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A brief introduction to 15th and 16th century printer's marks, reproduced from books in the Museum Library.
Description: Red card covers: Octavo: 18 × 12 cm; pp. [16] ll., (unpaginated). With 28 full-page illustrations.
Condition: Boards very lightly rubbed, usual light age tanning. Else a very good, solid, tight, copy with clean internals.
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The Genetischer Lehrgang für den Schreibunterricht contains methodical instructions for the calligraphic execution of various types of writing, such as the Kurrent, Antiqua or Fraktur script.
Description: Sewn paper covers. Landscape octavo: 15 × 23 cm; unpaginated,30 ll., printed on rectos only.
Provenance: Previous owners name written neatly to flyleaf: Milla Jauak.
Condition: Covers with some small chips to board edges, internally, clean and free of marks.

First edition of Gill's final collection of essays outlining his distributist philosophy on the relationship between man and work, industry and art. With an introduction by Mary Gill.
Description: Orig. navy blue cloth, pictorial decoration (St Thomas's Hands, 1935) blocked in silver to front board, titled in silver to spine, orig. dust jacket, lettered in red and black. Duodecimo: 19 × 13 cm; pp. 93, with 5 illustrations by Gill (frontispiece, St Thomas's Hands on title page, 3 illustrations in the text).
Condition: Dust jacket shows some small tears at head and foot, light soiling. Binding and contents in very good condition.
Notes: "Last Essays" contains a collection of essays written by Gill, entitled as follows: Art. Work. Private property. Education for What? Peace and Poverty. Art in Education. FiveHundred Years of Printing. The Leisure State. Secular and Sacred in Modern Industry.
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A brief history of the Doves Press, the famous Doves typeface and the destruction of the punches and matrices by Cobden-Sanderson. One of 350 copies, signed by the author.
Description: Bound in Morris 'Willow', purple and cream patterend paper covers. Tall octavo: 26.5 × 17 cm; pp. 23. Printed from Monotype Caslon on Sommerville laid paper.
Condition: A very good clean sound copy.

A carefully designed and beautifully printed booklet of poems about the trials and tribulations of working with typesetting and printing presses.
Description: Card covers with pictorial papers wrappers. Octavo: 22 × 15 cm; pp. 11 leaves all but one printed on one side only. Printed from 'Bembo' and 'Old Face Open' (frontispice), 2 illustrations.
Condition: An excellent copy.
Notes: This slim booklet, with a wonderfully minimalist cover, was written by John Frederick Bell (1922–2008), a senior editor at Oxford University Press. The poems were originally published, according to the introduction, in The Lantern, OUP's house magazine, in 1951–1953. The booklet was printed by the Perpetua Press, a side project of the university printer Vivian Ridler, in an edition of 200 copies, according to the colophon.

First edition of this famous essay by Beatrice Warde.
Description: Publisher's paper wrappers, stitched as issued. Octavo: 19 × 13 cm; pp. 15.
Inserted: Loosely inserted is the original folded notice from the Marchbanks Press.
Provenance: Ownership inscription in pen to front cover.
Condition: Externally some fading, minor abrasions and marks of usage. Cover detached. Pages due to paper quality slightly uniformly browned, but otherwise clean and free of marks.
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First edition of the poem with an illustration by Raymond Gid. Limited to 145 copies, of which this is no. 128.
Desciption: Unbound folded sheets (as issued) in printed wrappers. Octavo: 20 × 16 cm; 16 ll.; pp. (9-28) paginated A-T. 1 drawing by Raymond Gid. Printed from different typefaces (Plantin, Gill, Bodoni, Garamond) in different sizes (16, 18, 24 pt.).
Ref.: Coron: Les Éditions GLM, 64
Condition: Cover somewhat toned, with occasional small marks and creases, water stain at lower margin. Pages slightly yellowed in outer margins.

From the library of Will Carter, founder of the famous Rampant Lions Press.
Description: Sewn as issued in publisher's printed paper wrappers. Duodecimo: 20 × 13 cm; pp.: 21, [1] and 1 illustration (frontispiece) by Denis Tegetmeier.
Provenance: Small rectangular bookplates of Will Carter and Sebastian Carter to front wrapper verso, ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto: Will Carter 1937.
Condition: Covers marked, slightly nicked and browned at the edges. Internally in generally very good condition.
Notes: This pamphlet comes from the library of Will Carter, or rather his son Sebastian (*1941). Will Carter (1910–2001) founded the famous Rampant Lions Press, which supplied Cambridge with all kinds of printing and letterpress work. The Rampant Lions Press has been the leading English private press of the postwar period, following handsomely in the tradition of the Golden Cockerel and Nonesuch Presses. The Rampant Lions location in Cambridge and its close ties to the university… Read More