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Private Press & Fine Printing

The tradition of fine printing has been kept alive thanks to the efforts of private presses, who’ve preserved the traditions of fine book production in general, including book illustration and binding. Shapero Rare Books focuses on the leading presses of the late 19th/early 20th century in particular, namely the Kelmscott Press, Doves Press and Ashendene Press, but also buy & sell key special editions by the other renowned presses including Nonesuch and Golden Cockerel.

Contact Angus Robb or Roddy Newlands for more information about private press & fine printing at Shapero Rare Books.

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  1. Limited editions, the Apocrypha number 1024 of 1250, the others one of 1,000 unnumbered copies; 5 vols; copper engraved pictorial titles, head and tailpieces by Stephen Gooden, tissue guards, faint spotting to endpapers, otherwise fine; publisher's decorated boards, faint spotting to upper cover (vol. III only), slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, toned, otherwise very good.

    £450
  2. 4 vols, presentation dedication from Francis Meynell on front free endpaper of the Comedies; 8vo; woodcut title vignettes, pictorial dedications and part-title devices by Reynolds Stone, Shakespeare portrait by Leonard Beaumont; publisher's buckram-backed marbled boards, a fine set, in the original card slip-case, slightly worn.

    £300
  3. 3 vols, 8vo; 105 reproductions of woodcuts after Bernard Salomon; original green cloth gilt with original clear wrappers, a fine set.

    £150
  4. Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo (260 x 155 mm.); title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt, designed by Ricketts, top edge gilt, others uncut, an excellently bright & sharp copy.

    £400
  5. One of 300 copies; 12mo; printed in black & red, woodcut illustration and device; publisher's powder blue boards with printed title label to spine and upper cover, spine slightly toned, overall very good.

    £225
  6. One of 125 copies on vellum, this unnumbered assumed out-of-series; 8vo; hand-coloured frontispiece by Paul Woodroffe, hand-coloured vignette to colophon, coloured initials, errata printed in red & black, tissue guards; original blind-tooled vellum with 'Soul is Form' rose device to upper cover and lettered in gilt to spine, some slight rubbing and dust-soiling; housed in later morocco-backed cockerel papered board solander.

    £650
  7. Number 100 of 200 copies, from an overall limitation of 204; 8vo; 3 full-page illustrations by Reginald Savage, 2 with loose tissue guards, bookseller's small sticker to foot of front pastedown, unopened; original cloth-backed boards, printed title label to upper cover and spine, spine slightly browned, slightly splayed, uncut.

    £150
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