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Jean Palairet (1697-1774) Map of African according to D'Anville, hand coloured print, 48cm x 57cmAt present, there is no condition report prepared...

Nonesuch Press: 'The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings', Herbert F...

Lawrence, (T.E.) 'The Odyssey of Homer' translated by T.E. Lawrence with twenty six black and gold Homeric roundels at head of each book. Walker, ...

Nonesuch Press. Dante Alighieri, 'La Divina Commedia' or the 'Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri' in Italian and English. Italian text edited by Mar...

Cleverdon, (Douglas). Sassoon, (Siegfried). Vigils. 22 poems engraved on copper by Charles Sigrist, May 1934. Frontispiece designed and engraved b...

Ashenden Press. Hornby, (C.H. St John). A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books printed at the Ashendene Press 1895-1935. Shelley House, Chelsea 1...

Cresset Press. 'The Apocrypha according to the Authorised Version' with wood engravings by Blair Hughes Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, et al. London 19...

Kelmscott Press. 'The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the Conquest of Jerusalem'. William Morris Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith 1893. 450pp. w...

Mackail, (John William) (1859-1945) Biographer of William Morris. 'An Address delivered the XIth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House Hammersmith be...

Cresset Press. Poems by D.H. Lawrence. Blair Hughes Stanton (Illus), London 1930. Ten plates in slip case at end, top edge gilt, original brown ca...

Lawrence. (David Herbert) 'The Ship of Death and Other Poems'. Blair Hughes-Stanton Illus. Martin Secker, London 1933. 1/4 cloth. (265 x 160mm). S...

Essex House Press. (Laurence Housman and C.R. Ashbee). Bunyan, John. 'Pilgrims Progress', collated by Janet. E. Ashbee at the Press of the Guild o...

Essex House Press (C.R. Ashbee). The Prayer Book of Edward VII. Guild of Handicraft Press 1903. C.R. Ashbee designs printed by Eyre & Spottiswode....

Gemini Press. Graves, (Ida). Hughes Stanton, (Blair). Illus. 'Epithalamion'. A Poem with full page wood engravings. 296/330. Signed by the artist,...

Gregynog Press. The Plays of Euripides. 2 vols. Fo. Gilbert Murray, (Trans.) Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray (Illus.) 1931. 56/500. O...

Gregynog Press. The Lamentations of Jeremiah. No. 231/250. Printed in blue and black with illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Dark blue calf wi...

Gregynog Press. The Revelation of Saint John the Divine, no. 131/250. Blair Hughes Stanton (Illus) 13 full page, red and black print. Newton Montg...

Gregynog Press. Comus, A Mask by John Milton. Blair Hughes-Stanton (Illus). 6 full page woodcuts 115/250. 1931 plus Butler, Samuel. Erewhon 1932. ...

Gregynog Press. Fortescue, J.W. The Story of a Red-Deer with decorations by Dorothy Burroughes 157/250. Newton Montgomery 1935. Terracotta cloth, ...

Gregynog Press. Four Great Castles. An Essay by Arnold Taylor. David Woodford (Illus) 1983 with presentation letter to Sir Bernard Ashley plus 'Th...

Folio Society. 'Illustrations of Birds Drawn by John Gould by Edward Lear'. Collected and introduced by David Attenborough, London 2012. Large Fo....

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works thereof: A Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer 307/1010 introductory essay by William S Peterson. Original Nigerian wh...

Folio Society. The Herefordshire Pomona. 2 vols. London 2014. Gilt decorated, green cloth. Fo. (380 x 300mm) in solander box (2+) ...[more]

Basilisk Press. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer with companion volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer, with tipped in illustrations by Duncan Robinson. Ed....

Pageant Books. A facsimile of the Gutenberg bible 'Biblia Sacra'. 2 Vols. Paterson, New Jersey and New York 1961. Fo. (460 x 300mm). Bound in brow...

A group of four Facsimile titles: Codex Sinaiticus, British Library, London 2010. Thick Fo. (420 x 340mm) in slip case. Domesday Book Herefordshir...

Grandes Horas del Duque de Berry Patrimonio Editions Valencia Spain 2012. A facsimile of The Book of Hours commissioned by the Duke Jean de Berry...

Bull, Henry Graves Ed. and Hogg, Robert. 'The Herefordshire Pomona containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of Appl...

Shakespeare Head Press. Froissarts Cronycles. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1927. Three vols in eight, uncut paper, blue and ivory boards 264/350. 4to. ...

Nonesuch Press: Oscar Wilde 'Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond and Charles Ricketts' Bloomsbury 1932. Printed by Geo. W. Jones at the Dolphin Pre...

Nonesuch Press: 'In Memoriam', Alfred Lord Tennyson, London 1933. Arabesque gilt vignette title, vellum boards, gilt top edges and end papers. 118...

