London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Duodecimo size, 571 pp. John Milton (1608-1674), is likely best known for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" and his hugely influential "Areopagitica" (a condemnation of censorship). Milton "is among history's most influential and impassioned [defenders] of freedom of speech..... More
[Monmouthshire]: [The Old Stile Press], 1997. Pitts, J. Martin. Limited Edition. Leather. No. IX of X specially bound copies, folio size, [27] pp., signed by J. Martin Pitts and Paul Delrue, with prospectus. Paul Delrue (b. 1944) bound his first book at the age of fifteen in 1959, and knew..... More
New York: A Studio Book, The Viking Press, c. 1959. Picasso, Pablo. Hardcover. Octavo size, 143 pp., in a custom binding. A handsome, austere custom binding of half leather, with the backstrip and fore-edges of leather over black paper boards. Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was not only an extremely prolific..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1862. First Edition. Leather bound. First printing, duodecimo size, 216 pp., in a custom Riviere binding, from the collection of Natalie Knowlton Blair. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, member of the Pre-Raphaelites, was hailed at the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning..... More
London and Philadelphia: Gibbings & Company / J.B. Lippincott Company [Morrison and Gibb, Printers, Edinburgh], 1895. Richards, Frank; Bedford, F.D. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Twelve volumes (complete), octavo size, total pp. approximately 3100, one of 150 copies on hand-made paper. Tobias George Smollett (ca.1721-1771), a Scottish author, was known for his..... More
London: J. Mulvy Ouseley & Son / Ye Olde Royaltie Booke Publishers, 1913. Oldfield, Zoffany. Leather. Octavo size, 150 pp. Written in the form of comic/satirical verse, a collection of 23 "essays" remarking upon hypocrisy seen in England of the day - many, if not most or all, of which..... More
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[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2004]. Cour, Glenys. Limited Edition. Leather. No. 195 of 225 copies, folio size, 56 pp., signed by Gwen Watkins, Glenys Cour, and Paul Delrue. This copy in a custom binding done in 2014 by Paul Delrue (b. 1944). Paul bound his first book at the..... More