Oak Knoll Books
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(Leaf Books) LEAF FROM THE BOOK OF AMOS.|A.
n.p. (but France): n.p., n.d. (ca 1460), 32.5 x 22.6 cm, single vellum leaf, housed in a lovely paste-paper over boards folder, cord-tied. This single leaf from the Book of Amos. The fore and bottom edge of the vellum leaf are lightly creased, else an extremely beautiful specimen of fine calligraphy. It is finely calligraphed…
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(Gill, Eric) Skelton, Christopher. ENGRAVINGS OF ERIC GILL.|THE.
Deluxe Edition. Two Volumes with Portfolio. Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983, thick 4to., quarter leather over cloth, cloth portfolio, cloth and paper-covered boards slipcase, all bound by Desmond Shaw of Cambridge. xxiv, 256, (3); (ii), 257-545, (2) pages; separate portfolio containing a title-page, exclamation page, and eight prints printed directly from the artist’s woodblocks. First edition,…
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(Golden Cockerel Press) FOUR GOSPELS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF KING JAMES I. With Decorations by Eric Gill.
Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931, small folio, original publisher’s half white pigskin gilt over maize cloth boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt spine with raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut. (ii), 268, (6) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is one of the 488 copies printed on…
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(Golden Cockerel Press) Chaucer, Geoffrey. CANTERBURY TALES WITH WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY ERIC GILL
Four volumes. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-1931, narrow 4to. (12 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), publisher’s quarter niger morocco with patterned paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine with five raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, cloth slipcase. 152; 190; 198; 220 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies of which this is…
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Shores, Louis. ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE LIBRARY, 1638-1800
Boston: Gregg Press, 1972, 8vo., cloth. xi, 290 pages. Reprint of the 1935 first edition. A fine copy of this uncommon title. A study of the rise, growth and administration of the college library during the Pre-Revolutionary Period, and an evaluation of its contribution to Colonial higher education. The libraries under consideration are primarily those…
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(Incline Press) Howell, Nick & Graham Moss (editors). FORWARDED AND FINISHED.
Oldham: Incline Press, 1995, large 8vo., leather spine backed by marbled paper-covered boards, cover engraving embedded in the front board, gilt on spine, cloth slipcase. vii, (i), 40 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies, of which this is one of 200 copies reserved for binders and bound thus by Stephen Conway. Prospectus…
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(Golden Cockerel Press) Chaucer, Geoffrey. TROILUS AND CRISEYDE.
Considered the most scarce of all golden cockerel press titles Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, 4to., quarter niger over patterned paper boards gilt, with panelled spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and lower edges uncut, publisher’s slipcase. (xi), 312 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 225 numbered…
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Cervantes, Miguel De. HISTORY OF THE VALOROUS AND WITTIE KNIGHT-ERRRANT DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA.
Two Volumes. Two volumes. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1927, folio, full green morocco by the W.H. Smith bindery (signed on lower turn-ins), five raised bands, gilt lettering on spine. (xiii), 268; (x), 257 pages.$ Printed in an edition limited to 225 copies (Ashendene no.36; Ransom 39; Franklin p.57, 196, Tomkinson p.8 of Ashendene section). There were…
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(Gregynog Press) Euripides. PLAYS OF EURIPIDES.|THE
2 volumes. Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1931, small folio, cloth. (xii), 269, (vii); (iv), 263, (v) pages. Finely printed in an edition limited to 500 copies (Harrop, Ransom, Zilverdistel no.18). Very minor wear to the spine ends, minor ttanning to the endpapers, else a near fine set. Title pages printed in two colors. Illustrated with…
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(Plantin) De Vinne, Theodore Low. CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN AND THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM AT ANTWERP.
New York: Grolier Club, 1888, small 4to., original printed stiff paper wrappers. 98, (2) pages. Limited to 303 copies (Asaf 7). Wrappers heavily chipped along edges, front wrapper detached. Binding has been rebacked with original spine laid down on top of later cloth spine and heavy cardstock. In much better condition than normally found. Rare…