Tern Press (22 results)

Tern Press (illustrator). Broadside (12 by 9 inches). Commemortes Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. With poem by James Carr and illustration of New Castle.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Handset in Poliphilus and Blado. Number 22 of 90 copies, signed by the author and artist, printed in black (the wood-cuts in colours) on white Antique Laid paper. Blue paper-covered boards (just a trifle soiled), titled in reddish-brown, with a repeat woodcut in grey-blue on the front. A very good copy indeed. Signed by Author(s).

Limited edition of 50 copies illustrated, printed & bound by Nicholas & Mary Parry and signed by them. Quarter-cloth and orange boards, printed cover illustration laid down on front board, folio, [19] pp, 8 lineblock illustrations from drawings by Nicholas Parry. David Grubb has had several poetry collections published. His writing has attracted praise from such authors and critics as John Fowles, D.M.Thomas, Ronald Blythe, Selima Hill, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Redgrove, John Silkin and John Burnside. Copy No. 41. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Handset in Centaur. Number 34 of 90 [107] copies for sale, signed by the translator, printed in black on Barcham Green Charles Ist hand -made paper. Quarter-bound in green leather, lettered in gold, grey paper boards, printed on the front with the title etc in black and a wood-cut in green. Tern marbled endpapers. A fine copy. Signed by Author(s).

Tern Press (illustrator). oblong 12mo. quarter cloth, paper spine label, printed paper-covered boards. (32) pages. Illustrated by Mary Parry. Printed in an edition limited to only 95 numbered copies. A fine copy. The latest edition of Mary Parry's lovely hand colored alphabet books. Each letter is on its own page and bears a short passage of text and its own hand colored illustration. Printed in Garamond on Zerkall Antik paper. quarter cloth, paper spine label, printed paper-covered boards.

Copy number '53' of an edition limited to 95 copies signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry and printed in Garamond on Zerkall Antik paper. Quarter grey cloth over illustrated paper covered boards, printed paper label to the spine, green endpapers. Oblong 16mo, 120 x 165 mm, pp. [28] with 26 illustrated alphabet letters. A book in Fine condition.

No. 36 of only 70 copies. 5 engravings. Printed and bound by Nicholas and Mary Parry. Edited by Eric Robinson. Pp. [32]. 12mo., original olive cloth, with the orange printed dust jacket. Mild fading to jacket spine, otherwise a very good copy.

Limited edition of 125 numbered copies illustrated, printed & bound by Nicholas and Mary Parry, and signed by Nicholas Parry. Traditional English pattern cotton, printed paper spine- and cover-labels, 8vo, 29 x 20 cm, [40] pp, with 15 illustrations by Nicholas Parry. An artist's book "illustrated, printed & bound by Nicholas & Mary Parry at The Tern Press". Set in 14 pt. Baskerville typeand printed on T. H. Saunders paper. Very Good.

First Edition. Colour plates from fresco paintings by Nicholas Parry One of 60 numbered copies, signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry 4to Fine copy Light brown quarter cloth (unlettered), pictorial paper sides.

Copy number '44' of an edition limited to 70 copies, signed by both Mary and Nicholas Parry, and printed in 18pt Verona on Basingwerk paper. Bound by Mary and Nicholas Parry in pale blue and grey wool cloth over boards, stitched with white thread, blue endpapers. Clear, removable, archival quality protective sleeve fitted to the printed dust-jacket. Small Quarto, 200 x 190 mm, pp. [68], illustrated with lino-prints throughout, one for each letter of the alphabet. A book in Fine condition.

Limited edition of 95 numbered copies, signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry Unlettered brown cloth, 19 x 22 cm, [23 pp], 9 etchings printed in relief by Nicholas Parry. The text of the poems is taken from the 1990 edition of Jon Stallworthy. Set in Caslon type. Printed on T. H. Saunders paper. Copy No. 26. Fine in Fine dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 90 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Patterned Liberty cloth, oblong 8vo, 22 cm [32] pp, 11 lino-cuts by Nicholas Parry, printed in shades of brown, orange, blue and grey. The original Taliesin was a Brittonic poet of the sixth century. Peter Francis Abbs (1942 - 2020) was an English poet and academic: Songs of a New Taliesin was his second of some ten books of poetry. Copy No. 11. Signed by Nicholas Parry and Peter Abbs. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Text set in 18 point Bodoni. One of 95 copies printed in reddish-brown, yellow and black on Zerkall paper, signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry and A. Norman Jeffares. Illustrated with 9 three-colour woodcuts by Nicholas Parry. Bound in full calico with printed labels superimposed on the spine and upper board. A fine copy. One of the happiest, I think, of Tern Press books. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Copy number '28' of an edition limited to 150 copies, signed by Mary and Nicholas Parry and printed on Lana paper using Eusebious type. Cloth covered boards illustrated with medieval caligraphy, yellow endpapers. 12mo., 160 x 155, pp. [36] with hand-coloured drawings of flowers for each letter of the alphabet by Mary Parry. A book in Fine condition.

