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gaelic literature1
mysteries and miracle-plays1
poetry1
private presses1
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wood-engraving, american1

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Swan Press (Leeds)2
Ampleforth Press1
Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875)1
Bird & Bull Press1
Bracaval, Bertrand1
Chute, Desmond Macready1
Chute, Desmond Macready (1895-1962)1
Cleverdon, Douglas1
Della Casa, Giovanni (1503-1556)1
Eragny Press1

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The red shoes

Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875); Harwerth, Willi (1894-); Cleverdon, Douglas

1928

"10 copies on hand-made paper numbered I to X, and signed by the artist, containing an extra set of the engravings coloured by hand, a set uncoloured, and an original coloured drawing; 60 copies on ha...

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Advent : a miracle-play in one act

Wainwright, Albert; Swan Press (Leeds)

1928

Printed in colour text: black, red & green.

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À Veerle

Soucy, Pierre-Yves; Bracaval, Bertrand; Pré Nian

1994

Printed in red. Limited edition of 95 copies and 20 not for sale, numbered and signed by the author and the artist.

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Epitaphs

Sackville, Lady Margaret (1881-1963); Swan Press (Leeds)

1926

Poems. Title page printed in black and red; ornamental initials in red. "Of this book two hundred copies only have been printed of which this is No...."--p. [6]

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An amateur peasant girl

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1799-1837); Ampleforth Press

1973

This edition is limited to 300 selected copies from a printing of 500, printed on hand made paper, and bound in dark red Scottish Goatskin leather blocked in gold.

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My colorful career

Schanilec, Gaylord; Bird & Bull Press

1996

Bound in red cloth boards backed in black leather; gold stamped leather label on spine. In red cloth slipcase. One hundred-sixty copies of this book have been printed... at the Bird & Bull Press ......

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A Renaissance courtesy-book : Galateo of manners & behaviours

Della Casa, Giovanni (1503-1556); Peterson, Robert (1576-1606); Spingarn, Joel Elias (1875-1939); Updike, Daniel Berkeley (1860-1941); Merrymount Press

[1914]

Title within red ornamental border. "Galateo of Maister John Della Casa,... or rather, a treatise of the manners and behaviours, it behoveth man to use and eschewe, ... First written in the Italian ...

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Les petits vieux

Verhaeren, Émile (1855-1916); Pissarro, Lucien (1863-1944); Pissarro, Esther; Ricketts, Charles S (1866-1931); Vale Press; Eragny Press

1901

Poem. Date from colophon. "Le frontispice en couleur et les lettres ornées ont été dessinés par Lucien Pissarro et gravés sur bois par Lucien et Esther Pissaro.." "230 exemplaires dont 200 ...

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The old tribute : and other pieces translated from the Gaelic

Erskine, Ruaraidh (1869-); Mandrake Press

1929

Contents: The old tribute, one of the short tales of Niall Mac-an-Rothaich. --The riot at the inn, from Dùn-àluinn by Iain Mac Cormaig.--Reiving time, from Oiteagan o?n iar by Iain Mac Cormaig.--A n...

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Songs to Our Lady of Silence

Woellwarth, Mary Elise; Gill, Eric (1882-1940); Chute, Desmond Macready (1895-1962); Saint Dominic's Press

1920

By M.E. Woellwarth. Cf. Sewall, nos. 36, 40. Misattributed to Eric Gill in NUC pre-1956, v. 200, p. 15-16. Author given as "anon." by E.R. Gill. Blank leaf, not counted in collation, precedes p. 1...

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A song in favour of bundling

Perkins, Israel; Graham, Rigby (1931-); Martin, Douglas (1939-)

1961 [i.e. 1964?]

"Designed and produced at the Orpheus Press [Leicester] for the Twelve by Eight"; printed in black and red on colored papers made at the Twelve by Eight Press from "old bed sheets of several colours"-...

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