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A Lay of Leadenhall

by

William Allingham

2020

The book is handset in 24pt Caslon Old Face and printed on fine watermarked paper, using an Albion press in an edition of 25 numbered copies

£55.00 p&p.

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YARDLEY OAK

by

William Cowper

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The book is limited to 132 copies, set in 14pt Baskerville.

The main copy is printed on Zerkall wove paper and bound using 300 gsm laid black board covers, the 16 pages are tied in using a green cotton cord, with a blocked label to the front, £25.00 + p&p

Ten copies are printed on Wookey Hole Mill handmade paper (sorry all sold), the pages are sewn together and bound in quarter red leather, with black cloth on the boards, with a blocked label on the front. Two special copies have been made using vellum paper, and quarter bound white vellum, with specially designed paste paper over the boards, gold tooled lettering to the spine, with a green silk tie, these are not for sale.

THE CHAPEL

by

GEORGE BRIMMER

This poem is about the customs of a Printing Chapel & is limited to 45 copies.

It is a poem set in a printing house and is about the rules that were used to punish offenders of the printing chapel in 1833.

​The book has been hand-set in 18pt Baskerville, 5 copies are printed on handmade Wookey Hole Mill paper, quarter bound in Leather or Vellum, with patterned paper boards (sorry all sold), 40 copies have been printed on Zerkall paper, quarter red cloth spine with label, red grained paper boards, these are available at £35.00 plus P&P

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The Endless Book of Engravers

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Le Livre sans Fin de  Graveurs

Printed in both English and French

Start at the blue or the red side of this book and keep reading or turn it over and keep following the arrows and the book will never end.

Printed on Zerkall mould made paper, bound in blue and red cloth, limited to 25 copies at £55.00 plus p&p, price at fair £45.00 just a few left.

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