Private Press Books from Wykeham Books

Private Libraries Association, first edition, 2009. Cloth, gilt cover device, 8vo, 28 cm,. 328 pp, plates, ills. Contents: Section 1. History. Beginnings and first books, 1923-1926 - First years in London, 1926-1927 - Two boys from Queensland take on the London literary establishment, 1927-1929 - Hand-printing and hamstrung at West Hampstead, 1929-1930 - Retrospect. Contents: Section 2. Bibliography.… Read more about this item

Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, first edition, 1970. Limited edition of 500 copies, this being one of 450 in cloth. Cloth, gilt cover -initials and year, 8vo, 23 cm,. xv, 180 pp, ills, facs. From the author's introductory note: "..this story would never have been written if, in the spring of 1961, the Times Bookshop in London had not… Read more about this item

Whittington Press, Andoversford, first edition, the "ordinary" or "C" issue without samples of original wallpaper,1988. One of 40 ordinary copies from a limited edition of 120 copies. Quarter buckram and patterned paper boards (the design being Bawden's 'Birds Nest' pattern wallpaper, folio, 49 x 33 cm,. 18, [3] pp, plates (one folding). Butcher 98. A very elegantly… Read more about this item

Tern Press, Market Drayton, limited edition, 1990. Limited edition of 125 numbered copies illustrated, printed & bound by Nicholas and Mary Parry, and signed by Nicholas Parry. Traditional English pattern cotton, printed paper spine- and cover-labels, 8vo, 29 x 20 cm,. [40] pp, with 15 illustrations by Nicholas Parry. An artist's book "illustrated, printed & bound by Nicholas… Read more about this item

Two-Horse Press, London, first edition, 1968. Limited edition of 300 copies signed and numbered by the artist, George Mackley. Booklet and portfolio housed in original hand-made folding cloth covered case by Gray's of Cambridge, paper spine-label, 33 cm,. engravings listing leaf, 68 loose leaves of wood-engravings and 18 pp. booklet. A portfolio of 68 wood engravings by… Read more about this item

Whittington Press, Andoversford and Risbury, de luxe special limited first editions (except Volume 1 the reprint), 1981-2003. Special de luxe limited editions of between 40 and 110 copies. 32 vols special editions in original morocco or vellum-backed marbled boards, slipcased; 4to,. between 70 and 245 pp per issue, mounted specimen leaves, inserts, plates, illustrations, many colour, some folding. … Read more about this item

The Hand and Flower Press, London, first edition thus, 1946. Limited edition of 750 numbered copies. Leather, gilt cover-title in decorative gilt border, oblong small 8vo,. 23, [2] pp, tipped-in colour frontispiece. A 'new translation by Thomas Fassam with a frontispiece by Elizabeth Neild'. Copy No. 265. Very Good.

Belmont Hall Press, Malvern, first edition, 2016. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies. Cloth, folio, 34 cm. illustrations (chiefly monochrome). Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, linocut illustrations by Andrew Judd, some in two colours, printed direct from the hand-cut block. From the introduction: "Thomas Traherne (1637-74) was born near, and educated in Hereford, and then at Brasenose College… Read more about this item

The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, first edition, 2016. Limited edition of 185 copies bound in threee different designs. Patterned gilt-speckled boards, paper cover-label, small oblong 8vo,. [9] pp, tipped-in ills (some colour). From the text: "Lucy Carrington Wertheim (1883-1971) and her husband Paul, a Manchester cotton merchant, owned a seaside house, Little Belan, at Lancing, West Sussex which… Read more about this item

Private Libraries Association, Pinner, first edition, 1991. Patterned cloth, 8vo, 27 cm,. 184 pp, 16 colour plates, many ills. From the preface: "Morris Cox started the Gogmagog Press in 1957, when he was in his mid-fifties, intending to publish for himself the poetry that he could not get published elsewhere. To his poetry he was to add original… Read more about this item

Fine Press Book Association, original journals, May 1998 - Autumn 2020. 39 issues, plain or printed wrappers within decorative flapped wrappers, large 8vo,. various paginations, latterly around 64 pages per issue, extensively illustrated. A splendid run of the ordinary issues of Parenthesis which began in 1998 as the organ (initially 'The Newsletter', later becoming 'The Journal') of the… Read more about this item

Workshop Press, thaxted, first edition, 2002. Limited edition "initially restricted" to100 numbered copies. Cloth-backed patterned boards, small 4to, 27 cm,. 96 pp. I have produced 'Nine Lives', a small edition of 100 copies, of which some are for sale..Apart from complimentary copies,and those required for copyright some will be offered to the trade. Copy No. 40, numbered… Read more about this item

Printed by Will & Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 1982 . Limited to "about 500 copies. Portfolio wrappers,. contents unbound. Wrappers a little scuffed, otherwise Very Good.

Tern Press, Market Drayton, first separate edition, [1984. Plain paper spine and patterned boards, 12mo, 19 cm,. [26] pp, several wood engravings in green and black. , [1984]. Illustrated by Nicholas & Mary Parry, number 15 of 90 signed copies, original boards; Copy No. 15 signed by Nicholas Parry. Insect damage to title-page, otherwise Very Good.… Read more about this item

Tern Press, Market Drayton, first edition, 1979. Limited edition of 90 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Patterned Liberty cloth, oblong 8vo, 22 cm. [32] pp, 11 lino-cuts by Nicholas Parry, printed in shades of brown, orange, blue and grey. The original Taliesin was a Brittonic poet of the sixth century. Peter Francis Abbs (1942… Read more about this item

The Whittington Press, Andoversford, first edition, 1989. Limited edition of 650 copies, of which this is one of the ordinary edition of 630 copies. Imperial 16mo, 185 x 130 mm,. 34 pp, ills. With twenty linocuts by Judith Verity. The book includes the lap games, knee rides and simple songs traditionally used with babies and young children. Bound… Read more about this item

Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, later edition printed by Call Printers, 1988. Plain wrappers, 8vo,. 94, [1] pp. From the foreword: "My purpose is to recall a few poets who are seldom read." Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Robert Bridges; Richard Watson Dixon; Mary Coleridge; Ethel Kate Wedgwood; Alice Buckton; Margaret L.Woods; Herbert Warren; Laurence Binyon; F. W. Bourdillon; Henry… Read more about this item

Blue limp cloth chemise and board slipcase with printed title label by Chris Hicks, 8vo,. Produced in celebration of the 80th birthday of Roy Lewis of the Keepsake Press, this contains 28 contributions printed on a wide variety of papers by 18 private presses: : Alembic Press, Ashby Lane Press, Cadenza Press, Cherub Press,… Read more about this item

The British Council, London, first edition, 1951. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm,. 56 pp. 175 items. As always, Percy Muir's short introductory and linking pieces, and annotations to the catalogue entries, are worth reading. Good.

Printed for Heal's Books & Prints by The Whittington Press, Andoversford, second impression, 1976. Second impression of 500 copies. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 230x 160 mm,. 16 pp, ills. A dinosaur upon a swing Is not a very pretty thing..". Printed in black, the illustrations in olive green, on Abbey Mills Text Book White laid paper on the Wharfedale… Read more about this item