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1. [AUSTEN, John1886-1948 illustrator] PREVOST, L'Abbe. MAY J Lewis {introduction} Manon Lescaut London George Bles 1928 Number 147 of 500 copies, signed by the illustrator, John Austen. . [vi]+x+142 + [2]pp illustrated with coloured frontispiece and 11 plates, black & white title page vignette. Additional decorated head and tail pieces and ruled borders to each text page. 4to. Vellum spine with gilt lettering, blue boards. T.e.g. Spine a little soiled and corners of blue boards bumped but a bright and very good copy. Stylised art deco illustrations which are stunning. [Ref: 21052] £160 2. [BAWDEN] Ausonius, Decimus Magnus and done into English by Jack Lindsay London Fanfrolico Press nd 1930 Unpaginated. Forty-two poems .Translated by Jack Lindsay and decorations by Edward Bawden. 235 x 155mm Blue cloth blind stamped patchwork pattern to boards. T.E.G. Printed on Charles I paper by the Fanfrolico Press. Limited edition no 71 of 400. Spine sunned else very good copy. Illustrations in black and white. [Ref: 21033] £95

3. [BAWDEN] LEIGH, Dell. East Coasting London: London and North East Railway Undated [1931] 63

pages. Wrappers. Colour title-page and 8 colour drawings (headpieces), as well as numerous black and white decorations (headpieces and tailpieces) by Edward Bawden. Printed at the Curwen Press. Staples slightly rusted and wrappers a little dusty else good copy. Old fold mark at upper corner evident on wrapper. The text is a charming little collection of travel essays enlivened

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by Bawden’s illustration. Dell Leigh wrote a number of other books relating to travel in the north east and by train but none have had such acclaim as this one. [Ref: 21031] £280 4. [BAWDEN, Edward] Barrow’s: A Store Record 1824-1949 Birmingham Barrow’s Corporation Ltd., Printed at the Curwen Press nd c1949 34pp + [8pp] Decorated wrappers, perfect bound. Very good. Illustrated with b/w photographs, 4 colour charts and line ills. Including one by J H D Harvey which is an interpretation of the shop in 1849. Barrow Stores was originally started by Richard Cadbury, of the Cadbury chocolate family. However, in 1849 John Cadbury transferred the business to his cousin Richard Cadbury Barrow so they could concentrate on the manufacture of chocolate. The business was renamed Barrow Stores. This book traces the history of the business up to 1949. It sports the iconic lithographic image by Bawden of Tea Jars and Ships which has largely upstaged the content of this important firm. Initially the building in Bull Street was a tea and coffee warehouse which

Bawden was clearly aware of when he designed this cover. [Ref: 21072] £185

5. BAWDEN. Edward, Hold Fast by your Teeth London Routledge 1963 64pp illustrated in colour. 4to. 270x210mm. Pictorial boards with good dust wrapper. First book for children to be published and printed by W S Cowell Limited. Some very light spotting to prelims else very good copy. A collection of Bawdens’ tales originally written and illustrated by him for his own family. [Ref: 21030] £210 6. [BAWDEN] Edward Bawden: A Book of Cuts London Scolar Press 1979 81pp illustrated with b/w images including b/w decorated end papers. 4to Publisher's full cloth. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. Introduction by

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Ruari McLean, a note on lino cutting by Edward Bawden and the images. Noted on the fly leaf of the dust wrapper that the book was likely to be of interest to art students in particular. [Ref: 18396] £50 7. [BOOK ILLUSTRATION- A Survey] Arts et Metiérs Graphiques Numero Special 26 15 Novembre 1931 Livre d’Art International Europe Paris Arts et Metiérs Graphiques 1931 100pp illustrated with tipped in plates, b/w and colour images. Bound in buckram but preserving the original title page. [Ref: 21057] £125

8. [BURNE-JONES, Edward.] BURNE-JONES Georgiana [introduction] The Beginning of the World, Twenty Five pictures by Edward Burne-Jones. London, Longmans, Green and Co. [1902] 1903 New edition. 23 pages. Linen-backed boards. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Illustrated with line ills. 4to. End papers a little age browned else good copy of this The designs in the book were made for an illustrated edition of Mckail’s “Biblia Innocentium” which had been intended to be produced by the Kelmscott Press It was intended to complete 200 but only these were sufficiently complete to allow their printing with the help of Mr Catterson Smith. [Ref: 21082] £70

