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Folio Society. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, From Drawings made on the Spot by David Roberts, 2 volumes, 2010, facsimile colour illustrations throughout, top edge gilt, original red cloth, blocked illustrations to front boards and spines, designed by Neil Gower, each volume in original slipcase, large folio Limited edition, 212/1020 total copies. A smart facsimile of the first edition in the John Rylands Library. (2)

Folio Society. Rural Rides..., by William Cobbett, 2010, The Physiology of Taste, by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 2008, Leave it to Psmith, by P.G. Wodehouse, 1989, Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas, 1972, The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy, 1997, together with 98 further volumes of Folio Society, all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8vo (103)

Baillie-Grohman (William A. & F., editors). The Master of Game, by Edward, second Duke of York, the oldest English book on hunting, 1904, limited edition 46/600, 52 plates including colour frontispiece, signed by the editor to the limitation page, some minor toning, front guttering cracked, publisher's original gilt decorated reverse calf, boards rubbed, spine cracked with minor loss, folio, together with 'The Sportsman (publisher), British Sports and Sportsmen, Big Game Hunting and Angling..., 1914, limited edition 673/1000, numerous monochrome illustrations, original gilt decorated full dark blue morocco, boards and spine lightly marked and rubbed, folio, and Brown Goode (G.), American Fishes..., New York, 1888, colour frontispiece plus numerous monochrome illustrations, front endpaper to contents page partially detached, some minor toning, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated illustrated green cloth, boards and spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other mostly early 20th century sporting and angling reference and related, some leather bindings, some original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 cartons)

Boronio (Cesare). Annales Ecclesiastici..., volumes 1 & 2, 4 & 5, 7 & 8, 10 & 11 only (of 12), new edition, Antwerp: Ex officina Plantiniana, various imprint dates 1611-1670, engraved titles to each, contemporary blind panelled calf, old rebacked, boards detached, worn, folio, plus seven other 17th century odd folio volumes Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (2 cartons)

Borrow (George). The Bible in Spain..., 3 volumes, 3rd edition, 1843, minor original toning, uniform contemporary gilt decorated red half calf, spines lightly faded, 8vo, together with Earl of Ilchester (editor), The Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811), 2 volumes, 1908, 2 monochrome portrait frontispieces, later endpapers, later gilt decorated blue three quarter morocco, 8vo, and Moore (Thomas), Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with notices of his life, 3 volumes, 3rd edition, 1833, monochrome engravings, minor spotting and offsetting, bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards and spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other mostly 19th century literature and history, all leather bindings, many gilt decorated, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio, (approximately 40 volumes) (2 cartons)

Miles (Henry Downes). Pugilistica. The History of British Boxing, 3 volumes, published John Grant, Edinburgh, 1906, additional half title, numerous uncoloured plates and illustrations, later ownership stamp to front endpaper, some old adhesion scarring to front pastedowns, slight spotting to front and rear of each volume, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut, publisher's decorative brown gilt cloth, very slight wear to extremities, 8vo, together with Henning (Fred), Fights for the Championship. The men and their times, 2 volumes, published Licensed Victuallers Gazette, circa 1900, additional half title, volume one lacking front endpaper, numerous illustrations throughout, hinges cracked, contemporary red cloth, spines faded, worn at extremities, 8vo, with other volumes similar relating to boxing and prize fighting, plus an aquatint portrait by W. M. Fellows of Thomas Cribb and an etching of two prize fighters (Gregson & Gully), both framed and glazed, with other reproduction prints of juvenile boxing, plus a set of Jane Austin novels published by the 'Folio society' (1 carton)

Doyle (John). Political Sketches &c. by H.B., 3 volumes, November 1829-June 1935, 300 monochrome plates, some light spotting, contemporary uniform gilt decorated green half morocco, boards and spines rubbed, folio, together with Cuitt (George), Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Time, 1848, 73 monochrome etchings, some light spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated brown half morocco, boards and spines rubbed, folio, and Schoonover (John R, et al), Frank E. Schoonover Catalogue Raisonn‚, 2 volumes, USA, 2009, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, in slipcase, large 8vo, plus other late 19th century and modern art reference, including publications by Antique Collectors' Club, Batsford, Oak Knoll Press, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Allcot (John). John Allcot Marine Artist, Sydney, 1978, limited edition 469/500, signed to the limitation page by Rodney Allcot, 60 colour tipped in plates, plus numerous monochrome illustrations, publisher's original gilt decorated blue leatherette in slipcase, folio, together with Woolwich (publisher), List of Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from the year 1716 to the present date, revised edition, 1869, some spotting, modern endpapers, modern gilt decorated brown half morocco, boards and spine lightly rubbed, 4to, and Dow (George), Great Central, 3 volumes, mixed editions, 1959-71, numerous black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other military and transport reference including publications by Putnam, Ian Allan, Osprey, Naval & Military Press, and Jane's Fighting Ships, 3 volumes, 1940-41, 1944-45, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Smith (Trevor Dudley). Now Try The Morgue, 1st edition, 1948, erased pencil inscription to front endpaper, some toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers worn with some loss to head of spine, 8vo, together with Ben‚t (Stephen Vincent), John Brown's Body, 1st edition, New York, 1928, signed by the author to the front endpaper, some minor spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed with minor loss to head and foot, 8vo, and Aldiss (Brian W.), Non-Stop, 1st edition, 1958, period inscription to front endpaper, some light spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to foot, 8vo, plus other modern fiction, poetry and 1st editions, including Graham Greene, John Irving, Doris Lessing, Folio Society, some signed by the authors, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (3 shelves)

