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  Manuscripts

  A.MS. 82 leaves. Essays three and four only, "Que Judicati" and "Ad Vaolrem." Includes several small pen-and-ink sketches, and on leaf 82, there is a large original drawing by Ruskin.

  HM 6098

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  Fine press printing publications, woodcuts, and ephemera

  Rare Books

  Contents include: Matted letterpress prints Page from Ashendene Press – "Don Quixote" Press in Tuscany Alley keepsake announcement for "The Work & Play of Adrian Wilson" at Stanford University Cubberley Auditorium. Quail Press prospectus with woodcut illustration for "The Coast of California: Point Reyes to Point Sur" by Tom Killion. Signed in pencil by the artist. Press in Tuscany Alley keepsake leaf from "The Work & Play of Adrian Wilson". Signed in pen "For Sandy / Adrian Wilson / 2/12/84". Copy of newspaper clipping Green, Blake, "Impressions of a Fine Printer" (A profile of Andrew Hoyem and the Arion Press.) San Francisco Chronicle [May 17, 1986]. Rampant Lions Press advance prospectus for "The Very Rich Hours of Le Boulvé by Anthony Gross. Calendar of Exhibitions – The Huntington Library [October and November 1971] – Laid in – two broadsides printed at the Huntington Library on Morris's Albion Press Unidentified press broadside announcement of "Fifteen Year Service Proclamation". Cal State University Los Angeles Graphic Arts Laboratory press broadside keepsake "I Am The Printing Press". Poem "Try" printed by Andrew Hoyem on the occasion of his address before the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco entitled "The Poet as Printer". 4to folded sheet, unidentified press, "Reproduction of a drawing by Maynard Dixon salvaged by Andrew Hoyem from the basement of the Grabhorn Press…" Arion Press, pp. 17-20 of a booksellers catalog. Laid paper with deckle edges. Broadside prose poem "Petit Mal" by Andrew Hoyem. Broadside commemoration "University of San Francisco: William J. Monihan, S. J.". Signed on reverse in ink – calligraphic script "Designed & Printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy". California State Library's Albion Press keepsake "This Albion Press Is Dedicated To The Memory Of Saul Marks…". Broadside woodcut portrait of Edwin Grabhorn "This portrait of Ed Grabhorn was reproduced … by Richard Lloyd…". Black Vine Press elephant folio sheet folded twice "A note on the Latin preface to Eric Gill's introduction for his Engravings, 1929 by Walter Shewring". Nova Press folio broadside "The Nova Press Credo". Grabhorn-Hoyem keepsake for the members of the Roxburghe Club on the occasion of a meeting at an exhibit of the Eragny Press, January 1972. Arif Press broadside poem "Two Logging Songs". Lawton and Alfred Kennedy folded folio broadside 1971 reprint of the 1928 announcement "Roxburghe Redivivus". Ms inscription by Lawton R. Kennedy in ink on reverse. Lawton and Alfred Kennedy folded sheet facsimile of the poem "Queen-Mother to New Queen" by Robert Graves and portrait sketch of the poet in red on cover. Journeyman Press folio "Cartoons for the Cause" – 1976 reprint of original 1886 edition. Pictorial wraps with silk ribbon tie. Castle Press - French fold 8vo – "Fearless Rest and Hopeful Work" from a lecture delivered by William in 1882. One of 100 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom for members of the Roxburghe and Samorana Clubs. John Henry Nash folded broadside - "A Morris Keepsake" with text by Edward O' Day. Printed by John Henry Nash in San Francisco, 1927 and sent out by the Zellerback Paper Company to their friends and patrons. (2 copies). Unidentified press – "William Morris and the Kelmscott Press: The Bookmaker's Art: An Exhibition of the Private Collection of John J. Walsdorf", March 3-27, 1981 Quercus Press –bifolium leaf with two inserted leaves – "An evening with William Morris' Albion Proof Press April 1st, 1940" (3 copies – 2 of which lack inserted leaves). Grabhorn-Hoyem – "A Typographical Divertissement for the Joint Meeting of the Zamorano Club & the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco: Los Angeles, 1966" – 13 pages Unidentified artist – woodcut of William Morris. John Robert Press – Menu for the Double Crown Club's 210th dinner July 16, 1971 (some stains). Numerous ms signatures. Announcement of the first meeting of the Book Club of California. Invitation to "An Evening with William Morris & Friends", February 1, 1981 – Melvin Gelman Library, George Washington University (2 copies, one folded and one flat). The Beckett Paper Company – "William Morris: A Monograph". Stiff wraps (2 copies). Stalwart Sloth Press – broadside – "A Thought for the Nineties from William Morris". Inscribed in pencil on verso "Bob Dickover / Stalwart Sloth Press". John Henry Nash, printer – poem - single sheet folded once – "The Lighthouse" by Longfellow, tribute to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. John Henry Nash, printer – announcement - single sheet folded once – "The Book Club of California announces that a Loan Collection of Incunabula will be exhibited…." Richard Mathews, printer at the University of Tampa– poetry broadside – "The Makers" by Howard Nemerov. John Henry Nash, printer - two (2) invitations, five (5) keepsakes, two (2) lists of exhibitors, and one (1) blank, decorated notecard commemorating "1834 -1934 The William Morris Centenary Exhibition" – Mills College Art Gallery. Business card from Alta California bookstore inserted. Keepsake for a lecture given by William Peterson at Kelmscott House Taylor & Taylor, printers, announcement - single sheet folded once – "The annual meeting of the Book Club of California will be held on…" - copy of photograph of William Morris mounted inside. John Henry Nash, printer – announcement - "Emandatio Mechanica Plagularum: An announcement of importance to advertisers, printers, authors, and poet's from John Henry Nash". (Probably) Richard Mathews, printer – blue card cover for "An Introductory Guide to the Utopian and Fantasy Writing of William Morris". Eagle Press – keepsake printed for the 509th meeting of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club. Signed on verso in pencil "Vince Lozito, Prop." Eagle Press – keepsake printed for members of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the club. Letter from Vince Lozito to Sanford Berger gifting the above two keepsakes and a Morris broadside (probably the Stalwart Sloth broadside referenced above which was not grouped with the letter). Handwritten note attached to letter. Lawton and Alfred Kennedy – announcement – "William Morris and Helen & Sandy Berger now resides at Kelmscott Carmel and occasionally at San Francisco. Lawton and Alfred Kennedy - folded sheet – "A Comparison of a Trial Design and Final Version of the Frontispiece for the Kelmscott Press Edition of 'News from Nowhere' Written by William Morris . Two (2) copies. Rampant Lions Press – prospectus for "William Morris; "The Story of Cupid and Psyche…". Ms note "S. L. Berger / Sandy - / Thought you might like / to have this. / Gayle", keepsake, order form, announcement laid in Unidentified press – single sheet printed with quotation from "A Dream of John Ball" – signed "Scripsit, F. Brooks". Woodblock print of Morris by Barry Moser. Signed in pencil by artist. Woodblock print of Morris by Barry Moser. Signed in pencil by artist. The Arts and Crafts Press - greeting card (Morris quotation) from Bruce and Yoshiko at The Arts and Crafts Press. Woodcut "Bemerton" signed by Howard Phipps and dated 1988. Page with woodcut illustration – probably from Perdix Press edition of "The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" illustrated by Howard Phipps. Stalwart Sloth Press – keepsake illustrated with Barry Moser woodcut of Morris. Printed to commemorate the February 13, 1988 meeting of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club. Leonard Baskin – woodcut of William Morris. Signed with initial "B" and pomegranate device.

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