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Oakeshott (Walter). The Two Winchester Bibles, Oxford University Press, 1981, colour plates, monochrome plates and illustrations, top edge gilt, original maroon cloth gilt, with slipcase, large folio, limited edition 268/1000, together with Braunfels (Wolfgang), The Lorsch Gospels, Introduction by Wolfgang Braunfels, New York, George Braziller, [1967], colour facsimile, original vellum-backed red cloth, with separate accompanying introductory text bound in plain wrappers, with slipcase, folio, limited edition 798/1000 (2)

Britton (John). Cathedral Antiquities. Historical and descriptive accounts, with 311 illustrations..., 5 volumes, M.A. Nattali, 1836, numerous engraved plates by Le Keux, Cattermole, Cresey, Gandy, Bartlett, etc, occasional spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary uniform red half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed to joints and edges, upper cover to first volume detached, 4to, together with Dugdale (Sir William), Monasticon Anglicanum, volume 1 only, 1st edition, Richard Hodgkinson, 1655, numerous etched plates by Wenceslaus Hollar and Daniel King, some soiling and staining to lower fore-margin throughout, a few marginal tears and one folding plate loose, contemporary calf, worn with covers detached, folio (sold with all faults) (6)

Pinelli (Bartolomeo). Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi incisi al acqua forte, Rome, Lorenzo Lazzari, 1809, engraved title, and 49 (of 50) etched plates of Italian costume and rustic figures, etc., bound with Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi de contorni di Roma compresi diversi fatti di briganti, Rome, Giovanni Scudellari, 1823, printed title, with contemporary ownership signature at head, 47 (of 50) etched plates only of brigands, some scattered spotting, mainly to margins, waterstain to upper margin throughout, gilt gauffered edges, marbled endpapers, near-contemporary gilt-decorated full vellum over wooden boards (by T.H. Reilly Fine Art Gallery, Dublin), a few marks and small stain to upper cover, oblong folio (1)

Keynes (Geoffrey, editor). The Writings of William Blake, 3 volumes in 1, Nonesuch Press, 1925, portrait frontispiece, black and white plates, top edge gilt, remainder rough trimmed, original morocco gilt, a little rubbed and darkened on spine, small folio, (limited edition of 1500 copies, this being L/LXXV copies on Oxford India paper), together with Wilson (Mona), The Life of William Blake, Nonesuch Press, 1927, portrait frontispiece and black and white plates, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original parchment-backed boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, small folio, (limited edition 133/1480 copies), plus Blake (William, illustrator), John Milton: Poems in English, Nonesuch Press, 1926, black and white plates, uncut, original vellum, slightly rubbed and soiled, large 8vo, (limited edition of 1450 copies, this being 24/90 copies on Oxford India paper with 2 volumes bound as 1), plus other Blake interest (16)

Brinkley (Frank, editor). Japan Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, written by eminent Japanese authorities and scholars, with an essay on Japanese art by Kakuzo Okakura, 10 volumes, Boston, [1897-98], profusely illustrated with 60 matted hand-coloured albumen prints and 200 smaller hand-coloured albumen prints in text, 10 original colour collotype photographs of flowers by Ogawa, 10 frontispieces of mounted original examples of Japanese art and numerous colour plates reproducing notable works of art, some scattered marginal spotting and to endpapers, inner margins of volume 6 with small brown stain, original publisher's Japanese-style brocaded silk over boards with spine ties, minor soiling and edge wear, folio Limited edition, 74/100 sets of the 'Imperial Edition'. (-)

Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Islands adjacent; from the earliest antiquity..., enlarged by the latest discoveries by Richard Gough, 3 volumes, published John Nichols, 1789, portrait frontispiece, title page to each volume, dedication and an additional half title after xxii, ninety-seven uncoloured engraved plates (including eight double page), one folding table and fifty-six engraved maps by John Cary (including fifty-two double page and/or folding), slight offsetting, occasional marginal finger soiling and spotting, later endpapers, book plate of Tomkinson, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with gilt decorative spines and contrasting morocco labels, boards a little rubbed and scuffed, folio Chubb CCLXXI. (3)

Ashendene Press. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press, 1935, black and white plates and illustrations including some tipped-in specimens and 2 errata slips, ex-public library with numerous stamps and marks, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original morocco, spine heavily rubbed with some loss at head and foot, stamped classification number at foot of spine, slipcase, (signed limited edition, 175/390 copies), together with Limited Editions Club, Quarto-Millenary: The First 250 Publications in the First 25 Years 1929-1954 of the Limited Editions Club, New York, 1959, colour and black and white plates and illustrations including some tipped in, original quarter morocco in worn slipcase, 4to, (limited edition, 1906/2250 copies), plus Dreyfus (John), A History of the Nonesuch Press, 1981, some illustrations in red and black, original cloth in dust jacket, some slight soiling and browning, folio, plus other private press and literary reference (12)

