High house press (24 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Cloister type and printed in blue and black. Number 76 of 150 (180) copies on mould-made paper. Light blue mottled paper-covered sides, parchment back with black spine titling. A very good copy.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Number 32 of 125 (150) copies printed on mouldmade paper. Decorative Rizzi paper boards, with a fleur de lys pattern, parchment spine strip with black titling. Spine a little soiled. Book label of Anne Powell. A very good copy. A characteristic production from James Master's press. E.M. Martin was the pseudonym of Edith Lister, formerly A.H.Bullen's secretary (with whom she lived in a menage a trois with her sister) at the Shakespeare Head Press.…

Zustand: Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Number 39 of 110 copies handset in 24-pt. Monotype Bembo, decorated with typographic flourishes and ornaments, and printed on Arnold handmade paper. Illustrated with 3 wood engravings by J.R. Biggs. Italian pattern-paper-covered boards, lime-green, white and grey, white buckram back with gilt spine titling. Damage to corners, browning to endpapers, both common with this book. A good copy. There are two, significantly different, issues of this Preface, this is the first. One of the most successful of High House Press books and now justly prized. This was James Masters' first use of the Bembo type, upon which Beatrice Warde was so keen, and which in later books he much favoured. John R. Biggs (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Special Edition. Number 76 of 135 (165) copies printed on Arnold handmade paper. Handset in ATF Garamond and decorated with typographic ornaments. Quarter black buckram with blue paterned paper-covered sides, decorative labels on spine and upper board, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Endpapers rather browned, some wear to corners. A very good copy. One of the forty-five books chosen by Douglas Cleverdon for the 1950 British Council exhibition `1890-1940 Fifty Years: The Renaissance of English Printing'.…

First edition. Octavo. pp [8]. Sewn wrappers.Covers slightly creased at the edges. Very good indeed.

Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 56 of 100 copies set in ATF Garamond and printed on Arnold hand-made paper. Title-page in brown and black. Cockerell marbled paper-covered boards, black and brown, linen back, edges uncut. Some browning to endpapers. A very good copy indeed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. One of 200 (230) copies printed in Cloister Oldstyle on antique de luxe paper. Borders & bands, Morlands Ornament No.2, fleurons, some printed in red used as decorative ornaments. Buff hammered parchment paper-covered boards, white buckram back with red spine titling. Endpapers a little darkened. A very good copy. First printed in 1847 in a collection of 'Songs and Carols' edited by Thomas Wright from a fifteenth-century manuscript then in his possession and now in the Bodleian Library. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 19 of 100 (150) copies handset in 18-point ATF Cloister Oldstyle and printed on Arnold handmade paper. Fleuron in red on the title-page. Italian fancy paper-covered boards with an abstract floral pattern, lilac, black, and orange on blue, white paper back with black spine titling. Spine slightly dulled and extremities a trifle worn. A very good copy. Also issued in a special presentation edition for Christmas 1930 [recte New Year 1931].…

Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 20 of 160 copies handset in ATF Garamond and printed on Arnold handmade paper, each Song opening with an ornamental initial. Title-page vignette and 6 other illustrations from wood engravings by Luke Clennell after Thos. Stothard. Mottled paper-covered boards, predominantly orange and shades of green, black buckram back with printed spine label. Book label. A very good copy.…

First edition. Octavo. 8 pages. Sewn patterned wrappers, printed label on upper cover. Printed on handmade paper.Number 4 of only 50 copies.Presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher/printer: "Margaret Eyres with all good wishes from J.E. Masters - Christmas 1930".Slight fading to edges of covers. Near fine.…

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. One of 200 (215) copies (this not numbered) handset in Bembo and printed on Corinthian Fine Text paper. Decorated with typographic ornaments. Cockerell marbled paper-covered boards, predominantly buff, chocolate and black, black buckram back with buff printed spine label. Spotting to endpapers and slightly so elsewhere. A very good copy.…

pp. [46], crown 8vo, original quarter purple boards with terracotta sides, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, dustjacket with Biggs engravings to front and rear panels, near fine. A facsimile edition, with additional material of the 1932 High House Press book.

First edition thus. Octavo. 32 pages. One of 170 numbered copies. Parchment-backed patterned boards. Printed by James E. Masters on hand-made paper.Very near fine in near-fine, slightly creased original plain tissue dustwrapper.

