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
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
[Place of publication not identified]: Ba’ath Arab Socialist Party, 1965. Staplebound wraps. Stapled paper wraps, 175pp, tables, illustrations. A clean copy that has had a paper repair to the foot of the spine. The front free endpaper has torn a little at the two staple points as a result of... 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, 1963. Folio, 18 colour facsimile leaves and 5 pp of commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Limited to 480 copies, this is number 400. There were also 20 copies showing progressive stages in the stencil work and 26 copies lettered and reserved for Paul Mellon and members of... More
London: Trianon Press, 1974. Folio, 25 colour plates, 8 proofs, and commentary at the end, eight colour facsimile trial proofs, twelve pages of text plus an extra suite of fourteen states of plate B, collotype profs, and a matching guide-sheet and stencil. Original full brown morocco, slipcase. #6 of 32... More
Manchester Etching Workshop, 1983. 2 vols., large and smaller 4to, the larger bound in full red morocco, the smaller loose in wrappers as issued, both enclosed in brown cloth folding boxes, new as issued. With an additional folder containing one facsimile plate and the Viscomi text. Some of the corner... More
London: Bensley for Cromek, 1808. William Blake. First Folio. Some scuffing and wear. Folio, xiv, 36, (4) pp. marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with an etched portrait frontispiece after Phillips printed on India paper and an etched title-page (both lightly foxed), typographical title page, dedication to the Queen, List of Subscribers, the... More
London: Trianon Press, 1977. Quarter morocco. quarto, 155pp., 52 plates. Original quarter brown morocco, slipcase. Bookplate for Elaine Harwood Klemen at the front pastedown. Limited to 26 copies for the Trustees, of a total edition of 562 copies, with this being 94. The definitive work on all known portraits of... More
London: Commissioned by John Linnell, 1838 or 1892. Large folio, fine, clear uniform impression on India paper, mounted on wove paper. Brown stain on rock under the seated official. Incomplete at the time of his death, Blake’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy, commissioned by John Linnell, are some of his... More
Perth: Paragon Printing and Publishing, 1910. First Edition. Octavo. Title page, List of Committee members, 252pp, 37 plates. Bottom right corner of front cover is marked (see photo). Bookplate pasted onto front ep pastedown reads Ex Libris Forward Athol Marsden Douglas. Three quarter red leather. All edges speckled red. Original... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1963. First American Edition. Quarto, with more than 1,250 illustrations including 53 tipped-in full-page colour Plates, 30 x 22 x 6.6 cm, 775 pages, weight 3.32 kg, hard cover, colour dust jacket with image of At Cock’s Crow 1944 on front and full-page b/w photograph... More
London: 1791. Three quarter calf. Quarto. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, pp 87. The boards are in good condition, a little bumped at the the corners, and the front board is completely detached. The name "Charlotte Georgina Bastard, November 15th, 1877", is inscribed on the front ep paste-down. Minor... 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
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
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969. Australian Facsimile Editions No. 33, in two volumes. Octavo, Vol. I: xii 521 pages, engraved Frontispiece, List of Charts, List of b&w Illustrations, Errata to Vols. I and II, three foldout maps, one two-colour, at end; Vol. II: viii 543 pages, engraved Frontispiece... 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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902. The Complete Works of John Lyly now for the first time Collected and Edited from the Earliest Quartos with Life, Bibliography, Essays, Notes and Index, three octavo hardcover volumes frontispiece to each volume and b/w illustrations of title pages and other illustrations, critical apparatus and footnotes... 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
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1937. Norman Lindsay. Folio, 32cm x 24.5cm, quarter cloth over gilt lettered textured boards, 60pp., tipped in illustrations and vignettes by Lindsay. Mark on top board where previous seller's price sticker was affixed, top corner gently pushed, a slight darkening of the linen toward the foot of... More
London and Paris: Trianon Press, 1964. Quarter morocco. Quarto, [103] pp. With 32 plates. Top edge gilt. Original quarter morocco, marbled boards, matching slipcase, fine with a few small scuffs to the spine and the barest hint of sunning. Limited to 525 numbered copies bound in quarter morocco and signed... 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
Various: Various, 1471 - 1681. Custom. Twenty leaves in very good to fine condition as described below. Each leaf mounted with a grey card border and inserted in a portfolio. Some striking woodcuts and hand supplied capitals. 1. de Lyra, Nicholas. Postilla Super Totam Bibliam. Rome: Sweynheym and Pannartz. 18 Nov... More
London: Constable & Co., 1927. Folio, gilt-lettered blue buckram , top edge gilt, 45 leaves of plates with accompanying title leaf, each a fine photogravure reproduction of a Norman Lindsay etching. Spine is sunned and some insect damage to cover. Foxing throughought is especially prominent on first three plates and... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Presentation Copy. Octavo, xvi, 328pp. Light blue linen covers, lacks dust jacket. Title in gilt on the spine. “F. Foster Park Farm Cottage, Southwold” on front paste down. “To Miss Foster, In gratitude from Una Pope-Hennessy April 1940” inscribed on ffep. Loosely... More