Books and Works on Paper

Bible, English. The Bible..., 2 parts in 1, lacking title to OT but with NT title dated 1597 and with woodcut border bound at beginning, double co...

Plutarch. The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals, translated by Philemon Holland, first edition in English, title with woodcut head-piece, ...

Bible, English. The Bible..., 2 parts in 1, Geneva-Tomson-Junius version, with initial leaf (blank but for 'A' & woodcut) and 2A1 (often lacking),...

Bible, English. The Bible..., 2 parts in 1, engraved pictorial general title and full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden to verso of A4 (both crop...

Raleigh (Sir Walter) A History of the World, with initial 'The Minde of the Front' leaf, engraved additional allegorical title by R.Elstrack dated...

Speed (John) The History of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, second edition, engraved architectural tit...

R[ogers] (D[aniel]) A Practicall Catechisme, second edition, contemporary calf, spine worn and defective, [STC 21166], by T.Cotes, for John Bellam...

Homer. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts in his Iliads, and Odysses, engraved pictorial general title by William Hole with portrait of Ch...

Bible, English.- Book of Common Prayer (The)...with the Psalter, or Psalmes of David, bound without the final blank, 1638; The Holy Bible containi...

Scott (Sir Walter).- [Walker (Clement)] Relations and Observations, Historicall and Politick upon the Parliament begun Anno Dom. 1640, 2 parts in ...

Fuller (Thomas) The Church-History of Britain, first edition, 4 engraved plates (one double-page) and folding plan of Cambridge (creased at edges)...

[Sparrow (Anthony)] A Rationale upon the Book of Common Prayer, first edition, engraved frontispiece by W.Hollar, interleaved throughout, near con...

Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The), engraved portrait of Charles II, title with ornamental border, engraved plates, some trimmed and mounted o...

Restoration Binding.- Patrick (Simon) The Christian Sacrifice, third edition, engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and plate, with va...

Bible, English. The Holy Bible..., 2 parts in 1, without the Apocrypha, by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1678 bou...

Quakers.- Barclay (Robert) An apology for the True Christian Divinity, as the same is held forth and preached by the People called, in Scorn, Quak...

Quakers.- Pennington (Isaac) The Works of the Long-mournful and sorely-distressed...of that Despised People, called Quakers..., first collected ed...

Bible, English. Holy Bible (The)..., 2 parts in 1, without the Apocrypha, engraved title, 1683 bound with Whole Book of Psalms (The), 1683, togeth...

Aesop. Fables, of Æsop and other Eminent Mythologists, edited by Sir Roger L'Estrange, engraved portrait of L'Estrange by R. White after Geoffrey ...

Milton (John) The Poetical Works, engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 engraved plates by Michael Burghers or Peter Paul Bouche to Paradise Lost, ti...

Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Works of Virgil: containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æeneis, translated by John Dryden, engraved frontispiece by ...

Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Works..., translated by John Dryden, 3 vol. third edition, titles in red & black, engraved portraits and plates, vol....

Homer. The Iliad, 6 vol., half-title to vol.1 only, list of subscribers including Joseph Addison, William Congreve, Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Chris...

Ovidius Naso (Publius) Metamorphoses, additional engraved pictorial title and 15 plates only (of 16), also lacking portrait, frontispiece and titl...

Pope (Alexander) The Works, 2 vol., first quarto edition, half-titles, titles in red & black with engraved vignette, engraved head- & tail- pieces...

[Prior (Matthew] Poems on Several Occasions, ?subscriber's issue, engraved frontispiece and title vignette after Cheron, engraved head- & tail-pie...

Thucydides. De Bello Poloponnesiaco libri octo, edited by Henri Estienne & John Hudson, parallel Greek and Latin text, half-title, engraved fronti...

Quakers & Shakers.- Bownas (Samuel) A Description of the Qualifications necessary to a Gospel Minister, first edition, Joseph Fry's copy with his ...

Congreve (William) The Works, 3 vol., engraved plates, contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt, J. & R.Tonson, 1753 § Massinger (Philip) The Plays...

Bible, English. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; With the Apocrypha, 2 parts in 1, engraved frontispiece and 10 plates, w...

Shakespeare (William) The Dramatick Writings..., 20 vol. including 2 vol. Prolegomena, large paper edition, engraved portraits and plates, occasio...

