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THE ARTISTRY OF LESLIE COLE. (Cole). Yorke, Malcolm. THE ARTISTRY OF LESLIE COLE. Today I worked well - the picture fell off the brush. Told for the first time by .. With a note on the interesting life of Brenda Cole. Fleece Press 2010.
Landscape 4to. 199pp. + [i]. 132 ills. mainly cold. Quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards by Louise Brockman, paper title label to spine.
One of a Limited Edition of 500 Copies. Presentation copy, inscribed to front free end paper ‘For Betty + Ron with kind regards, Simon 24.8.10.’ [Simon Lawrence, the designer of the book].
£75.00 [ref: 237776]

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(Rampant Lions Press). THE RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. A printing workshop through five decades. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 11 May - 27 June 1982. With a Foreword by the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and an Introduction by Brooke Crutchley. Rampant Lions Press Cambridge 1982.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. 95pp. 8 plates incluidng 3 two colour on hand made paper, numerous ills. Original gilt lettered brown cloth, light fading.
From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. From 1964 to 1989 he was warden of the Gregynog Centre, University of Wales. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2004 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Bangor.
£45.00 [ref: 294229]

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LE LIVRE DE GOHA LE SIMPLE. Adès, Albert and Josipovici, Albert. LE LIVRE DE GOHA LE SIMPLE. Avec la préface d’Octave Mirbeau. enluminé par Michel Bouchaud aux éditions du Compas, ... Paris. 1947.
Sm. 4to. 196pp. + [ii] index. Numerous colour ills. French text. Some very light marginal browning, fore and lower edge uncut, lightly browned red & black lettered cream limp card wrapps., head of spine bumped and sl. chipped, in sl. chipped glacene d/w. lightly browned to spine.
No. 219 of a Limited Edition 500 Copies.
£35.00 [ref: 287770]

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THE POEMS. Austin, William. THE POEMS. Edited with an Introduction by Anne Ridler. Perpetua Press, Oxford 1983.
Slim Royal 8vo. [xvi] + 32pp. Decorations. Original gilt lettered green cloth backed boards with dec. gilt initials to upper board, in sl. faded card slipcase.
No. 55 of a Limited Edition of150 Copies. Signed by the editor Anne Ridler and the printer Vivian Ridler.
£35.00 [ref: 278638]

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Bacon, Sir Francis. THE ESSAYES OR COUNSELS CIVILL & MORALL. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Postscript by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Limited Editions Club, New York 1944.
4to. [xii] + 190pp. + [ii]. Armorial device to title page, dec. initial letters. Very good in original gilt lettered light blue cloth backed gilt & blue dec. boards, very sl. chipped glacene d/w., in gilt lettered light blue cloth clamshell box lightly faded and rubbed to spine.
No. 964 of a Limited Edition of 1100 Copies. Signed by Bruce Rogers. From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. From 1964 to 1989 he was warden of the Gregynog Centre, University of Wales. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2004 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Bangor.
£75.00 [ref: 294249]

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PURCELL AND HANDEL IN BICKHAM’S MUSICAL ENTERTAINER. Bickham, George. PURCELL AND HANDEL IN BICKHAM’S MUSICAL ENTERTAINER. Engraved by ... Vol. I. Chiswick Press 1942.
Sm. Slim 4to. Illus. engraved title page + 22pp. engraved musical text with illus. head pieces + [ii] blank + [ii] publication list. Original full terracotta cloth with gilt title to upper board, sl. soiled and rubbed, bevelles edges, corners and head and tail of spine sl. bumped, fore and lower edge uncut.
‘This is the second in a series of facsimiles of memorable autographs and documents, was printed in the autumn of 1942 by the Chiswick Press in London for a group of music-lovers.’
£50.00 [ref: 291823]

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A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS. Breton, Nicholas. A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS. And other Prose Works. Edited by Ursula Kentish-Wright. Cresset Press 1929.
2 vols. [xxxii] + 28pp. + [viii] + 249pp. + [i]. Ex.-libris Manley Anselm Power, ownership signature, later blind embossed ownership stamp, e.ps. and flyleaves lightly browned, lightly soiled and rubbed green cloth with rubbed gilt lettered leather title label to spines, t.e.g. rest uncut.
One of a Limited Edition of 500 Copies.
£35.00 [ref: 280280]

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Brooke, Rupert. THE COLLECTED POEMS. The title page and portrait cut on wood by G. Raverat. Philip Lee Warner publisher to The Medici Society 1919.
Large 8vo. x + 156pp. + [ii] limitation leaf + [ii] blank. Port. frontis., large vignette title page by G. Raverat. On handmade Riccardi paper.F.e.ps. heavily browned, beige cloth backed pale blue boards with paper title label to spine and upper board, boards spotted, spine lightly browned, spare paper title labels tipped in at rear, in faded and chipped d/w. with loss to heavily browned spine, upper part of d/w. sl. dampstained, t.e.g. rest uncut.
No. 710 of a Limited Edition of 1000 Copies. The Riccardi Press Books.
£50.00 [ref: 294250]

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ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Carroll, Lewis. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society ... 1914.
Large 8vo. xi + [i] + 131pp. + [iv]. Profusely ills. Some very light browning, very light water stain to flyleaf, marbled e.ps., ex.-libris Paul Latcham, full gilt lettered vellum over boards, minor marking and warping, minor surface loss mainly to tail of upper joint, t.e.g.
No. 428 of a Limited Edition of 1000 Copies of a larger Limitation of 1012 Copies.
£480.00 [ref: 283019]

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CHRIST’S SERMON ON THE MOUNT. City of Birmingham School of Printing. CHRIST’S SERMON ON THE MOUNT. Being the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Chapters of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. ..., College of Arts and Crafts 1948.
Tall Slim 4to. 14pp. Frontis., rubricated dec. initial letters designed by Olga Garner. Fore and lower edge uncut, original pale grey boards with paper title label to upper board, lightly soiled and rubbed, edges lightly browned and sl. spotted, corners sl. bumped, lower joint tender, head and tail of spine sl. bumped.
£25.00 [ref: 279314]

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