London: Odhams Press Limited, 1951. First edition. Large 8vo. 190, (2) pp. Publisher's fawn cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, Beaton designed dust jacket, price clipped, inscribed by Beaton on the front free endpaper "To Bill with all good wishes from..." 60 pages of black and white photogravure illustrations, some.....

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Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, [1929]. First French edition, folio, xv, (i) pp, followed by 120 black and white plates. Mild browning to endpapers only. Original gilt titled green cloth, d.w. browned and a little soiled with some loss to spine ends and extremities. Scarce.

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London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue. 8vo. vi, 374, (4) pp. Recent green half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and a gilt device repeated to the others, top edge gilt. 7 Heliotype plates and 21 engravings in the text.....

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[London]: Printed for the Author, 1764. First edition, folio, iv, (7 List of Subscribers, 1), 33, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 60 plates on 53 leaves - 14 double page and/or extending. Armorial bookplate of James O'Byrne. Contemporary speckled calf, subtly rebacked with a gilt spine, a handsome copy. Already a......

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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press... London: Sold by J. Dodsley, J. Robson [et al], 1776. First edition. 4to. (iv), xiv, (ii), 304 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked, retaining one of the original gilt lettered red labels, early ownership inscription, "Somerset Bridge Club," to the front free endpaper. 7 plates -.....

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[Vicenza: Michele Tramezino], 1543. 8vo, (ix), 180, (3) leaves. Woodcut to the title page and final page, early manuscript name inked out to the title page, some minor marginal soiling and marks, small piece torn from the lower corner of leaf A4, 19th century armorial bookplate to the rear paste.....

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901, 1902. Two volumes, first editions thus, 8vp. Photographic frontispiece portraits of Carroll and Newell plus 40 plates in each volume, decorative borders to the text, contemporary owner's signature to the fly leaves, later bookplates of the publisher Walter Kahoe. Original gilt titled parchment, t.e.g......

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London: John Murray, 1861. Third edition, seventh thousand. 8vo. xx, 538 pp. Later green half straight grain morocco for Hatchards, green cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the foot, marbled endpapers with the bookplate of a Laurence Currie to the front.....

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Kantabrigia [Cambridge]: Ioannou Phieldou [John Field], 1665, 1664. Two works in one volume, 12mo, xxxvi, 126, (2, ii), 115, (3), 117-171, (1) pp. Marginal loss to O6 in the second work without loss of text, contemporary signature to the title page of the first work. Contemporary calf, a little worn.....

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(Upper Denby): The Fleece Press, (2006). Limited edition, one of 246 copies, 8vo, 56, (4) pp. 22 illustrations, 5 tipped in. Quarter cloth, marbled boards, folding cloth case, a fine copy.

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London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1978. Limited edition, no. 248 of 376 copies from a total edition of 440. Oblong folio. (14) pp. Publisher's brown quarter morocco over grey cloth sides, matching cloth slipcase. 7 plates and 11 further illustrations. An attractive copy.

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London: The James Press, [1931]. First edition, 8vo, 57, (1) pp. Dedication leaf and 7 full page illustrations on pink paper, text on light blue paper with light marginal browning throughout, some other small illustrations, with the initials of the writer and artist Wilfrid Blunt on the fly leaf, Betjeman's.....

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