Beedham John (35 results)

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. reading copy only - damaged /worn /marked. May be ex-libris Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 1st Thus. pp 56 + advertisements. 5th printing.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Original cream dust-jacket with black titles, one or two little chips to the top edge, price corner clipped although price remains (6s 6d), very tidy having been kept in a clear protective cover. Book buind in green/grey cloth with title in red along the spine, clean bright and square. Hinge firm, no inscriptions, end papers darkened thereafter pages are smooth clean and clear, with illustrations throughout by Eric Gill. Eric Gill (illustrator).…

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dustwrapper price-clipped and slightly toned on spine, but protected in a removable clear plastic sleeve. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 7th impression. No ownership marks. Size: 59pp. No ownership marks.…

8vo. quarter-cloth with illustrated paper-covered boards. (iv), viii, 40 pages. With Introduction and Appendix by Eric Gill. Reprint of the second edition (Taylor and Sewell, no.A76; Even Gill, no. 77). Ownership ink, stamps of Lucie G. Jowers to the front pastedown and front free endpaper. Rebacked with a pebbled cloth spine, else a near fine copy. Illustrations include five engravings by Eric Gill, and twenty-eight other designs and illustrations. Gill also supplied the text for the introduction and appendix. Two other engravings by Desmond Chute are included. Title page and front cover include the St. Dominic Press device. quarter-cloth with illustrated paper-covered boards. Saint Dominic's Press (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Good Minus. Jacket rubbed, chipped, and tanned. Some light spotting to cloth and closed edges, but contents VG Size: 12mo.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. A very good (although ex Library) of this small treatise on wood engraving and printing originally published by the Ditchling Press in 1921, now in its second Edition published by Faber in 1946. No Dust Jacket: (as issued?). Cover: blue Buckram covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and 'Colwyn Bay Public Library' blind stamped to rear; in very good condition for its age; clean and bright, no marks, just a small amount of edge wear commensurate with age and use. InternallY; very clean and tightly bound; library 'withdrawn' stamp and some lettering to edition page, no other library stamps, marks or inscriptions; very slight darkening to page edges. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 58 pp. plus 4 pp. advertising material.…

1948. Faber & Faber Limited. Hardback. Book - VG. Ex-lib.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter natural linen with tan printed paper-covered boards, small 8vo., viii, 40 pages. 31 in-text woodcut figures, with 5 Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. A better than very good copy, with slight cover use.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Printed on Japon vellum at the Ditchling Press; figures within the text and full-page examples of wood engravings by David Jones, Clare Leighton, etc. Grey cloth with red spine titling, yellow paper dust-jacket printed in black. Book label. A very good bright copy. Evan Gill's copy with his book label and various neat pencil notations in his hand. Although all Eric Gill's engravings were supposedly removed from the fifth edition, he notes the presence of three and also attributes some sections of the text to Eric Gill.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 5th or later Edition. Printed on Japon vellum at the Ditchling Press; figures within the text and full-page examples of wood engravings by David Jones, Clare Leighton, etc. Grey cloth with red spine titling, yellow paper dust-jacket printed in black. Book label. A near fine copy. Evan Gill's copy with his book label and various neat pencil notations in his hand. Although all Eric Gill's engravings were supposedly removed from the this edition, he notes the presence of three and also attributes some sections of the text to Eric Gill.…

Pepler & Sewell, S. Dominic's Press: Sussex 1935. Illus, 7.5 x 5", cloth backed boards, 39 pp, covers a bit worn & soiled. 4th ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Grey paper covered boards lightly soiled, linen spine. Letterpress on watermarked paper, end papers shadowed. Handsome little book with plain spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus., 7.5 x 5", printed tan boards with green cloth spine, 39pp + three pages of samples. Covers soiled, spine tips and corners bumped and worn else very good condition. Chapters include drawing, engraving, preparing block for printer, plugging. Fourth edition. SCARCE. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp viii, 40, 31 plates, including five wood engravings by Gill who also writes the eight page introduction. Original publishers grey boards, lettered black with blind decorated spine (Evan Gill gives the spine as cloth, which suggests that this is possibly a variant issue). Slight rubbing at foot of spine and starting to split with covers a little marked, otherwise about very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback, quarter cloth, black paper covered boards. No dust-wrapper. 20.5cm x 14cm. viii, 33pp. With 32 illustrations. First printed 1921 on copyright page, but title page says MCMXXV (1925). Spine is somewhat foxed, boards a little marked. Small spot to title page and page opposite, otherwise clean.…

