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Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Description: A newspaper-format prospectus for nine titles due to be published in 2001 and 2002, 10½" x 15", pp. [4] with five engravings and one tipped in photographic print, on Zerkall Button watermarked paper. The books included in this news sheet are British Private Press Prospectuses 1891-2001 by David Butcher, London Scenes and Country Scenes each with wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn, Busy as a Bee by Sandy Connors, Cotswold Images with photographs by Edwin Smith and introduced by Olive Cook, The Diary of Gwenda Morgan 1939-1946 introduced by Miriam MacGregor, Chinese Ceremonial Papers by Roderick Cave, Ebble Valley by Howard Phipps, and The English Scene with wood engravings by John O'Connor. A document in Fine condition, folded once, now in a clear, archival-quality, protective display pocket.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Butcher, David. British Private Press Prospectuses 1891-2001.. Whittington Press Risbury, 2001.
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Description: Hb. Slipcase. This edit. of 350 copies, No. 207. on Zerkall Mould-Made Paper. Complete with the 3 loose prospice. With a copy of News of Books from Whittington, Number 5. Fine clean copy. Vg.
Seller: John Trotter Books, london, United Kingdom
Butcher, David. British Private Press Prospectuses 1891-2001.. Whittington Press 2001, 2001.
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Description: Numbered 104 of 350 printed of which 260 were in this format. Bound in patterned paper boards with cloth spine and fore edges. In the original slipcase. Includes three facsimile prospectuses (for publications of the Kelmscott, Doves and Nonesuch Presses) in a pocket attached to the inside back cover. In very good condition. Fine
Seller: Chichester Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to., 200 x 283 mm. Half buckram and patterned boards in matching slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies on Zerkall Mould-Made Paper. 147 pp. 16 plates (some in red and black) many tipped-in, 7 ills. Includes three facsimile prospectuses (for publications of the Kelmscott, Doves and Nonesuch Presses) in a pocket attached to the inside back cover.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xii, 147, [3] pages + 16 pages of plates and 6 facsimiles tipped in. 3 facsimile prospectuses are in a pocket to the rear pastedown. Numbered 214 of 350 printed of which 260 were in this format. Bound in patterned paper boards with cloth spine and fore edges. In the original slipcase. In very good condition.
Seller: Stephen Rench, Shipston on Stour, United Kingdom
Price: US$346.32 + shipping
Description: Copy Number '221' of an edition limited to 350 copies, 260 half-bound in buckram (as here), 50 half-bound in Oasis leather and 40 bound in full Oasis leather set in 13 point Poliphilus and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper. Three facsimile prospectuses in the back board. Bound by The Fine Bindery at Wellingborough. Decorated paper-covered boards with gilt lettering within an impressed border to the spine, light brown endpapers. Quarto, pp. xii, 147 [blank] [limitation page] [3 blank]. A book in Fine condition in a Fine matching slipcase.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$769.60 + shipping
Description: XXVII/50 COPIES (from an edition of 350 copies) printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper, 16 plates of facsimiles and illustrations and a further 7 illustrations in the text, the title printed in orange and black, pp. xii, 149, 4to, original quarter terracotta morocco with matching fore-edges, backstrip gilt lettered, orange marbled boards, facsimiles of Kelmscott, Doves and Nonesuch Press prospectuses loosely inserted in a pocket on the rear pastedown, untrimmed, with a cloth-and-board portfolio containing 20 original prospectuses, the portfolio and book loosely inserted in a matching yellow cloth and board slipcase, fine.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
David Butcher. British Private Press Prospectuses. Whittington Press, Risbury, Herefordshire, 2001.
Price: US$1539.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 29x21cm, 147pp. With sixteen plates and further tipped-in original and reproduction prospectuses, plus a pocket inside the rear cover containing three complete facsimile prospectuses from the Kelmscott, Doves and Nonesuch Presses. Copy x of 40 (350), bound in full salmon-pink Oasis leather, orange marbled endpapers, gilt title to spine, with a separate portfolio of thirty original prospectuses in a folder quarter-bound in gold buckram over brown paper-covered boards, all in a gold buckram-covered drop-back box with orange leather panel to the spine and gilt title. A comprehensive survey of the subject, essential for the British Private Press enthusiast, with generous illustrations, tipped-in reproductions, specimens etc. and a bibliography of detailed prospectus listings for specific Presses. However, the book is transformed to another level in its special editions by the presence of original prospectuses spanning virtually the whole history of the British Private Press movement. For Edition A, as here, there is a cornucopia of original and sometimes very desirable Private Press prospectuses in the portfolio: highlights from this copy (the contents varied slightly due to limited availability) include the Nonesuch Press catalogue (a lovely slim hardback) for 1925/6, a Vale Press announcement for 'Hand and Soul', a Doves Press announcement (1913), the Golden Cockerel catalogue of Autumn 1936 with five inserted loose prospectuses, the large Gregynog Eros and Psyche prospectus (1935) and many others. The task of acquiring such material in bulk, even in the relatively small quantities needed for the Edition A limitation, must have been considerable. For those lucky enough to have an Edition A copy of David Butcher’s Pages from Presses I, and perhaps a matching Pages of Presses II on order from Pat Randle, this is a scarce opportunity to complete the trio of the best general survey of the Private Presses since Cave and Franklin (in our opinion) in the finest possible style, not to mention as-new condition. Fine, with Fine portfolio (a small number of the older prospectuses in the portfolio have some light foxing appropriate to their age, as issued), in a Fine drop-back box.
Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United Kingdom