first edition

Grabhorn Press.- Aesop. The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope, translated by William Caxton, number 69 of 200 copies on Arnold unbleached paper...

Bookbinding.- Hobson (Anthony) Apollo and Pegasus: An Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library, Amsterdam, 1975; Humanist...

Bewick (Thomas).- Kay (R.,) The New Preceptor, or, Young Lady's & Gentleman's True Instructor in the Rudiments of the English Tongue... By R.Kay, ...

Bickham (George, Jr. & John) Fables and other short Poems...for the Practice and Amusement of Young Gentlemen and Ladies; in the Art of Writing, e...

Aesop. Fables Choisies, number XV of 15 copies for collaborators, from an edition limited to 99, this copy on Japon Impérial, 21 lithographs by Ma...

[Colonna (Francesco)] Poliphili Hypnerotomachia..., facsimile reprint, leaves numbered in pencil, modern vellum-backed pictorial boards drawn in p...

Aesop. The Fables, number 32 of 750 copies signed by the artist, 25 tipped-in colour plates by Edward J.Detmold including 2 additional plates not ...

Cranach Press.- Vergilius Maro (Publius) Les Eclogues..., translated by J.H.Mason, number 95 of 225 copies on hand-made paper water-marked with Ma...

Ovidius Naso (Publius) L'Art d'Aimer, translated by Henri Bornecque, number IX of 50 copies for London on hand-made paper and signed by the artist...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables, 3 vol. in 6, number 139 of 114 copies on vélin de Rives with 3 additional suites of plates (colour, black, and black...

Aesop. The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse...by John Ogilby, engraved portrait of Ogilby by Lombart after Peter Lely, title in red & black, e...

Flittner (Johann) Nebulo nebulonum; hoc est iocoseria modernae nequitiae censura, engraved architectural title, woodcut initials, head- & tailpiec...

Ovidius Naso (Publius) Epistles, translated by Several Hands, first edition, engraved frontispiece, faint ink inscription to title, lightly soiled...

Ovidius Naso (Publius) Metamorphoseon libri XV, collation: a6 A-V8, with final blank, italic & roman type, title with woodcut printer's device, wo...

Aesop. Les Fables d'Esope, & de plusieurs autres excellens Mythologistes, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, 27 full-page illustrations ...

Aesop.- Orrery (Charles Boyle, Earl of) Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Aesop, Examin'd, first edition,...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Ovidius Naso (Publius) The Metamorphoses, number 30 of 75 specially bound copies with an additional suite of plates, from ...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Poems & Sonnets..., edited by Gwyn Jones, number 72 of 100 specially bound copies, from an editi...

Krol (Abram) Bestiaire, number 33 of 110 copies on handmade paper signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 165, 15 engravings by Krol, all...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables Choisies..., 4 parts in 1, engraved additional allegorical title by Romeyn de Hooghe, engraved illustrations by Henri...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables Choisies, 2 vol., lacking half-titles, with engraved frontispiece and 275 plates after Oudry, with one plate 'Le Chat...

Khayyám (Omar) The Rubiayat, one of 20 copies printed from a calligraphic manuscript by Dave Wood, numbered, signed & dated by Wood in pencil, ill...

Aesop. Fabularum celeberrimi autoris vita. Fabellae..., collation: [ ]8 A4 B-V8, italic type, title with woodcut border depicting the virtues and ...

Bewick (Thomas).- Goldsmith (Oliver, attributed to) A Pretty Book of Pictures for Little Masters and Misses, or, Tommy Trip's History of Beasts an...

Bookbinding.- McLean (Ruari) Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather, 1974; Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Paper, 1983; V...

Phaedrus.- Terentius Afer (Publius) & Phaedrus. Comoediae [&] Fabulae Aesopiae, edited by Richard Bentley, 2 parts in 1, engraved portrait and fro...

Gregynog Press.- Bridges (Robert) Eros and Psyche: A Poem in XII Measures, one of 300 copies, printed in red and black, initials designed by Grail...

Aesop. Ezopovy Basni s russkim perevodom dlia nastavleniia iunoshestva; Fables d'Ésope pour l'Instruction de la Jeunesse, translated by P.I.Petrov...

Bewick (Thomas).- Aesop. The Fables of Aesop and others, one of 500 copies on Royal 8vo with signed "thumb-mark" receipt, Variant B with Philosoph...

