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Blake (William, illustrator). Aphorisms on Man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, 2nd edition, London: T. Bensley, for J. Johnson, 1789, engraved frontispiece by William Blake, with neat ink inscription at head 'Know thyself', early ownership inscription to head of title of C. Philpot, 1830, and additional manuscript note to lower portion, small viii, 224pp., modern full calf gilt, small 8vo, together with The Orlando of Ariosto, reduced to XXIV Books; the narrative connected, and the stories disposed in a regular series: by John Hoole, translator of the original work in forty-six books, 2 volumes, London: printed for J. Dodsley, 1791, engraved plates including one by William Blake after Stothard facing page 461 of first volume, 19th-century bookplate of Ralph Creyke Marton to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary uniform full tree calf, gilt decorated spines with green morocco labels, a little rubbed (generally in good condition), 8vo, plus, The Life, and Postumous Writings of William Cowper, Esqr. with an introductory letter to the Right Hon. Earl Cowper, by William Hayley Esqr. 3 volumes, 1st edition, Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave; for J. Johnson, 1803, engraved portrait of William Cowper and Mrs Cowper, the poet's mother, and engraving at end of volume one, one portrait to volume two, and two plates near front of volume three, all by William Blake, page 414/415 at end of first volume missing, part-title towards front of third volume with repaired tear (without loss), bookplate of John Rutherfurd Esq. of Edgerston to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary uniform sprinkled full calf, spines gilt with contrasting green and red labels, rubbed and some wear to joints and outer edges, 4toQTY: (6)

Handbooks for the Indian Army. Hindustani Musalmans, compiled for the Government of India by Major W. Fitz G. Bourne, revised, Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1927, six preliminary leaves, 49 pp. of main text, ownership inscription to front blank of William McRae, New Delhi 20/5/45, original black cloth-backed printed boards, rubbed and marked, with one or two small stains, together with Mahrattas, compiled for the Government of India by Major R. Betham, revised and brought up-to-date by Lt.-Colonel W. B. Roberts, Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1930, eight preliminary pp., 109 pp., IX (index at rear), folding uncoloured sketch map of Maharashtra contained in pocket to rear pastedown, plus Punjabi Musalmans, compiled for the Government of India by Lt.-Col. J. M. Wikeley, 2nd edition, 1935, Delhi: Government of India Press, 1936, 8 preliminary pages, 98 pp. of main text, original blue-cloth backed printed boards, some marks, folding map of Recruiting Area Punjabi Musalmans showing locality of tribes, loosely contained in pocket at rear, and Jats, Gujars & Ahirs, first compiled under the orders of the Government of India by Major A. H. Bingley, revised and rewritten by Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. Christie, 1937, Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1937, four preliminary pages, 104 pp., typewritten amendment sheet loosely inserted, original black-cloth backed printed boards, rubbed and some soiling, plus Dogras, revised in 1932 at the request of the Government of India by Lieutenant.-Colonel W. B. Cunningham, (reprint 1940), Delhi: Government of India Press, 1941, title, ix plus 135 pp., rebound in modern black cloth with photocopy of the original cover pasted to upper cover, all 8voQTY: (5)

Rengifo (Juan Diaz). Arte Poetica Espanola, con una fertilissima sylva de consonantes comunes, proprios, esdruxulos, y reflexos, y vn diuino Eestimulo del Amor de Dios, 1st edition, Salamanca: Miguel Serrano de Vargas, 1592, [12], 324, 40 pp. (pi4, *2, A-2R4, 2S2, a-e4), old ownership inscription to foot of title (probably late 17th or early 18th century), folding letterpress table, some manuscript additions to the lists of vocabulary, a few marks and crease to title, small light waterstain to foot of first few leaves, contemporary limp vellum, yapp fore-edges, lightly rubbed and marked, lacks ties, 4to (198 x 144 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Jesuit College of Vergara (inscription to foot of title-page).Palau 72824.Rare. Only one copy in the UK (Bodleian). Juan Diaz Rengifo was the pseudonym (using his brother's name) of the Jesuit father Diego Garcia (1553/4-1615) who was born in Avila, and studied theology at the University of Salamanca. His Arte Poetica Espanola became the standard manual of poetic metre during the Spanish Golden Age in the 17th and 18th centuries. As a poetry manual, the first section explains various poetic forms and meters, giving brief examples of each. The Divino Estimulo del Amor de Dios (Divine Stimulus of God’s Love) is then offered as a more extensive example of the application of rhyme and meter. The final part of the book has a glossary of rhyming words to be used in writing poetry with the silva meter.

Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1st edition in book form, London: George Newnes, 1892, 1st issue with misspelling 'Violent' for 'Violet' on p. 317, illustrations by Sidney Paget, a little light spotting and small marginal water stains, previous owner signature to front endpaper, all edges gilt, original blue cloth gilt in the first state (with no street name on publisher's stamp to upper cover), rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed with small marks, 8vo QTY: (1)

Fraser (George Macdonald). A complete set of all 12 'Flashman' novels, 1st edition, 1969-2005, map endpapers, original cloth, dust jackets, first three titles with small reinforcements at folds to verso, Flash For Freedom price-clipped, a few small light adhesive tape residue marks to a few flaps, 8vo, Flashman with a 1 pp. tipped-in typed letter signed by the author to Mr. Armstrong, December 1986, thanking him for his kind comments and relating his activities for the following year, together with 11 others by the author, including The Steel Bonnets, 1971, and an uncorrected proof for Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, 1994 QTY: (23)

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1818, first issue, with 'impressions of' at end of page 155, two footnotes on page 217, and five on page 258, 6-line errata on page 236, with single publishers advertisement leaf at end, listing Hobb Houses illustrations of the Fourth Canto 'ready on the 28th of April', and Hakewill's Views in Italy, on the 1st of May', some light spotting to first and last few leaves and endpapers, untrimmed, original drab boards, with matching reback, retaining original paper label to spine, a little rubbed, contained in modern green cloth slipcase, labeled Byron's First Editions to spine, 8voQTY: (1)

Grahame (Kenneth & E.H. Shepard). The Wind in the Willows, 38th edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1931, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, a few pale spots to fore margins, map endpapers, top edge green, original green cloth gilt (very slight lean), dust jacket, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Fine copy of the first edition illustrated by E.H. Shepard.

