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SMALLER PRESSES [GIBBINGS (ROBERT)] Engraved by Robert Gibbings. A Portait of Lady Hester, 1987; and others, published by Libanus (2), Tern, Gresham, Ulysses, and Gruffyground Press (16)
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SMALLER PRESSES
[GIBBINGS (ROBERT)] Engraved by Robert Gibbings. A Portait of Lady Hester. From Alexander William Kinglake's Eothen, NUMBER 27 OF 5O COPIES, specially bound and with an extra set of the plates on Japanese hand-made paper, these loose as issued in separate portfolio wrappers, quarter morocco, 1987--VOLTAIRE (JEAN-FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE) Candide, Or Optimism, NUMBER XVIII OF 125 COPIES, 14 plates by Angela Barrett, extra suite of plates loose as issued in separate portfolio wrappers, original quarter vellum, together in solander box, 1996--Messer Pietro Mio. Letters Between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo, number 8 of 135 copies, signed by the illustrator Richard Shirley-Smith, 1985--DRYDEN (JOHN, translator) Theodore & Honoria. A Translation from Boccaccio, NUMBER 17 OF 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, from an overall edition of 300 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Carol Walkin, quarter morocco, 1985, Marlborough, Libanus Press--JOHNSON (SAMUEL) The Vanity of Human Wishes, number 105 of 200 copies, 8 etched plates by Denis Tegetmeier, 1984--MILTON (JOHN) Areopagitica, limited to 400 copies, prospectus loosely inserted, Deighton Bell, 1973--ELIOT (T.S.) Four Quartets, one of 200 copies, prospectus loosely inserted, 1996, Rampant Lions Press--SIDNEY (PHILIP) The Lad Philisides, one of 225 copies signed by the artist, wood-engraved illustrations by Harry Brockway, original quarter cloth, 1988--WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, one of 150 copies, plates devised by Nicholas McDowall, original morocco-backed pictorial boards, 2002, Old Style Press--WILDE (OSCAR) The Ballad of Reading Gaol, NUMBER XI OF 25 COPIES BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO, from an overall edition of 125 copies, signed by the illustrator and author of the introduction, engraved plates by Peter Forster, green morocco, Reading, Carpathian Press, 1999, the first, third, fifth to eigth mentioned in slipcases, various sizes; and 6 others, published by Libanus (2), Tern, Gresham, Ulysses, and Gruffyground Press (16)



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