Patrick Reagh Printers (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stiff tan self-wrappers printed in red and black, 8vo., (vi), 60, (1) pages. One of 300 copies printed by Patrick Reagh. From the collection of bookbinders Bela and Mariana Blau. A very good copy with very minor traces of use to the covers.

Condition: Good. Postcard, 5.75" x 4.75", Very Good.Provenance: Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century.

Condition: Fine. From "A Note on the Text": "The Clark Library is pleased to send Christmas greetings to its many friends with this keepsake excerpted from an eighteenth-century pamphlet celebrating the Spirit of Christmas Past." Initially printed in 1730 by James Roberts in Warwick Lane, Round About Our Coal Fire examines the decline of holiday customs which had hitherto "bound master and tenant in the same social community." The excerpt reprinted here gives an amusing glimpse into a world far removed from ours, where holiday games and holiday humor were bawdy and often rough, a world where fat was as much a sign of success and prosperity as it was an inevitable consequence of all the beer and beef described.Ó"7 7/8 x 5 1/2." [2], [1]-11 + 3 unnumbered pp. Title-page illustrated with red woodcut ornament by Eric Gill. Contains a prologue, excerpted passage, and a note on the text. Beige wrappers, sewn. With woodcut depicting a feast to front wrapper. A fine copy. One of 400 copies. OCLC lists copies held in 14 institutions worldwide.