Dugdale (William). Monasticon Anglicanum, sive Pandectae Coenobiorum Benedictinorum, Cluniacensieum, Cisterciensium, Carthusianorum, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Richard Hodgkinson, Alice Warren & Thomas Newcomb, 1655-73, titles printed in red and black, additional etched title to first volume by Hollar, 109 full-page etched plates by Wenceslaus Hollar and Daniel King, including some folding or double-page, plus 1 half-page etched illustration, (volume 1 has frontispiece, 62 plates plus folding map, volume 2 has 18 plates, volume 3 has 28 plates plus 1 half-page etched illustration), linen-backed, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 19th century gilt-decorated crushed full red morocco, rubbed and scuffed to joints, with a little wear, upper joint to third volume partly cracked, outer corners bumped, folio Ex libris Henry Parry Liddon (1829-1890), Church of England clergyman and theologian, and a leading member of the Oxford Movement. He was canon of St. Paul's Cathedral from 1870 to his death, and was a close friend of Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. (3)

Designer Binding. Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton, with an Introduction by John Wain and Illustrations by Ian Pollock, Folio Society, 1991, colour plates, recent full brown morocco with wraparound design of leather onlays depicting a yellow gilt, red and blue slithering snake in a stripy background, folio (1)

Circle Press. The Left-Handed Punch, by Roy Fisher and Ronald King, Circle Press, 1986, screen-printed colour illustrations, some captioned in pencil, including ten moveable puppets and one print additionally signed in pencil by the artist, photocopies of letters exchanged between artist and poet inserted, loosely contained within printed card wrapper, original publisher's cloth chemise and slipcase, folio Numbered 5 from a limited editio of 80, signed by both authors. (1)

Circle Press. Anansi Company, by Ronald King and Roy Fisher, Circle Press, 1992, thirteen screen printed removable wire and card puppets, screen printed and hand stencilled decoration, 2pp. prospectus, loosely contained in card wrap-around, housed in original solander box, folio Numbered 75 from a limited edition of 120 and signed by both authors. (1)

Folio Society. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted [a fine facsimile edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer], 2008, illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, initial letters throughout, some titles and headings printed in red, afterword by William S. Peterson, top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated rust-brown cloth, with slipcase, large folio, VG (1)

Folio Society. On the Origin of Species, 2006, The Descent of Man, 2008, both by Charles Darwin, The Icelandic Sagas, edited by Magnus Magnusson, volumes 1 & 2, 1999, Mass-Observation, Britain in the Second World War, edited by Sandra Koa Wing, 2007, Great Tales from English History, by Robert Lacey, 2008, Jane Austen's Letters, edited by Deirdre le Faye, 2003, together with 73 further volumes, including history, literature and fiction, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, 8vo/folio (80)

Folio Society. The Savoy Operas, volumes 1 & 2, by W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan, 1994, The Lifted Veil, Women's 19th Century Stories, by Kathryn Hughes, 2005, The Golden Fleece, by Robert Graves, 2003, The Amateur Emigrant & The Silverado Squatters, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1991, Dream Street, by Damon Runyon, 1989, together with 89 further volumes, all original cloth, all but 11 volumes in slipcases, G/VG, 8vo/folio (95)

Folio Society. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett, 2000, Travels with my Aunt, by Graham Greene, 2004, Dream Street, by Damon Runyan, 1989, The Voyage of the Beagle, 2003, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 2000, The Great Game, On Secret Service in High Asia, by Peter Hopkirk, 2010, The Wooden World, an Anatomy of the Georgian Navy, by N.A.M. Rodger, 2009, together with 74 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all original cloth, mostly in slipcases, VG, 8vo/folio (81)

Folio Society. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1996, The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1998, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by W. Heath Robins, 1995, The Blue Fairy Book, 2003, The Pink Fairy Book, 2007, The Yellow Fairy Book, 2008, The Red Fairy Book, 2008, 4 volumes edited by Andrew Lang, The Arabian Nights, Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, illustrated by E.J. Detmold, together with 30 further volumes of illustrated fiction, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, 8vo/folio (38)

