Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Subject Terms: Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.

1. Cupid and Psyches / the excellent narration of their marriage translated into English by William Adlington out of the Latine bookes of the Golden asse by Apuleius, 1566.

Creator:: Apuleius
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [60] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Cupid & Psyches : the most pleasant & delectable tale of their marriage : engravings by Lettice Sandford.

Creator:: Apuleius
Date:: MCMXXXIV [1934]
Physical Description:: 47, [1] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The Amazons : a novel / by Ivor Bannet ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Bannet, Ivor
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: 252, [2] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Euphormio's Satyricon / by John Barclay ; translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner ; ten wood engravings by Derrick Harris.

Creator:: Barclay, John, 1582–1621
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: [2], 158 pages, [10] leaves of plates : ilustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus : a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont / edited by Gwyn Jones ; with ten engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Beaumont, Francis, 1584–1616
Date:: 1951
Physical Description:: 44, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Vathek / by William Beckford ; a new translation by Herbert B. Grimsditch ; with ten illustrations by Marion V. Dorn.

Creator:: Beckford, William, 1760–1844
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: [4], 172, [2] pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Select poems : divine and humane / by Thomas Beedome.

Creator:: Beedome, Thomas, -1641?
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: [6], 51, [1], iv, [4] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The Arab war : confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret "Arab bulletin" / introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920.

Creator:: Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868–1926
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 50, [2] pages ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Brief candles / by Laurence Binyon ; with six engravings by Helen Binyon.

Creator:: Binyon, Laurence, 1869–1943
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 49, [3] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Pencil drawings by William Blake / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: xvi, [2] pages, 82 leaves, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Blake's pencil drawings : second series / edited by Geoffrey Keynes for the Nonesuch Press.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: xi, [115] pages, [56] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The note-book of William Blake : called the Rossetti manuscript / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:: xii, 162, [1] pages, [120] pages of facsimile : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The complete writings of William Blake : with all the variant readings / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: MCMLVII [1957]
Physical Description:: xv, [3], 936, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Poetry and prose of William Blake / edited by Geoffrey Keynes ; complete in one volume.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 1152 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The writings of William Blake / edited in three volumes by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

16. The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil : with the first Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips / the introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 38, [14] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The voyage of the Bounty's launch : as related in William Bligh's despatch to the Admiralty and the journal of John Fryer / with an introduction by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 86, [2] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Bligh's voyage in the Resource : from Coupang to Batavia : together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch packet Vlydt and his remarks on Morrison's journal : all printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales / with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter, & engravings on wood by Peter Barker-Mill.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 159, [3] pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The log of the Bounty : being Lieutenant William Bligh's log of the proceedings of His Majesty's armed vessel Bounty in a voyage to the South Seas, to take the breadfruit from the Society Islands to the West Indies : now published for the first time from the manuscript in the Admiralty records / with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter ; comments on Bligh's navigation by Rear-Admiral J.A. Edgell, O.B.E., hydrographer of the Navy ; and four engravings on wood by Lynton Lamb.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Sketches by Boz : and other minor works.

Creator:: Boz, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xxix, [1], 817, [3] pages, [57] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

Creator:: Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593–1649
Date:: MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Physical Description:: 196, [4] pages : maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Circe and Ulysses : the Inner Temple masque presented by the gentlemen there January 13, 1614 / written by William Browne of Tavistock and now edited, with an essay on William Browne and the English masque, by Gwyn Jones ; seven wood-engravings by Mark Severin.

Creator:: Browne, William, 1590–approximately 1645
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: 61, [1] pages, [1] leaf, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Pictor ignotus, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto / by Robert Browning.

Creator:: Browning, Robert, 1812–1889
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [4], 9-39, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The pilgrim's progress : and The life & death of Mr. Badman / John Bunyan, 1628-1688.

Creator:: Bunyan, John, 1628–1688
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: 22, viii, 204, [1], x-xxiii, [2], 206-450, [4] pages, [7] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Butleriana / S.B.

