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Nonesuch Press

Private Press

Works

Francis Meynell founded the Nonesuch Press in 1922 with his wife Vera Mendel and friend David Garnett. The press produced over 140 books and rose to prominence in the 1920s and 1930s. The most collected work is the 24 volume Nonesuch Dickens, each volume bound in different coloured buckram and each set containing an original steel plate.

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Nonesuch Press.- Dickens (Charles) [The Works], 24 vol., edited by Arthur Wa...

Hammer: £11,000

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of...

Hammer: £6,500

Nonesuch Press.- Dickens (Charles) [The Works] The Nonesuch Dickens, edited ...

Hammer: £6,000

Dickens (Charles) [The Works], 'The Nonesuch Dickens', edited by Art...

Hammer: £3,800

Nonesuch Press.- Dickens (Charles) [The Works] The Nonesuch Dickens, edited ...

Hammer: £3,200

Dickens (Charles) [The Works], 24 vol. including box with original woodblock...

Hammer: £3,200

Nonesuch Press.- Dickens (Charles) [Works] The Nonesuch Dickens, edited by A...

Hammer: £2,800

Nash (Paul).- Genesis: Twelve Woodcuts by Paul Nash..., number 44 of 375 cop...

Hammer: £2,400

Dickens (Charles) [The Works], 'The Nonesuch Dickens', 24 vol., edit...

Hammer: £2,400

Nonesuch Press.- Dickens (Charles) [The Works], 'The Nonesuch Dickens...

Hammer: £2,250

Nonesuch Press.- Capon (Lester, binder).- Dante Alighieri.<...

Hammer: £2,000

Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, edited by Herbert Farjeon,...

Hammer: £2,000

Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus. The History..., translated by G.Rawlinson, edite...

Hammer: £1,700

Nash (Paul).- Genesis, number 341 of 375 copies, printed in Rudolf Koch's Ne...

Hammer: £1,600

Nonesuch Press.- Homer. The Iliad [and] The Odyssey, translated by Alexander...

Hammer: £1,300

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia..., translated by H.F.C...

Hammer: £1,300

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of...

Hammer: £1,200

Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, edited by Herbert Farjeon,...

Hammer: £1,100

Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, edited by Herbert Farjeon,...

Hammer: £1,100

Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus. The History..., translated by G. Rawlinson, wood-engraved...

Hammer: £1,000

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of...

Hammer: £1,000

Ricketts (Charles).- Raymond (Jean Paul) & Charles Ricketts. Oscar Wilde...

Hammer: £1,000

Noneusch Press.- Homer. The Iliad [and] The Odyssey, translated by Alexander...

Hammer: £1,000

Nonesuch Press.- Homer. The Iliad [&] The Odyssey, translated by Alexand...

Hammer: £1,000

Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, edited by Herbert Farjeon,...

Hammer: £950

Lowinsky (Ruth) Lovely food. A cookery notebook, one of 500 copies, illustra...

Hammer: £950

Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, edited by Herbert Farjeon,...

Hammer: £850

Nonesuch Press.- Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Walton, plates, pochoir illustr...

Hammer: £850

Ayrton (Michael) Collection of original illustrations, proof prints, and related ephemera ...

Hammer: £850

Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, 7 vol., edited by Herbert ...

Hammer: £800

Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Works, edited by Herbert Farjeon,...

Hammer: £750

Austen (Jane) [Novels], 6 vol. "Harlequin set", various individual...

Hammer: £750

Nonesuch Press.- Ravilious (Eric).- White (Rev. Gilbert) The W...

Hammer: £750

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of...

Hammer: £750

Private Press Propsectuses.- A collection of prospectuses, book lists, pamph...

Hammer: £750

Nonesuch Press.- The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, translated by G....

Hammer: £700

Nonesuch Press.- Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Angler..., edited by Geoffrey Keynes, en...

Hammer: £650

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of...

Hammer: £650

Private Press.- Wynne (Ellis) Gweledigatheu y Bardd Cwsc: Visions of the Sle...

Hammer: £650

White (Rev. Gilbert) The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne...

Hammer: £650

Ravilious (Eric).- White (Rev. Gilbert) The Writings of Gilber...

Hammer: £650

Nonesuch Press.- Homer. The Iliad [and] The Odyssey, translated by Alexander...

Hammer: £650

Blake (William) Songs of Innocence and Experience, number 14 of 51 copies ha...

Hammer: £650

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia Or the Divine Vision of...

Hammer: £600

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia Or the Divine Vision of...

Hammer: £600

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of...

