Reading room press (16 Ergebnisse)

One of an edition of about 100 copies set in Palatino with Monastic for display, printed on an Albion press on Kaskad paper. Grey card printed wrappers, green lettering and rules to the front cover, sewn with green thread. 9¼" x 6", pp. [8] with three wood engravings by Simon Brett. Translated from Spanish by Walter Shewring. A…

One of an edition limited to 120 copies 'set in variety of Bodoni styles with a sprinkling of Caslon.' Printed on Zerkall paper by Miles Wigfield with his Albion press of 1832. Sewn into Hayle Mill Antique Rose paper wrappers. 210 x 167 mm, pp. [12] with a wood engraving of the windmill by Keith Pettit, originally commissioned b…

A prospectus promoting 'Wood Engravings' by Thijs Mauve, a Dutch artist and wood engraver who, in 1949, was commissioned to design a book commemorating the reconstruction of the port of Rotterdam following its extensive destruction in the Second World War. The book included the nine wood engravings in the Reading Room Press's he…

Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Palatino with Monastic for display and printed in green and black on Kaskad paper. One of about 100 copies. Illustrated with three wood engravings. Sewn, with green thread, into overlapping grey Bugra Butten wrappers, titled in green on the front. A fine copy. Originally published in Poems and…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Palatino and Prisma and printed in black on Zerkall paper. One of about 60 copies. Illustrated with a tipped-in wood-engraving by David Dobson. Sewn into overlapping cream wrappers titled in red. A fine copy. A book to which there is little point unless you are familiar with the Yor…

Copy number '116' of an edition limited to 120 copies. Set in Caslon and printed on Heritage Bookwhite by Miles Wigfield on his Albion Press of 1832. Quarter cloth over marbled paper made by Victoria Hall, gilt lettering to the front cover cloth, blue endpapers; bound at Paul Kidson's Ludlow Bookbinders. 235 x 170 mm, pp. [16] w…

Copy number '65' of an edition limited to 75 copies set in 10pt Caslon and 30pt Chisel and printed on Liber Charta paper from St Cuthberts Mill on an 1832 Barrett & Cope Albion. Quarter brown cloth over paste-patterned paper boards, gilt lettering to the cloth of the upper board, light brown endpapers. 12mo., 184 x 155 mm, pp. […

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Melior, Palatino, Festival and Monotype Typewriter and printed on Zerkall paper. Title-page in red and black. Illustrated with two wood-engravings by Simon Brett, the smaller being a likeness of Miss Zena Dare, the artist's grandmother. Quarter grey cloth with maroon spine titling, p…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Perpetua printed in black (the title-page in red and black) on Zerkall paper. Number 101 of 190 copies. Thirty-four bookplates illustrated, printed from the block in every case except the first, for which the block has been lost. Bound at Ludlow Bookbinders using a patterned paper cr…

Copy number '37' of an edition limited to 120 copies printed on a Barrett & Cope Albion of 1832 on T.H. Saunders paper. Title page set in Koch Antiqua, the remaining text in Caslon, the majority set and cast on the Monotype at Rooksmoor Press, Stroud. Quarter red cloth over Canson Mi-Teintes paper-covered boards, binding by Ludl…

Copy number '7' of an edition limited to 100 copies, set in Koch-Kursiv type and printed on Zerkall paper by Miles Wigfield using an Albion Press. Quarter orange cloth over paper covered boards, the paper by Ludlow Bookbinders, being a wood-engraved 1930s design by Olive Openshaw and taken from a plate prepared by Paul Kershaw,…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Limited. Hardback, Quarter blue cloth sewn in japanese style over paper covered boards with a printed paper label to the upper board - bound by Paul Kidson's Ludlow Bookbinders using a patterned paper designed and printed by Paul Kershaw. [16]pp french-folded, with 9 engravings printed, for the fir…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Copy number '66' of an edition limited to 103 copies. Set in Jan van Kimpen's Lutetia with his Open Rman Capitals and Romulus for display. Printed on grey Zerkall Ingres paper by Miles Wigfield on his Albion Press, and bound by Paul Kidson's Ludlow Bookbinders using patterned paper designed and printed…

FIRST EDITION, 71/100 COPIES printed in black and blue on Zerkall mould-made paper, title-page vignette and 5 further wood-engravings printed in grey, pp. [20], folio, original quarter orange cloth, boards with a design repeating an Olive Openshaw wood-engraving, backstrip lettered in gilt, original prospectus laid in at front,…