Murphy (Richard). The Woman of the House, Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1959, light partial offsetting to endpapers, original wrappers, some toning and chipped at upper margins, 8vo, (one of 250 copies), together with 5 others by the poet, including 3 inscribed to Rosemary Goad, the first female director at publisher Faber and Faber: Sailing to an Island, 1963, inscribed to dedication (with an autograph postcard from Murphy loosely inserted), The Battle of Aughrim and the God Who Eats Corn, 1968 inscribed 'For Rosemary, a duet on a golden harpsichord, Richard, 17 September 1968, London', and Selected Poems, 1979, also inscribed to Rosemary Goad, and The Last Galway Hooker, 2nd edition, 1962QTY: (7)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

Eliot (T.S.) On Poetry and Poets, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1957, light partial offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, a few chips and tears, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to title "Inscribed for Charles Monteith in amity, T.S. Eliot, 13. iv.57", together with Collected Poems 1909-1962, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1963, original cloth, dust jacket, spine a little toned, with small hole and tears at ends, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to title "Inscribed for Charles Monteith by T.S. Eliot, 29. viii. 63"QTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

Orwell (George). Burmese Days, 1st edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934, pastedowns restored, stamp to front free endpaper, a few light spots, original orange cloth, lightly rubbed, dust jacket, spine toned & worn with loss to extremities, tape repairs to verso, flaps chipped & torn with some loss, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Fenwick A.2aExtremely scarce in dust jacket, Orwell's first novel."In his literary notebooks, Orwell described this as 'the true first edition', as opposed to the first British edition [published by Gollancz in June 1935] which he considered 'a garbled version and should NOT be followed'..." (Fenwick, George Orwell. A Bibliography, 1998, p. 21). "When the first Penguin edition was being prepared in the mid-1940s, Orwell insisted that the American edition should be followed which reverted back to the original names and this has now become the standard English text". (British Library, George Orwell's Burmese Days, 2014).

Rexroth (Kenneth). In Defense of the Earth, 1st edition, New York: New Directions, 1956, author's signed presentation inscription to front endpaper 'Wish much love to Derek Savage, Mevagissey, summer 1959, Kenneth Rexroth', original blue cloth, some spotting and fading, in dustwrapper, chipped with a little loss to edges, a little darkened to spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:With a typewritten airmail letter by Kenneth Rexroth to Derek Savage, dated San Francisco, January 222, 1951, plus a signed typewritten poem 'Lament for Dylan Thomas' (2 sheets), both loosely inserted.Derek Savage (1917-2007) was an anarchist poet and critic, and author of The Personal Principal: Studies in Modern Poetry (1944), and The Withered Branch: Six Studies of the Modern Noval (1950). Rexroth's letter to him is a lively survey of current politics and literature. 'What seems to be really wrong with England is the still potent systemised hypocrisy of the C of E.... I don't agree with you about Read. The money he makes seems to me made in an ethical enough way for these days....I don't care if he drinks Chateux Lafitte every night for dinner... I grew up in Chicago in a circle of hard drinking, hard fighting I. W. W. S. real tough sons of bitches. I think they would scare not only Newton, or Adeane but possibly even Woodcock' 'Mysticism-Evelyn Underhill is still one of the best. Have you read the English Mystics? Richard Rolle, Julia of Norwich, The Cloud of Unknowing... Alchemy-do you Thomas Vaughn? his collected works were edited by Waite... Miller's last book - supposed to be his Magnum Opus - The Rosy Crucifixion- of which the first part, Sexus, has been published is simply dreadful. Even his zheeter boog followers of the Cave's of St. Germain found it bad. No one in England seems to realise how close the USA is to war. I think there is very little chance of them not starting it in the next two or three months. Unless they have some superbomb up their sleeves, they are sure to loose.... Hatred of Russia has become a constant mass psychosis...'.

Ashbery (John). Some Trees, with a foreword by W. H. Auden (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 52), 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956, original publisher's black cloth, spine titled in gilt, with unclipped dust-wrapper, a few minor marks and spine somewhat tanned, 8vo, generally G/VG, with an original typescript poem by John Ashbery loosely inserted at front of volume, in French on two sheets of paper, titled 'Poemes Francaises' (in blue ink), and signed twice to foot of each sheet in blue ink by John Ashbery (the first signature inked over), marked in pencil to upper corner of first sheet 'Tel Quel 27', together withMoore (Marianne). The Pangolin and Other Verse, 1st edition, London: Brendin Publishing Company, 1936, monochrome illustrations by George Plank, printed at the Curwen Press, original patterned boards, a little rubbed and spine somewhat darkened, 8vo, plus two others: John Berryman, Poems (Poet of the Month series), 1st edition, Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942, original light blue printed wrappers, minor discolouration to edges, and Robert Creeley, The Finger, poems 1966-1969, 1st edition, London: Calder & Boyars, 1970, original green cloth in dustwrapper, with some light spotting, inscribed by the author 'for Lee-with our love-in his country. Bob, London 7/18/70', all 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:'Poemes Francais' was written in 1966, and published in Tel Quel, Autumn 1966 (in French) and Art and Literature, Spring 1967 (in English), before appearing in The Double Dream of Spring (1970). In a note appended to the English text, Ashbery said: “I wrote the group of ‘French poems’ in French and translated them myself into English, with the idea of avoiding customary word-patterns and associations.”Abbott A5 for Marianne Moore's The Pangolin. Printed in an edition of 120 copies only.

Kingsley (Rev. Charles). The Water-Babies a Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, 1st edition, 1st issue, London & Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1863, with L'Envoi at leaf b, frontispiece, advertisement leaf at front, half-title with contemporary ownership inscription to upper, some minor spotting, original green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, rebacked, covers worn, corners bumped, 8vo, together with a duplicate 2nd issue, plusDean & Son (T. publishers). The Colored Nursery Picture Everyday Book, Series the First, The Home First Book, edited by Mrs. Charles Butler, circa 1852, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and general title, 2 full-page woodcut part-titles and woodcut illustrations throughout, all hand-coloured, previous owner's notes in pencil to free front endpaper, closed tear to b6, Marjorie Moon bookplate to verso of free front endpaper, C Wiley booklabel to front pastedown, inner front hinge partly split, original blind-tooled cloth with gilt-lettering, portion of spine torn but still present, small 4to, and Farrar (Frederick W.). Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858, including 'sadistic' passage that was removed in later editions (p. 365), spotting mainly to preliminaries, final leaves and endpapers, previous ownership inscription to free front leaf, part of a signed letter from the author tipped onto free front leaf, Edward Philips Thompson bookplate to front pastedown, quarter calf boards, upper cover detached, 1894, and a duplicate copy, 1894, with a letter from the author, both 8voQTY: (5)

Eliot (T. S.). Geoffrey Faber 1889-1961, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1961, original brown boards, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, spine lightly faded, in matching slipcase, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.Limited edition of 100 copies, this copy numbered 76, signed by T. S. Eliot. Additonal presentation inscription from Susan Mahon, the printer, to Rosemary Goad, inscribed to colophon at rear 'for dearest Rosie with love from Sue December 25th 1961'. Rosemary Goad joined Faber & Faber as a secretary in 1953, initially sharing a room with Valerie Fletcher, soon to become Valerie Eliot. She then worked as an assistant to the editor Charles Monteith, and became a director of the firm in 1970, the first female employee appointed to the board.