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9. CARSTAIRS, Helen. (1887-1956) Looking round London London Blackie 1937 [3] pp + 22 full-page illustrations depicting the ‘sights’ of London with facing texts. 4to. Decorated cloth. Very good copy with good dust wrapper with small closed tear c 20mm at upper edge. Looking Round London was the author’s only published work. Includes illustrations of the major buildings around London including St Paul’s Cathedral, Tower of London and many others ending with Broadcasting House, not long opened when the books was published. Beautifully produced book. Carstairs, lived in Scotland then Australia during her life time and nothing seems to be known of other works she may have made. Scarce. There are some notes about this book by Philip Wilkinson who wrote it up in his blog “The Dabbler” in 2015. http:/ /thedabbler.co.uk/2015/05/helen-carstairs-looking-round-london[Ref:21029] £280

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10. CBC [Charles B Cochran] CBC's Review of Revues and other matters London Jonathan Cape 1930 Bookplate of Charles B Cochran pasted down on half title as a commemoration of Noel Coward's Operette Bitter Sweet at His Majesty’s Theatre July 8th 1930. Cloth spine, green boards with paste down label and dust wrapper which is very good. The bottom edge of the board has some minor shelf wear. An illustration by a variety of illustrators but major contribution is by Edward Bawden who made an illustrated calendar at the end of the book spanning pages 95-118. Other illustrative contributions by Helen Thorp, U. Birnstingl [ frontis], Anthea Willoughby, Vera Willoughby, Tom-Titt, J. J. Dowd, Ceri Richards, Fougass, Oliver Messel, Denis Tegetmeier, Claudi Guercio and Edward Carrick. Both Edward Bawden and Ceri Richards also contributed double page spread illustrations to this title. [Ref: 21036] £50

11. CORNFORD, Frances. CORNFORD, Christopher [designs by] On a Calm Shore London Cresset Press 1960 95pp illustrated. Gilt lettered spine and decorated boards preserved with original glassine wrapper and over wrapped with modern acid free acetate. Very good copy. Frances Cornford’s last book after her death by her brother who provided the illustrations, 6 double pate and one single page designs + 22 smaller images in the text. Printed at the St Nicholas Press Cambridge under supervision of Nicholas Barker. [Ref: 21071] £45

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12. CRANE, Walter. [1845-1919] A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden New York & London Harper & Brothers 1899 46pp. French fold pages. Small 4to. Cloth which is decorated on the upper and lower boards and spine. Decorated end papers. Printed by Edmund Evans and Bound by Leighton, Son & Hodge. Colour litho illustrations throughout depicting floral imagery with figures linked to period folklore evoking an idealised society. [Ref: 21028] £340

13. [CRANE, Walter] A Masque of Days Words by Elia,

Dresses and Decorations by Walter Crane London, Melbourne and Paris Cassell and Company 1901 Unpaginated. [4]pp prelims + 40pp, French fold pages. 285 x 210mm. Cloth spine, Paper covered boards. Decorated end papers. Slightly rubbed at edges else good copy. Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. Illustrated in colour throughout; each page has an image with text inset. [Ref: 21032] £95

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14. [CURWEN PRESS] The Curwen Press Almanack 1926 London The Fleuron 1926 [10] + 39 + [8]pp illustrated. Small 8vo. Red cloth spine and contrasting boards. With good dust wrapper although this slightly browned and with tiny chips out at head and base of spine. Edition limited to 425. This one numbered 243. Pencil signature of Harold J L Wright on front end paper dated 11/3/26 Lead article is “The well-dressed book” by Harold Child. Also includes a bibliography of books from the Curwen Press produced in 1924 and 1925 Illustrations by Randolph Schwabe as headers to the Almanack section, a tipped-in Gordon Craig colour bookplate, the title page of de la Mare's Ding Dong Bell, a wood engraving by Paul Nash. Harold J. L. Wright, was the author of monograph on Australian artist Lionel Lyndsay. [Ref: 21047] £48 In the original Curwen Folder

