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

Cowper (William). The Poetical Works, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1854, steel-engraved frontispiece, 3 steel-engraved plates, neat inscription to ...

Dickens (Charles). Our Mutual Friend, 1st edition in the original parts, London: Chapman & Hall, 1864/5, 20 monthly numbers in 19 original parts a...

Dickens (Charles). Our Mutual Friend, 2 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865, half-titles, wood engraved frontispiece...

Beeton (Isabella). Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, 10 parts (of 12), London: Ward Lock and Tayler, circa 1869, colour frontispieces to ...

Scott (Walter). Waverley Novels, 25 vols., Centenary edition, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1871, half-titles, engraved frontispieces, contempo...

Bewick (Thomas). Bewick Gleanings: edited by Julia Boyd: being impressions from copper plates and wood blocks engraved in the Bewick workshop, edi...

Binyon (Lawrence). The Followers of William Blake, Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond & their circle, 1st edition, London: Halton & Tr...

Blake (William). Facsimile of the Original Outlines before Colouring of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, with an introduction by Edwin J....

Blake (William). William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray, introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes KT., London: Th...

Bradshaw (Percy V.). Art in Advertising, A study of British and American pictorial publicity, London: The Press Art School, [1925], colour frontis...

Dibdin (Thomas Frognall). Aedes Althorpianae; or an Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp; the Residence of George John Earl Spe...

Emin (Tracey). Works 1963-2006, edited by Honey Luard and Peter Miles, 1st edition, New York: Rizzoli, 2006, colour plates throughout, signed by t...

Fielding (Newton Smith). What to sketch with; or, hints on the use of water colours, oil colours, coloured crayons, black and white chalks, and bl...

Frankau (Julia). Eighteenth Century Colour Prints: an essay on certain stipple engravers and their works in colour, London: Macmillan and Company,...

Great Exhibition 1851. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, 3 volumes, London: Spicer Brothers & W. Clowes & Sons, 1851, folding map fr...

Wright (Frank Lloyd). A Testament, 1st edition, London; Architectural Press, 1957, numerous monochrome illustrations, period inscription to the fr...

Matisse (Henri). Dessins de Henri-Matisse. Paris: Cahiers d'Art, [1936], 36 tipped-in monochrome plates, introductory printed texts by Christian Z...

Miura (Einen), Miwaku no Maburu Pepa (Fascinating Marble Paper), Tokyo: A.Miura, 1988, text in Japanese throughout, numerous colour illustrations,...

Pichon (Jerome). Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de feu M. Le Baron Pichon, and 3 volumes bound in one, 1897-98, contemporary cloth, together with fo...

Prentice (Andrew N.). Renaissance Architecture and Ornament in Spain. A Series of Examples Selected from the Purest Works Executed between the Yea...

Schjoldager (Astrid). Bokbind og Bokbindere I Norge Inntil 1850, Oslo: Foreningen for Norsk Bokkunst, 1927, monochrome illustrations, top edge gil...

Warde (Frederic). Printers Ornaments applied to the composition of decorative borders, panels and patterns, London: Lanston Monotype Corpn Ltd., 1...

Woods (S. John). John Piper, Paintings, Drawings & Theatre Designs 1932-1954, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1955, original uncoloured aquati...

*Blocking machine. A small blocking machine by Kingsley Gold Stamping Machine Co., Hollywood, California, USA, together with a selection of alloy ...

* Book covers. A selection of antiquarian book covers and boards, mostly 17th & 18th century, mostly vellum bound and a few in pigskin etc., some ...

* Book press. A cast iron book press (or copy press), finished in black, platen approximately 30 x 25 cm (12 x 10 inches), opening to 6 cm (2.25 i...

* Book/linen press. A book or linen press, of hardwood construction, central screw thread with acorn-shaped finial, platen approximately 70.5 x 34...

* Decorative finishing tools. 20 brass decorative finishing tools, including centre and corner tools, makers include Timbury, Morris & Co. and Hic...

* Decorative finishing tools. 20 brass decorative finishing tools, including centre and corner tools, makers include Morris & Co., Royle, Searle l...

* Decorative finishing tools. 20 brass decorative finishing tools, including centre and corner tools, makers include Paas, Royle and Timbury (most...

