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Ralph Nicholas Chubb (1892-1960) was an English poet, printer and artist,heavily influenced by Blake and the Romantics with a highly personal and sexually revolutionary mythology.…

Taken from the 1606 edition of Suetonius translated into English by Philemon Holland.

Greek text translated into English verse by F.L. Lucas.
Using Mark Severin to illustrate this book was part of Christopher Sandford’s policy of trying to commission…

Bernen’s account of life on a Greek island, interspersed with his poem, ‘Floor Boards’.

The first of the successful ‘Guinea series’ of illustrated modern authors, printed in the new Golden Cockerel type designed especially for Gibbings by his friend…

A lovely example of Australian Alec Bolton’s fine printing combined with the natural wood engravings of the Australian artist Rosalind Atkins. Bolton was a creative…

With a bibliography of books with illustrations by John Austen at the rear.

Robert Surtees began writing about the inimitable sporting hero John Jorrocks – a cockney grocer with a penchant for fox hunting – in the early…

Rhode Island’s Thomas Robinson Hazard’s whimsical reminiscences of Narragansett and his family’s generation-proven method for baking ‘jonny-cakes’, originally a Native American dish, made of corn…

Laboureur’s work was very much in vogue at this time being a great favourite both of Stanley Morison and Eric Gill amongst others.

First published in 1829, Peacock’s Misfortunes of Elphin is an Arthurian based fantasy, incorporating many Welsh legends.
Bray’s joyous wood engravings give, as Harrop suggests, “an…

Inserted loose in a bookmark cut in the shape of a chimney with a printed Christmas greeting from Mary and Melbert Cary.

10 line poem and 15 page prose piece accomapnied by Piper’s wonderful images, perfectly engraved by Stone.

Frontispiece with slight tear to very right hand side where it is bound in affecting only the very edge of the image, plate IV trimmed…

The marbled paper was specially done for Sandford by the famous marbler Sidney Cockerell. A rare eighteenth century book, well reprinted and illustrated.

The marbled paper was specially done for Sandford by the famous Sidney Cockerell.

Accompanied by the 6 pp 16mo. pamphlet, ‘St Martin or The Blessings of Rags A Description of the Way of Making Paper by Hand, as…