Hobson (R.L.). Worcester Porcelain..., 1910, 108 monochrome plates, minor toning, publisher's original gilt decorated cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed and faded, folio, together with Tilley (Frank), Teapots and Tea, 1957, limited edition of 1000 copies, 10 colour plates, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards and spine slightly faded and rubbed, large 4to, and Chaffers (William), The New Keramic Gallery, 2 volumes, revised edition, 1926, 8 colour plates plus monochrome illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, covers rubbed with some loss to head and foot, 8vo, plus other modern pottery, porcelain and ceramic reference, including publications by Antique Collectors' Club, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Thompson (Noel & Eastwood, David, editors). The Collected Social and Political Writings of William Cobbett, 17 volumes, Routledge, 1998, publisher's uniform original green cloth in slipcase, 8vo, together with Therry (R.), The Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning with a memoir of his life, 6 volumes, 1828, period inscription to volume 1, front endpaper, some light spotting, boards and spines lightly rubbed with minor loss to spine labels, 8vo, and other mostly modern biography and history reference and related, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Ricketts (Charles, illustrator). Saint Joan..., by Bernard Shaw, 1924, limited edition of 750 copies, 16 tipped in colour illustrations, original boards with cloth spine, lightly toned and rubbed to head and foot, folio, together with Brock (H.M., illustrator), A Book of Old Ballads..., by Beverley Nichols, 1934, 16 colour plates, monochrome illustrations, minor spotting, original gilt decorated brown cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed, 4to, and Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night, circa 1912, 25 colour plates plus monochrome illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, title page and frontispiece detached, some light spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, 4to, plus other early 20th century illustrated literature and fiction, including John Galsworthy, Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, W. Heath Robinson, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Picasso (Pablo & Aragon, Louis). Shakespeare, New York, 1965, limited edition 829/1000, numerous monotone illustrations, original red cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly marked and rubbed, folio, together with Nachtwey (James, et al), War: USA Afghanistan Iraq, 2004, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, and Bernard (Bruce), Humanity and Inhumanity, The Photographic Journey of George Rodger, 1994, numerous monochrome illustrations, original black cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other modern photography and art reference and reference, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Clarke (Charles). Architectura Ecclesiastica Londini; or Graphical Survey of the Cathedral, Collegiate and Parochial Churches, in London, Southwark, and Westminster, with the adjoining Parishes, 1st edition, second issue, 1820, large paper copy, 123 engraved plates after John Coney and others, some minor spotting, light toning and offsetting, Plaish Hall bookplate, top edge gilt, remainder rough trimmed, modern half morocco, large folio, (53.5 x 37.5cm) First published in 1819. (1)

Maquoid (Percy & Edwards, Ralph). The Dictionary of English Furniture..., 3 volumes, Country Life, 1924-27, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, some minor toning, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, boards and spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, folio, together with Belcher (John & Macartney, Mervyn E.), Later Renaissance Architecture in England, 2 volumes, 1901, numerous monochrome plates, some minor toning, bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half morocco, spines lightly faded and rubbed, folio, and Jekyll (Gertrude & Hussey, Christopher), Garden Ornament, 2nd edition, Country Life, 1927, numerous monochrome illustrations, minor marginal toning, original green cloth, spine lightly marked and rubbed to head and foot, folio, plus other early 20th century and modern architecture and furniture reference and related, including publications by Batsford, Antique Collectors' Club, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Gilly (William Stephen). Narrative of An Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont..., 1824, 2 folding maps plus monochrome plates, period inscription to head of title page, bookplate to front pastedown, some spotting, contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards and spine rubbed with minor loss, 4to, together with Irving (Washington), A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, 2 volumes, 1829, some water marks and spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards and spines rubbed, loss to spine labels, 8vo, and other mostly 19th century travel reference and history, including An Universal History, 8 volumes, 1736, printed for J. Batley, some original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Messine (A.). Phrosine et M‚lidore, po‰me en quatre chants, Paris, 1772, 4 monochrome engraved illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, later endpapers, some minor spotting, later gilt decorated red three quarter morocco, spine slightly rubbed and front hinge partially split, 8vo, together with Gailhabaud (Jules), Monuments Anciens et Modernes..., 4 volumes, Paris, 1853, numerous monochrome plates, some light spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated black quarter morocco, boards and spines slightly rubbed, large 4to, and Thouin (M., et al), Nouveau Cours complet D'agriculture th‚orique et practique..., 16 volumes, new edition, Paris, 1821-23, monochrome folding plates, some minor marks, uniform contemporary gilt decorated quarter calf, spines slightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, plus other mostly 19th century French language literature, history and reference including Semaine Des Constructeurs, 10 volumes, 1876-86, all gilt decorated leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio, (approximately 200 volumes) (6 shelves)

