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The Doomsday Book of Cornwall, one vol folio 1861

Houghton (Rev. W.) British Fresh-Water Fishes, one vol folio 1879 complete with 41 coloured plates with tissue guards, half calf spine replaced

Hoare "Sir R. C." The History of Ancient Wiltshire part one, London 1810, large folio (af)

A selection of over 30 various Folio Society volumes, mainly boxed

A selection of over 50 Folio Society volumes, mainly boxed

A selection of 30 various Folio Society volumes including boxed sets

Various RAF related volumes including So Many - A Folio Dedicated to all Who Served with RAF Bomber Command 1939-45; The Battle of Britain Then and Now and others etc.

Four boxed Folio Society sets of volumes relating to Winston Churchill - The Second World War/A History of the English Speaking Peoples

[NATURAL HISTORY]. ORNITHOLOGY & OTHER Thorburn, Archibald. British Birds, new edition, second impression, four volumes, Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1931, original scarlet cloth, colour plate illustrations, octavo; Blackburn, Hugh. Birds Drawn from Nature, Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh, 1862, quarter leather, pictorial title page, twenty-three full-page illustrations (including title, as called for), folio; and two other works, (7). Condition Report : Thorburn: Spines evenly faded; Blackburn: Covers rubbed and soiled; corners worn; losses to spine ends; upper-fore edge corners stained; some mid fore-edge staining and soiling. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.

[MISCELLANEOUS] The Paris Universal Exhibition Album 1889, Stiassny & Rasetti, London / Paris / New York, as dated, original crimson cloth gilt, parallel English / Spanish / French text, full-page and text illustrations, folio; and Switzerland: its Scenery and People, Blackie, London, 1881, green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, plate and text illustrations, tall quarto, (2). Note: This lot sold with all faults, not subject to return. Condition Report : Exhibition: Covers worn, with losses to spine strip; binding broken between pp.x and xi; Switzerland: Spine strip split along upper joint and with losses to ends; hinges tender; some plates detached. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.

Folio Society - A collection of travel related decorative hardcover fiction books comprising of Into The Dark Continent The Travels of Henry Morton Stanley, William Russell Special Correspondent of the Times, Pathfinders of the American West, The Fatal Shore, London Characters and Crooks, Captain Cooks Voyage, T E Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom and more. Comes with Diary of a shopkeeper Thomas Turner. 

Folio Society - A George Orwell hardcover collection of books comprising of My Country Right or left, Homage to Society, Down and Out in Paris and London, Funny But Not Vulgar & The Road to Wigan Pier. 

Folio Society - A large collection of Hardback fiction books to include Memoirs of a Georgian Rake - William Hickey, Rides around Britain - John Byng, Rob Roy -  Walter Scott, Charles Dickens - Christmas Books, David Coppperfield & Pickwick Papers, Our Village Mary Russell Mitford, The Dorothy L Sayers Crime Collection, Tristram Sterne & more.

