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Click here to subscribeRoxburghe Club. BARKER (Nicolas) The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian, a facsimile of the manuscript in the Wormsley Library. A study by Nicolas Barker and with a Foreword by Paul Getty, in 2 volumes, 2000, large folio, 48 x 30cm, members' copy for Stephen Keynes OBE, dark red morocco backed cloth, vellum tips, top edges gilt
Private press and others including numbered editions. Cresset Press: The Iliad of Homer, 1928, folio, one of 750 copies, vellum backed; AUSTEN (John; illustrator) Daphnis and Chloe. Geoffrey Bles 1925, cloth (spine discoloured); SMART (C) A Song to David, Rampant Lions Press, 1960, one of 600 copies; ANNIGONI (P) Europe, The Quest for Unity, Ranelagh Editions 1975, folio, unbound part work with signed Crucifixion scene no. 397/475; several others including booklets, dates and sizes vary
RAEMAEKERS (Louis) The Great War, A Neutral's Indictment. London: The Fine Art Society, Ltd. 1916, first edition, large folio, limited edition (1050), signed by the author below frontispiece portrait, 100 mounted plates, covers dust stained and faded; Vol. II - The Great War in 1916, signed to limitation leaf, 1917, folio, 58 mounted plates, similarly bound; 3 others - satirical cartoons (5)
DODGSON (Campbell) The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. London: The Studio 1922, folio, no. 165 of 200 numbered copies, photogravure plates and black and white illustrations, vellum (slightly marked) in damaged cloth box; COLE (Timothy) Old English Masters. The Century Co. 1902, two folders with 46 signed impressions on Japan silk tissue paper, limited edition of 150 copies, soiled cloth gilt covers (3)
BEATON (Cecil) Quail in Aspic, 1st edition 1962, inscribed by the author to 'John'; also - Near East, Batsford 1943; CHAMBERLAIN (Basil Hall), Things Japanese, 1927 reprint, green cloth; GILBERT and GEORGE. More Horny Pictures, a signed exhibition programme 2001, and SONTAG (Susan) Cuba - Art of Revolution, 1970, soft covers, folio (5)
Printing, typography, and paper making. A collection of 20th century reference works, various publishers and sizes, including: WAKEMAN (G) English Hand Made Papers. The Plough Press 1972, one of 75 numbered copies, dusty spine (2 copies); Idem. Nineteenth Century Colour Illustration. The Plough Press 1976, folio, no. 61/100 copies; ; Motif no.1 1958; MEYNELL (G T) Pages from Books, 1927, folio; ENSCHEDE (C) Typefounders in the Netherlands, 1978, folio, one of 1500 copies; MUIR (Ann) Harvesting Colour, Incline press 1999, 4to, no. 122 of 225 signed copies, slip case; few others (15)
Literature and history. GRANVILLE (J J) and W. von KAULBACH. Album des Betes, a L'Usage des Gens D'Esprit. Edition speciale, Paris 1864, folio, 3 parts in one, illustrated throughout, foxing, original boards; DISRAELI. Tancred, in 3 vols., 1847, half calf; BARSTOW (D) A Secular Diary 1836, with folding table 37 x 28cm, 12mo; LAWRENCE (D H) Phoenix, 1936, morocco backed boards; REDSTONE (V) Bygone Woodbridge, c.1893, 8vo, cloth; various others 19th and 20th century (39)
Literature and church, various: PEARSON (John, Lord Bishop of Chester) An Exposition of the Creed, 12th edition, London 1741, folio, portrait frontispiece, worn calf; CRUDEN (A) A Complete Concordance, 2nd edition 1761, 4to, portrait frontispiece, later half calf; DICKENS (C) Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 vols., 1840, illustrated, no title to vol. III, old staining, worn half calf; others including Trollope, etc
NICHOLSON (Peter) Practical Carpentry, Joinery and Cabinet-Making, revised by Thomas Treadgold, 1846, 4to, portrait frontispiece, added engraved title and plates, old staining, half bound; RIDDELL (Robert) The Carpenter and Joiner, Stair Builder and Hand-Railer. Edinburgh [1870], folio, added architectural title, 1 plate and 57 plans (one folding), the last four supplied in duplicate with foldout diagrams to card backing, binding worn
SERRES (Dominick and John Thomas) Liber Nauticum, and instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing. London: John Nichols for Edward Orme, 1805-06, folio, two parts in one, two engraved Addresses and 40 (of 41) etched plates (lacking pl.27 'Ninety-gun ship at Spithead'), many with aquatint, 1 hand-coloured, title with correction printed letter 'S' pasted over final letter 'M' of 'Nauticum', slight cropping affecting some platemarks, contemporary binding with upper board detached
SETTLE (Elkanah) Carmen Irenicum. Imperialium Magnae Britanniae Coronarum Unio [The Union of the Imperial Crowns of Great Britain]. 1707, small folio, (285 x 185mm), Latin title present, parallel text in Latin and English, 47pp., pale tide mark to text, some cropping, contemporary black goatskin with gilt arms, spine foot damaged; GLANVILL (J) Catholick Charity recommended in a Sermon before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, 1669, soiled title, bound with - WHISTON (W) A Short View of the Chronology of the Old Testament.., 1702, 4 tables, worn panel calf; BAXTER (Richard) The Saints Everlasting Rest, 1659, title mounted, lacks N2 (title to Pt. II), age toned, damaged binding. Sold not subject to return. (3)
HOLINSHED (Raphael) The First and Second volumes of Chronicles, ... now newly augmented and continued to the year 1586 by John Hooker. London 1587, folio, 3 vols., second edition, black letter, general title within woodcut border and 5 other titles to first tome, no titles to vols. II or III, vol. II with Ai to Aiii having repaired foremargins, generally a sound copy in later crushed morocco ruled in gilt, marbled end papers, a.e.g., slight wear to bindings
