Haslewood Books (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. Constance Haslewood (illustrator). First edition thus. A reproduction of the first published edition in 1890, which was a book first published as "Young England's Nursery Rhymes". Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Light wear. Size: 8vo (8" to 9").

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Constance Haslewood (illustrator). 8vo pp. 79. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Walbaum and printed on grey laid paper. Staples perhaps a trifle rusty, else fine.

One of 825 numbered copies. Printed on Kentish all rag paper at The Pelican Press. Sm. 4to., original brown buckram backed printed boards, original dust jacket. Jacket worn and faded, boards darkened.

Small 4to. 256pp, title-page device, full-page text device, head-pieces. Original brown cloth gilt backed paper boards, uncut. Eps lightly spotted, two-and-a-half page MS introduction to front blanks.

30 : 19 cm. Double leaf with one coloured woodcut and one mounted illustrations. Annoucement for A book fo towers and other buildings and Eve's legend. - Was folded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Set in Monotype Garamond and printed on Abbey Mills paper. One of 425 copies, this not numbered and the title-page marked 'REVIEW COPY'. Blue Ingres paper-covered boards with printed label superimposed on upper cover, wear to foot of spine, some slight spotting. A very good copy.This reprint of the rare 1690 folio pamphlet is the first of the Haslewood Books. Its full title reads: A Letter to a Friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. By the learned Sir Thomas Brown, knight, doctor of physick, late of Norwich. London: printed for Charles Brome at the Gun at the West-End of S. Paul's Church-yard. 1690.

One of 550, (there were also 75 copies printed on Kelmscott Batchelor paper). 8vo., original linen backed patterned paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, partially unopened. Spine and edges a little darkened, otherwise good. Haslewood Books was the Press of the Vorticist architect and artist Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald, the scholar. For a short time between 1924 and 1931 they issued an astonishing 32 books. Some of the best known of their often beautifully illustrated press books were Robinson Crusoe, illustrated by McKnight Kauffer, Poisonous Plants with engravings by John Nash and Sailing Ships of the Western Mediterranean with copper engravings by Edward Wadsworth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Set in Imprint type and printed at the Westminster Press on specially made Kentish all-rag paper. One of 975 copies. Ivory paper-covered boards (a little handled), decorated in gilt. J.F. Fuggles book label. A very good copy. Alan Tucker's Bibliography of The Haslewood Books lists this book as 'Essayes by Thomas Browne'.

No.145 of 345 copies. Printed at the Oxford University Press in Fell and Walpergen types on Millbourn handmade paper. 18 pages of music. Pp. 72. Tall thin 4to., original light brown buckram backed orange and gilt patterned paper covered boards. Endpapers very slightly brown, otherwise a very good copy. As usual from Etchells, a very well designed and satisfying book.

No. 405 of 975 copies. Printed on Kentish all rag paper. Frontispiece freedly drawn from an engraving of Bacon prefixed to Sylva Sylvarum of 1627. A facsimile of the 1597 edition, set up from photographs of one of the copies in the British Museum. 17 x 11.7 cms. 12mo. original cream printed paper covered boards. Headcaps chipped, tip right corner bumped, otherwise good. Booklabel of Alfred M. Hellman.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Bodoni and printed by Richard Clay & Sons. Portrait in collotype. Number 36 of 75 (670) copies printed on Millbourn handmade paper. Specially bound in pink maize buckram, spine titled in gilt, upper board blocked in gilt. A very good to fine copy.

Quarter-Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ix, 255 pages. No. 453 of 900 copies. Owner's stamp on front endpaper. Tape removed from dustjacket, with loss of text at base of dustjacket spine. Dustjacket browning. Top page edges dusty. Corner of rear board bumped. ; 8vo.

No.252 of 400 copies. Engraved frontispiece and title page by V.M. Macdonald. Printed on Haslewood all-rag paper. Pp. 488. Folio, original brick red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, untrimmed. Slightly worn at extremities and some darkening to endpapers but generally a good copy. Taken from the 1606 edition of Suetonius translated into English by Philemon Holland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Set in Baskerville and printed at the Chiswick Press. One of 50 (550) copies (this not numbered) signed by Edmund Blunden, printed on Van Gelder's Japon paper. Frontispiece drawing of William Collins after a John Flaxman engraving. Grey paper-covered sides stamped in gilt, red morocco back (slightly faded) titled in gilt. A very good bright copy.

No. 113 of 375 copies. 5 hand coloured wood engravings by Hester Sainsbury. Printed on rag paper. Pp. 32. 8vo., original orange cloth backed orange paper covered boards, in the original dust jacket. Jacket slightly soiled with a couple of nicks, very mild browning to free endpapers, otherwise good. Tipped in is a publisher's label for Humphrey Milford who presumably took over the distribution of the book. John Taylor was a Thames waterman who rose to become the organise of pageants for special occasions. He also fancied himself as a poet publishing several collections of his works. He was famous for his publicity stunts such as his supposed feat in 1622 of rowing down the Thames in a boat made of paper with two fish tied to canes for oars.

Number 70 of 75 copies printed handmade paper. Frontispiece & other plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Ransom 8. Ransom 8 Original vellum gilt. About fine, lacking ties Frontispiece & other plates. 1 vols. 8vo Number 70 of 75 copies printed handmade paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Baskerville and printed at the Westminster Press. One of 75 copies on English hand-made paper (this not numbered) from a total edition of 725 copies. Special binding of full vellum, spine titled in gilt, upper cover stamped in gilt, green silk ties present but detached. A very good to fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Imprint. Number 67 of 75 (625) copies printed on Batchelor Kelmscott handmade paper. Illustrations within the text. Special binding of full vellum with gilt spine titling, gilt extra to front covers. Green silk ties lacking, covers a little mottled. A very good copy. Traffic problems were nearly as acute in those days as In our own, and this story takes the form of a dialogue between COACH "a thick burly square sett fellow" and SEDAN "in a suite of greene". Other disputants are CARMAN and COUNTREY-MAN.

No. 32 of 150 copies. Printed in Caslon Old Face on Batchelors Kelmscott paper. 14 plates plus title-page and tail piece by Thomas Lowinsky, all coloured by hand. Pp. 73. Tall thin 4to., original brown linen backed patterned paper covered boards. A little chipping to the paper at the corners, otherwise a very good, largely unopened copy. Lowinsky produces stunning Art Deco fashion plates based on classical nymphs for Mortimer's amusing but serious essay on fashion, issued during one of its greatest eras.

FIRST ELIOT EDITION, 292/525 COPIES (from an edition of 580 copies) printed on Pannekoek paper, typographic border to title, with the Humphrey Milford slip tipped in to title-page, pp. xxvii, 84, folio, original quarter blue buckram with marbled boards, a few faint spots to boards, mostly at head, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed with a few spots, faint partial browning to free endpapers, dustjacket a little spotted, nicked around head and a little torn at head of backstrip panel, very good. (Gallup B7).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Number 424 of 450 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press on Kentish All-Rag paper. 6 Illustrations. xxxix, 198 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter cloth and boards. Fine in tired and repaired dust jacket. label of the Chaucer Head Bookshop 6 Illustrations. xxxix, 198 pp. 1 vols. 8vo Number 424 of 450 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press on Kentish All-Rag paper.

Number 12 of 50 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-,made paper. 6 Illustration. xxxix, 198 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full vellum, without ties, else fine 6 Illustration. xxxix, 198 pp. 1 vols. 8vo Number 12 of 50 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-,made paper.