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Published by 8vo, 14pp., Greenock: The Black Pennell Press, 1984., 1984
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Number 50 of 300 copies set in Caslon and printed in black and brown on China paper. Sewn into printed paper wrappers. A fine copy Scottish Poetry Reprints number 5.
Published by The Black Pennell Press, Greenock, 1983
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter creme parchment printed in black with blue textured paper-covered boards, DW, small 8vo., 48 pages. Illustrated by Crawford Paterson. Number 9 of 200 numbered copies designed, handset, printed and bound by Thomas Rae. A fine copy in the glassine DW with one small chip and archival mylar.
Published by Narrow 8vo, pp.29, (Thomas Rae) Black Pennell Press, Greenock, 1983., 1983
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number 60 of 120 copies handset in red and back in Caslon Old Face, with Libra for display, and printed on Van Gelder paper. Red paper boards with a design of a printing press in blind and black spine titling. A fine copy in the original glassine wrapper. Prospectus loosely inserted. Subsequent to the Signet and Grian-aig Presses, the Black Pennell Press, founded in 1982, is the third press to be associated with Thomas Rae. Unlike the previous change of name (forced upon him for legal reasons), it does mark a genuine departure insofar as in that year he retired from all commercial printing.
Published by Small crown 4to, 15[1]pp, (Thomas Rae) The Black Pennell Press, Greenock, 1989., 1989
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Set in Caslon Old Face with Fry's Ornamented for display and printed in black and orange on BFK Rives paper. Number 21 of 75 copies. Bound in Elephanthide with black spine titling, decorated paper-covered sides, predominantly grey, yellow and brown, printed label superimposed on the upper cover. A fine copy.
Published by Scotland: Greenock, The Black Pennell Press (1984), 1984
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small 8vo. First edition thus. Original paper boards, with coloured emblem to front cover, hand-made paper, hand-typeset and printed, edges uncut, coloured endpapers, printed in red and black. A very attractive private press book, reprinting an extract from The Life of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland & France Written originally in French and now done into English by James Freebairn. First printed at Edinburgh in 1725 & now reprinted by Thomas Rae at The Black Pennell Press. Limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 83. A very attractive item, showing a high quality of printing.
Published by The Black Pennell Press, Greenock, (Scotland), 1989
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter tan Elephanthide printed in black with marbled paper-covered boards and cover label, large 8vo., 15 pages. One of 75 numbered copies designed, printed and bound by Thomas Rae from Caslon Old Face and Fry's Ornamented types on dampened BFK Rives mould-made paper. A fine copy in archival mylar.
Published by The Black Pennell Press, Greenock, Scotland, 1985
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
full brown calf, slipcase. Black Pennell Press (illustrator). 8vo. full brown calf, slipcase. Contains an extra suite of plates loosely inserted in a pocket in the back. xiii, 82, (2) pages. Limited to 226 copies of which this is one of the 26 copies printed on handmade paper by Barcham Green and bound thus by A.W. Lumsden of Edinburgh. These 26 copies also contain an extra suite of the nine woodcuts printed directly from the block by the artist, Kathleen M. Lindsley. McAlpine was a Tory who attached himself to the British army during the Revolutionary War. Spine slightly sunned, else fine condition. Prospectus present.