Plough Press (29 results)

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 250 p. ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; 18th-19th centuries. Prints, English Bibli…

paper wrappers. small 4to. paper wrappers. (iv), 55 pages. One of 500 copies. Being a brief history and biography of 23 private presses that have been established in the Loughborough and Leicestershire area of England, with complete checklists of their productions. The presses include, the Twelve by Eight Press of John Mason, th…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 250 p. ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; 18th-19th centuries. Prints, English Bibli…

100 copies, sm.4to, (257x192mm), [7]p. 1 illustration. Original printed wrappers, fore edge of the front wrapper lightly creased. An extract in verse from a book first printed by Love & Duncan at Airdrie, here handset and printed by Geoff & Paul Wakeman. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book weight of…

One of 100 copies. With an engraving of a printer at work, in blue, to the title page. Set in Arrighi type and printed by Geoffrey and Paul Wakeman at The Plough Press. 8vo., original blue sewn paper wrappers, printed in black, edges uncut. A whimsical 19th century poem on the art of printing, first published in 1875 by Love & D…

120 copies, 8vo, (228x154mm), [20]ff. A fine copy, loose in original wrappers as issued. A collection of 9 samples of Indian papers, 8 are bifoliums and one (a Nepalese paper) is tipped onto a leaf with supported letterpress. The examples were bought by the compiler from a paper merchant who provided them as a sample of the work…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Monotype Bembo. Bell and Light English Text and SB Thorne Shaded. Number 15 of 35 copies printed in black and various colours on various papers, illustrated with eight old electros of wood-engravings of ploughs, six used twice, the others three times. One of 33 copies sewn int…

The selection of papers comprising this specimen were bought from a paper merchant who provided them as a sample of the work of small scale units located in forest areas using simple machinery. They originate over a wide area of the country from Tamil Nadu in the South to Assam on the border with Tibet: (introduction). 9" x 5 3/…

12mo, 8pp., number 13 of 18 copies printed on J. Green & Son's 'Cranmer' paper, 5 original marbled samples tipped in, concertina style, in original cloth case, printed title label to spine. Introduction"Marbling was a trade secret until the mid-19th century. Much has been written about it since, but nothing has appeared about th…

small 4to. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt. (xii), 54, (7) pages. First edition, limited to 120 numbered copies. Printed by hand on Zerkall Elfenbein Halbmatt. Wakeman, a printing historian of the highest regard, has described 51 of the most important titles relating to printing that were written over the explosive second hal…

small 4to. quarter Oasis morocco over boards, top edge gilt. (xii), 54, (7) pages. First edition, limited to 120 numbered copies of which this is one of the 30 bound in this manner. Printed by hand on Zerkall Elfenbein Halbmatt. Wakeman, a printing historian of the highest regard, has described 51 of the most important titles re…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Special limited edition, limited to 15 copies (this number 10) with a signed and numbered label on the front pastedown, a portfolio of eight specimens of original printing by George W. Jones and a special binding of halm morocco with Ann Muir marbled paper-covered sides. 30 illustrations…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Bembo, with display in Stevens Shanks Extra Ornamented and Figgins Shaded. One of 75 copies printed in black and various colours on 41 different hand-made papers. Illustrated with 13 old engravings and with a frontispiece leaf, made by Wookey Hole Mill, watermarked with a pictu…

One of 112 copies, this one of 10 copies specially bound with 7 additional samples of marbled paper, this copy number 4. 34 samples of original marbled paper tipped in. Small 4to., 27x19cm, [98pp.] Full black goatskin, spine lettered in gilt; although not called for in the text, this is presumably the original binding of the 10…

Folio, 76 leaves, of which 41 are printed in black and various colours on different hand-made papers, one of 75 numbered copies, frontispiece leaf, made by Wookey Hole Mill, watermarked with a picture of a vatman, handset in Bembo, with display in Stevens Shanks Extra Ornamented and Figgins Shaded, orig. green cloth, spine lette…

15 parts [only of 16] lacks 'Lithography.' Slim 4to. Each part with [iv] text and an example of the type of illus., with several tipped in, a couple in colour and a sample of pressed grass. From the Library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, Each part in limp paper wrapps. lettered in red to upper wrapp. as issued with the sample in a p…