Humphries (Sydney). Arma Virumque Cano, Privately Printed for Sydney Humphries, 1915, black & white facsimile leaves of text, decorative initials, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original vellum gilt, with yapp fore-edges, folio, together with Humphries (Sydney), Disjecta, privately printed by R & R Clark Ltd., Edinburgh, 1909, wood engraved armorial frontispiece, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original vellum gilt, with yapp fore-edges, large 8vo, (limited edition of 4o copies printed, with pencil inscription to front free endpaper 'Audrey Tomkinson, from Percival Humphries, from Sydney Humphries'), with Milton (John), Areopagitica, Printed for Sydney Humphries, by Adam & Charles Black, 1911, engraved portrait frontispiece, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original vellum gilt, with yapp fore-edges, 4to, and Payne (John), The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nishapour..., London: The Villon Society, 1898, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original vellum gilt, with blocked design depicting clouds in red, stars and moon in gilt, 8vo, (limited edition number 278), plus Creighton (Mandell), The Story of Some English Shires, London: Religious Tract Society, 1897, photogravure frontispiece, wood engraved plates and illustrations, armorial bookplate of Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall, Worcestershire to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original vellum gilt, yapp fore-edges with green silk ties, 4to, (limited edition 73/150) (5)

Officina Bodoni. Nikolay Gogol. The Overcoat, from the Tales of Petersburg, Verona, 1975, six etchings by Pietro Annigoni, loose prospectus at front, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, glassine wrapper, slipcase, small folio, limited edition, 99/160 pencil signed by the artist, together with The Sayings of the Seven Sages of Greece, Officina Bodoni, Verona, 1976, illustrations, loose prospectus at front, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 46/160 (2)

Whittington Press. The Shepherd's Calendar [by] John Clare, illustrated by John Lawrence, Paradine, 1978, 12 tipped-in woodcut illustrations, printed glossary loosely inserted, hand-made endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original quarter morocco gilt in card slipcase, small folio, (limited edition 48/500 copies, signed by John Lawrence and the printer John Randle, this being one of 75 copies accompanied by an artist's proof of the cover design, 48/100, signed and dated 1978 to lower margin), together with De La More Press, Shakespeare's Ovid being Arthur Golding's Translation of a Metamorphoses edited by W.H.D. Rouse, 1904, engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials, uncut, original cloth-backed boards with printed paper label to spine, slightly rubbed and soiled, small folio, (limited edition 195/300 copies), plus Hopkins (Gerard Manley), A Vision of the Mermaids, facsmile edition, Oxford University Press, 1929, original cloth-backed decorative boards with printed paper label to upper cover, a little rubbed and soiled, slim folio (limited edition, 43/250 copies), plus other private press and limited edition books, and a folder of Nonesuch Press prospectuses and ephemera (33)

Lear (Edward). A Book of Nonsense, published Frederick Warne & Co., c. 1890, colour illustrations throughout including title and frontispiece, original gilt and black decorated cloth, rebacked and original spine relaid, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to, together with Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica, 1st edition, 1870, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, some spotting, hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, soiling and wear, large 8vo, plus More Nonsense, 4th edition, 1894, black and white illustrations, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, small oblong folio, plus other books by and about Lear (28)

Jansson (Jan). Joannis Janssonii Novus Atlas sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in quo Magna Britannia seu Angliae & Scotiae nec non Hiberniae Regna exhibentur, Tomus Quartus, published Amsterdam, 1st. edition, 1646, decorative title page with contemporary hand colouring heightened with gilt, fifty-six (complete) engraved double page maps with contemporary hand colouring, Britannia ..., Anglo-Saxonum..., detached, possibly from another atlas, Latin text on verso and throughout, some browning and offsetting throughout, hand coloured illustrations to text, all edges gilt with gauffered edges, contemporary vellum gilt with yapp fore-edges, a little stained, folio Chubb LXX. Koeman. C. Me 152. (1)

Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, 1931, black and white illustrations to text and decorative endpapers, original cloth gilt, minor damp spotting, dust jacket a little spotted and finger soiled with large ring mark to upper panel, 8vo, together with Brunhoff (Jean de), Babar's Friend Zephir, 1st English edition, 1937, colour illustrations throughout, minor pencil scribblings to front endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed and some edge wear, folio, plus Robinson (W. Heath, illustrator), The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, by Norman Hunter, 1st edition, 1933, colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations, original cloth, rubbed and slightly soiled, 4to, plus other mostly 20th-century juvenile interest including some annuals (-)

Dore (Gustave & Jerrold, Blanchard). London, 1872, wood-engraved plates throughout, some minor spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary red half morocco gilt, boards a little rubbed and soiled, folio, together with Hall (S.C., editor), Gems of European Art: The Best Pictures of the Best Schools, 1st and 2nd series in 2 volumes, no date, circa 1870, engraved plates, all edges gilt, original red morocco richly gilt, slightly rubbed, folio, plus 10 other large-format illustrated volumes and scrap albums (a carton)

