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Augustinus, Aurelius. De civitate dei, with commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet, [Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1490], pictorial woodcut to ...

Biblia Latina. Illuminated manuscript, 13th century. Fragment, comprising Psalms to Daniel and other pages (228 pages). Folio, bound c.1900 in ful...

Bible. New Testament. First separate edition of Miles Coverdale's version of the New Testament in English (as given in his Bible of 1535). [Antwer...

Bible. New Testament. First edition of the Roman Catholic version, Reims: John Fogny, 1582. Quarto, bound in full calf, rebacked with later calf s...

Bible. New Testament. Facsimile of William Tyndale's translation of 1526 (the first printed English New Testament), limited edition numbered 207 o...

Book of Hours. Hours of the Virgin (Horae ad usum Romanum), [Paris: Thielman Kerver, c.1530], printed on vellum, numerous full-page and marginal i...

Henry VIII Primer. In English and Latin, ordered to be used by the King. [1548]. Printed in red & black. Incomplete, title and opening three pages...

Liber Precum Publicarum (Book of Common Prayer). Translated into Latin by Walter Haddon for Queen Elizabeth. London: 1574. Woodcut pictorial title...

Gesta Romanorum [Strasbourg: Martin Schott, not after 1486]. A popular medieval collection of moral tales, considered the source of some later lit...

****PAY POST ETWALL***LW***Jacobus de Voragine. The Golden Legend. Fragment of fourth edition in English, as translated by William Caxton, [London...

Cole Against Jewell. The True Copies of the Letters betwene the reverend father in God John Bishop of Sarum and D. Cole, 1560, woodcut pictorial b...

Littleton, Thomas. Littleton's Tenures in English, London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1627. Small octavo, bound in full vellum with m...

Arcadia Press. Papageorgiou, Athanasius. Icons of Cyprus, translated by James Hogarth, preface by Archbishop Makarios, limited edition numbered 16...

Ashendene Press. Apuleius, Lucius. The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse, translated by William Adlington, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1924, limited edit...

Ashendene Press. Ecclesiasticus, collated by A. D. Power, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1932. Limited edition of 328. Folio, bound by W. H. Smith in f...

Ballantyne Press. Sidney, Sir Philip. The Sonnets. The text carefully prepared from the earliest editions by John Gray, woodcut borders and initia...

Chiswick Press. The Confessions of St Augustine, limited edition numbered 77 of 400, London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1900. Printed ...

Dropmore Press. The Holkham Bible Picture Book, facsimile of the medieval manuscript, introduction and commentary by W. O. Hassall, London: The Dr...

Enitharmon Press. Richards, Ceri (Illus.). Drawings to Poems by Dylan Thomas, first edition, London: The Enitharmon Press, 1980. Hardback, publish...

Eragny Press. Rust, Margaret. The Queen of the Fishes, An Adaptation in English of a Fairy Tale of Valois, limited edition numbered 112 of 150, Es...

Eragny Press. C'Est d'Aucassin et de Nicolete, limited edition of 230 (of which 200 are for sale), Hammersmith: Eragny Press, 1903. Printed on han...

PAY AND POST ETWALL**LW***Essex House Press. The Psalter or Psalms of David, from the Bible of Archbishop Cranmer, limited edition numbered 100 of...

Essex House Press. Wordsworth, William. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, limited edition numbered 147 of 150, 190...

Gemini Press. Graves, Ida. Epithalamion, illustrated with wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, limited edition numbered 286 of 330 signed by a...

Golden Cockerel Press. A Lover's Progress, Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Selected by Nancy Quennell, limited edition numbered 48 of 215, Privately P...

Golden Cockerel Press. Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde, edited by Arundell del Re, limited edition numbered 159 of 225, Golden Cockerel Pr...

Golden Cockerel Press. Gill, Eric (Illus.). The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ, According to the Authorized Version of King James I, limite...

Golden Cockerel Press. Apuleius, Lucius. The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse, limited edition numbered 303 of 450, Golden Cockerel Press, 1923. Small...

Golden Cockerel Press. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, limited edition numbered 226 of 300, eight engraved plates by Jo...

