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62. CURWEN PRESS. SIMON, Herbert. Song and Words. A history of the Curwen Press. George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1973 £20


8vo., mustard yellow paper wrappers; illustrated in black and white; slight foxing to top edges, nonetheless a very good copy.


Proof copy.


63. CURWEN PRESS. WEBB, Brian and Peyton SKIPWITH. Harold Curwen & Oliver Simon. Design. The Curwen Press. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2008.


£12.50


8vo. Decorative paper covered boards, like dust jacket; 96pp., illustrated throughout in colour and b/w; new.


First edition.


64.DE LA MORE PRESS. CALDERON. Six Dramas of Calderon freely translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Alexander Moring The De La More Press. 1903.


£148


8vo., bound by Donnelley in half dark green morocco with gilt rules over patterned paper covered boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. Spine sunned, otherwise a handsome copy.


Part of the King’s Classics series. 65


66.DOVES PRESS. The English Bible. Containing The Old Testament & The New Translated out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First and now Reprinted with the Text Revised by a Collation of its Early and Other Principal Editions and Edited by the Late Rev. F.H. Scrivener, M.A. LL.D. for the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge.Hammersmith: The Doves Press. 1903-05.


£9,500


Folio. 5 vols.; original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, spines lettered in gilt; printed in black with the initial letters in red; some natural discoloration to the vellum as usual and with the foxing at the beginning of Volume 1 that is in all copies we have seen, also a little foxing in Volume 2, otherwise this is an excellent set of one of the most important publications of the Private Press Movement in the 20th century.


One of 500 sets. “The simplicity of the Doves pages was of course deceptive. Johnston’s masterly calligraphic initials, like the unforgettable opening to Genesis, in the Bible (1903-5), were a perfect example of how to marry calligraphy and typography, and [J.H.] Mason’s setting …” (Roderick Cave in The Private Press).


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65. DE LA MORE PRESS. OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat. Alexander Moring Ltd. The De La More Press, 1920.


£198


8vo, full red leather binding, upper board with central arabesque design in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers; with 12 illustrations by Blanche MacManus;


long but neat inscription on front endpaper,


otherwise a very nice copy printed on handmade paper. First edition in the St George Series.


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