Small Press & Limited Editions from Ariadne Books

Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. First edition. Hardback. 184pp. No jacket. Morris Cox started the Gogmagog Press in 1957, when he was in his mid-fifties, intending to publish for himself the poetry he could not get published elsewhere. To his poetry he would add original prints, making books with huge skill, creativity and artistic genius. The editions have been… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Hardback. [i - xi], xii, [xiii], xiv - xvi, [xvii], xviii - xxii, [xxiii], xxiv - xxxii, [xxxiii], xxxiv - xxxvi, [xxxvii], xxxviii, [xxxix], xl - xliii, [1 - 3], 4 - 205, [206 - 207], 2087 - 217pp. Publisher's original red boards with gilt to spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The Kelmscott… Read more about this item

Revere, Pennsylvania: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd., 1986. Hardback. [i - x], xi - xv, [xvi], xvii - xxxiv, [xxxv - xxxvi], 1 - 250pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Since the first edition of this checklist was published, much new information has become available and great deal of it has been incorporated into this new edition. This new and enlarged… Read more about this item

Risbury, Hertfordshire: The Whittington Press, 1995. Limited edition of 400 copies (this being number 31). Hardback. [viii], 180pp. Publisher's original quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Gilt to spine. Tinted top edge. Original slipcase. Tipped-in frontispiece and decorated title page, numerous illustrations and facsimiles of Saint Dominic's items. Set in Caslon types on Zerkall halbmatt and Ingres papers. the… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Alan Wolfsy Fine Arts, 1976. Limited edition of 375 (unnumbered) copies. Hardback. 172pp plus Errata, Afterword & Bibliographical Notes (10 pages). Also loosely inserted is a printed card "Post Publication Note". Original blue cloth binding with gilt to front and spine. No jacket. Text printed in black with red and occasional blue highlighting etc. Illustrated with… Read more about this item

London: Golden Cockerel, 1952. Copy number 348/360. Hardback. 80pp. Half bound in pink and blue-grey cloth and gilt decoration to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Printed on Arnold's mould-made paper in Caslon's Old Face type. Eight aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Phyllis Hartnoll (Newdigate prize winner, poet and scholar) has turned to the beauties of the classical… Read more about this item

Oldham: Incline Press, Undated c2017. Limited edition with 'less than a hundred & twenty copies' printed. This copy not numbered. Hardback. Unpaginated with 8 leaves. No jacket (as issued). Titles set in Baker, a new fount designed by Russell Maret and cast by Ed Rayher at his Swamp Press & Type Foundry. The text is Centaur, designed by Bruce… Read more about this item

Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1977. Copy number 37 of 200 cloth copies (50 leather copies also produced). First edition, signed to the colophon by both James Reeves and Edward Ardizzone. Hardback. 4to. [i - viii], ix, 48pp plus colophon. Original decorated cloth covered boards with printed title label to front. Printed on Arches paper. Illustrations printed by litho. Original… Read more about this item

Haarlem: Joh. Enshede en Zonen, 1958. Hardback. 115pp. Blue cloth with gilt to upper board and spine. No jacket. Signed with a dedication by the artist to the ffep "For John [Ryder] Haarlem 12th April 1967. Sem" [Sem Hartz]. Inspired by the tenth anniversary of The Declaration of Human Rights. Five portraits by Sem Hartz. Following the introduction, the… Read more about this item

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1923. Hardback. [10], 157, plus colophon. This is copy no 266/510. Publisher's original black boards. Upper board blind stamped. Gilt to spine. Original slipcase with numbered label to front. In 1840 the Camden Society in London discovered and published a manuscript which had lain neglected for 700 years, The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond,… Read more about this item

London: Privately printed at the John Roberts Press, London., 1969. Limited edition of 130 copies. his special edition was issued to members on the occasion of the 200th dinner in the 45th year of the Double Crown Club. Hardback. 104pp. No jacket. Boards covered in a marbled paper designed by Sydney Cockerell and spine designed by Berthold Wolpe. The… Read more about this item

Haarlem: Joh. Enschede en Zonen, 1957. Small hardback. 33pp. Decorated paper covered boards with gilt to upper board. This essay from Elia by Charles Lamb was printed for the friends of Joh. Enschede en Zonen. The text type and open capitals on the title belong to the Romulus family, the initials are Mole Foliate capitals. Portrait by S. L.… Read more about this item

Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gwasg Gregynog, 1940. First edition. Copy number 104 of 175. Hardback. 4to. xi, 213pp. Original patterned red cloth covered boards powdered in gold, quarter bound in red morocco with gilt to spine. Hand set in Bembo type and printed on Barcham Green hand-made paper. No jacket )as issued). Frontispiece from a wood engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Ellis… Read more about this item

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1941. Limited edition of 500 copies, this being no 197. Hardback. 8vo. (x), 85pp. Linen backed boards. Printed label to spine. Original glassine wrapper. Set in Caslon type and printed by Esther Ryan and Maire Gill on paper made in Ireland. Letters between Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats. Book in very… Read more about this item

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929. Limited edition of 500 Copies, this being number 301. Hardback. Three volumes. Vol. I: 265pp; Vol. II: 258pp; Vol. III:197pp. Publisher's original red cloth binding. Gilt to spines and top edges gilt. No jackets. Fifteen copper engravings by J. E. Laboureur. Printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings at the GC Press. Laurence… Read more about this item

London: The Gogmagog Press, 1963. Copy number 29 of 45. Signed by Frank Cox. Hardback. Unpaginated. 18 leaves (joined at the fore-edges). Apple-green cloth boards printed in blue on the spine. Text set in Cloister Old Style, title pages in condensed & extended old playbill wood letter, with Figaro & Rockwell. Five original linocuts in the text by Frank… Read more about this item

London: Philip Allan, 1923. Copy number 65 of 100 printed on hand made paper (a further 450 copies of this edition were printed on wove paper). Hardback. pp. viii, 203. Green paper covered boards over tan cloth spine with printed paper label. Borders to title page and half titles of the three constituent books by Violet Dale. Text in… Read more about this item

London: Gogmagog Press, 1963. Limited to a total of 80 copies (not numbered) & dedicated to The Society of Private Printers of The Private Libraries Association. 30 copies were given to members of the Society of Private Printers. This copy is one of 15 copies produced for sale at £2.2s and bound as a hardback with a paper label… Read more about this item

London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society, 1914. Limited edition of 1,000 (copy no 106). First published in 'The Sketch Book' 1819. Reprinted in the Riccardi Press Books 1914. Hardback. vii, 54, [2], i pp. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Gilt lettering to upper board and spine. No jacket. Book in good condition. Boards generally… Read more about this item

London: The Gogmagog Press, 1967. Limited edition (16/65). Signed by Morris Cox. Hardback. Unpaginated. Twenty six leaves joined at the fore-edges. Set in Cloister Old Style and printed on damped Barcham Green Dover Castle hand-made paper supplied with Japanese endpapers, by T. N. Lawrence & Son Ltd, London. Ten reverse-offset linocuts printed in black on coloured backgrounds printed from… Read more about this item