Books and Works on Paper

Gay (John).- Drub (Timothy, pseud) A Letter to Mr. John Gay, Concerning His later Farce Entituled, A Comedy, a few light spots, disbound, 8vo, J.R...

[Cooke (Thomas)] The Battle of the Poets. An Heroick Poem, first edition, some light scattered spotting and browning, disbound, folio, J.Roberts, ...

Miller (James) Are These Things So?, second edition, half-title, contemporary ink annotations, disbound, 1740. ⁂ A satire on Prime Minister Rober...

Milton (John) Paradise Lost, revised by John Hawkey, first Dublin edition, ink inscriptions to pastedown, contemporary calf, Dublin, by S.Powell f...

Milton (John).- [Lauder (William)] An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns, in his Paradise Lost, first edition, autograph note date...

Smart (Christopher).- Gratulatio Academiæ Cantabrigiensis de reditu serenissimi regis Georgii II [and] Gratulatio Academiæ Cantabrigiensis auspica...

Elegant Entertainer (The), first edition, ?lacking initial blank, small portion of loss restored at head of title, occasional browning, modern cal...

[Landor (Walter Savage)] The Dun Cow; an Hyper-Satirical Dialogue in Verse. With Explanatory Notes, first edition, half-title (inscribed J.Bartlam...

[Landor (Robert Eyres, attrib.)] Guy's Porridge Pot; with the Dun Cow Roasted Whole, an Epic Poem in Twenty-Five Books, second edition, ink owners...

[Landor (Walter Savage)], "Calvus". Letters Addressed to Lord Liverpool and the Parliament, on the Preliminaries of Peace, first edition, advertis...

Landor (Robert Eyres) The Impious Feast: A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, signed presentation inscription from E. S. Landor to Rashleigh Duke t...

Landor (Walter Savage) The Last Fruit off an Old Tree, first edition, A.L.s. by the author loosely inserted, bookplates of John Sparrow and Percy ...

Landor (Walter Savage) Dry Sticks, Fagoted, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Esther Hare with autograph correctio...

Hunt (Leigh) The Descent of Liberty, A Mask, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, half-titles, Sadleir and Nowell-Smith copy with book labels to past...

Southey (Robert) The Lay of the Laureate. Carmen Nuptiale, first edition, half-title, Nowell-Smith book labels to pastedown, original boards with ...

Deacon (William Frederick) Warreniana, with notes, Critical and Explanatory, John Sparrow copy with his book label to pastedown, original boards, ...

Hemans (Felicia) Records of Woman, first edition, 1828 bound with The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, second edition, trimmed at head, O...

Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, first edition, first issue, with p.91 misnumbered 19 and with "carcanet" correctly spelled on p.72...

Wade (Thomas) Mundi et Cordis: De Rebus Sempiternis et Temporariis: Carmina. Poems and Sonnets., first edition, some scattered spotting, half-titl...

Tupper (Martin Farquhar) Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, first edition, presentation inscription "Laura Cornwallis, a kin...

Patmore (Coventry) Poems, first edition of the author's first book, signed presentation inscription from the author to Thomas Watts to half-title,...

Patmore (Coventry) Tamerton Church-Tower and Other Poems, "second" edition, Richard Garnett's copy with his ink ownership inscription to front fre...

Patmore (Coventry) Tamerton Church-Tower and Other Poems, "second" edition, 2 page A.L.s. from the author to Edmund Gosse discussing illustrations...

Patmore (Coventry) The Angel in the House. The Espousals, first edition, A.L.s. from the author to Edmund Gosse regarding illustrations by his dau...

Patmore (Coventry) The Angel in the House, second edition, signed presentation inscription "from the author". to Henry Acland on title, A.L.s. fro...

Patmore (Coventry) Odes, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Aubrey de Vere to Edward Dowden to title, lacking first f., some scat...

Patmore (Coventry) Principle in Art etc., first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Alfred Austin dated Jan 8 1890 to half...

NO RESERVE Moore (George) Aphrodite in Aulis, one of 900 copies signed by the author, title printed in red and black, original cream boards, gilt,...

Cornish imprints.- Hunt (Robert) The Mount's Bay; a Descriptive Poem, modern half calf, Penzance, 1829 § Martin (Alfred Tobias John) The Remains o...

Derby and Nottingham imprints.- Newman (Cardinal John Henry) Lyra Apostolica, first edition, half-title, original cloth, spine faded and lacking l...

East Anglian imprints.- [Abington (William James)], "Trinitarius". Pensive Musings on the Pleasures of Melancholy, lacking ?half-title, contempora...

Northern imprints.- Heywood (Thomas) The Earls of Derby, interleaved copy, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked retaining original backstri...

