Mission [B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 1999. Tall octavo, 25.2 x 16.4 cm. In card covers wrapped in green and grey Obonai handmade paper; printed paper title label to the upper cover. Top edges cut, others roughly trimmed. pp. [10], 7-55, [5]. Spine slightly sunned, and mild cockling to the upper edge..... More
[Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 2016. Tall Octavo, 27.5 x 15.3 cm. Cased in split boards, with dark blue silk spine bearing a printed paper label, matching silk corners, pale blue paper over boards, and printed device bearing Cavafy’s name in Greek majuscules to the upper cover; endpapers of a paler..... More
London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1960. Quarto. Bound in original pictorial gilt stamped and blocked white cloth, with black blocked lettering to the spine. 132pp. Illustrated by Derek Cousins. Edition limited to 200 copies. This volume reproduces the text of both the original Middle English, from the 1868-79 edition of..... More
Books by Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope, Roger McGough, Craig Raine, Matthew Sweeney and U.A. Fanthorpe. Six volumes in total, each of which has been inscribed to Gary Prouk by the publisher, Trevor Weston. Prouk was a noted Canadian philanthropist and collector of Press books, and as a subscriber or otherwise..... More
Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1980. Octavo, 22 x 13.5 cm. In orange Strathmore Grandee paper covers, with blocked lettering in yellow and blind to the upper cover, and yellow Torinoko endpapers. Unpaginated [24 pp.]. Some mild wear to the spine, and faint evidence of an intractable staple seeking freedom from..... More
Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1996. Octavo, 23 x 14.5 cm. Cased in variegated green silk covered boards, with printed paper title label to the spine, and light teal endpapers. Unpaginated [32 pp., + 3 bound-in leaves of an unidentified Japanese paper, bearing illustrations on both sides.]. A fine copy. Set..... More
[Merrickville, Ontario]: Greyweathers Press, [2005]. Duodecimo, 19.7 x 13 cm. Sewn into St. Armand flax cover stock wrappers, with printed title and linocut device to the upper cover, and Tibetan patterned paper endpapers. Unpaginated [pp. 24]. A fine copy. The text was set in Italian Oldstyle type, with Bodoni for..... More
Parry Sound [Ontario]: The Church Street Press, 2014. Quarto, 32 x 24 cm. Cased in Iron Oxide over-dyed Japanese paper over boards, with an overprinted wood engraving in black to the upper cover, and titled linen spine strip. [pp. 88]. A fine copy. The text was set in Cloister Old..... More
[Toronto]: imprimerie dromadaire, 1975. Single yellow sheet, 40.5 x 20.5 cm, printed on both sides. A fine copy. One of 100 copies printed by Glenn Goluska to commemorate Russian Easter, May 1975. This was the first broadside issued by Glenn Goluska’s imprimerie dromadaire. More
[Vernon, B.C.]: Greenboathouse Press, 2014. Octavo, 22.2 x 13.3 cm. In stiff blue Cave paper wrappers, decorated with the printed image of a tree to the upper cover. pp. 20. A fine copy. Rather than simply (and prosaically) list the types and paper used, we shall quote from the colophon..... More
Toronto: Shaw Street Press [printed by Glenn Goluska at the Nightshade Press], [1986]. Octavo, 23.5 x 15 cm. Cased in blue batik paper covered boards, with blue cloth spine strip, and printed paper label to the spine. Unpaginated [24 pp.]. A fine copy. Printed in Linotype Optima, with foundry Stencil..... More
London: Eugrammia Press, 1962. Folio. Bound in original quarter red leather, with black cloth covered boards decorated with the opening text of Chapter II, spine lettered in gilt, and top-edge gilt. A Fine copy. This facsimile of the 1561 Lyon edition of Duvet’s L’Apocalypse was printed by collotype by L...... More
High Wycombe: Hague and Gill, for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1933. Eric Gill. Octavo. Bound in original full brown pigskin by Bayntun-Riviere, blind-stamped front and back after designs by Eric Gill, spine titled in blind. The cover depicts ‘The Ghost’, and the back Hague and Gill’s “Tree..... More
[Toronto]: [The Aliquando Press], [1973]. Trigesimo-secundo (32mo), 10.7 x 7.5 cm. Sewn into beige paper wrappers, with printed title in green and line cut reproduction of a wood engraving by Jost Amman in brown to the upper cover. Unpaginated [pp. 8]. A fine copy. The text, which is excerpted from..... More
[Vernon, B.C.]: Greenboathouse Press, 2010. Octavo, 19.7 x 15 cm. Cased in cream paper over boards, with matching endpapers, title printed in blue to the spine, and the letters ‘Z’ and ‘A’ printed from polymer plates to the lower and upper covers respectively; the covering and end-papers were handmade by..... More
London: Eragny Press, 1900. Sextodecimo. Bound in original quarter cream cloth, with blue Michallet boards, and printed paper label on the upper left cover. [iii], 4-92 pp. [ix]. Cloth split at outer joint with the upper board, some mild soiling to the covers, but internally clean and bright. Printed in..... More
Huddersfield: Fleece Press, 2000. Quarto. Bound in original quarter burnt orange cloth, with faux wood veneer paper covered boards, small gilt stamped monogram (T.N.L., for T.N. Lawrence, manufacturer of engravers’ boxwood blocks) to the upper cover, and printed paper label to the spine. [iv], 5-50, [iv + colophon] pp. A...... More
[Lahnstein]: FlugBlatt-Presse, 1984. Tall Octavo. In original perfect bound paper boards, with printed lettering to the upper cover, quarter cloth spine-strip, and fore-edge folded pages. Unpaginated [52pp.]. 1cm. tear to the top of p. 9, else a Fine copy. Each spread is illustrated with a wood-cut, printed in red, by..... More
s.l. [Stratford, Ontario:]: Gerard Brender à Brandis, s.a. Wood engraving printed from the original block. Single sheet, printed on the recto only. A fine copy. One of 125 copies, this being number 57. Numbered, titled, and signed in pencil by Gerard Brender à Brandis. More
s.l. [Stratford, Ontario:]: Gerard Brender à Brandis, s.a. Wood engraving printed from the original block. Single sheet, 19 x 26.5 cm, printed on the recto only. A fine copy. One of 125 copies, this being number 57. Numbered, titled, and signed in pencil by Gerard Brender à Brandis. More
s.l. [Stratford, Ontario:]: Gerard Brender à Brandis, s.a. Wood engraving printed from the original block. Single sheet, printed on the recto only. A fine copy. One of 200 copies, this being number 76. Numbered, titled, and signed in pencil by Gerard Brender à Brandis. More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Eric Gill. Quarto. Bound in original white buckram, with spine titled in gilt. Edges uncut. Lacking dust-jacket. 43pp. Printed in red and black in Caslon Old Face type on Batchelor handmade paper. Small spots, free endpapers browned, a little soiled and marked; loose..... More
[Toronto]: Lumiere Press, 1989. Octavo, 23.7 x 16.1 cm. Cased in quarter natural linen and dark moss green Canson paper over boards; printed paper label to the spine and device printed in black to the upper cover. pp. [7] 8-44, [4]. A fine copy. The text was set in Linotype..... More
Colchester: Gemini Press, 1934 [issued by Basilisk Press, 1980]. Two volumes, with laid in prospectus. Quartos. Bound in original Winterstroke Tudor Brick paper covered boards, with top and bottom edges finished with a band of dark brown morocco, and gilt titled morocco label to the spine; accompanied by a pamphlet..... More
