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CHARACTERS ET ABBREVIATUREOE IN ANTIQUIS SCRIPTIS n.d. (or place), ca 1790. Folio. Engr. title & 48 plates. The plates numbered in a sequence wh...

Fisher (Richard) CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS, ETCHINGS AND WOODCUTS. 1879. Sm. folio. Frontis. Etched & engraved plates. Partly untr...

Tymms (William Robert) & Wyatt (Sir Mathew Digby) THE ART OF ILLUMINATING 1860. 4to. Chromolitho title & 100 plates. Ex-library, with stamp ...

Taubert (Siegfred) BIBLIOPOLA. PICTURES AND TEXTS ABOUT THE BOOK TRADE Hamburg & L. 1966. 2 vols. 4to. Text in Engl./Ger./Fr. B/w ills. Orig. cl...

Hamilton (Walter) DATED BOOK-PLATES 1894-5. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Engr. plates. With 18-line A.L.S. bound-in. Ex-reference library, with stamp to ver

Brunet (Jacques-Charles) MANUEL DU LIBRAIRE..... Paris, 1820. 3rd edn. 4 vols. Ex-reference library with stamps to t.p's. Cont. half calf gt. Ex...

Levis (Howard C.) A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF....... BOOKS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE RELATING TO THE ART & HISTORY OF ENGRAVING.....1912. 2 vols...

Miller (Olive Beaupre) & Petersham (Maud & Miska) TALES TOLD IN HOLLAND Chicago, 1926. 4to. Col. & b/w ills. Orig. cloth gt. with pict. ...

Greenaway (Kate) THE ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY BOOK. Ed: F. Weatherly n.d. 12mo. Col. frontis. Orig. pict. cloth. Sl. rubbed. ALMANACKS FO...

Milne (Alan Alexander) A GALLERY OF CHILDREN. Ills: H. Willebeek le Mair 1925. 4to. Ltd edn. [500] numbered & signed by the author. L.P. 12 col....

Grahame (Kenneth) THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Ills: E.H. Shepard 1931. 1st Shepard edition. B/w ills. Illustrated e.p's. Orig. gt. pict. cloth. D/w ...

Begbie (Harold) THE POLITICAL STRUWWELPETER Ills: F.C. Gould 1899. 2nd edn. 4to. Col. ills. Orig. cloth-backed printed boards. Plus 17 others, childre

Morley (Christopher) WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS Ills: A. Rackham 1922. 4to. 4 col. plates. B/w ills. Orig. cloth gt. £60-80

Dickens (Charles) THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB Ills: C. Aldin. 1910. 2 vols. Large 8vo. 24 col. plates. Orig. hessian-backed cloth gt. (

Beerbohm (Max) HEROES AND HEROINES OF BITTER SWEET n.d. Folio. 5 mounted col. plates in orig. port folio. Ltd edn [900]. Orig. vellum-backed boards. L

Sheridan (Richard Brinsley) THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Ed: C. van Doren Ills: R. Ben Sussan Oxford, 1934. Ltd edn. [1500]. Signed by the artist. Hand-col.

Bateman (H.M.) THE M.F.H. WHO RAN RIOT! Published for Moss Bros. & Co. Ltd, 1934. Oblong folio. 8 col. plates. With T.L.S. from H.L.Moss dated 1...

Robinson (William Heath) ABSURDITIES n.d. [ca 1928]. 4to. B/w ills. Orig. printed boards. £30-40

Goldsmith (Oliver) THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD Ills: after Rowlandson 1926. Col. plates. rig. cloth gt. Plus 5 others, art & illustrated, inc. Phil M...

A COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED BOOKS BOUND IN SOFT REVERSED CALF AND KID (suede). 43 items, some of which are miniatures. Mostly standard literary works:

[Olympic Games] LOS ANGELES 1932 Altona-Bahrenfeld, 1932. 4to. Col. & b/w ills. Many mounted. Orig. cloth gt. [ANOTHER EDITION] 1932. Orig. clot...

Wisden (John) CRICKETERS' ALMANACK 1899 Ed. S.H. Pardon. Photographic plate. Advts. Nice copy in cont. blue half calf gt. Crimson label. Sl. rub...

Armitage (J.C. - 'Ionicus') THE MAGIC PLUS FOURS. Original watercolour of a scene from a P.G. Wodehouse short-story [not used in publicati...

[Golf - original cartoon] Houghton (G.) 'BILL' (Bill Shankland) 1968. Ink on paper. Approx 28cm x 18cm. Signed. Shankland, seen here as a go...

Fletcher (J.S) THE HISTORY OF THE ST. LEGER STAKES 1776-1926. n.d. [1926]. Col. & b/w ills. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. Badminton Library RACING AND S...