Creator:: Butler, Samuel, 1835–1902
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [8], vii-xvi, 172, [4] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Jurgen : a comedy of justice / by James Branch Cabell ; with wood engravings by John Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Cabell, James Branch, 1879–1958
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: 349, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Caesar, Julius
Date:: 1951
Physical Description:: 311, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A crime against Cania / by Arthur Calder-Marshall.

Creator:: Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 1908–
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [2], 65, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The constant mistress / by Enid Clay ; wth engravings by Eric Gill.

Creator:: Clay, Enid
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [6], 9-40, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine : with other records of his early career in England & America : viz: Life & adventures, The scarecrow, Remarks of the pamphlets, Talleyrand: a spy, Farewell to America, A court-martial, A retrospect / by William Cobbett.

Creator:: Cobbett, William, 1763–1835
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: [6], 163, [1] pages : color illustration ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Selected poems of Coleridge.

Creator:: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: [8], 130 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Coleridge : select poetry & prose / edited by Stephen Potter.

Creator:: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834
Date:: 1933
Physical Description:: xxx, 821 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Minnow among Tritons : Mrs. S. T. Coleridge's letters to Thomas Poole, 1799-1834 / edited by Stephen Potter.

Creator:: Coleridge, Sara Fricker, -1845
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: xxxvi, [2], 185, [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The Devil and all / by John Collier.

Creator:: Collier, John, 1901–1980
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [6],123, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The labyrinth of the world and the paradise of the heart / translated by Count Lutzow ; illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

Creator:: Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592–1670
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: 271, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Letters from Conrad, 1895 to 1924 / edited with introduction and notes by Edward Garnett ; with two portraits.

Creator:: Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 334, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Tapster's tapestry / by A.E Coppard ; engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: [2], 5-58, [2] pages : illustrations. ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The mistress : with other select poems of Abraham Cowley, 1618-1667 / edited by John Sparrow.

Creator:: Cowley, Abraham, 1618–1667
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: xx, 213, [3] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Tomorrow's star : an essay on the shattering and remoulding of a world / by L. Cranmer-Byng.

Creator:: Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot), 1872–1945
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 179, [3] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. In defence of woman : a Welsh poem / by Wiliam Cynwal ; translated by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

Creator:: Cynwal, Wiliam, -1587 or 1588
Date:: [1960]
Physical Description:: 28, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. La divina commedia, or The divine vision of Dante Alighieri : in Italian & English / the Italian text edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence with the English version of H.F. Cary and 42 illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli.

Creator:: Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: [4], 324, [4] pages, [76] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The golden carpet / by Somerset De Chair.

Creator:: De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911–
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The story of a lifetime / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911–
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: 93, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The silver crescent / by Somerset de Chair.

Creator:: De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911–
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 126, [2] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. La belle O'Morphi : a brief biography / by Patrick De Heriz ; with illustrations by Francois Boucher.

Creator:: De Heriz, Patrick
Date:: [1947]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The personal history of David Copperfield.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [4], vii-xxii, 871, [3] pages, [42] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Barnaby Rudge.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xix, [3], 685, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A tale of two cities.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xiv, 363, [3] pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The Pickwick papers.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [4], vii-xxxiv, [2], 798, [2] pages, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Our mutual friend.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xviii, [2], 927, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The letters of Charles Dickens / edited by Walter Dexter.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Collected papers.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Christmas books.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xv, [3], 482, [2] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The mystery of Edwin Drood : Christmas stories.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [4], vii-xix, [3], 874, [2] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Oliver Twist.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xxviii, 418, [2] pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Martin Chuzzlewit.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xxiv, [2], 844, [2] pages, [44] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Nicholas Nickleby.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xxiii, [3], 835, [3] pages, [42] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Little Dorrit.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xx, 852 pages, [42] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Bleak House.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xx, [2], 874, [2] pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Dombey and Son.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xx, [2], 880, [2] pages, [42] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Reprinted pieces : The uncommercial traveller and other stories.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xiii, [1], 857, [3] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Great expectations : Hard times.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870.
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 765, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. American notes : Pictures from Italy : A child's history of England : The life of our Lord.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xxii, 891, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The old curiosity shop.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xiii, [3], 593, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [6], 79, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Paradoxes and problemes / by Iohn Donne ; with two Characters and an Essay of valour ; now for the first time reprinted from the editions of 1633 and 1652, with one additional Probleme.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: viii, 80 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Complete poetry and selected prose / edited by John Hayward.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 793, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. X sermons preached by that late and learned and Rev. Divine John Donne : doctor in divinity, once dean of the cathedral church of Saint Paul's / chosen from the whole body of Donne's sermons by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [6], 162 pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The love poems of John Donne : with some account of his life taken from the writings of 1639 of Izaak Walton.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 91 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The courtier's library, or, Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium / by John Donne ; edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson ; with a translation.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1930
Physical Description:: [4], 93, [1] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Songs and poems of John Dryden / chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones ; drawings by Lavinia Blythe.

