Press Reading Room (20 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 236 pages. 9.25x7.50x0.54 inches. In Stock.

A prospectus promoting the publication of 'Night Club Girl' by A.S.J. Tessimond with wood engravings by Simon Brett. 6¾" x 4¾", cream printed paper, pp. [4] with decorated title page and a handwritten note laid in from Miles Wigford. A prospectus in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket. …

Condition: Fine. Set in Palatino with Monastic for display and printed in green and black on Kaskad paper. One of about 100 copies. Illustrated with three wood engravings. Sewn, with green thread, into overlapping grey Bugra Butten wrappers, titled in green on the front. A fine copy. Originally published in Poems and Translations by Walter Shewring [Paulinus Press, Marlborough 1984].…

One of an edition limited to 120 copies 'set in variety of Bodoni styles with a sprinkling of Caslon.' Printed on Zerkall paper by Miles Wigfield with his Albion press of 1832. Sewn into Hayle Mill Antique Rose paper wrappers. 210 x 167 mm, pp. [12] with a wood engraving of the windmill by Keith Pettit, originally commissioned by Anthony Baker of the Gruffyground Press for a project which faltered, together with a colour photograph tipped-in. A booklet in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket.…

A prospectus promoting 'Wood Engravings' by Thijs Mauve, a Dutch artist and wood engraver who, in 1949, was commissioned to design a book commemorating the reconstruction of the port of Rotterdam following its extensive destruction in the Second World War. The book included the nine wood engravings in the Reading Room Press's here promoted. 8" x 5½", printed on mauve paper, pp. [4] and including one of the nine wood engravings. A prospectus in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Palatino and Prisma and printed in black on Zerkall paper. One of about 60 copies. Illustrated with a tipped-in wood-engraving by David Dobson. Sewn into overlapping cream wrappers titled in red. A fine copy. A book to which there is little point unless you are familiar with the Yorkshire cricketer Herbert Sutcliffe.…

ONE OF 120 COPIES, set in 'a variety of Bodonie styles with a sprinkling of Caslon', on Zerkall paper, title and half-title printed in green, wood-engraving by Keith Pettit, tipped-in colour photograph, pp. [12], small 4to, original Hayle Mill Antique Rose wrappers, cover with title printed in purple, sewn, fine. Belloc's desolate poem of 1923, here, illustrated by Pettit's intricate engraving of the ruined windmill, the bones of the sails against a sky of swirling clouds, followed, rather unexpectedly, by a serene photographic image of the restored mill, 'the original stonework clad in red tiles. [offering] magnificant views across the Goodwood Estate to Chichester and the sea.'.…

Copy number '116' of an edition limited to 120 copies. Set in Caslon and printed on Heritage Bookwhite by Miles Wigfield on his Albion Press of 1832. Quarter cloth over marbled paper made by Victoria Hall, gilt lettering to the front cover cloth, blue endpapers; bound at Paul Kidson's Ludlow Bookbinders. 235 x 170 mm, pp. [16] with two engravings and one photographic illustration. A book in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket.…

Copy number '65' of an edition limited to 75 copies set in 10pt Caslon and 30pt Chisel and printed on Liber Charta paper from St Cuthberts Mill on an 1832 Barrett & Cope Albion. Quarter brown cloth over paste-patterned paper boards, gilt lettering to the cloth of the upper board, light brown endpapers. 12mo., 184 x 155 mm, pp. [24] with a frontispiece engraving of the breast bone of a Tawny Owl, and five engravings of owls using blocks supplied by Victoria Hall and Nigel Hamway, originally cut to illustrate Yarrell's 'A History of British Birds'. A sample of the paper used for the covers of 'Bewick's Matchem' is also tipped-in. A book in Fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Melior, Palatino, Festival and Monotype Typewriter and printed on Zerkall paper. Title-page in red and black. Illustrated with two wood-engravings by Simon Brett, the smaller being a likeness of Miss Zena Dare, the artist's grandmother. Quarter grey cloth with maroon spine titling, pink and grey pictorial boards, titled in dark red. A fine copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Perpetua printed in black (the title-page in red and black) on Zerkall paper. Number 101 of 190 copies. Thirty-four bookplates illustrated, printed from the block in every case except the first, for which the block has been lost. Bound at Ludlow Bookbinders using a patterned paper created by Paul Kershaw, green cloth spine titled in gilt. A new copy. With an additional bookplate tipped in, the 150th, printed and signed by the artist. Signed by Author(s).…

