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Beauclair (R., Editor) & Gradl (M.I., Editor) Documents D’Architecture-Moderne Ensembles et Details, Formes, Materiaux, Couleurs. 4e Annee, 23 vol., 145 mostly colour plates, some tipped in, No. 1 – 12 with all but no.12 duplicated, green paper cover, some detached, folio, Paris, H. Laurens, 1905 (small quantity)
Carroll (Lewis) [Dodgson (C.L.)] The Nursery Alice, SECOND (FIRST PUBLISHED) EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, ONE OF 100 PRESENTATION COPIES, 'For Nina, from the Author. Mar. 25, 1890' on half-title, illustrations in colour by John Tenniel, original decorated glazed boards, cloth spine, carefully repaired, slightly soiled, edges and corners rubbed, 4to, 1890. ***Inscribed in Carroll's usual purple ink. Nina was Nina "Ninty" Eschwege. She eventually married Herbert Haviland Field, an American zoologist in 1903 - two of their children gained notoriety for their participation in communist espionage activity.
Golden Cockerel Press. - Henry VIII (King of England, France & Ireland) & Macnamara (Francis, Editor) Miscellaneous Writings, NUMBER 14 OF 365 COPIES, signed by editor and artist, woodcut frontispiece (slightly offset) and illustrations by R obert Gibbings, printed in red and black, bookplate of Norman Bruce, original burgundy morocco, gilt, spine and front cover little scuffed, lower corner of front cover little damaged, without slipcase, 4to, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1924.
Limited Editions.- Apuleius (Lucius) The Golden Asse...translated by William Adlington, NUMBER 874 OF 3000 COPIES, colour and black and white plates & text-illustrations by Jean de Bosschère, colour plates with tissue guards, slight spotting at beginning and end, original cloth, gilt, little knocked, t.e.g., others uncut, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923; Plato's Symposium or Supper, translated by Francis Birrell & Shane Leslie, NUMBER 167 OF 175 COPIES, signed by Shane Leslie, slight spotting to fore-edge, original vellum, gilt lettering and rules, little spotted, covers bowed, The Fortune Press, [1925]; Hawthorne (Nathaniel) The Scarlet Letter, NUMBER 822 OF 980 COPIES, colour wood-engraved illustrations by Valenti Angelo, original morocco-backed cloth, ends of spine scuffed, New York, Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for Random House, 1928, 8vo (3)
Poems for Shakespeare 2, edited by Graham Fawcett, NUMBER 25 OF 100 COPIES, signed by all the (living) contributors, inscribed on front freeendpaper by Sam Wannamaker to Admiral Sandy Woodward, July 1988, original calf-backed cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, g.e., bound by A.M.Lumsden, cloth slip-case, 8vo, Globe Playhouse Trust Publications, 1973. ***Contributors include: Ted Hughes, D.J.Enright, Wole Soyinka and Michael Hamburger. Seamus Heaney contributes 'A Flourish for the Prince of Denmark'. Admiral Sir John ('Sandy') Woodwardcommanded the carrier battle group Task Force 317.8 during the Falklands conflict, 1982.
White (John).- Hulton (Paul) & Quinn (David Beers) The American Drawings of John White, 1577-1590, 2 vol., NUMBER 'UK 1' OF 600 COPIES, colour and monochrome plates, dark red morocco, gilt, arms on front covers, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf, cloth slipc ase, rubbed, one panel all but loose, folio, British Museum / North Carolina University Press, 1964.