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Fleece Press.- Buckland Wright (John) Baigneuses, one of 240 copies, introduction by Christopher Buckland Wright, printed in blue and black, wood-engraved plates, tipped-in illustrations, some colour, original vellum-backed marbled boards, uncut, original cloth drop-back box, folio, Fleece Press, Denby Dale, 1995.

Fleece Press.- Selborne (J.) and Lindsay Newman. Gwen Raverat: Wood Engraver, one of 30 specially-bound copies with an additional wood-engraving, from an edition limited to 300, frontispiece and illustrations, many wood-engraved, some tipped in, additional print 'Jeu de Boules, Vence' of 1922 loosely inserted in pocket at end, original vellum-backed marbled boards, uncut, original cloth drop-back box (spare label loosely inserted), Denby Dale, Fleece Press, 1996 § Pellew (Claughton) Five Wood Engravings Printed from the Original Blocks with a biographical note by Anne Stevens, one of 150 sets, text booklet in original wrappers with illustration mounted on upper cover, uncut, wood-engravings each loose in card folder, together with an additional wood-engraving of harbour scene loose in original cloth drop-back box, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1987, folio (2)

America.- Solinus (Caius Julius) Polyhistor, Rerum Toto Orbe Memorabilium Thesaurus Locupletissimus, edited by Sebastian Münster, 2 parts in 1, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, 2 folding woodcut maps, 18 woodcut maps or topographical views in text (2 full-page), book label mounted on title (obscuring ink ownership inscription), 1 map browned, with small tear at foot of fold and small hole to margin, some splitting to gutters (see C1 in particular), several ff. browned, some light marginal browning and damp-staining, hinges cracked, contemporary vellum, morocco label to spine, spine repaired at head and with a little worming, [Adams S1394; Burden 11; VD16 S 6969], folio, Basel, Michael Isingrin, 1543.⁂Second edition of Sebastian Münster's annotated commentary of Solinus' and Mela's geographical texts. The map of 'Asia Maior' includes 'The earliest representation of the North-West coast of America on a printed map' (Burden).

Germany.- Heideloff (Victor) Ansichten von Hohenheim, parts 2-4 only (of 6), 15 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates and one hand-coloured plan only (of 18 in these Lieferungen, 24 in total), occasional spotting and finger soiling, one in part 2 smaller and perhaps from another copy, original green wrappers with engraved paper label to upper covers (each with contemporary ink inscription), lower wrapper and some text/plates lacking from part 3, folio, Nuremberg, Johann Friedrich Frauenholz, 1796-98; sold not subject to return⁂ Rare, with RBH recording a complete copy being sold in 1965 and 2 parts only (with 12 plates) in a German auction house in 2014.

NO RESERVE Levant.- Le Hay (Jacques) and Charles de Ferriol, Recueil de Cent Estampes representant differentes nations du Levant, 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved title, 103 plates, including 3 double-page and one of music, some browning and water-staining, mostly marginal, a couple of short tears, contemporary mottled sheep, gilt, rubbed, extremities worn, [Atabey 429; Blackmer 591; Colas 1819-1820; Lipperheide 413, 414], folio, Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1714-15.⁂ "The plates are after drawings by J. B. Van Mour who was established in Constantinople for many years during the first half of the 18th c. It has been suggested that he came to Constantinople in 1699, possibly as part of Ferriol's entourage. He is known to have died there in 1737 at the age of 66. Much of his work was done for Cornelius Calkoen, who was Dutch ambassador to the Porte, and some of these paintings are now to be found in the Amsterdam Rijkmuseum. This publication certainly contained the most popular and influential illustrations of Turkish dress to date. Its use as a source book was wide-spread." (Blackmer).

South East Asia.- St. John (James Augustus) Views in the Eastern Archipelago, Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan, first edition in book form, tinted lithographed pictorial title, 24 tinted lithographed plates, of which 3 folding, paper guards, some spotting and foxing, including to plates, cracking to gutter with a few plates and text ff. towards the beginning loose, original green cloth, blind-stamped and gilt, a few minor instances of soiling to covers, spine lightly sunned, bumping to spine ends and small tear towards head, [c.f. Abbey, Travel 548 (in parts)], folio, Thomas McLean, 1847.⁂ Scarce. Originally published in parts (see Abbey), the work lauds British influence and expansion within the Eastern Archipelago, in particular the activities of Sir James Brooke in Singapore (which is depicted in one of the plates), Borneo, Labuan and Sarawak, where he became the first governor in 1841. The tinted lithograph views are by J.W. Giles, after drawings made from life by Captain Drinkwater Bethune, Commander L.G. Heath and others.

Switzerland.- [Lory (Gabriel)] Picturesque Tour through the Oberland in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland, hand-coloured engraved map and 17 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, bookplates of George Veitch and Michael Matantos, title with small mark in red pen, affecting one letter, short closed tear to head, not affecting text, some very light spotting and offsetting, modern half green morocco, gilt, uncut, spine slightly sunned, [Abbey, Travel 57; Tooley 26], small folio, R. Ackermann, 1823.⁂ Including an account of the first ascent of the Jungfrau and Finsteraarhorn by the Meyer brothers in 1812 (p.60).

Voyages.- Cook (James) A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 3 text vol. only, first edition, 24 engraved plates and maps, some folding, double-page table, some offsetting, vol.1 marginal repair to one leaf, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked, worn, vol.3 with upper different (blind-stamped calf) cover, 4to, Printed by W. and A. Strahan, 1784.⁂ First edition of the official account of Cook's third and final voyage. The third volume was written by Capt. James King. Without the accompanying folio atlas.

Shells.- Perry (George) Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells, first edition, 61 hand-coloured engraved plates, half-title paper repairs to verso, some light foxing and off-setting to text pages (including to half-title and title), later half calf, some staining to lower portion of spine, [Nissen ZBI 3134], folio, 1811.⁂ First edition of Perryman's work, which while at times has been criticised for a certain exaggeration of form and color, is now accepted as among the most attractive and colourful in the field. Similarly, despite use of derided unscientific nomenclature, many of the names utilised by Perryman here are now accepted. The study was compiled from specimens in private collections, including those of Elizabeth Bligh, the wife of Captain William Bligh of the infamous HMS Bounty.

