Period: 20th century / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Terms: Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Shelley at Oxford : the early correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his friend T.J. Hogg, together with letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.

Creator:: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: 79, [1] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The poems of Bishop Henry King / edited by John Sparrow.

Creator:: King, Henry, 1592–1669
Date:: 1925
Physical Description:: xxvii, [3], 197, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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

11. 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

12. Secret despatches from Arabia / by T.E. Lawrence ; published by permission of the Foreign Office ; foreword by A.W. Lawrence.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 173, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Mr. Chambers and Persephone : a tale / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby.

Creator:: Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 62, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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

15. 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

16. The wisdom of the Cymry / translated from the Welsh triads, by Winifred Faraday.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 47, [1] pages 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Hymn to Proserpine / by Algernon Charles Swinburne; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: 9, [3] pages: illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A pilgrim in Arabia / H. St. J.B. Philby.

Creator:: Philby, H. St. J. B. (Harry St. John Bridger), 1885–1960
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 191, [8] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The green island : a novel / by Gwyn Jones ; engravings by John Petts.

Creator:: Jones, Gwyn, 1907–1999
Date:: 1946
Physical Description:: 84 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Montaigne's essays : John Florio's translation / edited by J. I. M. Stewart

Creator:: Montaigne, Michel de, 1533–1592
Date:: MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. The death of Christopher Marlowe / by J. Leslie Hotson, Ph.D. Havard University.

Creator:: Hotson, Leslie, 1897–1992
Date:: 1925
Physical Description:: 76 pages, [2] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The lives of the noble Grecians & Romanes : compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea / translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot, and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North ; the illustrations by T.L. Poulton ; with the fifteen supplementary lives of 1603.

Creator:: Plutarch
Date:: 1929-30
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The complete works of Thomas Otway / edited by Montague Summers.

Creator:: Otway, Thomas, 1652–1685
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The Ninety-first psalm / with wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby.

Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: [8] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. 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

30. 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

31. The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [2], v, [1], 94, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The works of Shakespeare : the text of the First Folio with quarto variants and a selection of modern readings / edited by Herbert Farjeon.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: MCMXXIX-MCMXXXIII [1929-1933]
Physical Description:: 7 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. 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

34. The Golden Cockerel Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / translated by Edward FitzGerald ; the first edition reprinted, together with FitzGerald's monk-Latin version now printed for the first time ; translations of the Latin & of the Persian originals and a critical essay by Sir E. Denison Ross ; introduction by Charles Ganz ; line engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Omar Khayyam
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: [2], 5-99, [3] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. In memoriam / by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Creator:: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
Date:: MCMXXVII [1933]
Physical Description:: xxii, [2], 145, [3] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Harriet & Mary : being the relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg, as shown in letters between them, now published for the first time / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.

Creator:: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: 84 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. 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

38. 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

39. The country of the blind : 1939 / by H.G. Wells ; with engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866–1946
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 67, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The hansom cab and the pigeons : being random reflections upon the silver jubilee of King George V / by L.A.G. Strong.

Creator:: Strong, L. A. G. (Leonard Alfred George), 1896–1958
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: 42, [4] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Topiary / by Cecil Stewart ; an historical diversion, with colour-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

Creator:: Stewart, Cecil
Date:: [1955?]
Physical Description:: 33, [3] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The green ship / by Patrick Miller.

Creator:: Miller, Patrick, 1885–1949
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: [6], 5-181, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Pasiphaë : a poem / by A.C. Swinburne.

Creator:: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: 40 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The Holy Bible : reprinted according to the Authorized version 1611.

Date:: 1924-27
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. W. H. Hudson's letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham : with a few to Cunninghame Graham's mother, Mrs. Bontine / edited, with an introduction, by Richard Curle ; drawings of Hudson and Cunninghame Graham by Sir William Rothenstein.

Creator:: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
Date:: 1941
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Poems in English with illustrations by William Blake : miscellaneous poems, Paradise regain'd & Samson Agonistes.

Creator:: Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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

51. 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

52. The mask of Comus : the poem, originally called 'A mask presented at Ludlow castle, 1634, &c.' / edited by E.H. Visiak ; the airs of the five songs reprinted from the composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss ; with a foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere ; ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar.

Creator:: Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xxiv, 44, [2] pages : color illustrations, music ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Ladies mistakes : Cupid's changeling : A stitch in time : Love's progress / by James Laver ; with nine illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky.