Binyon (Lawrence). The Engraved Designs of William Blake, 1926, limited edition 95/100, 83 colour and monochrome plates, some minor toning, publisher's original quarter vellum, boards and spine lightly rubbed, large 4to, together with Whitehead (P.J.P.), Forty Drawings of Fishes made by the artists who accompanied Captain James Cook..., 1968, 36 colour plates, original cloth in gilt decorated dust jacket, covers slightly marked and toned, folio, and Izzard (Sebastian, editor), One Hundred Masterpieces from the collection of Dr. Walter A. Compton, USA, 1992, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, and slipcase, large 8vo, plus other 19th and 20th century art and book binding reference and related, including Art Journal, 4 volumes, 1860-61, 63, 67, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Dugdale (Thomas). Curiosities of Great Britain Delineated, 11 volumes, circa 1820s, numerous monochrome maps and plates, some light spotting, some pages partially detached, uniform original gilt decorated embossed green cloth, minor rubbing to boards, spines slightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Aldin (Cecil), The Romance of the Road, 1928, limited edition 163/200, 18 colour maps and plates plus numerous monochrome in text illustrations, publisher's original gilt decorated full vellum, boards lightly marked, large 8vo, and Lupton (Thomas & Ruskin, John), The Harbours of England, new edition, 1877, 12 monochrome plates, some pages partially detached, some light spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, large 8vo, plus other 19th century and modern UK topography reference and related, including publications by A. & C. Black, HMSO, Oxford, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Cramp (Stanley, et al). Handbook of the Birds of Europe, The Middle East and North Africa, 9 volumes, 1977-94, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, 4to, together with Seton (Ernest Thompson), Life-Histories of Northern Animals, an account of the mammals of Manitoba, 2 volumes, 1910, numerous monochrome maps and illustrations, uniform original plum cloth, spines faded and lightly rubbed, 4to, and Stubbs (George), The Anatomy of the Horse, reprint edition, J.A. Allan & Co., 1965, numerous monochrome illustrations, publisher's original red cloth, boards and spine lightly rubbed, folio, plus other mostly 20th century natural history and avian reference, including publications by New Naturalist, T. & A.D. Poyser, Oxford, Yale, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Johnson (Samuel). London: A Poem, and the Vanity of Human Wishes, with an introductory essay by T.S. Eliot, Haslewood Books, 1930, partly untrimmed, bookplate of Roger Senhouse and Allen Tracy Hazen to front pastedown, original boards with paper label to upper cover, faded, in rubbed and chipped dust wrapper with a little loss, folio, together with Eliot (T.S.), The Sacred Wood, Essays on Poetry and Criticism, 1st edition, 1920, original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed, small 8vo, plus Isherwood (Christopher), Sally Bowles, 1st edition, Hogarth Press, 1937, original light blue cloth, rubbed and some marks, small 8vo, and other miscellaneous modern literature, including William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Castle Books, Fran Lebowitz, W.H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Tom Wolfe, Mae West (The Constant Sinner, 4th printing, 1931, signed), an autographed signed note by Lillian Gish, Aldous Huxley (Brief Candles, signed), Michael Chabon, Monica Ali, Nabokov, etc., (approximately 90 volumes) (3 shelves)

Macquoid (Percy & Edwards, Ralph). The Dictionary of English Furniture, 3 volumes, 1924-27, numerous monochrome illustrations, bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, spines slightly rubbed to head and foot, folio, together with A History of English Furniture, 4 volumes, 1905-08, numerous colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, boards and spines slightly rubbed, folio, and Cescinsky (Herbert), English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 3 volumes, circa 1910, numerous monochrome illustrations, some pages partially detached, some spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half morocco, spines rubbed, 4to, plus other early 20th century and modern furniture and interior decor reference, including auction catalogues from Sotheby's, Christie's, Bonhams, some leather bindings, some original cloth in dust jackets, V/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Heath-Stubbs (John). Chimaeras, Hearing Eye, 1994, limited edition 5/40, signed to the limitation page, 9 monochrome lino-etchings by Emily Johns, original boards, large 8vo, together with Murdoch (John), Seventeenth-Century English Miniatures..., 1997, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, large 4to, and other modern art reference and related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves + a carton)

