Books & Ephemera

Edward Wadsworth: 'The Black Country. With an Introduction by Arnold Bennett', London, The Ovid Press, 1920, limited edition, one of 450 (500) cop...

(John Nash), Jeremy Greenwood: 'The Wood-Engravings of John Nash. A Catalogue of the wood-engravings, early lithographs, etchings and engravings o...

(Essex House Press.) C.R. Ashbee: 'American Sheaves and English Seed Corn. Being a series of addresses delivered in the United States, 1900-1901',...

(Fleece Press.) Ronald Blythe: 'First Friends: Paul and Bunty, John and Christine - and Carrington', Denby Dale, The Fleece Press, 1997, limited e...

(Gregynog Press, Blair Hughes-Stanton.) John Milton: 'Four Poems: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas', Newtown, The Gregynog Press, 1933, l...

Robert Gibbings; Golden Cockerel Press: 'Fourteen Wood Engravings by Robert Gibbings from Drawings Made on Orient Line Cruises', printed by the ar...

(Edward McKnight Kauffer, The Nonesuch Press), Robert Burton "Democritus Junior": 'The Anatomy of Melancholy', London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925, l...

(Whittington Press.) Enid Bagnold: 'Letters to Frank Harris, & other friends', edited R.P. Lister, Andoversford, The Whittington Press, 1980, limi...

(Golden Cockerel Press.) Christopher Sandford; Owen Rutter: 'Pertelote: A Sequel to Chanticleer -- Being a Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Pre...

(Typography, Private Press), Martyn Ould & Martyn Thomas: 'The Fell Revival. Describing the casting of the Fell types at the University Press, Oxf...

Eric Ravilious; J.M. Richards (ed.): 'The wood engravings of Eric Ravilious.', Lion and Unicorn Press, 1972, limited edition, number 110 of 500 co...

Eric Ravilious; Jeremy Greenwood: 'Ravilious Engravings', Woodbridge, Wood Lea Press, 2008, limited edition (one of 800 copies), 287,[1]pp, profus...

Eric Gill, eleven books and booklets relating to him, including Speaight: 'The Life of Eric Gill', NY, 1966, 1st edition, b/w ills., orig. cloth s...

Roy Fisher; Ronald King: 'The Half-Year Letters: an alphabet book', Guildford, Circle Press, 1983, limited edition (300), 54 pp. accordian style b...

Eric Gill: 'First Nudes', London, Nevile Spearman, 1954, 1st edition, introduction by John Rothenstein, 24 illustrations of life drawings by Eric ...

A small collection of illustrated, typography, private press etc, including Christopher Skelton (edited): 'Eric Gill: The Engravings', London, The...

A small collection of poetry, plays, typography & private press related, culinary and wine related, including BEatrice L. Warde: 'Bombed but Unbea...

Edward Bawden (illustrated); Ambrose Heath, 6 culinary titles: 'Good Food', London, Faber, 1932, 1st edition, Bawden illustrated title page and b/...

Edward Bawden (illustrated); Ambrose Heath: 'Good Sweets', London, Faber, 1937, 1st edition, b/w frontis by Edward Bawden, original pictorial pape...

(Edward Bawden), Peyton Skipwith: 'Entertaining À La Carte. Edward Bawden and Fortnum & Mason', Norwich, Mainstone Press, 2007, limited edition (1...

(Private Press, Typography, Printing.) A folder containing 50+ assorted Private Press prospectuses, announcements, printed booklets and other item...

George Buday (1907-1990), a collection of prints, wood engravings, photographs etc, including 'Jeanne d'Angleterre', wood engraved print, pencil s...

Elizabeth Belloc, Angela Latham (1894-1980) A half-length portrait of Elizabeth Belloc - thus titled bottom left - by Angela Latham. Oil on board,...

Gerhard Richter; David Breskin (ed.) and others: 'Richter 858: Eight Abstract Pictures', San Francisco, The Shifting Foundation/SFMOMA, 2002, limi...

A collection of 50+ assorted modern art books and catalogues, good quantity modern and 20th Century British art & sculpture etc, including Henry M...

Edward Seago, 23 exhibition catalogues 1970's-2010's, comprising Richard Green (7), Portland Gallery (6), Taylor Gallery (6), Marlborough (3), and...

Edward Seago, 4 titles: 'The Country Scene', London, Collins, 1937, 1st edition, 42 mounted colour plates by Seago as called for, all tissue guard...

Edward Seago (1910-1974), 4 titles by or relating to him, Julian Dowdeswell & Heather Lane: 'The Antarctic paintings of Edward Seago', Cambridge, ...

Paul Gauguin, a collection of 17 assorted titles on Paul Gauguin, including 'Gauguin and the Origins of Symbolism', Philip Wilson, 2004, profusely...

The Limited Editions Club, 6 various volumes, comprising 'The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane', Oxford: Printed for the Limited Editions Club...

