RARE BOOKS
A wide-ranging selection of rare and notable books, including early printed, illustrated, fine bindings, private press, children's, mystery, natural history, travel, and art books.
The Rock; A Pageant Play Written for Performance on Behalf of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. First Edition, Third impression. Small 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (190 x 125 mm); 86 pp. Original grey paper-covered boards, blue lettering on spin; original grey dust jacket with white and red lettering, unclipped (price of 2s. 6d. net) with minimal toning and only..... More
A Song for Simeon; Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
London: Faber & Faber, 1928. Edward McKnight Kauffer. First Edition. 12mo, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (183 x 120 mm). Cover title, 4 pp, including one color illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. Stab-stitched blue laid paper wrapper printed in black on pages i and iv (series title and no.), folded..... More
What is a Classic?; An address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944
London: Faber and Faber, 1945. First Edition, Second Impression. 8vo; 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches (218 x 135 mm); 32 pp., printed on heavy laid paper, lower edges uncut. Bright blue/turquoise cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, light bumping on corners and tail of spine. Cream dust jacket printed..... More
Mémoires et Observations Géographiques et Critiques sur la Situation des Pays Septentrionaux de l’Asie et del'Amérique d'après les relations les plus récentes; Auxquelles on a joint un Essai sur la route aux Indes par le Nord, & sur un Commerce très vaste & très riche a établir dans la mer du Sud
Lausanne: Antione Chapin, 1765. First Edition. Quarto, 10 x 8 inches (254 x 203 mm); pp. xxii, 268, 8; two copper engraved folding maps by I.A. Chovin are "Carte de la partie Septentrionale et Occidentale de l'Amerique " and "Carte de la partie Septentrionale et Orientale de l'Asie " with..... More
Piping All Hands
c1850. Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper, 3 1/2 x 3 inches (90 x 75 mm), trimmed to the plate. In good condition with uniform toning and edge wear. There is some adhesive residue on the verso with associated discoloration. Likely a Scottish or... More
The Philanthropic Reform in St. George's Field
London: James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, 1814. Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on wove paper, 11 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches (290 x 437 mm). Condition issues include significant creasing, toning, surface soiling and multiple paper tape repairs on the verso. Hand coloring is extensive and well saturated..... More
Some Poems by Robert Browning
Hammersmith: Eragny Press, 1903. Lucien Pissarro. First, Limited Edition. Octavo, 8 x 5.25 in (203 x 133 mm), pp.64 [2] + contents + colophon + blank + press-mark, Limited Edition. One of 215 copies on paper, from an edition limited to 226, printed in red and black; nine-line woodcut initials..... More
De re hortensi libellus (A small book on gardening); ...vulgaria herborum, florum ac fruticum qui in hortis conseri solent nomina latinis vocibus efferre docens ex probatis authoribus, in puerorum gratiam....
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1545. 16mo, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (160 x 107 mm); pp. 141 + errata + [6], title with woodcut printer's device, errata to penultimate verso, text in Latin on hand-made laid paper, supple and clean, with very minor toning; ink doodles and previous owner name..... More
Poems
Edinburgh: Walter & Thomas Ruddiman, 1773. First Edition. 12mo, 7 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (196 x 117 mm); iv, 132 pp. Title with engraved vignette of a man overlooking a Scottish scene. Handsome later binding by Maclehose, Glasgow, brown calf with elaborate gilt decorations and fillets, gilt spine with..... More
Tender is the Night
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Edward Shenton. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (190 x 132 mm); pp. vii + 408, printed in Old Style type on wove paper; pen and ink drawings (33 head-pieces and 35 tail-pieces) by Edward Shenton (1895-1977). Blue T-cloth..... More
This Side of Paradise
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (190 x 130 mm); pp. vi +305; printed in 11 pt Old Style type on wove paper. Dark blue cloth binding, title dry stamped on front cover, and goldstamped on spine, top and..... More
Observations, relative chiefly to, Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain, Particularly the High-Lands of Scotland
London: R. Balmire, 1789. First Edition. 2 vol.; 8vo; 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (222 x138 mm) ; vol. 1: vii + xi + 221; vol. 2: ttl. + 196 + xxi; with 34 aquatints (tinted aquatints and soft ground etchings, most plates oval) and 6 hand-colored maps. Offsetting..... More
