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A collection of eleven Express Art Books series folio books - various artists including Bosch, Brugel, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, etc. Pub. Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd.

The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain: by John Britton, vols I to IV (V missing), Folio, gilt leather - Vol I 1807, Vol IV 1814 - sold with The History of France: by Rev. Alexander Ranken in 9 vols, 8vo., full leather, Printed by A. Strahan, London 1801-1822 - various condition

The Complete Works of William Hogarth: with forward by James Hannay in 6 vols, Folio, printed decorative gilt cloth boards Pub. William Mackenzie, 69 Ludgate Hill, E.C. - some foxing

Ars Erotic: (German text) by Ludwig Von Brunn in 3 vols, Folio, printed dust covers, Pub. Herenberg - ISBN 3611000876

A folio containing a large collection of unframed monochrome antique engravings and other pictures - various subjects and artists

A folio containing a large collection of 19th Century and other unframed watercolours and sepia studies - various artists and subjects

The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, 2nd edition 1996 being The Folio Society Edition No. 194/1000, Folio, half bound - in box sleeve

6 books relating to ships and Shipping Lines. To include Voyage of a Century; Photo Collection of NYK Ships folio, The British Merchant Navy with paintings by Robert Lloyd, Andrew Weir Shipping and Bremen & Europa - German Speed Queens of The Atlantic.

Approx 20 copies of 'Arsuf Folio Games' series and 'The Art of War'

'The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire from Drawings by William Richardson' (Large folio (62 x 44 cm), R. Sunter - York 1843). 9 of 31 large plates missing, otherwise appears complete with title page, dedication, contents, introduction and 88 pages.

A collection of various Folio Society books to include John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, Mary Russel Mitford, Coleridge amongst the lakes and mountains, Don Quixote, The Grand Tour and others, along with T E Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 14th Edition, April 1939, Charles Dickens, Martin Chizzelwit, two volumes and Longfellow's Poetical Works, Location:

Books - Who's Who in Military History and Who's Who in Naval History, Atlas Maior in two volumes and three Folio Chronicles of DarknessLocation:

A folio containing a contemporary oil on canvas of a Parisian scene, similar watercolours and other loose pictures

JOHN GRIFFITHS (BRITISH 1837-1918)BLACKBUCK HUNTING WITH CHEETAH IN INDIA: THE ATTACK AND THE KILLOil on canvasThe first signed (lower left), the second signed (lower right), both inscribed as titled (on labels on the reverse)36.5 x 74.5cm (14¼ x 29¼ in.) (2)Provenance:Eyre & Greig Ltd., LondonWhere purchased by Alan Mitchell Esq., 1986Thence by descentExhibited:Royal Academy, London, 1903John Griffiths was born in Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, and trained at the Royal College of Art. He then worked under Godfrey Sykes on the decorative work for the South Kensington Museum, now the V&A, where one of his fellow assistants was John Lockwood Kipling, who became a life-long friend (Griffiths was also to become godfather to Kipling's son, Rudyard). The two of them were persuaded to go out to India on a three-year assignment, and in 1865 they sailed for Bombay, where they worked together for ten years at the Bombay School of Art. It was also under Griffiths's superintendence that much of the decoration of the new public buildings of Bombay was designed. After a decade in Bombay, Griffiths was appointed Principal of the Mayo School of Art and Curator of the Museum in Lahore, now in Pakistan. After his retirement in 1895, Griffiths lived firstly in Wales and then near Sherbourne in Dorset.One of his major works was the copying of paintings in the Buddhist temples at Ajanta which were published in two large folio volumes "The paintings in the Buddhist Cave Temples at Ajanta".Condition Report: The Attack: The canvas has been lined. Discoloured varnish and surface dirt visible throughout. Some scuffs throughout but particularly along the upper edge. There is a small dent to the canvas above the farthest left figure's head, this is only really noticeable in a raking light. Craquelure throughout. Inspection under UV reveals infilling to some of the craquelure and light retouching throughout including an area of possible repair to the ox's body.The Kill: The canvas has been lined. Discoloured varnish and surface dirt visible throughout. The discolouration is particularly noticeable to the framing edges. Craquelure throughout. Inspection under UV reveals infilling to some of the craquelure and some light scattered retouching.Condition Report Disclaimer

ALBERT GOODWIN (BRITISH 1845-1932)AGRAPen and ink, watercolour, heightened with whiteSigned (lower right) and inscribed and dated `Jan 95' (lower left) 12.8 x 17.4cm (5 x 6¾ in.)UnframedProvenance:Davis Green, and by descentCondition Report: The sheet has been laid down, on to a folio page however the lower left edge of the sheet, and an area to the centre of the upper edge, has come unstuck. Some light discolouration to the sheet including some light, scattered foxing. Some very light undulation to the sheet.  Condition Report Disclaimer

Shakespeare (William). The National Shakespeare. A facsimile of the text of the first folio of 1623, 3 volumes, London: William Mackenzie, [1888-89], photogravure frontispieces and plates on India paper by J. Nöel Paton, some browning to some text leaves, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, publisher's dark green full morocco, boards with large recess embossed roundel in gilt and blind, occasional light rubbing to extremities, folioQTY: (3)NOTE:The publisher's description advertises this facsimile as, "...a scrupulously accurate reproduction of the original, including all those peculiarities of paging, spelling, and punctuation to which so much interest is now attached. It will be printed in a special antique type, such as was actually employed in the 'First Folio', upon hand-made paper, with rough edges, specially manufactured for this work, to maintain the antique character of the edition." This special edition with India plates was bound in morocco and priced at five guineas per volume.

