IMPRINT

[ Pamphlet; poetry ] A Rhymed Sequence

Author: 
Lady Margaret Sackville
Publication details: 
The Porpoise Press, 4 Stafford Street, Edinburgh, Feb. 1924
£50.00

One of 50 copies (numbered 33}, 8pp., 4to, printed paper wraps, sewn, with device of the Press on front cover/title, good condition.

[ Hans Schmoller and The Imprint Society for the Advancement of the Graphic Arts in South Africa: corrected proof of pamphlet by Hortors Limited. ] The Imprint Society | An Account of its Inception to which is appended a Draft Constitution.

Author: 
Hans Schmoller [ Hans Peter Schmoller ], typographer; The Imprint Society for the Advancement of the Graphic Arts in South Africa, Johannesburg [ Hortors Limited, printers ]
Publication details: 
'For circulation to members and prospective members'. Johannesburg, 1944.
£220.00

8pp., 12mo. Stitched into grey printed wraps. Aged and worn. On reverse of title: 'This booklet is produced in accordance with Paper Control regulations and is therefore limited in size and scope | It is publication number one of the Imprint Society and was first issued in August 1944'. The pamphlet begins: 'The idea that led to the Imprint Society being formed was conceived when two compositors, working in Johannesburg in 1939, realized that most of the printed matter produced in South Africa was ugly and uninspired, and that nothing was being done to remedy this.

[ Duke of Edinburgh in 1870; Madras ] The History of His Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh's Visit to Madras, as related in The Athenaeum and Daily News 22-27th March 1870

Author: 
[ Duke of Edinburgh; HRH Prince Alfred ]
Publication details: 
Madras: Re-Printed at the M.A. ansd P.C) - (Limited) Mount Road Branch, 1870.
£320.00

46pp., 8vo, printed beige paper wraps, minor damage to wraps, foxing throughout, fold marks, stab mark though top of most pages, just about good condition, [[sur]name on frontcover "Forth"?]. Includes sections on Visits of Native Princes, The Governor's Ball, The Native Entertainment, etc, etc, concluding with "Beypoer. A Reminiscence of the Duke".No copy recorded on COPAC or WorldCat.

[ Agriculture; pamphlet] Specification of a Patent granted the 13th of January, 1808, to Willis Earle, of Liverpool, Merchant, for certain improvements on the tillage and dressing of land, and the cultivation of plants, with remarks by the inventor.

Author: 
[ Willis Earle, agriculturist, inventor ]
Publication details: 
Liverpool: Printed by G.F. Harris, Houghton-Street, 1808.
£65.00

48pp., 8vo, disbound, sewing partly removed, foxing, ow fair. Copies at LOndon Library and two US libraries recorded only.

[Printed Library Catalogue; Gibraltar] Author Catalogue of the Gibraltar Garrison Library, January Ist,1919

Author: 
[Library Catalogue]
Publication details: 
Gibraltar. Garrison Library Printing Establishment, 1918.
£450.00

[vi] 288pp., 8vo, green printed boards, edges sl. rubbed, covers sl. grubby, small discreet shelfmark on front cover, insert on verso of front board with a notice abpout lending to War Office people and that they are not to leave London, title-page stamped "War Office Library", which is over-stamped "Ministry of Defence | Library Services | Withdrawn". No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat.

[Broadside] Lines printed in the Streets of Bristol, during the Procession in Honour of the Coronation of His Majesty King George IV. July 19, 1821,

Author: 
William Henry Somerton of Queen-Street, St Michaels
Lines printed in the Streets of Bristo
Publication details: 
'Entered at Stationers' Hall', [Bristol, 1821].
£250.00
Lines printed in the Streets of Bristo

Broadside, trimmed to just outside decorative border for poem, with radiant crown at top, tipped on to detached album leaf, faint marking and creasing, mainly good condition, commencing, Who, that has lived beneath the Brunswick sway .... No copy listed on COPAC which lists a work by Somerton on the Bristol Riots and a work printed by him (as presumably was this broadside).

The Pali Manuscript

Author: 
J.F. Dickson, translator.
Publication details: 
Venice: Printed at the Monastery, 1881.
£150.00

Title continues: "Written on Papyrus preserved in the Library of the Armenian Monastery St. Lazaro." Pamphlet, green paper wraps, corners v. sl. turned but very good otherwise. Pp.36, sm. 8vo. Ordination of Buddhist priest, etc. COPAC records only one copy, at Birmingham, but dated 1875. No copy in BL.

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