Hughes (Ted). Crow. From the Life and Songs of the Crow, With twelve drawings by Leonard Baskin, London: Faber & Faber, 1973, 12 monochrome plates after Baskin, text and illustrations printed on TH Saunders paper (Typography by Berthold Wolpe), partly untrimmed, original black and grey-blue cloth gilt, with publisher's slipcase, a little rubbed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.Limited edition of 400 copies, signed by Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin, this copy numbered 177.

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Hailstones, 1st edition, Dublin: Gallery Books, 1984, inscribed presentation inscription in blue ink to title-page, 'for Rosemary with love, Grotus + Coventina (p. 20), Happy Christmas!', original cloth in dust jacket, a little fading to edges and spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.One of 250 copies bound in cloth and signed by the author, the remaining 500 copies unsigned in wrappers.

Milton (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books, 2 vols., 4th edition, with notes of various authors, by Thomas Newton, London: C. Hitch, L. Hawes, J. Hodges, J. & R. Tonson [& others], 1757, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume and 12 engraved plates, together with Milton (John), Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon several occasions, 2nd edition, with notes of various authors, by Thomas Newton, London: J. & R. Tonson and S. Draper [& others], 1753, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume and 5 engraved plates, some scattered spotting, contemporary uniform calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, joints cracked and light wear to extremities, 8vo, together with:Hyde (Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon), The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England begun in the year 1641, 5 volumes, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1707, engraved portrait frontispiece to each, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo,Eyre (Vincent), The Military Operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British Army, January 1842. With a journal of imprisonment in Afghanistan, 5th edition, London: John Murray, 1843, folding lithograph plan, upper pastedown with bookplate of the Earl of Ellenborough of Southam de la Bere and ink stamp 'Earl of Ellenborough's heirlooms' and bearing signature 'Ellenborough', contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with contrasting morocco labels, joints rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th and 20th-century leather-bound volumes, including The Times History of the War in South Africa 1899-1900, edited by L. S. Amery, 7 volumes in 6, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Ltd., 1900-1909, heraldic bookplate of Sherborne Library to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, 20th-century maroon half morocco gilt, 8vo, plus two cloth bound volumesQTY: (50)

Heaney (Seamus). North, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1975, front endpapers browned, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded, 8vo, together with: Heaney (Seamus), Sweeney Praises the Trees, 1st edition, New York: Kelly/Winterton Press, 1981, woodcut by Henry Pearson as frontispiece, partly uncut, original sewn plain wrappers with embossed motif to upper wrapper, slim 8vo, (limited edition, 58/110 copies), plusHeaney (Seamus), Robert Lowell: A Memorial Address and an Elegy, 3 copies, privately printed by Faber & Faber, 1978, original sewn grey wrappers, minor marks and some slight fading to extremities, slim 8vo, plus 5 other unsigned works by Heaney, Beowulf, The Redress of Poetry, Station Island, Electric Light (all original cloth in dust jackets), and Field Work (paperback)QTY: (10)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

James (P.D). The Black Tower, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1975, original grey cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo, together with:Innocent Blood, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1980, lightly toned, original red cloth gilt, boards lightly marked, dust jacket, 8vo, withThe Black Tower, 1st US edition, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975, original black cloth, boards faintly marked, dust jacket, spine lightly toned and rubbed, 8vo, with 11 others by P.D JamesQTY: (14)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

Shelley (Percy Bysshe). Queen Mab, 1st published edition, 2nd issue, London: R. Carlile, 1822, lower blank margin of cancel title excised, verso of final page of notes (p. 82) bearing the imprint of W. Clark, 2 pp. dedication to Harriet at end, edges of leaves at foot of volume partly trimmed (to remove ink stain or stamp?), occasional scattered spotting, signature 'Angela Mills, Bristol 1969' to front free endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown sometime removed, original cloth-backed boards, spine faded and few marks to boards, 8vo, together with:Clare (John), Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, 2nd edition, London: Taylor and Hessey; Stamford: E. Drury, 1820, half-title discarded and without 4 pp. advertisements, occasional light dust-soiling and few marks, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 12mo,Burns (Robert), The Poetical Works of Rob[ert] Burns, with his life Engravings on wood by Bewick from designs by Thurston, 2 volumes, Alnwick: Printed by W. Davison, [1808], engraved frontispiece and title to each volume, wood engraved vignette plates and illustrations by Bewick, some toning, spotting mostly at front and rear, modern half calf, dark green skiver labels to spines, small 8vo in 4s,Byron (George), The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron, 5 volumes in three, London: John Murray, 1817, volume III & IV title-pages bound together at front of third volume, title page for 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto the fourth' with imprint dated 1818, front pastedowns with armorial bookplates of Richardson Harrison and also Harper Repository of Arts Cheltenham, contemporary diced calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco labels, volume 1 rebacked preserving spine, rubbed at foot to spines, 8vo, plus other late 18th & early 19th-century antiquarian including Scott (Walter), Ballads and Lyrical Pieces, Edinburgh, 1806; Hazlitt (William), Lectures on the English Poets, delivered at the Surrey Institution, 1819, etc.QTY: (14)NOTE:Shelley first printed Queen Mab privately in 1813, but it was subsequently published in a pirated edition by R. Clark in 1821, for which Clark subsequently received four months' imprisonment. Thereafter the remaining sheets were reissued with a new title-page by Carlile.

Cunningham (Joseph Davey). A History of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1849, folding map frontispiece (with outline colour), folding table, armorial bookplate of Douglas M Hogg to front pastedown, lacking other map, title and half-title supplied in facsimile, lacking final advertisement leaf, final 3 advertisement leaves with upper right-hand corner clipped, toned, endpapers renewed, hinges repaired, later prize calf gilt, later title labels, rubbed, 8vo, with ALS to Cunningham included, signed by Cunningham to versoQTY: (2)NOTE:'In 1837 he was selected by Lord Auckland to join Colonel Claud Wade, who was then the political agent upon the Sikh frontier, as assistant, with the special duty of fortifying Firozpur, the agent's headquarters. This appointment brought him into close connection with the Sikhs, and, as he spent the next eight years of his life in political employments in this part of India, he was able to obtain that thorough knowledge of their manners and customs which makes his History of the Sikhs one of the most valuable books ever published in connection with Indian history. In 1838 he was present at the interview between Lord Auckland and Runjeet Singh, the great Sikh chieftain; in 1839 he accompanied Colonel Wade when he forced the Khyber Pass, and he was promoted first lieutenant on 20 May in that year; in 1840 he was placed in charge of Ludhiana, under G. Russell Clerk, Colonel Wade's successor, and as political officer accompanied Brigadier-general Shelton and his army through the Sikh territory to Peshawur on his way to Cabul, and then accompanied Colonel Wheeler and Dost Muhammad, the deposed ameer of Afghanistan, back to British territory; in 1841 he was sent on a special mission to the principality of Jammu; in 1842 he was present at the interview between Lord Ellenborough and Dost Muhammad and the Sikhs… He spent four years on [the History], and on its publication in 1849 it was received with the greatest favor by the English press, a verdict which posterity has ratified, for it is universally recognized as the one authority upon the subject. But though this history made his name as an historian, it brought him into deep disgrace with his superiors. In his last chapter he treated of the history of the first Sikh war, and in it he made use of the knowledge he had obtained while acting as political agent with the army in the field, and distinctly asserted that two of the Sikh generals, Lal Singh and Tej Singh, were bought. Both Lord Hardinge and Colonel Henry Lawrence, who had acted as political agent after the death of Major Broadfoot, asserted that there had been no private negotiations with any of the Sikh leaders; but the confidential position which Cunningham had held, and still more his disgrace which followed, are strong arguments that such negotiations did pass'. (DNB)

