Private Press

# 51020

IRMO, Louis A. (editor)

Mermaids and moonlight. The watercolours of Norman Lindsay

[Stokie, Illinois] : Soo Loo Press, 1993. Folio, clamshell box 375 x 300 x 30 mm with title labels, containing an Introduction by Louis Irmo; three essays on Norman Lindsay by Alex Dean Foster, William Stout and Louis Irmo; 30 individual colour reproductions of Lindsay’s watercolours not previously published, each mounted on card, and three …

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# 50993

SLESSOR, Kenneth; LINDSAY, Norman (illustrator)

[NORMAN LINDSAY] Earth visitors : poems by Kenneth Slessor

London : Fanfrolico Press, 1926. Limited edition of 425 copies (this copy number 106). Quarto, original gilt decorated papered boards and spine (bump to one corner), pp [1-8], 9-75, light foxing to endpapers, uncut lower and fore-edge, ‘three collotype reproductions of woodcuts by Norman Lindsay, and two copperplate engravings made from designs by the same …

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# 50624

KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)

Old Korea : the land of morning calm

London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy, an important illustrated account of Korea.

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# 50551

DE CASTELLA, Hubert (1825 - 1907)

[WINE]. Notes of an Australian vine grower

Translated, with preface and notes, by C.B. Thornton-Smith. Melbourne : Mast Gully Press, 1979. Limited edition of 750 copies (plus an additional 50 copies in quarter morocco by Bayntun of Bath), this copy out of series. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, 75 pp, illustrated, a fine copy which may have slight edge wear or …

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# 48735

[BARNETT, P. Neville]

P. Neville Barnett and his books (presentation copy)

Sydney : the author, 1952. Quarto, lettered wrappers, string bound, bookplate for P. Neville Barnett inside upper wrapper, presentation inscription from P. Neville Barnett to first blank, a loose sheet of notepaper inscribed ‘with grateful thanks’ and ‘with best wishes Xmas ’51’ signed by P. Neville Barnett loosely enclosed, pp. [24], illustrated. Unnumbered edition, there …

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# 48726

BARNETT, P. Neville

Hiroshige

Sydney : privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1938. Limited to 200 copies signed and numbered by the author, this is copy 156. Small quarto, quarter-vellum over gilt-lettered boards, illustrated endpapers, pp 45, [1] colophon, illustrated with 20 chuban woodcut prints after Hiroshige, tipped in (some ghosting from the glue as usual); a near fine …

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# 48725

BARNETT, P. Neville

Souvenir of Japanese colour-prints (presentation copy)

Sydney : privately printed for the author, 1936. Quarto, lettered textured cards, string bound, colour print to upper wrapper, pp. [12], tipped-in colour prints, some offsetting from the glue, a very good copy. Limited to 65 copies for presentation, signed and numbered by Barnett, this copy is number 37 and a presentation copy for S. …

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# 48717

BARNETT, P. Neville

Figure prints of Japan (Special De-Luxe edition)

Sydney : Beacon Press, 1948. Large quarto (450 mm tall), white vellum over floral decorated silk covered boards, decorated endpapers, 54pp. printed on hand-made paper with numerous tipped-in Japanese woodcuts, offsetting from glue as usual, Adrian Feint signed bookplate for W. R. Griffiths to preliminary blank. Limited to 100 copies, this one of the 47 …

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# 48669

BARNETT, P. Neville

Japanese colour-prints

Sydney : Privately printed [by The Beacon Press], 1936. Standard de luxe edition limited to 185 numbered and signed copies, with the author’s seal (this is copy no. 118). Large quarto, quarter vellum over cloth boards (lightly foxed), upper board with gilt lettering and device in red, spine lettered in gilt with gilt rule, decorated …

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# 48731

BARNETT, P. Neville

Souvenir of glimpses at Ukiyo-ye and Nishiki-ye : brocade prints of Japan (first printing)

Sydney : Privately published, 1942. Edition limited to 50 numbered and signed copies with author’s seal (this is copy no. 29). Quarto, original stiff wrappers with black lettering to front, original blue silk ties, 16 pp, with tipped-in colour illustrations and 2 tipped-in black and white photographs advertising the de-luxe editions of Glimpses at Ukiyo-ye …

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# 48718

BARNETT, P. Neville (1881-1953)

Colour-prints of Hiroshige

Sydney : privately printed at the Beacon press, 1937. Folio, quarter-vellum over gilt-lettered silk (a few marks, a little discoloured along upper and lower edge from glue in the binding, as often found), patterned endpapers, Adrian Feint signed bookplate for W. R. Griffiths to front pastedown, 83 pp. illustrated with 64 original woodblocks after Hiroshige, …

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# 50328

KIRTLEY, John T.; GOODE, Cyril E.

The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton

Ferntree Gully, Vic. : John Kirtley, [1952] . Folio, maroon leather (lightly marked, scuffed at head and foot of spine), gilt lettering, light offsetting to endpapers, decorated title page, pp. [20]; with linocut illustrations by Charles Crampton, light scattered foxing. One of only fourteen hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author, this copy is …

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# 50276

STERNE, Laurence

Voyage sentimental en France et en Italie.

Traduction de Emile Blemont. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir. Paris : Librairie Artistique, 1884. Folio, finely bound in full crushed blue morocco by Canape R.D., filed in gilt with ornamental gilt corner pieces, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed at edges, ruled gilt dentelles with ornamental detail, marbled endpapers, …

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# 50277

POGANY, Willy (illustrator); FITZGERALD, Edward (translator)

The quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapour

Now first completely done into English verse from the Persian, in accordance with the original forms, with a biographical and critical Introduction, by John Payne. London : printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1898. Quarto, half crushed levant morocco by C. J. Sawyer, ruled in gilt, spine in …

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# 50356

VOLTAIRE

Contes en vers et Premiers Contes en Vers.

Préface d’Eugène Marsan. Édition illustrée de six Eaux-Fortes originates à l’aquatinte par d’Henri Lafarge. Paris : Éditions Léo Delteil, 1925. Quarto, finely bound by Riviere in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title labels, some silver fishing and retouching to …

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# 49953

[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CLANVOWE, Sir Thomas

[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The floure and the leafe, & the boke of Cupid, god of love, or the cuckow and the nightingale

London (Hammersmith) : Kelmscott Press, 1896. Small quarto, publisher’s Holland-backed boards, the linen spine with edge wear and traces of handwritten title, printed blue papered boards (a few small spots), bookplate for Harry Mansfield to from pastedown, printed in black and red, one of 300 copies printed on paper (an additional 10 copies were printed …

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