Milton (John) The Poetical Works, with a Life of the Author by William Hayley, 3 vol., no half-titles, with 3 engraved portraits of Milton and 28 ...

Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), comprising The Old & New Testaments and The Apocrypha, 8 vol., engraved dedication, list of subscribers, 2 engr...

Bindings.- Homer. The Iliad, 3 vol., 1802; The Odyssey, 2 vol. in 4, 1802, together 7 vol., translated by Alexander Pope, plates, contemporary rus...

Arabian Nights (The), translated by Rev. Edward Forster, 5 vol., engraved plates after Robert Smirke, some with slight foxing, vol.1 with light wa...

Bible, English. The Holy Bible, 9 vol., large paper copy, contemporary diced calf, gilt, rebacked with gilt spines, John Reeves, 1802; another edi...

Shakespeare (William).- Boydell (John & Josiah) [Collection of plates to 'The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare'], 2 engraved portraits and 95 plates ...

Shakespeare (William) The Plays, 10 vol., engraved portrait, wood-engraved title vignettes, portrait foxed and offset onto title, light browning a...

Shakespeare (William) The Plays, from the corrected text of Johnson and Steevens, 6 vol., 22 engraved plates by Heath after Stothard, Hamilton and...

Hakluyt (Richard) Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels and Discoveries, of the English Nation, 5 vol., one of 250 sets from an edition of 325,...

Wordsworth (William) The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, first edition, without half-title and errata, ink signature to head of title, ...

Bindings.- Lardner (Nathaniel) The Works, 5 vol., engraved portrait, browning, Sarsden bookplate, contemporary polished calf, spines gilt, 1815 § ...

Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote, translated by Charles Jarvis, 4 vol., with ink inscriptions of H.N.Coleridge ...

Bindings.- Paine (Thomas) The Political Writings, 2 vol., Solomon King, 1830; The Theological Works, William Carver, 1830, together 3 vol., unifor...

Fielding (Henry) The Works, edited by Leslie Stephen, 10 vol., contemporary half blue morocco, by Macmillan & Bowes of Cambridge, spines gilt, t.e...

Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas J. Wise, 19  parts bound in 6 vol., one of 1,000 copies, illustrations and decorations by Wal...

[Evans (Marian)], "George Eliot". The Works, 21 vol., 'Standard Edition', occasional foxing, some vol. with margins a little cockled by damp, cont...

Bindings.- Meynell (Alice, editor) The Flower of the Mind: A Choice among the best Poems, first edition, bound in crushed pale turquoise morocco, ...

[Humphries (Sydney, editor)] Disjecta, one of 40 specially bound copies, A.L.s. from the editor loosely inserted, original vellum, gilt, with yapp...

Proust (Marcel) Remembrance of Things Past [A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu], translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff & others, 7 vol. in 11, first Engl...

Joyce (James) Ulysses, fourth printing (second by Shakespeare & Company), errata leaf at end, a little browned, contemporary sheep-backed boards, ...

Kurth (Dr Willi, editor) The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, with an introduction by Campbell Dodgson, one of 500 copies, illustrations, mode...

Defoe (Daniel) A Tour Thro' London about the year 1725, one of 350 facsimile copies, this one of a few specially bound to order, portrait frontisp...

Shakespeare Head Press.- Homer. The Whole Works..., translated by George Chapman, 5 vol., one of 450 copies, wood-engravings by John Farleigh, ori...

Nonesuch Press.- Herodotus. The History..., translated by G. Rawlinson, wood-engraved illustrations by V. Le Campion, 9 maps at end, most double-p...

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, bound in crushed scarlet morocco, by Period Binders of Bath with their ticket, upper cover wi...

Calligraphic manuscript.- Donne (John) Holy Sonnets, illuminated manuscript in black ink with initials and decorations in gold and colours on "Eli...

O'Brian (Patrick) [Complete set of the Aubrey-Maturin novels], 20 vol., the last three first editions, the rest reprints, original boards with dus...

Early printing.- Lyra (Nicolaus de) [Postilla super totam Bibliam], single leaf from Proverbs (Chapters XV & XVI), double column, 72 lines, Gothic...

Nuremberg Chronicle.- [Index Leaves, from letter G to Z], 13ff. only, 64 lines in double column, gothic type, 15 eight-line initials in red and bl...