Creator:: Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:: 1957
Physical Description:: [2], 64 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Dryden : the dramatic works : prefatory notes, introduction, chronology of dramatick poesie, the wild gallant, the rival ladies, the Indian Queen, the Indian Emperour, notes : in six volumes / edited by Montague Summers, for the Nonesuch Press.

Creator:: Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:: MCMXXXI-MCMXXXII [1931-1932]
Physical Description:: 6 volumes ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld / selected from the Lushington papers and edited by Walter Sidney Scott ; illustrations by Lettice Sandford.

Creator:: Edgeworth, Maria, 1768–1849
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: [2], 5-86, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Chapman / by Havelock Ellis ; with illustrative passages.

Creator:: Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [4], 146, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Memoires for my grand-son / by John Evelyn ; transcribed and furnished with a preface and notes by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: xii, [2], 104, [1] pages ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The complete works of George Farquhar : in two volumes / edited by Charles Stonehill.

Creator:: Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707
Date:: MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Glue and lacquer : four cautionary tales / translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-hsieh ; preface by Arthur Waley ; with illustrations from drawings by Eric Gill interpreted on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Feng, Menglong, 1574–1646
Date:: 1941
Physical Description:: 139, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the great / by Henry Fielding ; with seven etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: viii, 278, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. A journey from this world to the next / by Henry Fielding ; with six etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:: MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: 175, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Matthew Flinders' narrative of his voyage in the schooner Francis, 1798 : preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c. / by Geoffrey Rawson ; with engravings by John Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Flinders, Matthew, 1774–1814
Date:: 1946
Physical Description:: 100, [2] pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Minxes admonished, or, Beauty reproved : an album of deplorable caprices / faithfully narrated & modestly embellished by William Russell Flint

Creator:: Flint, W. Russell (William Russell), Sir, 1880–1969
Date:: MCMLV [1955]
Physical Description:: [13],16-123, [5] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A plurality of worlds : John Glanvill's translation / with a prologue by David Garnett.

Creator:: Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657–1757
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 138, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The ladies' pocket book of etiquette / by A. F. (1838) ; with engravings by Hester Sainsbury.

Creator:: Freeling, Arthur
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: [10], 55, [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. John Fryer of the Bounty : notes on his career / written by his daughter, Mary Ann ; with an introduction and commentary by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve.

Creator:: Gamble, Mary Ann Fryer, 1791–
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 53, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The lottery ticket / by V.G. Calderon ; done into English by Richard Phibbs ; with engravings by Dorothea Braby.

Creator:: García Calderón, Ventura, 1886–1959
Date:: [1945]
Physical Description:: [4], 7-11, [3] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The white llama : being La venganza del condor of V.G. Calderon / now translated into English for the first time by Richard Phibbs ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: García Calderón, Ventura, 1886–1959
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 123 pages, [1] : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The first crusade : the deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites : "Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum" / translated into English for the first time by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum. English
Date:: 1945
Physical Description:: 92, [2] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Folk tales and fairy stories from India / by Sudhin N. Ghose ; with illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile.

Creator:: Ghose, Sudhindra Nath.
Date:: 1961
Physical Description:: 147, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The Lord's song : a sermon / by Eric Gill.

Creator:: Gill, Eric, 1882–1940
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Id quod visum placet : a practical test of the beautiful. / by Eric Gill, T.O.S.D.

