Dropmore Press (33 results)

Ca early 1950s. Unpaginated, though 8 pages. Retrospectus: 1 small sheet folded twice to form 4 pages. Illustrated. 11 x 7.5 in. Prospectus: 5-5/8" x 4-1/8" VG+ (creasing at extremities/two horizontal fold-lines/light soil). Self wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDIITON.A NEAR FINE CARD COVERS. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. Neil Ritchie "The Lungarno Series". Barbara McCrimmon "Dr Richard Garnett". Stephen H Cape "J Allen St John 1872 - 1957". Paul W Nash "T E Lawrence's Diary MCMXI". Paul W Nash "The Dropmore Press Winchester Bible".

Limited edition of 300 numbered copies, this being one of 270 bound in buckram. Cloth, gilt cover-title and device, 4to, 27 cm, x, 105, [2] pp, colour ills. Attractively printed. Copy No. 213. Bookplate of Gerald R Gaunt on front pastedown endpaper. An ex-library copy with a sticker taped around the spine, a librarystamp on the front pastedown endpaper, a lending record sheet tipped-in to the front free endpaper and 2 stamps (one with accession marks) on the verso of the title-page. Save for the library marks, Good in a used and chipped dustwrapper which also has a small library sticker taped around the spine).

Limited edition of 550 numbered copies. Cloth, gilt cover-device, dentelles, 4to, 27 cm, 64, [3] pp. The second of 'The Dropmore Essays'. Copy No. 545. Covers slightly marked, spine-ends slightly bumped, otherwise Good.

Limited edition of 450 copies printed on handmade paper. Quarter-green morocco and buckram, printed in red and black, 8vo, 23 cm, unpaginated, [48] pp, colour ills. Printed in Caslon Old Face on Barcham green handmade paper. Very Good in browned and slightly chipped dustwrapper, which has tape-repairs on its inner face.

single sheet, folded once. Dropmore Press (illustrator). 8vo. single sheet, folded once. (4) pages. Illustrated by Stuart Boyle. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. A fine copy. Originally limited to 450 numbered copies. One of de Quincey's few excursions into historical writing. Relates the epic of the Tartars' return to China after 150 years of living under Russian rule.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Number 119 of 525 (550) copies on Portals hand-made paper. Full blue linen staped and ettered in gilt, edges uncut. Printed dust-jacjet. Slight;y chipped at head. Neat ownership signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Monotype Plantin and printed in black (the illustrations in reddish-brown) on Millbourn handmade paper. One of 300 copies.Wood engravings by Kenneth Hunter. Green buckram gilt with leather spine label. Ownership signature removed from front endpaper. A very good copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bottom corners of covers a little creased, o/w G+ Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Half Leather. Condition: Very Good binding. Quarto. [10], 96, [4] pp., illus. Limited edition, numbered 119 of 450 copies. As issued, backed in brown morocco with cloth over boards; an unopened copy. corners bumped and light rubbing at the spine; contents clean. A fine production of an evocatively written account of the Tartar migration under threat by Russian soldiers, by the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterwho was generally considered to have accomplished a great feat of literature than of history with this work.

Pp. 8, 3 tinted illustrations; 23 cm. x 14 cm.; cream paper wrappers, printed in brown & black, stapled, lightly marked; uncut; The Dropmore Press, London, 1950. *Lists three publications; with loosely inserted 'Retrospectus', listing eighteen titles (first two out of print); single sheet, folded to 8 pages, printed on recto; and a printed post card order form.

Pp. [12], including self-wrappers, stapled; 24.5 x 18.5 cm.; printed in black, pale blue, & green; Contents: gives details of three books, with four full page illustrations; upper and lower wrapper browned, other leaves lightly browned; The Dropmore Press, London, 1952. *With loosely inserted order form.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Set in Poliphilus. One of 400 (450) copies printed on hand-made paper. Title-page vignette, 8 full-page, 6 smaller line drawings and pictorial endpapers. Wide mororocco spine stamped in gold, orange cloth sides, gilt top. Pictorial dust-jacket slightly spotted with some loss head of spine. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full dark red morocco gilt, 4to., (iv), 96, (2) pages, illustrated by Stuart Boyle. Of 450 copies printed, this is one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator. Printed on a hand press at the Dropmore Press from Poliphilus type on Hodgkinson handmade paper. Bound by Evans of Croydon. Small stamp to the title-page, moderate edgewear and rubbing, still a very good copy. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Pp. [16], including self-wrappers, sewn, title printed in blue & black, illustrated; uncut and unopened; 22 cm. x 15.5 cm.; upper wrapper slightly rubbed and marked; The Dropmore Press, London, 1948. Limited to 750 numbered copies printed by hand on Cream Wove paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number 46 of 75 (81) copies set in Caslon Old Face, printed in red and black on Barcham Green handmade paper, and signed by the author. Quarter vellum with gilt spine titling, silver linen-covered boards stamped in red. Fine copy. (Nash & Flavell D6). Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number 22 of 100 copies handset in Centaur, printed in red and black on red `Thistlebloom' paper and signed by the author. A fine copy. The Dropmore Poems 1. "This series of short verses was probably instituted in order to make some use of Carlow's foundry type and his remaining stock of paper. This six delicate folds of paper in the series are among the most delightful Dropmore Press publications." (Nash & Flavell D2). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. Number 179 of 270 (300) copies set in Bembo and printed on Hodgkinson cream wove paper. Illustrated with 7 wood-engravings in colour, 3 being full-page. Full blue buckram, titled and stamped in gilt. A very good copy. Originally published as: The hurricane wreck of the ship "Serica", Simpkin Marshall, 1870.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Number 404 of 525 (550) copies on Hodgkinson handmade paper. Illustrated with 9 wood engravings by John O'Connor, 5 full-page. Blue linen, stamped and lettered in gilt, edges uncut. Lacking dust-jacket. A very good bright copy. (Nash & Flavell D14).