A Chard folio 101 South Coast of England

BLAKE (WILLIAM)Illustrations of the Book of Job. The Colour Versions of Blake's Book of Job designs from the Circle of John Linnell, NUMBER VIII OF 65 DELUXE COPIES, for the William Blake Trust, from an overall edition limited to 387, colour plates of several versions of Blake's plates, text in publisher's quarter morocco over marbled boards, plates loose as issued in morocco-backed solander boxes, housed together in 2 original slipcasases, folio, Trianon Press, for the William Blake Trust, 1987This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GRABHORN PRESSWHITMAN (WALT) Leaves of Grass, number 335 of 400 copies, printed in red and black by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo, publisher's morocco-backed wooden boards by Hazel Dreis, publisher's device cut into lower outer corner of upper cover, uncut, spine ends retouched, slipcase, folio, New York, printed by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco for Random House, 1930Footnotes:Provenance: 'To Kätchen R.K.a.c. from Tilly, 1931, New York', inscription on flyleaf.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - ERIC GILLCHAUCER (GEOFFREY) Troilus and Criseyde, number 123 of 225 copies, printed in red, blue and black, wood-engraved illustrations and decorations by Eric Gill, original 8-page prospectus loosely inserted, original quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., preserved in purpose-made morocco-backed solander case, gilt lettered on spine [Chanticleer 50], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ORDNANCE SURVEY - ENGLAND AND WALESAtlas containing thirty-nine Ordnance Survey [First Series] maps, comprising sheets 1-48 (lacking nos. 13-15, 19, 34-35, and 43-45), the first captioned 'Part the First of the General Survey of England and Wales, Containing the Whole of Essex....', 37 engraved maps (one per sheet, unfolded), 2 electrotyped maps (nos. 42 and 46) dissected in 4 parts joined on one sheet, nineteenth century half morocco over cloth, gilt lettered 'Ordnance Survey Maps' on upper cover, worn, large oblong folio (660 x 980mm.), Colonel Mudge [-Colonel Colby, and others], 1805-1833, and 1868-1872; Part of the Genearal Survey of Great Britain... Containing Lincolnshire and Rutlandshire, with Portions of the Adjoining Counties, engraved title, and 8 double-page engraved ordnance survey mapsheets (nos. 64, 65, 69, 70, and 83-86), contemporary half calf after marbled boards, gilt morocco lettering label ('Lincolnshire and Rutlandshire') on upper cover, worn, loss to spine, folio (660 x 485mm.), Colonel Colby, 1824 (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JONES (DAVID)The Engravings of David Jones. A Survey by Douglas Cleverdon, number 146 of 260 copies on 'vélin d'Arches', mounted portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations, the majority printed from the original blocks, original prospectus loosely inserted, publisher's decorative green cloth gilt, morocco spine label, lined morocco-lipped slipcase, folio, Clover Hill, 1981This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DALI (SALVADOR)[Bible] Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis. Sixti V pont. max. iussu recognita et Clementis VIII auctoritate edita, imaginibus Salvatoris Dali exornata, 5 vol., NUMBER 48 OF 1499 'LUXUS' COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER, 105 offset lithographs in colour, with printed Japon tissue-guards, 4-page gilt-lettered parchment limitation note loosely inserted, untrimmed in publisher's dark tan calf, gilt panelled spines, cream watered-silk endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut, abrasion to some spine bands, original matching cream watered-silk slipcases with calf edges, some abrasions and wear [Michler & Löpsinger 1600], folio (487 x 360mm.), Milan, Rizzoli, 1967-1969Footnotes:'Dali spent six years (1963-69) creating the original gouaches for the book. This lengthy project was an artistic, as well as intensely spiritual exercise, to explore and return to the Catholic faith; the vibrant lithographs, infused with imagination and devotion, are the result of this pilgrimage' ('Salvator Dali rare books', blog post by The Bookworm, 10 May 2012, rarebooksdigest.com).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FRITH (FRANCIS)Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, additional titles with mounted albumen print, each volume with 36 albumen prints by Frith (most signed in the negative), mounted one per page (recto only, with printed caption on mount), some light spotting to text throughout, Lower Egypt with dampstains touching image of additional title, opening 2 plates and 'Sphynx', a few paint flecks on 'Ruins of the Mosque of El-Hakim' and 'Osiride Pillars', stains to 2 corners of mount on last 6 plates; Upper Egypt the last 20 plates with some dampstaining in lower margin of border, staining to 3 borders of one plate, light stains touching image of 'Abou Simbell' plate, one plate frayed at edges, publisher's morocco-backed cloth, gilt lettered on upper covers and spine, worn and some stains at edges, head of spine split to first mentioned title, gutta percha perished so contents loose, folio (440 x 315mm.), William Mackenzie, [1862-63] (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CRESSET PRESSMILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd, 2 vol., number 187 of 195 copies, titles and initials designed by Anna Simons, wood-engraved plates and tail-pieces by D. Galanis, slight mark to one plates, publisher's cream buckram, spines lettered in gilt, slight soiling, both volumes in modern calf-lipped slipcase, folio, Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford, for the Cresset Press, 1931This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTBEAUMONT (FRANCIS) Salmacis and Hermaphroditus... edited by Gwyn Jones, NUMBER 20 OF 80 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES WITH AN EXTRA PLATE, from an overall edition of 380, signed on the colophon by the artist and and editor, 10 engraved plates printed in colours by John Buckland Wright, original prospectus loosely inserted, original decorative blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., spine slightly faded, slipcase, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1951This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BLAKE (WILLIAM)William Blake's Illustrations to the Bible. A Catalogue Compiled by Geoffrey Keynes, number 113 of 506 copies, tipped-in colour frontispiece, collotype plates (some colour), publisher's morocco-backed marbled boards, slipcase, folio, 1957; Blake's Illustrations of Dante, [one of 400 copies], plates, publisher's morocco-backed cloth, slipcase, oblong folio, [1978], Trianon Press (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First item, Kenneth Garth Huston, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MAILLOL (ARISTIDE)OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) L'Art d'aimer, translated by Henri Bornecque, copy number 185 of 225 copies, 'sur papier speciale', signed in pencil by Maillol on the colophon, 12 lithographed plates by Maillol (5 in sanguine), woodcut illustrations and initials, 38 additional woodcut plates and proofs, original wrappers bound in, early vellum over boards by Berthe Thieren (signed in gilt on lower dentelle), upper cover gilt-blocked with illustration after Maillol, gilt lettered on spine, fabric-lined slipcase, folio (385 x 280mm.), Lausanne, Les Freres Gonin, 1935This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BISHOP (HAL)The Wood Engravings of Frank Martin, NUMBER XXXI OF 36 COPIES WITH A SET OF 8 ADDITIONAL ENGRAVINGS, signed by the author and illustrator, from an overall edition of 360, the extra plates loose as issued, each signed and dated by the artist--POOLE (MONICA) The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh, number 94 of 100 copies signed by the author, with a proof plate from an original block by Farleigh loosely inserted at the end, Gresham, 1985--KEIZER (WILLEM) The Woodcuts of Jan Franken Pzn., 2 vol. (including portfolio of plates), number 74 of 100 copies signed by the author, this one of 15 with text printed in English, plates, prospectus loosley inserted, quarter morococo, Woubrugge, Avalon, 2009--MYERS (COLIN) The Book Illustrations of Thomas Lowinsky, one of 250 copies, tipped-in plates, publisher's quarter cloth, Oldham, Incline Press, 2001--REGO (PAULA) Jane Eyre. Introduced by Marina Warner, one of 250 copies signed by the artist and author, plates after Rego, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, Enitharmon, 2003--DREYFUS (JOHN) A Typographical Masterpiece. An Account.. of Eric Gill's Collaboration with Robert Gibbings in Producing the Golden Cockerel Press Edition of 'The Four Gospels' in 1931, limited to 250 copies, morocco-backed patterned cloth, Bain & Williams, 1991--MACKLEY (GEORGE) Monica Poole. Wood Engraver, limited to 300 copies, signed by the editor Graham Williams, publisher's quarter cloth, Biddenham, Florin, 1984--WILSON (JEREMY AND NICOLE) T.E. Lawrence. Translating the Bruce Rogers 'Odyssey', NUMBER 22 OF 45 COPIES BOUND IN FULLL GOATSKIN, from an overall edition of 377 copies, frontispiece, full morocco, Salisbury, Castle Hill Press, 2014, all in slipcases, 4to and small folio; and 7 others (16)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE & HIS MARSHALSCollection of some eighty letters, orders, notes, certificates and other documents pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte, his marshals and general officers, in French, covering the period of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, including:Autograph endorsement ('Np') on a letter to the 'Aide-de-Camp of the late General Valhubert of the staff of the Great Army', from Lieutenant Desdorides, in French, saying he was knocked down and wounded at the General's side at the battle of Austerlitz and asking for a promotion to captain ('...I have lost my second father...'), annotated instruction in another hand to M. Tabarie to expedite this as per the Emperor's decision, one page, dust-stained, edges frayed, loss to upper left corner, remains of old tape, fragile, folio (380 x 232mm.), 19 January 1806; autograph endorsement ('Np') on a recommendation signed by Cardenau, to Moreau, general in chief of the army of the Rhine, for the post of 'chef de bataillon titulaire' of the 2nd Battallion, 2 pages, remains of seal, 4to (260 x 200mm.), Strasbourg, 24 January 1800; together with a large collection of documents signed by Napoleonic Marshals including Berthier, Ney (2), Kellerman (5), Jourdan (3), Macdonald (3), Mortier (5), de Grouchy (4), Moncey, governor of the Invalides (3), Augereau (3), Soult (2), Oudinot (2), Brune (2), Davout (2), Victor (2), Drouet, Clark, Duroc, Murat, Bernadotte, Bessieres, de Marmont, Junot and others; various generals and officers including Marchand (Bonaparte's valet), Marceau, Kleber and Beurnonville, c.90 pages, some on engraved forms and a variety of letterheads, some with seals and receipt stamps, two bearing ownership stamp 'Autograph Collection of Dr Max Thorek Chicago', dust staining, marks, fraying to edges, folio and smaller, c.1795 to 1834;with autograph letter from Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith signed ('W. Sidney Smith'), to Paul Barras, of the Directory Regime, in French, complaining of harsh treatment as a prisoner of war, endorsed by Barras, 2 pages, folio, 'A la Tour du Temple', 15 September 1796; receipt for pay from British army for Frederick von Arentsschildt, Commander of the 7th Cavalry Brigade at Waterloo, signed by the recipient, 29 April 1815; and autograph letter signed ('Picton'), to 'my dear General', in English, written six days before his death at Waterloo, a letter of encouragement confirming safe embarkation of horses, hoping to arrive in time to take part in the campaign, 3 pages, 4to, Ramsgate, 12 June 1815.Footnotes:An extensive collection of documents pertaining to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, representing many of the most influential Marshals and officers involved, including a letter endorsed by Napoleon and a small group of British interest including a letter written shortly before his death at the Battle of Waterloo by Lieutenant-General Thomas Picton. The collection covers the main campaigns of the period from the Rhine to Egypt, Italy, the Baltic, Spain, Austria, Prussia and the Hundred Days.