PAYHEMBURY, MARBLED PAPERS SAMPLER by Alembic Press - 1987

The Alembic Press. Books About Books, Paper and Printing History, Miniature Books, etc. Green covers. . Fine. Soft cover. 1996.

Winchester: The Alembic Press, 1985. Soft cover. Fine. Marbled paper-covered card wrappers, cover label, small 8vo., 70 pages, illusrated with wood engravings by Jill Barker. Revised edition. One of 150 numbered copies hand-set in Bembo types. Bare trace of wear, else a fine copy in archival mylar.

No Place: The Alembic Press, 1997. No Binding. Near Fine. Seventy loose printed cards enclosed in a printed card box with a tab closure, miniature (4 3/4 by 3 1/2 cm). "An eight line wood-letter alphabet set in Delittle's Sans 54/56 ", printed in red and black. Number 5 of 25 copies, according to note affixed to box. Indesipherable initials on reverse of description sheet. Fine cards within a slightly used box. Quite scarce.

Marcham: Alembic Press, 2000. 2 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings and Simon Brett. One of 120 copies, this one unnumbered. 8vo., original brown cloth backed, printed paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy.||The Tale of Two Benches is taken from Gibbings’s book Till I End My Song, being the chapter about the village where the Alembic Press was based, Marcham in Oxfordshire. Included is the history of Marcham and how Gibbings came to be there.| From Gibbings’s Till I End My Song

Marcham: The Alembic Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine. Sewn with red thread in a Coptic binding with thick textured black boards, miniature (6 by 7 cm), 63 pages. A type specimen showing the blackletter faces held at the Alembic Press. One of 100 numbered copies printed and with notes by Claire Bolton. A fine copy.

Marcham: The Alembic Press, 1998. Hardcover. Fine. Paste paper covered boards with cover label, paste paper fitted sleeve, miniature (7 by 7 1/2 cm.), (27) accorian-folded pages, with 12 individually sewn-in folding pastepaper specimens. Substantial running commentary by Clair Maziarczyk with each specimen described in detail. One of 140 numbered copies set and printed by Claire and David Bolton. A fine copy of an attractive, useful and scarce book.

Alembic Press. Used - Like New. Paperback. Alembic Press, Oxford, 1989 . Fine. Limited and numbered edition of 100 copies, this being #93. Quarter cloth and marbled boards, 57 pp. Tipped in sample plates of the press's work.

Oxford: The Alembic Press, 1989. One of the rarest and most beautifully produced of the fine press bibliographies. 74 items described in great detail. Numerous tipped-in samples of the press' work, including a few printed on exotic papers. Beautifully printed on fine wove paper. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. 4to. Bound by Claire Bolton in quarter cloth and marbled boards. The slightest traces of wear to extremities, else fine and bright.