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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.

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. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

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. 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

18. 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

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. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. Collected papers.

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

49. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

18. 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. 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.

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

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

24. Butleriana / S.B.

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

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

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

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

29. 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.

30. Selected poems of Coleridge.

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

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

33. The Devil and all / by John Collier.

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

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

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

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

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

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

40. 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.

41. The golden carpet / by Somerset De Chair.

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

43. The silver crescent / by Somerset de Chair.

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

45. The personal history of David Copperfield.

46. Christmas books.

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

48. Collected papers.

49. The mystery of Edwin Drood : Christmas stories.

50. Our mutual friend.