Hope, W.H. St John. The Stall Plates of the Order of Knights of the Garter 1348-1485 with ninety full sized coloured facsimiles. Archibald Constab...

Pote, Joseph. History of Windsor Castle dedicated to H.R.H. Frederick Prince of Wales. Red printed title page and portrait engraving by Parr, Eton...

Windsor Castle interest:- Hakewill, James. The History of Windsor. Lloyd, London 1813. Fo. Marbled boards plus Goddard, Arthur. 'Windsor The Castl...

Hope, W.H. St John. Windsor Castle, an Architectural History. 2 vols. Country Life 1913. Untrimmed paper. Ltd Ed. 474/1050. Fo. plus a set of eigh...

Wakeling, Edward. 'Lewis Carroll's Diaries'. Lewis Carroll Society, 1993. 10 vols. with d/ws. Fair condition plus two Alice associated titles (12)...

Cooke, Mordecai Cubbitt (1825-1914) British Mycologist and Botanist. 'Illustrations of British Fungi' (Hymenomycetes). 8 vols. Williams and Norgat...

The Diary of a Grand Tour. Dec 8th 1906-7th February 1907. 346pp in black ink in a Frank Smythson, 133 Bond St leather bound note book with gilt e...

Burton, Richard F. 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night'. Burton Club Subscribers. Luristan Ed. Ltd 320/1000 with Supplemental Nights. Sam...

Rampant Lions Press. 'The Psalms of David'. William Dawson (Pubs) 1977. Golden Cockerel Type designed by Eric Gill. 92/280/ 1/4 vellum. Small Fo. ...

Nonesuch Press: Homer, The Odyssey and The Iliad translated by Alexander Pope. 2 vols 1931. 51/835 and 250/925. 8vo. Filled tooled morocco with re...

Sangorski, F. and Sutcliffe, G. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Edward Fitzgerald (Trans) introduction by A.C. Benson, Siegle Hill & Co. Ltd 1911? r...

Golden Cockerel Press. Fitzgerald, Edward (Trans). 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'. Charles Ganz intro. 8 line engravings by John Buckland-Wright 176/3...

Cranbrook Press. (George Booth Michigan). 'The Revelation of St John the Divine'. 1901. 191/240. 16 reproductions after Durer with dedication sign...

Vale Press: Tennyson, (Alfred Lord). 'In Memoriam' with 'Lyric Poems'. 2 vols. 8vo. Border designs by C.S. Ricketts and engraved by C.E. Keates, B...

Nonesuch Press: The Holy Bible, Bloomsbury, London and The Dial Press, New York 1925. 5 vols. Stephen Gooden Engraver. One of 1075 copies. Origina...

Spenser, (Edmund). Crane, (Walter) (Illustrator). 'The Faerie Queen'. George Allen, London 1894-1896. 4to. (280 x 223mm). Publishers ads at end. F...

Fine Binding: Attributed to Roger de Coverly, Surtees, R.S. Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. Bradbury and Evans, London 1853. John Leech (Illus) 8vo. Ma...

Fine Binding: Riviere & Co. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Edward Fitzgerald (Trans), Riviere, London 1928. 12 plates on caslon old face type and s...

Zaehnsdorf (Binder). 'Holbein's Dance of Death'. John Russell-Smith, Soho Square, London 1849. 8vo. Gilt edges and tooled ornament with skull moti...

Golden Cockerel Press: Thomas Gray's 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' with foreword by Christopher Sandford and illustrations by Gwenda Mor...

Vale Press (Hacon & Ricketts): 'The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley'. 3 vols. London 1901. 4to. White buckram, discoloured binding (3) ...[more]

Bewick, (Thomas). 'The Fables of Aesop and others' with designs on wood by Thomas Bewick with multiple engravings and extra copper plates from Sto...

Shakespeare Head Press. 'The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer'. 8 vols. Basil Blackwell Publisher Oxford 1928. Hugh Chesterman (Illus). Lettering by J.V....

Shakespeare Head Press: Haberly, (Loyd). 'Mediaeval English Paving Tiles'. Red and black type. Blackwell Oxford 1937. Ltd to 425. 4to. 1/2 red mor...

Nonesuch Press: 'The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus', the Translation of G Rawlinson revised and annotated by A.W. Lawrence with nine wood ...

Eliot, (George). Brock, (C.E.) (Illus). Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe. J.M. Dent, London 1905. 8vo. 24 coloured illustrations, gilt edges an...

Ricketts, (Charles). Vale Press. 'The Parables From The Gospels' with ten woodcuts. Hacon and Ricketts, London and John Lane, New York 1903. White...

H.M. Stationery Office. 'The Crown Jewels, The History of the Coronation Regalia in the Jewel House of the Tower of London'. Claude Blair Ed. 2 vo...

Tattersfield, (Nigel). Thomas Bewick, The Complete Illustrative Work. 3 vols. The British Library, The Bibliographical Society, Oak Knoll Press 20...

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