Meyer (Cornelius) L'Arte di restituire a Roma la tralasciata Navigatione del suo Tevere, 3 parts in 1 vol., additional engraved title present in 2 states, 68 engraved illustrations & maps including 6 double-page, letterpress title with woodcut ornament, woodcut decorations and initials, one bifolium browned, light damp-stain to head of titles and dedication leaf, otherwise very good, Rome, Lazzari Varese, 1685; Nuovi Ritrovamenti..., 2 parts in 1 vol., title with engraved vignette, 49 engraved illustrations including 5 double-page, small worm-tracks affecting upper margin throughout, engraved bookplate bearing Odescalchi family coat-of-arms by Michelassi on front pastedown, Rome, Gio. Giacomo Komarek Boemo, 1696, each vol. inscribed by the author with 'ex dono authoris' ink inscription on front pastedown and front fly-leaf respectively, occasional light spotting, uniform contemporary vellum, some chipping and wear to spines, folio (2)⁂ An excellent pair of works, scarce complete thus and in such good condition and with an interesting association. The first work has a printed dedication to the then Pope, Blessed Pope Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi, so it is probable considering the presence of the Odescalchi bookplate that both these volumes were presented to him directly, inscribed by the author.The first volume is a treatise on hydrology in which Meyer considers several technical solutions to the problems of navigating the Tiber. The second volume, Nuovi ritrovamenti, is a collection of various treatises on experiments, discoveries, technologies and natural phenomena, including the eclipse of Jupiter's first satellite, the sun and the Earth, and the comet that appeared in 1680, 1682 and 1684.

Large remnant of the Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, 30 leaves, remains of three gatherings and a number of bifolia and single leaves, bound tightly and with numerous repairs to gutters, hence uncollatable (but see below), single column of 19 lines of the fine and accomplished humanist hand of Pietro Ursuleo (described by M.R. James from the sister volume as 'an exquisite Roman hand': Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1902, III, no. 1374, p. 384), faded red rubrics, dark blue and liquid gold capitals, 32 illuminated initials enclosed within white vinework on blue, green and red grounds, last word of Matt. 52 at end of text erased, some stains and losses at edges (probably from water damage during ownership by Jarman, see below), edges repaired with more modern parchment and edges of one or two initials restored, a few leaves with ink faded or partly flaked away, one page overwritten to correct this, with edges of some letters stretching over repair parchment of missing borders (fol. 9r here), overall presentable condition, 171 by 26mm., blue cloth covered boards with green leather spine (bound for J.H.P. Pafford: see below), 'MS' and 'SAEC XV' in gilt on spine, 4to, [southern Italy (Naples)], [c.1460].⁂ Provenance:1. Written by the scribe Pietro Ursuleo (d. 1483), bishop of Satarino and elevated on his deathbed to the archbishopric of Santa Severina, and perhaps illuminated by Matteo Felice or a member of his workshop, as one of two sister volumes (the other now Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.7.46) for a patron in Ravenna.2. The parent volume was most probably then in the collection of John Boykett Jarman (d. 1864), and damaged by the flood that affected his manuscript collection (the parent manuscript was his sale in Sotheby's, 13 June 1864, lot 161).3. By January 1912 it had passed to the London bookseller James Tregaskis (1850-1926), who offered it intact in his cat. 717 (8 January 1912), no. 485 (and again in cat. 720, perhaps March 1912, no. 571; and cat. 743, 1913, no. 510; at which point it contained 169 leaves), but when it went unsold began to remove single leaves for sale (see his cat. 777, 1916, no. 81, 4 leaves). Leaves from it are now widely dispersed, with lists in M. Manion, V.F. Vines and C. de Hamel., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, no. 89, Peter Kidd's blogpost of 2014 and the Fragmentarium website.4. J.H.P. Pafford (1900-96), Goldsmith's Librarian of University College, London, and a prolific text editor and author, who recorded in correspondence with A.C. de la Mare in 1979 that he purchased these 30 leaves in two equal blocks, only a week or two apart in about 1962, from The Guildhall Bookshop of Twickenham and from 'a bookshop in the Bloomsbury area ... a newly opened shop'. Tregaskis' business was carried on by family members until 1939, and the parent volume seems to have passed to a member of the book trade by the late 1950s, who divided it up into short sections and dispersed these into the London trade. Manion, Vines and de Hamel note that two sections appeared on the market in the late 1950s, while 28 leaves appeared at Sotheby's, 11 July 1960, lot 153, and 22 leaves were Alan G. Thomas, cat. 14 (1964), no. 22. The Sotheby's and Thomas sections appear to have been divided and dispersed by the Folio Fine Art Society, and this group here may well be the last substantial remnant of this alluring codex to remain together. By descent from Pafford to the present owner. Text: The leaves here contain: fols. 1-6: Psalms 6:4-14:1-4; fols. 7-8: Psalms 16:4-17: 24; fols. 9-10: Psalms 31:3-33:10; fols. 11-15: Psalms 33:11-34:27, 35:1-37:9; fols. 16-18: Psalms 38:4-41:7; fol. 19: Psalms 72:9-73:3; fols. 20-21: Psalms 106:19-108:8; fol. 22: Psalms 110:9-113: 2; fol. 23: Psalms 143:14-144:19; fol. 24: Psalms 148:9-150, followed by part of the Canticle (the opening of the Song of Isaiah, here 12:1) and Is. 12:2-end, followed by Is. 38:9-18 on fol. 25; fol. 26: Canticles (the Prayer of Habakkuk, here 3:11-end, followed by the Song of Moses, here Deut. 32:1-7, with Deut. 32:7-38 continuing on fols 27-28; fol. 29: Te Deum (ending), Gloria (opening); and fol. 30: Matt. 27:52-end, with last word erased.

Illuminated manuscript.- Gradual, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, 88 leaves only, wanting 4 leaves from first gathering and approximately another 4 gatherings from the opening of the volume, contemporary foliation: 1-2, 7-8, 42-124 (with occasional errors in this last part), collation: i4, ii-xi8, xii4, six lines of text in a large Iberian liturgical hand, with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 43mm.), rubrics and running titles in red, initials in elaborate penwork strokes or simple red designs, one large red initial with acanthus leaves overlaid in white penwork on a blank vellum stylised acanthus leaf ground on green hatched in black penstrokes, parchment cockled in places, spots and stains, bottom section cut away from last leaf of main text, some pages with traces of glue and paper from sections of newer music once overlaid on paper strips, else good condition, 555 x 370mm., in remains of early blind-tooled binding over heavy wooden boards, tooled with repeating designs of parallel circles, and front board with remains of gilt inscription at its head, the leather here torn and partly repaired, front board once split and whole binding most probably shortened to accommodate reduced volume of leaves and leather extensively replaced in several places, two metal clasps, large folio, Spain, [16th century].⁂ This is a substantial remnant of a Gradual for the entire ecclesiastical year, opening with part of the offices for Christmas, and ending with those for Advent. To this has been added an index and further offices by contemporary hands.

