Beedham John (39 results)

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. With an introduction and appendix by Eric Gill. Book is clean and unmarked. Jacket is bumped and rubbed at edges with small los.

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.

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.…

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).…

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.).

Second edition. Octavo. pp viii, 36. 10 textual wood engravings and two diagrams by Eric Gill; sample engravings at rear (not in the first edition of 1920) by Desmond Chute, David Jones and Eric Gill. Linen-backed grey paper boards. Spine slightly darkened. Covers a bit rubbed at the corners. Very good. No dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo. viii. 40pp. + 31 wood engravings, 5 of which are by Eric Gill, several by Desmond Chute and others. Bound in a quarter cloth over paper covered boards. [GILL II/77.] VERY GOOD. Shows shelf rubbing along the edges and corners with just a hint of loss, spine somewhat toned, the slightest hint of toning to the endpapers, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and engravings are clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured. …

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. …

Wraps. Condition: Good +. First and Limited Edition. One of 240 copies, duodecimo size, 126 pp. "Woodwork" contains twenty-one wood engravings of tools by the inimitable Eric Gill (1882-1940); a highly regarded printmaker, sculptor, and typographer (as well as a complicated man), Gill provided illustrations for numerous fine press publications by the Golden Cockerel Press and the Saint Dominic's Press, as well as with Pepler under the imprint of the St. Dominic's Press. An informative look at the art of carpentry by craftsman-woodworker Arthur Romney Green (1872-1945), who, like Gill and Pepler, was influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Although the book is stated as "Volume I", no further volumes were issued. ___DESCRIPTION: Brown paper wraps, black lettering on the front wrap, fore- and bottom edges uncut, title page with black-and-white wood engraving, a total of thirty-one wood engravings in the text throughout: twenty-one wood engravings of carpentry tools by Eric Gill, ten wood engravings by R. John Beedham; Caslon O. F. type, Batchelor handmade paper, duodecimo size (7.75" by 5"), pagination: [i-iv] v-xvi [1] 2-110, one of 450 copies, this number 161. ___CITATION: Better than good, with clean wraps, a strong, square text block, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; overall minor edgewear to the wraps, some loss to the paper at the spine exposing parts of the gatherings (however, text block still solid), small loss to the bottom fore-edge corner of the title page. ___CITATIONS: Gill no. 269; Taylor and Sewell, no. A31. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. Gill, Eric and Beedham, R. John (illustrator).…