London, Toronto & New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited and E. P. Dutton & Co. Ltd, 1928. 4to. 2 volumes, set. First English language edition. First published in Germany in 1913. Original green buckram, gilt. With over 600 illustrations in black and white. Covers rather faded. Two book...
London: J. M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1974. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/w has one very short closed tear to the top edge of the back panel. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Covering the expected statues, urns, sundials and fountains but...
London: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1977. 4to. First edition. Original blue buckram, gilt.. Plate section at rear with 275 half-tone illustrations. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979. 4to. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. D/w very slightly rubbed in places. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. This remains the definitive work on the subject.
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....
London: Beat Publications Ltd, [1964]. 12mo. First edition. Original white laminated boards. Black and white author photograph on back cover. Price label of 'Seven Shillings' tipped in but crossed through in pencil with revised price of '2/-'. Illustrated in colour by the author. Covers a bit rubbed and dust-soiled. Near...
London: Faber and Faber, 1953. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Illustrated by V. H. Drummond. Tiny nick to the d/w at the tail of the spine. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Self-explanatory (although I could go on).
London: Nicholson & Watson for Poetry Library, 1944. 8vo. First edition. Original quarter black cloth with illustrated paper boards. Drawings by Lucian Freud. D/w toned to spine and edges with tiny loss to corner tips and a 1cm chip from the head of the spine. Near fine in very good...
London: John Lehmann, 1949. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. D/w and eight colour lithographs by Keith Vaughan (printed by The Baynard Press). Neat ink ownership, dated 1952, on fly. D/w very slightly toned, dust-soiled and foxed with light rubbing to top and bottom edges and a nick at...
London: John Lehmann, 1948-9. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original ochre and buff cloth, gilt. D/ws by Keith Vaughan and John Minton. Illustrated throughout both volumes with drawings and black and white photographic plates. Volume 1: Frontispiece and title page browned as usual (cheap paper). D/w rubbed and dust-soiled with a....
London: John Lehmann, 1948-9. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original ochre and buff cloth, gilt. D/ws by Keith Vaughan and John Minton. Illustrated throughout both volumes with drawings and black and white photographic plates. Volume 1: Slight foxing to edges of text block. Frontispiece and title page browned as usual (cheap...
London & High Wycombe: J. M. Dent & Sons for Hague & Gill Ltd, 1938. 8vo. First edition. Original sewn printed wraps in envelope. Set in Gill's Bunyan type. Illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier. Fine in fine envelope. Eleven short essays by Eric Gill are accompanied by 11 pictures by Denis...
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original buff cloth. Illustrated by the author. Slight marking and toning to covers. Neat ink ownership dated 1945 on fly. Near fine. The colour illustrations must have seemed even more saturated in wartime than they do now. Almost psychedelic!
London: The Architectural Press, 1934. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Four coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Ring binding twisted. Front cover partially detached, very worn and wrinkled. Back cover missing...
London: The Architectural Press, 1935. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Covers worn and creased. Ring binding a bit bent at the bottom. Very good...
London: The Architectural Press, 1935. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Covers a little rubbed with creasing to the corners of the front cover. Near...
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1936. 8vo. First edition. Original black plastic comb binding with 'Buckinghamshire' silver gilt. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Covers a little rubbed and foxed with small creases at...
London: The Architectural Press, [1936]. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Light foxing to slightly rubbed edges and the verso of each map. Both covers...
London: B.T. Batsford, [1938]. 8vo. First edition. Original yellow plastic comb binding, with 'Oxon' printed in red, with card covers. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. A little rubbed around the edges. Near fine...
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. 8vo. First edition, second state. First issued by B. T. Batsford at 2/6d in 1937 in card covers. This is the same text apart from the title page, which shows the change of publisher, and the jacket gives the price as 3/6d and lists 15...
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1962. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth. Wrapper design by Jack Larkin. D/w very slightly rubbed, dust-soiled and toned. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Dedicated to Graham Greene who provides a quote for the jacket: 'A humour strange to our fiction, closer to Chekhov than to...
London: Mandrake Press Ltd, 1930. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth. D/w slightly faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Ink presentation dated 1971 on fly. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Uncommon.
London: Century Publishing, 1984. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated in colour. D/w rubbed along bottom edge of front panel and with tiny loss at the head of the spine. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Including Christopher Gibbs, Davids Hicks & Mlinaric, Tom Parr, Nicholas Haslam and...
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1986-2001. 8vo. 22 volumes, a run. Original stiff covers and printed wrappers. Numerous photographic plates and other illustrations (many of them folding or tipped-in) throughout each volume. Fine in fine dust-wrappers. Matrix is a fabulous celebration of all things concerned with printing. This run would make...