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The characters described and illustrated are Thesiger Crowne the Mason, Simon Rodd the Fisherman, Rufus Clay the Foreigner, Pony the Footballer and Joe Pentifer and…

Frederick Carter, the mystic, writer and artist was a friend of D.H. Lawrence and this essay and portrait is his contribution to the truth behind…

These woodcuts of Russian figures are remarkably good and were exhibited in Paris when Hautecoeur returned from teaching at the Institut Français in St Petersburg…

Translated into English from the original Greek by George Thornley.
A stunning achievement being a perfect match of paper, printing and illustrations, all presenting an earthy…

One of Ricketts’s most powerful books, the woodcuts being among his best illustrations. A design for one of the woodcuts was reproduced in ‘The Pageant’…

With the booklabel of Gordon Craig scholar Lindsay Newman.
Count Harry Kessler commissioned Gordon Craig to do these extraordinary, atmospheric designs for Hofmannsthal’s play. They were…

The poems are Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, Ode on the Spring, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a…

A tragic story of a woman during the Occupation during WWII published straight after the war.

Swift’s hilarious satirical advice to English servants which was unfinished when he died “redundancies in the text must be taken merely as an indication of…

The eighth book in the Stols series ‘Les Belles Heures’.
The copper engraving is rather in the style of Laboureur showing a semi-nude in her…

The seventh Shell Guide under the editorship of John Betjeman.

Frank Martin was a prolific life drawer. The book describes in detail his process. As he says ‘they were not made as preliminary studies for…

Frank Martin was a prolific life drawer. The book describes in detail his process. As he says ‘they were not made as preliminary studies for…

The collection includes first editions of Lear, original water colour drawings, sketch books and manuscript diaries. The book includes a new interpretation of Lear’s life…

Booklabel of Hanson on front pastedown.

A collection of essays by Lamb who is the Elia of the title. They were personal and conversational and were a huge hit in the…

This copy signed by Thomas Jones and Gwendoline Davies of the Gregynog Press.
A collection of essays by Lamb who is the Elia of the title.…

An astonishingly rare survival. The colophon declares that “These emblems were engraved for The Devil’s Devices or Control versus Service, a book written by Douglas…

A wonderful way to own original prints by Gill from this period all of which were printed under his supervision.
Original 4 pp. prospectus inserted loose…

“This little book has grown from just one wood block engraved for Desmond Chute in 1926”.