Creator:: Gill, Eric, 1882–1940
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: 19 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Mr. Glasspoole and the Chinese pirates / being the narrative of Mr. Richard Glasspoole of the ship Marquis of Ely ; describing his captivity of eleven weeks and three days whilst held for ransom by the villainous ladrones of the China Sea in the year 1809 ; together with extracts from the China records and log of the Marquis of Ely ; and some remarks on Chinese pirates, ancient and modern, by Owen Rutter ; and four engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Glasspoole, Richard, 1788–1846
Date:: MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:: 57, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. [Prospectus for Somerset Struben de Chair's The silver crescent]

Creator:: Golden Cockerel Press
Date:: [1943]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Heartsease and honesty : being the Pastimes of the Sieur de Grammont, steward to the Duc de Richelieu in Touraine / taken from his notebooks written in French, never before printed & here made English by Helen Simpson.

Creator:: Gramont, Scipion de, sieur de Saint Germain, -approximately 1638
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: [2], 5-77, [3] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Gray's Elegy written in a country church-yard / with a foreword by Christopher Sandford ; and eight engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

Creator:: Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:: McMxlvi [1946]
Physical Description:: 19, [3] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The Latin portrait : an anthology / made by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, G. Rostrevor (George Rostrevor), 1888–1967
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 367, [1] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The Grecian enchanted / by Phyllis Hartnoll ; with eight aquatints by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Hartnoll, Phyllis
Date:: 1952
Physical Description:: 80 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey / De motu cordis 1628; De circulatione sanguinis 1649 : the first English text of 1653 now newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Harvey, William, 1578–1657
Date:: [1928]
Physical Description:: xvi, 202, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Selected essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 / edited by Geoffrey Keynes, F.R.C.S.

Creator:: Hazlitt, William, 1778–1830
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: xxiv, 807, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The temple : sacred poems & private ejaculations / by George Herbert.

Creator:: Herbert, George, 1593–1633
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: x, 213, [1] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The history of Herodotus of Halicarnassus / the translation of G. Rawlinson revised & annotated by A.W. Lawrence ; with nine wood engravings by V. Le Campion and a series of maps by T. Poulton ; to which is added, a life of Herodotus and the Behiston inscription.

Creator:: Herodotus
Date:: MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:: xxvi, 778, [4] pages, IX leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Cupid and Psyches / the excellent narration of their marriage translated into English by William Adlington out of the Latine bookes of the Golden asse by Apuleius, 1566.

2. Cupid & Psyches : the most pleasant & delectable tale of their marriage : engravings by Lettice Sandford.

3. The Amazons : a novel / by Ivor Bannet ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

4. Euphormio's Satyricon / by John Barclay ; translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner ; ten wood engravings by Derrick Harris.

5. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus : a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont / edited by Gwyn Jones ; with ten engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright.

6. Vathek / by William Beckford ; a new translation by Herbert B. Grimsditch ; with ten illustrations by Marion V. Dorn.

7. Select poems : divine and humane / by Thomas Beedome.

8. The Arab war : confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret "Arab bulletin" / introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920.

9. Brief candles / by Laurence Binyon ; with six engravings by Helen Binyon.

10. Pencil drawings by William Blake / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

11. Blake's pencil drawings : second series / edited by Geoffrey Keynes for the Nonesuch Press.

12. The note-book of William Blake : called the Rossetti manuscript / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

13. The complete writings of William Blake : with all the variant readings / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

14. Poetry and prose of William Blake / edited by Geoffrey Keynes ; complete in one volume.

15. The writings of William Blake / edited in three volumes by Geoffrey Keynes.

16. The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil : with the first Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips / the introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

17. The voyage of the Bounty's launch : as related in William Bligh's despatch to the Admiralty and the journal of John Fryer / with an introduction by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.

20. Sketches by Boz : and other minor works.

21. The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

22. Circe and Ulysses : the Inner Temple masque presented by the gentlemen there January 13, 1614 / written by William Browne of Tavistock and now edited, with an essay on William Browne and the English masque, by Gwyn Jones ; seven wood-engravings by Mark Severin.

