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Total number of records: 38

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Books and printed items32
Archives6

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Brotherton Collection22
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive4
Herbert Read Collection2
Ripon Cathedral2
English Literature1
Leeds Poetry1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

Top 10: Subject

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printing38
printers11
incunabula10
books9
book collecting6
broadsides6
collectors and collecting6
fireworks6
rare books6
letter writing5

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Great Britain2
London, United Kingdom2
Cambridge (England)1
London (England)1

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Nichols, John9
Nichols, John (1745-1826)9
Timperley, Charles Henry9
Hodgkin, John Eliot (1829-1912)6
Biagi, Guido2
Biagi, Guido (1855-1925)2
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana2
Curwen Press2
First Edition Club (London, England)2
Orcutt, William Dana2

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From 190021

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Up to 199921

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The Curwen Press news-letter (no.X, July 1935)

De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969); Curwen Press

Description based on: Number X (1935); title from title page.

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Sheffield letter-press printers. Scales and rules. 1873

Sheffield Typographical Society

1873

"Scales and rules for news, jobbing and book work, agreed to by the employers and by the Sheffield Typographical Society".

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Graphic design : with special reference to lettering, typography, and illustration

Lewis, John (1912-1996); Brinkley, John

1954

Bibliography: p. 191-193.

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Letters of the famous 18th century printer, John Baskerville of Birmingham : together with a bibliography of works printed by him at Birmingham

Baskerville, John (1706-1775); Jay, Leonard; Central School of Arts and Crafts (London, England). Birmingham School of Printing

1932

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The art of the printer : 250 title and text pages selected from books composed in the roman letter printed from 1500 to 1900

Morison, Stanley (1889-1967)

1925

Nearly all of the illustrations originally appeared in facsimile collotype in the author's folio volume, Four centuries of fine printing. London, 1924. cf. Pref.

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Diana Bloomfield to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1950

Handwritten letter from the wood engraver Diana Bloomfield to Maurice de Sausmarez, enclosing twelve samples of wood engravings, some of which are bookplates.

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Little Britain

Morley, F V (1899-1980); Morley, F V (1899-1980)

c1960

"The eighth chapter of Mr. Morley's forthcoming book The Great North Road."

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A catalogue of the fifty books of the year, 1928 : selected and shown by the First Edition Club

Pelican Press; First Edition Club (London, England)

1929

Cover title.

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A select bibliography of the principal modern presses : public and private, in Great Britain and Ireland

Tomkinson, Sir Geoffrey Stewart (1881-); Newdigate, Bernard H (1869-1944); First Edition Club (London, England); Curwen Press

1928

"This, the thirteenth book printed for The First Edition Club, is limited to an edition of 1000 copies".

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