Pye (Charles). A Description of Modern Birmingham..., Birmingham, 1819, some spotting, contemporary half calf boards retaining original gilt decorated calf spine bound by Goodman, boards lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Roscoe (Thomas), The London and Birmingham Railway..., 1839, colour folding map frontispiece, monochrome plates, all edges gilt, modern endpapers, some light spotting, modern brown half calf, 8vo, and Kelly & Co (publisher), Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, with its suburbs for 1882, monochrome advertisements to front and rear, some minor toning, and spotting, front guttering cracked, publisher's original gilt decorated red cloth, boards marked, spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other 19th century and modern Birmingham history and reference, including Birmingham Faces and Places, an illustrated local magazine, 6 volumes, circa 1888, some leather bindings, some original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (2 shelves)

Schapelhouman (Marijn & Schatborn, Peter). Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2 volumes, 1998, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, and slipcase, large 8vo, together with Joosten (Ben), Sculptors from Zimbabwe, 2001, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed, large 4to, and other early 20th century and modern art reference, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Miscellaneous Literature. A large collection of mostly modern literature and miscellaneous reference, including publications by Folio Society and Oxford, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to (5 shelves + a carton)

Birch (George H.). London Churches of the XV11th and XV111th Centuries, 1896, 64 monochrome plates, some minor spotting, contemporary gilt decorated green half morocco, spine slightly rubbed, folio, together with Harper (Charles G.), The Manchester and Glasgow Road, 2 volumes, 1907, including handwritten letter by the author, The Oxford, Gloucester and Milford Haven Road, 2 volumes, 1905, numerous monochrome illustrations, minor spotting, both in original illustrated cloth, spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and Furley (Robert), A History of the Weald of Kent, with an outline of the early history of the county, 2 volumes (in 3), 1871, period inscriptions to head of title pages, monochrome folding maps, some minor spotting, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, spines slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other 19th and 20th century UK topography and history reference, some leather bindings, mostly contemporary cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Dugdale (William). The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated.., 2 volumes, facsimile edition, Manchester, 1973, publisher's uniform original gilt decorated brown leatherette, folio, together with Bone (James), Edinburgh Revisited, 1911, monochrome etching frontispiece, plus 75 illustrations by Hanslip Fletcher, minor toning, original gilt decorated black cloth, boards and spine lightly rubbed, 4to, and Shore (W. Teignmouth), Kent, 1st edition, 1907, 73 colour illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, some minor toning, original illustrated green cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 4to, plus other early 20th century and modern UK topography reference, including publications by A. & C. Black, Oxford, Victorian History of the Counties of England, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Malton (Thomas). Malton's Oxford, 4 original parts, 1st edition, T. Bensley for T. Malton, March 1802-January 1804, 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue-guard to each, some minor marginal spotting, original stitched paper wrappers with printed oval paper labels to upper wrappers, some dust-soiling and fraying, modern cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, folio (44 x 33cm) Rare original edition in parts of a work that was re-published in 1810 with a title-page (Views of Oxford), portrait and six etched outline plates. The work is rarely found with the aquatint views coloured. Abbey, Scenery 277. (1)

Cole (Christian). Memoirs of Affairs of State: containing letters, written by ministers employed in Foreign Negotiations, printed Henry Woodfall, 1733, bookplates to front pastedown, some light spotting and watermarks, reinforced gutters, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards and spine rubbed, hinges cracked, large 8vo, together with MacPherson (James), Original Papers; containing the secret history of Great Britain..., 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1776, some minor toning and spotting, later brown half morocco retaining contemporary gilt decorated spine, boards lightly marked, 4to, and Heath (Baron), Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London, 3rd edition, privately printed 1869, monochrome frontispiece, ex library copy with associated marks, bookplates to front endpapers, contemporary gilt decorated three quarter brown morocco, bound by Zaehnsdorf, spine lightly rubbed, 4to, plus other 18th and 19th century history and reference, including A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and proceedings..., 6 volumes, 1719-30, all leather bindings, some gilt decorated, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio, (55 volumes) (3 shelves)

Man (John). The History and Antiquities, Ancient and Modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks, 1st edition, Reading: Snare and Man, 1816, half-title, title page printed in red and black, 21 plates including engraved folding plan and aquatint views, 2 engraved vignettes, errata slip, offsetting, light spotting to a few plate margins, near-contemporary ownership inscription to title page, later half morocco, sides slightly rubbed, folio (36.7 x 27 cm) Abbey Scenery 293, Upcott p. 583*. Uncommon large-paper copy; Abbey's copy was of the quarto issue. (1)