Gill (Eric). The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the Authorized Version of King James I with Decorations by Eric Gill, Wellingborough: September Press, 1987,decorative initials, headpieces and full-page illustrations throughout from woodcuts by Gill, top edge gilt, original black cloth with morocco title label to spine, in glassine wrapper and publishers slipcase, folio, together withDreyfus (John). A Typographical Masterpiece, An account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 'The Four Gospels' in 1931, 1st edition, San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1990, monochrome illustrations,a few light spots to first and last leaf, original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, and with gilt motif to upper cover, folio, limited edition of 450 copies QTY: (2)NOTE:Limited edition of 600 copies, this being one of 180 unnumbered copies bound in backroom? by The Fine Bindery.

Sedgley (Thomas, binder). The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly Translated out of the original Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesties special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. London: Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, 1701, engraved general title by Sturt, letterpress New Testament title, Apocrypha present, some woodcut decorative initials, occasional minor spotting and marks, titles and borders ruled in red throughout the volume, Dutch gilt pink endpapers with foliate design, all edges gilt, fine contemporary mosaic binding of scarlet morocco by Thomas Sedgley, extremities rubbed with some wear in places, with joints split and loss to head and foot of spine, some surface losses to spine and covers (particularly to the former), gilt roll decorated raised bands, compartments of spine and both covers densely decorated with a plethora of gilt decorated coloured onlays, forming strapwork designs filled with a profusion of gilt tools and rolls, including leaf sprays, fleurons, seedheads, grotesque face tool, tulip, carnation, and sunflower tools, Tudor roses, etc, edges with seedhead roll, turn-ins with pelmet roll and triple fillets, thick folio (52.5 x 34 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Herbert 868.This edition of the Bible is understood to have been supervised by William Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester. The text, printed in large type, fills 1456 pages. Besides the revised marginal dates and chronological Index, the book contains a long note on Jewish Weights and Measures, etc., compiled by Richard Cumberland (1631-1718), Bishop of Peterborough, whose essay on this subject, dedicated to his friend Samuel Pepys (as President of the Royal Society), appeared in 1686. This matter is sometimes appended, with other tables, to subsequent editions of the Bible. In this edition the date of the Nativity is taken as the central event in history, and apparently for the first time in an English Bible the years are reckoned as either 'Before Christ' or 'Anno Domini.' It should be noted that this chronology of the 1701 London folio (since reproduced in most editions of the King James' version) and inserted without any authority in English Bibles for the last two centuries, was based on the Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti (1650-54), compiled by the James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh. John Lewis (A complete history of the several translations of the Holy Bible and New Testament into English, 3rd edition, 1818, p. 350) states that this Bible was included among those condemned by the Lower House of Convocation in 1703 for their gross errors (Herbert).Unmistakably the work of Thomas Sedgley (1684-1761), this magnificent mosaic binding - which stylistically bears all the hallmarks of Sedgley's best work - incorporates a number of tools found on other bindings known to be by his hand, such as a wheel of five leaves revolving around its centre and a tulip tool (see number 138 in Maggs, Bookbinding in the British Isles, Catalogue 1075, Part I). It also utilises a highly distinctive grotesque face tool, illustrated in John P. Chalmers's article 'Thomas Sedgley Oxford Binder' in The Book Collector, Autumn 1977, pp.353-370 (number 45). This tiny tool, very like a gargoyle head, is easily overlooked, and its inclusion on this sacred tome is likely to be a kind of private jest on the part of the binder. Chalmers illustrates a mosaic binding by Sedgley similar to ours, on a 1715 Book of Common Prayer, belonging to All Souls College, Oxford. Another such is number 59 in Howard Nixon's Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, covering the dedication copy of John Theobald's Albion, printed in Oxford in 1720 (British Library C.27.f.10). Nixon notes that the Theobald "forms one of a small group of mosaic bindings, sharing the same coloured interlacing strapwork and the same unusual leaf tools, which seem to have been executed in Oxford", mentioning the All Souls prayer book as one of this select group, as well as a three-volume Xenophon, published in Oxford, 1727-35, and a Greek New Testament, printed at Cambridge in 1632, both in the Broxbourne Library.Proceeds from the sale of this lot in aid of All Saints Church, Preston, Gloucestershire and St. Michael & All Angels, Moccas, Herefordshire.

Comenius (John Amos). Orbis Sensualium Pictus … Visible World: or, A Nomenclature, and Pictures, of all the Chief Things that are in the World, and of Men's Employments therein; In above 150 Cuts ..., Translated into English by Charles Hoole, M.A. for the use of Young Latin Scholars, 12th edition, Corrected & Enlarged, London: Printed for S. Leacroft, 1777, woodcuts throughout, contemporary calf with antique-style calf gilt reback, original spine label retained, tall 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:First published in Latin in 1657, this early and charmingly illustrated book of instruction for children is here translated into English, and covers the natural world, geography, religion, trades, etc.

Lewis (William, publisher). Lewis's New Traveller's Guide, or a Pocket Edition of the English Counties, containing all the Direct & Cross Roads in England and Wales, with the Distance of each Principal Place from London, [1819], hand coloured engraved frontispiece of a map of England & Wales, calligraphic title page with a black & white engraved vignette of a coach and postillions, preface (dated 1819), contents list, list of mail coaches and cost of postage, forty-two (complete as list) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, including one folding (Yorkshire), each map with a page of descriptive text, some dust soiling and slight staining throughout, a few text pages with long closed tears, text block cracked an weak, several ownership inscriptions to pastedowns and front and rear endpapers, contemporary quarter morocco with morocco gilt title label to the upper siding, heavily worn and frayed, 8vo, together with Cary (John). Cary's Traveller's Companion, or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales..., 1791, calligraphic title, advertisement and contents, 43 engraved maps including one folding (Yorkshire), all with contemporary outline colouring, index bound at rear, later endpapers, modern half calf gilt, small 8vo, with Leigh (Samuel). Leigh's New Pocket Road Book of England and Wales and part of Scotland..., 1826, frontispiece of the price of posting, additional decorative half-title and preface, 55 uncoloured engraved maps by Sidney Hall, additional half-title and a folding map of England & Wales (this map with contemporary hand-colouring, index and publisher's advertisement bound at rear, later pencil annotations to rear first blank, contemporary morocco gilt, re-backed, bumped with some wear to the extremities,12mo, plus Reynolds (James). Reynolds's Travelling Atlas of England: With all the Railways and Stations..., [1848], title page and 30 engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, some spotting and dust soiling throughout, text block detached, broken and split, publisher's decorative gilt cloth, worn and rubbed, 8voQTY: (4)

