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107937Ditchling S. Dominic's Press 1924. . Limited edition number 11 of 50 copies numbered by hand from a total edition of 150; large 4to; title page with wood-engraved figurative initial publisher's device printed in red 32 wood-engravings each on a separate page; original cream cloth upper cover slightly marked slight offsetting to endpapers edges uncut a very good copy.<br /> Scarce Gill item compiled and printed by Douglas Pepler without Gill's knowledge or consent. Gill moved away from Ditchling to Capel-y-Ffin in Wales and wanted to take the engraved woodblocks with him as his personal property. Pepler claimed they belonged to the St. Dominic's lay order and press and so kept them resulting in Gill's refusal to speak to Pepler again.<br /> Taylor A129. Ditchling, S. Dominic's Press, 1924. hardcover
1925140947746Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press 1925. Deluxe Edition. Near Fine. Copy number 24 of the first 30 copies printed on Batchelor handmade papers signed by David Jones; from a limited edition of 450 total. Two volumes; illustrated with 42 woodcuts by David Jones many hand-colored and 27 initials by Eric Gill. Bound in publisher's cream linen cloth with spines lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear and trace soiling to cloth. Bookplates of former owners at front free pastedowns offsetting at endsheets and light age spotting to preliminaries of Volume II. Light offsetting from plates throughout contents. A beautiful fine press edition of Jonathan Swift's enduring satirical 18th-century novel being the first Golden Cockerel Press book with artist and polymath David Jones' illustrations. The volumes are reproduced from the text of the Henry G. Bohn edition of 1864 under the careful supervision of Robert Gibbings after Hal Taylor's death in 1925. A playful colorful production that charmingly weaves vignettes of the story's protagonist and narrator Gulliver through his several unusual voyages. The Golden Cockerel Press unknown
1925112233445566785<p>The sole UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press Waltham Saint Lawrence in 1925. 2 Vols. set. Number '195' from a limited edition of only 450 copies. Illustrated with 42 woodcuts by David Jones many hand-coloured and 27 initials by Eric Gill. Bound in the publisher's cream linen and black cloth with spines lettered in gilt. Very Good or better copies with light edge wear and traces of rubbing to the black cloth as often encountered. The black cloth is notoriously fragile. Offsetting to the end-papers and some light age spotting in places. Many pages remain uncut as issued. Both copies are from the library of Eric Kennington and bear the stamp of 'Kennington Homer House Ipsden Oxon' to the front end-papers. A beautiful fine press edition of Jonathan Swift's enduring satirical 18th-century novel being the first Golden Cockerel Press book with the artist and polymath David Jones' illustrations. Many of the illustrations are hand coloured. Eric Gill provided the cuts for the Initials. The volumes are reproduced from the text of the Henry G. Bohn edition of 1864 under the careful supervision of Robert Gibbings after Hal Taylor's death in 1925. A charming production that weaves vignettes of the story's protagonist and narrator Gulliver through his several unusual voyages. Eric Kennington R.A. was an English sculptor artist and illustrator and an official war artist in both of the world wars. As a war artist Kennington specialised in depictions of the daily hardships endured by soldiers and airmen. In the inter-war years he worked mostly on portraits and a number of book illustrations. The most notable of his book illustrations were for T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Kennington was also a gifted sculptor best known for his 24th Division War Memorial in Battersea Park for his work on the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and for the effigy of Lawrence at Wareham in Dorset. He resided at Homer House Ipsden for many years. Both books are protected in Mylar archival covers. A scarce set and more-so with such a wonderful association. 2026 marks the 300th anniversary of the first publication of 'Gulliver's Travels'. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence hardcover
GF15335Paris - A. Cinqualbre - 1878 - Journal complet de 4 pages en deux feuillets (séparés) dont la couverture est un portrait-charge (bois gravé colorié au pochoir) de GILL - 27,5 x 19 cm -
9341Portland OR: J.K. Gill Co n.d. First thus. Softcover. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 1 198 index. Product illustrations throughout some color. Illustrated light brown wraps Textblock detached from wraps closed tear head of spine Very Good. Internally clean. Inserted throughout are 'Change in Prices' slips printed in various colors. Features striking color illustrations of Moore's Pens and Pencils with the text "We also stock Wahl's Fountain Pens and Pencils" stamped in margins. Also includes a sample card from Dennison Paper Company feature all the colors offered of their crepe paper. Catalog ends with a section of Books which features the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series among others. J.K. Gill Co unknown
GF15328Paris - A. Cinqualbre - 1878 - Journal complet de 4 pages en deux feuillets (séparés) dont la couverture est un portrait-charge (bois gravé colorié au pochoir) de GILL - 27,5 x 19 cm -
GF15323Paris - A. Cinqualbre - 1878 - Journal complet de 4 pages en deux feuillets (séparés) dont la couverture est un portrait-charge (bois gravé colorié au pochoir) de GILL - 27,5 x 19 cm -