Gill (Eric).- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde, edited by Arundell del Re, number 159 of 225 copies on hand-made paper, wood-engraved pictorial title, decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red, blue and black, original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, spine very lightly faded but without the usual wear to corners, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Chanticleer 50], small folio, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927.⁂ An excellent copy of the first and scarcest of Gill's three great works for the Golden Cockerel Press, with a limitation half the size of The Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels.

Graphic Manuscript.- [?Chamberlayne (William John)] Ye Righte Merrie and Eventfulle Historie of ye Gallante & Noughtie Sir launcelot Knighte of ye Aunciente and noble order of ye Cocke & ye Bulle, manuscript illustrated in pen and ink throughout, title and 13pp., title loose and with a few tears in margins, a few other tears on other ff., slightly browned, unbound, folio, 1847.

Troy.- Early English provenance.- Columna (Guido de) Historia destructionis Troiae, collation: [a-i10 k8 l10 m-o8], [132] ff., the first and last blank, 34 lines (variable), Gothic type, opening initial in red and blue, the others in red, chapter headings, paragraph-marks and foliation in red, occasional early ink marginalia and notes in different hands (see note below), initial blank detaching, f.33 small section of upper corner torn away, affecting one number of supplied foliation, ff. 51 & 61 tear to lower inner corner, mostly marginal, but on f.51 just touching 1 letter recto and verso (without loss), f.94 short marginal tear at foot, a few ff. working loose, some spotting and staining, remains of early 17th century vellum document used in binding (mentioning Southwark), 17th century English calf over pasteboards, spine in compartments, covers with triple blind-ruled borders, head of spine and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, housed in a modern dark brown morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, gilt, folio (284 x 196mm.), [The Netherlands,?Utrecht], [Printer of Alexander Magnus, ?Gerardus de Leempt], [c.1477-1479].⁂ A very good wide-margined copy of the editio princeps of this history of Troy by the 13th century Sicilian judge Guido de Columna. Here with evidence of early English readership. Only two other copies (one of this edition) are recorded as being in England before 1557. Recorded holdings show no copies in an Italian institution, and locate only one in the United States (Walters, Baltimore). Furthermore, we can trace no other copy at auction. Around 1271 Matteo della Porta, the Archbishop of Salerno had suggested to the author that he write a work in Latin on the fall of Troy. The first book was written within the lifetime of the archbishop, but without his encouragement the final 34 books were not written until 1287, when all were completed within three months. The work is based on the mid-twelfth century Roman de Troie of Benoît de Saint-Maure. The first book goes back to Peleus, father of Achilles, and the search for the Golden Fleece, while the final book deals with the death of Ulysses. It enjoyed huge success in its time.It is one of only four books that are attributed to the so-called 'Printer of the Historia Alexandri Magni'. It has been suggested that the printer was in fact Gerardus de Leempt. The suggested timeframe of printing comes from the watermarks present, which are found in books printed 1477-1479 (see Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries, available through the ISTC entry). It is feasible that the 'historia troiana' written on the first and final blank in red crayon was done so at the atelier of the printer. Provenance: 'Wyllyam Algar' and 'Tho secund[?i]' (?Thomas Twine) (16th century ink inscriptions to recto of initial blank); 'Nulla sors longa, dolor est voluptas / invicem cedunt; brevior voluptas', a quotation from Seneca's Thyestes, ll.596-597 (ink inscription of c.1600 to recto of front blank); f.131 ink accounting notes in an English 16th century hand and a few lines from book III of Chaucer's Book of Fame, ll. 1564-1572; The Macclesfield copy (engraved North Library armorial bookplate with press mark 116. F. 12, and armorial blind-stamp to upper margin of first 3 ff.). References: BMC IX, 108; Goff C-768; HC 5505; GW 7224; Bod-Inc C-392; BSB-Ink G-431; ISTC ic00768000.

Firmicus Maternus (Julius) and others. [Scriptores Astronomici veteres], [edited by Franciscus Niger], 2 parts in 1, collation: *6 a–g10 h12 aa–hh10 ii kk8 A‑D10 E12 F6 G–M10 N6 2N10 O–S10 T8, 376 ff., including blanks E7 and K10, 37-40 lines for Latin text and 39-40 lines for Greek text, Roman and Greek types, initial spaces with guide-letters, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, first and last ff. from another copy, occasional mostly marginal foxing or finger-marking, handsome dark blue straight-grain morocco, richly gilt, by Bozérian le jeune, covers with wide scrolling borders of floral and foliage tools with ?sun corner-pieces, all within double filet borders, spines in compartments and decorated with foliage tools 'à mille points', corners little worn, rubbed at extremities, g.e., folio (295 x 205 mm), [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], [June & not before 17 October, 1499].⁂ The first edition of Aldus's monumental compilation of astrological and astronomical texts with superb woodcuts, including four by the 'Poliphilo Master'. It is one of the few works by Aldus to include illustrations. The work includes the first edition in the original Greek of Aratus's Phaenomena, as well as Maternus's de Nativitatibus libri viii and Marcus Manilius's Astronomicon. The final section contains the editio princeps of pseudo-Proclan's Sphaera, with excerpta from the Elementa astronomiae of Geminos of Rhodes, translated by the Oxford humanist Thomas Linacre. Literature: BMC V, 560; Goff F-191; HC 14559; GW 9981; Bod-Inc F-061; BSB-Ink F-129; Ahmanson-Murphy 34; Renouard, Alde, 20:3. Houzeau & Lancaster 749.

Firmin Didot.- Pontificalis, trial sheets for an unpublished edition, 72 ff., with the first 24 gatherings repeated three times, printed on vellum in red and black, text in two columns with engraved tendril borders, six-line initial capitals, steel engravings by Jules Jean Marie Joseph Huyot, some spotting, later cloth, hinge broken, extremities bumped, joints splitting and fraying, folio, Paris, [c.1870].⁂ It appears this work - a late collaboration between Ambroise Firmin Didot and Huyot - was never published and that this copy may have been a sample drawn up of trial sheets in order to give prospective buyers a sense for the size and weight of the finished work.