* Devon. Laurie (Robert & Whittle James), Two Sea Charts of South Devon, An Hydrographical Survey of the Coast of Devonshire from Exmouth Bar to Stoke Point; Containing the River Ex, Torbay, Dartmouth, Start Bay and Bigbury Bay, 12th May 1794 [and] Plymouth Sound, Homoaze and Catwater surveyed in 1797, Jany. 1st. 1798, two engraved sea charts, the first uncoloured with an inset map of the River Dart, two horizon profiles, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, some offsetting, 700 x 530 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, the second chart with later outline colouring, compass rose and numerous rhumb line, some offsetting, 710 x 530 mm, framed and glazedQTY: (2)NOTE:From the First Edition of Sayer and Bennett's The Channel Pilot: comprehending the English and French Coasts ...; this was the first new English sea atlas of the Channel coasts for over eighty years, forming a substantial improvement on the Greenville Collins' Great Britains' Coasting Pilot and the English Pilot.

Fleece Press. First Friends. Paul and Bunty, John and Christine - and Carrington, by Ronald Blythe, Fleece Press, 1997, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition of 300, together with The Artistry of Leslie Cole. Today I worked well - the picture fell off the brush, told for the first time by Malcolm Yorke, with a note on the interesting life of Brenda Cole, Fleece Press, 2010, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, oblong 4to, limited edition of 500QTY: (2)

Doorly (Gerald S). The Voyages of the 'Morning', 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1916, half-title, 16 plates after photographs (some two per page), folding map, 6pp of musical scores, lightly toned & spotted, gift bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary prize calf gilt, morocco labels, some wear, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Renard 450; Rosove 96.A1. Taurus 142."One of the scarcest books of Antarctic exploration". The work “records the discovery of Scott Island and the first landing on Beaufort Island, and personal impressions of the Southern party upon their return”. (Rosove)"It must have been a rarity to find someone interested in reading the title in the midst of the First World War". (Taurus)

James (P.D). A Taste for Death, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1986, inscribed by the author ' To Rosemary, editor and friend, when kindness perception and patience helped me to finish this book - more or less on time! With love, Phyllis, P.D. James, 16 June 1986' to title, lightly toned to margins, original black buckram lettered in silver, dust jacket, 8vo, together with:A Certain Justice, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1997, inscribed by the author 'For dear Rosemary - travelling companion, editor and friend, in gratitude for all the years of encouragement and love, P.D. James, 25 Nov 1997' to title, original black cloth, dust jacket, head of spine slightly frayed, 8vo, withDevices and Desires, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1989, inscribed by the author 'For Rosemary - editor and friend, with love from Phyllis, P.D. James, 8 Oct 1989' to title, original black cloth, dust jacket, spine lightly faded, 8vo, with 8 other 1st editions by P.D. James, all inscribed from the author to Rosemary GoadQTY: (11)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Sweeney Astray, A Version from the Irish, 1st edition, Derry: Field Day, 1983, signed by the author in brown ink on title, original cloth in dust jacket, minor rubbing, 8vo, together with Seeing Things, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1991, inscribed in black ink by Heaney to front endpaper, 'for Rosemary with love, helping "Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten." (p. 50), Seamus, 2 June 1991', original cloth in dust jacket, spine partly faded, plus Crediting Poetry, The Nobel Lecture, privately printed for Faber & Faber, 1995, signed and dated 12 February 1996 by Heaney to half-title, original printed wrappers, spine slightly faded, slim 8vo (one of 500 copies)QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

* Slovenian playing cards. Slovanski Tarok, 3rd edition, Ljubljana: Prva Slovanska Tovarna Igralnih Kart, circa 1919, the complete deck of 54 colour lithographed playing cards designed by Hinko Smrekar, fanciful suits (leaves, spearheads, swords hilts, shields), double-ended courts representing Slavic characters, copyright notice on knight of leaves, ace of shields with maker's details, trademark, and two tax stamps (one Austrian and one possibly German - very faint), 4 of shields with maker's details, trumps (with Roman numerals I-XXI to opposite corners) depicting Slavic customs and festivals, lightly toned and dust-soiled, scarce pale spotting (mainly to pips), trump XIX with faint mark to border, square corners, versos black crescents, dots and tiny stars, each card 131 x 75 mm, 41 cards mounted with photo corners onto 2 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of boards), the remainder contained in a plastic bag, the boards 59.5 x 42 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Bube Dame König (1982) #161; Cary collection, AUS 237; Mann, All Cards on the Table, pp.109 & 165; Reisinger, Tarocke, vol. 6 (3), pp.106/1-8.Reisinger (see above) identifies three editions of this deck, with this third edition having square corners and slightly cropped images compared to the first two. The tax stamps here appear to be the Austrian stamp used between 1882-1899 (as also with the Bube Dame König copy), with possibly a faint purple Duetches Reich stamp (as mentioned in Cary). As the First Slavic Playing Card Factory (Erste Slawische Spielkartenfabriks AG) was not founded until 1910, by Fran ?ebokli and Nikolaj Novakovi?, the Austrian tax stamp must be an older stamp being used beyond its usual date (and therefore misleading). This Slavic Tarot deck was banned by the police in 1916 due to the clear patriotic pro-Slavic motifs, but presumably re-issued after the First World War ended. The use of swords, shields and spears as suit signs indicate armed rebillion, with linden leaves representing Slovenian identity. The cards depict not just Slovenian but also Serbian and Russian peoples and customs.

Martin (John, illustrator). The Paradise Lost by John Milton, 1st edition, London: Septimus Prowett, 1825-26, serialised parts I - VII, containing 14 mezzotint plates, all with tissue guards, presented as double frontispieces to each volume, some minor spotting to margins, in original pale blue paper wrappers, some minor loss of paper to spines, part I cover and plates detached, part II cover and first plate detached, part V top right corner missing on cover, each with a neat number in brown ink to top right corner, 4toQTY: (7)NOTE:A monumental work, first published in twelve parts, 1825-27.

Beckett (Samuel). Happy Days. A Play in Two Acts, 1st UK edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1962, original cloth, dust jacket, edges slightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.Presentation copy, inscribed to title "For Rosemary Goad, with all good wishes Sam. Beckett, London Jan. 1973".