15. [CURWEN PRESS] OLIVER, Simon. [Editor] The Curwen Press News-Letter Numbers Plaistow, London The Curwen Press June 1932-June 1936 1-12 in folder as issued. Variant numbers of pages between 4-16pp each with decorated wrappers. Original sewn printed wrappers. A further four issues were published 1936-1939. Very good. Two folders were issued to house the 16 issues printed. These had respectively black and red spines. The first houses the 12 issues offered here. [ILLUSTRATED] Folder a little worn but with original ties still present. Of the newsletters, most have decorated covers include images by the following artists: No 5 Barnett Freedman, [ILLUSTRATED] No 6 Eric Ravilious, [ILLUSTRATED] No 9 Edward Bawden, No 11, Paul Nash no 12, Graham Sutherland. [ILLUSTRATED] Several have interleaved fliers for other publications. All very good although number 10 is bumped and a little creased at bottom edge. [Ref: 21051] £1,200

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16. [FLEECE PRESS] LAWRENCE, John (introduction) 45 Wood Engravers chosen by Simon Lawrence Wakefield The Fleece Press 1982 [112]pp. b/w wood engravings. 4to. Quarter buckram with gilt decoration and title, marbled paper covers and green slipcase. Limited edition, standard copy, no. 209 of 350. Exquisite collection of illustrations made from original wood engravings, created as a second volume following ‘S.T.E. Lawrence: Boxwood Block maker’, printing work of artists missed out from the first book. With an introduction by John Lawrence. Fine. [ILLUSTRATED] [Ref: 13372] £325 17. [GIBBINGS, Robert] EMPSON, Patience [ editor ] BALSTON, James. [Introduction] The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings London J. M. Dent 1959 xxvi + 355 pages, illustrated with b/w illustrations of the engravings. 4to. Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. Very good. The original overprinted acetate lettered wrapper present but this is slightly scuffed. [Ref: 21077] £75

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18. [GILL] KINDERSLEY, David Mr Eric Gill: Recollections of David Kindersley USA The Ward Ritchie Press 1967 [4], 24pp. photographic portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout. 12mo., wrappers. Perfect bound with title on spine and Eric Gill monogram on upper wrapper. Very good copy. Signed by David Kindersley and dated 14th April 1970 on half title. With bookplate of Gavin Stamp on inside of wrapper. First edition [Ref: 19931] £70

19. [HAMMOND] MELVILLE, Lewis and HAMMOND, Aubrey. The London Scene London Faber & Gwyer 1926 157pp, 15pp plates in duotone. 4to. cloth spine with paste down label. Very good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper. Aubrey Hammond (1893- 1940) took up theatrical design work in 1913, which continued after service in France during WWI. He expanded into cinema art direction in 1936, all the while providing illustrations and cartoons for numerous London periodicals. Lewis Melville was the pen name of Lewis S. Benjamin. Made at the Westminster Press. The book evokes the atmosphere of busy London in the interwar period. [Ref: 21079] £50 20. [HILL] HENRY HILL LIMITED Type and Layouts Bristol and London Henry Hill Limited, Printers nd c1935 3pp introduction on selection of typefaces + Unpaginated section of samples. C 120pp, spiral bound, cloth boards. Illustrated with colour and bw illustrations providing sample lettering layouts. Folio 165x245mm Cloth slightly dusty else good copy. The page illustrated in the catalogue here recounts the tale of how Douglas Cleverdon’s Bookshop in Bristol, employed Eric Gill to paint a hanging sign for the shop and in turn how that led to Stanley Morrison commissioning the famous "Gill Sans-serif" lettering. [Ref: 21088] £48