Fleming (Ian). The Man with the Golden Gun, 1st edition, 1965, previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original black cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly marked, spine slightly rubbed with small tears to head and foot, 8vo, together with Sitwell (Sacheverell), The Gothick North, a Study of Mediaeval Life, Art, and Thought, new edition, 1950, Primitive Scenes and Festivals, 1942, Splendours and Miseries, 1943, The Hunters and the Hunted, 1947, all 1st editions, all original cloth in dust jackets, some inscriptions to front endpapers, covers slightly rubbed with minor loss, 8vo (4 volumes in total), and other modern literature and reference, including Osbert Sitwell, Penguin New Writing, pottery and porcelain reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (2 cartons)

Moore (George). Peronnik the Fool, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1933, engraved frontispiece, title, two plates and few illustrations by Stephen Gooden, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original full vellum gilt, 4to, (limited editon 215/525, signed by author & illustrator), together with Folio Society, The Getty Apocalypse, facsimile of MS Ludwig III in the J. Paul Getty Museum, with Commentary volume by Nigel J. Morgan, 2011, together 2 volumes, colour facsimile pages heightened in gilt, and black & white plates, original quarter morocco and full maroon buckran, folio, contained together in original drop back box, (limited edition 143/1020), with Worcester (Edward Somerset, Marquis of), [A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected: (which my former Notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the Year 1655, Glasgow: printed by R. and A. Foulis, 1767], lacking title, some light dampstaining and dust-soiling, contemporary marbled sheep, joints cracked, 12mo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian, modern first editions and art reference etc. including, Diary of Travels in France and Spain, Chiefly in the Year 1844, by Rev. Francis Trench, 2 vols., 1845, Vathek: An Arabian Tale, by William Beckford, London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893, (limited edition 426/450), Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, 1st edition, 1938, Keynotes by George Egerton, 1893, and Water-Colour Painting in Britain, by Martin Hardie, 3 vols., mixed editions, 1967-68 (a carton)

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, 1979, The Lord of The Rings, 3 volumes, 1977, & The Silmarillion, 1997, all Folio Society, numerous black and white illustrations, all original boards in slipcases, together with Wragg (Arthur, illustrator), The Psalms for Modern Life, 1st edition, 1933, numerous black and white illustrations, some minor marks, original cream cloth in dust jacket, covers chipped with repairs to head and foot, 8vo, and other modern literature, including 7 other Folio Society publications, King Penguins, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (a carton)

Lanfranc (Archbishop of Canterbury). Opera Omnia..., edited by Domnus Lucas Dacherius, printed for Jean Billaine, Paris, 1648, black and white engraved title vignette, Owens College, Manchester ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown, ex-libris stamp to verso of title, some light marks and spotting, contemporary mottled calf, boards rubbed with some loss, spine deteriorated, folio, together with Augerean (Yarouthiun), A Brief Account of the Mechitaristican Society Founded on the Island of St. Lazaro, Venice, Armenian Academy, 1835, black and white frontispiece engraving, title vignette, black and white engraving of Mechitar Abbas opposite p. 7, some light spotting, contemporary gilt-decorated half morocco, boards and spine rubbed with some loss, 8vo, and More (Hannah), Remarks on the Present Mode of Educating Females; being a Copious Abridgement..., printed for J. Parsons, 1799, black and white portrait frontispiece, later inscription to front endpaper, some light spotting, contemporary calf, boards and spine rubbed, 8vo, plus other 17th to 19th-century literature and reference, including A Plea for Painted Glass... by Fras. W. Oliphant, 1855, ex-libris of Pamela & Raymond Lister, Old and New London... by Walter Thornbury, volumes 1-6, circa 1880s, mostly leather bindings, condition is generally good, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Meyrick (Samuel Rush, and Smith, Charles Hamilton). The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Isles, From the Earliest Periods to the Sixth Century; To which is Added, that of the Gothic Nations on the Western Coasts of the Baltic, the Ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes, 1st ed., 1815, additional hand-coloured aquatint title with contemporary signature to upper blank margin, twenty-four hand-coloured aquatint plates, bound without half title or sub title, some light offsetting and spotting, edges untrimmed, 20th century dark green half morocco, gilt decorated spine, folio, together with Loutherbourg (P.J. De), The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales..., 1805, facsimile edition, published Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, 1979, colour plates., contemporary brown half morocco gilt, folio For first title see Abbey Life 427. (2)

Gregori (Mina). Paintings in the Uffizi & Pitti Galleries, Bulfinch Press, 1994, numerous colour illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded, large 8vo, together with Longford (Elizabeth), Images of Chelsea, 1980, numerous black and white illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded, large 8vo, (limited edition 236/1000), plus Hagen (Rose-Marie & Rainer), Masterpieces in Detail, volumes 1 & 2, 2010, numerous colour illustrations, original white cloth in slipcase, large 8vo, plus other modern masterpieces and art gallery reference, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (5 shelves)