Nash (Treadway Russell). Collections for the History of Worcestershire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1781-1782, folding engraved map frontispiece to volume 1, engraved vignette title to each volume, 77 engraved plates & plans, 13 leaves of Domesday Book printed in red & black, engraved illustrations to text, 19 folding pedigrees, offsetting to text from plates, some browning and spotting, modern half calf gilt, maroon morocco title labels, brown buckram sides to boards, spines faded, folio Upcott p.1330. (2)

*Switzerland & Italy. Two albums of pencil and watercolour landscape studies in Switzerland and Italy, circa 1867-1869, the first album containing 22 pencil landscape views, including Gryon, Gsteig, Villars, Montreux, Sorrento, Capri, Vesuvius, Poschiavo, including 18 with partial hand-colouring, sheet size 22 x 30 cm (8.7 x 11.75 ins), together with a similar but smaller album containing 39 pencil landscape studies by the same hand, including several views of Lake Como, including Bellaggio, Terano in Lombardy, Largo Bianchi, Bernina, Glacier de Roseg, Pontresina, Schultz, Glacier de Morteratch, Pontresina, St. Moritz, Via Mala, and several views of Scarborough and Flamborough, etc., of which 31 are partially or fully-coloured, sheet size 15 x 23 cm (6 x 9 ins), both bound in original plum cloth, the first volume with leather spine, rubbed and some marks, oblong folio/8vo (2)

Poley (Arthur F.E.). St. Paul's Cathedral London, Measured, Drawn & Described, 1st edition, Printed for the Author, 1927, thirty-two black & white plates, list of subscribers, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original brown half morocco gilt, some marks, mainly to lower board, extremities a little rubbed, large folio (1)

Rudder (Samuel). A New History of Gloucestershire, 1st edition, Cirencester: Samuel Rudder, 1779, double-page engraved map, sixteen engraved plates (including 13 double-page & 3 single-page plans), one engraving in letterpress, double-page plate of Sanywell Park with short paper fault flaw hole to image, occasional offsetting and spotting, marbled endpapers with split hinges, contemporary diced calf with gilt decorated board borders, rebacked and board corners repaired, folio Upcott pp.251-253. (1)

*Brockway (Harry, 1957-). Essays, Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral, by Francis Bacon, Folio Society, 2002, series of 38 wood engravings, each signed, dated '02, individually titled and numbered 3/50, sheet size 17.7 x 15.3 cm (7 x 6.1 ins), loose, plus 3 autograph letters from the artist to the owner regarding the prints, a handwritten invoice, and a typewritten reply from the owner (38)

Shaw (Rev. Stebbing). The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, Compiled from the Manuscripts of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttelton and other Collections of Dr. Wilkes, The Rev. T. Feilde &c. &c....., 2 volumes, [volume 1 and volume 2 part 1 (all published)], 1798-1801, half-title to volume 1 lacking (not called for in volume 2), folding engraved county map to volume 1, eighty-two engraved and aquatint plates (one folding, plate of Soho Manufactory with very small holt to image), folding engraved plan of the town of Wolverhampton, engraved illustrations to text, 426 hand-coloured armorial shields to fore-margins (finished with gum arabic), 3 folding pedigrees, titles spotted (particularly volume 1 title) and both with vertical crease, occasional toning, spotting and occasional light offsetting, marbled endpapers with cloth hinges, all edges gilt, 20th century red morocco, elaborate gilt decorated spines and board borders, folio, 48.5 x 28.5cm Upcott pp.1176-1185. Large paper copy. A handsome set. (2)

Broinowski (Gracius J.). The Birds of Australia..., volumes 1 & 2 (only of six), bound as one, published Charles Stuart & Co., Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, New Zealand and Tasmania, 1890, title page and preface to volume one creased, 110 colour lithographic plates, each with tissue guard, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt blocked morocco, worn and frayed, folio Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

Pogany (Willy, illustrator). The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, after the Drama of Richard Wagner, by T.W. Rolleston, [1913], eight mounted colour plates, numerous colour and black & white illustrations and decorations, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original gilt-decorated vellum, small folio Limited edition, 312/525 copies, signed by the artist. (1)

Pogany (Willy, illustrator). Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail, retold... by T.W. Rolleston, Harrap, 1912, 16 tipped-in colour plates, numerous colour and black & white illustrations and decorations, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original tan sheep, front cover and spine with design and lettering in gilt and blind, a little worn in places, head of (rubbed) spine slightly frayed, small folio, together with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts, By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Harrap, 1910, 20 tipped-in colour plates, numerous black & white and colour illustrations and decorations, scarce light spotting, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, front cover with design in gilt and colours, slight wear to front lower edge, 4to, plus another copy of the same title, circa 1920s, 20 mounted colour plates, numerous black & white and colour illustrations and decorations, endpapers toned, front free endpaper with ink ownership name (dated 1926), original grey cloth gilt, small 4to (3)

