Verlag: Flower Pot Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1486704360 ISBN 13: 9781486704361
Zustand: Good. Pascale Lafond (illustrator). Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Verlag: Independently published, 2019
ISBN 10: 1098921313 ISBN 13: 9781098921316
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Sans. PRESS, 2023
ISBN 10: 173913835X ISBN 13: 9781739138356
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
ISBN 10: 1486702643 ISBN 13: 9781486702640
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Independently published, 2021
ISBN 13: 9798725517538
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Very Good: a copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Verlag: Nonesuch Press, London, 1936
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
First Edition, one of 750 copies (this copy #200). Profusely illustrated and with numerous inserted sample pages. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Original green buckram, spine faded Profusely illustrated and with numerous inserted sample pages. 1 vols. Tall 8vo First Edition, one of 750 copies (this copy #200).
Verlag: The Nonesuch Press, London., 1936
Anbieter: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
First edition. Quarto. pp xii, 80, followed by tipped-in plates. Copiously illustrated with devices, photographs of bindings, sample illustrations from the texts, reproductions of title-pages many of which are tipped in, etc. One of 750 numbered copies. Full buckram, leather label on spine. Printed by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press.Endpapers lightly spotted. Spine faded as usual. Near fine. No dustwrapper.
Verlag: London The Nonesuch Press, 1936
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Limited edition, number 29 of 750 copies; folio; 6 photogravure plates of bindings, 44 tipped-in specimen leaves mounted on dark grey paper, 25 of these bifolia and many coloured, 52 pages reproducing illustrative text and title pages, and 3 pages of printer's devices; original green cloth, black morocco spine label with gilt lettering, spine faded to brown, fore-edge uncut, light spotting to endpapers. This bibliography covers the first hundred books and the first ten years of the Nonesuch Press, which was founded in 1923 by Vera Mendel, David Garnett, and Francis Meynell, with the last being in charge of book production. The Press produced a substantial corpus of fine printing, although the books were not produced exclusively to be collectible objects. 'As a piece of typographical design, The Nonesuch Century was highly original and extremely successful. Francis [Meynell] realized that reproductions of finely printed pages cannot convey either the feel of a carefully chosen paper or the quality of the impression originally made upon it by a skilful printer. He therefore decided to reset a great many text and title-pages (as well as a few book jackets) and to have them reprinted by their original printers, using the same paper, the same colours, and the identical processes (letterpress, offset, collotype, intaglio engraving or hand colouring) which had been used when the books were first produced' (Dreyfus, p96). John Dreyfus, A History of the Nonesuch Press, 1981.
Verlag: Nonesuch Press, London, 1936
Anbieter: SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
No.440 of 750 copies. Frontispiece portrait of the owner Francis Meynell by Eric Gill, 67 illustrations of devices, bindings, title-pages & texts, 46 original leaves from the books tipped in, usually being reset and printed or stencilled by the original printers of the books from which they have been taken. Printed at the Cambridge University Press by Walter Lewis. Folio, original green buckram with black and gilt spine label, in the rare original dust jacket. Top edge spotted, slight browning to endpapers, dust jacket with some closed tears on flaps and bottom of spine, otherwise very good. A wonderful, elaborate overview of the first 100 books and roughly the first 10 years of the Nonesuch Press. Booklabel of Clarence B. Hanson, Jr.
Verlag: The Hand & Flower Press, London, 1949
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USA
Erstausgabe
260 x 200 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 3/4"). 6 p.l., 13-90 pp, [4] leaves, including two blanks at either end. Original half deep brown morocco over gray boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (signed in gilt on the front pastedown), raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Engraved title by Alfred Richard Lane, with 20 etched plates by Betty Shaw-Lawrence, all pencil signed by the illustrator. âThe spine very slightly sunned, otherwise fine. This attractively illustrated and well-made private press book is a love letter to the traditional English herbal. Poet Thomas Fassam (fl. 1940-1952) draws on works from the 16th to 19th centuries to provide the "principal lore" of everyday herbs. These descriptive vignettes are accompanied by the etchings of Betty (Bettina) Shaw-Lawrence (1921-2018), which balance a graceful, loose modernity with a black and white certitude calling to mind the striking woodcuts from historical herbals. Printed by Ditchling Press in Sussex on handmade paper, and in a pleasing but unpretentious binding, this volume is a quiet delight inside and out. FIRST EDITION. No. 58 OF 260 COPIES. Signed by the author on the limitation page.
Verlag: Nonesuch Press, London, 1936
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USA
Erstausgabe
No. 663 OF 750 COPIES. 318 x 203 mm. (12 1/2 x 8"). xi, [i], 80 pp. Original green buckram, flat spine with black morocco label. Later sturdy marbled paper slipcase. With engraved portrait of Meynell by Eric Gill, three pages of printer's devices, six photogravure plates of bindings, 52 pages reproducing illustrative text and title pages, and 45 inserts of reprinted leaves mounted on dark gray paper, 25 of these bifolia. Front pastedown with bookplate reading "From the Library of the / Curwen Press / London." Dreyfus 106. âSpine sunned (as always with this book), one sample a bit creased, otherwise very fine. This bibliography covers the first 100 books and the first 10 years of the Nonesuch Press, which was founded in 1923 by Vera Mendel, David Garnett, and Francis Meynell, with the last being in charge of book production. The Press produced a substantial corpus of fine printing, although the books were not produced exclusively to be collectible objects. As the "Prospectus of the Nonesuch Editions" says, "The Book Public may be divided into three parts. The Libraries cater for the section of it which reads books without wishing to possess them. A number of 'toy' presses cater for collectors who do not read. The Nonesuch Press was founded in the interest of those among the book collectors who also use books for reading." Despite the fact that those who ran the Nonesuch Press (Meynell chief among them) did not take themselves too seriously, the press had a major influence on the history of the private press in England, especially between the wars. The present copy has a significant association, having been part of the library at the Curwen Press. Founded (under a different name) in 1863, the Curwen Press became an important player in the world of private printing in 1914, when Harold Curwen (1885-1949), the grandson of the original founder, took control. In 1921, Oliver Simon (1895-1956) joined the firm, and he was instrumental in upgrading the quality of book production, in part by commissioning typefaces, illustrations, and decorations from, among others, Jan Van Krimpen, Rudolf Koch, Edward Bawden, Paul Nash, and Graham Sutherland (Lovat Fraser was already working for the press when Simon came in). Glaister says that "The brilliantly successful association of Curwen and Simon led to a steady flow of fine books as well as jobbing printing of outstanding quality.".