Maurice (F.). The Russo-Turkish War 1877, A Strategical Sketch, 1st edition, 1905, 3 folding maps to rear pocket, some light spotting, original yellow cloth, boards and spine slightly toned, 8vo, together with De Segur (Philip), History of the Expedition to Russia, undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the year 1812, volumes 1 & 2, 3rd edition, 2 black and white frontispiece portraits, plus a folding map to front of volume 1, some light spotting, contemporary inscription to volume 2 front endpaper, contemporary half calf, boarsd and spines rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, plus Report of the Ministry, Overseas Military Forces of Canada 1918, 44 black and white illustrations including folding maps, some light marks and water stains, bookplate to front endpaper, original green cloth, spine slightly faded, ex-libris stamps to text block, 8vo, plus other modern military history and reference, including publications by Airlife, Pen & Sword, Arms & Armour, Grub Street, Ian Allen, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves & 2 cartons)

Armstrong (Robin). Split-Cane and Sable, A Book of Fish, Men and Nature, 1st edition, 1988, original artwork and inscription by the author to half-title, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original gilt-decorated green morocco in slipcase, all edges gilt, 4to, together with Cust (Lionel, ed.), The National Portrait Gallery, volumes 1 & 2, limited edition 81/750, 1901, numerous black and white illustrations, inscription to front endpaper, some light spotting, three quarter green morocco, boards water damaged, spines slightly faded, large 4to, and Andres (Glenn M., et al), The Art of Florence, volumes 1 & 2, 1st Artabras edition, 1994, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original gilt decorated blue cloth in slipcase, large 4to, plus other late 19th century and modern art and miscellaneous reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

The Franklin Library. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, 1979, A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway, 1979, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, by Henry Fielding, 1980, and 23 further volumes, all original gilt decorated quarter morocco, 8vo, together with The Classics of Medicine Library. A Practical Treatise on Venereal Diseases, by Philippe Ricord, 1988, Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry, by Emil Kraepelin, 1985, Lectures on the Central Nervous System, by C.E. Brown-S‚quard, 1995, and 5 further volumes, all original gilt decorated leather, 8vo, and The Oxford Library of the World's Greatest Books, Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1985, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bront‰, 1984, The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, 1983, with 7 further volumes, all original gilt decorated quarter morocco, 8vo, plus other similar modern reprint editions, including The Easton Press, Folio Society, VG, 8vo (3 shelves)

Ormerod (George). The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian Mss., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 3 volumes, 1st edition, published Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones, 1819, additional half title, engraved portrait frontispiece, dedication and list of subscribers, double page engraved map by Neele, with contemporary hand colouring, engraved town plan of Chester and numerous uncoloured engraved plates, all edges gilt, later endpapers, modern quarter morocco gilt, folio Large paper copy. (3)

Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, circa 1915, 14 colour tipped-in plates, some light spotting, original decorated tan cloth, spine rubbed with minor loss to head and foot, large 8vo, together with Fraser (C. Lovat, illustrator), Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes, by Walter De La Mare, 1924, 16 colour plates, some light spotting, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Hows (John A, illustrator), In the Woods, with Bryant, Longfellow, and Halleck, USA, 1863, numerous black and white engravings, some light spotting, contemporary gilt-decorated purple morocco, boards and spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th and 20th-century illustrated literature and juvenile fiction, including 'B.B.', Kenneth Grahame, J.M. Barrie, John Gay, C.A. Swinburne, mostly original cloth bindings, some decorative, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Froude (James Anthony). English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century, new edition, 1915, prize plate to front pastedown, contemporary gilt-decorated tree calf, 8vo, together with Lee (Sidney), A Life of William Shakespeare, library edition, 1899, numerous black and white illustrations plus colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, prize plate to front endpaper, contemporary gilt-decorated tree calf bound by Bickers & Sons, spine slightly rubbed, all edges gilt, 8vo, and Mill (John Stuart), A System of Logic, Radiocinative and Inductive..., volumes 1-2, 2nd edition, 1846, some light spotting, contemporary uniform gilt-decorated quarter calf, boards and spines slightly marked and rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th and early 20th-century English literature and historical reference including Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Moore, Lewis Carroll, all gilt-decorated leather bindings, condition is generally very good, 8vo/folio (approximately 65 volumes in total) (3 shelves)