A COLLECTION OF ABOUT 115 VOLUMES. Many in dustwrappers, some larger format. (115) £140-180

Surtees (Robert Smith) A HUNTING COLLECTION. HILLINGDON HALL 1845. 1st edn. 3 vols. Sm 8vo. Without. half-titles. A little, light spotting or occassio

Surtees (Robert Smith) HANDLEY CROSS; OR, THE SPA HUNT 1843. 1st edn. 3 vols. Half-titles in vols 2 & 3. Cont. crimson half morocco. Gt. dec. sp...

[Zaehnsdorf binding] Surtees (Robert Smith) THE ANALYSIS OF THE HUNTING FIELD Ills: H. Alken. 1846. 1st edn. 2nd Issue. Added hand-col. plates. Wood e

Surtees (Robert Smith) ASK MAMMA Ills: J. Leech 1858. 1st Illus. edn. Hand-col. plates. Some occasional spotting. Full speckled calf, gt. dec. spine i

[J. Leech - illustrator] Surtees (Robert Smith) MR SPONGE'S SPORTING TOUR / HANDLEY CROSS / ASK MAMMA / MR FACEY ROMFORD'S HOUNDS 1853; 1854...

Surtees (Robert Smith) SPORTING NOVELS Folio Society, 1951-56. 6 vols. Hand-col. plates. D/w's. Plus 6 vols of the J. A. Allen facsimilie reprin...

Surtees (Robert Smith) "PLAIN OR RINGLETS?" Ills: J. Leech 1860. 1st Leech edn. Frontis & 12 hand-col. plates. Cot. half calf gt. Sl. ...

Surtees (Robert Smith) SPORTING NOVELS Ills: J. Leech 1929-31. 12 vols. Ltd edn. [976] numbered. 124 hand-col. plates. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth g

Radcliffe (Frederick Peter Delme) THE NOBLE SCIENCE...OF FOX-HUNTING Ed: W.C.A. Blew 1893. Large 8vo. 10 hard-col. plates. Engr. text ills. Orig. pict

"Scrutator" RECOLLECTIONS OF A FOX-HUNTER 1861. 1st edn. Engr. frontis & t.p. vignette. Cont. half calf gt. "Harry Hieover" ...

Surtees (Robert Smith) SPORTING NOVELS Ills: J. Leech & H.K. Browne M.F.H. Edition 1900. 9 (of 11) vols. Roy. 8vo. Ltd edn. [without Handley Cro...

Surtees (Robert Smith) HILLINGDON HALL Ills: Wildrake, Heath & Jellicoe 1888. Hand-col. plates. Orig. pict. cloth gt. rebacked in calf. SPORTING...

[Beckford, Peter] THOUGHTS ON HUNTING IN A SERIES OF FAMILIAR LETTERS TO A FRIEND. 1781. Sm 4to. Half-title; errata on final leaf. Mod. boards with pr

Radcliffe (F.P. Delme) THE NOBLE SCIENCE Ed: W.C.A. Blew 1911. 2 vols. Large 8vo. 2 col. frontis. 10 hand-col. plates. Engr. text ills. Orig. pict. cl

Vyner (Robert) NOTITIA VENATICA: A TREATISE ON FOX-HUNTING Ed: W.C.A. Blew Ills: H. Alken [1891]. 7th edn. 2 vols. Large 8vo. 12 hand-col. plates. Con

Bradley (Cuthbert) THE FOXHOUND OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. 1914. Tall 8vo. 16 col. plates. B/w plates & ills. Orig. half leathercloth. Apperley (...

Apperley (Charles James - 'Nimrod') HUNTING TOURS Ills: after B. Marshall, J. Berenger et al. 1903. L. P. Ltd edn [50] numbered. Col. & ...

Higginson (A. Henry) AS HOUNDS RAN Ills: C. Aldin & L. Edwards Contrib: J. Masefield. NY 1930. 4to. Ltd edn. [990]. Col. frontis. B/w ills. Orig...

Broke (Lord Willoughby de) THE SPORT OF OUR ANCESTORS. 1921. 4to. Tipped-in b/w plates. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. Eliot (Elizabeth) PORTRAIT OF A SPORT :

Apperley (Charles James - "Nimrod") THE CHASE, THE ROAD AND THE TURF 1898. L.P. edn. Col & b/w plates. Cont. plain boards, printed lab...

Apperley (Charles James - 'Nimrod') MY LIFE AND TIMES Ed: E.D. Cuming 1927. Ltd edn [250]. Numbered. Tipped-in col. & b/w plates. Orig. ...

Beckford (Peter) THOUGHTS ON HUNTING Ills: G.D. Armour [1911]. 4to. 25 mounted col. plates. Orig. gt. pict. cloth. Surtees (Robert Smith) THOUGHTS ON

Surtees (Robert Smith) YOUNG TOM HALL Ed: E.D. Cuming Ills: G.D. Armour 1926. 4to. Ltd edn. 4 col. plates. B/w plates & ills. Orig. cloth gt. Os...

Edwards (Lionel) HUNTSMEN PAST AND PRESENT L & N.Y. 1929. 4to. 10 col & 11 b/w plates. Orig. cloth gt.. £140-180