Ficino (Marsilio). Epistole Marsilii Ficini Florentini, Venice: Matteo Capcasa for Hieronymus Blondus, 1st edition, 11 March 1495, 204 leaves (6 unnumbered pages, clxxxxvii, 1 unnumbered leaf), printed in Roman type, front blank with small ownership inkstamp of the Bibliotheca Heberiana, title printed in black (with woodcut motif of a phoenix) with small contemporary inscription 'Diem dies docet, Aedeus', illegible oval ownership blindstamp, and ink signature of H. N. Coleridge dated 1834, elaborate woodcut border to title verso, repeated to first two pages of the prologue, numerous small woodcut initials, occasional minor mark or small waterstain, larger stains to upper outer corners of folios CXXIV to CXXIX, dampstaining to lower blank margin beginning at leaf CXXXXI and continuing to end, with some associated fraying and small losses to final leaves, contemporary ownership inscription of Nicolas Pelletur, dated 1499 to verso of blank leaf at rear, medieval manuscript fragment bound in to rear gutter, 17th century full calf with coat-of-arms of the Prince de Condé to centre of each cover, worn with backstrip missing and small loss to lower outer corner of rear cover, folio (textblock measures 305 x 202 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Nicholas Pelletur, 1499 (inscription at rear of volume); Louis de Bourbon (1621-1686), Prince de Condé, "The Great Condé" with his coat-of-arms to covers; Richard Heber (1773 – 1833), bibliophile and founder member of the Roxburghe Club, inkstamp; H. N. Coleridge (1798-1843), signature.The very early latin manucript ownership inscription in brown ink reads: 'Nicolaus pelliparius artium et medicine doctor/hunc librum emit Lugdin' precio 21 gross’/anno domini 1499/Ni pelletur' ('Nicholas Pelletur, doctor of arts and medicine/bought this book at Lyons for 21 groschen/in the year of our Lord 1499/Ni Pelletur').Hain-Copinger 7059; GW 9873; BMC V, 486; Goff F154; ISTC if00154000. Editio princeps of the Epistole of Ficino.Marsilio Ficino of Florence (1433-1499), one of the most influential thinkers of the Renaissance, put before society a new ideal of human nature, emphasising its divine potential. For Ficino, the writings of Plato provided the key to the most important knowledge for mankind, knowledge of God and the soul. Ficino had been directed by Cosimo de’ Medici towards the study of Plato in the original Greek, and later formed a close connection with Cosimo’s grandson, Lorenzo de’ Medici. Gathered round Ficino and Lorenzo were such men as Landino, Bembo, Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola. The ideas they discussed became central to the work of many Renaissance writers and artists, including Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dürer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Donne.“The Letters occupy in fact a very important place in Ficino's work. As historical documents, they give us a vivid picture of his personal relations with his friends and pupils, and of his own literary and scholarly activities. As pieces of literature, edited and collected by himself, the letters take their place among other correspondences of the time and are a monument of humanistic scholarship and literature. Finally, the letters are conscious vehicles of moral and philosophical teaching and often reach the dimensions of a short treatise. Ficino began to collect his letters in the 1470's, gradually arranged them in twelve books, had them circulated in numerous manuscript copies, and finally had them printed in 1495." (Paul Oskar Kristeller).

Larkin (Philip, 1922-1985). English poet, novelist and librarian. Typed Letter Signed, 'Philip', University of Hull letterhead, 27 June 1975, to Charles Monteith at Faber & Faber, a brief note saying, 'I can't resist sending you a copy of Ted reading at the University here, with me in the chair. Quite without disrespect to either of us, it seems to me terribly funny. However, Faber authors must stick together', minor creasing to lower margin, 1 page, folio, together with the photograph mentioned in the letter, light creases to upper left and lower right corners, copyright stamp to verso, 15 x 20 cm, plus a short shopping list of 12 items in Larkin's hand in black ballpoint pen on a small sheet of greaseproof paper, including blades, prunes, cheddar, m[ustard] cress, asparagus and other items struck through including mushrooms, strawberries, splash and ch[ewing] gum, a little creasing, 15 x 10 cm, contained in an envelope inscribed in Rosemary Goad's hand, 'Shopping list from pocket of Philip L's overcoat', plus a colour photograph of a portrait of Philip Larkin by Humphrey Ocean, 1984, minor creasing and short split to right margin, 22.5 x 19 cmQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

Fleece Press. The Wood Engravings of Ethelbert White, by Hilary Chapman, with an introduction by Peyton Skipwith, Fleece Press, 1992, wood-engraved illustrations, tipped-in photographs, original wrappers, two separate mount wood-engravings ('A Corner of the Forest' and 'Forest Pool'), contained in original solander box, 4to, limited edition of 200, together with Mr Derrick Harris 1919-1960, by Simon Brett, Fleece Press, 1998, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, two portfolios of prints, one containing 9 colour prints, the other with 3 monochrome prints, all contained in original solander box, slightly dusty, oblong folio, limited edition of 280 QTY: (2)

Wheeler (J. Talboys). Hand-Book to the Madras Records. being a report on the public records preserved in the Madras Government Office previous to 1834. With chronological annals of the Madras Presidency, Madras: reprinted by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1907, xx, 48 pp., contemporary brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, large slim 8vo, together withGovernment of Madras. List of the Army for 1787, corrected up to 1793, Madras: printed by the Superintendent Government Press, 1909, [iv], 95, ix pp., 20th-century maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with original printed wrappers bound in (some soiling to title now relined), slim folio, plus other historical reference works, various, including George W. Forrest, Selections from the Letters Despatches and other State Papers preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India 1857-58, volumes I & II only (first volume lacking general map and plan of Delhi in pocket at rear and second volume similarly lacking map and plan of Lucknow in rear pocket), later cloth/contemporary half calf respectively, some wear to the second volume, both thick 8vo, Government of India Army Department Dress Reglations (India), 2 copies 1926 & 1932, Alexander Cunningham, Four Reports made during the years 1862-63-64-65, (archilogical survey of India), volume II, Simla: Government Central Press, 1971, & Report of a Tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82 , volume XVII, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Goverment printing 1884, lacking front endpaper, original blue cloth, rubbed and some wear to lower half of spine, first volume bound in modern blue cloth, second work bound in original blue cloth, rubbed and some wear with portion of spine missing, boh 8vo, etc.QTY: (23)

