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44.CIRCLE PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William. KING, Ronald (artist). Macbeth. Original Screen Images by Ronald
King.Guildford: Circle Press. 1970.
£598
Large folio. Loose as issued in the original grey cloth, spine titled in black, edges untrimmed; 10 full-page coloured screen images by Ronald King; a fine copy in the original cloth-covered slipcase.
Number 54 of an edition of 150, signed in pencil by Ronald King and with the screen images titled and initialled by him.
45. CIRCLE PRESS. PLEASE, Keith. Chesil Bank, South. Guilford. Circle Press Publications 1980
£20
4to., original grey wrappers, with blind intaglio plate. A very good copy. Second edition, limited to 125 copies, designed Ronald King.
47. [COCKERELL, Douglas, for W.H. Smith & Son]. Guest Book. £2,500
4to. Bound in full reddish-brown niger morocco, stamp-signed in gilt with the W.H. Smith & Son monogram on rear turn-in, sides with gilt-ruled borders and small embellishments, gilt lettering at the head of the upper cover (“We should a guest love while he loves to stay / And when he likes not give him loving way”), smooth spine with ruled border and title (“Guest Book”) in gilt, green cloth endpapers, top edges gilt; a very nice copy, contained in the original hinged wooden box with W.H. Smith & Son’s printed label.
A very handsome guest book, blank save for the first page which has twelve names and addresses entered in ink. These include the wood-engraver and teacher of wood-engraving, Noel Rooke (1881-1953) whose pupils included Vivien Gribble, Robert Gibbings, John Farleigh, and Clare Leighton. Also with the signatures of Robert Ashwin Maynard (1888-1966), wood-engraver and first Controller of the Gregynog Press (later joint owner of the Raven Press), and Theo D.A. Cockerell (1866-1948), a noted scientist and a teacher at the University of Colorado. He was the elder brother of Sir Sydney Cockerell.
Douglas Cockerell (1870-1945), master bookbinder and an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. He started his own bindery in 1898 in Denmark Street in London, and after a number of moves he finally settled in Letchworth where he worked with his son Sydney until his death. He was in charge of W.H. Smith & Sons bindery from 1905 to 1914. His Bookbinding and the Care of Books is still a standard text book.
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46. CIRCLE PRESS. KING, Ronald. The Song of Songs, from the Old Testament, with original screen images designed & printed by Ronald King. Guildford: Circle Press. 1990.
£30
8vo. Original red cloth, blocked in gilt; coloured screen images throughout; a fine copy in the original decorative box.
First published in 1968 in an unbound limited edition of 150 copies. This new edition measures just over half the size of the original book.
48. [COCKERELL, Douglas]. BODLEY, John Edward Courtenay. The Coronation of Edward the Seventh. A Chapter of European and Imperial History. Methuen & Co. 1903.
£1,500
8vo. Bound in full dark blue levant morocco by Douglas Cockerell, stamp-signed with gilt monogram on rear turn- in (dated 1903), sides decorated with blind leaves and gold dots, spine lettered in gilt and dated at foot, gilt turn-ins, vellum doublures, silver clasps with plaited leather cross-overs, all edges gilt; leather book-label on front paste- down; a very nice copy, preserved in a cloth-covered and fleece-lined box with a leather label.
One of 50 copies printed on Japanese Vellum.
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