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21. [HIM] SHAW, George Bernard. Two Plays for Puritans "The Devil's Disciple" and "Caesar and Cleopatra," New York Limited Editions Club 1966 Number 1169 signed by George Him on the colophon. xxxiv, 215, (3) pages. Decorated cloth, gilt and black lettered spine. In original slip case. Very good. Illustrations by George Him, who by this time had split from his partnership with the artist Jan Le Witt which ended in 1955 when Hewitt left to pursue a painting career. [Ref: 21100] £45 22. [JONES, Barbara] MASCALL E. L. Pi in the High London Faith Press 1959 64pp with b/w line illustrations by Barbara Jones. Decorated paper covered boards with green cloth spine. Board decorations also by Barbara Jones. A little dusty else good copy of this title. [Ref: 21040] £22 23. LEIGHTON, Clare. Wood - Engravings and Woodcuts London Studio Editions [1932] Revised 1944 and reprinted 1948 How To Do It Series No. 2 96pp illustrated with b/w plates including examples of work by Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings and others. Small 4to. Yellow cloth. Good. Loosely inserted very tatty and partial dust wrapper which is dusty. [Ref: 21081] £30 24. KING, Jessie M. The Grey City of the North Edinburgh T N Foulis [1910] 1912 printing. Unpaginated, c 54pp, XIV plates. Original gilt illustrated boards. Very good with bookplate of Gavin Stamp. [Ref: 20270] £65 25. [KING, Jessie M.] ARCAMBEAU, Edme. [ text by] Book of Bridges London Gowans and Gray 1912 149pp, coloured frontispiece and 17 colour plates each with captioned tissue guards. 4to 255 x 195 mm, Olive green gilt decorated binding with paste down image by King on upper board. Free end papers slightly browned else a very bright copy of this book. Gowans and Gray had commissioned her to do 18 water colours of the bridges of Paris before she left England for Paris in 1911 and this book is the result. Reference, Colin White, The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King. 1991. [Ref: 21085] £375

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26. [KING, Jessie M] WILDE, Oscar A House of Pomegranates London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1915 vi + 162pp illustrated with full colour title page and 16 further mounted illustrations in colour by Jessie M. King. Decorated end papers also by King as is the binding design. Royal blue cloth with orange decorative motifs and lettering. Slightly faded on the spine else a very good copy of this title where the blue and orange binding is very crisp. The book comprises four fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1891: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul and The Star-Child. Jessie M. King was made Tutor in Book Decoration and Design at Glasgow School of Art in 1899 and was influenced by Mackintosh’s circle and European traditions of art nouveau. By 1911 she had moved to Paris and with her husband founded the Shieling Atelier. It is argued some of her best illustration work evolved whilst there where she knew, amongst others, Léon Bakst. Both this book and the Book of Bridges were produced during this period, both of which are in this list. [Ref: 21084] £950

27. KING, Jessie M. illustrated. MARION [text by Marion A. Gemmell] Mummy’s Bedtime Story Book London, Cecil Palmer nd [1929] 56pp illustrated with eleven full-page illustrations and others on text pages. Blue pictorial printed paper boards. Yellow, blue & white pictorial endpapers. A little faded on spine, edges slightly rubbed else a very good copy. Red pencil name of owner in the past largely erased but has left a very faint mark on half title page. [Ref: 21027] £400

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28. LE WITT, Jan and HIM, George. The Football's Revolt London Sylvan Press, Nicholson & Watson [1939] 1944 2nd edition. 28 pp 10 full page coloured illustrations plus others in the text. 4to. Original cloth backed pictorial boards. Boards slightly dusty else very good. The narrative is the tale of the fate of the football at the annual soccer match between Kickford and Goalbridge. Le Witt and Him were both Polish and emigrated to London in 1937 where they were soon designing advertisements (including for London Passenger Transport Board and Imperial Airways), and writing and illustrating numerous children’s books. The established the design firm Lewitt-Him which continued till 1954 and designed advertising, illustrations etc. including working at the Festival of Britain designing the Guinness Clock at Battersea. Whimsical book illustrations abound in this publication. After going their separate ways, Him continued in design whilst Witt concentrated on fine art projects including theatrical set design. [Ref: 21053] £55

29. [LOWINSKY] MORTIMER, Raymond. [Introductory essay] Modern nymphs: Being a series of fourteen fashion plates by Thomas Lowinsky London, The Hasslewood Books, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1930 69 + [5]pp Half title, 14 stencil-coloured plates by Thomas Lowinsky. Slim folio. Original cloth-backed patterned paper boards, 320 x 200mm. One of 150 copies of Batchelor Kelmscott Paper. [ Mentioned on the title page]. Printed at the Westminster Press. This copy numbered 85. Book ticket of

