London: The Riccardi Press, 1914. 8vo. First edition thus. Limited edition. #95 of 1000 copies. Original cloth backed paper boards, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Printed on handmade paper. Engraved border on the title page incorporating the first sonnet. D/w spine faded and tanned with '95' inked in the middle. Near.....
London & New York: The Nonesuch Press & The Dial Press, 1924. 4to. Limited edition. #1120 of 1250 copies on Japon vellum. Original cream paper-covered boards, blocked in gilt with Granjon type ornaments and rules. All edges untrimmed. Printed in Monotype Plantin with some revisions. Engraved title-page, headpiece on page.....
Soho: The Curwen Press for The Nonesuch Press, 1924. 4to. Limited edition. #238 of 375 numbered copies. Original black paper-covered boards with 'Genesis' gilt blocked down the spine, and across the head of the front board with a decoration of stars and crosses below. Orange dust wrapper, printed with the.....
Waltham St. Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. 8vo. Reprinted from the original edition of Breton's Fantasticks 1626 in an edition of 500 copies of which 250 were for the USA. This is #244. Original orange buckram, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Twelve wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Somewhat.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. 12mo. Limited edition. #143 of 1500 copies. Original quarter parchment with vellum tips, and combed marbled paper sides, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In plain dust-wrapper, as issued. Line block illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky. The d/w spine has split with loss (which is why.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 4to. Limited edition. #781 of 1475 copies. Rebound in full tan niger morocco, gilt, by Henry Sotheran, apparently to match the publisher's binding on the set of Shakespeare's Works (1929-33) which was another highlight of the Nonesuch Press. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. Double page.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 8vo. Limited edition. #776 of 1250 copies. Original full limp parchment with pigskin thongs, gilt. In slipcase as issued. Hand-set Janson, composed at the Nonesuch Press, on Van Gelder handmade paper. Fine in fine slipcase.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 4to. Limited edition. #419 of 1475 copies. Original orange-stained vellum, gilt. Top edge gilt 'on the rough', others untrimmed. Double page illustrations from Botticelli's drawings in Berlin and Rome. Spine faded, as usual. Boards unwarped and contents clean. Near fine.
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 8vo. Limited edition (1600 copies of which 500 were for Random House in North America). #1276. Flexibly sewn and bound in full natural morocco. 'I. W.' within oval frame on front cover and 'The Compleat Walton' on the spine, both gilt. All edges untrimmed, top.....
[London] & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House Inc., 1931. 8vo. Volume 4 only of a 7 volume set. Limited edition of 1050 copies. Full tan niger morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Raised bands on spines. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Light grey patches of discolouration down.....
[London] & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House Inc., 1931. 8vo. Volume 6 only of a 7 volume set. Limited edition of 1050 copies. Full tan niger morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Raised bands on spines. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Fine. An odd volume of the.....
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited editions. #1199 of 1450 and #903 of 1300, respectively. Bound on flexible back in full tan niger morocco with cloth joints, gilt. Bottom and fore-edge untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed in Monotype Cochin and Jan.....
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited editions. #1144 of 1450 and #542 of 1300, respectively. Bound on flexible back in full tan niger morocco with cloth joints, gilt. Bottom and fore-edge untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed in Monotype Cochin and Jan.....
London: The Golden Hours Press, 1933. 4to. Limited edition. #143(a) of c.250 copies. Green buckram with bevelled edges, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With four full-page wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Spine and edges faded. Bookplate of Kenneth Roberts on front paste down with some offsetting on fly. Card.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1936. 4to. Limited edition of 750 copies. This copy marked 'Out of series'. Original green buckram with black leather label, gilt, to spine. Illustrated throughout and with a section of text and title pages at the back. Spine faded as usual. Very light foxing throughout. Near.....
London: The Curwen Press, 1933-1938. 4to. Original sewn printed wrappers. 4 to 16 pages each. With covers and other illustrations by (amongst others) Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Graham Sutherland and Edward Ardizzone. Light foxing to covers of numbers IV and 14, otherwise fine. Between 1932 and 1939 there.....
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. Small folio. Limited edition. Number 216 from an edition of 750 copies. Original green buckram lettered in gilt and with a sailing ship emblem on the upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel.....
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1980. 8vo. First edition. One of 600 unnumbered copies from a limited edition of 630. Original ring-bound stiff card covers. Eight front and back views of country figures are split horizontally in three to enable incongruous characters to be formed. The bespectacled old woman in a......
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1982. 4to. Limited edition. #207 of 350 copies hand-set in Caslon type, printed from the original wood-engravings on Zerkall mould-made paper by John and Rosalind Randle and Miriam Macgregor. Bound in quarter green buckram over Whittington marbled paper boards by Smith Settle & Co. Top edge.....
Headington, Oxford: The Inky Parrot Press, 1985. 4to. Limited edition. No. 50 of 360 copies signed by the illustrator. Patterned paper-covered boards in matching slipcase. Illustrated endpapers. Designed by Dennis Hall. Illustrated by Wilton Priestner. Spine slightly tanned, otherwise as new. Strange, disturbing line drawings decorate almost every page and.....
Liverpool: The Wood Lea Press, 1987. Folio. Limited edition. One of 750 standard copies (from a complete edition of 811). Bound by Smith Settle in quarter green cloth over floral-patterned paper boards. Matching cloth-covered slipcase. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece. Numerous illustrations throughout, some in colour and tipped-in. Spine faded to blue.....
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2000. 4to. Limited edition of 266 copies. This is one of 210 copies bound in ochre quarter cloth, gilt, with patterned paper boards (after a design by John Buckland Wright using his initials). In cloth and paper-covered slipcase as issued. With 16 wood-engraved illustrations and.....
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2005. Large 4to. Limited edition. One of 750 copies (75 were not for sale). Original quarter brown/tan cloth, with paper spine label, with printed paper boards adapting Bawden's 'Pigeon and Clocktower' pattern. The publisher's prospectus is loosely inserted, with notes about changed dimensions and binding.....
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2005. Large 4to. Limited edition. One of 750 copies (75 were not for sale). Original quarter brown/tan cloth, with paper spine label, with printed paper boards adapting Bawden's 'Pigeon and Clocktower' pattern. The publisher's prospectus is loosely inserted, with notes about changed dimensions and binding.....
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2006. 4to. Limited edition. One of 500 copies. Original red buckram with paper label to spine. DVD of the film, 'The King's Stamp', housed inside the rear board. Illustrated throughout with numerous reproductions in colour, some folding and tipped-in. Fine. A beautiful celebration of the.....