Front street editions (12 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on half title page.

First edition. Green cloth boards, inset printed paper label to upper board. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Hart by Jack B. Yeats, and a tipped-in photographic portrait of his daughter. Fine copy in cloth slipcase, with matching inset printed label. Printed at the Evergreen Press on BFK Rives paper in Caslon type in an edition of 100 numbered copies and bound by the Fine Book Bindery. "Family letters, particularly Anglo-Irish letters, make compulsive reading, even if from long ago and people you know nothing about. The whole has been elegantly printed by letterpress." - Nicolas Barker, reviewing the book in 'The Book Collector'.…

First edition. Quarter blue cloth, with patterned paper boards to a design by Nash, in cloth slipcase. Tipped-in frontispiece of Nash's wood-engraving 'Coronilla 2' and a folding facsimile of the artist's working directions for 'Urne Buriall'. Fine copy. Seventeen previously unpublished letters, the majority concerned with the Curwen Press production of Nash's illustrated edition of Sir Thomas Browne's 'Urne Buriall'. From an edition of 125 copies, this is one of 100 numbered copies.…

First edition. Obl. 8vo. Red cloth, inset printed paper label to upper board. Fine copy in cloth slipcase, with matching inset label. The former Poet Laureate's prose recollections of childhood journeys to north Norfolk are complemented by the illustrator's delightful engravings. From an edition of 135 copies printed by Hand & Eye Letterpress, on Zerkall mould-made paper, this is one of 120 numbered copies.…

First edition of this translation. Frontispiece and six wood-engravings tipped in. Quarter black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, with patterned paper boards reproducing a nineteenth century Italian design, in matching cloth and board slipcase. Fine copy. An anecdote about two of Goethe's artist friends, searching Naples for fine paper for their printmaking. Geri Waddington's wood-engravings, inspired by her visits to an old paper mill in France, show the process of paper manufacturing at that time. From an edition of 150 copies, designed and printed by John Grice at the Evergreen Press, on Magnani Pescia Editions paper, this is one of 125 numbered copies.…

First edition. 4to. Blue cloth, inset printed paper label to upper board. Tipped-in three-colour wood engraved frontspiece portrait of Schubert by Chris Daunt after a portrait by Wilhelm August Reidler. Fine copy in cloth slipcase. Here, printed with parallel German text, is Bostridge's translation of the poems that Schubert set to music in 'Wintereisse'. From an edition of 120 copies printed by Hand & Eye Letterpress, on Somerset mould-made paper, this is one of 100 numbered copies.…

First edition. 4to. Quarter grey Harmatan leather, blue cloth sides, inset printed paper label to upper board. Tipped-in three-colour wood engraved frontspiece portrait of Schubert by Chris Daunt after a portrait by Wilhelm August Reidler. Fine copy in cloth slipcase. Here, printed with parallel German text, is Bostridge's translation of the poems that Schubert set to music in 'Wintereisse'. From an edition of 120 copies printed by Hand & Eye Letterpress, on Somerset mould-made paper, this is one of 20 numbered copies, specially bound.…

First edition of this translation. Frontispiece and six wood-engravings tipped in. Quarter black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, with patterned paper boards reproducing a nineteenth century Italian design, with cloth portfolio enclosing full-page prints of the engravings, in matching cloth and board slipcase. Fine copy. An anecdote about two of Goethe's artist friends, searching Naples for fine paper for their printmaking. Geri Waddington's wood-engravings, inspired by her visits to an old paper mill in France, show the process of paper manufacturing at that time. From an edition of 150 copies, designed and printed by John Grice at the Evergreen Press, on Magnani Pescia Editions paper, this is one of 25 deluxe copies, with an extra set of the engravings.…

46/120 COPIES (from an edition of 135 copies) printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, frontispiece and 7 further wood engravings with 5 of these full-page, title-page printed in black and red, pp. [16], oblong 8vo, original red cloth, printed label inset to upper board, grey cloth slipcase with matching printed label, fine. A reminiscence of a childhood journey by the former Poet Laureate, with wonderful illustrations by Andy English.…

FIRST EDITION, 49/100 COPIES (from an edition of 125 copies), tipped-in frontispiece of Nash's 'Cornilla 2' with further tip-in of folded facsimile sheet showing working directions for 'Urne Buriall', pp. 26, 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with patterned Curwen paper sides to a Nash design, backstrip with black paper label lettered in gilt, cloth slipcase, fine. Seventeen unpublished letters, the majority of them concerning the production of Nash's edition of Sir Thomas Browne's 'Urne Buriall' - the Curwen Press's crowning achievement, and one of the finest books of the twentieth-century. …

V/20 COPIES (from an edition of 120 copies) printed on Somerset mould-made paper with a tipped-in frontispiece three-colour wood-engraving of Schubert by Chris Daunt after a portrait by Wilhelm August Riedler, pp. 53, 4to, original deluxe binding of quarter grey Harmatan leather, blue cloth sides with oval label inset to upper board, backstrip lettered in silver, blue cloth slipcase, fine. Printed in parallel text, the verse set to music by Schubert in 'Winterreise' in a translation by this well-known tenor.…

XXI/25 DELUXE COPIES (from an edition of 150 copies) printed on Magnani Pescia Editions paper, frontispiece and 6 further wood-engravings all tipped in, pp. [24], 8vo, original quarter black morocco with sides of patterned paper reproducing an Italian nineteenth-century design, backstrip lettered in gilt, with cloth portfolio enclosing full-page prints of the engravings, together in matching cloth and board slipcase, fine. Printed by John Grice at the Evergreen Press.…