Fleece Press, First Edition (25 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8pp book list from The Fleece Press for 2000. Features two forthcoming publications, Dearest Joana (which includes one small engraving) and Tales from Bleeding Heart Yard. Printed in a limited edition of 900 copies by Simon Lawrence. Yellow thread bound within red card covers. No inscriptions. Appears unread. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this booklet.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Collector's Edition. Text in Greek and English. Fully bound in black leather with gold gilt lettering and decorations to the front and rear boards and spine--as well as gold gilt page edges all around. Silk Moire pastedowns and endpapers as well as sewn in silk place ribbon. Printed on archival paper--with all of the Easton Press embellishments of a collector's book. Unread copy with light moderate scratches to the front paper edge and some waviness to the page text--still a nice copy. Will be well packed and shipped in a box. This is the first Easton printing of this title.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. One of 970 copies printed. [8]pp., in Compton marbled wraps. A Fine copy. // a catalog of a few select works printed by the Fleece Press, including: In Praise of John Baskerville (Anthony Christmas illustrated); Baigneuses (with vignette illustration by John Buckland Wright); and Gwen Raverat, Wood Engraver.

FIRST EDITION, oblong format, pp.12; several illustrations; new in pictorial stiff wrappers. An excellent short account of the press with details of the first 39 books (to1995).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Derrick Harris; Peter Reddick; Eric Ravilious (illustrator). 1st Edition. Single-sided broadsheet measuring 565mm x 255mm, folded twice to 195mm x 255mm. Printed in a limited edition of 770 copies as a promotional leaflet for three forthcoming publications of The Fleece Press. Includes two engravings. Untrimmed top edge and lower page edge. Tiny crease on top left hand corner and two faint toning marks on top right hand margin. Otherwise in fine condition.

Softcovers. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1989. First edition. Unpaginated but 12 pages including a full-page wood engraving by Agnes Miller Parker and a loosely inserted illustrated up-date card. This booklet is a promotional catalogue for The Fleece Press, a private press specialising in wood engravers, printmakers, and modern British artists such as Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, and Tirzah Garwood, and is the one-man enterprise of Simon Lawrence in West Yorkshire. The forthcoming publications detailed in the catalogue are: A Guide to the Hand Press, Herbert Hodgson - Printer, Agnes Miller Parker, and Simon Brett's Bookplates. The booklet is sewn-bound in the original mauve card covers and is in excellent condition with light bumping to the top corners. The contents are secure and clean with no inscription.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sq.8vo. Original paper wrappers. 12pp. Black and white illusts. 39 item catalogue.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Broadsheet prospectus printed on two sides in a limited edition of 700 copies. Brown title on cream paper with an illustration by Joan Hassall (1947). Books promoted are The Benefits of Paper and Precious Caskets. Measures 168mm x 430mm. Folded in half as originally presented. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this leaflet.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Derrick Harris (illustrator). 1st Edition. 12pp unpaginated booklet detailing new publications from the Fleece Press as at February 1998. Printed on laid paper in a limited edition of 760 copies. Yellow thread binding within cream thin card covers. Red lettering on front cover. Title page illustration by Derrick Harris. Tipped in sample of blue binding paper from First Friends. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this booklet.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Derrick Harris; Peter Reddick; Eric Ravilious (illustrator). 1st Edition. Single-sided broadsheet measuring 565mm x 255mm. Printed in a limited edition of 770 copies as a promotional poster for three forthcoming publications of The Fleece Press. Includes two engravings. Untrimmed side edge. No marks. In fine condition. Loosely rolled - to be shipped in a cardboard tube.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 20x21cm, 12pp. With reproductions of wood engravings printed in black. Stapled into gloss white covers, title and engraving printed in black to the front. A useful early bibliography, with an interesting introduction by Simon Lawrence. Near Fine (slight crease to bottom corner).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Joan Hassall (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unpaginated 12pp exhibition catalogue thread bound within thin card covers. Engraving by Joan Hassall on front cover. Printed on Zerkall paper in a limited edition of 600 copies. Untrimmed lower page edges. Eighteen books listed on display in the exhibition. In fine condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8pp booklet. Promotion for Two Superiors. T.E. Lawrence and George Brough; The Bookplates of Richard Shirley Smith; Endeavours and Experiments. Powder blue card covers with BLUE thread binding. Two engravings. Limited edition of 1200 copies. Tiny crease to tip of top of spine. Otherwise in fine condition. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this booklet.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Unpaginated 8pp booklet printed in a limited edition of 670 copies on laid paper. Light green thread binding within blue thin card covers. A catalogue of new publications from The Fleece Press as of April 1997. Promoting Samuel Webster's Salmagundi and First Friends by Ronald Blythe. Two illustrations. Appears unread. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this booklet.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy of this prospectus for The Fleece Press in 1992. PROSPECTUS ONLY.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Harris Derrick (illustrator). First Edition. The prospectus of this press, 12pp with tipped in paper and two engraved illustrations PROSPECTUS ONLY.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. One of 600 copies printed in reddish-brown and black on Zerkall paper, using Garamond type. Sewn with white thread into semi-stiff hand-made paper wrappers titled in black on the front, with an engraving by Joan Hassall. A fine copy. An attractive and well-presented catalogue.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Leslie Cole (illustrator). 1st Edition. 12pp booklet bound within light green card covers. Cream thread binding. Two full-page watercolours taken from the book. Sample of pink and blue marbled binding paper laid in. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Appears unread. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this prospectus.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8pp booklet. Announcing four forthcoming publications from The Fleece Press - Dear Mercia; Angela James' Guide to Binding Books; Dearest Sydney; Ethelbert White's Wood Engravings. Red titling. Plain mauve thin card covers with blue thread binding. Three small engravings in the text. Appears unread. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this booklet.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Two prospectus - 'Simple Pleasures: Books', [12]p for John Lawrence's 'Four Seasons' and 'Mr Derrick Harris', 1998; and 'Today I Worked Well - The Picture Fell Off the Brush', [12]p, 2009. Very minor wear, the first with pencil amendment to the price of 'Mr Derrick Harris', the second with a very light stain to head of upper cover, otherwise bright and clean Size: 24mo (Oblong).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A poster printed at The Fleece Press for the sale of items from lithographer Barnett Freedman's personal stock of posters, proofs and original artwork. Illustrated with Freedman engraving. Highly collectible private press and publicity ephemera. Single fold.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Limited edition, 300 copies, this is a standard (A) copy of the book: (210 standard copies). This is a bibliography of 40 years of The Fleece Press: p.312, with many illustrations from books produced, plus 40+ tipped-in examples of Fleece Press printing over this period, including offcuts of patterned & ephemeral papers, . Hardback: quarter bound in cloth and custom marbled paper made in Madrid by Antonio Vélez Celemin, size: 28 x 38 cm. This fine production is a fitting testimony to the many sublime books produced by Simon Lawrence at The Fleece Press up to the point of his retirement in 2023. As new.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Barnett Freedman; Edward Bawden (illustrator). First edition. Three charming and very scarce prospectuses for works published by The Fleece Press, a private press dedicated to producing finely crafted, limited-edition books about wood engravers. Three very scarce advertising prospectuses, alongside a typed letter advertising another work from the press.Simon Lawrence founded the Fleece Press in 1980, with the intention of using it to celebrate British art, particularly focusing on wood engraving and the works of interwar and wartime artists.The first work is the scarce advertising prospectus 'More Fleece Press Books for 2005', one of 1,200 copies of this work produced, detailing the 2005 publication of 'Two Superiors. T.E.Lawrence and George Brough', 'The Bookplates of Richard Shirley Smith' and 'Endeavours and Experiments. John Buckland Wright's essays in woodcut and colour engraving.'The second work is a very scarce 2005 advertising prospectus for the publication of 'The Inward Laugh, Edward Bawden and his Circle' by Dr Malcolm Yorke. Complete with a loosely inserted errata slip, and illustrated with two tipped in colour plates. Collated, complete.The final volume is a very scarce 2006 prospectus - titled 'An Important New Book From Fleece Press' - for 'The Graphic Work of Barnett Freedman' by Ian Rogerson. This prospectus is one of 1,450 produced.Illustrated with two tipped in colour plates. Collated, complete.Also present is a typed letter from Lawrence, advertising the 2006 publication of 'Bookplates by Richard Shirley Smith', another publication from the press. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine. book.

