Private Press
Love and the Virgins, and Poems
Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1958. The title page is signed by the author. The title-piece is a revised edition of the work first published in 1929. The ninth publication of Harry Muir's Wakefield Press; not stated, but limited to 500 copies. Provenance: Jean Whyte (1923-2003), a dominant figure in Australian..... More
Hiroshige
Sydney, The Author, 1938. Number 101 of only 200 copies signed and sealed by the author (and hand-set and printed by Harrie Mortlock at the Beacon Press). Loosely inserted is a four-page pictorial prospectus headed 'Japanese Colour-Prints', advertising the author's other books on the subject. Percy Neville Barnett (1881-1953), author..... More
Spiritual Poems, chiefly done out of Several Languages by John Gray
London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], 1896. One of only 210 copies of the fourth publication from the Vale Press. In his 'Bibliography of the Books issued by Hacon & Ricketts' (page xx), Ricketts notes: 'The greater number of these poems are translations from..... More
The Hymn of Bardaisan, rendered into English by F. Crawford Burkitt
London, Printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft, Limited ... for Edward Arnold [Essex House Press], 1899. The second publication of the Essex House Press of Laurence Hodson and C.R. Ashbee, and one of only 300 copies. The 'Hymn of the Pearl' or 'Hymn of the Soul' is..... More
Directions to Servants
London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Number 26 of only 30 copies in full vellum signed by John Nash; the standard edition (unsigned, in quarter parchment) comprised a further 350 copies. Swift's satirical essay was first published posthumously in 1745. Chanticleer 23. 'An experiment, possibly in this case retrograde, in..... More
Seven Poems & Two Translations
Hammersmith, The Doves Press, 1902. One of 325 copies on paper (with the Doves Press watermark); a further 25 copies were printed on vellum (see Tonkinson, page 54). 'Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker at The Doves Press'. Cobden-Sanderson wrote in his journal that 'The book is primarily the..... More
Four Poems
Flansham, Bognor Regis, Pear Tree Press, 1934. Number 25 of 100 copies. 'Script by Helen Hinkley. Design and plate printing by James Guthrie'. Guthrie, who was known for his experiments in coloured intaglio printing, has signed the final leaf. William Strode (1598-1645) was one of the five members of parliament..... More
The Kingis Quair [cover title]
London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], 1903 (first thus). One of only 270 copies, including 10 copies on vellum. In his 'Bibliography of the Books issued by Hacon & Ricketts', Charles Ricketts elaborates: 'Edited by Robert Steele, the original spelling being retained ... Composed..... More
The Story of a Red-Deer
[Gregynog], The Gregynog Press, 1935 (first thus). Number 180 of 300 copies. 'The Gregynog Press, Montgomeryshire, was one of many artistic activities due to the enlightened philanthropy of two sisters, Miss Gwendoline Davies, C.H., and Miss Margaret Davies, LL.D.. The standard of craftsmanship which was quickly achieved made it comparable..... More
The Growth of Love
Oxford, 'Printed by H. Daniel' [The Daniel Press], 1890 (corrected reprint)/ 1889. Number 57 of only 100 copies. 'This is a corrected reprint (of a hundred copies), occasioned by the speedy sale of ... the first (enlarged) edition, the demand for the book, and a piracy in America. It is..... More
Shorter Poems
Oxford, 'Printed by Daniel' [Daniel Press], [1893] to 1894. Each part is number 92 of 150 copies printed. 'This work in six pieces, when put together, forms the most considerable publication of the Daniel Press, and is well printed and almost an édition de luxe ... A prospectus issued in..... More
Everyman. A Dutch Morality Play of the XVth Century, translated into English
Maastricht, Halcyon Press for A.A.M. Stols, 1929. One of a small number of copies in a deluxe binding of russet morocco; 25 hors-de-commerce copies were produced (this may be one of them), and the standard edition of 300 copies was bound in green cloth. 'Printed for the Halcyon Press, at..... More
Poems from Wordsworth
London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], [1902] (first thus). One of only 310 copies of this elegant edition from the Vale Press. The colophon states: 'Chosen and edited by T. Sturge Moore & illustrated by woodcuts designed & engraved by T.S. Moore. Printed at..... More
Epicurus, Leontion and Ternissa
London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], 1896 (first thus). One of only 200 copies for sale of the second publication from the Vale Press. The colophon states: 'printed by the Ballantyne Press, the build of the book and its decoration being by Charles Ricketts'..... More
De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page imprimée. William Morris et son influence sur les arts et métiers
London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Floury and for Hacon & Ricketts [and with the elaborate Vale Press device], 1898. One of only 250 copies on paper of this work on fine printing from the Vale Press. The colophon states: 'Ce livre fut commencé par Lucien Pissarro en avril..... More
Danaë. A Poem
London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], 1903 (first thus). One of only 230 copies of 'The Last Book Sold by Hacon & Ricketts'. In fact, Ricketts' published his 'Bibliography of the Vale Press' in 1904, after which he threw the punches and matrices for..... More
Fifty Songs
London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], 1896 (first thus). One of only 210 copies of this elegant publication from the Vale Press. The colophon states: 'Chosen by John Gray, the border and decorations engraved by Charles Ricketts, under whose supervision the book has been..... More
The Illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil, with the First Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937 (first thus). Number 552 of 1000 copies printed at the Curwen Press. '[Robert] Thornton had published his school edition of Virgil in 1812, with a second edition printed in 1819. This included not only Virgil's Latin verses but also "imitations" of Virgilian poetry by other..... More
Now in Wintry Delights
Oxford, The Daniel Press, 1903. 'A noteworthy experiment in versification by Robert Bridges [later poet laureate] in the form of an Epistle to L.M.... It will be seen that the poem is in (438) quantitative hexameters, modified in accordance with Stone's phonetic system, in which all syllables in English are..... More
Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers
London, Published for the Florence Press by Chatto & Windus, 1910 (first thus)/ 1881. Number 124 of 250 copies on Aldwych hand-made paper (of which 235 were offered for sale); a further 12 copies were printed on vellum (of which 10 were for sale). This collection of essays by Stevenson..... More
The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions [sic] Image
Waltham Saint Lawrence, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926 (first thus). Number 325 of only 325 copies. 'The text is taken from the Edition of 1598' (from the colophon). A bookplate (one of many) of Kaz Posney is mounted on the front pastedown; this one is Peake 4338. Chanticleer 46... More
A Checklist of Ex Libris Literature published in Australia
Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1942. Number 234 of 250 copies signed by the author (and the first publication of his Wakefield Press). Offered together with two pieces of correspondence relating to bookplate literature in Australia (apparently in response to queries from Muir): 1. An August 1939 autograph letter signed by..... More
Memoirs of a Medico
[Adelaide], 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' [The Author], 1941. Inscribed 'To Eric & Jean McLaughlin, with the Compliments & Best Wishes of F.E. Rogers, Xmas /41'. The book was hand-set and printed by the author, who apologizes in the preface for the many errors present. 'These errors..... More