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1 A Book of Typefaces with Some Illustrated Examples of Text and Display
Ipswich W S Cowell 1952 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to 
Copy number 1202. Spiral bindinding, some examples given in colour, 73pp. Laid in loose are 2 supplement booklets dated 1959 and 1960. 
Price: 35.00 GBP
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2 Engraved in the Wood a collection of Wood Engravings By George Mackley with an Appreciation By Ruari McLean and with a Glimpse of the Artist By Armida Maria-Theresa Colt
London The Two-Horse Press 1968 First Edition Fine 4to 
Limited edition of 300 copies - this number 279 and signed by George Mackley. Folder containing 68 wood-engravings (loose) and contents sheet. Text by Ruari McLean and Armida Maria Theresa Colt in a separate book both contained in cloth solander box..Heavy book , please enquire about shipping costs. 
Price: 650.00 GBP
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3 Report of the Custodian of the Chapin Library 1927- 1934 7 Volumes
Williamstown, Massachussetts First Edition Wraps Very Good 8vo 
Bw plates. pp 35; 36;39;38;49;60;69. 
Price: 35.00 GBP
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4 The Lists of Books from the British Magazine 1746 - 50 Collected with Annual Indexes
London Gregg Press 1965 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 12 Mo 
English Bibliographical Sources No. 8. Covers partially faded. 
Price: 8.00 GBP
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5 William Caxton an Exhibition to Commemorate the Quincentenary of the Introduction of Printing Into England
London British Library 1997 0714103888 / 9780714103884 First Edition Card Fine 4to 
Exhibition catalogue, numerous facsimile illustrations, 94pp. 
Price: 4.00 GBP
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6 0LSCHKI, LEO S Compiled Incunabula Typographica a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century (1460-1500) in the Library of Henry Walters
Baltimore 1906 First Edition Very Good 8vo 
Arts and Crafts style leather covers with raised bands on spine extending across front and back covers with fleur de lis motifs. Colour frontis, black and white plates illustrations and facsimiles, head piece and some initial letters printed in scarlet, 519pp + errata leaf. Contents in fine condition, binding tight, some rubbing to edges of covers. 
Price: 185.00 GBP
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7 BALSTON, THOMAS English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950
London Art & Technics 1951 First Edition Very Good Nr Fine 4to 
Examples of 69 artists illustrated some in colour, light browning to endpapers and name on ffep. 
Price: 50.00 GBP
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8 BLAND, DAVID A History of Book Illustration
London Faber & Faber 1969 Second Edition Hard Cover Nr Fine. Nr Fine. 4to 
Many plates, some mounted and in colour; numerous illustrations in the text, 459pp inc index. Dw (price clipped). 
Price: 40.00 GBP
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9 BOND, WH The Houghton Library, 1942-1967 a selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections
Cambridge The Harvard College Library 1967 First Edition Hardcover Fine Not Issued Folio 
Blind stamped black buckram with gilt lettering to spine, TEG, illustrated endpapers, 255pp inc index. "..displays a broad sample of the chief riches of the Library. More than 370 books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, maps, and bindings are reproduced in black and white, duotone, or full colour, and the large paper size, 14 by 10.5 inches, makes it possible to depict most of these items full size." Heavy book which will require extra shipping. 
Price: 20.00 GBP
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10 CAXTON, WILLIAM A Reprint in Facsimile of a Treatise Spekynge of the Arte & Carte to Know Well to dye/ Translated Oute of Frenshe to Englysse
London Edward Lumley 1875 Folio 
Bound in modern green paper covered boards with cloth spine and printed paper label. Modern endapapers, 25 leaves two of which two of which are stained on bottom border. Small ink stamp on title page. 
Price: 40.00 GBP
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11 CHAMBERS, DAVID Joan Hassall Engravings & Drawings
Pinner Private Libraries Association 1985 First Edition Cloth Nr Fine 4to 
with an introductory memoir by Joan Hassall and an appreciation of her technique George Mackley 
Price: 15.00 GBP
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12 CHASSANT, ALPH. Paleographie Des Chartes et Des Manuscrits Du XI Au XVII Siecle
France Auguste Aubry 1876 Septieme Edition 12 Mo 
Full leather binding with red leather spine label, title printed in red and black, numerous facsimile plates of mss, some folding, 170pp. Covers scuffed and soiled, binding is tight,and contents unfoxed. 
Price: 30.00 GBP
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13 CLARKE, STEPHEN & GRETTON, JOHN R W Ketton-Cremer an Annotated Bibliography
Dereham Books 1995 0951011545 / 9780951011546 First Edition Cloth Fine Fine 8vo 
"Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969) was the foremost Norfolk historian of his generation, and a leading scholar in eighteenth-century studies." Bw frontis portrait, 206pp inc index. 
Price: 30.00 GBP
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14 COLLINS, F HOWARD Authors' & Printers' Dictionary
Oxford University Press 1965 Reprint Cloth Fine Very Good 16mo 
442pp. 
Price: 3.00 GBP
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15 CONRAD, JOSEPH An Outcast of the Islands
Connecticut The Limited Editions Club 1975 Fine Folio Robert Shore 
Number 1695 of 2,000 copies signed bythe artist. Decorated cloth covers, with spine label, colour plates, 212pp in paper covered slip case with printed paper label. Previous owner's book plate. Heavy book which will require extra shipping. 
Price: 40.00 GBP
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16 CONRAD, JOSEPH Three Tales of the Sea Youth Typhoon the End of the Tether
Los Angeles The Limited Editions Club 1972 Fine Folio Robert Shore 
Number 131 of 1500 copies signed by the artist and by the designer-printer Ward Ritchie. Textured blue cloth with blue morocco spine, red label gilt. Colour plates, 251pp in red paper covered slip case with printed paper label. Previous owner's bookplate. Heavy book which will require extra shipping. 
Price: 35.00 GBP
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17 CRUTCHLEY, BROOKE The Cambridge Christmas Books
Brighton Privately Printed 1976 First Edition Sewn Pamphlet Fine Fine 12 Mo 
Printed at the Rampant Lions Press. 220 copies - this number 154 and signed by the author. Plain paper covers with marbled dw and printed paper label. 
Price: 30.00 GBP
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18 DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER MACKENZIE Cortege and Other Poems
Edinburgh The Porpoise Press 1927 First Edition Hard Cover Nr Fine No Jacket 12mo 
Black paper covered boards with yellow linen spine, printed paper label, frontis design by H. Harvey Wood, 32pp. Tape marks on pastedowns. This book is inscribed by the author thus: "To Jimmy ! from the author A M Davidson Christmas 1927". 
Price: 38.00 GBP
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19 DE CHAIR, SOMERSET Translated By The First Crusade the Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalemites
London The Golden Cockerel Press 1945 First Edition Nr Fine Folio Clifford Webb 
Number 181 of 500 copies. Half vellum over gilt decorated cloth boards bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. "Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford.... in Poliphilus type on Arnold's hand-made paper....at the Chiswick Press...." Bw engraved plates, 92pp. 
Price: 200.00 GBP
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20 ELLIOTT, DAVID A Trade of Charms
London Bellew Publishing 1992 0947792988 / 9780947792985 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo 
" A trade of Charms is one man's account of over twenty-five years spent in the British book trade." 231pp inc index. 
Price: 5.00 GBP
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