London: Country Life, 1926. Folio. First edition. Original quarter blue buckram over blue cloth boards, gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. The spine has faded. A previous owner appears to have applied an ink wash to try to restore the colour. This is...
London: Country Life and George Newnes, 1929. Folio. Second impression. First published in 1920. Original quarter blue buckram over blue cloth boards, gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Some foxing to covers. Corner tips pushed. Very small marks to both endpapers. Contents fine. This volume includes, among others...
London: Country Life, 1929. Folio. Second impression. First published in 1922. Original quarter blue buckram over blue cloth boards, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. D/w, reinforced on reverse, is rubbed, worn and dust-soiled. Neat ink ownership on prelim. Fine in very good dust-wrapper. This volume...
London: Country Life, 1937. Folio. First edition. Original quarter blue buckram over blue cloth boards, gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Neat ink ownership on fly. D/w worn and torn with small loss. Reinforced on the reverse and on the exterior at the spine ends. Fine in good...
London: Country Life & George Newnes, 1924. Folio First edition. Original quarter blue buckram over blue cloth boards, gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Covers faded with wear to corner tips. Near fine. This volume includes, among others, Compton Wynyates, Cowdray House, Hengrave...
London: Country Life, 1950. Folios. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original green buckram over bevelled boards, gilt. Top edges stained red. Illustrated throughout with numerous architectural drawings and black and white photographs. Slight damage to the top edges of volume I which has left a patch of discolouration on both...
Glasgow: The University Press, Glasgow, for The Limited Editions Club, 1938. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Limited edition. #791 of 1500 sets. Bound in linen, each volume lithographed with a design in colour by Barnett Freedman. Designed by John Easton. The type is Eric Gill's Perpetua and it is printed on...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924. 16mo. Limited edition. #626 of 1050 copies. Original natural quarter buckram with Japanese paper-covered boards, gilt. All edges untrimmed. Printed in Monotype Garamond on Arnold unbleached handmade paper. Covers a bit rubbed and slightly foxed. Near fine. This translation was pirated by The Fortune Press...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 16mo. Limited edition. #1064 of 1550 copies. Original white buckram with bevelled boards, gilt. All edges untrimmed, top edge gilt 'on the rough'. In brown stencilled, patterned paper slipcase, as issued. Printed in Monotype Bodoni on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Engraved title page, the headpiece to...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 16mo. Limited edition. #350 of 1550 copies. Original maize buckram with bevelled boards, gilt. All edges untrimmed, top edge gilt 'on the rough'. Printed in Monotype Bodoni on Arches cream laid handmade paper. Engraved title page (tipped-in) and headpieces to the introduction and colophon engraved...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. 16mo. Limited edition. #83 of 950 copies. Original boards loosely covered with turquoise paper, with black leather label on spine, gilt. In black paper-covered slipcase, as issued. All edges untrimmed. Printed in Fell types on Auvergne handmade paper. Spine faded. Near fine in fine slipcase.
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, 1956. 8vo. First edition. Original plain cream Linson vellum, blocked in red, green and gold, imitating inlays, in the Grolier style. Green spine label. Spine a little tanned. Bookplate and ink ownership of Ruari & Antonia McLean on front endpapers. Near fine. The first publication of...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 8vo. Limited edition. #828 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. 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, 1929. 8vo. Limited edition. #893 of 1600 copies. Original natural coarse weave cloth, printed with a pattern of urns and flames in green and red by the Curwen Press. Paper label to spine. All edges untrimmed, top edge gilt 'on the rough'. Thirty illustrations by Jacquier...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 8vo. Limited edition. #1471 of 1600 copies. Original natural coarse weave cloth, printed with a pattern of urns and flames in green and red by the Curwen Press. Paper label to spine. All edges untrimmed, top edge gilt 'on the rough'. Thirty illustrations by Jacquier...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 8vo. Limited edition. #348 of 1600 copies. Original full limp vellum with leather thongs, with arrangement of astrological signs on front cover and title in gilt down the spine. All edges untrimmed, top edge gilt 'on the rough'. Dark green paper-covered slipcase decorated with stars...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. 8vo. Limited edition. #613 of 625 copies. Original quarter dark red stained parchment, with cream and red Italian patterned paper-covered boards and endpapers, gilt. In matching slipcase. Ink presentation inscription on prelim. Slipcase is split and missing a portion of the back. Near fine in good slipcase.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1933. 8vo. Original quarter red buckram with red paper sides, gilt. Very slight scattered foxing throughout. Near fine.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. 8vo. Limited edition. #934 of 1800 copies. Original quarter black cloth with combed marble paper sides, gilt. Frontispiece of Cobbett after a caricature by Gillray, coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press. Browning to endpapers. Near fine. Partially unopened.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1961. 8vo. First edition. Limited edition. O#304 of 750 copies. Original terracotta cloth, gilt. All edges untrimmed. Black Ingres paper dust-wrapper. D/w slightly rubbed. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The last limited Nonesuch edition.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1961. 8vo. First edition. Limited edition. Out of series copy from a limitation of 750 copies. Original terracotta cloth, gilt. All edges untrimmed. Black Ingres paper dust-wrapper. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Loosely inserted is a letter on press stationery requesting 'For the favour of a review'...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo. First edition. Original dark maize coloured buckram, gilt. All edges untrimmed. Bookplates on front paste down and verso of fly. Ink ownership on fly. Postcard loosely inserted. Near fine. The first full printing of the Journal with entertaining insights into the Elizabethan court. With...
London and San Francisco: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. 8vo. Limited edition. #107 of 850 copies. Original quarter natural canvas with brown Fabriano Ingres paper boards and endpapers, gilt. Fine. The second publication by the press.