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Pamela and Raymond Lister on front paste down. Very good copy. [Illustrated above. ] [Ref: 21075] £750

30. [LOWINSKY] BOHN-DUCHEN, Monica [Introduction] Thomas Lowinsky (1892-1947), Exhibition Catalogue London Tate Publishing 1990 72pp illustrated. Pale green wraps with dark green lettering. Includes painting, poster and very useful section on the illustrated books. He was a member of the New English Art Club from 1926 to 1942. Lowinsky's work was primarily portraiture and in the mid-century was a member of the New English Art Club. He trained at the Slade School. Ref: 21101] £22 31. MARX, Enid. The Little White Bear London Faber & Faber nd c1945 28pp. 240 x 150mm Decorated boards. Sewn. Boars a little dusty. One page repaired with conservation tape along inner hinge. Written, illustrated and lithographed by Enid Marx. [Ref: 21034] £180

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32. [McKNIGHT KAUFFER] BURTON, Robert. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer The Anatomy of Melancholy What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Several Cures of It. London Nonesuch Press 1925 2 volumes. pp. Vol I xv, [i], 299, [iii]; Vol II [viii], 301-588, [viii]; Vellum Spines. Patterned paper covered boards. Corners and edges slightly bumped else very good copy. Printed on Dutch paper with the Nonesuch Press watermark. Illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer, some tinted in colour typography and

design by Francis Meynell, McKnight Kauffer rented studio space in Bloomsbury next door to Francis Meynell’s Nonesuch Press, with whom he was good friends. The volumes illustrate a close relationship between typographer and illustrator. The effect is of an ancient portfolio updated. For instance the title page, originally by Christian Le Blon 1638 is neatly updated using the same structural arrangement of the page. No 648 of 750 copies. The book was first published in 1621, and was a milestone medical textbook on the subject of melancholia. See Haworth Booth “McKnight Kauffer a designer and his public” V&A 2005 pp42-43 [Ref: 21038] £500 33. [McKNIGHT KAUFFER] HAWORTH - BOOTH, Mark. E McKnight Kauffer London V&A 2005 4to. Decorated wrappers Fine. Ex libris with bookplate of Gavin Stamp on

inside of front wrapper. Two pieces of correspondence inserted concerning the erection of a blue plaque to E McKnight Kauffer written to Emily Cole at English Heritage - this maybe from Simon Randall who also made the preliminary report on a blue plaque for him and which is loosely inserted. [Ref: 19855] £25

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34. (MINTON, John) CROSS, Odo. The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower and Other Stories by Odo Cross. Illustrated by John Minton. London John Lehmann 1947[10] +7-86+ [4] pp. Small 4to. Original paper boards and beautiful pictorial dust wrapper printed in teal, red, black and white. Minor damage to the edges of the dust wrapper and the spine is slightly darkened. Decorated end papers in b/w. 20+ lovely illustrations in colour and b/w. First Edition. Text comprises short stories which include both The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower and The Dove that Wanted to See the Queen. [Ref: 21058] £135

35. [MINTON, John] ROSS, Alan and MINTON, John. Time was away: a notebook in Corsica London John Lehmann 1948 189pp illustrated with over 50 ills including 8 vibrant colour lithos by John Minton. Yellow boards, title on spine on green strip denoting the first edition. Fore edges a little browned. Dust wrapper is price clipped and is missing a small triangular piece on part covering the back of the book. The head and base of spine of the wrapper is also rather worn with

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lower edge of dust wrapper repaired at base of spine with ancient paper tape. Close collaboration between poet and painter resulted in the creation of this lovely book. Text includes tales of historical figures together with a number of poems. One of the key neo-romantic books of the 1940s. This copy has an ownership inscription on front end paper “To Jules, Mon Petit Bandit with happy returns [to Corsica] From Muriel. March 11 1949.” [Ref: 21043] £550

