David Esslemont (33 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages.Illustrated. Jack of All Trades: Working as a Printer Today by David Esslemont and Notable Books : The Palace of Architecture (1840) by Paul W Nash.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp197-208 off-print from Matrix #12. Book reviews by David Esslemont, Sue Band and John Randle. Includes The Wood-engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton and A Gallery of Greetings. Two pages of colour prints of sample greeting cards. Grey card covers. Staple bound. Crease to lower corner of rear cover. Otherwise in near fine condition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 74pp.Illustrated throughout (including tipped in plates). Interesting book printing reference literature. First edition - ltd ed. The book is very good condition -clean and bright. It presents very nicely on the shelf. PARROTT BOOKS - established for over 20 years offering a prompt friendly and efficient service.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 74, [2] p. : ill. ; 31 cm. Subjects; Gwasg Gregynog (1974- ) Bibliography Catalogs. Printing Wales Newtown Bibliography Catalogs. Catalogs, Publishers' Wales Newtown (Powys). Private presses Catalogs. Private presses Wales Newtown. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gate-folded Prospectus with six panels, including an Order Form. Contains a Specimen page (reduced in size) and Edition Details. Printed on cream thin card with black and maroon lettering on front panel. 30mm of order form perforation is not attached. Otherwise in fine condition. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this Prospectus.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 74, [2] p. : ill. ; 31 cm. Subjects; Gwasg Gregynog (1974- ) Bibliography Catalogs. Printing Wales Newtown Bibliography Catalogs. Catalogs, Publishers' Wales Newtown (Powys). Private presses Catalogs. Private presses Wales Newtown. 1 Kg.…

1990, xii,74pp. Illustrated, some color, some tipped-in. Limited edition of 900 copies, this being one of 755 in stiff card covers, numbered 635. Paperback. In very good condition.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 20x14cm, 4pp. Single sheet folded to 4pp, with loose order form laid-in. Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. xii, 74pp. Original quarter cloth over maroon boards. Near fine copy in a lightly marked printed dust jacket. Limited to 900 copies.

FIRST EDITION, limited to 900 numbered copies; pp.xii,74 including appendices and index; illustrations throughout including 8 tipped-in engravings, very good in cloth-backed card covers and dust wrapper. A complete list of books and booklets, smaller published works, commissions and ephemera printed at Gregynog since 1970. Full descriptions of edition, typeface, presses used, paper, binding & additional notes. Printing History Bibliography Private Pressry.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter creme linen over stiff burgundy card covers, DW, tall 4to., xii, 74, (1) pages, numerous illustrations in color including 8 mounted wood engravings, a pattern paper specimen, a linocut, etc. Full descriptions of books and ephemera, and extensive indexes are provided. One of 750 numbered copies in this binding, designed and printed by David Esslemont. Loosely inserted are the prospectus for this book with attached order form, a broadside announcement for two early titles, a compliments slip and a postcard invitation to a talk by Esslemont at the Book Club of California in 1990. A near fine copy in a lightly used DW, in archival mylar.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Ltd ed Gregynog Press, 1990, Fine. Sm Folio, Fine, Ltd ed. In printed blue paper wraps. Spine, titles and tooling in gilt. Internally, cream endpapers, half title, title page in red and black, printers device, (xii), [1], 2-74 pp, [2], designed and printer by David Esslemont, and edition limited to just 900 copies.…

Newtown, 1990. 74 pp. Ills. Softcover. Limited edition of 900 numbered copies [No. 323].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter gray morocco gilt with paper-covered boards, slipcase, tall 4to., xii, 74, (1) pages, numerous illustrations in color including 8 mounted wood engravings, a pattern paper specimen, a linocut, etc. Full descriptions of books and ephemera, and extensive indexes are provided. One of 100 numbered copies designed and printed by David Esslemont from Bembo type on Archive Bookend Cartridge paper. Contains full bibliographical details of the books and ephemera printed between 1970 and 1990. A very attractive bibliography. A fine copy in a near fine leather-tiped paper-covered slipcase with one small bump to the bottom corner.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited edition. Number 22 of 100 copies. Scarce. Bound in full red/grey/black patterned paper-covered boards with five linocuts (four coloured in red and black). Two essays from Hodgson's compilation, 'The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature' of 1799, beautifully designed and printed by David Esslemont's Solmentes Press. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine slipcase. Limited edition. 34.5 x 23.5 cm. Folio. 153pp. Bound in half grey cloth, half patterned blue paste-down, paper spine label, housed slipcase.Limited to 200 copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, this copy is NOT numbered. Illustrated with color linocuts by Esslemont and wood-engravigns by Schanilec.…

Illustrations throughout, several illustrations.One of 900 copies (this no.31). 4to., original wrappers. Gwasg Gregynog. A very good copy.

