The Mosher Press Book Samples
Images from The Mosher Press






Click on any of the following series to see a representative image(s). For information on each of the series and other items shown below, see the discussions from Thomas Bird Mosher and the Art of the Book.

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The Bibelot (1895-1915)
    Cover #1: [264kb] Front blue wrapper for the monthly issue of February 1911.
    Cover #2: [250kb] Paper spine & front cover of yearly bound volume.
    Cover #3: [291kb] Full blue library buckram found on some sets.
    Cover #4: [298kb] Special publisher's binding of 3/4 red levant.
    Cover #5: [139kb] Japan vellum cover on Japan vellum yearly volume.
    Insert: [210kb] Sample of occasional pictorial insert in some monthly issues.

The Bibelot Series (1893-1897)
    Cover: [195kb] D. G. Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel.
    Title Page: [174kb] D. G. Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel.

Books Privately Printed (1892-1923)
    Cover #1: [310kb] Autumn Leaves from Maple Cottage.
    Cover #2: [197kb] Fragments by Cave (volume 1), design by Birger Elwing.
    Cover #3: [ 255kb] Robert Burns' Tam O'Shanter -- A Tale in Japanese "San ban" paper covers.
    Cover #4: [173kb] Richard Le Gallienne's Thomas Bird Mosher -- An Appreciation.
    Cover #5: [234kb] Edwin Bolles' Collectors and Collecting
    Cover #6: [232kb] Carlyle Calendar -- Weekly Visits to the Sage of Chelsa
    Cover #7: [349kb] Lloyd Mifflin's Ode to Gertrude on he Sixth Birthday
    Title Page: [150kb] William Butler Yeats' The Land of Heart's Desire.

Brocade Series (1895-1905)
    Covers: [100kb] Japan vellum cover with decorative initial, on Walter Pater's Emerald Uthwart.
    Title Page: [101kb] William Morris' The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane.

Catalogues (1893/94-1923)
    Cover #1: [299kb] 1898: "A List of Books Issued as Limited Editions" with Lucian Pissarro design from The Book of Ruth and The Book of Esther (London: Vale Press, 1896).
    Cover #2: [553kb] 1902 "The Mosher Books" with Charles Ricketts design from The Poems of Sir John Suckling (London: Vale Press, 1896).
    Cover #3: [657kb] 1906: "The Mosher Books" with Charles Ricketts design from Silverpoints (London, Bodley Head, 1893).
    Cover #4: [268kb] 1912: "The Mosher Books".
    Cover #5: [248kb] "The Mosher Books" with Renaissance styled design.
    Cover #6: [158kb] 1919: "The Mosher Books" with Frederick Goudy border design.
    Title Page: [549kb] 1912: "The Mosher Books" with biographical, symbolic title page designed by e.a.c. (Elizabeth Alden Curtis).

    Mosher's Catalogue Fowards.

The English Reprint Series (1891-1904)
    Cover: [236kb] George Meredith's Modern Love, Mosher's first book.
    Title Page: [190kb] Meredith's Modern Love.

Golden Text Series (1908-1911)
    Covers: [103kb] Solid green wrapper and marbled paper version of Matthew Arnold's Thyris with Charles Ricketts design.
    Title Page: [190kb] George Meredith's Love in the Valley.

Ideal Series of Little Masterpieces (1906-1909)
    Covers: [474kb] From the regular green and the Japan velum wrappers. The designs are from a binding pictured in Anstruther's The Bindings of Tomorrow -- A Record of the Work of the Guild of Women-Binders and the Hampstead Bindery (London, 1902, entry #6).
    Title Page: [82kb] D. G. Rossetti's Hand and Soul.

Lyra Americana Series (1915-1920)
    Covers: [358kb] Thomas Jones' The Rose Jar bound in hear designed Italian hand made paper.
    Title Page: [166kb] Lizette Woodworth Reese's A Branch of May.

Lyric Garland Series (1903-1913)
    Cover: [249kb] Grey boards with lables on Gordon Bottomley's The Riding to Lithend.
    Title Page: [136kb] Lizette Woodworth Reese's A Branch of May.

Miscellaneous Series (1895-1923)
    Cover #1: [154kb] Richard Garnett's De Flagello Myrteo in marbled boards.
    Cover #2: [203kb] James Russell Lowell's The Present Crisis, red Toyogami paper wraps.
    Cover #3: [kb] Robert Buchanan's The Story of David Gray, designer unknown.
    Cover #4: [326kb] The Book of Ecclesiastes with Eragny Press design by Lucien Pissarro.
    Cover #5: [215kb] From the Upanishads, designer unknown.
    Cover #6: [263kb] Marcel Schwob's Mimes with design by Earl Stetson Crawford.
    Cover #7: [175kb] Virgil's The Eclogues with design by Charles M. Jenckes.
    Cover #8: [490kb] Robert Burns' The Jolly Beggars.
    Cover #9: [293kb] Wicksteed, trans. Our Lady's Tumbler with Chiswick border design.
    Cover #10: [269kb] Macleod's The House of Usna with Chiswick border and circular Celtic device.
    Cover #11: [326kb] Keats' Odes, Sonnets & Lyrics with George Auriol design.
    Cover #12: [330kb] Dougleas' Magic in Kensignton Gardens with Lucian Pissarro design.
    Cover #13: [384kb] Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde with Wilde's plum blossum design.
    Cover #14: [265kb] Fiona Macleod's Runes of Woman with Aubrey Beadsley design.
    Cover #15: [346kb] Axel Munthe's For Those Who Love Music and other Vagaries.
    Cover #16: [162kb] Bertrand Russell's A Free Man's Worship.
    Title Page #1: [403kb] Memories of President Lincoln by Walt Whitman.
    Title Page #2: [558kb] Hand & Soul by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
    Title Page #3: [286kb] The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
    Title Page #4: [224kb] Sirenica by W. Compton Leith with an introduction by William Marion Reidy.
    Title Page #5: [243kb] Poems by Francis Thompson.
    Title Page #6: [164kb] Homeward Songs by the Way by A.E.
    Title Page #7: [258kb] The Present Crisis by James Russel Lowell.
    Title Page #8: [947kb] Title opening from Arnold's Empedocles on Etna using Kelmscott border.

Old World Series (1895-1909)
    Covers: [337kb] Marian Mead, trans. The Pearl, with cover design by Thomas Maitland Cleland. Fiona Macleod's Divine Adventure also with Cleland cover design.
    Title Page: [177kb] Andrew Lang, trans. Aucassin & Nicolete.

The Quarto Series (1899-1904)
    Cover: [237kb] White spine and printed front cover with Rossetti designs on A.C. Swinburne's Songs before Sunrise (reproduced at 70%).
    Title Page: [176kb] D. G. Rossetti's Ballads & Sonnets (reproduced at 70%).

Reprints from The Bibelot Series (1897-1902)
    Cover: [83kb] William Morris' The Story of the Unknown Church.
    Title Page: [111kb] R.L. Stevenson's Father Damien.

Reprints of Privately Printed Books Series (1897-1902)
    Cover #1: [296kb] Wine Women and Song tran. by John Addinton Symonds with Charles Richetts design.
    Cover #2: [349kb] D.G. Rossetti, et. al, The Germ with Charles Ricketts design.
    Cover #3: [349kb] Mary E. Coleridge's Fancy's Following with design by Isadore B. Paine.
    Cover #4: [207kb] Symonds' Fragilia Labilia with design by Isadore B. Paine.
    Cover #5: [309kb] Primavera with design by Isadore B. Paine.
    Title Page #1: [142kb] Mary E. Coleridge's Fancy Following.
    Title Page #2: [282kb] D. G. Rossette, et. al. The Germ with design by Edward B. Edwards.
    Title Page #3: [142kb] A. C. Swinburne's The Heptalogia.

Venetian Series (1910-1913)
    Covers: [700kb] A. Mary Robinson's Songs from an Italian Garden and Oscar Wilde's The Sphinx.
    Sample Papers, One [529kb] and Two [338kb], some of which were used by the Mosher Press.
    Title Page: [103kb] Wilde's The Sphinx.

Vest Pocket Series (1899-1913)
    Covers: [625kb] The Pageant of Summer, and three different samples of In Praise of Old Gardens.
    Title Page: [96kb] Shelly's A Defense of Poetry.

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