream morocco over marbled boards with paper title label. Housed in slipcase of matching marbled boards.

Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, 1927. Fine. 16mo. Unpaged. 4 leaves in self wrappers. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. No. 9 of S. Dominic's Rhyme Booklets. Gill no. 392.

Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1978. No. 273 of 300 copies. Inscription on flyleaf and small mounted paper arms on the paste-down. Contents absolutely fresh and clean. The covers are poor, faded and rubbed with bubbling. No. 273 of 300 copies. Folio. xv (iii), 94p, colophon. Introduction by C.H.Herford. Illustrated by H. W. Bray with nine rather large and amazingly detailed and vivid wood engravings. Wood engraved shield on the title page hand colored in blue, red and grey and a large opening wood engraved initial in red. Bound in brown buckram with Herbert arms blocked in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g. Harrop 10.

London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1923. Wrappers with slight handling and fade, contents fine. Bound in original sewn pale pink stiff wrappers with the dedicatory engraving in green. Illustrated by Eric Gill with wood engraved frontispiece and 21 small engravings as decorated initials. Taylor and Sewell A115 (Saint Dominic's); Gill no. 273.

San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1927. No. 70 of 200 copies. Contents bright and fine, the vellum with light soil and a few spots, some warping to the vellum, ribbon tie perrished. No. 70 of 200 copies. Unpaged. 38p. Beautifully printed by the Brothers Johnson in black, blue and red. Illustrated by Julian A. Links with two large hand-colored blocks. Bound in yapped vellum with gilt fleur-de-lis on upper cover.

Omaha: The Yellow Barn Press, 1981. No. 131 of 150 copies. Fine. No. 131 of 150 copies. 31p. Printed on Rives paper. Bound in full white cloth with paper spine label.

Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1988. 300 copies signed by Frank Berry. Fine. 300 copies signed by Frank Berry. (vi) 21p. Illustrated from tipped-in photos. Bound in string-tied printed wrappers. Whittington 96.

Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, 1927. Wrapper worn and faded with foxing to flyleaves, so good only. (iv), 27p. Illustrated with musical notation for lturgical chant, press device by eric Gill and title and large wood engraving by Philip Hagreen on the wrapper. Sewn wrappers.

Athens, OH: Labyrinth Editions & The Iris Press, 1982. LIMITED TO 50 COPIES with and extra portfolio of the prints signed (of a total edition of 130 copies). SIGNED by the artist, the printer, and Bradford Morrow who wrote the introduction. Fine in cloth box. LIMITED TO 50 COPIES with and extra portfolio of the prints signed (of a total edition of 130 copies). SIGNED by the artist, the printer, and Bradford Morrow who wrote the introduction. Unpaged. Illustrated by Daniel Goldstein printed from photomechanical magnesium engravings. Folio. Gilt-titled vellum spine over boards designed by the artist. Prospectus laid in.