Hardcover. Tan paper over boards with black lettering and illustration; black cloth spine; iv, 43 pp; untrimmed pages, bw illustrations. Introduction and appendix by Eric Gill. Good+ (light shelfwear overall and foxing spots to boards, pages are clean and clear.).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. [ii], iv. 43, [3] pages. Damp staining and worming to the lower outer corner throughout. Bookbinder's ticket to the rear pastedown of Theo. B. Merrett, Guild of Glos Craftsmen, Stroud. In hessian covered boards with leather spine. Spine scuffed and worn. End papers browned and stained. The first edition was published in 1920.…

First edition. Publisher's brown cloth over paper-covered boards, with black lettering and design to upper cover. A very good copy indeed. Wood-engravings by Beedham throughout.

Second Edition, pp.(2)viii,33(3); wood-engraved title device. initial, tail-pieces and 32 text figures including 10 wood-engravings and 2 diagrams by Gill and others by Desmond Chute & David Jones; a very good copy on Batchelor's handmade paper, uncut in original linen-backed printed boards, slightly rubbed. Bookseller's invoice dated May 25th, 1984, includes this copy for £28 and earlier pencilled price of 65/-, Fletcher 16.2.65'. First printed 1920. Taylor A76A. …

8vo, (2), viii, 36pp, 32 wood-engraved figures to text, wood-engraved tail-pieces, orig. buckram backed boards, slightly rubbed and marked. A VG copy of this scarce title. Established early in 1916 by H. Douglas C. Pepler at Ditching, Sussex, the St. Dominic's Press was a continuation of the founder's efforts at Hampshire House Workshops, Hammersmith. His aim was to earn a living by printing by hand instead of employing others to do it for him. From the start, Eric Gill was closely associated with the press, illustrating with wood-engravings many of the press's publications. In the main the books produced were small in a simple format but well designed. In 1940, under new management, the name of the press was altered to the Ditchling Press and ceased to be a private press.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Cr. 8vo. 205 mm. Pp. [iii], viii, 40. 31 figs and a tailpiece, including five wood-engravings by Eric Gill (and two by Desmond Chute). Orig. printed boards, qtr. linen back. Corners slightly rubbed but an attractive copy, internally fresh and bright. Gill 77. S2. …

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). With an Introduction, Appendix and Illustrations by Eric Gill. 31 in-text woodcut figures. viii, 40pp. Short slim 8vo, 1/4 cloth over brown printed boards (a little edgeworn and dusty; front endpaper toned and with ghost of old inscription, otherwise quite clean). Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1920. A very good(+) copy of this scarce book. …

Condition: Near Fine. 50 copies. First Edition. 50 copies. First Edition. (iv), viii, 40p. Introduction and Appendix by Eric Gill. Illustrated with 32 wood engravings mostly by Eric Gill, 2 by Desmond Chute. Bound in original untitled quarter linen spine over printed brown boards. Gill No. 410. Linen spine darkened, boards near fine, contents fine. …

[Mediaeval Literature] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.[6] xvi; 318 [6]; pp.[4] xvi; 268 [6]. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus, letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco, with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed, with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean, with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625, paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers. …

Early Printing. Hardcover in jacket, quite good with shelf wear, tear to jacket along spine edge, slight chipping, toning and rubbing to jacket, slight toning to cloth cover. With introduction and appendix by Eric Gill, with some engraved illustrations designed by him.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1879 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 57 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 57 Language: English.…

Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), cloth spine, printed paper over boards. [4], viii, 40 pp., emblem of S. Dominic's Press and one wood-engraving by Gill, other engravings by the author and Desmond Chute. Bookplate of "Wyman Parker" on front pastedown, also ticket on ffep reading: "This book can be supplied by the Dryad Works, Handicraft Department 42 St. Nicholas Street, Leicester." CONDITION: Good, spine slightly browned, corners slightly curled, endpapers toned, first two leaves partially detached but holding firm. First edition. Number 10 of the S. Dominic's Press publications. Gill's "introduction was revised and the book was enlargedpublished as the fifth edition by Faber & Faber in 1938" (Gill). Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books. REFERENCES: Gill 77.…