n.d. Recently recased in full calf and with new linen joins, this charming album has seventeen thick card leaves, each with a window for a photograph. Original endpapers and brass hinge have been preserved, and eight of the leaves have delightful borders of flowers and butterflies. Minor scattered foxing and..... More
![The Works of King Charles the Martyr [With Eikon Basilike]; With a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and other Papers concerning the Differences betwixt His said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament. With the History of His Life; as also of His Tryal and Martyrdome.](/pictures/thumb/225_EikonBasilike-1.JPG?v=1547507202)
London: Printed for Ric. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St Paul’s Church-Yard, 1687. Second Edition. Large folio (37 x c.25 cm), x, 724 pp. (720 4), double-Plate Frontispiece, at left the Royal Arms, at right engraving with central oval portrait of Charles I mounted and held by cherubs... More
2003. The Complete Costume History: From Ancient Times to the 19th Century, all Plates in Colour, reprinted as a single volume from a copy (owned by Michael Whiteway, London) of the first edition, Paris, 1888 (Taschen: Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, and Tokyo, 2003), 636 pages in large format... 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
Menston, Yorkshire: Printed in Facsimile by The Scolar Press, 1973. Commissioned by the Compton Fund for the inaugural Ilkley Literature Festival, Menston, West Yorkshire, 1973.The Portfolio consists of 25 signed facsimile holograph sheets, each 33.7 cm tall x 22 cm and an unpaginated stapled card covered pamphlet (24 pages) titled... More
London: Trianon Press, 1987. Folio, 22 facsimile hand coloured plates, loose in a folder as issued. Near fine (first plate has a bent corner) in a near fine (slightly rubbed) folder.. The publication of Blake's last completed set of engravings formed an appropriate finale to the William Blake Trust's scheme... More
Trianon Press, 1972. 3 volumes, folio, with 116 colour facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil colour, the text of the poems reproduced from copperplate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake’s pencilings and the tone of the paper. Marbled boards, morocco spines, slipcases, a fine set as issued. This... More
London: Henry Herringman, 1694. Recased in brown calf. Octavo (184 x 115 mm), [2] 254pp. Minor bruising to top of spine, browning to edges of text block. Bookplate inside front cover, new endpapers with moderate foxing, water marks to first 16 pages, rippling, small creases, light spotting and occasional pencil... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1838. Three quarter morocco. [Two volumes bound in one.] Octavo, [iv] (blanks, half title), xxxi, [i] (directions to the Binders), 367pp, [i] (colophon: "London: Printed by Stewart and Co, Old Bailey"), xii, 432, xxxiii - liv (Index, first page unnumbered).Three quarter morocco over maroon boards (recently re-furbished)... More
Hollywood: The Marcel Rodd Co., 1944. Cloth. With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Twelvemo, [8], 187pp, [3]. Red cloth covers with gilt title on top board and spine (a little dulled). Glassine wrapper in fine condition, corners sharp, slight lean, circular spot (1mm) on the top board. Small sticker on... More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. First Edition. Jacket designs by Sebastian Carter. Volume I: xxi 450 pages, Preface, Part One: Introduction to an Elusive Transformation, Part Two: Classical and Christian Traditions reoriented; Renaissance and Reformation Reappraised. Jacket illustration: Un Atelier Typographique, 16th century French manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Thus. First edition, one of 250 signed and numbered by the author. This is 110. 165pp., [4] biographical note and colophon. Cloth spine over illustrated boards. Signature Jones 'spiral' on p.159, underlining and marginalia on a few pages. Note at the end in... More
Sydney: Hordern House, 2007. Australian Maritime Museum Series No.6. One of 1000 copies bound in quarter tan kangaroo with speckled papered boards. Small quarto, frontispiece plate, pp 276; includes an introductory essay by Nigel Erskine, facsimile of original German Book followed by English translation. The German naturalist and philosopher Georg... 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
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2002. Folio, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 128, extensively illustrated, foreword by Edmund Capon. In a clamshell box lettered with design on the front panel, containing a similarly designed paper folio housing an original Fransella etching, Head, signed and limited to 100 copies. The deluxe edition limited to... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Hard cover, 540 pages, octavo (23.4 x 16 cm). Contents, List of [23] b/w Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 8 chapters, Conclusion, Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated dust jacket in dark green and black. Included at the rear of the volume is an article by the historian and... 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
Zurich/Sydney: Scalo/Art Gallery NSW, 2005. First Edition. Pictorial cover. Quarto (30.2 x 25.7 cm), (text in English), 504 pages, pictorial dust jacket, massive catalogue to the first major Retrospective Exhibition; Forewords by Edmund Capon and the curator Judy Annear (pp. 8-12); works in nine groups, 1974-2004, with brief authoritative texts;... More
London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1925. Cloth. Edited by John Major, eight original etchings by Damman on Japon Vellum and 74 wood engravings with tissue guards, frontispiece portrait of Izaak Walton, and portrait of Charles Cotton with tissue guard facing Part II title page; printed upon paper specially... More
Sydney: Hand-press of J. Kirtley, 1923. Norman Lindsay. First Edition. Folio, quarter-lambskin over papered boards. Limited to 210 copies but not all copies were made up. This in no. 180. With plain brown paper dust-jacket with title on paper label on the spine. With three original woodcuts by Norman Lindsay... More
London & Paris: Fisher, Son & Co, 1836. Full leather. Numerous engravings by W.H. Bartlett and Thomas Allom, etc. Large Quarto, approx. 27cm x 21 cm. Published in 3 volumes, each with its own Vignette Title page, maps & plates. Rebacked. Full black leather with gilt border to upper and lower... More
London: Printed by J.M. for John Williams at the Crown in Cross-Keys-Court in Little-Britain, 1676. Fourth Edition. Quarter calf. Foolscap folio, vi 398 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Pearson, frontispiece and title page with doubled-ruled borders in red, not ink smudged, title page vignette of Crown of Charles II. original... More
London: Clerc Smith, 1827. First Edition. Cardboard covers. Twelvemo, 22 x 13cm, contemporary stiff card boards, paper label to spine, hand-coloured frontispiece designed and engraved by Theodore Lane, one other hand coloured plate opposite p.12 as called for; xxii [1 leaf] 335pp. Almost Fine interior in Fair cover. Card covers bumped... More
London: J. walker, etc. 1812. Three quarter calf. Twelvemo, [1] Frontis, xxxv, 489pp. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled eps, frontispiece and tp vignette engraved by C. Heath after designs by T. Unwin. Sports a 2cm tear at the head of the spine, joints and boards rubbed, corners rounded... More
Surrey, England: Genesis/Hedley, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. [signed by] Peter Blake, Terry Doran, Marianne Faithful, Gerard Malanga, John Mayall, Larry Rivers, Carly Simon, Terry Southern, Bill Wyman, and Leonard Cohen. Tall octavo, 37 x 25.5cm, black Leather and yellow canvas, all edges dyed red, purple photo collage endpapers, 368pp, lavishly... More