Golden Cockerel Press. De Chair, Somerset. The First Crusade, illustrated with five full-page wood engravings by Clifford Webb, limited edition nu...

Golden Cockerel Press. Ovid. The Metamorphoses, illustrated by J. Yunge Bateman, limited edition numbered 170 of 200, Golden Cockerel Press, 1958....

Gregynog Press. Thomas, Dylan. Deaths and Entrances, illustrated by John Piper, edited with introduction by Walford Davies, limited edition number...

Kelmscott Press. Morris, William. The Wood Beyond the World, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Octavo, original full limp vellum, gilt title, pa...

Medici Society. Everyman: A Morality Play, illustrated after drawings by John H. Amschewitz, limited edition numbered 322 of 500, London: Philip L...

Nonesuch Press. Homer. Odyssey, limited edition numbered 3 of 1300, The Iliad,  numbered 313 of 1450, translated by Alexander Pope, decorations by...

Nonesuch Press. Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, edited by Geoffrey Keynes, illustrated by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist, ...

Riccardi Press. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales, illustrated by William Russell Flint, edited by W. W. Skeet, limited edition numbered 111...

Shakespeare Head Press. Farleigh, John (Illus.). Pindar's Odes to Victory: The Nemean and Isthmian Odes, introduction and translation into English...

Shakespeare Head Press. Keats, John. Ode to Psyche, unique "single copy" (presumably printed as a private commission), Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakes...

Shakespeare Head Press. The Venerable Bede. The History of the Church of Englande, translated by Thomas Stapleton and edited by Philip Hereford, l...

Shakespeare Head Press. Froissart, Sir John. Chronycles, translated out of the French by Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners, limited edition numbere...

Skelton's Press. The Engravings of Eric Gill, limited edition of 1350, Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983. Folio, spine bound in cream clot...

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese, Illuminated by Nestore Leoni, limited edition numbered 69 of 500, London: T. Fisher Unwi...

Hughes-Stanton, Penelope. The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, limited edition numbered 40 of 112 (featuring eight engravings printed from...

The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin, study by Francoise Henry, London: Thames & Hudson, 1974. Folio, ha...

Arcadia Press. The Rohan Book of Hours, limited edition facsimile numbered 6 of 55, London: The Arcadia Press, 1974. Folio, hand-bound by Zaehnsdo...

Gregynog Press. Giraldus Cambrensis, edited by Brynley F. Roberts, illustrated with wood-engravings by Colin Paynton, limited edition numbered 63 ...

Nonesuch Press. Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], Italian & English text, the English translation by H. F. Cary, limited editio...

Golden Cockerel Press. Acton, Harold and Lee Yi-Hsieh (translators). Glue and Lacquer: Four Cautionary Tales, illustrated with five full-page copp...

Golden Cockerel Press. De Heriz, Patrick. La Belle O'Morphi: A Brief Biography, illustrations by Francois Boucher, limited edition numbered 331 of...

****PAY COLLECT AND POST ETWALL***LW***Bible. Biblia Sacra: Facsimile Edition of the Gutenberg Bible, limited edition of 1000 (996 for sale), 'Thi...

The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period, by Thomas Garner and Arthur Stratton, in two volumes, London: B. T. Batsford, 1911. ...

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publishe...

Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited, presentation copy signed by the author in black ink to front free endpaper, 'For Ignatius Magee with kindest ...

Thomas William Bowlby (1818-1860), correspondent for The Times, one of the first British foreign correspondents. Original manuscript diary documen...

Curtis, William. Flora Londinensis: Or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, London: Printed for and sold...

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), scarce colour print signed by the artist in bold black ink to lower margin, together with an autograph letter describi...

Retrofuturism / Science Fiction Interest. 'En L'An 2000' [In the Year 2000, or France in the 21st Century], series of 78 chromolithographic illust...

Mary of Teck (1867-1953), Queen Consort and wife of King George V, signed National Registration card, dated 22 May 1940, bearing signature/autogra...

Thomas Edward Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia" or T. E. Shaw (1888-1935). Two autograph letters addressed to Albert Yarwood at his shipbuilding comp...

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