FIRST EDITION, 310 copies printed, this one of the 214 'A' edition, folio, pp.308(3); 'about 45' tipped-in specimens of book pages, individual engravings, patterned papers and ephemeral items; new in original cloth-backed marbled boards, paper label. A magnificent account & bibliography of one of the great presses of the last 50 years. The ideal way to document everything produced by a press is to do it yourself, so I am delighted that the Fleece Press Bibliography is now coming in small batches from the binders. Compiled by John Hodgson and myself, all 106 books and about 250 pieces of ephemera are carefully listed, with additional commentaries for each book and for many of the ephemeral entries. There is also my introductory essay, and I am honoured to have a Foreword by Sebastian Carter, whose long and distinguished career at the Rampant Lions Press, and much more besides, enables him to write with authority on private press publishing matters. All Around the Block is published in a total edition of 300 copies. For over 40 years I have saved spare sheets from books, offcuts of patterned papers, and ephemeral pieces with a careful plan to include them with the Bibliography.; you can be certain that the last Fleece Press book is just exceptional.

FIRST EDITION, 310 copies printed, this one of the 63 copies of the 'B' edition, 'accompanied by a guard album quarter-bound in 1980s Clare Maziarczyk paste-paper; 36 leaves displaying about 40 pieces of original tipped-in material - pages from books, patterned papers, and some lovely pieces of ephemera.' Folio, pp.308(3); 'about 45' tipped-in specimens of book pages, individual engravings, patterned papers and ephemeral items; new in original cloth-backed marbled boards, paper label. A magnificent account & bibliography of one of the great presses of the last 50 years. The ideal way to document everything produced by a press is to do it yourself, so I am delighted that the Fleece Press Bibliography is now coming in small batches from the binders. Compiled by John Hodgson and myself, all 106 books and about 250 pieces of ephemera are carefully listed, with additional commentaries for each book and for many of the ephemeral entries. There is also my introductory essay, and I am honoured to have a Foreword by Sebastian Carter, whose long and distinguished career at the Rampant Lions Press, and much more besides, enables him to write with authority on private press publishing matters. Fully subscribed before publication, we managed to secure a copy now first offered for sale.