Cygnet Press (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Green paper printed in red over card, tan printed wrap-around band. 12mo., 25 pages. Wrap-around band includes blurbs from Betjeman and Ruth Pitter. Pencil note at rear states "Gift from Simon Rendall". A fine copy of an attractive book, in archival mylar.

Condition: Good. small octavo, [35] pp, a biography of Saint Jerome that originally appeared in the 1497 edition of the saint's letters translated into Italian by Matteo da Ferrara; 12mo, in original paper covered boards somewhat darkened or dust-soiled, cloth spine; the first book of the press, . - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First book published by Cygnet Press: [35] pp.; ill., 18 cm., lacking original box: Bright, sharp, unmarked copy with a square binding. Glassine wraps trimmed with rear panel torn: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Brown wrappers printed in black over white card, tall slender 8vo., 18, (1) pages. One of 375 numbered copies printed by Simon Rendall on mould-made paper. Minor soft creasing along the spine, but fine copy in archival mylar.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Machine- and handset, text in Ehrhardt, title in Castellar. One of 125 copies printed in black (title-page printed in black and brown). Sewn and glued into Glastonbury Fawn Antique Laid wrappers cut flush, printed in brown. A fine copy. Actually a proof copy, this is not numbered and is printed on grey paper rather than cream antique laid.

Condition: Used - Very Good. 1928. Cloth with cover label. 12mo. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Mild shelf wear to boards.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Handset in Bell and Union Pearl. One of 375 numbered copies printed in black on T.H. Saunders white wove mould-made paper. Sewn and glued into white card covers and tan Ingres wrappers, cut flush, printed in black on the front. A fine copy.

1 vols. 12mo. First Book of the Press. Managers George Parker Winship and Philip Hofer. 1 vols. 12mo. Quarter cloth and boards. Fine. with card laid in First Book of the Press. Managers George Parker Winship and Philip Hofer.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. * Presentation Copy to Raymond Lister. * Green wrappers with paper label. Sm.8vo, c.pp6, a fine copy of a fragile little piece. ** Edition Limited to only 100 copies. Presentation Copy with the colophon numbered by Stallworthy who has added : 'and is inscribed for Raymond Lister by Jon Stallworthy' : and with Lister's booklabel on endpaper. *** Comprises two poems celebrating Margaret Keynes, the wife of Sir Geoffrey Keynes. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question. Signed by Author(s).

One of an edition limited to 100 copies printed at the Tragara Press using Perpetua type on Zerkall mouldmade paper.Publisher's cockerell marbled wrappers over card, cover with printed label, 3 wood- engravings by Sister Margaret Tournour, glue mark at gutter margin between rear endpapers. Quarto. pp. 13. A book in Very Good condition.

ONE OF 150 COPIES, printed in Perpetua type on Zerkall paper, the engravings printed by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press, frontispiece, post-poem and colophon small engravings by Tournour, pp. [10], 8vo, original card wrappers, dustwrapper of black and white marbled paper by Ann Muir, cover with printed label, near fine. A pleasing conceit - the lyrical poem's subject-matter the engraver's wood of choice.

ONE OF 150 COPIES, printed in Bembo italic on Zerkall paper, the engravings printed by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press, frontispiece and colophon small engravings by Tournour, pp. [10], 8vo, original card wrappers, dustwrapper of green, ochre and yellow marbled paper by Ann Muir, cover with printed label, near fine. Tournour's colophon engraving of leaves and grasses is particularly fine.

ONE OF 150 COPIES, printed in Bembo italic on Zerkall paper, frontispiece and colophon engravings by Sister MArgaret Tournour, pp. [viii], 8vo, original white card wrappers, with Ann Muir marbled paper dust wrapper, cover with printed label, near fine. Spectral, botanical illustrations from the renowned engraver to accompany Burnett's descriptive stanzas.

ONE OF 150 COPIES, with 8 wood-engravings by Tournour, printed in Felicity italic on Zerkall mould-made paper, the blocks printed from wood at the Tragara Press, pp. [20], 8vo, original card wrappers, dustwrappers of Cockerell marbled paper, cover with printed label, near fine. Tournour's depictions of delicate textures - thistledown, skeleton leaves, sea spray, a cat's fur - are particularly evocative.

ONE OF 100 COPIES, printed in Perpetua type on Zerkall wove paper, pp. 50, [ii], 8vo, original wrappers, dark blue Colorplan dustjacket with printed label on cover, fine. Fifteen poems from the renowned Nobel-nominated Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, who, despite censorship and condemnation by the Soviet authorities, remained in Russia, bearing testament through her highly original poetry, notable for its apparent simplicity and emotional restraint, with an extensive introduction by Burnett regarding her life and position in the great Russian literary tradition.