Nonesuch Press

• Donne, John. Juvenilia. (1923) Soho, England. Limited edition of 645 copies printed from the 17th century Fell types by Frederick Hall. UMCP has copy numbered 245 and signed by Geoffrey Keynes. Rare Stacks PR2247 .P3.


• Moore, George, ed. An Anthology of Pure Poetry.(1924) York: Boni and Liveright. With an introduction by George Moore. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 692 and signed by George Moore. Special Collections Stacks PR1175 .M6.


• Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostickers, & several cures of it. (1925) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by Westminster Press. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. This edition reprinted without notes from the 6th edition, corrected and augmented by the author. Typography arranged by Francis Meynell. Limited edition of 750 copies in two volumes printed on Dutch paper. 40 copies on Japon vellum, numbered I to XL with some illustrations tinted in water-colour under the supervision of the artist. UMCP has an unnumbered review copy. R.D. Remley Collection. Special Collections Stacks PR2223 .A1.


• Keynes, Geoffrey, ed. The Writings of William Blake. (1925) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by Chiswick Press. Limited edition of 1,500 copies on Vidalon handmade paper numbered 1 to 1,500, and 75 copies on Oxford India paper numbered I to LXXV. Printed under the supervision of Francis Meynell. UMCP has copy numbered 26 of the three volume set. Rare Folio PR4141 .K4.


• Toller, Ernst. “Brokenbrow, a tragedy by Ernst Toller.” (1926) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by R. & R. Clark, Ltd. Translation by Vera Mendel. Drawings by Georg Grosz. Originally published under the title, “Hinkemann.” Rare Stacks PT2642 .O65 H53.


• Ros, Amanda McKittrick. Irene Iddesleigh. (1926) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by R. & R. Clark, Ltd. Wood engravings by W. M. R. Quick. UMCP has copy numbered 326. Special Collections Stacks PZ3 .R7332 Ir.


• Thomson, James. The Seasons. (1927) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by The Kynoch Press. With five pictures by Jacquier, copper-plate engravings by C. Sigrist, and an introduction by John Beresford. The prints were water-colored through stencils by the Curwen Press. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 262. Special Collections Folio PR3732 .S4.


• Laver, James. A Stitch in Time: or, Pride Prevents a Fall. (1927) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by R. Clark & Sons, Ltd. Limited edition of 1,525 copies printed. UMCP has copies numbered 756 and 779. Special Collections Folio PR6023 .A9 S73.


• Keynes, Geoffrey, ed. Pencil drawings by William Blake. (1927) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by Chiswick Press. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 1,006. Special Collections Folio NC1115 .B72 K4.


• Beedome, Thomas. Select Poems, Divine and Humane. (1928) London. Limited edition of 1,250 copies printed from Janson types on Van Gelder paper. UMCP has copy numbered 616 and signed by the editor. Special Collections Stacks PR2211 .B4 A6.


• Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson, with Love and truth & Miscellaneous writings. (1929) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by R. & R. Clark, Ltd. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes, illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist. Limited edition of 1,600 copies. Copperplate printed by A. Alexander & Sons. The drawings color-stenciled by Curwen Press. UMCP has copy numbered 956. R. D. Remley Collection. Special Collections Stacks PR3757 .W6.


• Laver, James. Love’s Progress, or the Education of Araminta. (1929) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by Walter Lewis in Massachusetts. Limited edition of 1,525 copies. UMCP has copies numbered 498 and 1245. Special Collections Folio PR6023 .A9 L6.


• Meynell, Alica Christiana Thompson. Selected Poems. (1930) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by The Mayflower Press. With an introductory note by Wilfrid Meynell. Rare Stacks PR5021 .M3 A6.


• Lawrence, D.H. Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces. (1930) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by Curwen Press. With a reminiscence by David Garnett. Limited edition of 1,600 copies printed from Caslon Monotype on Auvergne hand-made paper. UMCP has copy number l97. Special Collections Stacks PR6023 .A93 L66.


• Hazlitt, William. Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778: 1830. London: The Nonesuch Press; New York: Random House, Inc. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. KA Porter Stacks PR4471 .K4.


• Maisse, André Hurault, sieur de. De Maisse: a journal of all that was accomplished by Monsier de Maisse, ambassador in England from King Henri IV to Queen Elizabeth, anno Domini 1597. (1931) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by R. & R. Clark, Ltd. Translated from the French and edited with an introduction by G. B. Harrison and R. A. Jones. Special Collections Stacks DA350 .M33.