Robertson (Martin). Greek, Etruscan and Roman Vases in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight [Liverpool Monographs in Archaeology and Oriental Studies], 1st edition, Liverpool: University Press, 1987, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed with to the heads of the front & rear covers, folio, together with:Stewart (Andrew), Greek Sculpture, 2 volumes, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, large 8vo, plusBahat (Dan), Jerusalem Stone and Spirit, 300 years of history and art, New York:Matan Arts, 1997, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, folio, and other modern Classical art & architecture reference & related, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Labillardiere (Jacques Julien Houten de). Atlas pour Servir à la Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse fait par ordre de L'Assemblée constituante pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere. et 2eme. année de la République Francaise..., 1st edition, Paris: H.J.Jansen, in the 8th year of the Republic, [1799-1800], engraved title page, folding engraved route map (detached and with repaired closed tear at foot) and forty-three uncoloured engraved plates of ethnological, botanical and ornithological interest, slight spotting, light damp stain at head, minor dust-soiling to margins, bookplate of Comte de Kerchove de Denterghem to upper pastedown, near contemporary quarter morocco, lacking spine with upper board detached, worn and frayed, folio (49.5 x 33 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Ferguson 308; Hill 954; Nissen ZBI 2331; Sabin 38420.

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Typed Letter Signed, 'Seamus', Dublin, 13 March 1995, to Rosemary [Goad] thanking her very much for sending the "Extempore Effusion" and saying how he was delighted to meet Sue Shaw at the Wilde occasion and asking for her address, continuing that 'The edition probably should be fairly limited. I have agreed that it be published in scholarly compendium... We must, indeed, meet again for a bit of a hooley', with a manuscript insertion and an ink postscript, 2 pp., 8vo, with filing notes, stapled to an A4 photocopy of the same and a computer print-out of 'Oscar Wilde Dedication: Westminster Abbey 14 February 1995', 5 pp., folio, together with 3 different printed versions of 'Extempore Effusion on Missing Rosemary's Party', 29 November 1988, one with Rosemary Goad's notes at head and foot, a little creasing, each one page, folio, plus a 10-line computer print-out of a poem for Rosemary Goad by Seamus Heaney, beginning, 'With love on publication day, To Rose, to wish you happy birthday, You, who are highest on the list, "The goad we never kick against...."' signed 'Seamus' with three kisses at foot, one page, folio, plus 3 other unsigned Heaney itemsQTY: (10)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

Westwood (Vivienne). Opus: Active Resistance, London: Opus, 2008, signed to limitation page by Westwood, colour illustrations throughout, original red quarter morocco over patterned boards, elephant folio, contained in original box, copy 92 of 900QTY: (1)

Jones (David, illustrator). The Book of Jonah taken from the Authorised Version of King James I with Engravings on Wood by David Jones, London: Clover Hill Editions / Douglas Cleverdon, 1979, uncut, original cloth-backed decorative boards with gilt title to spine, original 4-page prospectus (slightly creased and marked) loosely inserted, small folio, (limited edition 134/300 copies on J. Green mould-made paper, from a total edition of 470), together with:Jones (David, illustrator), The Winter Solstice by Harold Monroe, 1st edition, London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928, 2 engraved illustrations including 1 colour printed, uncut, original blue boards lettered in gilt to upper cover, spine a little discoloured, slim 8vo, (limited large-paper edition, 389/500 copies, signed by Monroe; No. 13 of the Ariel Poems)QTY: (3)

Golden Cockerel Press. The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch as Related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934, wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings, light offsetting to title and spotting to endpapers, top edge gilt, original contrasting cloth, slight partial soiling, folio, limited edition 85/300, together with Bligh's Voyage in the Resource, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, partly unopened, light spotting to endpapers, original contrasting cloth, spine slightly darkened, a little light spotting, folio, limited edition 130/350, plus The First Fleet. The Record of the Foundation of Australia from its Conception to the Settlement at Sydney Cove, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, bookplates including Elizabeth Greenhill (1907-2006, bookbinder), original cloth gilt, folio, limited edition 89/375QTY: (3)

Al Khemir (Sabiha). From Cordoba to Smarqand, masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, 1st edition, Paris: 5 Continents Editions, 2006, numerous colour illustrations, original boards, large 4to, together with:Leeum, publisher, Calder, 1st edition, Seoul: Samsung Museum of Art, 2013, numerous colour illustrations, original black cloth with paper wrap around, large 4to, plusMendini (Alessandro), Mondo Mendini, The World of Alessandro Mendini, 1st edition, Groningen: Groninger Museum, 2019, colour illustrations, original boards, 'as new' on original plastic wrap, large 4to, andHanssen (Karin), The Thrill of It All, paintings 1994-2009, 1st edition, Belguim: MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2010, numerous colour illustrations, original boards, small dent to the foot of the spine, large 8vo, plus other modern art reference, some foreign language, many original cloth/boards, some paperback editions, VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Bastard d'Estagn (Auguste, comte de). Costumes moeurs et usages de la cour de Bourgogne sous le règne de Philippe III dit le Bon (1455 - 1460), Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1881, 1st plate hand-coloured and heightened with gold, 24 further engraved plates (contained in 5 blue fascicles), printed title labels to each, original red roan-backed boards, spine deficient, rubbed and marked, folio (42.5 x 29.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Colas 239. Scarce. The plates are reproductions of leaves in the 'Histoire de Girart, comte de Nevers, et de la belle Euriant, sa mie'.

