
progress on Plates for a Herbal		This book is now at the binders
Planned for publication on 3 May 2025
Our pre-publication price of £350 still applies, with the price going to £480 on publication which will be at the forthcoming Oxford Fine Press Book Fair, 3-4 May (plus shipping in both cases). If you have not previously made a firm reservation but would like to take advantage of the pre-publication price (for an order paid for before publication), please contact us soon or order a copy at our shop. I have been trimming the engravings ready for inclusion in the bound copies. This is one of them: We have had a sample binding from the binders so can now show how the book is looking. You can see more at our catalogue website, including a video. It's a big book - 485mm x 315mm (about 19 in x 12 in) - in fact a royal folio. The book sits inside a cloth-covered chemise which has a pocket at the back holding the engravings. This is the title page: And this is one of the openings:


*Items for sale*		The spring cleaning is still generating items for sale from our shelves

Just e-mail us to let us know what you would like to buy and we will be in touch to agree price and how to get it to you. Shipping will be extra at cost. We can supply (more) photographs - just ask. First come first served. You can also find this list on our website, where I will try to keep it up to date as things go so please check there first. I might also be adding to it with more books and some printshop stuff depending on my decluttering coefficient. *Catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers* Very rare. £200 ono. The spine edge is roughened and the thread that once held it together is missing. Clean inside. Letterpress on HMP. Wood engraving by Lucien Pissarro on cover. *New kind of printing calls for new design* W A Dwiggins. Firefly Press, 1992. One of 200 copies. VG booklet. £20 *The First Eleven* Gavin Ewart, Poet & Printer, 1977. Booklet, signed by Ewart. VG. £10 *Raison d'Etre* VG. The American Typecasting Fellowship's 'Why we exist' booklet. Hill & Dale Private Press and typefoundry, 1992. £10 *Archaic Printers' Measurements* VG. Really useful reference booklet from The North Bay Press Alliance. £10 *Issues 1 to 35 of 'Illustration'* VG. £30 (heavy) *Specimen Book of 'Monotype' Printing Types* Battered - see also this image. £10 (heavy) *Illustrated periodicals of the 1860s* Simon Cooke. VG. £10 *Beyond Decoration, The illustrations of John Everett Millais* Paul Goldman. VG. £10 *The Times Printing Number (reprint)* Bookplate of Tanya and Hans Schmoller. VG. £40 *The romance of the Amalgamated Press, 1925* VG. £20 *Specimen book of 'Monophoto' filmsetter faces - two volumes, ring binders* VG. £30 *A book of nursery rhymes* The first book from Incline Press in 1993. 97/260. VG. £150. *Printing History* (Journal of the American Printing History Association) Issues 22, 24, 25, 26, and 31/32. All VG. £10 each. *The Daniel Press* (Printed at the Daniel Press in Fell types, 1921). Backstrip off but present, usual paper discolouring, a suitable project for rebinding. £20. *Ultrabold* (Journal of St Bride Library) Issue 5 (Autumn 2008). VG. £10. *A fount of 24pt Saxon Black* 6A 11a. Foundry type from Stephenson Blake. In good condition. £25. *The Missing Term Catalogue* Published by Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1987. In good condition. £5. On the architectural history of Ely Cathedral Revd D. J. Stewart (John van Voorst, 1868). Hardcover, purple embossed cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, spine a little dark, and a little roughing at top and bottom of spine, dusty on outer edges, inside clean and tight with very little foxing. £30. Carmina Catullus (Tauchnitz, 1829). Editio Stereotypa ex Nova Tabularum Impressione emendatissima. 12° 268pp. Half-leather with marbled paper on boards, much rubbing externally but nice and clean internally. £25.

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