GF15332Paris - A. Cinqualbre - 1878 - Journal complet de 4 pages en deux feuillets (séparés) dont la couverture est un portrait-charge (bois gravé colorié au pochoir) de GILL - 27,5 x 19 cm -
192122062630Ditchling Sussex: S. Dominic's Press 1921. Hardcover. Very good . Chute Desmond. Reprint of the 1920 edition octavo size 62 pp. The Saint Dominic's Press founded by Harry Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler flourished at Ditchling Sussex from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable" with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which supposedly had belonged to William Morris. Pepler endeavored to do everything possible by hand believing that such would both produce the best results and also be a "more individual or 'humane'.product". He therefore "preferred the handpress to the machine handmade to machine-made paper and handset founder's type to the products of typesetting machines."<br /> <br /> Pepler met Edward Johnston and Eric Gill while living in Hammersmith; Pepler and his family would eventually move to Ditchling to join Gill who was one of the most important artists to provide illustrations for the St. Dominic's Press. Other artists who provided illustrations included David Jones Desmond Chute whose style is very like Gill's Philip Hagreen and Mary Dudley Short among others. <br /> <br /> While the text was first published by the Saint Dominic's in 1920 this the first printing in this format "with five wood-engravings by Desmond Chute and press device by Gill." <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in grey textured paper over boards with a linen shelfback title page with the Eric Gill press device the five wood-engravings by Desmond Chute throughout; printed on Kelmscott handmade paper octavo size 8 5/8" x 6" pagination: i-iv 1-55 1 colophon. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Better than very good with clean boards slightly bumped corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; the linen shelfback with some sunning or perhaps offsetting from the glue and the rear free endpaper has small hole 1/2" by 1/8" an inch from the fore-edge . <br /> <br /> ___CITATION: Taylor & Sewell no. A73a; Ransom p. 50 no. 33; note that the quotes and much of the introductory information from "Three Private Presses" by Brocard Sewell.<br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. S. Dominic's Press hardcover
GF15329Paris - A. Cinqualbre - 1878 - Journal complet de 4 pages en deux feuillets (séparés) dont la couverture est un portrait-charge (bois gravé colorié au pochoir) de GILL - 27,5 x 19 cm -
2010DADAX190615550XBlack Dog Press 2010-03-02. First Edition. hardcover. New. 8.50x1.50x9.90. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Black Dog Press hardcover
0753826135.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2008Q-0753824418W&N 2008-10-30. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! W&N paperback
2008DADAX0753824418Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008-10-30. paperback. New. 5.24x0.94x7.76. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Weidenfeld & Nicolson paperback
20049780297843184-2025Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd 2004. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> A. A. Gill</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780297843184</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2004</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 288</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally congenitally collectively and singularly livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges.Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury the English have throughout their history come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues roundabouts and garden sheds and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things discovered stuff made puddings written hymns and novels and for people who don't like to talk much they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there'll be no misunderstandings.The English itch inside their own skins. They feel foreign in their own country and run naked through their own heads. They are often admirable but rarely loveable. An Englishman's greatest achievement is in resisting his national inclination to go tonto with an axe in a cul-de-sac. This book hunts down the causes and the results of being the Angry Island.</p> Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd hardcover
20049780297843184-2025Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd 2004. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> A. A. Gill</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780297843184</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2004</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 288</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally congenitally collectively and singularly livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges.Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury the English have throughout their history come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues roundabouts and garden sheds and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things discovered stuff made puddings written hymns and novels and for people who don't like to talk much they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there'll be no misunderstandings.The English itch inside their own skins. They feel foreign in their own country and run naked through their own heads. They are often admirable but rarely loveable. An Englishman's greatest achievement is in resisting his national inclination to go tonto with an axe in a cul-de-sac. This book hunts down the causes and the results of being the Angry Island.</p> Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd hardcover