First edition. Octavo. 32 pages. One of 230 numbered copies. White buckram-backed paper boards, printed label on upper cover. Pages unopened.Free endpapers lightly tanned. Near fine in the original plain tissue dustwrapper creased at top edge.

First edition. Octavo. 16 pages. One of 115 numbered copies. Patterned wrappers with flaps and title label on front. Gypsy poems.Inside the front cover is a bookplate announcing ''Dorset Collection'' with the initials WJL and VJA. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in glassine dustwrapper slightly creased at the edges.…

Zustand: Fine. Limited Edition. Handset in ATF Garamond and printed on Arnold unbleached hand-made paper being number 43 of 65 (200) copies with the half-title replaced with a presentation leaf. Title-page vignette and two other decorations adapted from Greek sources by Albert Wainwright. Sewn into paper-covered wrappers, mottled blue and grey with a decorative label superimposed on the front cover (only the presentation copies are thus bound). Fine condition. The presentation inscription [from James E. Masters] to John Reginald Biggs is dated 8 August 1930, surely very close to when he moved in with James and Beatrice. Biggs gave a description of living with the Masters' in his introduction to the reprint of Shaftesbury (1983) and recorded that in payment for the illustrations to the original (1932) he was given a selection of the Cloister type used to print so many of JEM's early publications. Biggs also claimed that subsequently he used this type to print Sinfin Songs, London 1932, the first production of his own Hampden Press. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Number 5 of 60 copies (plus an unlimited edition), printed on Arnold unbleached paper and signed by the artists. Title-page vignette and 7 full-page wood engravings by John R. Biggs, 5 full-page wood engravings by James E. Masters. Quarter black buckram with gilt titling up the spine, grey buckram sides. Endpapers a little yellowed, two inoffensive library stamps, of Blackfriars Library. A very good copy indeed. In payment for his blocks Biggs, then a student at Derby School of Art, was given some of Masters' old ATF Cloister type. With this he founded the Hampden Press. Signed by Author(s).…

First edition. Octavo. 37 pages. One of 192 numbered copies this being one of 12 printed on hand-made paper. Four full-page illustrations and eight decorations by Philip Ainsworth. Full green buckram. Printed labels on upper cover and spine.Free endpapers lightly tanned. Spine a bit faded. A little faint spotting to front cover. Very good.…

First edition. Octavo. 15 pages. Two wood-engravings by Claire Leighton. Parchment-backed patterned paper boards. A story.One of 225 numbered copies, this being signed and dated on the limitation page by one of the printers, James E. Masters, on 12 May 1934.Free endpapers lightly tanned. Fine.

First edition thus. Quarto. 28 pages. Printed in red and black. Buckram-backed marbled boards.Number 3 of 60 copies. Presentation copy from the printer/publishers, inscribed in pencil on the front free endpaper: ''John Biggs and Hazel Biggs - With all good wishes from James and Beatrice Masters''. The recipient is an artist and illustrator who collaborated with Masters on a few of the High House Press publications. He also ran his own Hampden Press.Spine a bit dusty. Very good indeed. …

Paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. Hand-set in 18-point ATF Cloister Oldstyle type, with one ornamental initial. One of 60 copies on Arnold unbleached hand-made paper. Illustrated with 2 engraved vignettes by Luke Clennell after Thos. Stothard, R.A. A fine copy. Text: 13-line quotation from William Ellery Channing.…

First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies End-papers just a little darkened, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy Half parchment, Cockerell marbled paper sides.

29/125 COPIES (from an overall edition of 150) printed on mould-made paper, type and press work executed by James E. Masters and Beatrice M. Masters, pp. 26, [ii], 8vo, publisher's parchment-backed decorated paper-covered boards, with design of repeated cerise fleur-de-lys on buff ground, backstrip lettered in black, untrimmed lower edge, backstrip faintly toned, very good. Edith Lister was A.H. Bullen's secretary at the Shakespeare Head Press, and instrumental in the sale of the press to Basil Blackwell in 1921. Her published works include Dreams in Wartime: A Faithful Record, a dream diary which she kept during WWI, and various poetry collections, the poems of this work, somewhat shadowed by the war, concluding with 'At the Hand Press (The old Compositor speaks)': "I sometimes think / God is a printer too, and sets the type / With men for letters, fixing them in lines / That even He can not keep straight.".…