London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Special edition. No 36 of 50. Signed by the author. Octavo, 320pp, top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed.. Blonde leather, gilt title on green leather label to spine. Leather has minor marks and is aged to a pale yellow. Top of the label and bottom right... More
London: G. Routledge and Co. 1851, 1852. Volume bound in ¼ brown leather, binding tight, leather corners, lozenge pattern on spine with gilt rules and raised bands, gilt on black leather titles, marbled (combed) paper boards slightly abraded, a little fraying at edges, faded marbled edges of text pages, 616... More
London: Elder, Smith and co. 1851. Second Edition. Three quarter calf. Duodecimo (19 x 11cm), pp. vii, 267. Recased in three quarter gilt tooled tan leather over tan boards with recent eps. Slight spotting on the eps, very slight tanning to the edges if the leaves, one or two small stains... More
Full leather. A Grand Tour photo album containing 401 photographs taken predominately in Italy, England and Egypt with some photos from Adelaide and on board the SS Caprera as it crossed the Indian Ocean. Places visited include Harrow, Cambridge, Igtham, Cantebury, Fawley, Henley, Bellagio, Ravenna, Lake Orta, San Gimignano, Mentone... More
Europe, early 20th Century. Black and white photo postcard of young woman lying in state in an open coffin covered by fine lace netting and surrounded by mourners. Two young women of a similar age to the deceased hold a massive bouquet of flowers. An older woman wearing a head... More
London: 1978. Oblong folio, original half brown morocco folding case, lettered in gilt. The edition consists of 440 copies printed on Lana Rag paper, this copy being no.17 of the top edition of 18 (numbered I-XVIII) which include a recent restrike of one of the original copperplates, Plate 6: “Circle... More
London: Trianon Press, 1969. Folio, 17 colour plates, 9 pp. of commentary plus extra material. Full brown morocco over boards with slipcase. One of the rarest de luxe editions. Limited to 20 de luxe copies this is inscribed “special publisher’s copy”. With additional proof sheets, progressive plates, original stencil, etc.... More
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London: Trianon Press & Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1951 & 1954. Cloth. Small quarto, 116 text, errata, 100 facsimile pp. [and] Small quarto, xv, 264 pp. Original cloth with gilt lettering and dust jacket. The dust jacket of Jerusalem is price-clipped with a tiny 1mm chip on... More
London: Trianon Press, 1971. Quarter calf. Small folio, 72 pages, with 16 colour facsimile leaves, suites of progressive plates, and 116 monochrome illustrations. Marbled boards, morocco spine, slipcase, internally fine. Spine is lightly sunned with a small stain. Limited to 28 copies so inscribed and signed by Geoffrey Keynes (this... More
London: Bensley for Ackermann, 1813 [i.e. 1870]. William Blake. Quarto, (2), liv, 42 pp. With a portrait frontispiece, etched titlepage, typographical title page, dedication to the Queen, list of subscribers, biographical sketch of Blair, the poem and 11 plates with tissue guards. Gilt-stamped and blind-stamped and lettered cloth. Top edge... More
London: 1821. 2 vols., small 8vo, xii (lacking vii/viii), 12, xxiv ( lacking i - iv), 214 pp; [I], [215]-592 pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, and 230 illustrations including 17 woodcuts and 6 engraved plates by Blake, and four other designs by Blake engraved by others. Original... More
London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. A foxed copy. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his finest and most affecting inventions... More
Adelaide: South Australian Library Board, 1967. London: Richard Bentley, 1834). Hardcover, gold lettered spines, boards bound in blue vinyl. Vol. I: xv 441 pages, engraved Frontispiece, Half title, Title, Contents , 21 Chapters, b&w diagrams in text, Note. Vol. II: viii 428 pages, engraved Frontispiece, Half title, Title, Contents... More
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA: Symposium Press, 1984. Produced at the Institute for the Book Arts, University of Alabama, designed by Gabriel Rummonds, text handset in Monotype Van Dijck, printed on Mohawk Superfine, 31.3 x 20.5 cm, 54 pages plus Colophon. Poems by participants in the 11th Alabama Symposium on English and... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. First Nonesuch edition. Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey translated by Alexander Pope, two royal octavo volumes, The Iliad 927 pages, The Odyssey 757 pages, with parallel texts in English and Greek. Both volumes are handsomely and fully bound in niger morocco, illustrated with decorative... More
Melbourne: Anderson, Gowan Pty Ltd. n.d. Staplebound wraps. With Compliments | The British Imperial Oil Co. Ltd. | Distributors of Shell Products Throughout | Australia and New Zealand. Wholly set up and printed in Australia by Anderson, Gowan Pty. Ltd. 253 Lonsdale St., Melbourne. No date. Quarto, 16pp., 6 colour... More
London: Steven Austen, 1735. First English Language Edition. Full calf. Octavo, 20cm x13cm, pp vi, 309, 11 folding plates, portrait frontis. Lacks first two blanks and final page of Advertisements. ESTC:T92649 New eps, some offsetting from the diagrams, and the publishing date has been tampered with in pen to read MCCCXXXV... More
Sydney: Hordern House, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 400, limited to 2000 copies, contains 24 colour plates and over 100 monochrome plates. One of 2000 printed. More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Octavo, recased in blue boards, pp [vii] [351]; 3 pages of Statistics; 40 pp advertisements; 3 maps (4th map missing); 8 plates incl frontis. LACKS TITLE PAGE. In very good condition except for missing title page and fourth map. Last two pages of... More
London: Addey and Co | George Routledge adn Co. 1861 | 1853. Three quarter calf. Jules Gérard. Lion Hunting and Sporting Life in Algeria. London: Addey and Co., Henrietta Street, Covent Garden., 1861. Third Edition. BOUND WITH What We Did in Australia: Being the Practical Experience of Three Clerks, In... More
Wien-Budapest: K.U.K. Kriegsarchiv. First Thus. Custom made solander box. Verlag “Österreich-Ungarn in Waffen”, 1916. 200 photomechanical prints measuring 19cm x 24.5cm mounted on sheets 36cm x 44cm. Four portfolios (50 images each) devoted to a different battle area and accompanied by a booklet. Mappe 1: In den Karrpathen (Carpathia). Mappe... More
Sydney: ETT Imprint, 1988. Quarto, cloth bound boards, 80pp, illustrated by Shead. With 'News from Brindabella' (September 1996) loosely inserted and an inscription to "For Alec" from the binder Robin Tait. Corners sharp, clean throughout, some barely discernable scuff marks to top board. Limited to 100 copies signed by the... More
Brisbane: A. Green, 2009. Cloth. Facsimile 2009 prepared by A Green, Brisbane, Qld. Limited to 400 numbered copies of which this is No.6. Forward by Liet - General Sir Harry Chauvel, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. From the original published by Hassell Press, Adelaide, 1924. 22cm x 15cm. 206pp. Photographs and appendices. Honours... More
Canberra: The Australian National University, 1965. First edition. Hardcover with mustard and black dust-jacket, approx 15cm x 23 cm, 72pp including index. Dust jacket price clipped and with 4mm chip to top front cover near spine. This collaborative effort was the first publication for both poets and won the 1965 Grace... More
London & Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, n.d. (1858). Full calf. In Two Volumes Vol. 1: Preface, indicating that this edition was printed in 1858 as the first revision (by Robert Carruthers of Inverness) of the first edition of 1843, xx 812 pages, List of c. 180 b&w illustrations, Contents... More