36. [MONEYTREE PRESS ILLINOIS] WILLIAMS, Jonathan [Introduction] NEIDECKER, Lorine Epitaphs for Lorine Penland, North Carolina The Jargon Society 1973 First edition. 12mo 100x165mm. One of 1000 copies. Un-numbered. Inscribed by Jonathan Williams, Corn Close Winter Solstice 1973.[ Dentdale, N Yorkshire. With contributions from A. A. Ammons, Basil Bunting, Guy Davenport, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, among others. Frontispiece print by A. D. Moore, original printed wrappers, dust jacket with back cover by Ian Hamilton Finlay and front cover photograph by Diane Tammes. Slight yellowing to corner of dust wrappers. Produced as a tribute to Lorine Neidecker. Poet, 1903-1970. [Ref: 20402] £45 37. [MONVEL] WIDOR, Charles M. Vieilles Chansons et Rondes Pour Les Petits Enfants Paris Librairie Plon 1927 Decorated cloth binding overprinted with titles on upper boards and gilt embossed flower. 47pp beautifully illustrated with vignettes by Monvel. Oblong 4to. “1934 dedication on a pasted down label - all good wishes for the boy from Mrs. Charles Richard Williams Christmas 1934”.

Binding a little shaky else good copy. Text of songs in French. Some with accompaniment music also written out. [Ref: 21046] £35

38. [NASH, Paul] FORD, Ford Madox [ FORD MADOX HUEFFER] Mister Bosphorus and the Muses or, a Short History for Poetry in Britain, Variety Entertainment in Four Acts. Music by several popular composers. Decorated with designs engraved on wood by Paul Nash. London Duckworth & Co 1923 127pp. 6 full-page and 5 smaller wood-engravings. Cloth spine. Grey pictorial boards with title lettering. Extremities of corners bumped else good copy. The

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Nash illustrations are slightly abstract in form hinting at the style he was beginning to develop. [Ref: 21068] £210 Signed by John Drinkwater 39. [NASH, Paul] DRINKWATER, John. Cotswold Characters New Haven Yale University Press 1923 Dedication copy signed to Peggy ? 54pp. With 5 engravings on wood by Paul Nash. Book

was never published in Great Britain. Brown speckled boards with paper title label to front cover. In frayed and torn plain glassine wrapper. [Ref: 21076] £60 40. [NASH, Paul] ARMSTRONG, Martin. Saint Hercules and other Stories with drawings by Paul Nash London The Fleuron Limited,

printed by Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press 1927 no 20 of 310 printed on Zander’s handmade paper. 65pp, illustrated with five drawings, hand-coloured through stencils by the artist. Gilt lettered spine, decorated boards using a Paul Nash design for patterned papers. Small wormhole in front end paper, corner tips

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a little rubbed else very good copy. [Ref: 21062] £245 41. [NASH Paul] BOULTON, Janet. (editor) Dear Mercia Paul Nash letters to Mercia Oakley 1909-18 Netherton, Wakefield The Fleece Press Limited 1991 edition of 300 copies (of which 250 were for sale). Quarter cloth and patterned paste paper boards, paper spine-label, large 8vo, 106, [1], blank leaf, [1] pp, illustrations, some tipped in, map in pocket at end. Fine copy in slipcase as issued. [Ref: 18979] £65 42. [NASH, Paul] GRAHAM, Rigby. A Note on the Book Illustrations of Paul Nash Wymondham Brewhouse Press 1965 32pp in original green paper wrappers. 8vo. Very good copy. Illustrated with reproductions of some of the black and white illustrations made by Nash. [Ref: 21083] £25 43. [NICHOLSON, William] DAVIES, William B The Hour of Magic London Jonathan Cape 1922 35pp, 8 reproduced drawings; 8vo. 195 x 135mm; cream boards with paste down label on upper boards and spine. Label chipped a little and spine darkened. Boards a bit dusty else very good. [Ref: 21074] £22 44. [NIELSON, Kay] JACQUES, Henry. Sous le Signe du Rossignol Paris, L’Edition d’Art H Piazza