Consequences; A Complete Story in the Manner of the Old Parlour Game in Nine Chapters, each by a different author
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Eric Ravilious. 8vo, 9 1/2 x 6 1/8 (242 x 155 mm); 67 pp. with an engraved frontispiece by Eric Ravilious. One of 1000 unsigned copies on machine-made paper, pink cloth binding with title in black on spine. Soiling to the cover and light..... More
Harriet & Mary; Being The Relations Between PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, HARRIET SHELLEY, MARY SHELLEY, and THOMAS JEFFERSON HOGG, As Shown in Letters Between Them, Now Published for the First Time
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. 8vo., 10 x 7 1/2 inches (254 x 190 mm), 84 pp. This is copy 118 in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies printed in red and black, Perpetua 14 pt type on Arnold's mould-made paper. With 1 collotype frontispiece portrait P.B. Shelley..... More
The Psalms of David; Taken from the Book of Common Prayer
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. First, Limited Edition. 8vo., 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (222 x145 mm); 128 pp. Copy 485 of 500 printed in black, red, and blue ink on English hand-made paper, Caslon Old Face Type. Blue buckram binding, gilt title on spine, t.e.g., rest uncut; spine..... More
Flowers and Faces
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. John Nash. Limited Edition. 4to, 10 x 7 1/2 in (250 x 185mm); 54 pp.; 5 wood-engraved illustrations by John Nash, including title page; printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. Half green morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, spine lightly sunned; handsome marbled..... More
Circe and Ulysses; The Inner Temple Masque ... with an essay on William Browne and the English Masque by Gwyn Jones
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1954. Mark Severin. 8vo, 9 1/4 x 6 inches (235 x 152 mm), 62 pp.; printed in Poliphilus 13 pt type on hand-made paper; with 7 wood-engravings by Mark Severin. 300 numbered copies, our copy is number 230. Bound in quarter green buckram with pink..... More
A Crime Against Cania
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Hughes-Stanton, Blair. First, Limited Edition. 8vo.; 9 1/2 x 6 in. (242 x 151 mm); 70 pp. Four wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, printed on Batchelor paper in 14 pt. Golden Cockerel Type. 1/4 black morocco binding with special cream cloth boardprinted in red incorporating the..... More
The Golden Carpet; Published by Permission of the War Office
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. Large 8vo, 10 x 7 3/8 inches (255 x 187 mm), 128 pp., printed in 14 pt. Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper. 500 numbered copies of which this is number 63, bound in quarter green morocco with cream canvas sides bound by Sangorski..... More
The Cricket on the Hearth; A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens and seven posthumous illustrations by Hugh Thomson
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1933. Hugh Thomson. Limited Edition. 4to, 12 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches (317 x 213 mm); with seven fine bright color illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Edition printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, this is copy 1460 of 1500. Full yellow cloth binding..... More
The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons; Being Random Reflections upon the Silver Jubilee of King George V
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. Eric Ravilious. Limited Edition. 8vo, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (240 x 160 mm); (vi) + 46 + (vi) wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Ravilious, slight offsetting to title, original morocco-backed marbled boards, spine rubbed with some fading but binding tight and square; t.e.g, rest..... More
The Tenbury Letters
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1942. 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (190 x 127 mm); 232 pp., many unopened; printed on Arnold's mould-made paper in 13 pt. Perpetua Roman and Felicity italic types. Illustrated with collotype reproductions of seven of the manuscripts. Bound in red buckram with GCP device in..... More
The Lord's Song: A Sermon by Eric Gill
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Eric Gill. Limited Edition. Slim 8vo; 8 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (224 x 112 mm); (vi),16 pp., (vi); printed on Arnold paper, in black ink using Eric Gill's Perpetua Roman and Felicity Italic types; wood-engraved title device, illustration and gilt initials on..... More
La Belle O'Morphi; A Brief Biography
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. François Boucher. 8vo., 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (210 x120 mm), 36 pp. Garamond 11 pt type with Fournier titling, with 12 collotype illustrations after François Boucher, who used O'Morphi often as a model. This is copy 144 of 750 numbered copies, bound in..... More