A DICTIONARY OF BRITISH STEEL ENGRAVERS
Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, 1980. Hard Cover. Dust jacket soiled with slight closed tears to top; dust jacket price-clipped; dust jacket protected in a mylar cover; no markings in text.
Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, 1980. Hard Cover. Dust jacket soiled with slight closed tears to top; dust jacket price-clipped; dust jacket protected in a mylar cover; no markings in text.
New Britain, Connecticut: Robert E. Massmann, 1964. Miniature. Soft Cover. Limited, numbered edition. 2-1/4" x 1-3/4" miniature in pictorial paper wrapper; hand-numbered 276/400; foreward and epilogue by Robert E. Massmann; very slight edgewear and rubbing to the wrapper;.
London: London Review Bookshop, 2007. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Signed. #77/100 copies. Signed by author at top of title page and dated at bottom. No pencil or ink markings in text. One-fourth blue leather and paper covered boards. Light stains.....
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2006. Octavo. Hard Cover. Limited Edition, one of 275 copies. Tiny amount of flaking to wood laminate boards; otherwise would be Fine. No marks of any kind. Over 60 attractive examples of the bookplates of.....
[Brooklyn, N.Y.]: [Mergenthaler Linotype Co.], 1935. With commentary on the pricing of Bruce Rogers’ works by Paul Bennett in which, inter alia, dealers are described as “amiable friends and valued middlemen who frequently are helpful yet seldom reticent in charging.....
St. Paul, MN: Greenstone Books, 1969. Miniature. Hard Cover. Miniature Book. #161/500. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown flexible cover.
Pittsburgh, PA: Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., 1907. Miniature. Full Leather. Sixteenth Edition. A miniature pocket book of Useful Information, published by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. A true miniature, it is small enough to fit in a vest.....
Miniature Book Studio. Carol Wenk, n.d. Full Leather. First Printing. A micro book, measuring 2.3 x 1.8 cm. Contains two children’s stories: “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” and “Peter Rabbit.” A few full page illustrations. Text printed on recto only.....
[Lakewood, Ohio]: Miniature Book Studio | Carol Wenk, [c. 1978]. Full Leather. First Edition. A micro book, 22 mm. tall. In brown flexible leather. 30 unnumbered pages. Title on p. [7]: An Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock.....
London: Heinemann, 1921. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. A limited edition in quarter vellum over paper covered boards, this being #43 of 380 copies signed by Cecil Aldin, the British artist best known for sporting and rural scenes evoking “Old England”.....
London: Blackie & Son, Ltd., 1910. Full Leather. De Luxe Limited Edition. Number 160 in the De Luxe Edition, limited to 350 copies. Signed by Florence Harrison, the illustrator. With 36 tipped in color plates on grey mounts, and 34.....
Oxford University Press, USA, 1997. Hard Cover. A pristine copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is protected with a new mylar cover.
London: W. Lewis, 1742. Full Leather. Second Edition. The Second Edition of Colley Cibber’s response to Alexander Pope, which would earn him the label of ‘King of Dunces’ in Pope’s Dunciad. The literary squabble began after Cibber, a comic actor.....
London: Printed for J. Harding by R. and A. Taylor, 1818. Half Leather. Two volumes bound together. The first volume being the bibliographical and textual history and criticism by the editor, Joseph Haslewood. Second volume is the “fac-simile edition of.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1895. Illustrated by: Mrs. S. M. Clark and the Author. Hard Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Decorated cloth binding. Gilt lettering on front board, silver lettering on spine. Moderate edgewear with.....
Devon: The Chevington Press, 1981. Tall folio. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition, numbered 23 of 50 copies. Signed by Wakefield below the colophon. 6 full page signed etchings along with 8 smaller etched head and tail pieces; exquisite work backed in.....
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1985. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. No. 105 of 110 special copies, signed by Joan Hassall. With eight additional engravings printed from the wood by David Chambers at the Cuckoo Hill Press, with a chapbook “The Plain.....
Northamptonshire, England: Skelton’s Press, 1969. One of 50 copies bound in quarter navy morocco over terra-cotta laid-paper boards stamped in gold, this being #45. Signed by David Kindersley on the limitation page. The various alphabets are intended “to reproduce the.....
Editions Pierre Tremois, 1945. Octavo. Soft Cover. Limited Edition, numbered 337 of 686 copies. With 8 rather charming illustrations in the pochoir style. The binding is still tight and square, with the original, albeit tattered, glassine wrapper.
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company. Full Leather. Four of the Little Blue Books bound together -- rather incongurously -- in a handsome green morocco binding, stamped in blind with raised bands and marbled endpapers. Don’t know what Haldeman-Julius would have made.....
Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1989. Illustrated by: Colin Paynton. Folio. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition, numbered 27 of 280. Signed by Paynton on the colophon. Quarter bound in scarlet goat with paper over boards; spine is very slightly sunned else Fine;.....
East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1908. Three Quarters Leather. A handsomely bound Roycroft production, in three-quarter brown levant over marbled boards; with raised bands the gilt decoration to the spine. With a silk ribbon marker. In the original folding, felt-lined clamshell.....
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soners forlag, 1888. Hard Cover. A nineteenth century edition of Esaias Tegner’s Swedish translation of the Icelandic epic, Frithiofs Saga. Illustrated title page and borders to the text. With plates, tissue guards present; some foxing.....
[Sweden]: Allhems Forlag, [1959]. Miniature. Full Leather. Fritiof’s Saga in Swedish, with 12 illustrations in black and white by Knut Ekwall, and translated by Esaias Tegner. The Tegner translation, and the accompanying Ekwall illustrations, is a prominent Swedish translation, first.....
The Press of Ward Schori, 1981. Hard Cover. Slightly oblong miniature books (1 1/2” x 1 5/8”). Limitation of 100 copies. Bound in green cloth.