Books and Works on Paper

Ruskin (John, art critic and social critic, 1819-1900).- Albumen print photograph of Filippino Lippi's Madonna and Child signed by Ruskin below im...

Japan, Hong Kong, India, West Indies, Venezuela, Egypt & Algeria.- [Townshend (Edward Lee, Captain, Cheshire Regiment and Cheshire Yeomanry, marri...

Oxford Cycling Club, 3 albumen photographs, one featuring William Morris, later Lord Nuffield at a cycling lunch at the Rose Revived, Witney, slig...

Arabic manuscript.- [Illuminated manuscript in Arabic], text in red and black, single leaf, 35.5 x 8.5 cm, mounted and framed, 55 x 40.5 cm, n.d.

World League for Sexual Reform.- Sexual Reform Congress Vienna. Signatures of attendees, including: Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), German physicia...

Cycling tour of Germany.- Roach (Rev. Charles Alan, 1908-2003) Album of photographs and postcards of a cycling tour of Germany, together c. 120 po...

Sellers (Peter, comedian, 1925-80) Typed Letter signed to M.G. Evans, 1p., 8vo, Television House, London, 5th March 1957, thanking her for her "ve...

Hendrix (Jimi, musician, 1942-1970) Cut signature, "stay free, Jimi Hendrix", red ballpoint ink, on graph paper, loose, [c.1969]; together with a ...

Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldrie, armorial illustrations, many hand-coloured, occasional manuscript notes and diagrams, lacking front free en...

Cleveland (John) Poems by J.C. With additions, never before printed, engraved portrait frontispiece, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-pie...

Cookery.- Rabisha (William) The vvhole body of cookery dissected, taught, and fully manifested, methodically, artificially, and according to the b...

Barrow (Isaac) Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, The Second Edition, engraved frontispiece portrait of Barrow by Loggan, ink ownership insc...

Pamphlets.- [Burthogge (Richard)] Prudential reasons for repealing the penal laws against all recusants, and for a general toleration, penn'd by a...

NO RESERVE [Northleigh (John)] Parlamentum pacificum, ou Le parlement pacifique. Imprimé par la permission du comte de Sunderland, président du co...

Duke of Monmouth & Glorious Revolution.-The Lady Gray Vindicated: being an Answer to a Popish Pamphlet, entituled A True Relation, of a strange Ap...

Coleridge family ownership.- Poetæ minores Græci, a few instances of pencil marginalia, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary ...

Bindings.- Vickers (William) A Companion to the Altar, shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation, ruled throughout in red, ?la...

Pamphlets.- [Gibson (Edmund, Bishop of London)] The Bishop of London's Third Pastoral Letter to the People of his Diocese, The Fourth Edition, [ES...

NO RESERVE Miniature book.- Anacreon. Hai tou Anakreontos odai, kai ta Sapphous, kai Erinnas leipsana, 2 parts in 1, half-title, 2 ff. of prelimin...

NO RESERVE Music.- Apollo's cabinet: or the muses delight. An accurate collection of English and Italian songs, cantatas and duetts, set to music ...

NO RESERVE [Sterne (Laurence)] A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick, 2 vol., first edition, with 'vous' on p.150 in vol.1...

NO RESERVE Economics.- Simpson (Thomas) The doctrine of annuities and reversions, deduced from general and evident priciples: with useful tables, ...

Astle (Thomas) The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, half-title, 31 engraved tables, 9 folding, several partiall...

NO RESERVE British Army Officer in the American War of Independence.- Darell (Rev. William) The History of Dover Castle, engraved title, folding p...

Medals.- Dassier (John [Jean] & Son, medal makers) An explanation of Dassier's medals of the sovereigns of England, 6 engraved plates (the first ...

NO RESERVE Women.- Helme (Elizabeth) Instructive rambles extended in London, and the adjacent villages. : Designed to amuse the mind and improve t...

NO RESERVE Quakers.- Scriptures, stitched, as issued, 12mo, W. Phillips, 1802; and 4 others, duplicates (5) ...[more]

Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vol., occasional faint spotting, bookplate, previous owner's ink si...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Genuine Rejected Addresses, presented to the Committee of Management for Drury-Lane Theatre, first edition, l...

Cookery.- [Plumptre (Arabella)] Domestic Management; Or, the Healthful Cookery-Book. To Which is Prefixed a Treatise on Diet, as the Surest Means ...