Copy number '37' of an edition limited to 120 copies printed on a Barrett & Cope Albion of 1832 on T.H. Saunders paper. Title page set in Koch Antiqua, the remaining text in Caslon, the majority set and cast on the Monotype at Rooksmoor Press, Stroud. Quarter red cloth over Canson Mi-Teintes paper-covered boards, binding by Ludlow Bookbinders. Gilt lettering to the red cloth over the upper board. Octavo, 244 x 165 mm, pp. [48] with a double page photographic image (a still from an Imperial War Museum archive film) tipped in the middle of the book and showing General Sir Edmund Allenby at the time he was received at the Jaffa Gate by the British Military Governor; possibly the only time that Lawrence and Wavell were photographed together. A book in Fine condition.…

Copy number '7' of an edition limited to 100 copies, set in Koch-Kursiv type and printed on Zerkall paper by Miles Wigfield using an Albion Press. Quarter orange cloth over paper covered boards, the paper by Ludlow Bookbinders, being a wood-engraved 1930s design by Olive Openshaw and taken from a plate prepared by Paul Kershaw, gilt lettering to the spine, grey endpapers. 12¼" x 8", pp. [24] with six engravings by Jane Lydbury printed from the wood. A book in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited. Hardback, Quarter blue cloth sewn in japanese style over paper covered boards with a printed paper label to the upper board - bound by Paul Kidson's Ludlow Bookbinders using a patterned paper designed and printed by Paul Kershaw. [16]pp french-folded, with 9 engravings printed, for the first time, from the original wood blocks. No. 5 of a limited edition of only 103 copies. copies. Previously owned by Simon Brett, with a bookplate to front pastedown. Some faint creasing to a couple of pages. A nice, clean copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Copy number '66' of an edition limited to 103 copies. Set in Jan van Kimpen's Lutetia with his Open Rman Capitals and Romulus for display. Printed on grey Zerkall Ingres paper by Miles Wigfield on his Albion Press, and bound by Paul Kidson's Ludlow Bookbinders using patterned paper designed and printed by Paul Kershaw. Quarter blue cloth sewn in japanese style over paper covered boards with a printed paper label to the upper board. 280 x 230 mm, pp. [16 ] french-folded, with nine engravings printed, for the first time, from the original wood blocks. A prospectus (pp. 4) on mauve paper is laid in. A book in Fine condition. Thijs Mauve (1915-1996) was a Dutch artist and engraver, the grandson of Anton Mauve, a leading member of the Hague School and cousin-in-law to Van Gogh. In 1949, Mauve was commissioned to design a book commemorating the reconstruction of the Port of Rotterdam following its destruction in May 1940 during World War II. Each chapter of the book, depicting a particular area of restoration, was headed by a wood engraving printed from line blocks.…

95/103 COPIES printed in black and orange on Zerkall Ingres paper, 9 full-page illustrations, french-folded leaves, Errata list bound in at rear, some creasing to paper-stock but not affecting images, errata slip laid in at rear, pp. 26, 4to, original stab-bound quarter blue cloth, the boards with a patterned paper designed by Paul Kershaw, printed label to upper board, fine.…

84/104 COPIES, title-page printed in pink and black, corrigenda slip tipped-in at rear, pp. [29], royal 8vo, original quarter grey cloth with illustrated boards, backstrip lettered in pink, touch of rubbing at tips of backstrip, edges untrimmed, near fine.

FIRST EDITION, 63/150 COPIES printed on JPP archival dull white inlay paper, title-page printed in red and black, Ardizzone illustrations (for Harveys Wine Lists 1962-63) throughout with a double-spread tipped-in illustration ('Wine-tasters at Restells') colour-printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, title-page printed in red and black, pp. [33], 8vo, original quarter red cloth with boards of patterned paper created by Paul Kershaw using an Ardizzone design, backstrip lettered in gilt, note from the printer laid in, fine. The text largely consisting of the artist's correspondence with the Lists' designer, John Lewis - with a Preface by Alan Powers, and a contemporary article on Ardizzone's interest in wine with a note about the Bonhams sale of Harveys Wine Museum in 2003 at the rear.…

FIRST EDITION, 71/100 COPIES printed in black and blue on Zerkall mould-made paper, title-page vignette and 5 further wood-engravings printed in grey, pp. [20], folio, original quarter orange cloth, boards with a design repeating an Olive Openshaw wood-engraving, backstrip lettered in gilt, original prospectus laid in at front, fine. The distinctive and attractive typeface used throughout is Kock-Kursiv, which the colophon explains was 'first used by the Curwen Press in 1926 and rescued by Ian Mortimer on its closure in 1983'.…

71/120 COPIES, this copy signed by the printer, frontispiece wood engraving by Jim Westergard, printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, title-page printed in orange and black, pp. [19], crown 8vo, original quarter brown cloth with patterned paper sides lettered in brown to upper board, fine.