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Decorative title page, and illustrated with 19 mounted colour plates as well as twelve black & white vignette drawings and six initial letters decorated in red by Danish illustrator and designer Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) by Kay Nielsen, protected by lettered tissue guards. 102pp of text in French. Green borders to each page. No 796 of 1500 copies printed on Japanese paper. Text is a well-known children’s tale “Beneath the sign of the Nightingale”. [Ref: 21080] £500

45. [O'CONNOR, John] An Essex Dozen a twelve point progress from London to the coast Colchester Benham 1953 8vo. Grey paper covered boards overprinted with the title. Original glassine wrapper partially present. Very good copy. For private distribution. No 242 of 500 copies. Image of Liverpool Street Station and eleven further images all in Essex itself mainly in colour or duotone with one in black and white. Fascinating introduction on how the prints were made from O’Connor’s original drawings adding to the interest of this title. [Ref: 21035] £45 46. [O’CONNOR. John], The English Scene Risbury, Herefordshire The Whittington Press 2004 72pp, 37 bw and colour wood engravings by John O’Connor. No 55 of the edition of 200 copies, initialled in pencil by the artist at the end. 125 x 97.5mm Cloth backed decorated boards, gilt title, In matching board slip

case. A survey by the artist of the best of his earlier work, little of which has been seen before, with comments by the artist about each block. This book was on the press when the artist died (5 March 2004) and incorporates his last wishes to have a number of the wood engravings printed in colour or with a second colour lino block. Set in 14 pt. Bell type and printed on Fabriano and Hahnemuhle Ingres and Oxford cream laid papers. [Ref: 13385] £195

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47. [PAINE, Charles] MORTON. James, To Young Weavers being some practical dreams on the future of textiles Morton Sundour Ltd 1927 Unpaginated. Text illustrations throughout in monochrome and colour. Decorated end papers. Boards. Very good with original glassine dw... Designed by Charles Paine of the Baynard Press and printed on fine handmade paper. Produced as a 21st birthday for the firm Morton Sundour by its founder who was inspired to write the piece after being invited to give out prizes at the Institute of Textiles in Manchester to young designers. Beautiful souvenir book of the firm. [Ref: 20603] £185

48. PIPER John Buildings and Prospects London The Architectural Press 1948 146pp incl. photographs and line ills. Small 4to. Publishers cloth with pictorial dw by John Piper. Very good copy but dust wrapper is little chipped at head and base of spine. Price scribbled out on inner flat flap of dust wrapper in pen. Writings on architecture including his well-known essay on "Pleasing Decay". Lovely period piece with material which appeared initially in the Architectural Review as well as material on Hafod, Seaton Delaval and Gordale Scar amongst other pieces. [Ref: 21059] £75 49. [PIPER] STOKES Adrian Venice London Gerald Duckworth & Co 1965 69pp illustrated by John Piper including the dust wrapper and end papers. Small 4to. Good copy in slightly

worn dust wrapper. Inscription on front end paper in pen. [Ref: 21067] £60

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50. PITTS, J Martin Gymnopaediae Llandogo, Near Monmouth, Old Stile Press 1989 Limited edition of 220 copies, this being no. 174 signed by the artist, J. Martin Pitts. pp [75]. Linocut illustrations throughout. Original publisher's quarter black cloth, with title blind stamped at spine and blue illustrated paper boards. Hardback. Slip-Case. 4to. No dust wrapper as issued. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. The images in the book are inspired by ritual dances held in the ancient city of Thera. From the collection of Bruce Wannell with his bookplate which was specially made by Mark Hearld in York. Very good copy.

[Ref: 20868] £80 51. [PITTS] NOEL, Roden. Illustrated by PITTS, J. Martin. The Waternymph and the Boy Llandogo, Near Monmouth Old Stile Press 1997 Limited edition no 149 of 225 copies. Signed by Martin Pitts. Unpaginated. Poem by Noel 9 1834-1894 interpreted through images by Pitts. Martin

