Collection: Books, Book Design and Prospectuses
This wide-ranging collection of vintage material covers the subjects of book design and publishing, along with a unique selection of publishers' prospectus leaflets and promotional material – from major publishers to private presses.
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Festival of Britain – Exhibition of Books catalogue | V&A, 1951
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The Golden Cockerel Press prospectus | Autumn Publication, 1936
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Contemporary ex-libris by Frantisek Dvorak | Contemporary Czech art | Odeon, 1979
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Single sheet flyer for Mr Eric Gill – Recollections of David Kindersley, 1990
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Festive Songs for Christmas | The Shakespeare Head Press Booklets No. II 1906
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Roman Books And Their Impact by O.A.W. Dilke | Promotional leaflet | The Elmete Press, 1977
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European Graphic Arts. The Art of the Book from Gutenberg to Picasso by Dale Roylance | Princeton, 1986
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Jean Cocteau 1899-1963 | Promotional leaflet | The Times Bookshop
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Apart from the Text by Anthony Rota | Oak Knoll Press, 1998
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A Plurality of Worlds, Nonesuch Century, Don Quixote | Nonesuch Press prospectus, 1936
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Die Gruppe Wiener Buch und Kunstverleger zur Herbstmesse Würthle | Julius Kimpel | Undated, presumed 1920/30s
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Francesco Di Georgio by Gustina Scaglia | Associated University Press, 1992
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Form and Format. Abstract Design and its Relation to Book Format by John Begg | George McKibbin & Son, 1949 | Inscribed to Vivian Ridler
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Typefoundries in the Netherlands | Charles Enschedé | Prospectus leaflet, 1978
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Books For Our Time, edited by Marshall Lee. With contributions from George Nelson, Herbert Bayer, Merle Armitage, John Begg, S.A. Jacobs, Ernst Reichl | Oxford University Press, 1951
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Sims Reed Rare Books catalogue – Artists' Books and Multiples | 2007 catalogue
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Nomenclator – Petrus Bergius | Leiden University facsimile edition, 1995
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Typographie Histoire Du Livre Bibliographie | Paul Jammes, Paris | Catalogue 249
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Image And Word: The Julian Francis Collection of Prints and illustrated books | 2013 catalogue
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Zen & The Art of Typographical Arrangement Phil Abel | Ditchling Letterpress leaflet, 2010
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Golden Cockerel Press specimen sheet Dorothea Braby / John Buckland-Wright
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The Golden Cockerel | British Private Press Books | A Special Selection for Connoisseurs, 1958
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Authors’ & Printers’ Dictionary | Howard Collins Oxford University Press, 1969
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American Literary Publishing in the Mid-nineteenth century. The Business of Ticknor and Fields | Michael Winship | Cambridge University Press, 1995
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