High House Press (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Sewn stiff dark rose wrappers with cover label, large slender 12mo., 8, (1) pages. One of 170 numbered copies printed by James E. Masters. Minor edgewear and a slightly faded spine, else a clean very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Sewn decorated wrappers with cover label, large slender 12mo., 5, (3) pages. One of 90 numbered copies privately printed by James E. & Beatrice M. Masters for their friends on Arnold Unbleached handmade paper. A clean, slightly edgeworn, near fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Sewn decorated paper over card with cover label., large slender 12mo., 10, (1) pages. One of 100 numbered copies printed on mould-made paper by James E. Masters. Minor edgewear, else a clean, near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Cloister type and printed in blue and black. Number 76 of 150 (180) copies on mould-made paper. Light blue mottled paper-covered sides, parchment back with black spine titling. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter parchment-paper printed in black with red decorated paper-covered boards, DW, small 8vo., 26, (2) pages. Copy no. 30 of 150 numbered copies printed by James & Beatrice Masters on mould-made paper. E. M. Martin was the pseudonym of Edith Lister, secretary to E. H. Bullen of the Shakespeare Head Press. Mild toning to the endpapers, else a clean, fine copy in the original glassine DW showing minor edgewear, in archival mylar.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Sewn grey stiff wrappers with cover label, large 12mo., 12, (1) pages. Of 162 numbered copies, this is No. 9 of 12 copies printed by Janes E. Masters on F. J. Head hand-made paper. A fine copy in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. Number 76 of 135 (165) copies printed on Arnold handmade paper. Handset in ATF Garamond and decorated with typographic ornaments. Quarter black buckram with blue paterned paper-covered sides, decorative labels on spine and upper board, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Endpapers rather browned, some wear to corners. A very good copy. One of the forty-five books chosen by Douglas Cleverdon for the 1950 British Council exhibition `1890-1940 Fifty Years: The Renaissance of English Printing'.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Number 32 of 125 (150) copies printed on mouldmade paper. Decorative Rizzi paper boards, with a fleur de lys pattern, parchment spine strip with black titling. Spine a little soiled. Book label of Anne Powell. A very good copy. A characteristic production from James Master's press. E.M. Martin was the pseudonym of Edith Lister, formerly A.H.Bullen's secretary (with whom she lived in a menage a trois with her sister) at the Shakespeare Head Press.…

Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Number 39 of 110 copies handset in 24-pt. Monotype Bembo, decorated with typographic flourishes and ornaments, and printed on Arnold handmade paper. Illustrated with 3 wood engravings by J.R. Biggs. Italian pattern-paper-covered boards, lime-green, white and grey, white buckram back with gilt spine titling. Damage to corners, browning to endpapers, both common with this book. A good copy. There are two, significantly different, issues of this Preface, this is the first. One of the most successful of High House Press books and now justly prized. This was James Masters' first use of the Bembo type, upon which Beatrice Warde was so keen, and which in later books he much favoured. John R. Biggs (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. One of 200 (230) copies printed in Cloister Oldstyle on antique de luxe paper. Borders & bands, Morlands Ornament No.2, fleurons, some printed in red used as decorative ornaments. Buff hammered parchment paper-covered boards, white buckram back with red spine titling. Endpapers a little darkened. A very good copy. First printed in 1847 in a collection of 'Songs and Carols' edited by Thomas Wright from a fifteenth-century manuscript then in his possession and now in the Bodleian Library.…

Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 56 of 100 copies set in ATF Garamond and printed on Arnold hand-made paper. Title-page in brown and black. Cockerell marbled paper-covered boards, black and brown, linen back, edges uncut. Some browning to endpapers. A very good copy indeed.

Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 49 of 170 copies printed on handmade paper in ATF Cloister Oldstyle with the opening initial in red and decorated with typographic chains. Usual binding of yellow and brown paper-covered sides with a floral pattern, white parchment back with gilt spine titling. Slightly handled. A very good copy. The text is that of the Percy Society reprint of 1843; the notes at the end are by J.Payne Collier, from the same edition.…

Original Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 10pp, colophon. Bound in red-and-green patterned wrappers, paper label on cover. 7.75" x 5.25" This is #12 of an edition of 100 copies (75 for sale), printed on mould-made paper by James E. Masters at the High House Press in February, 1926.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter brown cloth with spine label and marbled paper-covered boards with cover label, 8vo., (30) pages, twelve wood engravings, seven by Biggs and five by Masters; printed on rectos only. Foreword and descriptions by James E. Masters and signed by him. Very slight edgewear, else a clean, near fine copy in archival mylar. Signed by the Printer.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 19 of 100 (150) copies handset in 18-point ATF Cloister Oldstyle and printed on Arnold handmade paper. Fleuron in red on the title-page. Italian fancy paper-covered boards with an abstract floral pattern, lilac, black, and orange on blue, white paper back with black spine titling. Spine slightly dulled and extremities a trifle worn. A very good copy. Also issued in a special presentation edition for Christmas 1930 [recte New Year 1931]. …

Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 20 of 160 copies handset in ATF Garamond and printed on Arnold handmade paper, each Song opening with an ornamental initial. Title-page vignette and 6 other illustrations from wood engravings by Luke Clennell after Thos. Stothard. Mottled paper-covered boards, predominantly orange and shades of green, black buckram back with printed spine label. Book label. A very good copy.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. One of 200 (215) copies (this not numbered) handset in Bembo and printed on Corinthian Fine Text paper. Decorated with typographic ornaments. Cockerell marbled paper-covered boards, predominantly buff, chocolate and black, black buckram back with buff printed spine label. Spotting to endpapers and slightly so elsewhere. A very good copy.…

pp. [46], crown 8vo, original quarter purple boards with terracotta sides, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, dustjacket with Biggs engravings to front and rear panels, near fine. A facsimile edition, with additional material of the 1932 High House Press book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Number 5 of 60 copies (plus an unlimited edition), printed on Arnold unbleached paper and signed by the artists. Title-page vignette and 7 full-page wood engravings by John R. Biggs, 5 full-page wood engravings by James E. Masters. Quarter black buckram with gilt titling up the spine, grey buckram sides. Endpapers a little yellowed, two inoffensive library stamps, of Blackfriars Library. A very good copy indeed. In payment for his blocks Biggs, then a student at Derby School of Art, was given some of Masters' old ATF Cloister type. With this he founded the Hampden Press. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies End-papers just a little darkened, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy Half parchment, Cockerell marbled paper sides.

29/125 COPIES (from an overall edition of 150) printed on mould-made paper, type and press work executed by James E. Masters and Beatrice M. Masters, pp. 26, [ii], 8vo, publisher's parchment-backed decorated paper-covered boards, with design of repeated cerise fleur-de-lys on buff ground, backstrip lettered in black, untrimmed lower edge, backstrip faintly toned, very good. Edith Lister was A.H. Bullen's secretary at the Shakespeare Head Press, and instrumental in the sale of the press to Basil Blackwell in 1921. Her published works include Dreams in Wartime: A Faithful Record, a dream diary which she kept during WWI, and various poetry collections, the poems of this work, somewhat shadowed by the war, concluding with 'At the Hand Press (The old Compositor speaks)': "I sometimes think / God is a printer too, and sets the type / With men for letters, fixing them in lines / That even He can not keep straight.".…