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTMALLARMÉ (STÉPHANE) L'après-midi d'un faune, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF 5 ENGRAVED PLATES BY BUCKLAND WRIGHT, this copy 'F', 4 collotype plates, typescript leaf of text by Mary Buckland Wright, and the suite of additional plates loose as issued in cloth sleeve, original vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt-blocked with illustration designed by Buckland Wright on upper cover, together in original slipcase, small folio, [John Buckland Wright & the Golden Cockerel Press], 1935 [1956, colophon dated 1972]Footnotes:A posthumous publication on which John Buckland Wright had been working for twenty years. Originally planned to be the third publication by the artist's own imprint (J.B.W. Editions) the text was printed by Mouton & Co. of the Hague in 1936, but due to his being not satisfied with the illustrations the work was not issued at this time. Fifty copies of the text were printed, but only 25 copies were ever bound and issued.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ZOCCHI (GIUSEPPE)Scelta di XXIV vedute delle principali Contrade, Piazze, Chiese e Palazzi della citta di Firenze, double-page engraved allegorical title-page incorporating dedication by Johann Gottfried Seutter after Giuseppe Magini, double-page engraved plan of Florence by Ferdinande Ruggieri (dated 1755, same publisher), 23 double-page engraved plates (of 24, numbered 1-14, 14, 17-24) by J.A. Pfeffel, J.S. Muller, G. Vasi and others after Zocchi, short tear to upper blank margin of title-page, 2 small dampstains just touching image of opening 5 plates, short thin hole at centre-fold of plates 5 and 6, 90mm. vertical tear (repaired) reaching from lower margin to image of plate 14 (Chiesa St. Trinita), light toning at centre fold of some plates, contemporary full red morocco gilt, covers with single roll-tool border, spine in 7 compartments tooled with title, flower and vase motifs within raised bands, yellow edges, worn at corners and spine (with tear at head [Berlin Kat. 2700], folio (535 x 370mm.), Florence, Giuseppe Bouchard, 1754Footnotes:Magnicent views of eighteenth century Florence by Giuseppe Zocchi (c.1711—1767), the so-called 'Canaletto of Florence'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WHITTINGTON PRESSBUTCHER (DAVID, commentary) Pages from Presses. Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves, Vale, Eragny & Essex House, NUMBER IV OF 40 COPIES WITH ELEVEN ORIGINAL LEAVES AND SPECIALLY BOUND, from an overall edition of 185 copies, half red Nigerian morocco, 2006--BISHOP (HAL) Lost & Found. Rachel Reckitt's Book Illustrations, ONE OF 40 COPIES WITH AN EXTRA SET OF PROOFS of the engravings for The Mill on the Floss AND SPECIALLY BOUND, from an overall edition of 225 copies, proofs loose in portfolio, original half Oasis leather, together in slipcase, 2010--[BLAKE (WILLIAM)] On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. Milton's Hymn, with Illustrations by William Blake, ONE OF 25 COPIES WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PLATES AND SPECIALLY BOUND, from an overall edition of 350 copies, 6 tipped-in colour plates, extra plates loose as issued in portfolio, full green Oasis morocco, together in solander box, 1981--CRAIG (JOHN) Britten's Aldeburgh, number 131 of 440 copies, 3 linocuts, 81 wood-engraved illustrations, 1997; Venice, number 160 of 285 copies, wood-engraved illustrations, 2015; The Locks of the Oxford Canal, number 107 of 350 copies, 50 wood-engraved illustrations, 1984, Craig titles signed by the author/illustrator--WEISSENBORN (HELLMUTH) London Scenes. Wood-engravings, ONE OF 60 COPIES WITH AN EXTRA SET OF PROOFS AND ONE SIGNED ENGRAVING, from an overall edition of 300 copies, proofs as issued in portfolio, publisher's boards, together in slipcase, 2001; Hellmuth Weissenborn. Engraver. With an Autobiographical Introduction by the artist, number 192 of 260 copies, full maroon morocco, printed pictorial label on upper cover, 1983--Four Wood-engravings for Virgil's Georgics. Engraved by Edward Craig, one of 150 copies, publisher's boards, [Printed by the Whittington Press for] Matrix, 1994--O'CONNOR (JEANNIE) The wood-engravings of John O'Connor, NUMBER 36 OF 50 COPIES bound in quarter Nigerian goatskin, from an overall edition of 350 copies1989, publisher's bindings, all but the sixth and ninth mentioned in slipcases, 8vo, 4to and folio, Whittington Press (10)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESSSPENSER (EDMUND) The Works, 8 vol., number 215 of 350 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved decorations by Hilda Quick, initials and headings by Hilda Quick after Joscelyn Gaskin in red, black and blue, publisher's green quarter morocco, 1930--MALORY (THOMAS) The Noble & Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte Darthur, 2 vol., one of 370 copies printed from the Wynkyn de Worde edition of 1498, printed in red and black in double-column, woodcut illustrations, publisher's orange half morocco, t.e.g., 1933--FROISSART (JEAN) Cronycles. Translated out of the French by Sir John Bourchier Lord Berners, 2 vol. in 8, number 265 of 320 copies on paper, hand-coloured woodcut coats-of-arms on titles and in margins throughout, maps hand-coloured in outline, contemporary brown morocco, gilt lettered on spine, 1927-1928--BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Decameron, number 148 of 325 copies, printed in blue and black, wood-engraved title-borders and illustrations after the Venetian edition of 1492, contemporary blue half morocco gilt, t.e.g., 1934--HOMER. The Whole Works of Homer, 5 vol., number 92 of 450 copies, woodcut illustrations by John Farleigh, original half morocco, spines rubbed, 1930-1931--BEDE. The History of the Church of Englande, limited to 475 copies, original half morocco, 1930, 4to and small folio, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press (26)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PINELLI (BARTOLOMEO)[La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri], 3 parts in 1 vol., 3 engraved frontispieces and 141 engraved plates after Pinelli, engraved dedication to Alessio Francesco Artaud, wide margins, creases to first plate, occasional spotting, later half calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label, covers detached, oblong folio (420 x 552mm.), [Rome, 1824-1826]Footnotes:Provenance: George Bernard Rust, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