CHAUCER (Geoffrey) The Works, edited by John Urry (1663-1714), London: for Bernard Lintot 1721, first edition, folio, 2 engraved portraits (one with slightly frayed fore edge), illustrations, slight foxing or staining, recased in later calf backed marbled boards, head of spine strip slightly damaged; GODWIN (W) Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, in 2 vols., 1803, 4to, 2 portrait frontispieces and one other portrait, rebacked diced calf (3)
CHAUCER (Geoffrey) The Workes of our Ancient learned English Poet..., London: Adam Islip 1602, folio, title within wood engraved border (repaired), lacking portrait, with large woodcut arms, woodcut of the knight to B1, double column, black letter, slight damp stain mainly affecting fore margins of first and latter leaves, and more so to Glossary at end, good reback to spotted calf
CHAUCER (Geoffrey) The Workes of our Antient and Learned Poet.., Edited by Thomas Speight. London: Adam Islip, at the charges of Thomas Wight, 1598, folio, woodcut title, portrait damaged with loss and laid down, lacking frontispiece, Canterbury Tales with woodcut title, large coat of arms to A6v, knight on horseback woodcut to head of B1, double column, black letter, ff394, 10pp corrections at end, rebacked calf
CHAUCER (Geoffrey) The Workes, [1561], folio, lacking title and leaf A1 of Prologues, with two woodcut sub-titles and knight at the head of B1, lacking final leaf 3V8, first and last leaves rather soiled and frayed at edges with slight loss of text to a small part of A3, leaves R1-R3 cropped to lower and fore margins, some early marginal notes in a neat hand, 3P5 with slight loss of text to lower corner, the whole cropped when rebound (as evidenced by some loss of marginal notes), sprinkled panel calf
CHAUCER (Geoffrey) The Workes, [1561], folio, lacking title and all prelims except leaf [floret]ii of The Prologue, and A3 of The Table, with two woodcut sub titles, nine leaves of Prologues present with the 22 woodcuts used by Caxton in his second edition of the Prologues and not present in the second issue of this fifth edition, A3 with upper corner cut away with loss, final leaf missing and supplied in 19th century facsimile, one early leaf with applied blank patch partly covering about 9 lines of text within a poorly printed or damaged paragraph, repaired binding
WORDSWORTH (William) The White Doe of Rylstone; or the Fate of the Nortons. A Poem. London: Longman, 1815. 4to, 162 pp. lacks half-title, engraved plate, damaged worn binding; COWLEY (Abraham) The Works, 9th edition, 1700, folio, portrait frontispiece, calf; LEAPOR (Mrs, of Brackley) Poems upon Several Occasions, 1748, 8vo, worn boards; POMFRET (John) Poems upon Several Occasions, 7th edition 1727, 12mo, calf; FAWKES (Francis) The Argonautics of Apollonus Rhodus. 1780, 8vo, half calf; (5)
Children's Books - Johns (Captain W.E.), Biggles and the Menace from Space, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1981, pictorial paper covers, 4to; Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus, edited by Terry Nation, Artus Books, London 1976, h/b, d/j, small folio; mid-20th century Enid Blyton, some first editions, a few with dustjackets, all h/b, various; Star Trek; Beatrix Potter; etc (1 box)
Antiquarian Books - Miscellaneous & Bindings - Die See in Gemälden deutscher Maler [...], Berlag von Hoursch & Bechstedt, [Cologne] 1926, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates after artist's original, woodcut vignettes within text throughout, contemporary quarter-green morocco and black buckram boards, small folio; The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems, Now First Compiled by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence, edited by the Rev. T.S. Grimshawe [...], With Illustrations, William Tegg and Co., London 1849, full contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Illustrated British Ballads, Old and New, Selected and Edited by George Barnett Smith, two-volumes bound as one, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, London 1881, contemporary quarter-morocco and buckram boards, 4to; The World of Wonders: A Record of Things Wonderful in Nature, Science, and Art, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883, contemporary quarter-green morocco and marbled boards, 4to; Payne's Orbis Pictus: or Book of Beauty for Every Table, A.H. Payne, Dresden & Leipzig, contemporary quarter-calf, 4to; Cassell's History of England, nine volumes, full contemporary ox blood cloth, 4to; bindings; etc
A collection of 18th Century and later hand coloured maps, to include two road maps from London to Buckingham by John Ogilvy another of Buckingham to Bridgnorth, various later coloured county maps of Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Buckinghamshire by Thomas Kitchin, Robert Morden and others and a 19th Century album of London and Environs in blue folio
Raleigh, Walter, Sir - The History of the World. The "Historie of the World ..." 1st edition, folio, old calf, rubbed, scuffed and worn, joints split, lacking the "Minde of the Front" leaf, title page and pages after "T" in table at end, with 5 double page maps (of 6) and 1 double page plan (of 2), Walter Burre, London 1614
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