23. Pictor ignotus, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto / by Robert Browning.

24. The pilgrim's progress : and The life & death of Mr. Badman / John Bunyan, 1628-1688.

25. Butleriana / S.B.

26. Jurgen : a comedy of justice / by James Branch Cabell ; with wood engravings by John Buckland Wright.

27. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

28. A crime against Cania / by Arthur Calder-Marshall.

29. The constant mistress / by Enid Clay ; wth engravings by Eric Gill.

30. Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine : with other records of his early career in England & America : viz: Life & adventures, The scarecrow, Remarks of the pamphlets, Talleyrand: a spy, Farewell to America, A court-martial, A retrospect / by William Cobbett.

31. Selected poems of Coleridge.

32. Coleridge : select poetry & prose / edited by Stephen Potter.

33. Minnow among Tritons : Mrs. S. T. Coleridge's letters to Thomas Poole, 1799-1834 / edited by Stephen Potter.

34. The Devil and all / by John Collier.

35. The labyrinth of the world and the paradise of the heart / translated by Count Lutzow ; illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

36. Letters from Conrad, 1895 to 1924 / edited with introduction and notes by Edward Garnett ; with two portraits.

37. Tapster's tapestry / by A.E Coppard ; engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

38. The mistress : with other select poems of Abraham Cowley, 1618-1667 / edited by John Sparrow.

39. Tomorrow's star : an essay on the shattering and remoulding of a world / by L. Cranmer-Byng.

40. In defence of woman : a Welsh poem / by Wiliam Cynwal ; translated by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

41. La divina commedia, or The divine vision of Dante Alighieri : in Italian & English / the Italian text edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence with the English version of H.F. Cary and 42 illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli.

42. The golden carpet / by Somerset De Chair.

43. The story of a lifetime / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

44. The silver crescent / by Somerset de Chair.

45. La belle O'Morphi : a brief biography / by Patrick De Heriz ; with illustrations by Francois Boucher.

46. The personal history of David Copperfield.

47. Barnaby Rudge.

48. A tale of two cities.

49. The Pickwick papers.

50. Our mutual friend.

51. The letters of Charles Dickens / edited by Walter Dexter.

52. Collected papers.

53. Christmas books.

54. The mystery of Edwin Drood : Christmas stories.

55. Oliver Twist.

56. Martin Chuzzlewit.

57. Nicholas Nickleby.

58. Little Dorrit.

59. Bleak House.

60. Dombey and Son.

61. Reprinted pieces : The uncommercial traveller and other stories.

62. Great expectations : Hard times.

63. American notes : Pictures from Italy : A child's history of England : The life of our Lord.

64. The old curiosity shop.

65. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

66. Paradoxes and problemes / by Iohn Donne ; with two Characters and an Essay of valour ; now for the first time reprinted from the editions of 1633 and 1652, with one additional Probleme.

67. Complete poetry and selected prose / edited by John Hayward.

68. X sermons preached by that late and learned and Rev. Divine John Donne : doctor in divinity, once dean of the cathedral church of Saint Paul's / chosen from the whole body of Donne's sermons by Geoffrey Keynes.

69. The love poems of John Donne : with some account of his life taken from the writings of 1639 of Izaak Walton.

70. The courtier's library, or, Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium / by John Donne ; edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson ; with a translation.

71. Songs and poems of John Dryden / chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones ; drawings by Lavinia Blythe.

72. Dryden : the dramatic works : prefatory notes, introduction, chronology of dramatick poesie, the wild gallant, the rival ladies, the Indian Queen, the Indian Emperour, notes : in six volumes / edited by Montague Summers, for the Nonesuch Press.

73. Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld / selected from the Lushington papers and edited by Walter Sidney Scott ; illustrations by Lettice Sandford.

74. Chapman / by Havelock Ellis ; with illustrative passages.

75. Memoires for my grand-son / by John Evelyn ; transcribed and furnished with a preface and notes by Geoffrey Keynes.

76. The complete works of George Farquhar : in two volumes / edited by Charles Stonehill.