(Old School Press.) John Ruskin: 'Venice approached', Bath, ...

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(Old School Press.) John Ruskin: 'Venice approached', Bath, The Old School Press, 2014, limited edition, number 17 of 50 copies for sale, "An extended reprint of the first text published by The Old School Press, being an extract from chapter 30 of book one and chapter I of book two of Ruskin's The Stones of Venice", 14pp, text hand-set in Hunt Roman on Hodgkinson hand-made paper, large 4to (32 x 22 cm), cases furnished by Ludlow Bookbinders, marbled paper covered boards by Ann Muir; Ferdinand P. Ulrich: 'Zapf and Stauffacher. Collaborations between type designer and typographer', The Old School Press, 2018, limited edition, number 36 of 125 copies, tipped in photo frontis of Zapf and Stauffacher from a film in the archives of the Greenwood Press, 14pp, text hand-set in Hunt Roman on Losin hand-made paper, large 4to (32 x 22 cm), cases furnished by Ludlow Bookbinders, green paper covered boards; 'An Italian Dream being chapter VII pf 'Pictures of Italy' by Charles Dickens', The Old School Press, 2008, number 98 of 135 copies, on an Amalfi hand made paper originally purchased by Christopher Skelton's September Press, cases furniched by Ludlow Bookbinding, paper covered boards with front cover illustration by Martyn Ould; Peter Davidson; Paul Kershaw (ill.): 'At nightfall on the shortest day', Old School Press, 2020, limited edition, number 40 of 55 copies numbered and signed by Davidson and Kershaw, tipped in wood engraving by Paul Kershaw, text hand-set in Monotype Fournier, text paper probably hand-made Kelmscott Antique from the Batchelor mill, dating from the 1930s, original stitched wraps, cover paper from Moulin de Larroque, printed title label to front cover; Lafcadio Hearn: 'Blue & Grey. Lafcadio Hearn. Exotic II: Fuji-no-yama from 'Exotics and retrospectives' of 1898', Old School Press, 2019, number 8 of 40 copies only, hand-set in Octavian and printed on a Japanese hand-made paper, original Japanese patterned paper stab binding (5)