Golden Cockerel Press.- Bannet (Ivor) The Amazons, number 68 of 80 specially-bound copies signed by the author and artist, from an edition limited to 500, original pictorial brown morocco, gilt, slip-case, 1948 § Chair (Somerset de) The Story of a Lifetime, number 39 of 100 copies for subscribers, from an edition limited to 110 signed by the author original pictorial white morocco, gilt, spine slightly yellowed, cloth slip-case, 1954; Julius Caesar's Commentaries: A Modern Rendering..., number 5 of 70 specially-bound copies, signed by the author and artist, map endpapers, original pictorial crimson morocco, gilt, spine slightly faded, 1951, all with wood-engravings by Clifford Webb, most full-page, the last two with book-label of Mary Priscilla Smith, all bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to & small folio, Golden Cockerel Press (3)

Shute (John) The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture used in all the ancient and famous monymentes: with a farther & more ample discourse uppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other, first edition, title within an elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials and illustrations, lacking plates and fol. xiv-xv, fore-margins repaired, occasionally touching text with loss to a few letters of final f., light soiling to final p., some light marking and soiling elsewhere, [Avery's Choice, Five Centuries of Great Architectural Books 48; Berlin Kat 2264; STC 22464], In Fletestrete nere to Sainct Dunstans churche by Thomas Marshe, 1563 bound after Palladio (Andrea) I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, first collected edition, 4 parts in 1, collation: A2, B-I4; AA-KK4; AAA-FFF4; AAAA-RRRR4, lacking blank leaf RRRR4 but with KK4, Roman and italic type, each title within architectural woodcut borders with de Franceschi's printer's device included in upper panel, a different printer's device on verso of fol. RRRR3, 221 woodcut illustrations, plans, and sections (156 are full-page blocks, including 84 printed as plates, recto and verso of 42 leaves) executed after Palladio's drawings by Giovanni and Cristoforo Chrieger, Cristoforo Coriolano, and others, numerous woodcut animated initials, first title upper and fore-margins restored with repaired tear and chip to head, 4M4-4R3 with restoration and repair to fore-margin, sometimes straying into text or image, a few leaves shaved at head, affecting the odd headline or signature, C4-F1 foxed and browned, occasional foxing or soiling elsewhere, ink inscription "No. 35" to first title along with partially erased ink ownership inscriptions to the following two ff., [Avery's Choice, Five Centuries of Great Architectural Books 19; Mortimer Italian, 352; Berlin Kat. 2592; Cicognara 594; Fowler 212; Olschki Choix, 15125; PMM 92], Venice, Domenico de' Franceschi, 1570, together 2 works in 1 vol., bookplate of James Lees-Milne to front pastedown along with a note of provenance in Lees-Milne's hand and an invoice from George Bayntun for repair work made to the binding, 18th century paneled calf, neatly rebacked, retaining original backstrip, extremities a little rubbed, folio (285 x 195mm.).⁂ A remarkable pair of milestones in the history of architecture.The first mentioned is the first book on architecture to be published in England as well as the first to be published on the subject in English. The word architecture first appeared in print on the title and other fundamental architectural terms such as architrave and entablature first make their way into the English language in these pages. While Shute was not an architect of particular note, his contribution to the appreciation of architecture in the English-speaking world was immense. Although this example is defective it is nevertheless the only time we have been able to trace a copy appearing at auction, Placzek and Giral in Avery's Choice state that only seven copies of this work are known (likely not including this copy, no copy in the BL). The second mentioned is the first collected edition of the Quattro Libri dell'Architettura by the Paduan theorist and practising architect Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, universally known as Andrea Palladio, after the name given to him by his patron and renowned humanist Giangiorgio Trissino. Palladio was primarily active as an architect in Venice, Vicenza, and along the Brenta river, where he built magnificent villas for wealthy members of the Venetian patriciate. This authoritative and influential treatise celebrates the purity and simplicity of classical architecture, drawing its inspiration from Roman sources, especially Vitruvius, and Italian Renaissance architects, above all Leon Battista Alberti. The work is divided into four parts or libri, devoted to orders and elementary problems, domestic buildings, public buildings, and town planning and temples. The treatise was reprinted and translated many times over the following centuries.Provenance: James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) English writer and expert on country houses (bookplate); note in Lees-Milne's hand: "This edition of Palladio's Quattro Libri was given by me to John Beresford Fowler and returned to me after his death, November 1977. I gave it to my dear friend John Anthony Kenworthy-Browne 1993".

Rolle of Hampole (Richard) Speculum Spiritualiu[m]: in quo no solum de vita activa et co[n]templativa..., gothic letter, double-column, title with woodcut illustration, lacking A10 (final Tabula ff.) and final leaf (with woodcut arms to verso), folio 208 with large woodcut only, smaller woocut excised and neatly repaired without loss to text, first 2 initials neatly hand-coloured, other initial letters lightly rubricated in yellow, y6 with short marginal tear and expert repair, i8 with small loss to lower corner, bookplate, later handsome crushed morocco, gilt, g.e., [STC 23030.7], 4to, [London/Paris], [1510].⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall, Worcestershire.

Golden Cockerel Press.- Flint (Sir William Russell) Minxes Admonished, number 27 of 150 specially-bound copies with an additional suite of plates and signed by artist, from an edition limited to 550, colour frontispiece and title, illustrations, many full-page, original scarlet morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine slightly marked and faded, additional plates loose in marbled envelope (rubbed and split at join, list of plates spotted), together in slipcase, 1955 § Ghose (Sudhin N.) Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India, number 43 of 100 specially-bound copies, from an edition limited to 500, illustrations in brown and black by Shrimati E. Carlile, original pictorial brown morocco gilt by Hiscox, spine slightly faded, slip-case, 1961, both t.e.g., others uncut, Golden Cockerel Press; and another on the illustrators of the press, small folio (3)

First English Poetess.- Philips (Katherine) Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs Katherine Philips the Matchless Orinda, first authorised edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, faint abrasion mark and remnants of early ownership signature to frontispiece verso, previous owner's ink signature to head title, faint marginal staining to first few leaves, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Wing P2033], folio, by J. M. for H. Herringman, 1667.⁂ The daughter of a London merchant, Katherine Philips was probably the first English female poet to have her work published. She was best known by her pseudonym 'Orinda.' This is the first authorised edition of this work, following a 1664 pirated edition. This is perhaps the most famous English collection of poems by a woman prior to 1700.