Paolini (Claudio, et al). Il bello "ritrovato", Gusto, ambienti, mobili dell'Ottocento, 1st edition, Milan, 1990, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original red cloth boards in slipcase, folio, together with Horiuchi (Takeo, [editor]), The World of Louis Comfort Tiffany, a selection from The Anchorman Collection, 1st edition, Japan, 1994, numerous colour illustrations, original gilt-decorated blue resin boards in slipcase, folio, plus Scheurleer (Th. H. Lunsingh), Pierre Gole, ‚b‚niste de Louis XIV, 2005, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original brown cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, folio, plus other modern objet d'art and antique reference and related, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Modern fiction. A large collection of late 19th-century and modern first edition fiction and literature, including Kingsley Amis, Marina Lewycka, Peter Ackroyd, Laurens van der Post, some signed by the authors, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some leather bindings, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Naval. A collection of modern naval and maritime reference, including publications by Conway, Blandford, Arms & Armour, P.S.L., Ian Allen, Leo Cooper, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Macquoid (Percy). A History of English Furniture, 4 volumes (The Age of Oak, Walnut, Satinwood, Mahogany), 1938, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, previous owner's marks to front endpapers, some light toning, all original red cloth in dust jackets, except 'The Age of Oak' lacking dust jacket, covers worn with some loss, folio, together with Symonds (R.W.), Old English Walnut & Lacquer Furniture... , 1st edition, 1923, 40 black and white plates, some light toning, original gilt-decorated red cloth, boards and spine slightly toned and rubbed to head and foot, 4to, plus other modern art and antiques reference, including some auction catalogues, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Ecclesiastical. A large collection of modern ecclesiastical and theological reference and related, including publications by S.C.M. Press, Oxford, S.P.C.K., Batsford, Cambridge, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Binyon (Laurence). The Art of Botticelli, an essay in pictorial criticism, 1913, 21 (of 23) plates including frontispiece etching lacks colour plates at pp. 46 & 56), some light toning, original quarter vellum, spine slightly marked, folio, (limited edition of 275), together with James (M.R.), The Canterbury Psalter, 1935, numerous colour and black and white facsimiles, some minor toning, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, spine slightly faded, folio, (limited edition 342/425), plus Van Gogh (Vincent), The Complete Letters of... , volumes 1-3, USA, 1959, numerous stuck down plates, original gilt-decorated black cloth in partial slipcase, spines slightly faded, 8vo, plus other modern art reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Arsdekin (R.P. Richardi). Theologia Tripartita Universa, 3 volumes bound in 1, Joannis Caspari Bencard, 1687, black and white engraved title, bookplate to front pastedown, some light marks, evidence of worming to rear pages, contemporary full calf with leather and brass clasps, boards wormed and rubbed with some loss, large 8vo, together with Ruinart (Theodoricus), Acta Primorum Martyrum sincera and selecta, Amsterdam, 1713, black and white engraved title, later inscription to front endpaper, some light marks, contemporary full calf, boards and spine partially detached and rubbed with some loss, folio, plus Bathurst (Elizabeth), Truth Vindicated By the Faithful Testimony and Writings of the Innocent Servant and Hand-Maid of the Lord, 1691, period inscriptions to front endpaper, some light marks, evidence of worming throughout, contemporary full calf, boards and spine rubbed with some loss to foot, 8vo, plus other 17th, 18th and 19th-century literature and reference, including 17th and 18th-century pamphlets, Practical Astronomy, Navigation, Nautical Astronomy and Meteorology, volumes 1-6, by J.R. Young et al, 1855, all leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (approximately 90 volumes in total) (5 shelves)

Bunyan (John). Choice Works. The Pilgrim's Progress, The Holy War, The Barren Fig-Tree, Grace Abounding To The Chief of Sinners and Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble, 1873, numerous black and white illustrations including portrait frontispiece, period inscription to front endpaper, some light spotting, contemporary gilt-decorated blue morocco, boards slightly marked and rubbed to head and foot, spine slightly faded, large 8vo, together with Roberts (John S.), The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., circa 1870, numerous colour lithographs, some spotting, minor loss to front endpapers, contemporary gilt-decorated blue calf, boards and spine rubbed, large 8vo, plus The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments..., 1857, pencil inscriptions to front endpapers, some light marks, contemporary gilt-decorated full plum morocco boards slightly rubbed to head and foot (generally in good condition), large 8vo, plus other 19th-century literature and reference, including Punch, Leisure Hour History of the World, mostly leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (approximately 80 volumes in total) (6 shelves)

Rudder (Samuel). A New History of Gloucestershire. Comprising the Topography, Antiquities, Curiosities, Produce, Trade and Manufactures of that County..., also the Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military History of the City of Gloucester from its first foundation to the present time..., published Cirencester 1779, title page creased, folding engraved map of Gloucestershire by J.Bayly, two further single page maps of the Home Park estate near Cirencester and Oakley Great Park, thirteen uncoloured engraved folding plates of stately homes and a single page engraving of a cross section of Pen-Park hole, ownership signature of Thomas S. Bazley (1797 - 1885) to front endpaper, decorative etched bookplate of Gardner S. Bazely, the bookplate is a play on his name as it depicts a gardener standing under an arbour, with a later Hatherop Castle library stamp, modern half calf with contrasting morocco label to spine, but retaining contemporary marbled boards, folio Thomas Bazley was a cotton merchant and MP who aquired estates in Hertfordshire and Gloucestershire eventually settling at Eyford Park near Lower Slaughter in Gloucestershire. His widow the Dowager Lady Bazley died at the Vicarage in Bibury aged 93 in 1897. (1)