OGILBY (JOHN)Britannia; Or, the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, Actually Survey'd, second edition, 102 engraved road-maps (including duplicates of nos. 40 and 98), title laid down, some text leaves cropped at upper margin with loss/partial loss of pagination numeral, 3 maps re-backed, approximately 15 plates shaved or ragged at fore-edge with small loss to image, 3 maps shaved at upper margin touching image, modern half morocco [ESTC R36943; Chubb CIIa], oblong folio (370 x 465mm.), Abel Swall and Robert Morden, 1698Footnotes:Provenance: John Birkett, vicar of Milford from 1679-1722, inscription dated 1698 on title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BACON (FRANCIS)Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved allegorical title-page, woodcut headers and initials, small piece of blank upper margin torn away, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC S106902; Gibson 141b], small folio (284 x 190mm.), Oxford, Leon Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed. Forrest, 1640Footnotes:FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue with colophon dated 1640. Enlarged and expanded from the 1605 Latin edition, with a frontispiece portrait of Bacon engraved by William Marshall.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CAMPBELL (COLEN)Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect, vol. 1 only, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and dedication leaf, 98 engraved plates only (of 100, lacking nos. 37 and 38) on 84 sheets (14 double-page), contemporary reverse calf [Fowler 76; Harris 97], folio (505 x 345mm.), for the Author, 1715This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GRABHORN PRESS[BIBLE] The Book of Job, number 59 of 210 copies, colour-printed frontispece by Angelo Valentini, printed in red and black, Grabhorn bookplate of Robert Strong, bookplate of Bert & Evelyn Elkind, folio, [1926]--VILLON (FRANCOIS) Sundry Ballads, limited to 210 copies, printed in colours, [1922], publisher's cloth-backed boards--[BIBLE] The Book of Ruth, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, frontispiece signed by Angelo Valentini, illuminated throughout by Angelo with the first word in gold and intials in red, blue and turquoise, publisher's white boards, slipcase, 1926, San Francisco, Grabhorn Press--[SZYK (ARTHUR, illustrator) Le Livre d'Esther, one of 175 copies on Japon Imperiale paper, with an extra suite of plates printed in black (loose as issued at end), tipped-in colour plates by Syzk, publisher's wrappers, Paris, H. Piazza, [1925]; The Book of Job, bookplate of Alan K. Dolliver, 1946; The Book of Ruth, 1947, each limited to 1950 copies, colour plates by Arthur Syzk, publisher's half morocco over gilt-block boards, spine extremities rubbed, original gold slipcase (some wear), Limited Editions Club, 8vo and 4to (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BROCKMAN (STUART)DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Divine Comedy, number 1247 of 1500 copies, signed by Hans Mardersteig, translated by Melville Best Anderson, tan crushed morocco by Stuart Brockman, covers with intersecting red, gold and black triangular and semicircular rules, enclosing inlaid elaborately gilt circular panels, and inset with blue and red acrylic 'portholes', gilt-lettered black morocco spine label, morocco-backed solander box with matching spine label, folio, Verona, [printed by the Officina Bodoni] for the Limited Editions Club, 1932This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTKEATS (JOHN) Endymion, limited to 500 copies, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, slipcase, 1947--GAUTIER (THEOPHILE) Mademoiselle de Maupin...Translated by R. & E. Powys Mathers, one of 500 copies, 8 engraved plates publisher's quarter vellum, 1938--HARTNOLL (PHYLLIS) The Grecian Enchanted, one of 360 plates, printed in green, red and black, 8 engraved plates, 1952--SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Laus Veneris, limited to 750 copies, wood-engraved illustrations, 1948; Hymn to Prosperine, limited to 350 copies, wood-engraved illusrations, 1944, publisher's cloth or quarter cloth, all illustrated by John Buckland Wright, 8vo and small folio, Golden Cockerel Press (5)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SELLARS (DAVID)MEREDITH (GEORGE) Three Poems, ONE OF 15 COPIES ISSUED IN SHEETS FOR BOOKBINDERS, from an overall edition of 80 copies, this copy numbered 'H', full orange/green marbled morocco by David Sellars (signed in pencil, dated 2002), vertical strips of dyed leather inserted into a wide sunken band running horizontally across the covers and spine, gilt lettered on spine, slipcase, small folio, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, Simon King Press, 1998This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND-WRIGHTKEATS (JOHN) Endymion. A Poetic Romance, NUMBER 9 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by the artist, from an overall edition of 500, wood-engraved illustrations (some full-page) by John Buckland-Wright, light foxing on p.14, original pictorial vellum gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a gilt-blocked design of Cynthia, Goddess of the Moon after Buckland-Wright on the upper cover, t.e.g., original cloth slip-case [Cockalorum 175; Reid A47a], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947Footnotes:'In his 58 illustrations Buckland Wright is both as classical and as romantic as the poet could have desired. His vision, it seems to me, approaches that of Keats as closely as is possible for any artist working in our generation. While there is more than a hint of classicism in his admirable figures, their groupings and settings are romantic' (Christopher Sandford, Cockalorum).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

