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Total number of records: 28

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection22
English Literature3
Leeds Russian Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
printing5
privately printed books2
english literature2
private presses2
signs and symbols2
poets, english2
bookbinding2
type and type-founding1
trade cards1
italics1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
United States1
Soviet Union1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
First Edition Club (London, England)28
Curwen Press9
Chiswick Press3
Smithers, Leonard C (1909)3
Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898)3
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-18243
Derry, Georges (1886-1960)3
Kredel, Fritz2
Tomkinson, Sir Geoffrey Stewart (1881-)2
Koch, Rudolf (1876-1934)2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18001
From 190027

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Thirty bindings

Hobson, G D (1882-1949); First Edition Club (London, England)

1926

Edition of 600 copies.

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The Ravenna journal

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824); Ernle, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron (1852-1937); First Edition Club (London, England); Curwen Press

1928

"Of this, the twelfth book published by the First Edition Club, 500 copies have been printed on Ellerslie paper in imprint type."

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Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers

Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898); Smithers, Leonard C (1909); Derry, Georges (1886-1960); First Edition Club (London, England); Chiswick Press

1937

Illustrated title page.

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Lettering : a plea

Smith, Percy; Bradley Press; First Edition Club (London, England)

1932

"Four hundred copies of this, the twentieth publication of the First Edition Club, have been printed for members of the club, and three hundred and fifty for the Dorian Workshop and Studio"--Colophon....

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A bibliographical catalogue of the first loan exhibition of books and manuscripts held by the First Edition Club 1922

First Edition Club (London, England); Curwen Press

1922

Title within ornamental border. "This edition is limited to five hundred copies".

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A select bibliography of the principal modern presses : public and private, in Great Britain and Ireland

Tomkinson, Sir Geoffrey Stewart (1881-); Newdigate, Bernard H (1869-1944); First Edition Club (London, England); Curwen Press

1928

"This, the thirteenth book printed for The First Edition Club, is limited to an edition of 1000 copies".

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Book clubs and printing societies of Great Britain and Ireland

Williams, Sir Harold Herbert (1880-1964); First Edition Club (London, England); Curwen Press

1929

'Of this, the fifteenth book published by The First Edition Club, seven hundred and fifty copies have been printed'.

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The book of signs : which contains all manner of symbols used from the earliest times to the Middle Ages by primitive peoples and early Christians

Koch, Rudolf (1876-1934); Holland, Vyvyan Beresford (1886-1967); Kredel, Fritz (1900-1973); First Edition Club (London, England)

1930

"Of this, the sixteenth book issued by the First edition club, five hundred copies have been printed in Professor Rudolf Koch's magere deutsche type." 'Printed at the press of Wilh. Gerstung, Offenb...

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The book of signs : which contains all manner of symbols used from the earliest times to the Middle Ages by primitive peoples and early Christians

Koch, Rudolf (1876-1934); Holland, Vyvyan Beresford (1886-1967); Kredel, Fritz (1900-1973); First Edition Club (London, England)

1930

"Of this, the sixteenth book issued by the First edition club, five hundred copies have been printed in Professor Rudolf Koch's magere deutsche type." 'Printed at the press of Wilh. Gerstung, Offenb...

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Maxims of books and reading

Jackson, Holbrook (1874-1948); Halcyon Press; First Edition Club (London, England)

1934

Colophon: 'Four hundred copies have been printed by the Halcyon Press, (Maastricht, Holland)'.

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A catalogue of the fifty books of the year, 1928 : selected and shown by the First Edition Club

Pelican Press; First Edition Club (London, England)

1929

Cover title.

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The pen and type-design

Hewitt, Graily (1864-); Johnson, John de Monins (1882-1956); Oxford University Press; First Edition Club (London, England)

1928

"Of this, the fourteenth book printed for the First Edition Club, two hundred and fifty copies have been printed." "Desiged & printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford".

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