Foundational work of American Independence.- Sidney (Algernon) Discourses concerning Government, first edition, sig. B with 1-3 only (as often) but catchwords and pagination correct, title foxed, ink verse to title verso, some marginal water-staining towards beginning and occasional foxing, contemporary mottled calf, worn, part of leather on upper cover missing and board beneath exposed, [Wing S3761], folio, Printed, and are to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1698.⁂ Sidney's most important work and the one that cost him his life. An attack on the divine right of kings, Discourses concerning Government argued that individuals should have the right to choose their own form of government. Along with Locke's Two Treatises on Government, the present work was studied by Thomas Jefferson in particular and is regarded as a critical text in the founding of the United States of America.Provenance: "E Libris Petri Tom." ink inscription dated in the year of publication on front free endpaper.

Caesar (Gaius Julius) The Commentaries, translated by William Duncan, engraved portrait frontispiece (silked at edges on blank recto), 6 double page engraved maps and 77 engraved plates only (of 78), 54 of which double-page or folding, occasional minor spotting or damp-staining (at margins), endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked, with leather repairs to corners and edges, covers rubbed, folio, for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper...and R. Dodsley, 1753.⁂ A large copy of this superb edition enhanced by wonderful plates, including both the foldout plates of the Bull and the Battle of the Elephants.

Graham (Rigby) Kippers & Sawdust, number 6 of 150 copies signed by the author/artist, printed in green and black, colour woodcuts and illustrations by Graham, some double-page, illustrations, original cloth with illustration mounted on upper cover, uncut, pictorial slip-case, Llandogo, The Old Stile Press, 1992 § Lawrence (John) A Selection of Wood-Engravings, number 36 of 80 copies signed by the author/artist, illustrations, original morocco-backed patterned paper boards, Camberwell Press, 1986, folio (2)

[Evans (Mary Ann)], "George Eliot". Felix Holt, 3 vol., 1866; The Spanish Gypsy, 1868, first editions, half-titles, uniformly bound in contemporary polished tan calf, by Riviere & Son, spines richly gilt with red and green morocco labels, inner gilt dentelles, spines slightly sunned, some very light rubbing but a handsome set, t.e.g., Edinburgh & London. Provenance: From the library of the great American book collector Robert Hoe (1839-1909). Among many other major rarities, Hoe's magnificent and exceptionally large library included two copies of the Gutenberg Bible (one on vellum, one on paper), a superb copy of the First Folio (now at the Folger), and the exceptionally rare first edition of Malory's Mort d'Arthur. His library was dispersed over the course of four highly competitive sales (1911-12), realising a world-record price for a book collection (almost $2 million in total). A founder and first president of the Grolier Club, Hoe was "a lover of fine bindings, and his library is rich in specimens of the work of all the great binders, ancient and modern" (bookplate on front pastedown of each volume).

Slavery.- A Group of 12 Parliamentary Slave Trade Papers, comprising: Papers Relating to Captured Negroes: Second Part of Major Moody's Report, 128 pp., folding map (light off-setting and spotting), title with minor amount of soiling and small paper repair, 24 February, 1826; [Slave Trade] At the Mauritius, Bourbon, and the Seychelles: from time of their capture to present time, 141 pp., map, 20th April, 1826 bound with Slave Trade Copies or Extracts Of any Correspondence... Slave Trade Mauritius, 33 pp., 15th February, 1827 also with Slave Trade Minutes of Evidence, whether the Slave Trade has prevailed in Mauritius, 89pp., 26th February 1827 and Slaves in Colonies... In all the slave colonies belonging to His Majesty, who are proprietors of Slaves, 33pp., 27th February, 1827, together 4 in 1 vol., lacking lower cover; Papers relating to Captured Negroes at Tortola, 57pp., tape repair to lower cover, 12th June, 1827; Papers relating to Captured Negroes at St. Christopher's, Nevis, and Tortolla, 76pp., 19th June, 1827; Papers relating to Captured Negroes at Demerara, 39pp., 19th June, 1827; Slaves Manumitted. Of the Number of Slaves Manumitted in each Colony, in each Year,for the last five Years; distinguishing the Number who paid for their Manumission, (and, if possible, the average Amount paid by each) from those emancipated by their Masters; and Males from Females, 48pp., tape repair to title, 1st March, 1827 bound with Slaves Imported, Exported; Manumissions, Marriages, 47pp., 1st march, 1827 also with Number of Slaves on the Estate of Bel Ombre in the district of Savanne, in the Mauritius, the makes from the females, and the Creoles from Foreign, 63pp., 1st May, 1827, together 3 in 1 vol., lacking covers; Trinidad Negroes. Extracts from the minutes of Evidence taken by the Committee of the Council of Trinidad, for enquiring into the Negroe Character, 57pp., lacking covers, 14th June, 1827, together 12 in 7, original printed wrappers, rebacked in marbled paper, light creasing, Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printers, folio (7)

Gregynog Press.- Milton (John) Four Poems...L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas, number 61 of 250 copies, original blind-stamped red calf, 1933; Comus, number 179 of 250 copies, original buckram-backed boards, 1931 § Butler (Samuel) Erewhon, number 267 of 300 copies, original sheep, 1932, all with wood-engraved titles, plates and illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, the first with prospectus loosely inserted, first and second slightly rubbed, [Harrop 26, 19 & 23], 8vo & small folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press (3)

Declaration of the Independent State of Israel.- Iton Rishmi, Official Gazette of Israel, no. 1, bifolium, text in Hebrew, a few very small tears to fore-edge, faint toning, folio, Tel Aviv, 1948.⁂ The first printing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Published on May 15, 1948, the day Israel announced its independence, the declaration names all of the 37 members of the Provisional Government of Israel, headed by David Ben-Gurion. It also contains the annulment of the infamous 1937 White Paper restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine.

Gwasg Gregynog.- Parker (Agnes Miller) Wood Engravings..., 2 vol., number 87 of 200 copies, 17 wood-engraved plates printed on Japon from the original blocks, prospectus loosely inserted, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, slip-cases, folio, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 1996-97.⁂ The first volume reprints the engravings from The Fables of Esope and the second those from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales, originally published by the Gregynog Press in 1931 and 1933 respectively.

