Books and Maps

The Modern Part of an Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time Compiled from Original Writers By the Authors of the Antient Part:Forty...

COELEBS [Hannah More]:In Search of a Wife. Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals,Two volumes. 1809. Hal...

A LARGE ALBUM:Containing a quantity of watercolours

KEATE, George:An account of the Pelew Islands,Printed for Captain Wilson, 1788. Illustrated with frontis portrait, folding chart, plus 15 plates....

ETHERTON, L P T:Across the Roof of the World,Constable, 1911, 1st edn. Complete with map and plates. Original pictorial covers. CONDITION: VG

FINE BINDING, ETC:1. Heures latines et fran‡oises. Rennes, J Vatar, 1738, engraved title page and full page illustrations. Con full red leather...

1. BELLEW, H W: Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857. Under Major (Now Colonel) Lumsden, with an account of the country and pe...

BINDING:1. Scott, Sir Walter: The Waverley Novels, in twelve volumes. Half calf. CONDITION: VG;2. Besant, Walter: Four works on London: East L...

ILLUSTRATED: RACKHAM, Arthur; HEATH ROBINSON, W; ETC. (10)

COLOUR LITHOGRAPHED PLATE BOOK:Belliard, [Z‚pherin], [Jean Pierre] Sudr‚, [Charles] Bazin & Vallou de Villeneuve- Dame de la Cour. des 12e. 13e. ...

LOTS 251 TO 347The following books are from the library of John and Griselda Lewis. John Lewis (1912-1996): typographer, illustrator, boat design...

HEATH ROBINSON, W:A Midsummer Night's Dream,L, Constable, 1914. Signed limited edn. no.173 of 250 signed copies; mounted coloured frontispiece an...

HEATH ROBINSON, W:My Line of Life,L, Blackie, 1938, 1st. edn, dust jacket. With an original pen and ink drawing signed by the artist, pasted to f...

HEATH ROBINSON, W:Bill the Minder,L, Constable, 1912, 1st. edn. With an original (almost full page) pen and ink drawing to front flyleaf, inscrib...

HEATH ROBINSON, W; O'CLUNY, Thomas:The Merry Multifleet and the Mounting Multicorps,L, Dent, 1904, 1st. Edn. Signed by the author; plus an ALS fr...

MILNE, A A:1. Winnie-The-Pooh. L, Methuen, 1926, 1st. edn;2. The House at Pooh Corner. L, Methuen, 1928, 1st. edn;3. Now We Are Six. L, Meth...

JONES, DAVID:The Chester Play of the Deluge,Clover Hill Editions, 1977. Limited edn. no. 23 of 250 copies, with dust jacket. CONDITON: Fine copy

THEOPHRASTUS; AMADUTIUS, C:Characterum Ethicorum Theophrasti Eresii Capita Duo Hactenus Anecdota Quae Ex Cod. Ms. Vaticano Saeculi XI Graece Edidi...

BROWNE, F D (MRS HEMANS): Poems,Liverpool, G F Harris, for T Cadell & W Davies, 1808, 1st. edn, 4to. pp xxvii(including subscribers' list), 111. ...

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (Editor):The Yellow Book,An illustrated quarterly, 13 volumes (all published), 1894-1897, 1st. edn. CONDITION: Three with spine...

DICKENS, Charles:1. Great Expectations,Three volumes. L, Chapman and Hall, 1861, first editions in book form, first issues with no mention of la...

CORILLA OLIMPICA, Maria:Atti della Solenne Coronazione fatta in Campidoglio della Insigne Poetessa D. Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez...,Parma, ...

DOYLE, Arthur Conan:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,Two volumes. L, George Newnes, 1893 and 1894. First wor...

THE CRANACH PRESS HAMLET:NY, Benjamin Blom, 1972. Illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig. Folio, vellum backed boards and slipcase. CONDITION: A co...

MATISSE, Henri: [Dessins de Matisse. Paris, Editions Cahiers D'Art", 1936]: Thirty-six tipped-in plates of pen and ink drawings by Matisse. Plus ...

PLATE BOOKS/NATURAL HISTORY:1. Pratt, Anne: Flowering Plants and Ferns. Five volume set and one volume each of Ferns of Great Britain and The Br...

PLATE BOOKS/ART & ENGRAVINGS:1. Britton, John: The Fine Arts of the English School. L, Chiswick Press, 1812, 1st edn., folio, full leather, gilt...

COLOURED PLATE BOOKS:1. Combe, William: The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax. Three volumes. L, R. Ackermann, 1816-1821; mixed editions and binding...

PLATE BOOKS:1. Chambers (Ephraim): Cyclopaedia; or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Plate Volume only (with index). L, Rivington,...

PLATE BOOKS:1. Chambers (Ephraim): Cyclopaedia; or, a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Plate volume only (with index). L, Rivington,...