• Butler, Samuel. Butleriana. (1932) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by the Fanfare Press in Bloomsbury. Limited edition of 800 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 362. Rare Stacks PR4349 .B7 Z53.


• Keynes, Geoffrey, ed. Poetry and Prose of William Blake. (1932) New York: Random House; London: The Nonesuch Press. The centenary edition of Blake’s poetry and prose. Barnes PR4141 .K42.


• Moore, George. “A Communication to my Friends.” (1933) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by the Fanfare Press Limited edition of 1,000 copies designed by Francis Meynell. UMCP has copy numbered 277. Special Collections Stacks PR5043 .A48.


• Morris, William. Stories in prose, stories in verse, shorter poems, lectures and essays. (1934) Bloomsbury, London: printed for The Nonesuch Press by Robert Maclenose & Co. Ltd. at the University Press in Glasgow; New York: Random House. Special Collections Stacks PR5072 .C6.


• Coleridge, Sara Fricker. Minnow Among Tritons: Mrs. S.T. Coleridge’s letters to Thomas Poole, 1799-1834. (1934) Bloomsbury: printed for the Nonesuch Press by R. & R. Clark Ltd. Edited by Stephen Potter. Limited Stacks PR4489 .C1 A85.


• Nonesuch Press. The Nonesuch Century: an appraisal, a personal note and a bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the press, 1923-1934. (1936) London: The Nonesuch Press. Limited edition of 750 copies. Contents include: “Appraisal” by A. J. A. Symons; “The Personal Element” by Francis Meynell; “The bibliography” by Desmond Flower. Special Collections Folio Z232 .N815.


• Dickens, Charles. The Nonesuch Dickens. (1937-1938) Bloomsbury, London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by R. & R. Clark Ltd. Limited to 877 sets designed by Francis Meynell and printed from a version of Martin’s type specially cut for the edition. Published under the editorial direction of Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton. The text is taken chiefly from the "Charles Dickens" edition of Dickens’ works published between 1868-70, and the illustrations are printed from the original plates and blocks. The 23-volume set includes: a steel plate of "Watkins Tottle", engraved by Geo. Gwikshank for Pickwick papers, together with an extra printing from the plate, is issued in separate case with this set; Printed volumes: v. 1: American Notes, Etc.; v. 2: Barnaby Rudge; v. 3: Bleak House; v. 4: Christmas Books; v. 5: Collected Papers; v. 6: Collected Papers; v. 7: David Copperfield; v. 8: Oliver Twist; v. 9: Great Expectations and Hard Times; v. 10: Letters; v. 11: Letters; v. 12: Letters; v. 13: Little Dorrit; v. 14: Martin Chuzzlewit; v. 15: Edwin Drood and Christmas Stories; v. 16: Nicholas Nickleby; v. 17: Old Curiosity Shop; v. 18: Dombey and Son; v. 19: Our Mutual Friend; v. 20, c. 1 & c. 2: Pickwick Papers; v. 21: Reprinted Pieces; v. 22: Sketches by Boz; v. 23: A Tale of Two Cities. UMCP has set numbered 19 and an original steel plate. Rare Stacks PR4550 .F37.


• Massingham, H. J. The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne. (1938) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by Robert Maclehose & Co. Ltd at the University Press. With wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious. Limited edition of 850 sets of two volumes. UMCP has copy numbered 53.  Special Collections Stack QH138 .S4 W28.


• Voltaire. Candid, or Optimism. (1939) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by the Imprimerie Protat Frères at Mâcon, France. Translated by Richard Aldington, with an introduction by Paul Morand and twenty illustrations in color by Sylvain Sauvage. Edition printed from Monotype Cochin. Special Collections Stacks PQ2082 .C3 E5.


• La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne). The Princess of Cléves. (1943) London: The Nonesuch Press. Translated from the French by H. Ashton, with an introduction by Jean Cocteau and illustrations by Hermine David. KA Porter Stacks PQ1805 .L5 A72.


• Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. (1953) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by William Cowles & Sons; New York: Random House. A new introduction by Ivor Brown. Printed from Goudy Modern type with Garamond type for marginal notes on India paper. Set includes: v. 1. Comedies; v. 2. Histories; v. 3. Tragedies; v. 4. Poems. Special Collections Stacks PR2751 .A15.


