Books & Manuscripts

Shakespeare Head Press The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928-9. One of 350 sets on paper, 4to, original...

Cresset Press Paradise Lost [and:] Paradise Regain'd The Poet John Milton. [Oxford: at the Shakespeare Head Press for the] Cresset Press, 1931. O...

Foulis, T.N. - Edinburgh Publishing House A very large collection of books published by the press Over 1000 books, including: Brown, Dr John. Jee...

Cruikshank, George The Bottle, in eight plates London: Published for the Artist by David Bogue, [n.d.] Folio, 8 loose plates in original wrappers...

Cruikshank, George Table Book, a complete set of signed proofs Complete set of Proofs of the 133 Woodcuts to George Cruikshank's Table Book taken...

Harrison, Florence, illustrator - Christina Rossetti Poems London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1910. 4to, number 74 of 350 copies signed by the illu...

Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham 4 illustrated works Dulac, Edmund, illustrator. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d.] 4t...

Rackham, Arthur, illustrator - The Brothers Grimm Little Brother & Little Sister London: Constable & Co., 1917. 4to, number 52 of 525 copies sign...

W. Heath Robinson (1872-1944) Coal Mining, Printing Block Patent spring coal cutter for thin seams. Original metal printing block, 21 x 13cm [c.1...

Rackham, Arthur, illustrator - Thomas Ingoldsby The Ingoldsby Legends London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. 4to, number 146 of 560 copies signed by Arth...

Rackham, Arthur, illustrator Undine [and] Aesop's Fables De la Motte Fouqué. Undine. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 4to, number 660 of one thou...

Fine bindings 38 volumes, including bindings by Riviere and Bedford Salzmann, C.G. Elements of Morality, for the use of children... London: J. Jo...

Bauwens, M., et al. Les Affiches Etrangeres Illustrées Paris, 1897. 4to, 67 colour lithographs (including two double-page plates) and 19 monochro...

Rackham, Arthur, illustrator - Thomas Ingoldsby The Ingoldsby Legends London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. 4to, number 116 of 560 copies signed by Arth...

Rackham, Arthur, illustrator - William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream London: William Heinemann, 1908. 4to, number 311 of 400 copies signe...

Rackham, Arthur [The Ring of the Niblung:] The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie [and:] Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner. Transl...

Rackham, Arthur Book of Pictures With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First edition, deluxe issue, ...

Rackham, Arthur, illustrator - William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream London: William Heinemann, 1908. 4to, number 332 of 400 copies signe...

Rackham, Arthur Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 1130 copies signed and ...

Rackham, Arthur, illustrator - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 4to, number 29 of 500 copies signed ...

Milne, A.A. and Ernest H. Shepard The Christopher Robin Verses, [with autograph letter signed from E.H. Shepard] London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., [19...

Milne, A.A. and E.H. Shepard (1879-1976) 4 books inscribed by Shepard Milne, A.A. - E.H. Shepard, illustrator. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen &...

Rowling, J.K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard Children's High Level Group, 2008. First collector's edition, first impression in faux-leather covers ...

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression hardback with the numberline 10 9...

Rowling, J. K. (1965-) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression, hardback issue, signed ...

Rowling, J. K. (1965-) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First deluxe edition, fourth impression, signed by the a...

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 4 editions Fitzgerald, Edward, translator - Willy Pogany, illustrator. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: George G. Harra...

Doyle, Richard In Fairy Land A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. With a Poem by William Allingham. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. S...

Grahame, Kenneth The Wind in the Willows London: Methuen and Co., [1908]. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, original green cl...

Carroll, Lewis, Samuel Pepys and Robert William Billings Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [bu...

Chapbooks - Yorkshire Complete series of chapbooks by J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co., Limited, Otley 16 works in 1 volume, 8vo (16.2 x 9.4cm),...

Chapbooks Collection of Scottish chapbooks All 18mo, 24mo or 32mo (but similar dimensions, approx. 10 x 6cm to 10.5 x 6.8cm), original printed wr...

Children's Books A 19th and 20th century collection Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. First edition, 8v...

Children's and illustrated books Collection of works Rackham, Arthur, illustrator - Richard Wagner. The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie. London: William...

Tolkien, J. R. R. [The Lord of the Rings] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1...

Wells, H.G. The Time Machine London: William Heinemann, 1895. 8vo, First British edition, wrappers replaced with paper and red cloth spine with o...

Christie, Agatha The Murder at the Vicarage London: published for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, 1930. First edition, first imp...

Woolf, Virginia The Years London: Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 469 pp., original green cloth, with the dust jacket ...

Larkin, Philip High Windows London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition, third impression, signed by the author on the title-page in black ink, ...

Hardy, Thomas 4 works Far From the Madding Crowd. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1874. 2 volumes, first edition, first issue in book form, 9 plates ...

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. First edition, sixth impression; 8vo, [6] 306 [2] pp., original blue cloth...

Mitchell, J. Leslie [pseudonym: Lewis Grassic Gibbon] (1901-1935) Spartactus London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1933. First edition, first impression, ...

Jones, David In Parenthesis seinyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu. London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1936. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original cl...

Forster, E.M. 4 books from his library Landells, E. The Boy's Own Toy-Maker: a Practical Illustrated Guide to the Useful Employment of Leisure Ho...

Graves, Robert Good-Bye To All That London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition, first issue retaining Siegfried Sassoon's poem at pp. 341-3, 8vo,...

Sassoon, Siegfried Group of works by Sassoon and books from his library Sassoon, Siegfried. The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First...

Thomas, Edward Group of works Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915. First edition, first impression, 4to, original blue clot...

Thomas, Edward (his copy) Poems by Lady Margaret Sackville London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1901. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 120 pp...

Owen, Wilfred Poems With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition, first impression, 4to, ix [3] 33 pp....

[Manning, Frederic] The Middle Parts of Fortune, Somme and Ancre, 1916 London: Piazza Press, issued to subscribers by Peter Davies, 1929. First e...

War novels and poetry Collection of works Waugh, Evelyn. [Sword of Honour trilogy:] Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender....

First World War poets and novelists Collection of works Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916. First edition, first...

Beardsley, Aubrey, and Others The Yellow Book An Illustrated Quarterly. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-7. First edition, 13 volumes, 4to...

Detective and adventure fiction Collection of novels in the dust jackets, 1920s and later all 8vo, original cloth, with the dust jackets, apparen...

Spy and adventure novels Collection of works in the dust jackets, 1920s-40s, many with exotic settings all 8vo, original cloth, with the dust jac...

Aviation fiction Collection of aviation adventure novels, mainly 1930s 30 works, 8vo, all in original cloth, with the dust jackets, references to...

Nautical fiction Collection of nautical adventure novels, mainly 1930s all 8vo, original cloth, with the dust jackets, references to Hubin, Crime...

Crime fiction Collection of American crime, detective and adventure novels in the dust jackets, 1910s-50s all 8vo, original cloth, with the dust ...

Trevor, Ralph [pseudonym of James Reginald Wilmot] Collection of detective novels in the dust jackets, including 2 inscribed to Dennis Wheatley L...

Binns, Ottwell [pseudonym: 'Ben Bolt'] Collection of mystery novels London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1924-37. Apparently first editions unless ...