Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Knight (Laura). A Book of Drawings, with a foreword by Charles Marriott and Descriptive Notes. John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1923, numbered limited ...

Viollet-Le-Duc (E.). On Restoration be E. Viollet-le-Duc and A Notice of his Works in Connection with the Historical Monuments of France, by Charl...

Christie's. Dumfries House, A Chippendale Commission, Volumes I and II. Christie's, 2007, two quarto auction catalogues for the sale, which was fa...

Chippendale (Thomas). The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director ….. Leeds: The Chippendale Society, 2005, numbered Subscribers Edition, limited t...

The Whittington Press. O’Connor (John), Knipton. A Leicestershire Village. The Whittington Press, 1996, numbered limited edition of 200, folio, il...

The Old Stile Press et al. Hardy (Thomas), Green Blades, Poems by Thomas Hardy. Old Stile Press, 2007, numbered limited edition of 200, illustrate...

Gill (Eric). The Engravings of Eric Gill. Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983, limited edition of 1350, folio, blind-stamped cloth, slipcase...

Incline Press. Eastman (Bert and Molly), Garden Relicts. Oldham: Incline Press, 2006, numbered limited edition of less than 150 copies, signed by ...

The Fleece Press. Lee (Brian) edit., Dearest Joana: A Selection of Joan Hassall’s Lifetime Letters & Art. Denby Dale: Fleece Press, [2000], limite...

Wain (Louis). Louis Wain's Annual 1913. John F. Shaw, mounted colour plates, advert endpapers, original cloth and paper boards; idem, Louis Wain's...

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Original Artwork for Cedric Chivers Binding. Smyth (Dorothy Carleton), ‘Jane Eyre, A tall steed, & on its back a rider - page 186’. Watercolour an...

Cedric Chivers Binding. Harpers [New] Monthly Magazine, December 1893, to May 1894 [to August 1894]. Osgood, McIlvaine …., 1894, all edges gilt, h...

The European Magazine. A collection of engraved portraits issued with The European Magazine. Printed for James Asperne, no date [c.1807], 259 port...

Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter, Deluxe Boxed Set, comprising The Philosopher's Stone; The Chamber of Secrets; The Prisoner of Azkaban; The Goblet of...

The Folio Society. Lang (Andrew), The Yellow Fairy Book; The Red Fairy Book; The Pink Fairy Book; The Blue Fairy Book; Folio Society, 2008, the Pi...

Pratchett (Terry). The Carpet People. Colin Smythe, 1971, first edition, dust jacket (priced £1.90, 'Duraseal' jacket protector fixed to rear of j...

Fitzgerald (Edward) trans. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. George C. Harrap, 1930, numbered limited edition of 750 copies for England (plus 500 for U.S....

Crane (Walter) - Original Artwork. Two original illustrations for ‘The Shepheard’s Calender’ by Edmund Spenser [1898]. The full page illustrations...

Khayyam (Omar). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Illustrated by Ronald Balfour. Constable, 1920, numbered limited edition of 100, signed by the artist on...

Dean's Moveable Book. The Royal Punch & Judy as Played Before the Queen at Windsor Castle & the Crystal Palace. Dean & Son, no date (c.1860), eigh...

Yeats (W.B.). The Secret Rose ... with Illustrations by J.B. Yeats. Lawrence & Bullen, 1897, first edition, xi, [1], 265, [3] pages, seven plates,...

Dante Alighieri. The New Life - La Vita Nuova, Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. George G. Harrap (printed at the Cheylesmore Press in Covent...

Ovid. Metamorphoses. The Folio Society, 2008, numbered limited edition of 2750 (plus 20 hors commerce), folio, translated by Arthur Golding, mount...

Cedric Chivers Binding. The Day-Book of John Stuart Blackie …. Grant Richards, 1902, second edition, frontis, top edge gilt, vellucent binding by ...

Dulac (Edmund) illus. Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights, Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Hodder and Stoughton, no date, qua...

Blyton (Enid). Childs Whispers. J. Saville, no date [1922], first edition (no issue stated), oblong octavo, 24 pages, original wraps, priced 2/6 ...

Vanity Fair. The Vanity Fair Album: A Show of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day ... 'Vanity Fair' Office, 1869-1899, twenty-one vo...

[Beardsley (Aubrey) et al.]. The Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly, Vols I to XIII. Elkin Matthews and John Lane, April 1894 - April 1897, thi...

King George VI. Signed portrait photograph of Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI). Vandyk, 148mm x 97mm sepia photograph on 264mm ...

Manuscript Indentures. Two seventeenth century manuscript indentures: 1) A contract between yeomen in the County of Westmorland, dated 1622, ink o...

