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  • To be a printer by CRUTCHLEY, Brooke
    CRUTCHLEY, Brooke
    To be a printer

    London: The Bodley Head, 1980. First edition. In original dust jacket. 191 pages. Both book and jacket are in a very good condition.

    Book ID: 2086
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  • Todtentanz der Stadt Basel. La Danse des Morts. The Dance of Death. by [Matthäus Merian]
    [Matthäus Merian]
    Todtentanz der Stadt Basel. La Danse des Morts. The Dance of Death.

    Basel: Felix Schneider, 1875. Recent hardback black cloth boards with original front cover illustration laid on to front board. New endpapers. Boards in very good condition. With b/w woodcut illustrations based on frescoes from the cemetery wall of the church of St. John in Basel. Trilingual edition, with text in English, French and German. Three separate title pages. Internally good, but with some light sporadic foxing. [85] pages. 135 x 110 mm (5¼ x 4¼ inches). Couverture cartonnée récente en toile noire avec l'illustration originale de la première de couverture collée sur la première planche. Nouvelles pages de garde. Les planches sont en très bon état. Avec des illustrations gravées sur bois en noir et blanc d'après des fresques…

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    Basel: Felix Schneider, 1875. Recent hardback black cloth boards with original front cover illustration laid on to front board. New endpapers. Boards in very good condition. With b/w woodcut illustrations based on frescoes from the cemetery wall of the church of St. John in Basel. Trilingual edition, with text in English, French and German. Three separate title pages. Internally good, but with some light sporadic foxing. [85] pages. 135 x 110 mm (5¼ x 4¼ inches). Couverture cartonnée récente en toile noire avec l'illustration originale de la première de couverture collée sur la première planche. Nouvelles pages de garde. Les planches sont en très bon état. Avec des illustrations gravées sur bois en noir et blanc d'après des fresques du mur du cimetière de l'église Saint-Jean à Bâle. Édition trilingue, avec un texte en anglais, en français et en allemand. Trois pages de titre séparées. Bon état intérieur, mais avec quelques légères rousseurs sporadiques. [85] pages. 135 x 110 mm.

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    Book ID: 4772
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  • Twelve Summer Poems of 1962. by SITWELL, Sacheverell
    SITWELL, Sacheverell
    Twelve Summer Poems of 1962. A limited, signed copy

    Edition: First Edition

    London: Privately printed: 1962. A lovely copy of this privately printed collection of poems. Spotless yellow card wrappers (now protected in a translucent glassine wrapper). One of ten copies numbered and signed by Sitwell for friends. This is copy 1/10. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).

    Book ID: 1981
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  • Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor. by JOHNSON, J.
    JOHNSON, J.
    Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor.

    London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown and Green, 1824. First edition. Two volumes. Nineteenth century cream vellum with gilt decorative tooling. Burgundy label. Marbled end papers. title-page in a border of printer's flowers. Bookplate of G.S. Hinds ("et Gilbert filius ejus" added in manuscript) on paste-downs. Lovely set of a printer's classic. The first volume is devoted to the history of printing and includes biographies, adorned with bibliographical notes, of famous British printers such as Caxton and Wynkyn the Worde. The second volume describes type, composition, letter cases, imposition (including rather unusual formats such as 72mo, 96mo and even "one hundred and twenty-eights"!), exotic alphabets, rules to be observed in a printing house, the construction of a printing press,…

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    London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown and Green, 1824. First edition. Two volumes. Nineteenth century cream vellum with gilt decorative tooling. Burgundy label. Marbled end papers. title-page in a border of printer's flowers. Bookplate of G.S. Hinds ("et Gilbert filius ejus" added in manuscript) on paste-downs. Lovely set of a printer's classic. The first volume is devoted to the history of printing and includes biographies, adorned with bibliographical notes, of famous British printers such as Caxton and Wynkyn the Worde. The second volume describes type, composition, letter cases, imposition (including rather unusual formats such as 72mo, 96mo and even "one hundred and twenty-eights"!), exotic alphabets, rules to be observed in a printing house, the construction of a printing press, warehouse work, wages, steam machines, etc. X, [14], xii, 609, [11]; [8], iv, 663, [17] pp. 125 x 75 mm (5 x 3 inches). First leaves with some light foxing, otherwise in excellent condition. Bigmore & Wyman I, pp. 371-373.

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    Book ID: 2048
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  • Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
    STEVENSON, Robert Louis
    Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers.

    Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited - Chatto & Windus, 1917. Scarce printing. Dated by owner's name and date to front endpaper. Attractive dark green leather binding, with gilt RLS initials to front board, and titles to spine. Binder's label to rear states T.C. Allen, Halifax, Canada. Stevenson's whimsical musings. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 61589351. In good shape, apart from mark to front board. vii, 193 pp. 160 x 105 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches).

    . Impression rare. Le nom du propriétaire et la date figurent sur le premier feuillet de la fin de l'ouvrage. Jolie reliure en cuir vert foncé, avec les initiales dorées de RLS sur le premier plat et les titres au dos. L'étiquette du…

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    Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited - Chatto & Windus, 1917. Scarce printing. Dated by owner's name and date to front endpaper. Attractive dark green leather binding, with gilt RLS initials to front board, and titles to spine. Binder's label to rear states T.C. Allen, Halifax, Canada. Stevenson's whimsical musings. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 61589351. In good shape, apart from mark to front board. vii, 193 pp. 160 x 105 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches).

    . Impression rare. Le nom du propriétaire et la date figurent sur le premier feuillet de la fin de l'ouvrage. Jolie reliure en cuir vert foncé, avec les initiales dorées de RLS sur le premier plat et les titres au dos. L'étiquette du relieur au dos indique T.C. Allen, Halifax, Canada. Les réflexions fantaisistes de Stevenson. Numéro OCLC / Identificateur unique : 61589351. En bon état, à l'exception d'une marque sur la planche avant. vii, 193 pp. 160 x 105 mm

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    Book ID: 4170
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  • Zederyke zinnebeelden der tonge. by Brouerius van Niedek, M.
    Brouerius van Niedek, M.
    Zederyke zinnebeelden der tonge.

    Amsterdam: J. Oosterwyk and H. vande Gaete, 1716. First edition. Contemporary vellum with just word "Tonge" written in ink to the spine. The boards are somewhat darkened with some light marking and a few light scuff to the boards. Engraved frontispiece, 2 (title) vignettes and 40 half page emblems by J. SCHIJNVOET. No ownership marks, but very small library discard stamp to the verso of the title page. Otherwise clean and tidy throughout with fractional foxing. No other library marks. Text in Dutch and repeated in Latin. (32), 326, (10) pages. 200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches). Landwehr, J. Dutch emblem books,; 29; Short title catalogue Netherlands,; 182277984. The additional engraved title is signed A. Houbraken and J.…

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    Amsterdam: J. Oosterwyk and H. vande Gaete, 1716. First edition. Contemporary vellum with just word "Tonge" written in ink to the spine. The boards are somewhat darkened with some light marking and a few light scuff to the boards. Engraved frontispiece, 2 (title) vignettes and 40 half page emblems by J. SCHIJNVOET. No ownership marks, but very small library discard stamp to the verso of the title page. Otherwise clean and tidy throughout with fractional foxing. No other library marks. Text in Dutch and repeated in Latin. (32), 326, (10) pages. 200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches). Landwehr, J. Dutch emblem books,; 29; Short title catalogue Netherlands,; 182277984. The additional engraved title is signed A. Houbraken and J. Folkema. The title vignette, signed Schynvoet. First edition points: Page 193 and page 214 misnumbered 293 and 314 respectively. Includes index. Conforms to FirstSearch / OCLC: 13603236.

    . Première édition. Vélin contemporain avec juste le mot "Tonge" écrit à l'encre au dos. Les planches sont légèrement assombries, avec quelques légères marques et quelques légères éraflures. Frontispice gravé, 2 vignettes (titre) et 40 emblèmes à mi-page par J. SCHIJNVOET. Aucune marque de propriété, mais un très petit cachet de bibliothèque au verso de la page de titre. Autrement, l'ouvrage est propre et bien rangé, avec quelques rousseurs. Aucune autre marque de bibliothèque. Texte en néerlandais et répété en latin. (32), 326, (10) pages. 200 par 140mm. Landwehr, J. Livres d'emblèmes hollandais, ; 29 ; Catalogue des titres abrégés des Pays-Bas, ; 182277984. Le titre supplémentaire gravé est signé par A. Houbraken et J. Folkema. La vignette de titre est signée Schynvoet. Première édition : Page 193 et page 214 mal numérotées respectivement 293 et 314. Inclut un index. Conforme à FirstSearch / OCLC : 13603236.

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    Book ID: 4499
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