1911923T12London: B. T. Batsford Ltd 1911. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". Not Stated. A smart first edition of this highly illustrated architectural history of London. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece ninety-eight plates many in-text images and plans to the endpapers. Collated complete. A detailed history of the architecture of London from 1660 to 1820 with reference to the planning of the town house interior decoration the formative period the middle or Palladian period and the refined or formal classic period. Includes an index. Written by Sir Albert Edward Richardson a leading English architect teacher and writer and Charles Lovett Gill an English architect. In the original red cloth binding. Externally smart with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. A small split in the cloth to the head of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning and minor spotting to the endpapers. Very Good B. T. Batsford Ltd hardcover
1924667P12London: Ernest Benn Limited 1924. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 8.5". Not Stated. An in-depth look at the architecture found in the West of England written by A. E. Richardson and C. Lovett Gill. Illustrated profusely throughout. The first edition of this work. This work looks in detail in to the architecture of the West of England in particular at Cornwall Devon and Exeter discussing how the regional architecture developed over history with the influences of popular trends of architecture. Illustrated throughout with numerous full page and in-text illustrations. Written by A. E. Richardson and C. Lovett Gill. Richardson was a leading English architect being the Professor of Architecture of the University College London as well as being the editor of the 'Architects' Journal'. His other works include 'The Significance of the Fine Arts' and 'London Houses from 1660 to 1820'. Gill was a Scottish architect and a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Institutional label to the front pastedown and institutional stamps to the front endpaper and title page. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Evidence of a label being formerly adhered to the tail of the spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Institutional label to the front pastedown. Institutional stamps to the front endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Institutional stamp to the title page. Very Good Ernest Benn, Limited hardcover
1924825A9London: Ernest Benn Limited 1924. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11" by 8.5" . Not Stated . First edition of this architectural study of the West of England by A. E. Richardson and C. Lovett Gill. The first edition of this work. A careful study of the architectural featuring of the West of England looking at the development of cities and buildings particularly of Exeter Plymouth and Stonehouse through regional traditions and historical periods. Written by A. E. Richardson and C. Lovett Gill. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates in text. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear lightly bumped to head and tail of spine touch of sunning to spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Ernest Benn Limited hardcover
839T57London: Ernest Benn Limited. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 9". None. A first edition of this study of architecture in the West of England. First edition. Highly illustrated throughout. Numerous black and white photographic plates in text. A neat study of the architecture of the West of England featuring cities and buildings through Stonehouse Dartmoor and the Isles of Scilly. Written by Albert Edward Richardson an English architectural historian and architect and Charles Lovett Gill also an English architect. In the original red cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last pages only. Contemporary ink annotations throughout. Very Good Ernest Benn, Limited hardcover
1924845B13London : Ernest Benn Limited 1924. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 8.5". Not Stated. A smart first edition copy of this fascinating local architectural history of the West of England. A first edition copy. A fascinating volume of local architecture from the West of England exploring the city of Exeter and Plymouth and the Isles of Scilly through the Middle late and Regency and Early Victorian eras. Richly illustrated throughout the volume. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart with some fading to the boards and spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. With a previous owner bookplate and ink to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Ernest Benn Limited hardcover
424943Haynes Publishing. Hardcover. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Haynes Service and Repair Manual Has writing in black and blue ink inside cover otherwise "very good" Haynes Publishing hardcover
1995Q-0849951305Thomas Nelson Inc 1995-02-07. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Thomas Nelson Inc paperback
0941975312.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1999Q-9071676234Thomas Nelson Inc 1999-02-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Thomas Nelson Inc paperback