Coulomb (Charles Augustin). Théorie des Machines Simples, en ayant égard au frottement des leurs parties et a la roideur des cordages, nouvelle edition, Paris: Bachelier, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, 1821, half title, 10 folding engraved plates, occasional light spotting, modern half calf gilt, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Norman 528: "A collection of Coulomb's memoirs on mechanics, first published in 1809... it includes the "Therie des machines simples", "Essai sur une application des regles de maxims et minimis a quelques problemes de statique", "Resulat de plusiers experiences destinees a determiner la quantite d'action que les hommes peuvent fournir par leur travail journalier, " his study of ergonomics, and three other papers on friction and mechanics."The first printing of Coulomb's prize-winning essay on friction was in 1785. "Coloumb showed that in general there is an approximately linear relationship between friction and normal force; but he extended the investigation considerably to show complex effects due to difference in load, materials, time of repose, lubrication, velocity and other considerations" (DSB).

Heaney (Seamus). Death of a Naturalist, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1966, original cloth in dust jacket, slightly rubbed and marked, spine partly faded and with small paper surface loss, chipped at head of spine and small closed tear to upper margin of lower panel, 8vo, together with Door into the Dark, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1969, original cloth in dust jacket, minor dust-soiling, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.The author's first two published collections of poems.

Detmold (Maurice and Edward). Pictures from Birdland, with Rhymes by E.B.S. [Edward Shuldham], 1st edition, London & New York: J.M. Dent & E.P. Dutton, 1899, 24 fine colour plates, contents detached (gutta-percha perished), original pictorial boards, light edge wear, a few small marks, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:The first book illustrated by twins Maurice and Edward Detmold, aged 15, with verses by Dr Shuldham, a physician, family friend and friend of Lewis Carroll, sharing a common interest in homoeopathy. Tragically, Maurice Detmold committed suicide in 1908, followed years later by his brother Edward in 1957.

Carducho (Vicente). Dialogos de la pintura, su defensa, origen, essencia, definicion, modos y diferencias. Al Gran Monarcha de las Espan?as y Nuevo Mundo, Don Felipe IIII. Por Vincencio Carducho, de la Illustre Academia de la nobilissima Ciudad de Florencia y Pintor de su Magd. Catolica. Sigue?se a los Dialogos, Informaciones, y pareceres en sabor del Arte, escritas por varones insignes en todas Letras, 1st edition, Madrid : Impresso con licencia por Frco. Martinez, 1633, engraved titlepage, and 9 full-page engraved plates by Francisco Fernandez and Fransisco Lopez, erratic pagination and signatures (A-Z4, Aa4-Qq2, E4-F2, G4, H1, H3, I4-K2, A4-F2, A4-G2, A3, B-D4, A4-E2, Kkk-Mmm4), some spotting and occasional browning to text, a few small wormtracks to outer blank margins of last few leaves, contemporary limp vellum, spine with title in ink manuscript, rubbed and some marks and wear, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Salva 2564; Palau II, p. 58. No copy traced at auction.Carducho'e treatise is considered the first Spanish treatise on painting that systematically grafted the main doctrines and practices of the Italian Renaissance onto Spanish painting in the Baroque era, and sought to raise the status of that profession from a traditional craft to one of the liberal arts. The work is divided into eight dialogues between a master (Carducho) and his disciple and surveys the history and methods of the most celebrated painters, including a section in favour of painting as an art which should be exempt from taxation. In the eighth and final dialogue Carducho describes paintings in contemporary collections in Madrid, including works now lost.

Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems, 1st edition, 1st issue, Belfast: Festival Publications, Queen's University Belfast, [1965], original printed wrappers, with first issue designed to the upper wrapper of a nine-pointed sun in purple, stapled as issued, minimal browning to spine, pencil ownership to head of upper cover 'Miss Joad', slim 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Brandes & Durkan A1a. The scarce first issue of the poet's first separately printed collection of poems. This copy belonged to Rosemary Goad (1928-2021), editor and later director at the publishers Faber & Faber.

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice: a novel, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, London: T. Egerton, 1813, half-titles, first 4 leaves of volume 3 torn to upper right-hand corner (neatly restored, not touching text), two small marginal tears to B3 of volume 1, occasional light spotting (a few leaves slightly heavier), bound to style in modern blue half morocco over brown marbled boards, spines divided into compartments by gilt borders, 2 compartments lettered in gilt, 4 compartments with small devices in blind, 12moQTY: (3)NOTE:Gilson A4; Keynes 4.Published in the same year as the first edition. 'No alterations were made in this edition by the author, though a few obvious misprints have been corrected' (Keynes). 'The size of the edition is not known. Sales, as with the second edition of SS, do not seem to have been brisk' (Gilson).

Eliot (T. S.). The Confidential Clerk, London: Faber and Faber, 1st edition, 1954, original cloth, spine slightly faded, dust jacket, spine toned with small tear and chips at head, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to title "Inscribed for Charles Monteith by T.S. Eliot, 16. iii.54.", together with The Elder Statesman, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1959, light partial offsetting from flap to endpapers, original cloth, two dust jackets (top one spine toned with tear and split), 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to title: "Inscribed for Charles Monteith with grateful appreciation (first time my Co. director has wanted my autograph) by T.S. Eliot, 14. iv. 59." , with three others: The Waste Land, facsimile, edited by Valerie Eliot, 1971, limited edition of 500, this copy unnumbered, signed to title by Valerie Eliot, and uncorrected proofs for Collected Poems 1909-1962, 1963 (with 'Miss Goad' in ink to upper cover), and Knowledge and Experience in the philosophy of F. H. Bradley, 1963, (? proof copy)QTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

Craig (Edward Gordon). Nothing or the Bookplate, with a Handlist by E. Carrick, London: Chatto & Windus, 1924, 50 tipped-in bookplate specimens, the first signed in pencil by Craig, partly uncut, original red buckram gilt, spine slightly faded, small folio, (limited edition of 280 copies, this copy 118/250 copies for sale), together with:Gordon Craig's Paris Diary 1932-1933, Edited with a Prologue by Colin Franklin, North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982, 8 coloured facsimile pages, partly uncut, original morocco-backed Japanese-paper covered boards, gilt-titled leather spine label, 8vo, (limited edition, 251/325 copies), plusIndex to the Story of My Days, Some Memoirs of Edward Gordon Craig, 1872-1907, 1st edition, London: Hulton Press, 1957, black & white plates, author's signed presentation inscription to half-title, dated at Vence, 1958, for Madame Sadie Ginsberg, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed, 4to, plus Edward Gordon Craig: The Last Eight Years, 1958-1966... , Whittington Press, 1983, tipped-in frontispiece, original cloth-backed marbled boards with printed paper label to spine, 8vo, (limited edition, 105/345 copies)QTY: (4)