Hammer: £600

Pissarro (Lucien) Wood Engravings, number 111 of 175 sets, 29 wood-engravings on...

Hammer: £550

Blake (William) The Writings, edited by Geoffrey Keynes, 3 vol. in 1, number...

Hammer: £550

Blake (William) The Writings of William Blake, 3 vol., edited by Geoffrey Ke...

Hammer: £550

Nonesuch Press.- The Holy Bible and The Apocrypha Reprinted According to the...

Hammer: £550

Eric Ravilious.- White (Gilbert) The Writings..., 2 vol., "out of serie...

Hammer: £500

Gilchrist (Alexander) Life of William Blake, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved p...

Hammer: £500

Mann (Thomas) The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India, one of 140 copies, pr...

Hammer: £440

Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus. The History..., translated by G.Rawlinson, edite...

Hammer: £420

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of...

Hammer: £420

Gaskell (Elizabeth C.) Cranford, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, advertisemen...

Hammer: £420

Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus. The History..., translated by G. Rawlinson, wood...

Hammer: £420

Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus. The History..., translated by G.Rawlinson, edite...

Hammer: £420

Keynes (Geoffrey) The Writings of William Blake, 3 vol., one of 1500 copies ...

Hammer: £420

Ricketts (Charles).- Shakespeare (William) The Tragedie of Macbeth, introduc...

Hammer: £400

Lermontov (Mikhail Yurievitch) A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch, one of 7...

Hammer: £400

Nonesuch Press.- White (Rev. Gilbert) The Writings..., 2 vol.,...

Hammer: £400

Private Presses.- A collection of catalogues, prospectuses, exhibition pamph...

Hammer: £400

Nonesuch Press.- Wycherley (William) The Complete Works, edited by Montague Summers, 4 vol...

Hammer: £400

Chair (Somerset de) The First Crusade, one of 500 copies, wood-engravings by Clifford Webb...

Hammer: £400

Nonesuch Press.- Alighieri (Dante) La Divina Commedia or the Divine Version of Dante Aligh...

Hammer: £380

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri La Divina Commedia, translated by H.F. Cary, one of ...

Hammer: £360

Congreve (William) The Complete Works ..., 4 vol., limited edition, previous...

Hammer: £360

Wilde (Oscar).- Sebastian Melmoth [Oscar Wilde], bookplate of Lily Antrobus,...

Hammer: £350

Nonesuch Press.- Donne (John) Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by ...

Hammer: £340

Fell Types.- Herrick (Robert) The Poetical Works, 4 vol., one of 750 sets, p...

Hammer: £340

Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus. The History..., translated by G.Rawlinson, edite...

Hammer: £340

Greenwood (Jeremy) Ravilious: Engravings, one of 855 copies, original cloth, slip-case, fo...

Hammer: £340

Trianon Press.- Blake (William) The Book of Thel, one of 426 copies, 1965; The Book o...

Hammer: £340

Fontenelle (Bernard le Bouyer de) A Plurality of Worlds, translated by John Glanvill, ...

Hammer: £320

Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus. The History..., translated by G. Rawlinson, edited by A.W. Law...

Hammer: £320

Nonesuch Press.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de La Manch...

Hammer: £320

Wilde (Oscar) A Woman of No Importance, pirated edition, limited edition num...

Hammer: £320

Nonesuch Press.- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Selected Poems, out-of-series cop...

Hammer: £320

Nonesuch Press.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Manch...

Hammer: £320

Symons (A.J.A.)., Desmond Flower and Francis Meynell. The Nonesuch Century: ...

Hammer: £320

Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, seventh edition, fir...

Hammer: £300

Nonesuch Press.- Keynes (Geoffrey, editor) Pencil Drawings by ...

Hammer: £300

Blake (William).- Milton (John) Poems in English with Illustrations by Willi...

Hammer: £300

Ellis (F.S.) The History of Reynard the Fox, presentation copy from the auth...

Hammer: £300

Nonesuch Press.- White (Rev. Gilbert) The Writings, 2 vol., edited by H.J. Massingham, one...

Hammer: £300

Nonesuch Press.- Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes, translated by Th...

Hammer: £280

Smith (Aaron) The Atrocities of the Pirates..., number 81 of 500 copies, woo...

Hammer: £280

Nonesuch Press.- Ellis (Havelock) Chapman, number 23 of 75 specially-bound c...

Hammer: £280

Taylor (Michael) Saint Dominic's Press: a Bibliography 1916-1937, limite...

Hammer: £280

Hermes (Gertrude) Wood Engravings...being illustrations to Selborne..., numb...

Hammer: £260

[?Johnson (Richard, editor)] Moral Sketches for Young Minds, o...

Hammer: £260

Kauffer (E. McKnight).- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de l...

Hammer: £240

Nonesuch Press.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Manch...

Hammer: £240

Nonesuch Press.- Blake (William) The Writings..., 3 vol., edited by Geoffrey...

Hammer: £240

Nonesuch Press.- [Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anato...

Hammer: £240

Nonesuch Press.- Montaigne (Michel de) Essays, translated by John Florio, 2 ...

Hammer: £220

Nonesuch Press.- Ellis (Havelock) Chapman, number 15 of 75 specially-bound c...

Hammer: £220

Nonesuch Press.- Donne (John) X Sermons, edited by Geoffrey Keynes, 1923 ...

Hammer: £220

[Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy,...

Hammer: £220

Nonesuch Press.- Evelyn (John) Memoires for my Grand-son, original limp vell...

Hammer: £220

Nonesuch Press.- Milton (John) and H. Lawes. The Mask of Comus, one of 950 c...

Hammer: £220

Nonesuch Press.- [Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2 vol....

Hammer: £200

Greene (Graham) Why the Epigraph?, one of 950 copies signed by the author, o...

Hammer: £200

Tinker (Chauncey) and Carl Rollins. Addresses Delivered in Commemorat...

Hammer: £200

Nonesuch Press.- Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de) Essays. John Florio's tran...

Hammer: £200

Lydis (Mariette).- Louÿs (Pierre) Romans & Nouvelles, 7 vol., limit...

Hammer: £190

Nonesuch Press.- Homer. The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, one of 145...

Hammer: £190

Nonesuch Press.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Manch...

Hammer: £190

Shakespeare (William) The Works, 4 vol., titles in red and black, original c...

Hammer: £190

Nonesuch Press.- Symons (A.J.A), Desmond Flower and Francis Meynell. The Non...

Hammer: £180

Bibliography.- Keynes (Geoffrey) John Evelyn...A Bibliography..., one of 300...

Hammer: £180

Nonesuch Press.- Holy Bible (The), 5 vol. including Apocrypha, limited editi...

Hammer: £180

Nonesuch Press.- Vanbrugh (Sir John) The Complete Works..., 4 ...

Hammer: £180

Bindings.- Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 2 vol., 15 photogravure illus...

Hammer: £180

Trollope (Anthony) The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels of Anthony Trollope, edited ...

Hammer: £180

Stewart (Cecil) Topiary, one of 500 copies, illustrated in colour by Peter B...

Hammer: £180

Bindings.- Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Walton, one of 1600 copies, engraved ...

Hammer: £170

Nonesuch Press.- [Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anato...

Hammer: £160

Nonesuch Press.- Marvell (Andrew) Miscellaneous Poems, one of 850 copies, po...

Hammer: £160

Nonesuch Press.- Walton (Isaac) The Compleat Angler, The Lives of Donne, Wot...

Hammer: £160

Female authors.- Keynes (Geoffrey) Jane Austen: a bibliography, limited edit...

Hammer: £160

Nonesuch Press.- A Memento of the Opening of the Exhibition of Nonesuch Pres...

Hammer: £160

Nonesuch Press.- Holy Bible (The), 5 vol. including Apocrypha, limited edit...

Hammer: £160

Private Press.- Dreyfus (John) A History of the Nonesuch Press...A Descripti...

Hammer: £160

Lawrence (D.H.) Love Among the Haystacks, spotting, browning to endpapers, original buckra...

Hammer: £160

Ricketts (Charles).- Raymond (Jean Paul) Oscar Wilde Recollections, one of 8...

Hammer: £150

Whistler (Rex) The Königsmark Drawings, from an edition limited to 1000 copies, ten f...

Hammer: £150

Melville (Herman) Benito Cereno, illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, bookplate, light to...

Hammer: £150

Beckford (William) Vathek, fourth edition, revised and corrected, lacking half-title, with...

Hammer: £150

Nonesuch Press.- Harvey (William) The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Ha...

Hammer: £150

Greene (Graham) Why the Epigraph?, first edition, limited edition signed by ...

Hammer: £150

Nonesuch Press.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Manch...

Hammer: £150

Lawrence (D.H.) The Painting of D.H.Lawrence, number 197 of 510 copies, colo...

Hammer: £140

  .00Keynes (Geoffrey, editor) On the Morning of Chris...

Hammer: £140

Nonesuch Press.- Symons (A.J.A.), Desmond Flower and Francis Meynell. The No...

Hammer: £140

Nonesuch Press.- Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) In memoriam, ink inscription to front pastedown, ...

Hammer: £140

Wycherley (William) The Complete Works, 4 vol., limited edition, partially unopened, bookp...

Hammer: £130

Nonesuch Press.- Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Walton, one of 1600 copies, pla...

Hammer: £130

Nonesuch Press.- Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes, 5 ...

Hammer: £130

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". The Complete Works,...

Hammer: £130

Lithography.- Senefelder (Alois) A Complete Course of Lithography: Containin...

Hammer: £120

Nonesuch Press.- Symons (A.J.A.) Desmond Flower & Francis Meynell. The N...

Hammer: £120

Pushkin (Alexander) Gabriel. A Poem In One Song, one of 750 copies, translat...

Hammer: £120

Bibliography.- Dreyfus (John) A History of the Nonesuch Press, plates and il...

Hammer: £120

Kempis (Thomas à) Meditations of Our Lady, one of 600 copies, woodcut t...

Hammer: £110

Nonesuch Press.- Raymond (Jean Paul) & Charles Ricketts. Oscar Wilde: Re...

Hammer: £110

Keynes (Geoffrey) Bibliography of William Hazlitt, one of 750 copies, origin...

Hammer: £110

Payne (Wyndham) Town & Country: A Collection of Designs and Decorations,...

Hammer: £110

Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus. The History..., translated by G.Rawlinson, edite...

Hammer: £100

Vanbrugh.- Whistler (Laurence) The Imagination of Vanbrugh and his fellow ar...

Hammer: £100

Nonesuch Press.- Walton (Izaac) The Compleat Angler, The Lives of Donne, Wot...

Hammer: £100

Nonesuch Press.- Ricketts (Charles) Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul ...

Hammer: £100

Beckford (William) Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal, 2 vol., first...

Hammer: £100

Nonesuch Press.- Book of Ruth (The), number 172 of 250 copies, this copy sig...

Hammer: £100

Middle East.- Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., David ...

Hammer: £100

Nonesuch Press.- Sarda (Daniel) Conte de Maitre Espapidour, [13 copies], one...

Hammer: £100

Walton (Izaak) The Complete Angler, number 223 of 1100 copies, original ligh...

Hammer: £100

Music.-Byrd (William) My Ladye Nevells Booke, edited by Hilda Andrews, numbe...

Hammer: £100

Rollins (Carl Purlington) B. R. America's Typographic Playboy, first edi...

Hammer: £100

Nonesuch Press.- Beedome (Thomas) Select Poems Divine and Humane, limited ed...

Hammer: £95

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works of ... a facsimile of the William Morris Kelmsc...

Hammer: £95

Nonesuch & Roxburghe Club.- Evelyn (John) Memoires for my Grand-son, one...

Hammer: £85

Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock, first edition, 3 vol. bound i...

Hammer: £80

Johnston (Priscilla) The Mill Book, illlustrations by David Pepler and Ronal...

Hammer: £75

Nonesuch Press.- Thomson (James) The Seasons, plates by Jacquier, endpapers ...

Hammer: £75

Vanbrugh (Sir John) Plays..., 2 vol., engraved portrait fronti...

Hammer: £70

Private Press.- Carey (Henry) Songs & Poems, number 41 of 380 copies, ti...

Hammer: £70

Milton (John) & H. Lawes. The Mask of Comus, number 557 of 950 copies, c...

Hammer: £70

France (Anatole) At the Sign of the Queen Pédauque, colour plates by Sy...

Hammer: £65

Nonesuch Press.- Melville (Herman) Benito Cereno, pochoir plates by E. McKni...

Hammer: £60

Nonesuch Press.- Raymond (Jean Paul) & Charles Ricketts Oscar Wilde: Rec...

Hammer: £55

Bibliography.- Bell (Anne Olivier) Editing Virginia Woolf's Diary, numbe...

Hammer: £50

Medicine.- Harvey (William) The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey ....

Hammer: £50

Nonesuch Press.- Dreyfus (John) & others. A History of the Nonesuch Pres...

Hammer: £40

Butler (Samuel) Erewhon Revisited, first edition, errata slip tipped-in, adv...

Hammer: £35

Madariaga (Salvador de) Don Quixote: an introductiory essay in Psychology, o...

Hammer: £35

[Darwin (Bernard)] The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo, 22 colour plates, 1 torn with l...

Hammer: £20

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