One of 550 numbered copies. Large 8vo, bound in blue cloth with gilt Dropmore Press emblem on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine, gilt patterned turn-ins, in slipcase. [vi], 84. A fine copy. A series of miscellaneous essays originally published in the "London Illustrated News." The Dropmore Press was established by Lord Kemsley in 1945 and was the successor to the Corvinus Press of Lord Carlow. Though Dropmore books did not attain the crisp perfection and beauty of the Nonesuch or Golden Cockerel Presses, they do possess a modest charm perhaps born of the more-than-modest post-war circumstances in which they were produced.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Garamond and printed on Hodgkinson handmade paper. One of 300 copies. Engraved title-page, 2 full-page and 13 smaller wood-engravings, Dark brown half morocco with gilt spine titling, cream canvas sides stamped in gilt. Cardboard slipcase distressed, otherwise a fine copy.

4pp., 4to. Bifolium. In very good condition. Covering the whole of the front page is a beautiful coloured illustration of the Imperial State Crown, with no text. The following three pages are printed in black and purple, with the second page carrying the publication details; the third page a full-page note from the editor; and the last page an advertisement for Sir John Wilson's 'Royal Philatelic Collection'. No copies of this item traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Set in Perpetua type with Gill Floriated Initials and printed in black (the title-page in red and black) on Hodgkinson handmade paper. One of 500 (550) copies bound in full red linen, spine and upper board gilt, gold top, other edges uncut. Spine just a little faded. Book label. A very good copy indeed.

Dropmore Press (illustrator). small 4to. full leather, gilt on cover and spine, five raised bands. (x), iv, 108, (3) pages, unopened. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies, of which this is one of 53 copies bound thus. A fine copy. A biographical and critical study of the life and works of Sir Alfred Gilbert, a British sculptor during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Illustrated with photographs of his works and includes a commentary on plates. Indexed. full leather, gilt on cover and spine, five raised bands.

Limited edition of 550 numbered copies. Cloth, gilt cover-title in frame, top edge gilt, others uncut, 4to, 26 cm, 102 pp. Printed in Perpetua type and Gill Floriated Initials on Hodgkinson handmade paper. Includes a preface by Evelyn Waugh and the following selection of sermons by Knox: Success; Homage; Greatness; Truth; Light; Zeal; A.M.D.G; Individuality; Life; Permanence; Heroism. From Waugh's preface: "Mgr. Knox's message . survives entire in black and white, as compelling in print as in his quiet, scholar's voice. His ideas, complex and seemingly incongruous, come together, fuse, and become simple, permanent and luminous. That, rather than his abounding verbal felicity, is what makes his art notable." Copy No. 538. Edges a little browned, spine slightly faded, covers slightly rubbed, otherwise Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 4to . Limited edition of 450, this copy number 20 of 50 special copies signed by the artist and bound in full dark red morocco with teg and gilt design on upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Cover design, dw, end papers and illustrations by Stuart Boyle. A fine copy although dw very discoloured and torn in two pieces. (ac12). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Limited ed of 450 copies, this 9 /50 signed by author and artist and specially bound. Decorations by Charles Berry. Printed on hand-made paper with red initials, bound in full pressed green morocco with gilt lettering. Owner's label on pastedown, spine and edges of eps slightly darkened. (ar0).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Number 9 of 25 (550) printed on Hodgkinson hand-made paper, specially bound and signed by the author. Illustrated with 9 wood-engravings by John O'Connor, 5 full-page. Half vellum with gilt spine titling, rust cloth sides, upper board blocked in gold, edges uncut. A near fine copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Set in Monotype Walbaum and printed on Arnold & Foster mould-made vellum. 84 plates (eight coloured). Half red niger with leather fore-edge and parchment sides decorated in blind. A fine copy. A facsimile of a famed fourteenth-century manuscript formerly owned by the Earls of Leicester and now in the British Library.