Laroon (Marcellus). The Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life. Les cris de la ville de Londre dessignez apres la nature. L'arti comuni che vanno a Londra fatte dal naturale, 1st edition, [London: P. Tempest excudit, 1688], 74 engraved plates including 2 title pages (without plate numbers, hence 1st edition), lower outer blank corner of initial title page torn away, long closed tear to plate 'Mountabanck', blank margin torn at foot of plate entitled 'Buy my dish of great eeles', short closed tear to lower blank margins of three other plates, occasional light dust & finger-soiling mostly to plate margins, front pastedown with early signature W. C. Master, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, folio (35.5 x 23 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Cf. Beall, Kaufrufe und Strassenhandler – Cries and Itinerant Trades, E10 (Overton edition, dated to c.1711), Colas 1793-5 (various editions), Lipperheide 1019 (c.1711 edition, incomplete, with 21 plates only). Further reading: Shesgreen, 'The Editions, Imitations, and the Influence of Marcellus Laroon's "Cryes of the City of London"', Studies in Bibliography Vol. 35 (1982), pp. 258-271.The 61 plates without numerals, including with the title page, are from one of the editions by original publisher Pierce Tempest, who according to the Term Catalogues first issued a work titled ‘The Crys of London … engraved upon forty Copper-Plates’ in Michaelmas 1687. It was quickly expanded: a notice in the Term Catalogues for Michaelmas 1688 announces ‘There is now completely Finished, the Cryes and Habits of London … upon seventy-two Copper-plates’; by Trinity 1689 the work is advertised as containing ‘74 Copper-Plates’.The last known edition of Laroon’s Cryes to be published by Pierce Tempest appeared in 1709 (Shesgreen, p. 261). The plates then passed from Tempest to Henry Overton the Elder (1676-1751). The date of Overton’s edition is unknown but has been conjectured as 1711 (Beall), or as late as 1731 or 1733. Overton added numerals to the lower right corner of each plate and added his imprint and the phrase ‘In 74 Copper Plates’ to the title page. In c.1760 the plates passed to Robert Sayer. His plates are completely reworked from the Tempest/Overton versions, with the costumes updated, numerals moved to the upper corners, and ‘Mauron delin./pinx.’ and ‘P. Tempest exc.’ removed.

Horse Racing. The General Stud Book, 17 volumes, mixed editions & series, volumes 1, 3-10, 13-17, 1827-1893, occasional light spotting, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, some worming to covers of volume 17, 8vo, together with Axe (J. Wortley, editor). The Horse., its Treatment in Health and Disease, with a complete guide to breeding , training and management, 8 volumes only (of 9), London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1906, colour and half-tone plates, illustrations, a little light spotting, original cloth gilt, a few small marks, 4to, plus Bobinski (Kazimerz & Stefan Count Zamoyski). Family Tables of Racehorses, 2 volumes, London: Waterlow & Sons, 1953-1960, text in Polish, English, French & German, light spotting front and rear, volume I text folded in original limp cloth, and numbered 626 of an unspecified edition, volume II in original cloth and numbered 328, contained in slipcase, plus an Index volume and 2 addenda volumes for 1960 & 1961 and 1962 & 1963, volume I, Index and addenda contained in original briefcase style cloth case, leather handle rubbed, a few light stains, folio, with 4 others including Gentleman Riders Past and Present, by John Maunsell Richardson and Finch Mason, 1909 QTY: (28)

Pope (Alexander). The Works, [volume 1 of 2], 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Printed by W. Power for Bernard Lintot, 1717, title in red and black, half-title discarded and lacking frontispiece, closed tear to last two leaves, browning and light dust-soiling, 20th-century calf, 4to (Griffith 79 & Rothschild 1584. The first issue of the quarto edition, without Tonson's name in the imprint. The 2nd volume was first published in 1735), together with Pope (Alexander), The Works fo Mr Alexander Pope, in Prose, volume 2, London: J. and P. Knapton, C. Bathurst, and R. Dodsley, 1741, half-title, armorial bookplate of Richard Bateman to upper pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, spine with morocco title label and rubbed gilt decoration, joint cracked at head and foot, folio, together with:Pope (Alexander), An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Visct. Cobham, London: Lawton Gilliver, 1733, [4], 13, [3] pp., half-title, advertisement leaf present at rear, 20th-century half calf, slim folio,Pope (Alexander), Additions to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. together with many Original Poems and Letters, of Cotemporary [sic] Writers, never before published, 2 volumes, London: H. Baldwin, T. Longman, R. Baldwin [& others], 1776, half-titles, vignette engraving to titles, front endpapers with bookplates of George Simon, Earl of Harcourt and Lord Carlingford, contemporary calf, first volume lacking morocco title label to spine, joints cracked, 8vo,Parnell (Thomas), Poems on Several Occasions written by Dr. Thomas Parnell ..., and published by Mr. Pope ... with the Life of Zoilus: and his Remarks on Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice..., new edition, Dublin: Thomas Ewing, 1773, contemporary calf, morocco title label to spine, joints cracked, some wear to upper joint, 4to, plus other 18th-century Alexander Pope titlesQTY: (12)

Florence Press. The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi, Translated from the Italian by T.W. Arnold, London, Chatto & Windus, 1909, printed in red and black with sepia illustrations at rear, uncut, original limp vellum gilt with cloth ties, 4to, (limited edition, 290/475 copies), together with:Keynes (Geoffrey, editor), The Writings of William Blake, 3 volumes, Nonesuch Press, 1925, black & white plates, uncut, original vellum-backed marbled boards, spines slightly darkened, small folio, (limited edition, 1466/1500 sets), plusMandrake Press, Amorous Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio, now Edited with an Introduction by K.H. Josling and Decorated in Colour by M. Leone, 1929, colour plates and colophon vignette, original pale green limp vellum gilt, spine faded to white, 4to, (limited edition, 131/550 copies), plusVirgil, The Georgics, Translated by R.D. Blackmore, Woodcut Illustrations by Edward Carrick, London: George W. Jones, 1931, woodcut plates and colophon device printed in green, original cloth-backed boards, small folio, (limited edition of 500 copies, this copy unnumbered), plus other mostly mid 20th-century illustrated books interestQTY: (18)