• Glover, Alan, ed. Gloriana’s Glass: Queen Elizabeth I reflected in verses and dedications addressed to her, reports concerning her, and her own words written and spoken. (1953) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press in Barnet by The Stellar Press. With wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. Bound by Leighton Straker. Limited edition of 1,250 copies printed an Barcham-Green all-rag paper. Printing supervised by Francis Meynell.UMCP has copy numbered 759. Special Collections Stacks DA350 .G55.



• Belloc, Hilaire. Verse. (1954) Roughead, London: printed for Nonesuch Press by Enschedé & Sons. Edited by W.N. Limited edition of 400 copies printed from Romulus type on rag paper. Designed by Francis Meynell. UMCP has copy numbered 185. R.D.Remley Collection. Special Collections Stacks PR6003 .E45 A17.


• Meynell, Francis, ed. The Week-end Book. (1955) London: Nonesuch Press; New York: Random House. KA Porter Stacks PR1175 .W43.


• Morris, John, ed. From the Third Programme: a ten-years’ anthology of imagination, argument, experience, exposition. (1956) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by the Stellar Press, England. Illustrations by B.S. Biro. Limited edition of 1,300 copies printed on Barcham Green’s rag mould-made paper. Binding by Leighton-Straker. Contents include: “The Descent into the Cave” by James Kirkup; “The Heart of the King by William Plomer; “Maisie” by V.S. Pritchett; “Antigone” by  Henry Reed; “Syler’s Green” by Stevie Smith; “The Artist in Society” by Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and V.S. Pritchett; “A Discussion on the Existence of God” by Bertrand Russell and Father Copleston; “Lytton Strachey and his Critics” by Noel Annana; “First Meetings with W.B. Yeats” by Max Beerbohm; “Belinsky” by Isaiah Berlin; “Miching Mallecho” by Laura Bohannan; “Revolution at Bayreuth” by E.M. Forester; “The French Language” by André Gide; “Tolstoy’s Wife” by Maxim Gorky; “The Dukeries” by Nicholas Pevsner; “Some Far Eastern Dreams” by Arthur Waley; “The Cosmopolitan Spirit” by Edward Sackville-West; “Vigil and the Christian World” by T.S. Eliot; “Why are they French?” by Darsie Gillie; “Continous Creation” by Fred Hoyle; “The State of Civilisation in France” by Alan Pryce-Jones; “Anton Chekhov: an Essay” by Thomas Mann; “The Muse in the Nursery” by P.H. Newby; “Humbug in Science” by Magnus Pyke; “The Cretan Tablets” by Michael Ventris; “Memory Systems in the Brain” by J.Z. Young. UMCP has copy numbered 961. Special Collections Stacks PR1149 .F76.


• Blake, William. Pencil Drawings. (1956) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press; text by Drukkerij, Meijer, Wormveer, and pictures by Livan Leer. Limited edition of 1,440 copies printed on Dutch mould-made paper. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bound in Holland. UMCP has copy numbered 1,378. Special Collections Folio NC1115 .B72 K43.


• The Holy Bible. (1963) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by Vivian Ridler, printer to the University Press at Oxford; New York: Random House, 1963. The Authorized King James version of 1611 reprinted with the Apocrypha. With reproductions of 105 of the sixteenth-century woodcuts of Bernard Salomon. Set includes: v. 1. The Old Testament, Genesis to Kings; v. 2. The Old Testament, Chronicles to Malachi; v. 3. The New Testament, followed by the Apocrypha of the Old Testament. Special Collections Stacks BS185 .L6.
  
  

• Nonesuch Press. Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925, for the spring 1926: with a hand-list of books hitherto published by the press.(1925) London: printed for the Nonesuch Press by W. Lewis at The University Press. Special Collections Stacks Z232 .N82 N66.


• Rogerson, Ian. Sir Francis Meynell and the Nonesuch Press. (1979) Manchester: Manchester Polytechnic Library. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Manchester Polytechnic. Limited edition of 500 copies. Special Collections Stacks Z232 .M596 R63.


• Dreyfus, John. A History of the Nonesuch Press. (1981) London: Nonesuch Press. With an introduction by Geoffrey Keynes and a descriptive catalogue by David McKitterick, Simon Rendall, and John Dreyfus. Special Collections Stacks Z232 .N82 D74.


• Bradfield, Judith. An Introduction to the Nonesuch Press: illustrated from material in the National Art Library. (c1986) London: National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum. Special Collections Stacks Z232 .N66 B73.

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