Ovidius Naso (Publius). Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd and Represented in Figures. An Essay to the Translation of Virgil's Aeneis, by G.S. [George Sandys], Oxford: John Lichfield, 1632, additional engraved title by Salamon Savery after Francis Clein, full-page portrait of Ovid, and 15 full-page engraved plates by Savery after Clein (one plate placed at the beginning of each book of the Metamorphosis), plate to the first book with paper repair to verso (without loss), C2 and C3 transposed (pages 19/20 and 21/22), occasional marks, some stains to O3, generally in good condition, with margins, marbled edges and endpapers, later (late 18th or early 19th-century) half vellum over marbled boards, spine gilt-decorated with black morocco title label, rubbed and spine somewhat discoloured, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:STC18966; Sabin 76458.The 2nd edition of Sandy's translation, but the first to include the engravings, as well as the translation of Virgil at the end. George Sandys (1578-1644) published his translation of the first five books of Ovid's Metamorphoses in 1621, without illustrations, shortly after which he left for Virginia, having been appointed treasurer for the English colonists recently established in Virginia, by his brother Sir Edwin Sandys and the Earl of Southampton. Sandys sailed in July 1621, reaching Jamestown in October. The Virginia Company was dissolved in 1624, and Sandys returned to England the following year. Sandy's full translation of all 15 books, the first appeared in 1626. The present work is the author's heavily revised edition, with numerous added notes, the elegant full-page copper engraved plates, as well as his translation of the first book of Virgil's Aeneis.

Beckett (Samuel). The Complete Dramatic Works, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1986, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to title "For Charles [Monteith], affectionally from Sam, Paris 5.4.86" , plus a loose card from the author to Charles Monteith, Paris 22.3.86, "Thank you for yours of March 19. I propose we meet as follows: Saturday April 5, 11 a.m., Hotel PLM, 17 Boulevard St. Jacques... yours ever, Sam", together with four others by Samuel Beckett including Poems in English, 1961, All That Fall, 1967, and Ends and Odds, 1977 QTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Hobbit or There and Back Again, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937, 12 illustrations (4 in colour), cartographic endpapers & pastedowns, gift label to front blank, a few light spots, tape residue to pastedowns lower margins, original green pictorial cloth, residue of tape to spine overlapping to boards, rear joint & spine extremities worn with loss, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Published in the same year as the first impression. The second impression is however the first with illustrations.

Donne (John). Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, 1st edition, London: Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, 1651, engraved portrait frontispiece by Pieter Lombart, lacking first and final blanks (A1 and Ss4), some spotting to title and frontispiece, bookplate of Herbert S. Squance, all edges gilt, early 20th-century polished calf gilt by Heyday & Mansell, slightly rubbed, covers detached, title label chipped and lower half of backstrip detached but present, 4to (183 x 136 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Keynes 55; Pforzheimer 295; Wing D1864.Although a few of Donne's letters had been published previously, the present work containing 129 letters, gathered and edited by Donne's son, is the first appearance of his correspondence in a cohesive collection.

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Door into the Dark, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1969, author's signed presentation copy in black fibre pen to front endpaper, 'To Charles Monteith - who helped to open the door. With gratitude and good wishes, Seamus, 19th May 1969', also signed on the title in the same pen, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed and a few minor marks, 8vo, together with:Heaney (Seamus), Wintering Out, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1972, author's signed presentation inscription in black fibre pen to title, 'Seamus Heaney for Charles Monteith on publication day. "Our poesy is as a gum which ouzes / From whence tis nourished... " with much gratitude for much nourishment - and refreshment! 20th November 1972', original printed wrappers, minor spotting and spine slightly toned, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.Charles Monteith was the legendary poetry editor at Faber who first drew the firm's attention to the poet's work and was instrumental in getting him published there.

Gregynog Press. The Misfortunes of Elphin, by Thomas Love Peacock, Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1828, wood-engravings by Horace Walter Bray, original buckram-backed boards, some fading to spine, 8vo, limited edition of 200, this copy unnumbered, together with George Herbert, Sundrie Pieces, Gregynog Press, 2003, illustrations, original morocco-backed boards, some fading to spine, slipcase, folio, limited edition 107/200, plus Caneuon Ceiriog Detholiad, Gregynog Press, 1925, illustrations by R.A. Maynard and H.W. Bray, Welsh text in red and black, original cloth-backed boards, a few light marks, 4to, limited edition 139/370, the first book from the press in Welsh, plus 5 others: The Singing Caravan by Robert Vansittart, 1932, 160/250 copies, The Curate of Clyro, extracts from the diary of the Reverend Francis Kilvert, 1983, limited edition 20/250, The Ladies of Gregynog, by Eirene White, 1984, limited edition 86/105, The Gregynog Press by Thomas Jones, OUP, 1954, (one of 750 copies), and Gwasg Gregynog, 1990, limited edition 536/755 QTY: (8)

Kerr (Judith). The Tiger Who Came to Tea, first edition, 1968, colour illustrations (by the author) throughout, some minor surface abrasions to lower margin (A4), original pictorial boards, dust-jacket, price clipped, light toning to panels and spine, a near-fine example otherwise, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:This book is rare, especially in the dust jacket.

* English heraldic playing cards. The Arms of the English Peers, 2nd edition, London: [John Nicholson], 1686, the complete deck of 52 engraved playing cards (French suits), each with crown, coronet or bishop's mitre etc. above 2 to 4 captioned heraldic shields, suit mark and value or rank to upper left corner (with P for Prince, replacing jack or knave), lightly dusty, scarce spotting, 2 cards with small pinhole to left edge, 6 of hearts with few small brown stains, 6 of clubs with minor mark to upper edge, 9 of diamonds with small stain centrally (possibly strike-through from verso?), slight wear to few edges, square corners a little worn, some cards close-trimmed, rarely clipping engraving, Q of hearts lower line of text slightly cropped, plain versos, each card 92 x 59 mm, all cards mounted with photo corners onto 3 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of boards), each board 40 x 54.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Berry (Playing-Cards of the World) [449]; Cary collection, Eng 83; Mann (Collecting Playing Cards) p.132; Schreiber, English 54. See also Ortiz-Patiño 41 which is listed as a second edition 1686 pack in the catalogue. However, assuming this is the pack sold by Sotheby's on 10 December 2013 (sale L13408, lot 223), they date it to c.1688, with one of the additional cards usually only found in third edition decks. The Sotheby's description does not mention any of the other edition points, so we cannot ascertain a definite date for that pack. According to John Berry (see above), the 1686 pack was advertised as being printed by John Nicholson and sold by E.Evets at the Green Dragon in St. Paul's Churchyard. This second edition lacks the arms of Prince Rupert and the Duke of York on the queens of diamonds and hearts respectively (present in the first edition of 1677), but does not yet have the Duke of Berwick on the Q of clubs, or the garter around the arms of the Earl of Strafford (9 of spades), and has no caption at the foot of the P of hearts, as the Earl of Powis had not yet been elevated to Marquis (as found in the 3rd edition of 1688).