Condition: Near Fine. 31x21cm, 74pp. With forty-one illustrations in various colours taken from Gwasg Gregynog publications, and multiple tipped-in specimens. Copy 316 of 755 (900) bound in stiff maroon card covers, outer wrapper of grey paper with title printed in red and black to the front and spine. Gwasg Gregynog's 'Descriptive Catalogue' is an elegant and most generous production, well known for representing outstanding value for money in its standard edition as here. The Catalogue is an essential reference for understanding the modern revival of the Press and its achievements although the continuing absence of a second volume covering the post-1990 years is keenly felt. This copy distinguished by David Esslemont's signature, which is not normally present. Near Fine (slight fading around the edges of the cover, and a tiny liquid stain near the cover title). Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 31x21cm, 74pp. With forty-one illustrations in various colours taken from Gwasg Gregynog publications, and multiple tipped-in specimens. Copy 769 of 100 (900) bound in quarter-grey leather with gilt rule over grey paper-covered boards, title in gilt to backstrip with red dot, in a slipcase of pale taupe cloth-covered boards with wooden edges, grey leather to head and foot of entry, later inscription by David Esslemont in ink dated 15 November MM below the colophon, press compliments card laid-in. Gwasg Gregynog's 'Descriptive Catalogue' is an elegant and most generous production, well-known for representing outstanding value for money in its standard edition in card covers. However, it really deserved a more substantial hardback binding, and this scarce special limitation addresses that need, transforming the book into something altogether more luxurious (without having to consider the the stratospheric heights of the 'designer' special binding limitation of 25 copies). This copy is further distinguished by David Esslemont's personal inscription and signature below the colophon. The Catalogue is an essential reference for understanding the modern revival of the Press and its achievements although the continuing absence of a second volume covering the post-1990 years is keenly felt. Fine (in fact Mint) with a Good (entirely sound and unworn but with a few tiny marks and an old liquid stain at the foot, of which there is no trace in the interior, neither of course to the book). Signed by Author(s).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback, printed paper covered boards. 25.5 x 19.5cm. [15], 1pp. Illustrated with ten leaves of wood engravings and five of linocuts in colours. Number 37 of 75 copies. Spine faded otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter crimson morocco gilt with marbled paper-covered boards, slipcase, small 4to., xiv, (1), 24, (1) pages, 46 original wood engravings printed two on each recto page + fronticepiece and vignette by John Bewick. One of 140 numbered copies designed and printed by David Esslemont from Scotch Roman type on BFK Rives Velin Cuve paper and signed by the printer. This is one of 95 copies in a very attractive binding by Esslemont. But for a trace of wear to the board tips, a fine copy in a fine fleece-lined, grey paper-covered board slipcase. Signed by the Printer.…

Hardcover. One of ten copies specially bound for Oak Knoll Books. Red boards with informational pamphlet (7 pp.) inside front cover. 17 b+w prints from engravings. Thomas Bewick, 1753-1828, was born in the north of England at Cherryburn, on the south bank of the river Tyne, twelve miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, a general engraver in Newcastle. Ten years later he formed a partnership with Beilby. Wood engraving was only a small part of the business and the majority of the work involved engraving inscriptions and decorations on a wide variety of objects such as guns, dog collars, harness, clock faces, rings, cutlery, and the engraving of banknotes, billheads and even bookbinders' tools and letters. Bewick is best known for his wood engravings in his two works of natural history: "A General History of Quadrupeds" and "A History of British Birds, Vol I Land Birds, Vol II Water Birds" VG+ Exlib with stickers on spine and back cover.…

FIRST EDITION, no.46 of 200 copies, signed, folio, pp.153 + colophon; illustrated throughout with colour linocuts by Esslemont, wood-engravings by Schanilec (including fine folding panorama of the Welsh countryside looking north from Dragon Ridge), tip-ins of various original leaves from books produced by each press, and other plates in colour; beautifully printed in Cronos on mould-made paper; fine in paste-patterned cloth, paper label, & cloth slip-case. 'In one way, [their] correspondence. is a daybook chronicling the seasons of the year in Wisconsin and Wales. In another way, it is a diary, with production notes, of editing, printing, and producing some important books. It is also a log of two personal journeys, a record of the writers' struggles to manage personal lives and professional lives in the midst of children, book fairs, accolades, and calamities.' Illustrated Private Press.…

Find in paste patterned cloth with paper label to spine in Slipcase. Number 26 of 200 copies Signed by Authors. Illustrated throughout with tipped in examples of work from both presses in color and black & white. ISBN 0907014208.