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, 1st edition, trade issue, William Heinemann, 1908, 40 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, spotting to endpapers, preliminary text leaves, and edges, front inner hinge cracked but holding, original cream cloth gilt, front board marked, 4to, together with Pogany (Willy), Parsifal, or the Legend if the Holy Grail retold from Antient Sources, with acknowledgement to the "Parsifal" of Richard Wagner by T. W. Rolleston, 1st edition, trade issue, Harrap & Co., 1912, 16 text and illustrations lithographed in colours throughout, 16 tipped-in colour plates, bookplate of Joan Yates, original pictorial cloth gilt, slightly mottled, spine-ends frayed, folio, ibid., The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, after the Drama of Richard Wagner by T. W. Rolleston, 1st edition, trade issue, G. G. Harrap & Co., [1913], text and illustrations lithographed in colours throughout, 8 tipped-in colour plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, folio, Milne (A. A.), Now We Are Six, with Decorations by E. H. Shepard, 1st edition, Methuen & Co., 1927, front inner hinge partially split but firm, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, top edge gilt, original red pictorial cloth gilt, spine rolled, extremities slightly rubbed, a few pale marks to front board, 8vo (4)

Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis: Containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of the natural size, a new edition, enlarged by George Graves and William Jackson Hooker, 5 volumes, Henry G. Bohn, 1835, 647 hand-coloured engraved plates after Sydenham Edwards, William Kilburn, James Sowerby, George Graves and William James Hooker, some offsetting and occasionally heavy from plates to descriptive letterpress leaves facing, scattered minor spotting, first letterpress leaf of volume 2 near-detached, bookplate of the Daltry Library, Stoke on Trent to each pastedown and each volume with manuscript presentation note to front free endpaper 'Presented to the Rev. Thos. W. Daltry, MA, FLS, by the members of the North Staffordshire Naturalist's Field Club in grateful recognition of his long and valuable services as its Honorary Secretary', dated 22nd March 1877, and signed by William Molyneux (President) and G. Brunt (Secretary to the Testimonial Committee), the final volume with additional inscription by Bertrum Daltry, presenting it to the Daltry Library of the North Staffordshire Field Club, 7 September 1904, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, spines darkened, folio (49 x 30.5 cm) One of the most important British flora. This is virtually a new work, being a greatly enlarged edition of the Flora Londinensis with over 200 new plates added. The first three volumes contain the original 432 plates, but with the text rewritten by Hooker. The final two volumes are entirely new with plates mostly from drawings by Hooker, together with his own descriptions. This edition was published in 1817-1828, and reissued with new title-pages in 1835. Great Flower Books, Page 54, Henry 597; Nissen BBI 440 (incorrect plate count). (5)

Daniel (William Barker). Rural Sports, 3 volumes, 1807, engraved title to each, 71 engraved plates, some light spotting and offsetting, occasional marginal water stain, a few small annotations, bookplates, contemporary half calf gilt, volume 2 neatly repaired at head of spine, a little rubbed with some edge wear, 4to, 4to, together with Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of South Africa, by Captain W. Cornwallis, facsimile reprint, Frank Read Press, Mazoe, Rhodesia, 1976, 30 colour plates, illustrations, original calf-backed boards, one or two light marks, folio, limited edition 438/550, signed by the publisher (17)

Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Rubaiyat de Omar Khayyam, l'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, Paris, 1910, 12 mounted colour plates, original wrappers bound in contemporary half morocco, slight partial fading, 4to, together with Les Quatrains de Kheyam, traduits du Persian par J.B. Nicolas, 1st French edition with Persian text, Paris, 1867, light water stains, all edges gilt, later blue morocco gilt by Lewis & Harris, Bath, spine fading to green, small folio (2)

Golden Cockerel Press. ( ). The Golden Cockerel Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald. The First Edition reprinted together with Fitzgerald's Monk-Latin Version now printed for the first time translations of the Latin & of the Persian originals and a critical essay by Sir E. Denison Ross, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938, eight copper-engraved plates by John Buckland-Wright, one or two faint spots at front, top edge gilt, original morocco-backed cloth gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slight fading at head of lower cover, folio Limited edition 287/300. (1)

Golden Cockerel Press. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Edward Fitzgerald's translation reprinted from the first edition with his preface and notes, Golden Cockerel Press, 1958, engravings by J. Yunge Bateman, top edge gilt, original red morocco gilt, slipcase (a little rubbed with partial light fading), small folio Limited edition 30/75, with extra suite of the seven plates plus two not printed. (1)

Haldar (Asit-Kumar, illustrator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Indian Press, Allahabad, 1930, separate booklet with text and silk ties, 12 colour plates mounted on thick decorative card, captioned glassine guards, loose as issued in decorative cloth portfolio, wooden togs, folio, together with The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Offices of the Studio, 1910], 12 tipped-in colour plates by Abanindro Nath Tagore, on thick card, captioned glassine guards (one detached), light marginal spotting and toning, without text booklet, loosely contained in original cloth-backed portfolio, cloth ties (lacking mostly one, some wear), spine rubbed and faded, 4to, with five others including The Authentic Rubaiyat of Omar Khayaam, illustrated by Eugeno Zanetti, Los Angeles, 1993, and Morteza Hosseini's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, circa 1974 (7)

