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WILLIAM BLAKE ILLUSTRATED first edition 8vo. [2 (blank)], [8 (title leaf, preface leaf, a blank leaf, half or sub-title)], 212, [2 (contents and colophon)], [2 (blank)]pp., 5 plates by Blake (untrimmed and clearly exhibiting the plate mark), near contemporary maroon roan backed boards, marbled paper over boards, edges untrimmed as issued, paper title label on spine lettered in faded ink manuscript, plain later endpapers, light water stain at the lower gutter side of the last 2 leaves (mainly evident on the terminal blank leaf) with very light marks at the same point on neighbouring leaves (including the last plate), leaves A4-A5 a trifle creased and dusty, some light dustiness mainly at the untrimmed edges, some plates with light foxing and some lightly toned at the untrimmed edges, last plate (The Horse) with small patch of light surface abrasion at lower corner (outside the image but inside the plate mark), occasional other minor dusty smudges, generally a very good and pleasing copy.…
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Ballads: ... founded on Anecdotes relating to Animals, with Prints, designed and engraved by William Blake
by HAYLEY, William [& BLAKE, William (illustrator)]
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Baskerville's Greek Type] Hē Kainē Diathēkē [in Greek characters]: Novum Testamentum. Juxta Exemplar Millianum. Typis Joannis Baskerville.
by BIBLE in GREEK] NEW TESTAMENT]
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BASKERVILLE'S GREEK TYPE first edition thus (in Baskerville type) tall 8vo. (in fours) 676pp. printed on fine (ie. thick) paper, attractive three-quarter sprinkled calf (probably nineteenth century), smooth spine very richly decorated in gilt in panels of contrasting and alternating design, scarlet morocco label gilt, marbled paper on sides and as endpapers, half-title and last leaf a trifle dusty, rear joint cracking, else a fine fresh and bright copy. A particularly handsome copy. ESTC t94889 Darlow & Moule 4756Only two books were printed in this type, the octavo and quarto Testaments, both in 1763. Edited by John Mill. 2000 copies printed.
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The Black Christ: and other Poems
by CULLEN, Countee
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IMPORTANT WORK FROM THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE - A NARRATIVE POEM ON LYNCHINGfirst edition 8vo. [12 (incl. preliminary blank)], 96pp., original black cloth backed patterned red paper covered boards, spine gilt lettered, endpapers of the same red paper boldly patterned in black, fore and lower edges untrimmed, the two terminal leaves lightly toned at gutter (offsetting from the endpaper), else a fine copy in the cream paper dust jacket which is printed in red and black on front panel and in black on 'spine' and rear panel. Jacket 'spine' and edges a shade darkened and a small triangular piece (with a few words of advertisement text) torn from the lower edge of its rear panel. This English edition apparently precedes the first U.S. edition published later in 1929.Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter, 1903 - 1946), American black poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, was particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of a…
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The Book of Common Prayer,: and the Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland. With Notes. Illuminated [by Owen Jones]; and illustrated with engravings from the works of the grea
by JONES, Owen [illuminator]: BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER]
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ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT BY OWEN JONES - IN A HANDSOME RED MOROCCO BINDING ALSO PROBABLY DESIGNED BY JONES first edition thus large 8vo. (24.8 x 17 cms.) xl, 504, [2], 451-484 (notes)pp. with the text on every page enclosed inside a very great variety (changing every few pages) of decorative borders which are printed in colours (very often two, and including red, blue, green, mauve, yellow, and black), numerous large decorative initial letters printed in colours, ornaments (some printed in colours), all these decorations designed by Owen Jones, 12 plates (of which 8 are divisional title-pages chromolithographed in gold and colours by Owen Jones), 3 engravings by J. C. Horsley, 1 by Henry Warren, 37 line engravings drawn from old master paintings by George Scharf jnr. under ther superintendence of Lewis Gruner, final section of notes (which has aberrant pagination) with a simple parallel red and black line border, elaborate (publisher's?) binding of full rich morocco over very thick bevelled…
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The Book of Common Prayer,: and the Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites ... use of the United Church of England and Ireland. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David ..
by PRINTING, ILLUSTRATION & TYPOGRAPHY] BYFIELD Mary (woodcutter)]
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'A TRIUMPH OF PRINTINGAS WELL AS OF ILLUSTRATION AND TYPOGRAPHY'IN AN APPROPRIATE SCOTTISH BINDINGfirst edition thus 12mo. (in sixes) collates a-d6, B-Z6, AA-KK6, a-z6, AA6 (that is 720 pages) printed in Caslon type, title page printed in red and black within a deep and striking woodcut border representing the Tree of Jesse, full-page woodcut of Queen Elizabeth on verso of title page, text inside varied and complex decorative and pictorial woodcut borders throughout by Mary Byfield, decorative initial letters, contemporary dark purple morocco over bevelled boards (signed on verso of front free endpaper "Orrock Binder Edinb."), sides blocked with 8 nesting borders of blind fillets and rolls some crossing at the corners to make small corner compartments with a leaf tool in blind in each, spine with raised bands and blind tooling, direct lettered gilt, all edges gilt, purple ribbon marker, some very minor and scattered light foxing, some light rubbing else a nice copy. Handsome copy of a most…
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A Book of Fifty Drawings: With an Iconography by Aymer Vallance
by BEARDSLEY, Aubrey
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first edition 4to. [8],212pp., frontispiece portrait plate, 50 full-page drawings by Beardsley each with an accompanying title leaf, publisher's scarlet cloth with the front cover very boldly pictorially blocked and lettered with a Beardsley design, small Beardsley vignette gilt blocked at centre of rear cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, endpapers, half-title, first illustration (on different paper from others) foxed, spine faded, top 1 cm.of boards a little faded, two small splash marks at top edge of boards slightly bleeding onto the top edge of the first illustration, else a nice bright copy.
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