NO RESERVE Golf.- Aesculapian Club, Edinburgh.- Carminum rariorum macaronicorum delectus: in usum ludorum Apollinarium quae solemniter Edinburgi c...

Bourchier (Lord Berners, John) The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain, hand-coloured frontispiece and 24 plates, illustrations...

NO RESERVE Gothic novel.- [Beckford (William)] Vathek, translated from the original French, third edition, revised and corrected, engraved frontis...

Bookplates.- A very good collection of c.200 bookplates, and institutional and company crests, engraved or lithographed, some relating to Liverpoo...

NO RESERVE Philosophy.- Brown (Thomas) Sketch of a system of the Philosophy of the Human mind, first edition, half-title, some light foxing, libra...

Bentham (Jeremy) An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, occasional spotting, contemp...

NO RESERVE Binding.- Beattie (James) The Minstrel; or The Progress of Genius: and other poems, engraved additional pictorial title and 5 plates, l...

NO RESERVE Women authors.- Sherwood (Mary) The History of Theophilus and Sophia, ninth edition, engraved frontispiece, spotted, some staining, ori...

NO RESERVE Scott (Sir Walter) Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, Addressed to J. G. Lockhart Esq, engraved frontispiece, previous owner's signa...

Bindings.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Mancha, 3 vol., frontispiece, additional engraved title and illustrations by Tony Joha...

Recipes.- Wine.- Gifford (H., chemist) The General Receipt-Book... with directions for making British Wines, wood-engraved illustrations, occasion...

Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 vol. bound in 1, 94 colour plates, many finished by hand or heightened with gilt, illus...

NO RESERVE Blank paper.- An album of c.50 sheets of blank 19th century paper, each sheet c.194 x 160mm., a few ff. at start lettered, occasional s...

Brontë (Charlotte).- Gaskell (Elizabeth C.) The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles and frontispieces, 16pp. advertisemen...

Economics.- Jevons (William Stanley) Notice of a General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy, in Report of the Thirty-Second Meeting of the B...

Verne (Jules) The Wonderful Travellers. containing, "A Journey into the Interior of the Earth" and "Five Weeks in a Balloon", colour frontispiece,...

Flags.- MacGeorge (Andrew) Flags, Some Account of thie History and Uses, "Special Large-Paper Copy", 6 colour plates, mounted illustrations, origi...

NO RESERVE Coventry Patmore's copy.- Stevenson (Robert Louis) Father Damien, first trade edition, half-title, occasional spotting, rear endpaper ...

NO RESERVE Burton (Isabel) The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, 2 vol., first edition, portrait frontispieces, faint spotting to first and l...

NO RESERVE Millais (John Guille) The Life And Letters Of Sir John Everett Millais, 2 vol., 7 photogravure plates (2 as frontispieces), plates, ill...

NO RESERVE Nietzsche (Friedrich) A Genealogy of Morals: Poems, half-title, occasional spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to...

NO RESERVE Bindings.- Thompson (Francis) Selected Poems, portrait frontispiece, charming 20th century green crushed morocco, semé with gilt flower...

Bindings.- Froissart (Sir John) Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, 2 vol., limited renaissance edition, additional ...

Pollard (A. F.) Henry VIII, limited edition, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, captioned tissue-guards, abrasion mark where bookplate...

Edward VII.- Admission ticket to Edward VII's Coronation Dinner, chromolithographed card, ink inscription at foot, laid down on board, 320 x 247mm...

NO RESERVE Binding.- Moore (Thomas) Poetry of Thomas Moore, half-title, lithographed frontispiece, attractive half blue crushed morocco, by Bayntu...

NO RESERVE Apuleius (Lucius) The Golden Ass, limited edition of 220 copies, frontispiece, bookplate, contemporary morocco, gilt, slight bumping to...

Binding.- De Trafford (Sir Humphrey F.) The Horses of the British Empire, 2 vol., frontispieces, plates, previous owner's ink signature, contempor...

First World War.- Plumer (General Herbert, first Viscount Plumer, army officer, 1857-1932).- Anordnung [Rules of the British Army Occupation of Ge...

NO RESERVE Bindings.- Casanova di Seingalt (Giacomo) The Memoirs of ..., 12 vol., limited edition, portrait frontispiece, silked free endpapers, c...