GREENWOOD, Jeremy: WOOD LEA PRESS:1. Edward Bawden. 2005, limited edn. of 450 copies, with slipcase. CONDITION: Fine;2. Omega Cuts. 1998, lim...

FLEECE PRESS:1. Gwen Raverat, wood engraver. 1996, limited edn. of 260 copies, with slipcase. CONDITION: Fine;2. John Nash: Twenty-One Wood En...

GENTLEMAN, David (Illustrator):1. MacCarthy, F: The Wood Engravings of David Gentleman. David Esslemont, Montgomery, 2000, limited edn. # 140 of...

BAWDEN, Edward (Illustrator):1. Frederic and Elfrida. A Novel by Jane Austen. Moreton-in-Marsh The Kit-Kat Press, 1987, limited edn. of 350 cop...

PRAYER BOOKS:1. Book of Common Prayer; together with the Psalter. Cambridge, J Baskerville, 1762, with two title pages. Contemporary tooled ful...

BASKERVILLE PRESS:1. Virgil: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1757. Subscribers' list, and 432pp. 4to, full leather...

NASH, Paul (Illustrator):1. Genesis. Twelve woodcuts by Paul Nash (including The Void), with the First Chapter of Genesis in the Authorised Vers...

NASH, John (Illustrator):1. Swift, J: Directions to Servants. Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. numbered limited edition, 228/380. Flyleaf inscribed...

NASH, John (Illustrator):1. Lewis, John; Blunt, W (foreword): John Nash : The Painter as Illustrator. Pendomer Press, 1978. 1st edn, dw; Plus (...

NASH, John (Illustrator):1. Spenser, E: The Shepheards Calender. Cresset Press, 1930. Limited edn., no. 279 of 350 copies; colour illustration b...

THE LION AND UNICORN PRESS:1. The Wood Engravings of Eric Ravilious. 1972. Limited edn., this being out of series; 4to. on the much preferred pi...

THE LION AND UNICORN PRESS:1. Paolozzi, E: The Metallization of a Dream. 1963. CONDITION: VG;2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (1956) limite...

PRINTING: FOURNIER, Pierre Simon:Manuel Typographique,Two volumes. Paris, for the author, 1764-1766. First edition, half-title to vol. one (all...

PRINTING: 1. Johnson, John: Typographia, or the printers' instructor. Two volumes. L, Longman, 1824, original boards. CONDITION: Worn; o/w G;2....

PRINTING: 1. The Calligraphic Models of Ludovico Degli Arrighi Surnamed Vincentino. A complete facsimile and introduction by Stanley Morison (At...

PRINTING: 1. Balston, T: The Cambridge University Press collection of Private Press Types. Cambridge, 1951, 1st edn., limited to 350 copies. Ob...

PRINTING: 1. Hansard, T. C: Typographia: An Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of The Art of Printing. L, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1...

PRINTING: 1. Stower, Caleb: The Printer's Grammar. L, Crosby, 1808, 1st edn., complete with all plates. Modern full leather. CONDITION: Chip t...

PRINTING: 1. Jones, Owen: The Grammar of Ornament. L, B. Quaritch, 1868, 1st folio edn., original cloth. CONDITION: VG;2. Linton, W. J: The H...

PRINTING: 1. Johnson, A F: One Hundred Title-Pages: 1500-1800. L, John Lane, 1928, limited edn. of 100 copies, this being no. 58. 4to. Vellum b...

SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS:1. Masefield, John: The Midnight Folk. L, Heinemann, 1927, 1st edn., dw, limited to 265 copies, copy no. 259. Signed by...

HUGHES-STANTON, Blair (Illustrator):1. Graves, Ida: Epithalamion. A Poem. Wood-engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Colchester, The ...

LIMITED EDITIONS:1. Browning (Robert): Pauline: a Fragment of a Confession. L, Richard Clay, 1886, reprint of the original edn. of 1833 edited b...

RICKETS, Charles (Illustrator):1. Gray, John (edit): The Poems of Sir John Suckling. L, Vale Press, 1896, 1st edn., (310 copies printed). Zaehn...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS:1. Rand, Ann and Paul: I Know a lot of Things. N Y, Harcourt, 1956, 1st edn. stated, dw ($2.75). CONDITION: VG++;2. Rand, Ann ...

ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS:1. Rackham, Arthur (Illustrator): Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. L, Hodder & Stoughton, nd (1912), 4to. with 50 t...

ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS:1. Ardizzone, Edward: Tim And Lucy Go To Sea. L, OUP, (1938), 1st. edn. dw (7/6), folio. CONDITION: Dust jacket li...

ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS:1. Bennett, Charles H (Illustrator): The Fables of Aesop and Others translated into Human Nature. L, W. Kent, 1857,...

ILLUSTRATED:1. O'Connor, John: A View of Kilvert. Passages from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert selected and illustrated in colour by John...

SPORT:1. Nicholson, William: An Almanac of Twelve Sports. Words by Rudyard Kipling. L, Heinemann. (1898), 1st. edn. With 12 colour lithographic...