Heron-Allen (Edward, translator). The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Being a Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a Transcript into modern Persian Characters, H.S. Nichols, 1898, facsimile leaves, annotations and corrections throughout, light soiling and spotting front and rear, front hinge reinforced, original boards, losses at head and foot of spine, upper joint split, a few stains, folio Limited edition, one of 20 large paper copies. Edward Heron-Allen's own proof copy, with his manuscript corrections, additions and annotations, most of which were incorporated into Nichols' revised second edition of 1898. (1)

Edwards (Lionel). The Passing Seasons, Depicted by Lionel Edwards, and Some Fleeting Thoughts of Crascredo, Country Life, [1927], additional half title, eighteen (complete) mounted coloured plates, each signed by the artist in pencil to lower margin, black & white illustrations throughout, uncut, publisher's cloth gilt, boards a little faded and stained, spine frayed at head and foot and faded, bumped at extremities, folio Limited edition, 59/150. (1)

Whittington Press. The Mirror & the Eye. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Iftikhar Azimi, Whittington Press, 1984, illustrations by Richard Kennedy, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed decorative boards, slipcase, folio Limited edition 92/100, from a total edition of 126, signed by the translator and artist. (1)

Anderson (Andrew). A Vision of Order, Linocuts by Andrew Anderson, Whittington Press, 2011, 30 linocut designs incorporating text and image, including several double-page, untrimmed, original quarter cloth in matching slipcase, large folio (56 x 38 cm, 22 x 15 ins), together with the accompanying pre-publication advertising brochure Limited edition 28/185, signed by the artist. (1)

Butcher (David). The Whittington Press: A Bibliography, 1982-93, compiled by David Butcher with an introduction and notes by John Randle, 1st edition, Whittington Press, 1996, numerous tipped-in colour and monochrome plates and specimen pages, including some folding, original quarter vellum gilt over marbled boards, with slipcase, folio, VG Limited edition 7/80 bound in quarter vellum, with a set of tipped-in specimen pages, from the total edition of 380 copies. (1)

Butcher (David). The Stanbrook Abbey Press 1956-1990, with an introduction by John Dreyfus and a Memoir of Dame Hildelith Cumming by the Abbess of Stanbrook, Whittington Press, 1992, a few colour and many monochrome illustrations, including many tipped-in, original quarter cloth over marbled boards, with matching slipcase, folio, limited edition 20/350 (although according to the colophon, copies numbered 1-50 should be bound in quarter vellum), together with Taylor (Michael and Sewell, Brocard), St. Dominic's Press, A Bibliography 1916-1937, Whittington Press, 1995, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, including many tipped-in, original quarter cloth gilt, in matching slipcase, 4to, limited edition 96/400, plus Russell (Richard, editor), A History of The Marlborough College Press 1934-1984, Whittington Press, 1984, tipped-in specimen pages, original quarter blue cloth gilt, 4to, limited edition 87/220 (3)

Fleece Press. Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, by Julian Francis, Fleece Press, 2012, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, including many tipped in, and a few folding, with an original wood engraving frontspiece entitled Wayside Laundry, original quarter orange cloth over patterned boards, paper label to spine, with slipcase, large square 4to, printed in an edition of 150 standard copies, together with Barnett Freedman, The Graphic Art, by Ian Rogerson, Fleece Press, 2006, numerous colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, including several folding, original red cloth with paper label to spine, large 4to, printed in an edition of 500 copies, plus Mr Derrick Harris 1919-1960 by Simon Brett, Fleece Press, 1998, colour and monochrome plates, with two separate portfolios of illustrations, all contained in original pale yellow cloth drop-over bookbox, oblong folio, printed in an edition of 280 copies, and 8 other Fleece Press publications: Edward Walters Printer & Engraver, 2013, Bookplates and Labels by Leo Wyatt, by Brian North Lee, 1988, Margaret Wells, A Selection of Her Wood Engravings, 1985, A Lakeland Diary, by Enid Wilson with wood-engravings by Kathleen Lindsley and Edward Stamp, 1985, The Auto-biography of Luke Hansard, 1991, Bookplates by Simon Brett, 1989, Herbert Hodgson Printer, Work for T.E. Lawrence & At Gregynog, 1989, and The Last Autobiographical of Thomas Bewick, with a commentary by Iain Bain, 2015, several with slipcases, 4to/8vo, all VG (11)