INCUNABULAHORATIUS FLACCUS (QUINTUS) Opera, 264 leaves, 62 lines, full-page woodcut device on final leaf, scattered single wormholes (quite numerous to opening leaves, diminishing to a couple), extensive early ink annotation on title-page, with occasional marginal annotations in the same hand [ISTC ih00458000; BM V 496; Goff H458], Venice, [Philippus Pincius, for] Benedictus Fontana, 16 February 1495/96; LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS) Pharsalia [commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus and Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus], 218 leaves, 62 lines, scattered single wormholes towards the end, with a few elsewhere, wormtrails in lower blank margin of opening leaves (and final leaves of first work), light marginal dampstain to final 2 leaves [ISTC il00307000; BM V523; Goff L307; Hain 10242], Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 20 October 1498, 2 works bound in 1 vol., early blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, some single wormholes, lacks clasps and hasps, upper joint repaired, folio (320 x 220mm.)Footnotes:Two incunables, both of classic texts printed in Venice, bound in an early German pigskin binding. Provenance: Bibliothek Oberherrlingen, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WHITTINGTON PRESS - JUDY LING WONGWONG (JUDY LING) Long Summer, NUMBER 6 OF 50 COPIES, signed by the artist, 10 etched plates by Wong, each signed by the artist, original Japanese paper boards, slipcase, small folio, 1977; Harlequinade, NUMBER 11 OF 20 COPIES, 8 colour-printed etchings by Wong, each signed in pencil, 2 copies of the prospectus loose inserted, loose as issued in publisher's cloth gate-fold portfolio, title and printed illustration on upper cover, large oblong folio, 1979, Andoversford, Whittington Press (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - DOROTHEA BRABYSir Gawain and the Green Knight. A Prose Translation with an Introductory Essay by Gwyn Jones, [with additional suite of engravings], number 352 of 360 copies, one of 50 copies specially bound, wood-engraved title-vignette and 5 full-page illustrations by Dorothea Braby printed in shades of pink, green and grey, original full vellum gilt, slipcase, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1952 [1954]; together with a suite of 6 additional engravings by Braby, all signed in pencil, window-mounted and retained in cloth portfolio (2)Footnotes:According to Cave and Manson at the time of publication 60 copies were bound in coloured morocco, 250 copies were bound in coloured cloth, and in 1954 the remaining sheets were bound up as 50 copies in full vellum. This copy is one of the 50 special copies bound in vellum, and is accompanied by an additional suite of the coloured wood-engravings each signed by the artists and numbered 12/50, with one inscribed 'For E. Moady'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ASHENDENE PRESSAPULEIUS (LUCIUS) The XI Books of the Golden Asse Containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius Interlaced with Sundry Pleasant and Delectable Tales, limited to 175 copies, translated into English by William Adlington, printed in black, red and blue, publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards, printed label on spine, purpose-made slipcase and morocco-backed bookcase lettered in gilt on spine [Hornby 33], small folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1924This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GREGYNOG PRESSSHAW (GEORGE BERNARD) Shaw Gives Himself Away, number 285 of 300 copies, frontispiece woodcut by John Farleigh, original black morocco with orange morocco onlays, slipcase, 1939--GREVILLE (FULKE, Lord Brooke) Caelica... edited by Una Ellis-Fermor, number 65 of 225 copies, printed in red and black, original quarter morocco, 1936--WYNNE (ELLIS) Gweledigaetheu y bardd cwsc: Visions of the Sleeping Bard, limited to 175 copies, this copy out of series with small square of paper cut away on colophon, text in Welsh and English, wood-engraved frontispiece by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original red morocco-backed patterned cloth, slipcase, 1940, all bound by the Gregynog Press Bindery--The Autobiography of Edwards Lord Herbert of Cherbury, number 207 of 300 copies, original cloth, slipcase, 1928--LAMB (CHARLES) Elia and the Last Essays of Elia, 2 vol., number 185 of 285 copies, original cloth, slipcase, 1930--BUTLER (SAMUEL) Erewhon, number 22 of 300 copies, wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, SPECIALLY DESIGNED BINDING BY G. WINSTANLEY (signed in blind inside lower cover), full morocco with blind and gilt-tooled decoration, g.e., slipcase, 1932--MILTON (JOHN) Comus. A Mask, number 200 of 250 copies, wood-engraved plates by Blair Hughes-Stanton, gull red morocco by Porter (signed in blind inside lower cover), gilt-lettering on upper cover and spine, 1931--VANSITTART (ROBERT) The Singing Caravan, number 196 of 250 copies, frontispiece by William MacCance, morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slipcase, 1932--VEGA (LOPE DE) The Star of Seville: A Drama.. Translated Out of Spanish by Henry Thomas, number 162 of 175 copies, printed in red and black, full black morocco, sides blind- and gilt-stamped with an Islamic design, t.e.g., 1935, 8vo, 4to and small folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press (10)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WHISTLER (REX)SWIFT (JONATHAN) Gulliver's Travels... Illustrated by Rex Whistler, 2 vol., number 7 of 195 copies, half-titles, engraved title vignettes, 12 hand-coloured plates, 5 full-page maps, and 8 head- and tail-pieces by Whistler, original green half morocco gilt by Wood, t.e.g., spines toned, preserved in morocco-lipped slipcase, folio, Cresset Press, 1930This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ALLEN PRESSCONRAD (JOSEPH) Youth, limited to 140 copies, colour-printed