Greenwood (Jeremy). Ravilious Engravings, with an Introduction by John Craig, 1st edition, Woodbridge: Wood Lea Press, 2008, portrait frontispiece, colour and black & white illustrations throughout, original cloth in card slipcase, folio, (one of 800 copies of the standard edition, from a total edition of 855 copies), together with:Russell (James), The Lost Watercolours of Edward Bawden, 1st edition, Norwich: Mainstone Press, 2016, colour illustrations throughout, original cloth in card slipcase, 4to, (one of 850 copies), plusEates (Margot, editor), Paul Nash: Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations, 1st edition, London: Lund Humphries, 1948, portrait frontispiece, black & white and tipped-in colour plates, a little spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, slightly rubbed and marked, 4to, plus Cassou (Jean), Paintings and Drawings of Matisse, Paris: Braun & Cie for Soho Gallery Ltd, London, 1939, black & white illustrations to text, colour plates at rear, original cloth in pictorial dust jacket, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to, plus other mostly modern art and illustration interestQTY: (42)

Rudder (Samuel). A New History of Gloucestershire, Cirencester: Printed by Samuel Rudder, 1779, folding engraved county map, 14 engraved plates (including 12 double-page, one folding & one single-page) and two single-page plans, some offsetting to text and light toning, contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, folio, together with:Lysons (Samuel), A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities, London: Sold by Messrs. Cadell and Davies, 1803, engraved title, 110 engraved and etched plates (including 11 with contemporary hand-colouring), occasional toning and scattered spotting mostly to text leaves, modern half calf over contemporary marbled boards, folio, Fosbrooke (Thomas Dudley), Abstracts of Records and Manuscripts respecting the County of Gloucester..., 2 volumes, Gloucester: Printed by Jos. Harris, 1807, additional etched title to first volume (damp stained), 29 etched & engraved plates (including one folding), some scattered spotting, occasional marginal damp staining and some offsetting, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with black morocco labels to spines, 4to,QTY: (4)

Robinson (William Heath, illustrator). A Song of the English, by Rudyard Kipling, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909], 30 tipped-in colour plates, occasional light spotting, original blue cloth gilt, edges a little rubbed, 4to, together with Robinson (Charles, illustrator). The Big Book of Fairy Tales, edited by Walter Jerrold, London: Blackie and Son, 1911, colour and monochrome illustrations, a few light finger marks, all edges gilt, original blue cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 4to, plus Lathrop (Dorothy P., illustrator). Down-Adown-Derry. A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter de la Mare, London: Constable & Co., 1922, colour frontispiece, illustrations, some light toning and spotting front and rear, contemporary prize inscription at front, original cloth gilt, spine a little faded, edges a little rubbed, a few small stains, small folio, plus 16 others illustrated by Florence Harrison, Warwick Goble, William Heath Robinson, H.M. Brock et al QTY: (19)

Ovid. Shakespeare's Ovid. Being Arthur Golding's translation of the Metamorphoses, edited by W. H. D. Rouse, (The King's Library. De La More Press folios. no. 3.), London: De La More Press 1904, engraved title, some light damp stains to upper outer corners, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, later dark brown half morocco gilt, in slipcase, small folio (limited edition 127/300 on hand made paper), together:Nonesuch Press, John Milton. Poems in English with illustrations by William Blake, Paradise Lost [& Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd & Somson Agonistes], 2 volumes, London, 1926, ink stamp to front free endpapers, edges untrimmed, original Japanese vellum-backed boards, 8vo (limited edition of 1450 copies printed),Draper (John W.), A Century of Broadside Elegies, being ninety English and ten Scotch broadsides illustrating the biography and manners of the seventeenth century, London: Ingpen and Grant, 1928, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards, some discolouration, large 4to (limited edition112/275),Nonesuch Press, The Mistress with other select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667, edited by John Sparrow, London, 1926, engraved portrait to title, original cloth, marked, 8vo (limited edition 997/1050),Nonesuch Press, The Poems of Bishop Henry King, edited by John Sparrow, London, 1925, all edges gilt, original gilt panelled limp vellum with yapp fore-edges, 8vo,Grolier Club, Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers, 4 volumes, New York, 1963, original cloth, 8vo, and other similar reference, plus few private press and facsimile reprints etc.QTY: (33)

Porta (José). Bajo Los Puentes, [Barcelona]: Talleres de la Sociedad Anónima Horta de Impresiones y Ediciones, 1946, 33 lithographs by Porta, inscribed by the artist to limitation page, leaves loose (as issued) in original grey folding cloth box, folio, in original grey cloth slipcaseQTY: (1)NOTE:Number 6 of 10 copies reserved for collaborators.

Greenwood (C. & J.). Eleven County Maps, Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Kent, Middlesex, Somerset, Southampton, Surrey, Sussex [and] Wiltshire, circa 1829, contemporary manuscript index, eleven engraved county maps, all with contemporary outline colouring, calligraphic cartouche, reference of hundreds, compass rose, key chart and an uncoloured ecclesiastical or topographical vignette, slight offsetting, slight dust soiling and staining, each approximately 570 x 680 mm, joints weak and cracked, contemporary half calf, some wear, boards stained, upright folioQTY: (1)

Leighton (Clare). Four Hedges, A Gardener's Chronicle, St Albans, Sumach Press, 1991, illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, minor marks, small folio, together with:Woof (Robert and others), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Poem and its Illustrators, Grasmere: Wordsworth Trust, [2006], black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, small folio, plusFarleigh (John), Graven Image, An Autobiographical Textbook, 1st edition, London: Macmillan, 1940, black & white plates and illustrations, original pictorial boards, some rubbing and browning, 8vo, plusCave (Roderick), Fine Printing and Private Presses, The British Library, 2001, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine faded, 8vo, plus other book reference, illustration and design interestQTY: (50)

