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Details for Manuscripts and Printed Books

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Light and the mind’s eye

Maker(s)

Author: Lubbock, Joseph Guy
Illustrator: Lubbock, Joseph Guy
Typographer: Carter, Will
Printer: Carter, Will
Printer: Rampant Lions Press
Publisher: Bertram Rota
Paper maker: Richard de Bas Mill
Paper maker: Mason, John (book binder)
Binder (person): Percival, George

The nobility of women

Maker(s)

Author: Bercher, William
Editor: Bond, Richard Warwick
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Charles Whittingham & Co.

The academy of armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon : containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick; with the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their terms of art; also the etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same, explicated and explained according to our modern language; very useful for all gentlemen, scholars, divines, and all such as desire any knowledge in arts and sciences

Maker(s)

Author: Holme, Randle
Editor: Jeayes, Isaac Herbert
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: J. B. Nichols and Sons

Reflections from the sea

Maker(s)

Author: Lubbock, Joseph Guy
Illustrator: Lubbock, Joseph Guy
Typographer: Carter, Will
Printer: Carter, Will
Typographer: Carter, Sebastian
Printer: Carter, Sebastian
Printer: Rampant Lions Press
Publisher: Twelve by Eight
Paper maker: Richard de Bas Mill
Paper maker: Schoolmaster Paper Mill
Contributor: Mason, John (book binder)
Binder (person): Percival, George

Illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum : miniatures, borders, and initials, reproduced in gold and colours

Maker(s)

Author: Warner, George Frederic
Publisher: British Museum
Printer: Griggs, William

Descriptive catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the library of C. W. Dyson Perrins

Maker(s)

Author: Warner, George Frederic
Publisher: Perrins, Charles William Dyson
Printer: Oxford University Press

Aspects of art & science

Maker(s)

Author: Lubbock, Joseph Guy
Illustrator: Lubbock, Joseph Guy
Designer: Carter, Will
Printer: Carter, Will
Designer: Carter, Sebastian
Printer: Carter, Sebastian
Printer: Rampant Lions Press
Publisher: Twelve by Eight
Paper maker: Richard de Bas Mill
Paper maker: Mason, John (book binder)
Binder (person): Percival, George

Art and the spiritual life

Maker(s)

Author: Lubbock, Joseph Guy
Illustrator: Lubbock, Joseph Guy
Designer: Carter, Will
Publisher: Twelve by Eight
Printer: Stellar Press
Paper maker: J. Barcham Green
Binder (person): Mason, John (book binder)
Binder (person): Percival, George

A printer’s Christmas books 1930-58

Maker(s)

Author: Crutchley, Brooke
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

The survival of Baskerville’s punches

Maker(s)

Author: Dreyfus, John
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

The palace of pleasure

Maker(s)

Author: Painter, William
Contributor: Miles, Hamish
Illustrator: Bliss, Douglas Percy
Publisher: Cresset Press
Printer: Oxford University Press

Grinling Gibbons in Cambridge

Maker(s)

Author: Whinney, Margaret
Photographer: Leigh, Edward
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

Notes on the Eragny Press : and a letter to J.B. Manson

Maker(s)

Author: Pissarro, Lucien
Contributor: Fern, Alan
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

Report on the typography of the Cambridge University Press : prepared in 1917 at the request of the Syndics by Bruce Rogers and now printed in honour of his eightieth birthday.

Maker(s)

Author: Rogers, Bruce
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

A tally of types : cut for machine composition and introduced at the University Press Cambridge, 1922-1932

Maker(s)

Author: Morison, Stanley
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

The Cambridge University Press collection of private press types : Kelmscott, Ashendene, Eragny, Cranach

Maker(s)

Author: Balston, Thomas
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

The town of Cambridge as it ought to be reformed : the plan of Nicholas Hawksmoor interpreted in an essay

Maker(s)

Author: Roberts, David (author)
Illustrator: Cullen, Gordon
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke
Paper maker: Douglas Cockerell and Son

A Distraction of wits : nurtured in Elizabethan Cambridge. An anthology

Maker(s)

Compiler: Rylands, G.H.W.
Illustrator: Ayrton, Michael
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

Voltaire’s Essay on Milton

Maker(s)

Author: Voltaire (author and philosopher)
Editor: Flower, Desmond
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke
Paper maker: Balston, W. & R.

A history and description of the Pitt Press, erected to the memory of Mr. Pitt, for the use of the University printing press, A.D. 1833, altered and restored, A.D. 1937

Maker(s)

Author: Crutchley, Brooke
Printer: Lewis, Walter

Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books : from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram fourth earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, now forming portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan.

Maker(s)

Publisher: Morgan, J. Pierpont
Printer: Chiswick Press
Author: Pollard, Alfred W.
Author: James, Montague Rhodes, Dr
Author: Duff, E. Gordon
Author: Aldrich, Stephen

A stickful of nonpareil

Maker(s)

Author: Scurfield, George
Illustrator: Ardizzone, Edward
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

Bridges on the Backs : a series of drawings

Maker(s)

Contributor: Eden, Peter
Illustrator: Gentleman, David
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

The University printing houses at Cambridge : from the sixteenth to the twentieth century

Maker(s)

Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

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