Quevedo y Villegas (Francisco Gómez de). El Parnasso Español [edited by Jose Antonio Gonzalez de Salas], Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Carrera for Pedro Coello, 1648, 7 full-page engraved plates by Juan de Noort and Herman Panneels after Alonso Cano: the crowning of Quevedo by Apollo and the nine Castilian muses, and six individual muses corresponding to the six parts of the book (Clio, Polymnia, Melpomene, Erato, Terpsichore, and Thalia), title with late 18th or early 19th century ink ownership annotation 'De la libreria de San Antonio Abad, Madrid' (some marks and repairs, with upper portion of the leaf replaced in careful facsimile), a few minor ink annotations, some browning and marks throughout, small archival repairs to extreme lower margin of final two leaves, modern antique-style brown full calf, spine lettered in gilt, small 4to (196 x 140 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Libreria di San Antonio Abad, Madrid (inscription to title-page).Palau 244329.Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645) is regarded as one of the great poets of the Spanish Golden Age, and master of the baroque style known as 'conceptismo', a complex form of expression containing elaborate conceits and wordplay and addressing ethical and philosophical concerns, in addition to traditional poetic subjects such as love, desire, and death, similar to the metaphysical poetry of his English near-contemporary John Donne. Quevedo's poems were unpublished durung his own lifetime, but were assembled posthumously by his friend Jusepe Antonio Gonzalez de Salas and first published in 1648 in this edition. All 17th-century editions are rare.

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice. A Novel, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1870, 358, [2] pp., half-title, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate to upper pastedown of Princess Beatrice (1857-1944, the youngest child of Queen Victoria. This armorial was in use from 1858-1917), late 19th-century bottle green/blue half calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, extremities lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Gilson E36; Keynes 75.Volume 1112 of the Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors. The Tauchnitz edition was reprinted at later dates without changing the publication date. Gilson's own copy like this one was dated 1870, and stated on the verso of the half-title a list of all Jane Austen's main works in the Tauchnitz edition, of which Emma was first issued only in 1877 - see E48.

Thackeray (William Makepeace). Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, vignette title, 38 steel-engraved plates, illustrations to text, some browning and spotting, stain to upper margins of some leaves, margins to one leaf repaired and few other discreet repairs, near contemporary half calf gilt by Bumpus, maroon morocco title label to spine, 8vo, together with:Goldsmith (Oliver), The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, with remarks, attempting to ascertain the actual scene of The Deserted Village, by R[obert]. H[Hasell]. Newell, London: Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates including frontispiece and dedication, occasional light spotting, later marbled endpapers, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked with gilt decorated spine and black morocco title label, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Thackeray - Grolier, 100 English, 87; Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699. All first issue points present, with the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336, with "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, and the rustic heading on page one.

Blyton (Enid). Five On a Treasure Island, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1942, illustrations by Eileen A. Soper, small previous owner name to front endpaper, original blue cloth, some fading to spine, light mottled stains to covers, dust jacket, red spine lettering faded, small closed tear along lower joint, tiny nicks at a few folds, 8vo, together with two other first editions by the author in jackets: The Adventurous Four, 1941 and The Adventures of Mr. Pink-Whistle, 1941 QTY: (3)NOTE:First book the first in the Famous Five series.

Anson (George). A Voyage Round The World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, 1st edition, London: Printed for the author, 1748, 42 engraved plates (most folding), list of subscribers, later ownership inscription to front pastedown, head of title trimmed down excising ownership inscription (touching top of first letter of title), occasional light dust-soiling and spotting, a few closed tears along folds to folding plates, contemporary half calf, front board detached, heavily worn, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Borba de Moraes, p.32; Hill 317/8.

James (Henry). The American, 1st edition, 2nd issue, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877, 2nd issue with a full stop after 'Co' on title, advertisement leaf at front, contemporary previous owner signature at head of first chapter, some light spotting and toning, top edge gilt, modern green morocco gilt by James Brockman, Oxford, spine a trifle faded, 8vo, together with:Lewis (Wyndham). Tarr, 1918; The Apes of God, 1931; Snooty Baronet, 1932; The Revenge For Love, 1937; The Vulgar Streak, 1941; The Roaring Queen, 1973; Mrs. Duke's Millions, 1980, 1st editions, half-titles, a few minor spots, top edge gilt, all finely bound in recent full morocco by James Brockman, Oxford, slight fading to spine of Mrs. Duke's Millions, 8voQTY: (8)

Burne-Jones (Edward). The Beginning of the World, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902, 25 wood-engraved illustrations, previous owner inscription to front endpaper, endpapers toned, original cloth-backed boards, light fading to extremities, a couple of small scribbles to rear board, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:The first publication of 25 wood-engravings intended for use but not issued in John William Mackail's Biblia Innocentium, published by the Kelmscott Press in 1892.

Jones (David). An Introduction to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, London: Clover Hill Editions, 1972, title with engraved vignette by David Jones, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, glassine wrapper (split in two, loss to spine), marbled slipcase, a little rubbed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.Limited edition XXIII/CXV, signed by David Jones, from a total edition of 330 copies.

[Crashaw, Richard]. Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber, 1st edition, Cambridge: Ex Academiae celeberrimae typographeo [printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel], 1634, title within woodcut typographic border and with oval woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, 35, 79 pp., contemporary ownership inscription to front blank 'E libr: Johan: Doarle.', etched bookplate to front endpaper (with initials A K), later limp vellum, with pale yellow protective cloth overwrapper, and matching card slipcase, small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 6009. First edition of the first book by Richard Crashaw (circa 1613-1649), English poet, and Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, who converted to Catholicism during the Civil War and was forced into exile. Living in abject poverty in Paris and then in Rome, he was eventually appointed, in April 1649, to the post of subcanon of the Cathedral of Loreto in Italy, dying only four months later.

Jones (David). The Sleeping Lord, London: Faber and Faber, 1974, monochrome frontispiece, title printed in yellow and black, top edge red, original cloth (one or two small marks to rear cover, slipcase, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.Limited signed edition of 150, this copy 'out of series E' and dated in green ink MCMLXXIII.

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). A Lough Neagh Sequence, 1st edition, Manchester: Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1969, [16 pp.], signed presentation inscription from the author in black ballpoint pen to title, 'To Rosemary, love, Seamus', original stapled wrappers, some spots and marks to upper cover, slim 8vo, together with:Heaney (Seamus), Wintering Out, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1972, author's signed presentation inscription in black fibre pen to title, 'Seamus Heaney with love to Rosemary 15th December 1972. "It is hard for me to kick against the goads."', original printed wrappers, a few minor marks, 8vo, plusHeaney (Seamus), Chaplet, Broadside II, December 1971, Tara Telephone Publications, Dublin, printed broadside poem signed (but not numbered) 'For Rosemary 6th January 1972' in black fibre pen, minor edge wear and original horizontal fold lines, 50 x 21 cm, (one of 50 copies, printed at St Sepulchre's Press)QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.