Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for J and R. Tonson, in the Strand, London, 1761. Collected works of Congreve published by Baskerville, the noted printer and type designer, featuring an engraved portrait frontispiece as well as five plates preceding some of the respective works. Contents include The Old Batchelor, The.....
London: Printed for the Proprietor by John Johnson, 1817. One of only 18 unnumbered copies on white Chinese paper, which is mounted on larger vellum paper with a Greek motif border, all within another border of vines and leaves. Extensively illustrated with woodcuts by Thurston. Kohlmetz, who provided a bibliography.....
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Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1769[-1771]. The first Baskerville Bible to be printed in Birmingham and one of only two Bibles published by Baskerville. A sumptuous printing in folio with 10 engraved plates. Folio. A-13K2. Gaskell 35 (first state with 1769 title page). ESTC T93103. Herbert 1210. Pardoe, John Baskerville, pgs. 98-118.....
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Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2005. One of 27 copies of the leaf book with 2 tipped-in hand-colored lithographic plates from the octavo edition of James Audubon’s The Birds of America and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Printed at Hawley’s private press on laid paper, bound at the.....
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Bordeaux: Librairie de Hippolyte Duthu, 1883. #3 of an unstated number of copies beautifully printed in brown and red on vellum. Commemorating the passing of the Archbishop of Perga / Coadjutor Bishop of Bordeaux, by Mermillod, the Cardinal Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva. Rare. 8vo. Unbound sheets.....
[Hafod, Ceredigion, Wales]: At the Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1807. Memoirs of a crusader printed at the first private press in Wales, which was operated by Johnes from 1803-10. Plomer, Some Private Presses of the Nineteenth Century (The Library, pgs. 407-08, 1900). From a printing of 230 copies. Contains.....
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Parma: Bodoni, 1794. One of a very few Bodoni printings in English. Bodoni “set what was, in general, to be the standard book style of the world until the appearance of William Morris.” Preece, Typography, Encyclopædia Britannica. William Morris “disliked Bodoni’s types, [and Morris’s followers] have stigmatized them as the.....
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London: Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758. First edition from the famed press set up at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole’s London villa. According to Walpole’s introductory advertisement, “Lord Whitworth’s little treatise will throw considerable lights upon the formation of the Muscovite power, and upon the plans of the extraordinary genius.....
