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  • Translated from the Latin by TURNER, Paul. Illustrations by Mark Severin.
    APOLLONIUS OF TYRE.

    London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1956. Limited edition, no. 188 of 300 copies, quarter bound in publisher’s leather, contrasting paper-covered boards with pictorial decoration in gilt to front board and gilt lettering to spine, engraved b/w frontispiece by Mark Severin, with line engravings accompanying text; very minor rubbing to extremities, a near-fine copy.

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  • MCMURTRIE, Douglas C.
    THE BOOK. The Story of Printing and Bookmaking.

    London: Oxford University Press, 1948. Large 8vo., pp.xxiv,676, handsome designer binding by Dunn & Wilson, full dark green Nigerian goatskin, handworked headband, leather joints, hand stained end papers, tooling a combination of gilt and blind lines in a straight line design, gold edges, many b/w illustrations; very light toning/yellowing to margins, slight surface scratches to edges of text block, sunned to spine, very light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy indeed.

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  • RAVILIOUS ENGRAVINGS by GREENWOOD, Jeremy. With an Introduction by John Criag.
    GREENWOOD, Jeremy. With an Introduction by John Criag.
    RAVILIOUS ENGRAVINGS

    Woodbridge: The Wood Lea Press, 2008. Limited edition, one of 800 copies, folio, pp.287, grey buckram lettered in silver, colour and b/w illustrations; a mint copy, in near-fine slipcase, which has just slight scuffs to lower section.

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  • ELIOT, T.S.
    FOUR QUARTETS.

    Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, in association with Faber and Faber Limited, 1996. Limited edition, no. 100 of 200 copies produced for sale, folio, pp.47, bound by The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, quarter brown buckram with gilt-lettered leather label, decorative paper-covered boards designed and produced by Victoria Hall, Norwich, deckle-edges paper; a fine copy, in near-fine slipcase.

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  • BARCLAY, John. Translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner. Illustrated with ten wood engravings by Derek Harris.
    EUPHORMIO'S SATYRICON (Euphormionis Satyricon).

    London: Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1954. Limited edition, no.227 of 260 copies, 4to., pp.(ii),158, full pictorial vellum, gilt, mould-made paper, pictorial frontispiece and title, b/w wood-engraved plates with borders in red, pictorial headpieces to prelims; just slight bruising to upper corners of boards, very slight surface soil to boards, overall a fine, fresh copy. Designed and produced by Christopher Sandford; composition and presswork under the supervision of K.S. Tollit at The Chiswick Press.

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