Gogmagog press (12 Ergebnisse)

First Edition, 4to, 184pp., limited edition, bookplate, frontis., illustrs., (some in colour), orig. decorated cloth, a nice copy.

Red cloth strikingly stamped in black. Sm.folio, c.pp184, fine. Includes c.40 illustrations + 16 colour plates. Authoritative work on one of the most idiosyncratic English presses. Handsome Limited Edition. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, one of 1650 copies, of which 500 were for sale. Original red cloth by Smith Settle, boards with black stripes, spine lettered in black, black endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to the book. Folio in 8s (271 x 182 mm). Title-vignette after Cox. Half-tone portrait frontispiece, 16 colour-printed plates, half-tone illustrations in the text. A book in Very Good condition; top-edges of bookblock very lightly spotted.…

(4)pp. 12mo. Printed on recto only and folded within decorated Japanese paper cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Bodoni Ultra Bold. 50 copies printed in black, red and blue (illustrations in various colours) on Hosho paper. Number 14 of 50 copies. Quarter vellum with boards covered inside and out with heavy Hosho paper, printed in yellow-green; spine printed in Braggadaccio in black and rd. Grey-blue endpapers. Stone coloured slipcase edged with pale yellow plastic with grey and black monotypes on the sides; orange ribbon pull. A fine copy. Twenty-six expressive and simple abstract colour-prints explore the lines of force which fascinated Morris Cox in the reticulations of a cracked plate when he made A Bird s World (1959). His nature-printing uses fern leaves and cake foil as poetry. This early book is particularly important insofar as it expresses the artist s trust in whatever line of force appears and would lead to greater experiments, most particularly with blind drawing . His purpose was ambitious, "to bring the act of printing as near as possible to the immediacy necessary to the mechanics of true creation". The foreword should be read carefully, because it becomes his creed.…

Each volume with the prints joined into continuous strips and folded to make nine double-page openings Each one of 100 copies signed by Morris Cox on Japanese Hosho hand-made Four volumes A fine set in original acetate dust-wrappers Chambers 14-17 Original pictorial boards, spines with printed labels.…

ONE OF 1,650 COPIES (of an edition of 1,715 copies), 16 colour-printed plates illustrating Cox's work used in his press books, and further monochrome illustrations of the artist and of his work throughout the text, the pagination, in large numerals, printed in grey on the outer margin of each page, pp.184, royal 8vo, publisher's scarlet cloth ruled in black, black endpapers, small faint spot on upper board, slight mark on lower board, pastedown with bookplate of Sebastian & Penelope Carter, very good. The definitive guide to Morris Cox's extraordinary output. Sebastian Carter, writer on many aspects of printing and private press, ran the Rampant Lions Press, founded by his father, Will Carter, until its closure in 2008. …

4/50 COPIES signed by Morris Cox, printed on Ingres paper, 4 double-page colour hand-pressed intaglio and surface offset illustrations, 6 printed on a white ground and 2 on a black ground, text printed in black, blue, mauve and red on blue, brown, cream or white paper, french-folded, ff. 34, tall foolscap 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip with printed label mounted on black, three raised bands, lean to spine, original acetate jacket which carries printed label to front panel, grey endpapers, very good. A powerful work, the verse composed between 1945 and 1955; the bibliographers comment that 'as a religious poem of the war this deserves more than its small edition'. (Chambers & Franklin 6).…

32/50 COPIES signed by Cox, text printed on Japanese Kozu-shi (mulberry) paper, 8 reverse/direct offset colour prints using gesso, card, leaves mounted on partially incised lino, f. 49 (doubled leaves joined at fore-edge), 8vo, original Japanese anime ('net-mesh') paper-covered black boards with 3 pink circles on upper board, pink Japanese handmade paper backstrip printed in black, tairei ('full-ceremonial') crimson endpapers, a few spots at upper and lower edges, acetate wrapper, very good. In addition to Cox' playful, organic nature-printed intaglios in which his experimental approach creates striking effects, the settings of the text are unusual: the first section, 25 alphabetical alliterative poems, each with a red poster-style initial, the next section, playing with a palindromic form, the final section, a cacophony of patterns in type. (Gogmagog: Chambers, Franklin, Tucker, no.22).…

One of 75 numbered and signed copies. Nine reverse-offset linocuts printed in black on to blue backgrounds. First edition. Tall 4to., 30x21cm, 43 leaves. Original quarter vellum, brown Ingres paper boards, printed on Japanese Mingei and white Honsho handmade paper, with original acetate dustjacket. London, Gogmagog Press. Fine, original prospectus loosely inserted.  'A curious and original exercise. The title page has a fairground rhythm. Text on yellow paper, prints black with fresh tones of blue on white. These nine chiaroscuro linocuts, far from the flowers, leaves and fabric one had begun to expect, enter his printing range with remarkable strength of innovation.'. …

First Edition. Eight double-page colour prints One of 25 numbered copies signed by Morris Cox on Japanese Gampi and Minegi Narrow, tall 8vo Fine copy Chambers 28 Strikingly bound in striped cloth with silver labels, that to spine lettered in back.

15 Black and white intaglio prints 'from blocks built up from cardboard, plastic and other materials' and linocut printers device. Number 30 of 50 copies, numbered and signed by the printer. Tall 8vo. sized, 13 x 22cm, [26]pp. Original publisher's binding of grey fabric mesh over red paper boards, printed paper spine label, orange paste paper endleaves, original glassine jacket. London, Gogmagog Press.     Very good, externally fine, some spotting to page edges and margins throughout. A collection of surreal epigrams, in the style of John Banting's Blue Book of Conversation. …