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Bremer Press.- Homer. Poiesis: Ilias & Odysseia [graece], 2 vol., each one of 615 copies, bound in vellum, gilt, by Frieda Thiersch at the Bremer Bindery, Munich, Bremer Press, 1923.

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Bury (Richard de) Philobiblon, 3 vol., one of 297 copies, New York, for the Grolier Club, 1889.

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Calligraphic manuscript.- [Bible, New Testament]. Parables, calligraphic manuscript on vellum, 2 large initials and 6 words in gold, 2 large initials in palladium, original vellum, n.d. [second half of 20th century].

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Cranach Press.- Rilke (Rainer Maria) Duineser Elegien..., first edition in English, one of 230 copies, original vellum-backed boards, printed at the Cranach Press for the Hogarth Press, 1931.

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De La More Press.- Ovidius Naso (Publius) Shakespeare's Ovid: being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses, one of 12 copies on vellum, De La More Press, 1904.

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Doves Bindery.- Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Poetical Works, 2 vol., bound in crushed blue morocco, by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery and signed & dated by him in ink, 1892.

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Doves Press.- Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae liber, one of 225 copies on paper, bound in russet morocco, gilt, by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, Doves Press, 1900.

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Doves Press.- Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Essays, one of 300 on paper, original limp vellum, gilt, Doves Press, 1906.

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Doves Press.- Shakespeare (William) Shakespeare's Sonnets, Tercentenary Edition, one of 250 copies on paper, inscr. by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, original limp vellum, gilt, Doves Press, 1909.

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Doves Press.- Winship (George Parker) William Caxton: A Paper read at a Meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes, one of 300 copies on paper, bound in russet morocco, gilt, by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, Doves Press, 1909.

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Doves Press.- Wordsworth (William) A Decade of Years: Poems, one of 200 copies on paper, bound in russet morocco, gilt, by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, Doves Press, 1911.

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Doves Press.- Cobden-Sanderson (T.J.) Amantium Irae: Letters to Two Friends 1864-1867, one of 150 copies on paper, original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, Doves Press, 1914.

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Doves Press.- Shelley (Percy Bysshe) [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, original limp vellum, Doves Press, 1914.

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Doves Press.- Keats (John) [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, original limp vellum, gilt, Doves Press, 1914.

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Doves Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Rape of Lucrece, one of 175 copies on paper, bound in russet morocco, gilt, by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, Doves Press, 1915.

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Doves Press.- Wordsworth (William) The Prelude: An Autobiographical Poem...1799-1805, one of 155 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1915.

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Doves Press.- , Catalogue Raisonné of Books printed and published at the Doves Press 1900-1916, one of 150 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1916.

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Doves Press.- Catalogue Raisonné, one of 150 copies, bound in russet morocco, gilt, by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, Doves Press, 1916.

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Doves Press.- Pollard (Alfred W.) Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Press, one of 27 copies with a specimen leaf on vellum from 'Hamlet', San Francisco, John Henry Nash, 1929.

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Doves Press.- Strouse (Norman H.) and John Dreyfus. C-S: The Master Craftsman, one of 12 special copies with 2 original leaves from the Doves Press on vellum , Harper Woods, Mich., Adagio Press, 1969.

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Gill (Eric) Clothes..., one of 160 special copies signed by the author, 1931 & another, Gill (2)

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Gill (Eric) The Engravings, 3 vol. incl. portfolio, number 4 of 85 special copies with an additional suite of 8 wood-engravings printed from the original blocks, Wellingborough, 1983.

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Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927.

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Golden Cockerel Press.- Lucian, of Samosata. The True History of Lucian the Samosatenian, one of 275 copies, wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927.

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Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929.

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Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The), one of 204 copies, engravings by Lettice Sandford, with A.L.s. from Christopher Sandford, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936.

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Gooden (Stephen).- Aesop. () Fables, one of 525 copies on hand-made paper, engraved plates by Stephen Gooden, original vellum, gilt, 1936.

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Grabhorn Press.- Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass..., one of 400 copies, woodcut by Valenti Angelo, New York, printed by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco for Random House, 1930.

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Grabhorn Press.- Heller (Elinor Raas) & David Magee., Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1915-1940, one of 210 copies, San Francisco, Grabhorn Press, 1940.

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Gregynog Press.- Milton (John) Four Poems: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas, one of 250 copies on Japanese vellum, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1933.

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Gregynog Press.- Wynne (Ellis) Gweledigaetheu y bardd cwsc. Visions of the sleeping bard, one of 20 specially-bound copies, original purple morocco, gilt, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1940.

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Kelmscott Press.- Keats (John) The Poems, one of 300 copies on paper, original limp vellum with ties, Kelmscott Press, 1894.

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Kelmscott Press.- Sparling (H.Halliday) The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman, first edition, attractively-bound in green morocco, gilt, by Frank Garrett, 1924.

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Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Story of Cupid and Psyche, 2 vol., one of 270 copies, printed at the Rampant Lions Press of Cambridge for Clover Hill Editions, 1974.

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Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer , 2 vol., one of 515 copies, Basilisk Press, 1974.

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Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 4 vol. incl. plate vol., original dark blue morocco, gilt, Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 1997.

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Merrymount Press.- Book of Common Prayer (The)..., one of 500 copies, original oxblood pigskin, Boston, printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike of the Merrymount Press, 1928.