Condition: Fine. No. 124 of 200 copies (this one of 100 in this binding). Folio. 153p. (ii). Illustrated by the authors: a folding five-color wood-engraved panorama; 14 full-page linoleum cuts; 7 tipped-in samples; 3 wood engravings; 7 tipped-in color photographs; 2 paper samples; an inkjet illustration. Laid in prospectus. Bound in tan linen over paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. In a cloth slipcase. Quarter To Midnight, A.225c. No. 124 of 200 copies (this one of 100 in this binding).…

Hardcover. Limited Edition/Unique. Limited Edition/Unique. Hardcover. Conversations between David Esslemont & Gaylord Schanilec. Bound by David Esslemont. With an extra suite of the 15 color linocuts [one dup] titled and signed [some numered, some AP]. There are 6 original leaves tipped in: 4 from Esslemont's books and 2 from Schanilec's, including a 4-page leaf with color engraving of Manhattan from New York Revisited. ". . . an edited summary of their conversations over the past four years, telling of domestic problems . . . of printers' problems: of getting in materials, of making the presses work, of which inks to use." Shoulder notes clarify what might be obscure. Esslemont's visits to the Schanilec home in Wisconsin provided the inspiration for his color linocuts; Schanilec's visits and 6-month stay in Wales resulted in the 33-inch color engraving of the Esslemont homestead. A unique iteration of this relatively early work. Includes laid in note from Esslemont explaining history and location of other copies, and an additional suite of signed plates found only with this copy. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full white alum-tawed goatskin, laminated bevelled boards, painting in acrylic ink, paste graining, and gold tooling, pastepaper flyleaves [inspired by the birch trees in Schanilec's yard]; housed in black cloth fleece lined drop-spine case, printed paper label at spine. 4to. 153pp. Illus. (14 color linocuts by Esslemont, 3 color wood engravings by Schanilec (including a 33-inch folding panorama), 10 tipped-in color ink jet images, and 6 original leaves). Numbered limited edition of 10 copies, this being 4 [entire run is 200]. Signed by both author/artists. This is the only copy to have the extra suite of plates. Fine in Fine Drop-Spine Archival Box.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+/VG+. Hardcover with red cloth spine and BW decorative printed cover in matching hardbound case. 54 pp of text with 17 leaves of BW plates : illustrations. The end and the beginning -- Sampson the scholar -- The gestation of a Gregynog Press title -- The making of the book -- The engravings. In a slipcase./ "This book was printed and bound at Gregynog by David Esslemont, David Vickers and Alan Wood. The typeface is Monotype Bembo and the papers used are Zerkall mould-made and Japanese Gampi Vellum hand-made. The wood engravings were printed by hand from the original blocks. Assistants: Ben Williams and Lisa Hunt. The edition is limited to 200 copies of which fifteen, numbered I-XV, are presented in a special binding together with an additional set of the engravings. One hundred and eighty-five copies, numbered 1-185 are bound in quarter cloth. Copy number 50"--Colophon./ Includes bibliographical references.…

First edition. One of 10 "special" or deluxe copies bound by David Esslemont in full white alum-tawed goatskin, stencil decorated using black, pink, yellow and red acrylic ink, subtly embellished in gilt. Housed in the original felt lined folding box with a false bottom containing five signed prints, a set of stamps and two Penguin Books printed cover designs by David Gentleman. Also included is an autograph letter discussing the book and binding, a handmade Christmas card and a hand printed verse of William Wordsworth, produced by David Esslemont as a keepsake for the January 2002 Wordsworth Trust book weekend. This beautifully produced book, printed in Monotype Baskerville on Zerkall mould-made paper is illustrated with over 300 wood engravings by David Gentleman, most of which are printed from the original blocks. A fine copy. Hand numbered II of only 10 copies, individually bound and with the extra suite of plates. Signed by David Esslemont and David Gentleman to the limitation page at the rear. There was also a regular edition of which 350 copies were printed. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

No. I of 10 special copies each bound individually by David Esslemont, there were 300 ordinary copies. Over 300 wood engravings by David Gentleman, mainly printed from the original blocks. Printed in Monotype Baskerville on Zerkall mould-made paper. Oblong 4to., original painted white alum-tawed goatskin binding using yellow, black, pink and red acrylics with gilt tooling, in the original black cloth box with an extra folder containing five signed prints by Gentleman, a set of his stamps and two of his covers for Penguin Books. An extremely good copy. With an introduction by Fiona Maccarthy. Inserted loose is a letter from David Esslemont presenting this first special copy which describes his binding process: "My design is loosely based on a detail from one of the Charing Cross engravings [the engravings on which the designs in Charing Cross underground station are based]. The broad fields of colour echo DG's own use of colour as in the postage stamps and book covers. I have created the design in my favoured white alum-tawed goatskin using stencils and the old toothbrush in places - with acrylic inks.".…