Gwasg Gregynog.- See-Paynton (Colin) Of A Feather: Avian Collective Nouns & Terms of Assembly, number 35 of 135 copies from an edition of 150, signed by the author/artist on half-title, title in green and black with feather vignette in gold, wood-engraved illustrations by the author, prospectus loosely inserted, original dark blue morocco-backed cloth by John Sewell with illustration mounted to upper cover, uncut, cloth slip-case, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 2008; with an envelope of publicity material, letters from the author etc., folio (2)

Hollar (Wenceslaus) London: 37 Etchings of London Views (1636-1667), number 139 of 250 sets, folding panorama mounted on linen, other plates tipped into card mounts, loose as issued in original cloth drop-back box with catches, gilt-stamped roan label to spine and upper cover, accompanying text booklet in original wrappers in pocket inside lid, large folio, Edgeworth Press, 1980.

Hughes-Stanton (Blair).- Graves (Ida) Epithalamion, number 7 of 50 special copies on Japanese vellum signed by the author and artist, from an edition of 330, full-page wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, board slip-case, small folio, Colchester, Gemini Press, 1934.⁂ The first of only two books issued by the Gemini Press, established by Ida Graves and Blair Hughes-Stanton after the latter's departure from the Gregynog Press having left his wife Gertrude Hermes. Despite being unable to marry this was a celebration of the couple's union. Only half the edition was sold and in 1970 Hughes-Stanton sold the remaining sheets to the Basilisk Press who reissued the work in 1980.

Hughes-Stanton (Blair).- Ecclesiastes or the Preacher, number 97 of 250 copies, printed in orange and black, original vellum-backed orange cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934 § Lawrence (D. H.) Birds, Beasts and Flowers, number 45 of 500 copies, original vellum-backed boards, t.e.g., others uncut, a little yellowed, glacine wrapper (lightly frayed), Cresset Press, 1930, both with wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, folio (2)

Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson, together 2 vol., number 331 of 515 copies, the first a facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones, printed in red and black, illustrations, many tipped in, original floral patterned cloth designed by William Morris, together in board slip-case (slightly rubbed and marked), folio, Basilisk Press, 1974-75.

Limited Editions Club.- Shakespeare (William) The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, edited by Herbert Farjeon, 37 vol., limited edition designed by Bruce Rogers, plates, some colour, bookplate of Virginia L. Gibbons, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, New York, 1939-41; with a bundle of prospectuses for most of the individual plays, folio⁂ Each volume is illustrated by a different artist including Eric Gill, Arthur Rackham, Robert Gibbings, Barnet Freedman, Edward Bawden, Gordon Craig, Frans Masereel, Graham Sutherland, Edward Ardizzone, Valenti Angelo, E. McKnight Kauffer, and Agnes Miller Parker.

Limited Editions Club.- Heaney (Seamus) Poems and a Memoir, limited edition signed by the author, artist and editor, relief engravings by Henry Pearson, original calf with design in blind to upper cover, 1982 § Joyce (James) Dubliners, limited edition signed by the editor and artist, photogravures by Robert Ballagh, original morocco-backed cloth, 1986, both with prospectus loosely inserted, uncut, spines slightly faded, slip-cases, New York, Limited Editions Club, small folio & 4to (2)

Cheloniidae Press.- Kinney (Arthur F.) The Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare, number V of 5 Artist's Proof copies signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 155, with 2 original signed watercolour drawings of an owl and frog by Alan James Robinson bound in at beginning, printed in red and black, engraved portrait, wood-engraved illustrations by Robinson, bound in black goatskin-backed chamois paper-covered boards with transfer prints of birds and beasts, upper cover with inset shield of Shakespeare arms, by Daniel E. Kelm (note of binder tipped in at end), transfer print endpapers, uncut, preserved in cloth, drop-back box lined with transfer print paper, folio, Easthampton, Mass., 1990.⁂ An "interpretative fine binding by Daniel E. Kelm, The Wide Awake Garage, Easthampton, Massachusetts, March 1991" on this lavish production to mark the tenth anniversary of the Cheloniidae Press.

Nash (John).- Spenser (Edmund) The Shepheardes Calender, number 47 of 350 copies on hand-made paper, additional pochoir illustrated title and pochoir illustrations by John Nash, original vellum-backed cream silk, t.e.g., others uncut, dust-jacket (spine very slightly rubbed), board slip-case (bit worn), Cresset Press, 1930 § Lewis (John) John Nash: the Painter as Illustrator, number 13 of 150 special copies with a portfolio of 6 wood-engravings printed from the original blocks and signed by the author, original morocco-backed pictorial boards, spine very slightly faded, additional prints all numbered in pencil and with embossed stamp of the estate, printed at the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge and loose in folder (spine browned), together in board slip-case, Godalming, Pendomer Press, 1978, small folio & 4to (2)

Nash (Paul).- Lermontov (Mikhail Yurievitch) A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch, translated by John Cournos, number 76 of 750 copies, printed in red & black on grey paper, decorations by Paul Nash, small book-label and ink inscription to front free endpapers, original russet morocco with morocco onlays in black and beige, designed by Nash, uncut, spine slightly faded, Aquila Press, 1929 § Tellier (Jules) Abd-Er-Rhaman in Paradise, number 274 of 400 copies, wood-engravings by Nash, book-label of Brian Douglas Stilwell, original buckram-backed marble boards, with the original red pictorial dust-jacket, small chip to head of spine, Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1928 § Armstrong (Martin) Saint Hercules and Other Stories, number 182 of 310 copies, full-page pochoir illustrations by Nash, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, a little rubbed and spotted, printed at the Curwen Press for the Fleuron Ltd, [1927], all uncut, folio & 8vo (3)

Nash (Paul).- Greenwood (Jeremy) The Wood-Engravings of Paul Nash, number 26 of 60 special copies with an additional wood-engraving, from an edition limited to 550, with illustrated Addendum sheet printed in 2000 (one of 375 copies) loosely inserted, illustrations, original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, with mounted additional print in original cloth drop-back box, folio, Wood Lea Press, 1997.

Nicholson (William) An Alphabet, Library Edition, 26 colour lithograph plates, each tipped to larger brown paper leaf, some very light spotting to plates, mounts slightly mottled, title with short tear to upper margin, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed and marked, spine repaired, folio (c.410 x 330mm.), 1898.

Officina Bodoni.- Holy Gospel (The) according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, number XC of 155 copies for Great Britain, from an edition limited to 320, fine wood-engraved title-page by Reynolds Stone, woodcut illustrations by Bruno Bramanti after Bartolomeo di Giovanni's originals for the 1495 edition, original crimson morocco, upper cover titled in gilt within decorative circle, t.e.g., others uncut, transparent wrapper, original decorated cloth slip-case, small folio, Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1962.