(Pre-Raphaelite, Romanticism, Neo Romanticism.) A collection of sixteen assorted art related titles, including 'Pictures from the Artist's Studio:...

Ronald Searle: 'Forty Drawings', Cambridge University Press, 1946, 1st edition, pp[ii] + 40 monochrome plates, intro. Frank Kendon, 4to, original ...

Edward Ardizzone, 3 titles illustrated by and/or about him: 'A Ring of Bells. Poems of John Betjeman. Introduced and Selected by Irene Slade', Lon...

Clare Leighton, 5 titles with wood engraved illustrations by her or by her, comprising Thornton Wilder: 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey', London, Long...

Clare Leighton: 'Four Hedges. A Gardener's Chronicle', L, Victor Gollancz, 1935, 1st edition, signed piece mounted on card and loosely inserted, 8...

Clare Leighton (1898-1989): 'The Farmer's Year. A Calendar of English Husbandry', London, Collins, 1933, 1st edition, wood engraved vignette title...

(Ukiyo-e, Floating world, Japanese Art.) Three large folio works published by Taschen, all profusely illustrated throughout, comprising 'Japanese ...

A Japanese hand silkscreen print, or "sogara yuzen", the image depicting traditional Japanese symbols including cherry blossom, cranes etc, image ...

A Japanese hand silkscreen print, the image depicting traditional Japanese scene of warriors etc. in procession, image 63 x 94cm, rolled

(Japan); Hasegawa (Takejiro): 'Calendar for 1923', Tokyo, Hasegawa, [1923]. Miniature book 5.8 x 7.2 cms. Crepe paper, 10 illustrated leaves, fold...

Ryukatei Tanekazu: 'Shiranai Monogatari', c.1855, [20]pp, Japanese woodcut illustrations throughout, original stab bound stitched crepe paper wrap...

Takejiro Hasegawa; Basil Hall Chamberlain: 'Aino Fairy Tales No. 1. The Hunter in Fairy-Land', Tokyo, Kobunsha, and Boston, Ticknor, 1887, 1st edi...

'P'ang Tao (Flat Peaches) Eight Fairies Festival Held on the 3rd of the 3rd Lunar Month in Honor of the Goddess Hsi Wang mu.', [nd], c.1930, 10 ha...

Edwin Landseer: 'The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer R.A., Illustrated by Forty-Four steel engravings and about two hundred woodcuts...with a history ...

Ten assorted 19th Century illustrated volumes, including Gustave Doré (ill.): 'The Days of Chivalry: Or, the Legend of Croquemitaine', translated ...

Alberto Sangorski (illustrated): 'Morte d'Arthur. A Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson', London, Chatto & windus, 1912, 23pp + colophon, illustrated lea...

Walter Crane, 6 titles: 'Echoes of Hellas. The Tale of Troy & the Story of Orestes from Homer & Aeschylus', London, Marcus Ward, 1887, 1st edition...

Arthur Rackham (illustrated); Thomas Ingoldsby [i.e. Richard Barham]: 'The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels', London, Heinemann, 1920, 24 ti...

Arthur Rackham (illustrated); J.M. Barrie: 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens', Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, 50 tipped in colour plates by Arthur Rackh...

Daniel Defoe: 'The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', London, Harrison & Co., 1781, 2 volumes in 1, 291pp, continuous pagination, 7 engraved...

Richard Doyle (illustrated); Brothers Grimm: 'The Fairy Ring: A New Collection of Popular Tales, Translated from the German of Jacob and Wilhelm G...

E.V.B. [Eleanor Vere Boyle]: 'Child's Play', London, Sampson Low, 1859, colour illustrated title page + 16 chromolithograph colour plates as calle...

Edward Burne-Jones (illustrated); Archibald Maclaren: 'The Fairy Family: A Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales illustrating the Fairy Mythology of ...

Two Nineteenth Century Juvenile literature works, each alphabet books/nursery rhymes with coloured plates: 'The Coloured Album for Children. Conta...

Rudyard Kipling: 'Captain's Courageous', London, Macmillan, 1897, 1st edition, b/w frontis & ills. by I.W. Taber as called for, original pictorial...

Rudyard Kipling, 2 titles: 'The Jungle Book', London, Macmillan, 1894, 1st edition, engraved frontis + full page and in text illustrations as call...

A.A. Milne, 2 titles: 'Now We Are Six', London, Methuen, 1927, 1st deluxe edition, b/w ills. by E.H. Shepard as called for, original pictorial lea...

Enid Blyton, 5 'Famous Five' series titles, all 1st editions published London, Hodder & Stoughton, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, all i...

Enid Blyton, 2 titles: 'Five have a Mystery to Solve', ill. Eileen Soper, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1962, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrap...

Enid Blyton: 'Five on Finniston Farm', ill. Eileen Soper, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1960, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (7s 6d price...