* Decorative finishing tools. 23 brass decorative finishing tools, including centre and corner tools, makers include Brook, Hicks, Morris & Co. an...

* Decorative Pallets. 10 decorative pallets, makers include De Lacy, Morris & Co., and Timbury (mostly unnamed), together with one single word pal...

* Decorative Pallets. 15 decorative pallets, makers include Beard, H. Sampson, Morris & Co., Paas and Timbury (few unnamed), with wooden handle to...

* Decorative rolls & fillets. A collection of 11 decorative rolls and fillets, comprising three decorative rolls, five single-line fillet, one dou...

* Finishing stove. A floor-standing finishing stove, late 19th century, in its original state for town gas, with tool supporting ring approximatel...

* Paper. A selection of salvaged endpapers, mostly 18th & 19th century, including plain hand-made, machine-made, and a selection of marbled endpap...

* Gold finishing & bookbinding equipment. A selection of gold finishing equipment & materials, including one book of gold leaf, one book of silver...

* Handle letters. Five sets of handle letters, including two sets with serif typefaces, letter heights approximately 19 & 26 mm, and three sets wi...

* Handle letters. Five sets of handle letters, including three sets with serif typefaces, letter heights approximately 13, 19 & 26 mm, and two set...

* Handle letters. Four sets of large gothic handle letters, letter heights approximately 20, 25, 26 & 34 mm, wooden handle to eachQTY: (2 cartons)...

* Leather & bookcloth. A selection of morocco bookbinding leather, various colours and one large part skin of pigskin (natural/ cream colour), plu...

* Leather. A selection of pieces of vintage 'Russia' leather, circa 18th century?, including some larger piecesQTY: (a carton)NOTE:Provenance: Fro...

* Marbled paper. A collection of 27 sheets of handmade marbled paper, including 13 by Payhembury, 8 by Victoria Hall, and 6 other 20th century mar...

* Marbled paper. A collection of 27 sheets of handmade marbled paper, including 14 by Payhembury, 8 by Victoria Hall, and 5 other 20th century mar...

* Marbled paper. A collection of approximately 200 unused sheets of early 20th-century marbled paper, with a large selection of patterns, approxim...

* Nipping press. A Dryad nipping press, of wood and metal construction, central screw thread with tightening wheel and metal side support pillars,...

* Paper. An oak 14-drawer filing cabinet, c.1920's containing a large collection of salvaged endpapers, mostly 18th & 19th century, including plai...

* Book press. A cast iron book press (or copy press), finished in black, platen approximately 30.5 x 25 cm (12 x 10 inches), opening to 5.5 cm (2....

* Book press. A cast iron book press (or copy press), finished in black (some wear to paintwork), platen approximately 27.5 x 21.5 cm (10.75 x 8.5...

* Decorative finishing tools. 25 brass decorative finishing tools, including centre and corner tools, majority unnamed, three with makers names (M...

* Decorative finishing tools. 41 brass decorative finishing tools, comprising 26 centre and few corner tools, makers include Browne, Dyer, Price, ...

* Decorative finishing tools. 50 brass decorative finishing tools, including centre and corner tools, including simple ornaments, majority unnamed...

* Finishing presses. Three hardwood finishing presses, comprising one with 47 cm (18.5 ins) between wooden screw threads, opening to 18 cm (7 ins)...

* Finishing tools. A collection of 23 decorative finishing tools, comprising eight decorative corner finishing tools (4 pairs), eight decorative p...

* Finishing tools. A collection of 34 decorative finishing tools, comprising 23 decorative centre & corner finishing tools (two by Morris & Co., r...

* Finishing tools. A selection of decorative rolls, fillets and pallets etc., comprising three decorative rolls, one single line fillet, one hatch...

* Finishing tools. Seven decorative finishing tools, late 20th century, comprising centre and corner tools with traditional designs, together with...

* Gold leaf. 40 unused books of 3 1/4" Regular deep transfer English gold leaf, comprising a total of 1000 leaves, contained in original unopened ...

* Gold leaf. 60 unused books of 3 1/4" Regular deep transfer English gold leaf, comprising a total of 1500 leaves, contained in original unopened ...

* Gold leaf. 60 unused books of 3 1/4" Regular deep transfer English gold leaf, comprising a total of 1500 leaves, contained in original unopened ...