SIX LEGS GOOD.
Pp. [16](last blank), frontispiece printed in green; roy. 8vo; printed green paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1987. Trade edition; one of 225 copies. More
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THE FABLES OF AESOP.
Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Pp. [ii]+vi+94+[2](colophon, verso blank), pictorial headpiece, plus 9 text illustrations and a tailpiece; roy. 8vo; qr. cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, brown papered boards, faintly scuffed, top fore-corner of lower boards lightly bruised, spine cloth slightly soiled; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney..... More
KIT, THE COURIER.
With an Introduction by Kenneth Hopkins. Pp. 12; printed paper wrappers, stapled; Warren House Press, Southrepps, Norfolk, 1969. First separate edition. *A Scottish ballad of the American Civil War; first published in 1899 in Northern Lights, William Allan's ninth collection of verse. More
CUPID AND PSYCHES.
The excellent narration of their marriage translated into English by William Adlington out of the Latine Bookes of the Golden Asse by Apuleius, 1566. Pp. [60](last colophon), all within decorative borders printed in red; demy 8vo; qr. dark red parchment, spine lettered in gilt, Italian patterned papered boards (also used..... More
THE XI BOOKES OF THE GOLDEN ASSE.
Containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius, interlaced with sundry pleasant & delectable Tales. With an excellent Narration of the marriage of Cupid & Psyche, set out in the iiii. v. & the vi, Bookes. Translated out of Latine into English, by William Adlington. Pp. 250+[6](printer's note, colophon, gilt cockerel device..... More
LETTERS TO FRANK HARRIS, & other friends.
Edited & with an introduction by R. P. Lister. Pp. xxviii+78(last blank)+[4](blank, colophon), the title page printed in red/brown & black, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece (from a watercolour portrait of Enid Bagnold by Claud Lovat Fraser), plus 4 monochrome hand-tipped plates, printed endpapers; roy. 8vo; Laura Ashley rust coloured floral patterned..... More
THE AMAZONS.
A novel. Engravings by Clifford Webb. Pp. 252+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, title page vignette, and 10 full page illustrations by Clifford Webb, plus 3 full page maps by Mina Greenhill; impl. 8vo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full dark brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt within raised bands, boards..... More
THE AMAZONS.
A novel. Engravings by Clifford Webb. Pp. 252+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece, title page vignette, 7 full page illustrations, pictorial tailpiece, 3 full page maps; impl. 8vo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half brown morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, the top fore-corners slightly bruised; t.e.g., others..... More
EUPHORMIO'S SATYRICON.
Translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner. Ten wood engravings by Derrick Harris. Pp. [iv]+158, the frontispiece, title page and 7 plates all within decorative red borders, title page vignette, head & tailpiece decorations, cockerel, glossary; impl. 8vo; qr. crimson..... More
THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHERD.
Pp. 58, illustrated throughout; narrow super roy. 4to; beige papered boards, lettered and decorated in grey; uncut; within tan cloth portfolio; occasional light foxing; Old Stile Press, Llandogo, Gwent, Wales, 1998. Edition limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. *The Affectionate Shepheard was originally published anonymously in..... More
THE EMERALD HARVEST.
Pp. [vi]+22+[2](blank, colophon), printed in green & black; printed grey textured paper wrappers; Cadenza Press, London, 1968. Edition limited to 45 copies. Publication Number E07 of the Cadenza Press. *Banana cultivation and harvesting in Queensland. More
SPACE & VISION.
Three scenes in Central Australia. Pp. vi+18(last blank)+[2] printed in red & black; printed grey textured paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, tiny chip at foot of backstrip; Cadenza Press, Ealing, 1967. One of 70 copies thus (of a total edition of 170). Book Number E6 from the Cadenza Press. *This..... More
WHATEVER THERE IS OF LIGHT.
Five poems. Pp. [4](last blank); printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1975. Trade edition. *With publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. More
SELECT POEMS, Divine and Humane.
Pp. [vi]+52(last blank)+[6](notes)+[2](colophon, verso blank); demy 12mo; limp parchment secured with pigskin thongs, lettered and decorated in gilt; uncut and partly unopened; within plain card slipcase, which is slightly soiled; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928. Edition limited to 1,250 numbered copies, printed on Van Gelder hand made paper. McKitterick 54..... More
THE ARAB WAR.
Confidential information for General Headquarters... Being despatches reprinted from the secret "Arab Bulletin". Introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920. Pp. 52 (last colophon); cr. 4to; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. green niger morocco, spine lettered in gilt, with raised bands and small cockerel..... More
FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
By Peter Bennet, Rosemary Scott and Dave Stagg. Pp. [20]; printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1983. Number 23 of 50 copies signed by the three poets. More
BENCH, SAW & PLANE.
A Cotswold apprenticeship. Pp. [vi]+24(last colophon, verso blank), hand-tipped frontispiece and 2 plates, the title page printed in dull gilt & black, 2 small decorative initials printed in dull gilt, glossary; med. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers with flap folds; uncut; The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, 1988. Edition limited to 350..... More
THE SINGLE MIND.
Illustration by Mary Norman. Pp. [16], frontispiece printed in brown; printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1980. More
AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE together with the Rearrangement by Dr John Sampson and a Comment by Geoffrey Keynes.
Pp. 18+[4](blanks, colophon, verso blank); tall demy 8vo; tan paper wrappers, upper wrapper lettered in black, the backstrip and top edge of upper wrapper slightly faded; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper; The Cygnet Press, Burford, Oxfordshire, 1975. Edition limited to 375 numbered copies..... More
BLAKE'S PENCIL DRAWINGS: second series.
Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Pp. xii+[116](the plates, last colophon), publisher's device at centre of title page, 56 plates; demy 4to; terracotta cloth over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt; fore and bottom edges uncut; black dust wrapper patterned in gilt with dots & stars, printed paper title label on backstrip..... More
THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF WILLIAM BLAKE FOR THORNTON'S VIRGIL,
with the first Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips. The Introduction by Geffrey Keynes. Pp. 38, 8 proofs of Blake's blocks in their original state,16 of Blake's designs for the wood-engravings, text illustrations, plus prints made from electrotypes of the engravings on 17 separate leaves of Japon vellum in..... More
THE NOTE-BOOK OF WILLIAM BLAKE, called the Rossetti Manuscript.
Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Pp. xii+164(last blank), plus 120 collotype pages, being a facsimile of the notebook; f'cap. 4to; blue buckram over bevelled boards, with gilt lettered black leather title label on spine, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, the spine faded and faintly marked; top edges gilt on the..... More
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE.
Pp. xvi+398(last colophon), collotype frontispiece portrait and 23 plates, a couple of text illustrations, appendices, notes, index; impl. 8vo; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, edges lightly worn and fore-corners bruised, the parchment a trifle soiled; uncut; the free endpapers faintly offset, occasional pale foxing; The Nonesuch..... More
BLIGH'S VOYAGE IN THE RESOURCE,
from Coupang to Batavia, together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch packet "Vlydt" and his remarks on Morrison's Journal. All printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales, with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter..... More