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Nietzsche (Friedrich) Dionysos Dithyramben, one of 150 copies designed by Henry van de Velde, Leipzig, printed by Enschedé en Zonen for Insel-Verlag, 1914.

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Nonesuch.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia , limited edition, bound in russet morocco, gilt, by Frank Garrett of Birmingham, Nonesuch Press, 1928.

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Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia , limited edition, plates after Botticelli, original orange vellum, Nonesuch Press, 1928.

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Nonesuch Press.- Harvey (William) The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey, one of 1450 copies, original russet morocco, Nonesuch Press, 1928.

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Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, 7 vol., one of 1600 sets, printed by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press for the Nonesuch Press, 1929-33

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Nonesuch Press.- Walton (Isaac) The Compleat Angler..., limited edition, original russet morocco, Nonesuch Press, 1929.

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Nonesuch Press.- Homer. The Iliad [and] The Odyssey, limited editions, original russet morocco, printed by Joh.Enschede en Zonen for the Nonesuch Press, 1931.

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Nonesuch Press.- Ellis (Havelock) Chapman, one of 75 specially-bound copies, original russet morocco, Nonesuch Press, 1934.

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Nonesuch Press.- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Selected Poems, limited edition, original orange vellum, Nonesuch Press, 1935.

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Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus.The History..., one of 675 copies, original blue-stained vellum-backed cloth, Nonesuch Press, 1935.

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Officina Bodoni.- Officina Bodoni (The): The Operation of a Hand-press during the first six years of its work, one of 500 copies, woodcuts by Frans Masereel, Paris and New York, printed by the Officina Bodoni in Verona, 1929.

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Officina Bodoni.- Ovidius Naso (Publius) Amores..., one of 120 copies, printed in Arrighi italic with initials by hand in red, Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1932.

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Officina Bodoni.- Wasson (Valentina Pavlona and R. Gordon) Mushrooms Russia and History, 2 vol. number 504 of 512 copies, 1957.

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Officina Bodoni.- Feliciano (Felice, of Verona) Alphabetum Romanum, one of 400 copies, Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1960.

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Officina Bodoni.- Aesop. The Fables..., 2 vol., one of 160 copies, hand-coloured illustrations, Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1973.

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Officina Bodoni.- Stobaeus (Joannes) Delphica Grammata [graece], one of 160 copies, Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1976 & 2 others (3)

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Plato. Phaedrus: A Dialogue, one of 90 copies on Arches, San Francisco, Greenwood Press, 1976 and another version (2)

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Proctor (Robert).- Homer. Odysseia [graece], one of 225 copies, printed in red and black in Robert Proctor's "Otter" Greek type, Oxford, 1909

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Proctor (Robert).- Four Gospels in the Original Greek (The) , [one of 350 copies], Oxford, 1932.

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Rogers (Bruce).- Montaigne (Michel de) Essays, 3 vol., one of 265 copies designed by Bruce Rogers, Boston, Riverside Press, 1902.

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Rogers (Bruce).- Boccaccio (Giovanni) Life of Dante, one of 265 copies, Boston and New York, Riverside Press, 1904 & another, Rogers (2)

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Rogers (Bruce).- Bernard (Auguste) Geoffroy Tory: Painter and Engraver..., one of 370 copies, Robert Grabhorn's copy, Cambridge, Mass., Riverside Press, 1909.

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Shakespeare Head Press.- Pindar. Odes of Victory, 2 vol., one of 250 copies, wood-engravings by John Farleigh, Oxford, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-upon-Avon, 1928.

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Soncino Press.- Zohar (The), 5 vol., number 15 of 48 copies, Soncino Press, 1931-34.

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Blake (William.- Gilchrist (Alexander) Life of William Blake..., 2 vol., original pictorial dark blue-green cloth, gilt, with designs after Blake, 1880.

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Trianon Press.- Blake (William) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, one of 50 copies, hand-coloured facsimile, original printed blue wrappers, Edmonton, William Muir, 1885.

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Blake (William) The Works...Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, 3 vol., superb original pictorial green cloth, gilt, 1893.

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Blake (William).- Keynes (Geoffrey) A Bibliography of William Blake, one of 250 copies on hand-paper, New York, Grolier Club, 1921 & 2 others (3)

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Blake (William) The Writings, 3 vol. in 1, one of 75 copies on india paper, original russet morocco, Nonesuch Press, 1925.

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Blake (William) Illustrations of the Book of Job, 6 parts, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935.

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Trianon Press.- Blake (William) Jerusalem: A Facsimile of the Illuminated Book, one of 516 copies, collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil, Trianon Press, 1951.

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Trianon Press.- Blake (William) Songs of Innocence, one of 1600 copies, original terracotta morocco, Trianon Press, 1954.

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Trianon Press.- Blake (William) Songs of Innocence and of Experience, one of 526 copies, original russet morocco, Trianon Press, 1955.

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Trianon Press.- Blake (William) William Blake's Illustrations to the Bible: A Catalogue, one of 20 copies with proof states of the frontispiece, original black morocco ruled in gilt, Trianon Press, 1957.

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Trianon Press.- Blake (William) The Book of Urizen, one of 20 specially-bound copies with a set of progressive plates, original russet morocco, Trianon Press, 1958.

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