Previous Parrot Press.- Bishop (Hal) The Wood Engravings of Frank Martin: A Selection...and a Catalogue of all the Relief Prints, special copy "D/U" with an additional suite of 8 hitherto unpublished wood-engravings, from an edition limited to 360 signed by the author and artist, illustrations, a few with colour, bound in morocco with design in black to upper cover, additional wood-engravings all titled, marked "D/U" and signed in pencil, loose as issued in wrappers, together in original cloth drop-back box, folio, Church Hanborough, Previous Parrot Press, 1998.

Ravilious (Eric).- Shakespeare (William) Twelfth Night, or, What You Will, number 80 of 275 copies, wood-engraved title-vignette, borders, illustrations and decorations by Eric Ravilious printed in brown or grey, original half morocco over pictorial cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly faded, [Chanticleer 82], small folio, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1932.⁂ "Eric Ravilious is discovered to be a clever decorator". Chanticleer.

Robertson (W. Graham) Old English Songs and Dances, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author to the publisher William Heineman inscribed on front free endpaper, illustrations by the author printed in colours by Edmund Evans, a good clean copy, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed, 1902 § Kauffer (E. McKnight) The Art of the Poster, first edition, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, rubbed and soiled, frayed and slightly defective, 1924 § Jones (Barbara) The Unsophisticated Arts, first edition, original cloth, a good copy in original pictorial dust-jacket, 1951 § Wanklyn (Joan) Guns at the Wood: a Record of St John's Wood Barracks, number 240 of 500 copies signed by the author/artist (this copy for Henry Nicholls Esq.), illustrations by the author, original cloth, preserved in original wrapper, 1972, plates and/or illustrations, some colour, folio & 4to (4)

Stone (Reynolds).- Thomas (R.S.) The Mountains, number 15 of 240 copies, from an edition limited to 350, 10 wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone after drawings by John Piper, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, uncut, slip-case (splits to joints), New York, Chilmark Press, printed by the Rampant Lions Press for Clover Hill Editions, 1968 § Stone (Reynolds) Engravings, with an Introduction by the Artist and an Appreciation by Kenneth Clark, number 103 of 150 copies signed by the artist and with an original signed wood-engraving, illustrations, some printed in red or grey, wood-engraving loose in folder and loosely inserted, original cloth, t.e.g., spine very slightly faded, marbled board slip-case, 1977, small folio & 8vo (2)

Whittington Press.- Nicholson (William) An Alphabet, number 124 of 150 sets, 38 plates including 2 versions of E & T and some unused designs, all but four printed from the original woodblocks, 1978; An Almanac of Twelve Sports [&] London Types, number 7 of 150 sets, 34 plates including 4 unused versions, 1980, together 2 vol., each with separate introduction by Edward Craig (one of 300 & 225 signed copies respectively, original wrappers), loose as issued in original cloth drop-back boxes, illustration mounted on upper cover (the first hand-coloured), folio, Andoversford, Whittington Press (2)

William Lionel Wyllie(1851-1931)Folio titled; "Six Original Drypoint-Etchings of the River Tyne and Coast"; viz: "The Quayside", "North Shields", "Tynemouth", "High and Low Lights", "Cullercoats", and "St. Mary's Island and Lighthouse",pencil signed,drypoint etchings,22 x 38cms and smaller, uniformly framed, and accompanied by their original folio, copy No.2.

Sir William Dugdale: ‘Monasticon Anglicanum: A history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, friaries, and cathedral and collegiate churches... in England and Wales.’, London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1817-1830, 6 volumes in 8 (volume 6 is in 3 parts/volumes), engraved additional titles and 242 plates (see footnote), many double-page, plates rather spotted; together with DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM: ‘The History of Saint Paul's Cathedral, in London.’, London: Lackington, Hughes [&c.], 1818, 67 engraved plates, some double-page, [BAL RIBA 934]ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, WITH PROOF PLATES, together 9 volumes, folio (473 x 315mm.), half-titles, list of subscribers in volume 1, nineteenth-century dark blue morocco gilt by J. Wright (the volume of St. Paul's uniformly bound by Ramage), gilt edges. Provenance: probably Henry Perkins (1778-1855), a subscriber to a large paper copy, with initials "HP" on upper cover of each volume, sale by Gadsden, Ellis & Co., 3 June 1873, lots 396 and 387 (but see footnote). All indications are that this copy belonged to Henry Perkins, though the copy sold at his library sale (see provenance) was described as being bound in purple morocco by Herring, possibly in error. As is often the case Monasticon Anglicanum is without the plate of a Benedictine nun at p.451 in vol.2. It is presumably omitted as it appears to be a duplicate of the same plate which is present at p.436 vol.1.This new edition of Monasticon Anglicanum, the work of John Paley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, greatly expanded the first edition of 1655 by drawing on records in the Tower of London and the Cottonian collection. It contains an enormous amount of information on the history of English religious houses and incorporates the charters of foundation, donation and confirmation granted to religious establishments. The fine engraved plates include plans and views of abbeys, cathedrals, monasteries and priories as well as engravings of costumes and seals. From the collection of Father Peter Harris, with his bookplates to front pastedowns (9)

Robert Hogg & Henry Graves Bull: 'The Herefordshire Pomona, Containing Original Fugures and Descriptions of the Most Esteemed Kinds of Apples and Pears', Hereford, Jakeman & Carver, 1876-85, 2 volumes, 77 fine chromolithograph plates of apples and pears by Alice Ellis & Edith Bull complete, plus four uncoloured engraved plates and many text wood engraved illustrations as called for, errata slip to volume I, all plates tissue guarded, some tissue guards with foxing/spotting, a very small number of plates with marginal toning and light marginal foxing, but else all plates themselves generally very clean/VGC, folio, contemporary half calf gilt worn, vol. I top board loose, backstrips worn, vol. II backstrip part detached (but vast majority of detached parts present in packet), all edges gilt, armorial bookplates of Robert Broome to front pastedowns; together with Hogg & Graves Bull 'The Apple & Pear as Vintage Fruits', Hereford, Jakeman & Carver, 1886, x,[2],247pp, original cloth gilt. From the estate of Francis Jermyn Smith, M.B.E., fruit & potato merchant, of Lance Wood, Wisbech. The Herefordshire Pomona was initiated by the Woolhope Naturalists Field Club in order to restore Herefordshire to its fruit growing supremacy, and appeared in only 600 copies. The plates are after drawings by Edith E. Bull, Alice B. Ellis and W. G. Smith (1 only), and lithographed by G. Severeyns, the reknowned Belgian chromolithographer. A classic of late Victorian natural history, "One of the finest fruit books ever issued." (Sitwell 'Great Flower Books 1700-1900' p.59). (3)