Tern Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, cloth slipcase. (40) pages. Printed in an edition of 25 copies in Delphil types and illustrated with original lithographs by Nicholas Parry. The text was first published in 1977. cloth, paper spine label, cloth slipcase.

First edition. Small oblong octavo. [27 pages]. Printed in 24pt Caslon by Nicholas and Mary Parry. Full polished suede. Marbled endpapers.Of 150 numbers copies, this is one of 15 on Canterbury paper, 5 original water-colours by Nicolas Parry, with an original colour drawing on the upper cover, signed by the artist and the printer.Fine in fine publisher's folding cloth box.

Lithographs by Nicholas Parry One of 20 numbered copies signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry 4to Fine copy Cloth with printed label, uncut.

Limited edition, this being one of 24 special copies (from a total edition of 100). Handpainted boards, 21 cm, 35 pp, 5 hand-painted ills and one double-page illustration. Designed, illustrated, printed and bound by Nicholas Parry and Mary Parry. Copy No. 4, signed by Nicholas Parry and Mary Parry. Fine in linen-covered clamshell box with printed paper spine-label, the box having one small mark on the front panel.

First Edition. Lithographs by Nicholas Parry One of an edition of 15 numbered copies, signed by the artist Oblong Folio Thin paper strips to sides defective, otherwise a very nice copy Parry's fluent and accomplished monochrome lithographs of the mountain scenery around Snowdon are accompanied by a minimal yet meaningful text. Text printed in 36pt Eusebius on EHB paper; bound in half morocco, with decorative cloth boards and printed illustrative label.

Lithographs by Nicholas Parry One of 17 numbered copies signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry Oblong folio Morocco a little marked, otherwise a very nice copy Red quarter morocco, cloth sides with printed label, uncut.

Decorated silk. Lithographs by Nicholas Parry One of 25 numbered copies signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry Folio Fine copy in slipcase.

260 x 270 mm. (10 1/4 x 10 1/2"). [6] leaves.Translated into English by Thomas Moore. DYNAMIC DARK BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ALISON MARTIN, five wavy lines of inlaid morocco in yellow, orange, tan, beige, and brown emanating from a section near the mid-fore edge of the front cover and radiating out and around the smooth spine, three of the lines terminating on the fore edge of the rear cover, the other two at the head and tail edges, front cover also with a single straight diagonal line of inlaid black calf running from head edge to foot, slicing through the color waves, paste-paper endleaves made by Martin in an ombré of brown/orange/yellow etched with wavy lines echoing the cover design, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In a felt-lined black cloth clamshell box, black morocco label on spine. With five etchings by Nicolas Parry printed in black and sanguine. Tern Press Check-List 38. As new. This appealing fine press edition of an 1800 translation of odes by thesixth century B.C. lyric poet Anacreon comes in a 1995 binding that symbolically embodies the poems and their author. According to Alison Martin's artist's statement, "the design represents the five odes as coloured waves against a dark background. These are the ideas and thoughts behind the formation of the Odes (the Muses perhaps) travelling across the ether destined to come together at an undefined point. . . The poet is represented by the straight black line . . . The man himself has become merely a shadowy figure in the background of his poetic works . . . yet his presence was a vital catalyst to their formation . . . Hence the design is abstract to express things beyond material existence. The colors reflect those used in the paper and printing of the text." Elected a Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders in 1995, Martin earned a degree in English at Leeds University before taking a Diploma in Fine Bookbinding and Conservation at Guildford College. She also worked and trained with renowned binder James Brockman. Tern Press was founded by artist and printer Nicolas Parry and his wife Mary in 1973. In "Matrix 5," Parry said: "Our initial aims were to relate each subject to a relative set of materials, to think of the book as an overall work of art, rather like an opera, with a body (stage - props - paper - binding), intellect (thoughts - words - libretto), and feelings (music - color - prints), to try, as in all art, to produce a form that lives and breathes. Thus our books are not conceived, designed, produced through process, but are perceived, arranged and produced through craft.". No. 9 OF 75 COPIES, signed by the artist.