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CRESSET PRESS BUNYAN (JOHN) The Pilgrim's Progress, 2 vol., Cresset Press, 1928; and 7 others, various private presses (14) image 1
CRESSET PRESS BUNYAN (JOHN) The Pilgrim's Progress, 2 vol., Cresset Press, 1928; and 7 others, various private presses (14) image 2
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BUNYAN. The Pilgrim's Progress, 2 vol., Cresset Press, 1928; and others, various private presses(14)

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BUNYAN (JOHN) The Pilgrim's Progress, 2 vol., one of 195 copies printed on hand-made paper, wood engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes, publisher's black-stained vellum, t.e.g. others uncut, white flecks on spine, Cresset Press, 1928--BACON (FRANCIS) The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall, one of 250 copies printed on hand-made paper, printed in red and black, publisher's vellum gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, some light spotting to spine, Cresset Press, 1928--HERRICK (ROBERT) The Poetical Works, 4 vol., one of 750 sets printed in Fell type, frontispieces by Albert Rutherston, toning to endpapers, publisher's parchment, gilt lettering on spines, unevenly toned, t.e.g., others uncut, Cresset Press, 1928--YEATS (W.B.) October Blast, one of 350 copies, publisher's cloth-backed light blue boards, paper spine label, spine ends bumped, [Dublin], The Cuala Press, 1927--PETRARCH Some Sonnets and Songs of Petrarch Done into English by William J. Ibbett, one of 105 copies, some toning (mostly to endpapers), publisher's printed boards with printed title label on upper cover, library label to foot of spine, Shaftesbury, High House Press, 1926--HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL) The Scarlet Letter. Illustrations by Valenti Angelo, one of 980 copies, morocco-backed boards, gilt titling on spine, New York, Robert Grabhorn, 1928--Early English Prose Romances I[-III], printed in red and black, pictorial initials, border designs, and full-page illustrations by Harold Nelson, quarter green or tan linen backed boards, Edinburgh, Otto Schulze, 1904--BRITTEN (BENJAMIN) BERTOLD BRECHT AND SYDNEY NOLAN The Children's Crusade, number 3 of 300 copies signed by the composer and artist, colour-printed illustrations, facsimile music score manuscript, publisher's morocco-backed boards, gilt, Faber, 1973, all with bookplate of James Harold Leighton, three with institutional labels on front free endpaper, some wear and toning, first, second, third, seventh and eighth mentioned in original slipcases (worn), folio and 8vo (14)

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