plough press (20 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 250 p. ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; 18th-19th centuries. Prints, English Bibliography. Prints Technique Bibliography. Printing Bibliography. Pictures Printing History Bibliography. Prints Great Britain Technique Bibliography. Prints Great Britain History ; Bibliography. Printing Great Britain History Bibliography. Pictures Printing ; Bibliography. Engraving & engravings ; Bibliography. Illustration of books Bibliography & catalogues. Printing. Pictures. Prints. History. Bibliographies. Printing history. Printing. Pictures Printing. Printing. Prints Technique. Prints. Illustration of books ; Bibliography. Prints Technique. Engraving ; Bibliography. Printing ; Bibliography. Pictures Printing History ; Bibliography. Prints Great Britain Technique ; Bibliography. Prints Great Britain History ; Bibliography. Printing Great Britain History ; Bibliography. Printing history. Printmakers-Great Britain. Prints, British. England Prints Making Techniques Bibliographies. Engraving Bibliography. Engraving Technique. Engraving British Isles 18th, 19th centuries. Genres; Bibliographies. Bibliography. History. 3 Kg.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Series: Artes Typographicae 8p limited edition handprinted pamphlet, no. 2 of 120, blue card cover bright, sewn binding very firm, pages fresh and clean, reprint of article taken from 'The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts' Language: English.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Booklet, string bound. 6pp. No. 2 of a limited edition of only 120 copies. An excellent copy. (q5).

Large 4to. [2pp.] Engraved plate tipped in to card. Some slight foxing of plate, in slightly faded original printed folder with 2.5cm. tear, corners slightly rubbed. XIX Century Illustration series. US$9.

Large 4to. [2pp.] Engraved plate tipped in to card. Dampstain to corner of plate, in original printed folder, corners slightly rubbed with some minor fading to edges. XIX Century Illustration series. US$9.

100 copies, sm.4to, (257x192mm), [7]p. 1 illustration. Original printed wrappers, fore edge of the front wrapper lightly creased. An extract in verse from a book first printed by Love & Duncan at Airdrie, here handset and printed by Geoff & Paul Wakeman. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book weight of approx. 1 kilo packed, if possible the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.

Large 4to. [2pp.] Engraved plate tipped in to card. Some foxing of plate, in original printed folder, corners slightly rubbed. XIX Century Illustration series. US$12.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. One of 100 copies set in Arrighi printed on Barcham Green paper. Line-blockillustration in blue. Sewn into grey-blue paper wrappers, edges uncut. A fine copy.

One of 100 copies. With an engraving of a printer at work, in blue, to the title page. Set in Arrighi type and printed by Geoffrey and Paul Wakeman at The Plough Press. 8vo., original blue sewn paper wrappers, printed in black, edges uncut. A whimsical 19th century poem on the art of printing, first published in 1875 by Love & Duncan at Airdrie, when the author was 'but a few years out of his apprenticeship'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 100 (500) copies, numbered and and specially bound in green buckram. Illustrations throughout and a useful checklist. Slight wear to boards. A very good copy.

120 copies, 8vo, (228x154mm), [20]ff. A fine copy, loose in original wrappers as issued. A collection of 9 samples of Indian papers, 8 are bifoliums and one (a Nepalese paper) is tipped onto a leaf with supported letterpress. The examples were bought by the compiler from a paper merchant who provided them as a sample of the work of small scale unites located in forest areas using simple machinery. The papers originate from a wide are of the country from Tamil Nadu in the south to Assam on the border with Tibet, together with the Nepalese sample noted above which. although in close proximity to India, shows paper made by a quite different method. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book weight of approx. 1 kilo packed, if possible the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset, text in Baskerville, display in Palatino. One of 120 copies printed in black on white Basingwerk Parchment. Sewn into slightly overlapping Penny Badge paper covers, printed in black and brown on the front. A fine copy. artes Typographicae No.3. The text was set by John Walton.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Monotype Bembo. Bell and Light English Text and SB Thorne Shaded. Number 15 of 35 copies printed in black and various colours on various papers, illustrated with eight old electros of wood-engravings of ploughs, six used twice, the others three times. One of 33 copies sewn into cream paper covers printed in blue on the front using SB Fry's Ornamented and one of the electros, A fine copy with a Plough Press compliments slip loosely inserted. Not for sale. Printed for the PLA Society of Private Printers.

12mo, 8pp., number 13 of 18 copies printed on J. Green & Son's 'Cranmer' paper, 5 original marbled samples tipped in, concertina style, in original cloth case, printed title label to spine. Introduction"Marbling was a trade secret until the mid-19th century. Much has been written about it since, but nothing has appeared about the Leicestershire marbling industry, based on the old town of Loughborough. Some quite unusual patters were devised amongst the Loughborough master marblers. A selection of these follows, with their traditional names." Those names being: Large Radmoor, Old Dalby, Widmerpool Spot, Rutland Shell & Nonpantain.

12mo, 24pp., limitation not given, but likely to be similar to the preceding item, 7 leaves of impressions, inscribed by the printer, orig. hand-made paper wrappers. NLS copy only on Copac; OCLC adds a copy at the University of Delaware.

4to, [32]pp., no. 6 of 25 numbered copies specially bound, 10 plates, orig. quarter morocco, marled paper boards. Relates the story of the murder of the binding tool producer, John Pass by the the bookbinder, James Cook.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Special limited edition, limited to 15 copies (this number 10) with a signed and numbered label on the front pastedown, a portfolio of eight specimens of original printing by George W. Jones and a special binding of halm morocco with Ann Muir marbled paper-covered sides. 30 illustrations within the text. The portfolio and book boxed within a slipcase. A fine copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Bembo, with display in Stevens Shanks Extra Ornamented and Figgins Shaded. One of 75 copies printed in black and various colours on 41 different hand-made papers. Illustrated with 13 old engravings and with a frontispiece leaf, made by Wookey Hole Mill, watermarked with a picture of a vatman. Secondary binding (about 50 copies thus) of full green canvas with gilt spine titling. Book label. A fine copy.

One of 112 copies, this one of 10 copies specially bound with 7 additional samples of marbled paper, this copy number 4. 34 samples of original marbled paper tipped in. Small 4to., 27x19cm, [98pp.] Full black goatskin, spine lettered in gilt; although not called for in the text, this is presumably the original binding of the 10 special copies. Loughborough, The Plough Press Fine.  An important survey of English marbled paper, with an essay by Wakeman accompanied by 34 original samples, including work by Richard J. Wolfe, Michael Mitchell, Douglas Cockerell and a number of historic examples. A title which is already scarce in commerce, the special edition with 7 additional samples is exceptionally so. .

Folio, 76 leaves, of which 41 are printed in black and various colours on different hand-made papers, one of 75 numbered copies, frontispiece leaf, made by Wookey Hole Mill, watermarked with a picture of a vatman, handset in Bembo, with display in Stevens Shanks Extra Ornamented and Figgins Shaded, orig. green cloth, spine lettered in gold, uncut. "This book sets out to provide a record of all the book papers being made by hand in England which are readily available for sale." Introduction.