English Private Presses, etc.

mostly limited signed or illustrated editions, including texts by Robert Gibbings, Walter de la Mare, H.H. Marks, John Milton, Harold Monro, William Shakespeare, Montague Summers, etc.; illustrations by Robert Anning Bell, Robert Gibbings, Stephen Gooden, Blair Hughes-Stanton, David Jones, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, John Buckland Wright, etc. and with presses including Beaumont Press, Blackamore Press, The Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons, The Cresset Press, Freemantle & Co., Gemini Press, Golden Hours Press, Halcyon Press, Nonesuch Press, Robt Riviere and Son, John Rodker and Ralph Straus at the Sign of the Ostrich; all various sizes, original bindings, occasional spotting and browning, occasional wear (29)

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MORE COMPLETE LISTING OF BOOKS IN THIS LOT:
Apuleius. The Golden Ass. trans. Adlington, Chiswick Press, 1904, 1/220 copies, linen boards, spine foxed; Pericles & Aspasia by Walter Savage Landor. Chiswick Press, 1903, 1/220 copies, uniform with last in "Chiswick Library of Nobel Writers"; Utopia by Sir Thomas More, in same series, Chiswick Press, 1903, foxing to spine--Graves, Ida. Epithalamion. Gemini Press, n.d., ill. Blair Hughes Stanton, 1/330 copies, this 1/280 signed by author and artist, box, minute staining; Pastoral...by H.H.M. with wood-engravings by B.H-S, 1/125, 1935, linen-backed boards, folding box--Locke, W.J. Flower O' the Rose, 1909 1/50 signed by the author, boards, case, slipcase--Coppard, A.E. The Man from Kilsheelan, woodcut by R. Gibbings, W. Jackson, 1930, no.3 of the Furnival Books, 1/550 copies signed by the author, blue cloth boards; Gibbings, R. Over the Reefs, Dent, 1948, 1/100, full red morocco--Byron, Lord. Lyrical Poems, wood-engraving by J. Buckland Wright, Halcyon Pres, 1933, 1.500, yellow cloth boards--De La mare. Alone, no.4 of the Ariel Poems, Faber, n.d., ill. B. Hughes-Stanton, 1/350; News, 1930, 1/500, signed--Malleus Maleficarum, transl. Montague Summers, J. Rodker, 1928, 1/1275 numbered copies--A Remedy for Sedition, foreword by E.M. Cox, Golden Hours Press, 1933, no.1 of 100 copies, Chiswick Press, leather---Moore, G. A Communication to my Friends, Nonesuch Press, 1933, 1/1000, dust-jacket--Rimbaud, Arthur. A Season in Hell, Paris, n.d., 1/600, transl George Frederic Lees, dust-jacket (slightly torn)--Symons, Arthur. The Café Royal and other essays, Beaumont Press, 1933, 1/310 on handmade paper--Monro, Harold. Elm Angel, 1930, ill. Ravilious, 1/250 signed by author, Faber, 1930; The Winter Solstice, 1928, ill. D. Jones, 1/500 signed--Nash, Paul. Place. 7 Prints reproduced from woodblocks...1922, 1/210 copies, ownership signature, decorative boards, slight wear, folding box--The Apocrypha.. Nonesuch Press, London and New York, 1924, 1/1250 on Japon vellum, this one out of series and inscribed by F. Meynell (typographer), paper covered boards gilt--The Apocrypha. Cresset Press, 1929, 1/450 copies on mould-made paper, vellum, slipcase, engravings by Hughes-Stanton, J. Nash, Kennington, Ravilious and others, slight wear to slipcase--Almanack 1929. With Twelve Designs on Wood by Eric Ravilious. n.d., boards--A Brief History of Moscovia...Gather'd from the Writings of several eye-witnesses by John Milton, ill. A Brodovitch, Blackamore Press, 1929, 1/600, dust-jacket, slightly browned--The Sonnets of Shakespeare, Riviere and son, 1928, inlaid binding by Riviere; slipcase, case worn slightly; The Tempest, ill. R.A. Bell, 1/174 signed by the artist, in pictorial vellum gilt, slipcase--Rilke, Rainer Maria, transl. Sonnets to Orpheus, Hogarth Press, 1936, 1/1020, tan cloth in dust-jacket, near fine, in case and morocco slipcase; and 3 others, non-limited editions; various sizes