Provincial imprints.- [Kaye (Sir John William)] Poems and Fragments, first edition, signed by the author on title, occasional soiling, front free ...

Scottish imprints.- Galt (John) The Dream of Destiny; and other poems, half-title, original green cloth lettered in gilt, rebacked, extremities ch...

Scottish imprints.- MacQueen (Thomas) My Gloaming Amusements, ink notes in a contemporary hand regarding the author, original cloth-backed printed...

Sussex imprints.- Crocker (Charles) Kingly Vale and other poems, original cloth-backed boards, spine faded, Chichester, 1837; The Vale of Obscurit...

West Country imprints.- Gompertz (J.) Devon, A Poem, presentation inscription "from the author" to half-title, errata slip, nineteenth century cal...

Yorkshire imprints.- Holland (John) The Pleasures of Sight, original boards, paper label to spine, spine chipped at head, Sheffield, J.Blackwell, ...

Yorkshire imprints.- Jefferson (George) Theatrical Eccentricities, original stiff printed wrappers, wear to spine, lower cover becoming loose, [no...

[Spenser (Edmund)] The Shepheards Calender, woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrations and tail-pieces, E4 to end small tears at head, last 2f...

Parliamentarian Naval Captain.- Prideaux (Sir Edmund, attorney general, ran the postal servant for parliament, d. 1659), Rolle (John, MP, Turkey M...

First frigate built in England.- Pett (Peter, naval administrator and shipwright, b. 1610, d. in or before 1672) Letter signed to the Commissioner...

Cromwellian Admiralty Salvage Laws.- Godolphin (John, civil lawyer, 1617-78), Clerk (William, civil lawyer, d. 1655) & Cocke (Charles George, parl...

Voyage to the Gambia.- Holmes (Sir Robert, naval officer, c. 1622-92) Autograph Letter signed to Sir William Batten, 1p. with conjugate blank and ...

Voyage to Jamaica.- Petition of Henry Coleman boatswain of HMS "Great Guift" for payment, Document signed by Sir William Batten, Sir John Mennes a...

Committee of the Admiralty.- Shovell (Sir Cloudesley, naval officer, drowned in the ship Association off the Scilly Isles, bap. 1650, d . 1707) & ...

Plumtre [Plumptre] (Huntingdon, physician and Latin author, 1601-60) Legal case between Huntingdon Plumtre and Thomas Cowper, relating to Cowper a...

Choir book, 9 leaves (18pp.), manuscripts on vellum (6ff. from one work and 3ff. from another), historiated initials in blue and red ink/red ink, ...

Tobacco.- Rea (Augustin de la, Captain and Master at Buenos Aires) Razon de la Cargoa que conduze desde Buenos Ayres â los Reynos de España d Navi...

Scrap album.- Collection of letters, photographs and drawings, including: ALs from Charles Wyatt Orford (architect, c. 1823-67) giving an account ...

Art collector & artist.- Willis (Thomas, tea dealer and art collector, of 13 Leinster Terrace, Hyde Park, 1836-1916) & Ethel Mary Willis, artist a...

Suffragette Postcards.- A collection of 49 assorted colour comic postcards, including: "A Suffragette and a Fooligan"; "I don't Want a Vote but I ...

Quinziano Stoa (Giovanni Francesco) De Syllabarum quantitae epographiae sex, collation: A-B8, C6, A-Q8, R10; [22], cxxxviii ff., woodcut portrait ...

Philoponus (Joannes) Contra Proclum de Mundi Aeternitate, collation: A4, B-L8; [84] leaves, large woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut decor...

Theophylactus, Archbishop of Ochrida. In quatuor Euangelia Enarrationes, collation: a6 A-Z8, a-c8 d-e4, Cologne, [House of Quentel], 1542 bound wi...

Theophylactus (Archbishop of Ochrida) Hermēneia eis ta tessara Euangelia [graece], collation: *4 α-ω, αα-ηη6 θθ4 ιι-ωω6 Α6, Greek type, title with...

Theophrastus. De causis plantarum liber primus, collation: A-D4, E6; 21, [2] ff., Greek text only, woodcut initials, occasional light soiling, som...

Pindar. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-z8, aa-nn8, A-Z8, AA-DD8; 576; 432 pp., woodcut device on both titles, sig.y-z...

Death .- Guichard (Claude) Funerailles, & diverses manieres d'ensevelir des Rommains, Grecs, & autres nations, tant anciennes que modernes, first...

Isidorus Pelusiota. Epistolarum amplius mille ducentarum libri tres, 2 parts in 1, collation: †4 ††4 A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 Aaa6 Bbb4 A-C6; a6 A6 B4 C-I6 K4,...