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302. STOURTON PRESS. SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles Hide-and-Seek. Life a sweet thought that wanders thro’ a dream, with notes by John S. Mayfield Stourton Press. 1975.
£75
4to., original half calf ruled in gilt over cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Printed in blue and black. Spine a little sunned, a little rubbing to cloth on upper board, otherwise a very good copy.
Limited edition of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, the type cast, set and printed by Fairfax Hall on Joseph Batchelor’s Kelmscott hand- made paper in the Aries types designed for The Stourton Press by Eric Gill. The first printing of a recently discovered poem written when Swinburne was an undergraduate at Oxford.
303. STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS. CLARKE, Stephen. The Strawberry Hill Press & Its Printing House. An Account And An Iconography. New Haven, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 2011.
£40
4to. Taupe cloth, gilt, pictorial dust jacket; pp. 142, [2], illustrated throughout in colour.
First edition. Miscellaneous Antiquities, Number XVIII. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses, unique for the importance of the books, pamphlets and ephemera it produced. This illustrated study of the Press draws on a remarkable array of surviving images of the Printing House, many of them newly discovered and previously unstudied. But more than that, this book provides an original and sustained analysis of Walpole’s extraordinary literary endeavour, and of the complex variety of purposes that the Press fulfilled. The volume not only assesses all known images to discover what they can tell us about Walpole’s Press, but also reveals that, quite unexpectedly, a large part of Walpole’s Printing House survives to this day.
304. SYLVAN PRESS. SHAKESPEARE, William. Complete Sonnets. Sylvan Press 1955.
£498
4to., recently finely bound in half russet morocco with gilt rules, lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 1050 copies, this one of 500 for Balding & Mansell Limited (the printers) for private distribution. This is the first British volume to be produced in the Palatino type face designed by Hermann Zapf.
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