Caslon (H. W. & Co. Ltd., Typefounders). Specimens of Types & Borders and Illustrated Catalogue of Printer's Joinery and Materials, London: H. W. Caslon & Co. Ltd., [1911], colour frontispiece, monochrome plates and illustrations, repaired excision to pp.549/450 and upper half of pp.571/572 excised, excision to illustration on pp.665/666, modern light brown morocco-backed cloth, large 4to, together with:Crane (W. J. Eden), Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being descriptions of the various tools and appliances required and minute instructions for their effective use, London: L. Upcott Gill, [1885], half-title with early inscription, wood engraved illustrations, original green cloth blocked in gilt and black, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo,Morrison (Stanley & Day, Kenneth), A Study of Fine Typography through Five Centuries..., London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1963, monochrome illustrations and one folding plate, original cloth, folio,Hills (Richard L.), Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988, A short history, London & Atlantic Highlands, N. J.: The Athlone Press, 1988, monochrome illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, 4to,Middleton (Bernard C.), Recollections, A Life in Bookbinding, London: Oak Knoll Press & British Library, 2000, monochrome portrait frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus other bookbinding, printing and conservation related QTY: (a carton)

Singh (Dr. Gopal). Sri Guru-Granth Sahib (English Version), 4 volumes, Delhi: Gur Das Kapur & Sons Ltd., 1964, marbled endpapers, original uniform brown cloth gilt, 4to, together with:Robson (Brian). Swords of the British Amy, The Regulations Patterns, 1788-1914, revised edition, National Army Museum, 1996, numerous monochrome illustrations, original pictorial boards, 4to, plusSingh Nihang (Nidar, & Parmjit Singh). In the Master's Presence, The Sikhs of Hazoor Sahib, volume I (History), 1st edition, London: Kashi House, 2008, numerous colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, original black cloth in dustwrapper, 4to, VG, and other India general reference works including a second edition of Sri Guru-Granth Sahib, 4 volumes, 1998, bound in original uniform dark blue decorated cloth, large oblong folio, R. Nath, Colour Decoration in Mughal Architecture, 1970, Percy Brown, Indian Architecture (Islamic Period), 1975, Soldiers of The Raj, by George William de Rhe-Philipe and Miles Irving, London Stamp Exchange, 1989, etc, all 20th-century publications, 4to/8voQTY: (50)

Libanus Press. Messer Pietro Mio. The Letters Between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo 1503-1519, Translation and Preface Hugh Shankland, Wood Engravings Richard Shirley Smith, Libanus Press, 1985, original morocco-backed boards gilt, text-book in cloth slipcase, small folio, (limited edition, 128/135 copies signed by the artist), but with the set of 12 signed engravings by the artist in solander box produced for the special limitation of 15 copies bound in vellum, together with:Tucker (Peter), Haslewood Books. The Books of Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, Hanborough: Parrot, 1990, colour pochoir wood engravings, original marbled cloth over boards with printed paper label to spine, decorative card slipcase, folio, (limited edition VII/LX from a total edition of 170 copies), plusSmith (Richard Shirley, illustrator), The Testament of Charlotte B, Edited and Introduced by Marius Kociejowski, Decorated by Richard Shirley Smith, Libanus Press, 1988, original morocco-backed decorative boards in cloth slipcase, large 8vo, (limited edition XI/L special copies from a total edition of 220), plus other similar private press interest including Libanus Press and Richard Shirley SmithQTY: (16)

Zerner (Catherine Wilkinson). Juan de Herrera, Architect to Philip II of Spain, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, numerous monochrome illustrations, minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with:Sutcliffe (Anthony), Paris, an architectural history, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, plusDe Jong (Sigrid), Rediscovering Architecture, Paestum in eighteenth-century architectural experience and theory, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and Krautheimer (Richard), Lorenzo Ghiberti, 2nd printing, Princeton: University Press, 1990, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting to the text-block, original wrappers, large 8vo, plus other architecture reference & related, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Greenwood (Jeremy). Ravilious Engravings, with an Introduction by John Craig, 1st edition, Woodbridge: Wood Lea Press, 2008, colour and black & white illustrations throughout, original cloth in card slipcase, folio, (one of 800 standard copies from a total edition of 855), together with:Mackley (George), Monica Poole, Wood Engraver, Edited with an Introduction by Graham Williams, 1st edition, Biddenden: The Florin Press, 1984, black & white illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, slim folio, (limited edition 103/300 copies, signed in pencil by Poole and Williams), plusPoole (Monica), The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh, Gresham Books, 1985, black & white illustrations including 2 printed in red and black, proof in sleeve at rear as issued, original morocco-backed cloth gilt in cloth slipcase, folio, (limited edition, 13/110 copies, signed by Monica Poole), plus 4 related on Edward Wadsworth, John Farleigh, Gertrude Hermes and Omega Cuts by Wood Lea Press, all folioQTY: (7)

