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Cry, The Beloved Country. Alan Paton. 1978 Paton, Alan. Cry, The Beloved Country. Franklin Library 1978. 8vo. Limited Edition. Signed by Author. Full morocco with detailed gold decorations, 2 raised bands and gold titles to spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire endpapers. PP297 with colour illustrations by Howard Rogers. With original ribbon page marker. A very attractive book in mint condition.

A Rapture. Thomas Carew. 1927, Designer Binding Simeon Jones. Carew, Thomas. A Rapture, Golden Cockerel, 1927. 12mo, limited edition no 144 of 375. PP14, colophon[1], with two full page engravings by J.E.Laboureur. Bound by Simeon Jones in full natural coloured morroco. The front cover inlaid indicating a rapturous pair. Within a suede lined, gilt decorated clamshell box. Simeon Jones, recently elected Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders was highly commended for this book in the 2009 Designer Bookbinders Competition. In 2007 he won the Arthur Johnson prize, judged by Bernard Middleton. In 2008 he was awarded the Friends of John Rylands prize for Finishing. A talent which has already found homes for his bindings in The British Library and Private Collections in the UK, Europe and USA. A rare opportunity to acquire a lovely book within a clever fine binding by an aspiring bookbinding talent.		Click this link for more details
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Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others. 1871 Bewick, Thomas. Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others. In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley"s. II. Fables with REflections in Prose and Verse. III. Fables in Verse. To which are prefixed The Life of Aesop, and An Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Faithfully reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784. London, Bickers and Son. 1871. 4to. Red morroco. Gilt decoration with black inlays. 5 raised bands, gilt decoration with black inlays, black and gilt title piece. Silk tricolour headbands. All edges gilt. Gilt inner dentils, marbled end papers. Frontis portrait, half title, title, preface vii-xxix, Life of Aesop xxx -xxxvi, Essay Upon Fable xxxvii -xl. Pp312. 142 fables most with at least one illustration by Bewick, within a red printed border. Skillful reback retaining original spine, inner hinges strengthened. All pages and illustrations in excellent order throughout. The skillful beauty of Bewick illustrations with the fables from nature including Ants and Grasshopper, Trees and the Bramble, Hounds in Couples, Mercury and Woodman, Dog and the Crocodile, Angler and Philosopher. A very attractive book.		Click this link for more details
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The Happy Prince. Oscar Wilde. Hand coloured, Printed and Bound by Mikhail Magaril. 1997. Wilde. Oscar, The Happy Prince. Preface by Morris Jacobs, illustrated by Mikhail Magaril. New York, Summer Garden Editions, 1997. 1st Edition, Fifty copies of this book were printed. The edition was hand coloured, bound and signed by the artist & Morris Jacobs. This copy number 32. Narrow Folio approx 430mm x 150mm. Black and pictorial yellow cloth, gilt and black label to spine. PP36, set in Garamond Number 3. 50 copies of this book were printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper by offset lithography. With an additional Drypoint watercolour number 3 of 5 signed by Magaril. All enclosed within a labelled black and grey clamsell box. 1 very light mark to box and bump to corner. Book and illustration in mint condition. This fine, beautiful book has been hand made by the artist Mikhail Magaril. A must for any collector of Oscar Wilde, Magril, Designer Bound Books or Drypoint Limited Prints. A book to Treasure.		Click this link for more details
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Tale of Tails, Ten Fables by Ronald Duncan, 1975 Duncan, Ronald & Bratby, John. Tale of Tails. Ten Fables by Ronald Duncan, illustrated by John Bratby R.A., Elephant Press, 1975, [but 1976]. tall 8vo. Number 200 of 200 copies, signed by Ronald Duncan and John Bratby. Size approx. 310mm x 180mm. Black morocco, spine lettered in gilt and upper cover blocked in gilt with printers device and a design by Bratby, an uncommon, original binding decoration. Decorative title in red and black, initials in red, pp 151, ten full-page colour illustrations by John Bratby, list of subscribers at rear, colophon, on handmade paper made by Timothy Powell of Sheepstor, Devon. An attractive collaboration from South West England. Very good condition throughout.		Click this link for more details
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Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin. 1863 Ruskin, John. Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin. Smith Elder. 1863. 8vo. Contemporary full tree calf, gilt border, decorative edges and dentils. 5 raised bands, gilt decoration in each compartment, except calf gilt title piece in 2. All edges gilt. Marble end papers. Bound by H. Wood. Tissue guarded portrait frontis, with some foxing, title, publishers ads, contents [v] - vii, pp 440. The book includes Ruskin's writings relating to Scenes of Travel, Characteristics of Nature, Paintings and Painters, Architecture and Sculpture, Ethical matters. A fine book in all aspects.		Click this link for more details
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