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Pitts' name has been associated with The Old Stile Press since the very beginning. He made linocuts for the first book made by the Press and then, a succession of further projects with his images. Roden Noel lived from 1834 to 1894. In this poem he mixes elements of the story of Salamis & Hermaphroditus from Ovid's Metamorphoses with memories of moods, settings and atmospheres from his Irish childhood, combining, as John Addington Symonds wrote, “full sensuous feeling for the material world with an ever-present sense of the spirit informing it and bringing all its products into vital harmony.” Pitts’ images here are printed in dark honey-coloured ink highlighted with white ink on a light honey-brown coloured Ingres paper giving the whole book construction an ephemeral feel. Printed cloth covered flimsy boards with gilt lettered spine, blue end papers and ribbon ties. From the collection of Bruce Wannell with his bookplate which was specially made by Mark Hearld in York. Very good copy. [Ref: 20866] £120

52. [RAVILIOUS] RICHARDS, J. M [ written by] RAVILIOUS, Eric. [Illustrator] High Street London Curwen Press and Country Life Limited 1938 101 pp. With 24 full-page colour lithographs. Publisher’s original pictorial boards. Boards bright. Very slightly chipped at head and base of spine and extremities of corners. Slightly foxed end papers with signature and ownership ticket of

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previous owner J. E .Reeves Fowkes. Only 2000 copies were printed, and the original lithographic plates were destroyed by a bomb during the war, so it was never reprinted by The Curwen Press. Ravilious was an official war artist, and the aircraft that he was a spotter in disappeared while he was stationed in Iceland in 1942. A very nice copy. Increasingly scarce as many copies have been taken apart and the illustrations old off as individual images. The text of J M Richards, who initially worked as an architect but who is better known as Editor of Architectural Review 1937-1972, complements the lovely illustrations making this book far more than just a book of Ravilious illustrations. J. E. Reeve Fowkes became editor of the periodical “Print Design and Production” in the post war period and was himself a printer. [Ref: 21041] £2,250

53. [RAVILIOUS, Eric] STRONG, L.A.G. The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons; Being Random Reflections upon the Silver Jubilee of King George V. London Golden Cockerell Press 43 pages, one of 1000 unnumbered copies Limited Edition, 1st editon. Tall 8vo. Original blue lettered silver boards. With a wood engraved frontispiece and 5 further in-text illustrations by Eric Ravilious. No dust wrapper. [Ref: 21060] £50 54. [RAVILIOUS] ULLMAN, Anne. Ravilious at War September 1939-1942 Upper Denby The Fleece Press 2002 283pp 200 illustrations, including 150 colour plates. Oblong 4to. Gilt titled light blue cloth with a paper label to upper cover, Limited edition, one of 750 copies, a superb production from the Fleece Press. Very good. Original prospectus loosely inserted. [Ref: 17807] £550

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55. UNDERWOOD, Leon. Leon Underwood. His Wood Engravings Wakefield The Fleece Press 1986 [48]pp. Frontispiece, 2 small vignettes and 16 full page wood engravings, postcard showing a copy of this book specially bound by John Pearson loosely inserted. Quarto. Green quarter morocco, patterned paper boards in paper created by Sage Reynolds of New York. Preserved in a custom made cloth covered drop-back box case. A fine copy. Limited edition, no. 153 of 200 copies. [Ref: 13368] £320

56. SUTTON, Emily. Allotment Calendar 2021 Emily Sutton designed a hugely successful desk calendar for Art Angels based on vintage tin toys which they produced for 2018 and 2019. They have commissioned this new design from Emily for 2021. This year’s design is the same format as before; a concertina form desk calendar which comes in a display wallet. The design echoes the die cut allotment cards that Emily has created before and reflects the change in the growing year of the allotment. The reverse of the calendar is simple block colours.88x170mm £6.95

57. [TUNNICLIFFE, Charles] ROGERSON, Sidney. Both sides of the Road: A book about Farming London The Country Book Club [Collins, 1949] 1951 183pp, with fine coloured frontispiece, 22 fine coloured plates and numerous black and white text illustrations. 4to. Green cloth, Good copy with slightly worn price-clipped dust wrapper. Second of Tunnicliffe's effective collaborations with Rogerson following 'Our Bird Book' (1947) reproduced by the Country Book Club. Primarily written for young people as an introduction to the countryside. [Ref: 21086] £55

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