Middleton (Christopher). Poems, 1st edition, London: The Fortune Press, 1944, original red cloth in pale blue dustwrapper, 8vo, authors presentation copy inscribed to front endpaper 'K. J. F. Bickersteth under whose auspices the seed of this book took to earth. In gratitude, Christopher Middleton, July 1944', together withWoodcock (George). The White Island, 1st edition, Fortune Press [1940], original black cloth in grey dustwrapper, spine darkened, lightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo, authors presentation copy, inscribed 'to Derek Savage in friendship, from George Woodcock. Sept. 1940', plusRodgers (W. R.). Awake! and other Poems, reprinted, Secker & Warburg, 1941, some light spotting, original cloth, rubbed and some spotting, spine discoloured, 8vo, with pencil ownership inscription to front endpaper 'from W. S. Graham, Cornwall August 1944', and Corman (Cid). A Table in Provence, poems by Cid Corman, drawings by Barnet Rubinstein, 1st edition, Origin Press, 1959, monochrome collotype reproductions after Rubinstein, original cloth-backed card covers, rubbed and somewhat toned, oblong folio, limited edition 168/200, signed by the author, and other modern poetry, including Robert Kelly, Songs I-XXX, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Pym-Randall Press 1968, limited signed edition 42/90 from a total edition of 1000, Stuart Montgomery, Circe & Shabby Sunshine 1st editions 1969/73 respectively, each inscribed by the author, Les A, Murray, The Boys who Stole the Funeral, 1st edition, 1980, Lorine Niedecker, My Life by Water, Collected Poems 1936-1968, 1st edition, Fulcrum Press, 1970, limited signed editon 80/100, Robert Garioch, Chuckies on the Cairn, 1ste ediiton, Chalmers Press, circa 1940, signed, Anne Stevenson, William Corbett, Laura Riding, FT Prince, Bernard Kops (Poems 1955, limited signed edition of 100 copies), Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk, and others, many signed, original cloth, and many in original printed wrappers, 8vo or slim 8voQTY: (approx. 90)

Atkyns (Robert). The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire, 2nd edition, London: T. Spilsbury for W. Herbert [& others], 1768, 64 double-page engraved plates by John Kip, 8 engraved heraldic plates, double-page engraved map, some toning and occasional spotting, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of John Allan Rolls to upper pastedown, contemporary calf with gilt rollwork border to boards, rebacked and corners repaired, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Upcott p. 250.

Cotton (Julian James). List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Madras, possessing historical or archeological interest, Madras: printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1905, xiii [3pp.], 448 pp., original brown cloth gilt, modern black calf gilt incorporating original brown cloth gilt upper cover (the latter rubbed and some marks), folio, together withRoberts (Sydney G.). 'Revised' List of European Tombs in the South Arcot District with inscriptions thereon, issued by A. E. Castle Stuart Stuart, Cuddalore: printed at the South Arcot Collectorate Press, 1894, printed title, errata slip pasted in to following leaf 24 pp., some spotting, contemporary gift inscription to front blank 'to the Reverend W. D. Fenning, Master of House, Haileybury, from his former pupil the compiler in memory of many inspiring History lectures. 2nd February 1898', contemporary half calf, some wear to spine, slim folio, plusWar Graves of the British Empire. The Register of the Names of those who fell in the Great War, 36 volumes (Palastine 6 volumes, Egypt, 6 volumes, Syrria 2 volumes, India, 1 volume, Iraq, 4 volumes, Itlay, 7 volumes, Greece, 7 volumes, and Memorial Register 3 volumes), 1922-31, a few plans and other illustrations to text, all original printed grey-blue wrappers, rubbed and some marks, occasional remains of adhesive tape, slim 4to, and others related including further Memorial Registers for the Second World War, covering Singapore, Delhi and Karachi, India (numbers 1-20 bound in 8 volumes), 30 volumes, circa 1985-2000, etc.QTY: (90)

Blake (William). Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Trianon Press, 1959, collotype facsimile illustrations with hand-coloured stencil, bibliographical statement by Geoffrey Keynes, some very light scattered spotting, original morocco-backed marbled boards, minor marks to the spine, with slipcase (lightly discoloured to edges), folio, limited edition of 446 copies, this copy unnumbered, together with Europe, A Prophecy, 1969, color plates, top edge gilt, original tan quarter morocco gilt, with slipcase, folio, limited edition 420/526, plus Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion, Trianon Press, 1974, collotype facsimile illustrations, with stencil hand-colouring, original brown quarter morocco gilt with slipcase, folio, limited edition 338/558QTY: (3)

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.

Fleece Press. To War with Paper & Brush. Captain Edward Ardizzone, Official War Artist, by Malcolm Yorke, Fleece Press, 2007, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth, slipcase, oblong 4to, limited edition of 700, together with Tone, Texture, Light and Shade. A Barnett Freedman Picture Album, Fleece Press, 2011, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed decorative boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition of 90, from a total edition of 250, with an original lithograph illustration, and Christmas card contained in rear pocket, folio, plus Gargoyles and Tattie-Bogles. The Lives and Work of Douglas Percy Bliss & Phyllis Dodd, by Malcolm Yorke, Fleece Press, 2017, limited edition of 420 QTY: (3)

Whittington Press. The Wood-engravings of John O'Connor, Whittington Press, 1989, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition 299/350, together with Ernest Dowson. A Bouquet, Whittington Press, 1991, pochoir illustrations by Miriam Macgregor, original morocco-backed boards, slipcase, folio, limited signed edition 77/95, plus The Whittington Press. A Bibliography 1982-93, compiled by David Butcher, Whittington Press, 1996, illustrations, original cloth-backed patterned boards, slipcase, folio, limited edition 164/380, with 6 others by the press including New Castle. A Brief Encounter by Miriam Macgregor, 1998, limited edition XIV/100 (with loose signed pochoir plate 'The Jail, Newcastle'), Arcadian Ballads, by James Rees, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, 1977, limited signed edition 177/200, Stubble Burning. Poems by Roland Gant, 1982, limited signed edition IV/XXV, and A View of the Cotswolds. Photographs by Edwin Smith, 2005, limited edition 261/350QTY: (9)

Schottus (Andreas). Adagialia sacra Novi Testamenti, Selecta & exposita ab Andr. Schotto. Compendifacta in gratiam studiosae Juventutis, Opera C. B. [i.e. Clement Barksdale], Oxford: Excudebat L. Lichfield & veneunt apud Tho. Robinson, 1651, browning to margins of first and last few leaves, modern calf, 12mo, together with:Josephus (Flavius). The famous and Memorable Workes of Josephus ... Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by Tho. Lodge, Doctor in Physicke, [London]: Printed by Humfrey Lownes, for G. Bishop, S. Waterson, and Tho. Adams, 1609, title with printer's woodcut device and early ownership signatures at head including Thomas Stamiford (leaf torn to fore-margin and lined to verso), following two preliminary leaves strengthened to fore-margins, lacking one preliminary leaf, closed tear to 2E2 and fore-margin of 2E3 torn, final three leaves of tables torn with some text loss (final leaf lined to verso), occasional light damp stains to upper outer corners, modern blind panelled calf, folio QTY: (2)NOTE:1. Wing S890.2. STC 14810.