Two large folio volumes of mainly 18th and 19th Century engraved heraldic coats of arms/bookplates, first volume containing approx. 148 engravings, various sizes, some full page and bound in, others smaller and mounted to leaves, some hand coloured, a few 17th Century, second volume containing approx. 200 engravings, various sizes, some full page and bound in, others smaller and mounted to leaves, a few 17th Century, each folio, old half calf (worn, second volume backstrip part detached), each with armorial bookplate to front pastedown of George Henry Sutherland (2)

John Tillotson: 'The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson', London, James Round, Jacob Tonson et al, 3 volumes, volumes I 1728, 9th edition, engraved portrait frontis, volumes II & III 1728, 4th edition, ex library, inkstamps to title pages, no other lib markings, folio, contemporary calf gilt worn, armorial bookplates of Gerald E. Aylmer (3)

(Medicine, Pathology), Three illustrated atlases of pathology published by The New Sydenham Society 1902-1907, comprising Jonathan Hutchinson: 'An Atlas of Illustrations of Clinical Medicine, Surgery and Pathology..Fasciculus XV..Xanthelasma and Xanthoma..and Organic Diseases of the Liver', 1902, 18 plates (of which 5 chromolithograph coloured), '...Fasciculus XVIII. Illustrations of the Results of Arsenical Poisioning - Illustrations of Urticaria Pigmentosa - Illustrations of the Phenomena of Leprosy', 1903, 37 plates (of which 8 chromolithograph coloured), '...Fasciculus XXVI. Eczema, Lichen, and Tinea. Gout Tophi. Darier's Dermatosis, &c - Gangrenous Vaccinia and Gangrenous Varicella', 1907, 16 plates (of which 14 chromolithograph coloured), each folio, each original printed wraps, rebacked (3)

(Ceramics), Édouard Garnier: 'The Soft Porcelain of Sèvres, With An Historical Introduction', London, John C. Nimmo, 1892, 2 volumes, 50 leaves of fine chromolithograph plates heightened in gilt as called for, 32pp letterpress, leaves, plates and captioned tissue guards all loose, a few plates with slight staining/soiling, mainly marginal, and a small number with marginal closed tears (not affecting illustrations), (a/f), some contents jumbled, but all plates present and much if not all else appears present original printed pale green wraps for parts II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII & IX loosely inserted, together with 5 other coloured plates depicting Sèvres porcelain + 1 other unrelated coloured engraved plate, contents all housed loose in two battered contemporary half calf gilt folio volumes. Some of the most beautiful and precious porcelain of all time was made by the Sevres porcelain factory in France. The plates (produced by Sevres) display some of the best products of this golden age of soft-paste porcelain (2)

Sebastian Carter: 'SIQ', Cambridge, Sebastian Carter, 2011, limited edition, this being number 9 of 10 copies only, signed by Sebastian Carter (b.1941, of Rampant Lions Press until 2008), "An evocation of the experience of walking along the narrow gorge - the Siq - at Petra, in Jordan", printed title & printed colophon/limitation page signed and numbered, these both screen printed from hand cut stencils + 10 leaves of images cut in sheets of different coloured Canson Mi-Teintes paper, with some screen printed colour, and the illustration of the facade of the treasury screen printed from a hand cut stencil, folio (37.5 x 26cm), original hand sewn wooden boards within screen printed card chemise as issued, printed prospectus leaf loosely inserted; together with Sebastian Carter: 'Letterpress', Cambridge, The Rampant Lions Press, 2001, single proof sheet, laid paper, signed in pencil lower right by Carter and captioned "Z A-P" lower left in pencil, approx 35 x 28cm, framed and glazed, the whole 42.5 x 35cm (2)

John Piper; Alan Powers, Hugh Fowler-Wright, David Heathcote, Rigby Graham & others: 'Piper in Print', Church Hanborough, Artists’ Choice Editions, 2010, limited edition (281/384), numbered and signed by Hugh Fowler-Wright, 175,[1]pp, profusely illustrated in colour and black & white throughout, folio, original quarter cloth gilt over pictorial paper covered boards reproducing Piper's painitng of the Super Scene from Don Giovanni, 1951, some Goldmark gallery related material loosely inserted

John Piper & Richard Ingrams: 'Piper's Places: John Piper in England & Wales', London, Chatto & Windus The Hogarth Press, 1983, 1st edition, colour and black & white illustrations throughout, 184pp, large 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper; plus a collection of other mainly John Piper plus a couple of Edward Piper books and gallery catalogues, including Orde Levinson: 'The Prints of John Piper: Quality and Experiment. A Catalogue Raisonné 1923-91', Lund Humphries, 2010, orig. cloth lettere in silver, d/w; Jenkins: 'John Piper The Forties', 2013, orig. pictorial wraps; Jenkins & Spalding: 'John Piper in the 1930s Abstraction on the Beach', Merrell, 2003, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Webb & Skipwith: 'John Piper Design', ACC, 2013, orig. decorative boards, d/w; Sylvia Clayton: 'Edward Piper', London, David & Charles and The Catto Gallery, 1988, profusely illustrated in colour and black & white throughout, oblong folio, original cloth, d/w; John Betjeman: 'John Piper. The Penguin Modern Painters', 1948, 1st edition, oblong, original card covers; plus approx 14 John Piper and 1 Edward Piper exhibition/gallery catalogues, including Goldmark, Cardiff National Museum, Blenheim Palace, Messum's etc etc (22)

Jeremy Greenwood: 'The Wood-Engravings of John Nash. A Catalogue of the wood-engravings, early lithographs, etchings and engravings on metal', Liverpool, The Wood Lea Press, 1987, limited edition (750), mounted portrait frontis plus numerous illustrations throughout, including some mounted, 148,[3]pp, folio, original quarter green cloth, gilt lettered to spine, patterned pictorial paper covered boards, matching original green cloth slipcase

Jeremy Greenwood: 'The Wood-Engravings of Paul Nash. A Catalogue of the wood-engravings, pattern papers, etchings and an engraving on copper, Woodbridge, The Wood Lea Press, 1997, limited edition (490), portrait frontis plus numerous illustrations throughout, some tipped in, 141,[2]pp, folio, original quarter grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, decorative patterned paper covered boards replicating Curwen paper pattern No.24 (G.100), original grey cloth slipcase