Szarkowski (John). A Maritime Album, 100 Photographs and Their Stories, 1st edition, 1997, 100 black and white illustrations, original black cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly rubbed at head, large 4to, together with Fermi (Rachel & Samra, Esther), Picturing the Bomb, photographs from the secret world of the Manhattan Project, USA, 1995, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original black cloth in dust jacket, oblong 4to, plus Roegiers (Patrick), Magritte and Photography, 2005, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original red cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other modern photography, advertising and graphic design reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio  (3 shelves)

Kornhauser (Elizabeth Mankin). Marsden Hartley, 2003, original black cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, together with Celant (Germano & Bell, Clare), Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959-1969, 1st edition, USA, 1999, numerous colour illustrations, original black cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus Marshall (Richard D.), Ed Ruscha, 2003, original illustrated boards, large 4to, plus other modern art reference, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jacket,s G/VG, 8vo/folio  (6 shelves)

Shaw (Henry). The History and Antiquities of the Chapel at Luton Park, A Seat of the Most Honourable the Marquess of Bute, published James Carpenter & Son, 1829, ornate title and dedication and nineteen engraved plates (complete as list), contemporary quarter morocco gilt with gilt morocco label to upper board, slim upright folio (1)

Fahr-Becker (Gabriele, editor). The Art of East Asia, volumes 1 & 2, 1998, numerous colour illustrations, original red cloth in dust jackets, and slipcase, large 4to, together with Singh (Madanjeet), Ajanta, Painting of the Sacred and the Secular, India, 1965, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original brown faux morocco in dust jacket, and slipcase, covers slightly rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, and other modern Asian, Middle Eastern and Oriental art reference, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio Some with ex libris bookplates. (3 shelves)

Stern (Robert A.M. et al). New York, 1960, Architecture and Urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial, 1st edition, USA, 1995, numerous black and white illustrations, original black cloth in dust jacket, covers slgithly rubbed to head and foot, thick 4to, together with Adjaye (David), Houses, 2005, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original plum boards in dust jacket, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, 4to, and other modern architecture reference and related, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 4to/folio Some ex libris with bookplates. (3 shelves)

Bowness (Alan & Lambertini, Luigi). Victor Pasmore, with a catalogue raisonn‚ of the paintings, constructions and graphics 1926-1979, 1st edition, 1980, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original white cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with Walther (Ingo F. & Wolf, Norbert), Codices illustres, The World's Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts 400-600, 1st edition, 2001, numerous colour illustrations, original decorated boards in dust jacket, slight tear to foot of spine, folio, and Harrison (Pegram), Frankenthaler, a catalogue raisonn‚ prints 1961-1994, 1st edition, 1996, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other modern art and bibliographical reference and related, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio Some with ex libris bookplates. (6 shelves)

Lanchner (Carolyn). Joan Mir¢, USA, 1993, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original tan cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned to head, large 4to, together with Yorke (Malcolm), Edward Bawden & His Circle, the Inward Laugh, 2007, Antique Collector's Club, numerous colour illustrations, original black cloth in dust jackets, 4to, and Mosby (Dewey F.), Henry Ossawa Tanner, USA, 1991, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original black cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly rubbed to head and foot, 4to, plus other modern art reference, all hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 4to/folio Some with ex libris bookplates. (6 shelves)

Gautier (Th‚ophile). Wanderings in Spain, 1853, numerous black and white engravings (lacks plate to page 41), some light spotting, contemporary gilt decorated brown cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with other 18th, 19th, & early 20th century Spanish language literature and reference, some leather bindings, some paperbacks, some odd volumes, condition generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Reid (Forrest). Illustrators of The Sixties, 1st edition, 1928, numerous black and white illustrations including frontispiece, some minor toning, original green cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed, spine lightly faded, 4to, together with Haining (Peter), Movable Books, an illustrated history, 1979, numerous colour illustrations, original black cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed and toned, oblong 4to, and Lanes (Selma G.), The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1st edition, 1980, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original decorated boards in transparent dust jacket, spine slightly faded, large 4to, plus other early 20th century and modern bibliographical and illustrator reference, including Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, volumes 1 & 2, by Stuart Mason, 1914, George Cruikshank, a catalogue raisonn‚ by Albert M Cohn, limited edition 123/500, 1924, Preferences in Art, Life and Literature, by Harry Quilter, 1892, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. With a Poem, by William Allingham, 1st edition, 1870, sixteen colour plates, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, blank margins water-stained, one or two finger-marks to text, endpapers renewed, bookplate of Sheila Ann Day on front pastedown, original front free endpaper present (with later inscription), all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, lightly rubbed and marked, rebacked preserving original spine, folio (1)