wood-engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, prospectus loosely inserted, [1959]--JAMES (HENRY) The Beast in the Jungle, limited to 130 copies, engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, prospectus loosely inserted, 1963--CAMUS (ALBERT) The Fall, limited to 140 copies, illustrations by Lewis and Dorothy Allen, 1966--Dialogues of Creatures Moralised, limited to 130 copies, 122 woodcut illustrations, prospectus loosely inserted, 2 small scuff marks to slipcase, 1967--[BIBLE] The Book of Genesis. King James Bible, limited to 150 copies, 24 wood-engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, prospectus loosely inserted, 1970--WHARTON (EDITH) Quartet. Four Stories, limited to 140 copies, 4 full-page illustrations by Lewis Allen, 1975--SOPHOCLES. Antigone, limited to 130 copies, prospectus loosely inserted, 1978, publisher's cloth, quarter cloth or boards, all but the last 2 mentioned in slipcases, 4to or small folio, Kentfield [-Greenbrae], Ca., Allen Press; and 9 others, including 'The Allen Press Bibliography', all published by the Allen Press (16)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSEcclesiastes or the Preacher, one of 250 copies, printed in black and orange, original vellum-backed cloth, t.e.g., slipcase, 1934--POWYS (LLEWELYN) Glory of Life, one of 277 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, later full red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., slipcase, 1934, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FLEECE PRESSBRETT (SIMON) Mr. Derrick Harris 1919-1960, limited to 280 copies, 2 additional suites of plates loose as issued together in solander box, 1998--ROGERSON (IAN) Barnett Freedman. The Graphic Art, limited to 500 copies, 2006; Tone, Texture, Light and Shade. A Barnett Freedman Picture Album, one of 340 copies, 2012--GARWOOD (TIRZAH) Long Live Great Bardfield & Love to You All, limited to 550 copies, edited by Anne Ullmann, 2012--SELBORNE (JOANNA) AND LINDSAY NORMAN. Gwen Raverat. Wood Engraver, limited to 290 copies, 1996--KNOWLES (RICHARD) Precious Caskets. The Friendship of T.E. Lawrence and William McCance, limited to 240 copies, 2003--EILERS (CHARLES) A Shy Bird. The U.S. Copyright Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, limited to 275 copies, 2018--NORTH LEE (BRIAN, editor) Dearest Joana. A Selection of Joan Hassall's Lifetime Letters and Art, 2 vol., limited to 300 copies, 2000--YORKE (MALCOLM) The War with Paper & Brush. Captain Edward Ardizzone, Official War Artist, limited to 700 copies, 2007; Richard Bawden. His Life & Work, limited to 355 copies, 2016--FRANCIS (JULIAN) Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, one of 210 special copies with 16 original wood-engraved plates, from an overall edition of 360 copies, 2012, plates (many colour, many tipped-in), publisher's bindings, slipcases, 4to and folio, Upper Denby, Fleece Press; and 9 others, Fleece Press (21)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JOHNSON (SAMUEL)A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., fifth edition, one section (4T-M2) misbound in volume 1, titles printed in red & black, spotting and toning to opening few pages in each volume, contemporary black morocco, rebacked to match [Courtney & Nichol Smith, p.57; cf.PMM 201], folio (425 x 260mm.), For W. Strahan [&c.], 1784Footnotes:Provenance: The Library of the late A.J. Karter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PARISTURGOT (MICHEL ETIENNE) AND LOUIS BRETEZ. Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734, folding double-page index map, and 20 map sheets by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez, plates 18/19 with large cartouche are joined and folded, plates 13 and 18 quite heavily toned, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf gilt, sides with decorative roll-tool border enclosing the Arms of Paris, and fleur-de-lis corner-pieces, spine tooled in ten compartments within raised bands, gilt dentelles, g.e., worn, lower joint splitting, some loss to spine ends [Cohen-de Ricci 807], folio (555 x 430mm.), Paris, Levé et dessiné par Louis Bretez, gravé par Claude Lucas, 1739Footnotes:A magnificent detailed bird's-eye view of the whole of Paris, prepared between 1734 and 1739. If pasted together the map would have a complete decorative border with a vignette containing a description at the foot of the map.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NAVAL - MANUSCRIPT EXERCISE BOOKManuscript exercise book, written in a fine italic hand, embellished with elaborate calligraphic headings and approximately 30 ink drawings or diagrams (several full- or half-page, including 'Mariners Compass', 'Chart from England to the Cape Verd Islands...', several in grey watercolour wash), approximately 180pp., on paper watermarked 'Allee 1828', some underlining in red ink, original vellum, soiled, folio (320 x 210mm.) c.1828-1829Footnotes:An attractively presented Georgian naval exercise book, decorated with pen, ink and wash illustrations. Exercises include 'Navigation', 'Log-line and Half-minute Glass', 'Mariners Compass', 'Plane Sailing', 'Compound Plane Sailing', 'Traverse sailing', 'Middle Latitude Sailing', 'Mercator's Sailing', 'Double Altitudes', and 'A Journal of a Voyage from England to Madeira in the Ship Albion... Kept by Wm. Cogar, Mate'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BROCKMAN (JAMES)[Bible] The Apocrypha According to the Authorized Version, number 401 of 480 copies, wood-engraved plates by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Stephen Gooden, Eric Kennington, Eric Ravilious, John Nash and others, full maroon morocco gilt by James Brockman (with label, dated 2008), sides with abstract design of horizontal and vertical lines in blindstamp groves and gilt, spine gilt tooled and lettered, g.e., preserved in velvetine-lined calf-backed cloth solander box, folio, Cresset Press, 1929This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GREGYNOG PRESSWALTERS (GWYN, editor) Pennant and his Welsh Landscapes, one of 150 copies bound in quarter leather, from an overall edition of 170 copies, colour woodcut frontispiece and 18 colour woodcut illustrations (3 double-page) by Rigby Graham, original morocco-backed gilt-stamped cloth boards, 2006--REES (JOAN BOWEN, editor) The Mountains of Wales. An Anthology in Verse & Prose, number 122 of 275 copies on Zerkall mould-paper, tipped-in colour plates, original prospectus loosely inserted, vellum-backed boards by James Brockman, 1987--Giraldus Cambrensis. Itinerary through Wales... edited by Brynley F. Roberts, number 43 of 300 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Colin Paynton, additional signed wood-engraved print limited to 50 copies for subscribers and prospectus loosely inserted, original quarter morocco, 1989--[HERMES (GERTRUDE)] Wood Engravings by Gertrude Hermes Being Illustrations to Selborne with Extracts from Gilbert White, number 92 of 240 copies, wood-engraved plates by Hermes, publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards, 1988, slipcases, folio, Newton, Gwasg Gregynog; and 5 others, all published by Gwasg Gregynog (9)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSCAESAR (JULIUS) Commentaries. A Modern Rendering by Somerset De Chair, NUMBER 17 OF 70 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by de Chair and the illustrator, from an overall edition of 320 copies, woodcut illustrations by Clifford Webb, full pictorial maroon morocco gilt, t.e.g.,1951--BARCLAY (JOHN) Euphormio's Satyricon... Translated... by Paul Turner, NUMBER 11 OF 60 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, from an overall edition of 260 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Derrick Harris, red pictorial morocco gilt, t.e.g., 1954--The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion. A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest, one of 550 copies, woodcut illustrations by Dorothea Braby, original half morocco, 1948, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)The Letterpress Shakespeare, 39 works in 78 vol., each work comprising 2 volumes (the text; commentary, with illustrations), the text half morocco, the commentary cloth, together in original cloth solander box with gilt morocco lettering label on spine, 8vo and small folio, Folio Society, c.2007-2014This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GREGYNOG PRESSGIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS. Itinerary through Wales, NUMBER 18 OF 20 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, from an overall edition of 300 copies, edited by Brynley F. Roberts, printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, title printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Colin Paynton, original calf-backed oak boards by Julian Thomas, gilt lettered spine, t.e.g., preserved in original felt-lined solander box [Esslemont and Hughes 20], folio, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, [1989]Footnotes:'This volume was selected for the 1990 British Book Design and Production Exhibition and was chosen as the category winner' (Esslemont and Hughes).Provenance: Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), bought directly from the Gregynog Press in 1989; bequeathed to his godson; Bonhams, 1 March 2017, lot 124.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - LAVINIA BLYTHEDRYDEN (JOHN) Songs and Poems... Chosen and Introduced by Gwynne Jones. Drawings by Lavinia Blythe, NUMBER 33 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with a duplicate set of the 16 illustrations, from an edition limited to 500 copies, illustration on title and 8 colour plates each with an illustration on reverse, original green and russet morocco with gilt illustration on covers, gilt lettered spine with 4 raised bands and 2 small gilt cockerels, plates in separate paper folder, single green cloth slipcase, folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1957Footnotes:Provenance: Christopher Tower, bookplateThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ASHENDENE PRESSHORNBY (C.St.J.) A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV, number 246 of 390 copies, signed by the author/printer on the colophon, printed in red, black and blue, plates and illustrations including woodcuts, specimens, collotypes and photogravures, 2 errata slips (one loosely inserted), initial letters by Graily Hewitt, publisher's calf gilt, t.e.g., marbled board slip-case [Hornby 40], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1935This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ASHENDENE PRESSMALORY (THOMAS) The Noble and Joyous Book Entytled Le Morte Darthur, one of 145 copies on paper, from an overall edition of 153, printed in Subiaco type, chapter headings and shoulder notes in red, 4- to 8-line initials designed by Graily Hewitt printed alternately in red and blue, 29 woodcut illustrations (2 full-page) by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain after designs by C.M. and Margaret Gere, extremities free endpapers brittle with a few small losses, original dark brown calf by W.H. Smith (signed 'W.H.S.' in blind inside lower cover), rebacked to match preserving original gilt morocco spine labels, a few light abrasions and fading to sides, modern solander box [Hornby 26], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1913Footnotes:LEONARD BASKIN'S COPY. Writing to St. John Hornby at the Ashendene Press, Sydney Cockerell enthused that 'The Morte d'Arthur is a glorious piece of printing and... it is an achievement of which you and all who follow the developments of fine craftsmanship in England may well be proud... The presswork is miraculous. Black, red and blue are all quite perfect, with never anywhere so much as a hint of a spread'. The text follows the edition of William Caxton.Provenance: Leonard Baskin, pencil inscription inside lower cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com