Search Results: Titles starting with P from MRM Books

London: Edward Maxon, 1851. New Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 1/8" × 5 5/8" . Poems: [Fore-edge Painting]; by Rogers, Samuel. London: Edward Maxon. Printed by Bradbury and Evans, Printers Extraordinary to the Queen, Whitefriars. 1851. New Edition. 8vo: 8 1/8" x 5 5/8" (20.6 x 14.3 cm). Bound in fine hardcover full green morocco. Elaborately decorated gilt boards. Five raised spine bands with gilt titles and extra gilt in compartments. Gilt board edge decorations. Gilt inner dentelles.. All edges gilt. [ii], 305, [i]. Fore-edge painting of a bucolic scene. Engraving of Rogers. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. Binding rubbed at extremities. Front inner hinge starting. Ink inscription to ffep: "A Birthday memento of affection from R.B.P. to Jamis K. Dawsen, 1856" (paper lifts on front free endpaper where something was pasted down to cover the inscription and then removed. Second inscription 1918. Small Bloomingdale's book seller label and a pencil inscription "Holland House" on… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+/N/A. 8 7/16" × 5 11/16" × 3/8". Psalmi Penitentiales; by transcribed and edited by F.S. Ellis. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by William Morris. 1894. Limited First Edition. First Printing. 8vo: 8 7/16" x 5 11/16" x 3/8" (21.4 x 14.4 x 1 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 300 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 12 [at three guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [ii] (blank), 63, [ii] (blank) pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Head-titles in red. Numerous three-quarter woodcut ornamental borders… Read More