Creator:: Laver, James, 1899–1975
Date:: 1933
Physical Description:: [4], 106, [3] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Laus veneris / by Algernon Charles Swinburne ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: [6], 9-27, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Collected works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester / edited by John Hayward.

Creator:: Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647–1680
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: 407, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. 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

57. Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso / translated by the most eminent hands ; a selection from the 1717 edition ; with drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Date:: 1958
Physical Description:: 248 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. 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

59. 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

60. 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

61. Jane Austen : a bibliography / by Geoffrey Keynes ; author of Bibliographies of John Donne, William Blake, Sir Thomas Browne, et cetera ; with four illustrations from original engravings.

Creator:: Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887–1982
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xxv, 289 pages, [4] leaves of plates : llustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Ana the runner : a treatise for princes & generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul / by Patrick Miller ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Miller, Patrick, 1885–1949
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 108, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Shakespeare versus Shallow / by Leslie Hotson.

Creator:: Hotson, Leslie, 1897–1992
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: [6], ix-xiv, 374, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. 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

65. Pythian odes / Pindar ; translated by H.T. Wade-Gery & C.M. Bowra.

Creator:: Pindar
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: xlv, 165, [2] pages ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. 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

67. The Pilgrim fathers : a journal of their coming in the Mayflower to New England, and their life and adventures there / edited, with preface and notes, by Theodore Besterman ; eight engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 87, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Against women : a satire / translated from the old Welsh by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 25, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. 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

70. 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

71. Endymion : a poetic romance / by John Keats ; with engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Keats, John, 1795–1821
Date:: 1947
Physical Description:: 150 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Lamia, Isabella, The eve of Saint Agnes & other poems / by John Keats ; with engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Keats, John, 1795–1821
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: [4], 100, [4] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. 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

74. The new London letter writer : containing the compleat art of corresponding with ease, elegance, and perspicuity as is now practised by all persons of respectability / by Samuel Johnson, M.A. ; foreword and decorations by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: 63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The voyage of the Challenger : a personal narrative of the historic circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1872-1876 / by navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Swire, R.N. ; illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings in his journals ; foreword by Major Roger Swire ; introduction by G. Herbert Fowler.

Creator:: Swire, Herbert, -1934
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. 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

77. 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

78. Apollonius of Tyre : Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri / translated from the Latin by Paul Turner ; line-engravings by Mark Severin.

Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 68 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. 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

80. 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

81. Selected poems / Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Creator:: Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844–1889
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: v, [3], 104, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. The complete works of William Shakespeare : the text and order of the first folio with quarto variants & a choice of modern readings noted marginally : to which are added Pericles and the first quartos of six of the plays with three plays of doubtful authorship : also the poems according to the original quartos and octavos : the Nonesuch text established MCMXXIX by Herbert Farjeon, with a new introduction by Ivor Brown.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: MCMLIII [1953]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Pervigilium Veneris = the vigil of Venus / translation by F.L. Lucas ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 27, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The poems & sonnets of William Shakespeare / edited by Gwyn Jones.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: 1960
Physical Description:: 245, [1] pages ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. 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

86. Crusader castles / by T.E. Lawrence.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, maps ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. A letter to a young lady on her approaching marriage / by Ambrose Hoopington.

Creator:: Hoopington, Ambrose
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 41 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. 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

89. Latterday symphony / by Romer Wilson.

Creator:: Wilson, Romer, 1891–1930
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: 136, [3] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. 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

91. 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

92. 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

93. The letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell : with annotations thereto, 1896-1907.

Creator:: Meredith, George, 1828–1909
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: 104 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. 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

95. Together and alone : two short novels / by Christopher Whitfield ; with engravings by John O'Connor.

Creator:: Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:: 1945
Physical Description:: [2], 5-109, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. 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

97. 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

98. The complete works of Sir John Vanbrugh / the plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée : the letters edited by Geoffrey Webb.

Creator:: Vanbrugh, John, 1664–1726
Date:: MCMXXVII-MCMXXVIII [1927-1928]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Men in print : essays in literary criticism / by T.E. Lawrence ; introduction by A.W. Lawrence.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: [6], 9-58, [2] pages, [1] leaf, [3] leaves of plates ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The book of days of Llewelyn Powys : thoughts from his philosophy / selected by John Wallis ; printed, with an introduction by Llewelyn Powys and twelve etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis, at the Golden Cockerel Press.

Creator:: Powys, Llewelyn, 1884–1939
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [4], 7-85, [3] pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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