Provincial Printing (6 results)

Original Printed Stiff Paper W. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With 78 pages - and in a LIMITED EDITION - a valuable addition to the study of provincial printing in Great Britain.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Not ex. library. 84 pages, illustrated. published in a limited edition of 500. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

Printed on one side of a piece of paper roughly 680 x 430 mm. Good, on aged paper with a little spotting and one short closed tear. Text complete and entirely legible. Heading printed in a variety of types and point sizes, with the Rules and Articles, dated 'Slough, April 20th, 1897. and 'Signed on behalf of the General Body of Subscribers, EDMUND J. CRASKE.', in double-column beneath. Final list of subscribers, in four columns, beginning with 'ABORN, Edwin, Eton' and ending with 'WOLLASTON, H. U., East Burnham'.

A charming 48mo chapbook. In its 16 pages, it was able to fit 16 woodcuts. Kendrew, despite being a provincial printer in York was one of the most prominent printers of nineteenth century children's chapbooks until his death in 1841. This instant book was from his series of twenty-four 16-page halfpenny chapbooks. Atkinson, Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, pgs. 218-19. Uncommon in commerce as other copies appear bound as sammelbands with other chapbooks. Davis, Kendrew of York 40; Opie N 799. Very good in stitched paper wraps with light soiling to covers.

Advertising sheet, 265 x 180 mm.

Ca 1820s (?). One sheet, printed recto only. 10-7/8" x 4-3/8" 10 stanzas of 4 lines each, hailing, evidently, the anniversary of "The Conqueror's triumph", with the 'Flag of Blue'. Scarce celebratory broadsheet from Northumbria. Some wrinkling & light soiling. AVG copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.