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Two bindings by Roger Payne in the library of Lord Rothschild.

Maker(s)

Publisher: Rothschild, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, Baron
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke
Printer: Cambridge University Press
Printer: Chiswick Press

Thirty bindings

Maker(s)

Author: Hobson, Geoffrey Dudley
Publisher: First Edition Club

Principia typographica : The block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history; issued in Holland, Flanders and Germany, during the fifteenth century, exemplified and considered in connexion with the origin of printing. To which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period

Maker(s)

Author: Sotheby, Samuel Leigh
Printer: McDowall, Walter
Binder (person): Tuckett, Charles (jun.)

The poets' corner

Maker(s)

Illustrator: Beerbohm, Max
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd.

Four hedges : a gardener's chronicle

Maker(s)

Author: Leighton, Clare
Illustrator: Leighton, Clare
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Printer: Camelot Press

Selected poems of Alice Meynell : newly chosen from Collected poems 1921, Last poems 1923, Preludes 1875.

Maker(s)

Author: Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Printer: Benham and Company ltd.

A history of the art of printing from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the sixteenth century : preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet, and of the successive methods of recording events before the invention of printing

Maker(s)

Author: Humphreys, Henry Noel
Publisher: Bernard Quaritch

Through the woods : the English woodland-April to April

Maker(s)

Author: Bates, H. E.
Illustrator: Parker, Agnes Miller
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Printer: Camelot Press

An early Breton gospel book : a ninth-century manuscript from the Collection of H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence, 1887-1965

Maker(s)

Author: Wormald, Francis
Editor: Alexander, Jonathan James Graham
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: University Printing House
Printer: Myers, Harry
Binder (person): Zaehnsdorf Limited

Four hedges : a gardener's chronicle

Maker(s)

Author: Leighton, Clare
Illustrator: Leighton, Clare
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Printer: Camelot Press

The complete writings of William Blake : with all the variant readings

Maker(s)

Author: Blake, William
Editor: Keynes, Geoffrey
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Designer: Meynell, Francis
Printer: William Clowes and Sons
Binder (person): William Clowes and Sons
Paper maker: Robert Fletcher and Son

Portrait of a village

Maker(s)

Author: Young, Francis Brett
Illustrator: Hassall, Joan
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd.
Printer: Windmill Press

The book of Ruth

Maker(s)

Publisher: Nonesuch Press

The temple : sacred poems & private ejaculations

Maker(s)

Author: Herbert, George
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Designer: Hunter, Edmund

Repertorium sculptile-typicum: : or A complete collection and explanation of the several marks and cyphers by which the prints of the best engravers are distinguished. With an alphabetical index of their names, places of abode, and times in which they lived. Translated from the Abcedario [sic] pittorico of Pellegrini Antonio Orlandi..

Maker(s)

Author: Orlandi, Pellegrino Antonio
Printer: S. G.
Publisher: Harding, Samuel
Printer: Aris, Thomas

The Princess of Babylon The Princess of Babylon

Maker(s)

Author: François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire
Illustrator: Lowinsky, Thomas Esmond
Publisher: Nonesuch Press

Pindar Pythian odes

Maker(s)

Author: Pindar
Translator: Wade-Gery, Henry Theodore
Translator: Bowra, Cecil Maurice
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Printer: R. Maclehose & Co., Ltd.
Printer: University Press
Illustrator: A. Alexander & Sons
Designer: Meynell, Francis

Ladies' mistakes ...

Maker(s)

Author: Laver, James
Illustrator: Lowinsky, Thomas Esmond
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Printer: Fanfare Press

The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey : the first English text of 1653

Maker(s)

Author: Harvey, William (doctor)
Editor: Keynes, Geoffrey
Writer: Keynes, Geoffrey
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Printer: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen

Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683.

Maker(s)

Translator: Cowley, Abraham
Illustrator: Gooden, Stephen Frederick
Publisher: Nonesuch Press

Select poems divine and humane

Maker(s)

Author: Beedome, Thomas
Publisher: Nonesuch Press

Paradoxes and problemes: with two characters and an essay on valour

Maker(s)

Author: Donne, John
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Printer: Hall, Frederick
Printer: Oxford University Press

Specimins of royal fine and historical bookbinding, selected from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle

Maker(s)

Editor: Holmes, Richard Rivington
Publisher: W. Griggs & Sons, Ltd.

Eton College

Maker(s)

Author: Hussey, Christopher
Contributor: James, Montague Rhodes, Dr
Publisher: Country Life
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

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