Two horse press (3 Ergebnisse)

self paper wrappers. 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Prospectus for George Mackley, Engraved in the Wood. A collection of wood engravings, with an appreciation by Ruari McLean and a "glimpse of the artist" by Armida Maria-Theresa Colt. With a specimen illustration. Two-Horse Press (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Handset in Cochin italic. One of 50 copies printed in various shades of green and black on damped Japanese paper on an Albion hand-press. Parchment spine with gilt titling, Japanese wood-veneer paper sides, Washi endpapers. Corners just a little bumped. A very good copy. The first book from the Press. The colophon is inscribed "No.15 To Mr Lawrence From the two Colts.".…

(THE TWO HORSE PRESS) THE LIFE OF THE CHRIST CHILD. London: 1962. Small folio. Red felt binding. (ii), 24 pages. One of 50 copie This is a handsome book with the text of the Christmas story written in the calligraphy of Michael Renton who also drew different rococo borders for each page. There are also six miniatures adapted by Renton from a fifteenth centu Dutch Passionale. The whole was printed on dampened Barcham Green Bodleian Repairing paper by George Mackley. There is very light wear to the extremiti of the spine on this fragile binding, else a very good copy. Very uncommon, this English private press of the 'sixties--which also used the imprint of Th Two Colt Press.…