Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$12.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4pp large illustrated booklet with nine annotated b/w photographs showing John and Rosalind Randle (printers and publishers) at work at The Whittington Press. Small creases to lower page corners. Otherwise in near fine condition. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this booklet.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 207 of a signed limited edition of 300. Soft cover. Small folio. Mustard yellow sewn wraps with images of Nicholson's illustrated alphabet to the inside. [iv] 12pp Folded sheet with b/w photographs "Printing William Nicholson's Alphabet from the Original Woodblocks" laid in. Small crease to top corner of front cover else fine.
Seller: Abacus Books, ABAA/ILAB, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 'This edition of 300 copies, of which numbers 1-150 accompany the portfolios of plates. Printing completed March 1978. This is copy no: 252.' 252 is written in. Below it is the signature of Edward Craig. So this is Not accompanied by the portfolio of plates. It will be the Only signed copy for sale on the Internet. There is a List of Plates in Portfolio on the page following the signed limitation page. There are 11 numbered pages and 16 in total. The book was 'set in Caslon type and printed at Whittington Court on Rives mould-made paper by John & Rosalind Randle and Miriam Macgregor, and bound by Pat Hicks at the Whittington Press.' The paper is nicely thick. It is in excellent shape, nicely bright and free of any soiling. There's no creasing. No markings. And with the exception of Mr. Craig's signature, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. The pages are deckled or rough-cut. You can see the mustard-colored covers in the photos. They are very clean. There is a small crease at the front top right corner and rear bottom corner, also a little nick at the top edge of the front near the spine (no tear), and a light crease off the top edge of the front and rear cover. The black lettering on the front is very bright. The book is very solidly bound (there is a gold twine between page four and five which tells you how it's bound). Included with the book is a separate four page glossy prospectus with nine photographs. Edward Craig is the son of Edward Gordon Craig who learned to carve wood under the tutelage of William Nicholson and James Pryde. Edward Gordon Craig was also 'an English modernist theatre practitioner, an actor, a director and a scenic designer, as well as the author of an influential body of theoretical writings. The Gordon Craig Theatre, built in Stevenage (the town of his birth), was named in his honour in 1975. Edward Gordon Craig was the ' illegitimate' son of the architect Edward Godwin and the actress Ellen Terry.'
Seller: Rareeclectic, pound ridge, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$736.17 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Handset in Caslon. 150 numbered copies printed in black-brown (captions to the blocks in blind) on Barcham Green Camber Sand hand-made paper. Separate leaves within solander boxes,with title label on the spine, a label with one of the blocks on the front (an extra copy of this is included), and a colophon on the inside. This number 54 of 138 copies, uncoloured, within a brown cloth box. Fine condition. All but three of the wood-cuts were printed from Nicholson's original wood-blocks. Also included within the box is a copy of: William Nicholson's 'An Alphabet': an introduction, by EdwardCraig. With three wood-cuts by Joseph Crawhall, offset reproductions of the Alphabet and photographs of the printing of the blocks. 4to, 16pp, 1978. One of 300 copies printed on Rives paper.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom