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MILES, Eustace | SABIN, Arthur K. SKU: 2050 Barcode:
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Authors: Eustace, MILES | Arthur K., SABIN
Cranleigh, Surrey: The Samurai Press, 1907
Presentation copy from Arthur Sabin, printer at The Samurai Press in Cranleigh Surrey from 1906 in 1909, inscribed "Alfred Banford: from Arthur K. Sabin, Christmas 1909". Loosely inserted is a printer notice sheet announcing publication of Sabin's "The Wayfarers" by The Samurai Press. Publisher's grey card binding with green cloth spine, rubbed at edges and tips of corners. pp 37 + [3]. Vignette to titlepage. An about VG copy.
Founded in 1906 at Ranworth Hall, near Norwich, by Maurice Browne, Harold Monro, and others, the press moved to Cranleigh in 1906 at which point Arthur Sabin got involved with the hand printing. He moved into a post as a Keeper at the V&A in 1909 and printed some titles under the Temple Sheen Press imprint, and in 1922 became keeper of and transformed the Bethnal Green Museum for which he is best known. The Samurai Press published 30 books during its lifetime, some of which were hand-printed on the press that was later to be used by Douglas Pepler and Eric Gill at St. Dominic's Press at Ditchling.