Dreyfus (John). A History of the Nonesuch Press, with an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes & a Descriptive Catalogue... , 1981, some black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, small folio, (limited edition, 500/950 copies), together with:Harrop (Dorothy A.), A History of the Gregynog Press, Private Libraries Association, 1980, some black & white illustrations, original cloth, small folio, plusCockalorum, A Sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote, Being a Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, June 1943-December 1948, Foreword and Notes by Christopher Sandford, Illustrations from the Books, wood-engraved illustrations by Gill, Gibbings, Jones, et al, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original morocco-backed patterned buckram, small folio (limited edition, 111/250 copies, signed by the author), plus other private press bibliography and related including Golden Cockerel Press, Fanfrolico Press, Kynoch Press, and other related referenceQTY: (30)

Moore (Munro),. Franck Moore ARCA ATD, a collection of his work, 2 volumes, 2002, numerous colour illustrations, original boards, lightly rubbed to head & foot, oblong 4to, together with:Turull (Richard Bru i, editor), Hamada & Artigas, The colours of fire, 1st edition, Catalonia: Museu Nacional d'Arte de Catalunya, 2012, colour illustrations, original boards, 'as new' in original plastic wrap, large 8vo, plusH?ry?ji Temple, H?ry?ji, Prince Sh?toku and Treasures of Early Buddhsit Faith in Japan, 2021, numerous colour illustrations, original wrappers, large 8vo, and other mostly modern art reference & related, some foreign language, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (5 shelves)

Etlin (Richard A.). Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, The romantic legacy, reprinted, Manchester: University Press, 1994, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, together with:Shvidkovsky (Dimitri), The Empress & The Architect, British architecture and gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly faded, marked & rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, plusGomme (Andor, et al), Bristol, an architectural history, 1st edition, London: Lund Humphries, 1979, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, large 4to, and other architecture reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves & a carton)

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.

The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Paper, volumes 91, 92, 93 (January 1915-June 1916), 96 (July-December 1916), 98 (July-December 1918), 5 volumes, together with Illustrated London News. Volumes 147 (July-December 1915), 149 (July-December 1916), and 150, 151, 152 & 153 (January 1917-December 1918), 6 volumes, numerous monochrome illustrations & advertisements, hinges and joints weak and cracked, boards faded and heavily waterstained, bound in uniform blue cloth gilt cloth, folioQTY: (11)NOTE:Sold as a periodical, not subject to return.

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Autograph Letter Signed, 'Seamus', Glanmore, Ashford, Co. Wicklow, 5 January 2004, to Rosemary [Goad] on personal stationery, wishing her good wishes for 2004, 'I should have written in 2003: just before Christmas I read Death in Holy Orders [by P.D. James] and wanted to shout an extra hurrah when I saw the book was dedicated to you. (I'm always behind with the books I should read - had been apprised of Dalgleish's Beowulf read at bedtime, but didn't want to page-hop to the Heaney reference). Anyhow, the book is indeed the "distinguished thing." Phyllis must be proud of it - such a page-turner but also so solidly peopled, and so subtly also. Great gumption and glue in the writing, and a bedrock sense of human nature... I am likely now to start doing a Yeats and making a habit of thrillers and detective stories. No westerns, though.... ', some toning to margins, 2 pages, 8vo, together with 2 further Autograph Letters Signed, 'Seamus', Dublin, 5 April 1995 & 13 April 1999, the first to Charles [Monteith] thanking him for his encouraging words about the Wilde piece, 'I was immensely flattered to be asked to do the address - and afflicted by a definite anxiety about how to go about it. Anyhow, the occasion was so heady that I almost forgot my own worries... ', 2 pp., the second to Rosemary [Goad], 'The reveries over childhood and youth make Reveries over Childhood and Youth the perfect cello music for this evening - even though I do refuse to believe that arithmetic dictates the age. A rousing present. Only you could get to the deep heart's love so lightly', 1 page, some marginal creasing and a few short splits not affecting text, both folio, plus a photograph of Enid Faber with Charles Monteith, Seamus and Marie Heaney, 15 x 20 cmQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.

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.

Wilson (James & John). A Journal of the Life of Thomas Story: containing, an account of his Remarkable Convincement of, and Embracing th Principles of Truth, as held by the People called Quakers:..., Newcastle Upon Tyne: printed by Isaac Thompson and Company, 1747, front gutter split, some light toning throughout, contemporary full calf, front board partially detached, boards & spine rubbed with some loss, folio, together with:Blanch Pawlet, printed for, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Publick Records of the Church of England,..., 4th impression, London, 1684, 406 pages plus 'The Table of the Principle Matters' to the rear, some light toning & spotting, period inscription to the head of the title page, modern endpapers, modern embossed full calf, 4to, plusThomas Maxey, printed by, Reliquiae Wottonianae. Or a Collection of Lives, Letter, Poems: with Characters of sundry personages:..., 2nd edition, London, 1654, engraved portrait frontispiece plus 2 further portrait plates, 514 pages, margins trimmed, bookplate to the front pastedown, later endpapers, some minor toning throughout, modern calf spine retaining 19th-century full calf boards, some minor rubbing & loss to head & foot, small 8vo, and other 17th - early 20th-century literature, including some French language, many leather bindings, some gilt decorated, some original cloth, some odd volumes, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves)