Printed Books, Maps & Playing Cards, Jane Austen, Children's Books, Modern Literature, Bookbinding

* Handle letters. Five sets of York handle letters, comprising 10, 12, 18, 22, and 30 pt, wooden handle to each, contained in original wooden boxe...

* Handle letters. Four sets of handle letters, comprising 10pt, 14pt and 22pt Edinburgh, together with 2mm letter height handle letters (possibly ...

* Handle letters. Nine sets of handle letters, comprising 12 pt York, 18 pt Edinburgh, 8 pt serif typeface, 2mm, 3mm (2 sets), 4mm, 13mm letter he...

* Handle letters. Seven sets of handle letters, comprising 10 & 16 pt Kent, 10 & 16 pt Devon, and 14, 18 & 22 pt Edinburgh, wooden handle to each,...

* Laying press. A hardwood laying press by Hampson Bettridge & Co. Ltd., with approximately 61 cm (24 ins) between wooden screw threads, opening t...

* Laying press. A hardwood laying press by N.J. Hill & Co., with approximately 61 cm (24 ins) between wooden screw threads, opening to 28 cm (11 i...

* Leather & bookcloth. A selection of leather & bookcloth, including calf and goat skin, selection of part rolls of buckram and 'reliance' bookclo...

* Marbled paper. 52 sheets of assorted Cockerell hand-marbled paper, 1970s & later, together with Paper, A selection of Canson Ingres 100 gsm pape...

* Marbled paper. A selection of approximately 180 sheets of marbled and Seymour Fancy Paper Co. papers, 20th century, including 10 sheets of late ...

* Paper. A selection of modern handmade paper, comprising mostly thick sheets, some with two sheets laminated together, shades including white, cr...

* Paring machine. A Brockman Paring Machine, finished in black, on original wooden base, together with Bookbinding equipment, tools & materials, i...

* Type and finishing tools. Four sets of 30 pt brass type and miscellaneous selection of finishing tools, 30 pt brass type comprising Devon, Kent,...

* Type. Nine sets of York brass type, comprising 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24 & 30 pt York brass type, together with one set of condensed 10 pt s...

* Print Racks. A pair of four-legged modern Print or Map Stands, two stained wooden racks, each with a removable dividing bar at the base, height ...

* Bookcase. A 1920s Globe Wernicke oak bookcase, comprising 3 tiers each with hinged glass door with transfer print manufacturers logo, general we...

* Bookcase. A 1920s Globe Wernicke oak bookcase, comprising 3 tiers each with hinged glass door with transfer print manufacturers logo, general we...

Ballets Russes. Programme officiel des Ballets Russes de Diaghilew, 7ème saison, Theâtré du Châtelet, mai-juin 1912, full-page colour illustration...

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Beeton (Isabella). Mrs Beeton's Household Management. A Complete Cookery Book... , 2 copies, Ward, Lock & Co., no date, each with 16 plates in col...

Bindings. London to Lady Smith by Pitoria, by Winston Spencer Churchill, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, half-title, folding ma...

Bookplates. Three albums of bookplates containing approximately 328 bookplates, 18th-20th century, and 221 bookseller's labels, 19th-20th century,...

Charles Lamb Society Bulletins. Nos. 1-215, May 1935 to July 1972, bound in 4 volumes plus typescript Index, 1935-1972, a complete run with additi...

Churchill (Winston Spencer). Collected Works, 38 volumes, including The Collected Essays, Centenary Limited Edition, 1973-76, numerous maps and il...

Craddock (Harry). The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1st edition, 2nd issue, Constable & Company, 1930, colour illustrations and decorations throughout by G...

Craddock (Henry). The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Constable & Company, 1930, colour illustrations throughout by Gilbert R...

Fine Bindings. Great Books and Book Collectors, by Alan G. Thomas, 1st edition, London: Werdenfeld & Nicolson, 1975, colour and monochrome illustr...

Folio Society. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, 1971, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1968, The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur C...

Folio Society. Scott's Last Expedition, The personal journals of Captain R. F. Scott, CVO, RN on his journey to the South Pole, 1964, The Voyage o...

Greyfriars Book Club. Collectors' Edition, vols. 17,18, 23, 31-32, 34-39, 41-44, 48, 50, 54, 61, 64, 67-69, 72-74, London: Howard Baker, 1977-87, ...

Jerry (G.W., Illustrator). The Alphabet Annotated for Youth and Adults in Doggerel Verse by an Old Etonian, London: Ackermann & Co., [1853], black...

Le Carre (John). Our Kind of Traitor, 4 copies, 1st editions, Viking, 2010, all signed by the author in black fibre pen to title-pages, together w...

Lennon (John). A Spaniard in the Works, 1st edition, Jonathan Cape, 1965, illustrations throughout, original pictorial laminated boards, small 8vo...

Mardersteig (Giovanni, editor). Felice Feliciano Veronese, alphabetum romanum, Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1960, full-page illustrations t...

Milton (John). Paradise Lost [and] Paradise Regain'd... from the Text of Thomas Newton, 2 volumes bound in 1, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1760, ...

Moser (Barry, illustrator). Lewis Carrol's Alice, The Penny Royal Editions, 1st edition, 2 volumes, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982...

Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660-1669, 11 volumes including Diary Companion and Index, Folio Society, 2003, some colour plates, all...

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1st edition, London: J...

Shakespeare (William). Hamlet, edited by G.R. Hibbard, London: Folio Society, 2007, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original red half morocco over...

Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly, volumes I-XIII [all published], London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane The Bodley Head, 1894-97, volume 1 later...

Cookery. A collection of modern cookery reference & related, including works by Mrs. Beeton, Elizabeth David, Andre Simon, mostly original cloth, ...

Richardson (Charles James). Architectural Remains of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I, volume 1 only, published by the author, 1840, additional...

Victorian Literature. A collection of Victorian fiction & literature, including The Works of Samuel Richardson, 12 volumes, London: Henry Sotheran...

Hulme (Frederick Edward). Familiar Garden Flowers ... and described by Shirley Hibberd, 1st -5th series, London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [1...

Lang (Andrew). The Red Fairy Book, 18th impression, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1927, bookplate & period previous owner inscriptions to the f...

Beattie (William). The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Coast Scenery of Great Britain illustrated by views taken on the spot by W.H. Bartlett...

Trade Catalogues. A group of approximately 35 trade catalogues, mostly mid-20th century, including Pryke & Palmer, General Catalogue, no. 330, Bey...

[Turner, Dawson]. Account of a Tour in Normandy; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of investigating the architectural antiquities of the Duchy, w...

Lang (Andrew). The Blue Fairy Book, 7th edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895, The Green Fairy Book, 2nd edition, 1893The Yellow Fairy B...

"The Sportsman". British Sports and Sportsmen, Racing, London: Sports and Sportsmen, 1920, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning & ...

Gordon-Duff (Lachlan). With the Gordon Highlanders to The Boer War & Beyond, Staplehurst: Spellmout, 2000, monochrome illustrations, original clot...

Official History of the War. Naval Operations, by Julian S. Corbett, volume 1 only (in 2, text & maps), London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920, 13 ...

Eliot (T.S). The Confidential Clerk, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1954, preliminary leaves and edges lightly spotted, original blue cloth...

Jackson (A. J.). British Civil Aircraft 1919-1972, 3 volumes, reprinted, London: Putnam, 1987-88, numerous monochrome illustrations, original clot...

Paperbacks. A large collection of paperback & pocket edition literature, including publications by Penguin, King Penguin, Pan, J. M. Dent, Grant R...

Lang (Andrew). The Blue Fairy Book, 5th edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892, period inscription to the half-titleThe Green Fairy Book,...

Cook (Frederick A.). My Attainment of the Pole, being the record of the expedition that first reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909..., 1st edition,...

Grimble (Augustus). The Salmon Rivers of Scotland, 4 volumes, London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co.,1899, numerous monochrome illustrations...

MacDermot (E. T.). History of the Great Western Railway, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Great Western Railway Company, 1927, monochrome illustrat...

Shakespeare (William). The Plays of William Shakespeare...to which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, revised and augmented b...

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, 3rd impression, London: William Heinemann, 1917, 13 colour illu...