The Fleuron, A Journal of Typography, edited by Stanley Morison, Numbers V-VI, 3 volumes, 1926-30, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, tipped-in specimens, sample papers and facsimiles, some folding, original cloth, first volume somewhat darkened to spine, 4to, together with Birmingham School of Printing. The Torch, a journal produced by students of the City of Birmingham School of Printing, numbers One & Two, 1933 & 1938 respectively, colour and monochrome illustrations, advertisements, specimen pages, etc., original blue cloth gilt/rebound in brown cloth with original cloth covers bound in, both folio, plus The Woodcut, edited by Herbert Furst, numbers II & IV, 1928 & 1930 respectively, numerous woodcuts and wood engravings by David Jones, Paul Nash, Leon Underwood, Clare Leighton and others, both original cloth, the second volume with dust wrapper (frayed and with some loss to head and foot of spine), the latter volume being one of 75 copies of the Edition Deluxe, but without the signed Eric Ravilious wood engraving, 4to, and other 1920s publications, illustrated with woodcuts, including Eric Fitch Daglish, Animals in Black and White, volumes 1-6 (complete), 1928-1929, all original printed boards in dust wrappers, volumes 3, 4 and 6 inscribed by the artist to Emmie & Sybil, and dated 1928 and 1929 to front endpapers, square 8vo, John F. Greenwood, Twenty-Four Woodcuts of Cambridge, 1926, limited edition 156/850, R.L. Stevenson, Ten Fables with twenty-one illustrations by Rachel Russell, Swan Press, Chelsea, 1928, limited edition 66/250 and Of The Western Isles, forty woodcuts by Stephen Bone with letterpress by Gertrude Bone, 1925 (16)

Folio Society. The Folio Poets (Lord Byron, Coleridge, John Donne, John Keats, Kipling, Shelley, Tennyson, Wordsworth & W.B. Yeats), 9 volumes, 2001-2013, wood engravings to each volume by Simon Brett, Miriam Macgregor, Ian Stephens, Jane Lydbury, Peter Reddick and Harry Brockway, uniformly bound in quarter leather gilt, with slipcases, large 8vo, VG (9)

Freedman (Barnett). Real Farmhouse Cheese, [1939], 16 pages with 8 full-page colour lithograph illustrations, original colour lithograph pictorial wrappers, sewn as issued, very slightly rubbed to extreme corners (generally in very good condition), small slim folio, together with two Christmas cards for 1955 and 1957 from Claudia and Barnett Freedman, each signed in the artist's hand, with double-page colour lithograph illustration to inner leaves, and three other similar Christmas cards, and three colour lithographs by the artist John Christoforou, each signed and inscribed from John & Ruth Christoforou, 8vo/4to (8)

Graham (Rigby). City Blues, with drawings by Rigby Graham, Brewhouse Press & St. Bernard Press, 1977, designed by Trevor Hickman, colour illustrations throughout, original morocco-backed cloth gilt, 8vo, limited edition 177/210, together with Clark (Leonard), An Intimate Landscape with Wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor, Nottingham Court Press, 1981, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 4to, limited edition 154/500, plus Country Vignettes. Descriptive passages from the writings of Richard Jefferies, Hermit Press, 1991, seven engravings by Anthony Christmas, original cloth, 4to, limited edition 22/200, with others, private press etc including a bibliography of the Folio Society, 4 volumes, 1968-2007 plus checklists, 2 volumes, 1981 & 1987, Chap-Books. The Society of Private Printers, Fifth Exchange 1982-1986, Cuckoo Hill Press, 1986, limited edition of 125 (containing 28 booklets in slipcase), Out of the Ark Press, Alembic Press, Apple Barrell Press etc (23)

Greenwood (Jeremy). Omega Cuts, Woodcuts and Linocuts by Artists Associated with the Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press, Wood Lea Press, 1998, tipped-in colour illustrations, and monochrome illustrations after Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, McKnight Kauffer, Simon Bussy, Edward Wadsworth and others, original cloth with slipcase (450 copies printed), together with The Graphic Work of Edward Wadsworth, Wood Lea Press, 2002, colour and monochrome illustrations, original patterned boards, with slipcase (450 copies printed), plus Margaret Bruce Wells, The Complete Wood-engravings and Linocuts, Wood Lea Press, 2000, colour and monochrome illustrations, original quarter cloth gilt over patterned boards, with slipcase (300 copies printed), all folio, VG (3)

Gregynog Press. Gregynog Poets series, 1988-1990, numbers 6, 8 & 10-12 only (of 12), wood-engravings, original wrappers, 8vo, limited numbered editions of 400, together with John Lawrence. The Four Seasons. Four wood engravings made in 1982 to illustrate the Magic Apple Tree, by Susan Hill, now issued by the Fleece Press, August 1997, four wood-engravings, each numbered, titled and signed at foot by the artist, original wrappers, folio, limited edition 115/120, with other private press booklets and pamphlets including seven Simon King Press limited editions, 1983-95, plus others with wood-engravings by Marie Hartley, Ian Stephens, Simon Brett etc (32)