Ephemera. A varied collection in five albums, compring: Historical Interest - extensive collection of press cuttings, engravings including maps, l...

‘Private Calender (sic) January 1795'. A very detailed diary with manuscript entries from the 1st January 1795 to the 13th September 1802. A note ...

The Wounded of St. Mary’s War Hospital, Reigate. An interesting collection of manuscript memoirs written by the wounded of WWI, 1915-16. Freda Mer...

Paris - London Book Trade History. A collection of twelve nineteenth-century letters sent from Paris to George Brettingham Sowerby of Regent Stree...

Browning Sr. (Robert) [1782-1866]. Original Artwork. Thirteen original 'grotesque style' portraits. Pencil caricatures on Whatman watermarked pap...

HMS Malabar. Montagu (Capt. Sir W.A.), An interesting manuscript copy book, commencing with an instruction that 'I expect the Mates, Midshipmen, V...

[Tylor, nee Harris (Isabella)]. In the Days of Old. A Quaker Child, by ‘Granny’. An illustrated typescript account of the author’s childhood, writ...

Bronte (Rev. Patrick). Autograph Letter Signed, informing a Mr Hartley of Skipton that ‘No Couples can be married in my Church except one of the p...

Potter (Beatrix). A small collection of ephemera relating to Beatrix Potter, comprising; Three photographs of Beatrix Potter in her garden at Sawr...

A Late Medieval Prayer Book. A small illuminated manuscript prayerbook of long prayers, the latin script believed to be in bastard hand. Black ink...

Playing Cards - Games. John Wallis, Historical Cards Exhibiting the History of England, no date, [late 18th or early 19th century], thirty cards, ...

Playing Cards - Various Makers. J.L. & J. Turnbull (1833-1863), Frizzle Ace, fifty-two cards; Transformation Cards, printed by Maclure, Macdonald ...

Playing Cards - De La Rue. A large collection of playing cards produced by De La Rue (1832-1971), comprising eighty-eight single packs and twelve ...

Playing Cards - Mixed. A collection of mixed playing cards, in two albums, comprising: British Pre 1900 cards, incomplete decks and small quantit...

Playing Cards - Overseas. Pere Rotxtxo (Spain), Thirty-three Spanish suited cards (? of 48), believed 18th century, one card signed, one with mak...

Playing Cards - Joseph Hunt and Successors. A collection of playing cards, comprising: Hunt (1790-1801), 34 (of 52) cards, dust marked; Hunt & Son...

Playing Cards - Goodall & Son. Twenty-eight decks of playing cards produced by Charles Goodall & Son (1820-1922). The late previous owner had iden...

Playing Cards - Various Makers. I. Hardy. Exportation Garter Ace, [c.1817], fifty-two cards; I. Hardy. Garter Ace, [c.1818], fifty-two cards; Har...

Playing Cards - Various Makers. Thomas Creswick, (1812-1840), Frizzle Ace Piquet set, thirty-two cards; Thomas Creswick, (1812-1840), Frizzle Ace,...

Playing Cards - Various Makers. Sutton & Co., Fifty-one playing cards (of 52, lacking 5C), AS dated 1703 [but later], a typed card with the pack s...

Burney (James). An Essay by Way of Lecture on the Game of Whist. Printed for the Author and sold by John Ebers. 1821, first edition. [4], 87 pages...

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Lord of Rings. Folio Society, 2002, three volumes, original boards, slipcase; idem, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. The...

Sexuality. Batchelor (John), Breathless Hush. Duckworth, 1974, Uncorrected Proof, paperback with dust jacket; Melly (George), School Experiences o...

Budge (E. A. Wallis). The Book of the Dead, Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet ... British Museum et al., 1899, la...

Betjeman (Sir John). Summoned by Bells. John Murray, 1960, first edition, signed by the author on mounted slip, dust jacket (priced 16s., chipped ...

Dyke (Daniel). The Mystery of Selfe-Deceiving: or, A Discourse and Discovery of the Deceitfulnesse of Mans Heart … Printed by William Stansby … so...

Folio Society. A very good collection of Folio Society books, 187 volumes in slipcases. Generally Fine.

The Fortune Press. Grenville-Hearne (Gundry), Boy Sailors. Fortune Press, no date [c.1947], taped dust jacket [Timothy d’Arch Smith 249]; idem, Wh...

[Cripps (Richard Vere)]. [Fowkes (Aubrey) pseud.]. Eight to Nine, The Preteens, by A Boy; Ten, The Preteens, by A Boy; Eleven, The Preteens, by A...