[FREEMANTLE (James), Author & Printer] An Albion in the Antarctic. London: St James Park Press, 2019. 2/40 copies only, printed on the author's Albion in 14pt founders Caslon Old Face on Zerkall 145gsm paper. Frontispiece by Paul Kershaw. 4to. 32 x 24 cm. Pp. 59. Insets, plates, illusts, some in colour. Orig. qtr. cloth, patterned paper sides. Cloth-covered clam-shell box. Printed label. New. SOLD

A second edition of this book, printed digitally but including some letterpress elements, is forthcoming at £250

Alan Kitching

KITCHING (Alan) [Printer] Type Cases. Twenty-nine type founts, borders, ornaments & stock blocks from the collection of David Hillman / Harri Pecinotti. London: The Typography Workshop, 1995. 155/200 copies signed by Alan Kitching. La. oblong 4to (375 x 420 mm). Twenty broadsides (375 x 840 mm) printed one side only on Rives heavy wove h.m.p. One vertical fold. Orig. black cloth box. Printed label. Excellent. £450

Two specimens of late eighteenth-century Dutch penmanship

Two pieces of late eighteenth-century Dutch penmanship, roundhand on laid paper, being verses from the Book of Joshua, signed 'S.G.W. 7 Feb 1797', strikingly laid out on the sheet (33 x 41 cm), in excellent condition, together with a text with command-of-hand ornament, 24 x 37 cm, possibly disbound from an album, right-hand edge foxed and slightly worn. Accomplished work. 

The Mid-Twentieth Century English Book-Jacket

A collection of book-jackets, including many original production department proofs, dating from between about 1935 and 1950, and featuring substantial groups from Faber & Faber (but mostly designers other than Berthold Wolpe), Gollancz and the Cresset Press. Together with a number of other printed ephemera, including retail catalogues, brochures and magazines (Austin Reed, Daks, United Dairies, Leica), exhibition catalogues, etc., as well as some literary and political material, illustrating a broad range of contemporary art for publicity. Including work by Robert Harling, Enid Marx, Graham Sutherland, Ashley Havinden, Osbert Lancaster, McKnight Kauffer, et al.

One large box file. Several items mounted on card. Some edge wear but in generally very good condition. £150

Gollancz:

 

Faber:

Cresset Press:

Various publishers:

Catalogues, pamphlets and magazines:

Enschede, Proef van letteren, 1768

ENSCHEDE (Joh.) [Printers & typefounders]  Proef van letteren, Welke gegooten worden in de Nieuwe Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. Enschede. [Haarlem:] 1768. 8vo. Engr. frontis. & plates. Folding view of the typefoundry at end. Contemporary boards. NFS

Kynoch Press

Specimens of type in use at the Kynoch Press, Witton, Birmingham, 1934. 8vo. 22cm. Pp. 184 (including three loose supplements). Orig. brown cloth, blind-stamped. Unobtrusive rubber stamp to front pastedown and title. Some marginal fading. V.g. Sold.
   An attractive specimen highly praised by Ruari McLean in his survey of inter-war printers' type specimens (Signature NS, no. 4, 1948). 'Designed by Harry Carter...[and]...decorated with small wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. The book was cloth-bound and, sunk deep into the cover, was Stevens Shanks' Elephant type, an innovative treatment of a rare face which allowed the letters to be felt as well as seen. giving the type a third dimension, emphasising its physical as well as visual characteristics. It was a wholly typographic cover produced by a printer which liked to regard itself as a typographer's press.' Caroline Archer, The Kynoch Press: anatomy of a printing house 1876-1981, London & New Castle, 2000, p.36.