Eastern Fables.- Instructive and Entertaining Fables of Pilpay (The)..., third edition, 20 engraved plates, each with 3 illustrations, a little br...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Ecclesiastes or the Preacher, number 77 of 250 copies, printed in orange and black, light spotting to title, wood-engraved...

Aesop. Thomas Bewick's Fables of Aesop and Others, number 16 of 80 copies with the accompanying suite of proofs, introduction by Iain Bain, illust...

Phaedrus. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V, edited by David Hoogstraten, engraved additional pictorial title, title in red & black with engraved devic...

Florian (Jean-Pierre Claris de) Fables..., engraved frontispiece with portrait and hand-coloured illustration, engraved hand-coloured title with v...

Phaedrus. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V, edited by David Hoogstraten, engraved additional pictorial title, title in red & black with engraved devic...

Aesop.- [Perrault (Charles) & Isaac de Benserade.] Labyrinte de Versailles, engraved additional pictorial title, title in red & black with engrave...

Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat..., illustrations by Catherine Gebhard, some spotting, original pictorial gold foil boards, a little rubbed, 1937 § Pope (A...

Golden Cockerel Press.- Browne (William) Circe and Ulysses, number 82 of 100 specially bound copies with 4 additional engravings, from an edition ...

Aesop. The Hen and the Cat, number 2 of 4 copies, miniature calligraphic manuscript in pen & ink with illustrations by Donna Thomas, original moro...

Gwasg Gregynog.- Walters (Gwyn, editor) Pennant and his Welsh landscapes: Selected readings from A Tour in Wales (1778-1784), number 34 of 170 cop...

Ovidius Naso (Publius) Metamorphoseon, hoc est, transformationum, libri XV, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, two with partia...

Aesop. Aesop's Fables, in English & Latin, Interlineary..., [edited by John Locke], first Locke edition, 5 engraved plates containing 74 small num...

Dryden (John) Fables Ancient and Modern, engraved frontispiece by M. van der Gucht after P.L.Vergne, contemporary initials "R.D." to head of title...

Printing & Typography.- Morison (Stanley) & Kenneth Day. The Typographic Book: A Study of Fine Typography through Five Centuries, modern half moro...

Phaedrus. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque, engraved frontispiece by Fessard after Coypel, title with woodcut device, attractive contemporary re...

Chinese & Japanese.- La Fontaine (Jean de) Choix Fables...illustrées par...meilleurs Artistes de Tokio, edited by E. Flammarion, 2 vol., printed o...

Epiphanius of Salamis, Saint, Bishop of Constantia. Peri ton physiologon [graece]…Ad physiologum, collation: a-b4A-Q4R2, Greek & Latin text, woodc...

Dutch Emblems.- Emblémes ou Devises Chrétiennes, engraved frontispiece and 100 circular emblems, with the final blank, lightly browned, hole to *4...

Vergilius Maro (Publius) The Georgics..., translated by R.D.Blackmore, number 1 of 7 copies on vellum, woodcut illustrations by Edward Carrick, or...

Aesop. Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists, edited by R.Dodsley, engraved frontispiece and title-vignette, woodcut illustrations, attractive...

Paradin (Claude) Devises Heroiques et Emblemes..., second edition, [iv], 340, [3], engraved allegorical title and 174 engraved emblems (after the ...

Aesop. Some of Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances, hand-coloured illustrations by Randolph Caldecott engraved by J.C.Cooper, 1883; The Fables......

Architektur - - Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. Les dix livres d'architecture, corrigez et traduits nouvellement en Francois, avec des notes et des figu...

Amman (Jost) [Album of woodcuts from 'Ein neuw Thierbuch'], 105 woodcuts by Jost Amman tipped to 37 leaves, mostly three to a sheet on rectos only...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece and plates by Simon & Coigny after Vivier (unnumbered), some light foxing, bookplate o...

Aesop. [Eleven proof leaves printed on vellum from 'Fables'], each with pictorial woodcut by Stephen Gooden, five leaves with two woodcuts and one...

Gill (Eric).- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The)..., one of 480 copies from an edition limited to 600, facsimile reprint of the Golden Co...

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [&] Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, together...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables Choisies, 3 vol., colour wood-engraved plates and illustrations by André and Paul Baudier after Edmond Malassis and F...

Verdizotti (Giovanni Mario) Cento Favole Bellissime..., title with woodcut portrait medallion, 101 full-page woodcut illustrations (that on p.196 ...