Meggendorfer (Lothar). Lebende Bilder, 12th edition, Munich, [cover title], circa 1890, eight hand-coloured moveable plates, generally soiled, final plate not working and with some minor tears, oval ink stamp on front pastedown, original pictorial boards, lacking cloth spine, edges worn, folio Plates depict: Mr. Staberl; Miss Cook; The Piano Player; The Clerk; The Master; The Tyrolean Singer; Fritz and the Cockatoo; The Greedy Cat. (1)

*Rustic sports. Educational broadside published by R. Carpenter, 1 October 1796, calligraphic quatrain titled 'Fame' and description of the word 'Emulation', calligraphically signed by George Smith and dated at King's School, Chester, 15 December 1797, written in central area on laid paper, large engraved vignette at head and 4 engraved vignettes to borders with engraved decoration, uniform browning and small pin hole tears to right margin not affecting letterpress or illustrations, one page, folio (43.5 x 36.5 cm), framed and glazed The four vignettes to left and right margins have engraved captions: Grinning Through a Horse Collar for a Cheshire Cheese; Cudgeling for a Gold Lac'd Hat; Eating hasty Pudding for a pair of Breeches; Jumping in Sacks for a Flitch of Bacon. (1)

Potter (Beatrix). Peter Rabbit's Painting Book, Frederick Warne, [1911], twenty-nine full-page illustrations (including endpapers and title), twelve printed in colour, the black & white illustrations untouched by juvenile hands, original dark green pictorial card covers, extremities rubbed and a little worn in places, small mark on upper cover, small 4to, together with Peter Rabbit Painting Book, New York: Graham & Matlack, 1913, twenty-seven full-page illustrations (including endpapers and title), twelve printed in colour, the black and white illustrations uncoloured by children, original red cloth with illustration inset to upper cover, lightly rubbed and soiled, spine with loss to ends crudely repaired, small 4to, plus The Animated Peter Rabbit, by Marion Merrill, New York City: Cima Publishing Company, 1945, colour illustrations throughout, including three moveable plates operated by tabs, toned and some marks, contemporary inscription at head of title-page, original spiral-bound pictorial boards, extremities a little worn, in torn dustjacket, with some loss, folio, plus twenty-three other Beatrix Potter publications, including The Songs of Peter Rabbit, by Dudley Glass, in dustjacket (torn), but mostly US printings, e.g. three published by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Ohio: The Patchwork Poster Book of Peter Rabbit, To Cut Out and Paste, by Helene Nyce (intact and uncoloured); Stand-Ups, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Sidney Sage (unused); Peter Rabbit Painting and Drawing Book; and a shaped Peter Rabbit Painting Book, published by Charles E. Graham, New York, 1913, uncoloured (26)

Gueguen (Pierre). Ko et Ko, les deux esquimaux, Images de Vieira da Silva, Texte de Pierre Gueguen, 1st edition, Paris, 1933, 12 full-page colour pochoir illustrations to rectos with text printed to versos, some marginal toning, largely to text pages, some slightly indistinct red and pink crayon scribblings to rear endpaper, one additional colour pochoir sheet (of 2) of figures to be cut out loosely inserted, slightly frayed along inner margin, contemporary pencil inscription to front pastedown, original linen-backed boards with pictorial upper cover, somewhat rubbed and soiled with some visible mostly pencil marks, somewhat worse to lower outer board, oblong folio One of 300 copies. (1)

Helle (Andre). Droles de Betes. L'Arche de No‚, 1st edition, Paris: A. Tolmer, [1911], numerous illustrations throughout including 20 colour pochoir prints of varying sizes, 2 contemporary presentation inscriptions in French to half-title, both addressed to Fanny Roscol at Christmas 1911, the first from Pierre Muller, the second seemingly from the author/illustrator Helle with a little pen and ink sketch of a donkey, old water staining to lower half of volume throughout with resultant crinkling of paper and boards, contents loose in original linen-backed colour pictorial stiff wrappers, a little soiling and edge wear, spine slightly frayed, covers partly wrinkled, folio (42 x 31.5 cm) (1)

Jansson (Tove). The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My, 1st UK edition, Ernest Benn, 1953, colour illustrations throughout, cut-out details, endpapers at front and rear a little dust-soiled, original cloth-backed colour pictorial boards, front cover with large cut-out hole and rear cover with small cut-out hole, VG, together with Who Will Comfort Toffle, 1st UK edition, Ernest Benn, 1960, colour and black and white illustrations throughout, original red boards lettered in white, dust jacket a little soiled and with a few splits, both small folio (2)