Language: English / Work Type: engraving / 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 golden bed of Kydno / translated from the modern Greek of Evadne Lascaris by P.M. & illustrated with twelve line-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

Creator:: Lascaris, Evadne
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: [2], 7-41, [5] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Ulick and Soracha / by George Moore.

Creator:: Moore, George, 1852–1933
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [6], 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The garden of caresses / translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint ; now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 91, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The saga of Llywarch the Old / a reconstruction by Glyn Jones ; with the verse interludes translated by T.J. Morgan, D.Litt. ; and an introduction by Sir Ifor Williams, D.Litt., F.B.A.

Creator:: Jones, Glyn, 1905–1995
Date:: 1955
Physical Description:: [4], 7-38 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. The week-end book.

Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xii, 516 pages : color illustrations, music ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. 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

17. 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

18. The Golden Cockerel Greek anthology : a selection of the poems / edited, with translations into English verse and an introduction, by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; line engravings on zinc by Lettice Sandford.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 81, [1] pages : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. The seasons / by James Thomson : with five pictures by Jacquier and an introduction by John Beresford.

Creator:: Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: xx, [2], 198, [2] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Anacreon / done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683 ; newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden.

Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [93] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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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.

2. The golden bed of Kydno / translated from the modern Greek of Evadne Lascaris by P.M. & illustrated with twelve line-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. Ulick and Soracha / by George Moore.

8. The garden of caresses / translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint ; now rendered into English by Christopher Sandford.

9. The saga of Llywarch the Old / a reconstruction by Glyn Jones ; with the verse interludes translated by T.J. Morgan, D.Litt. ; and an introduction by Sir Ifor Williams, D.Litt., F.B.A.

10. Oliver Twist.

11. 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.

12. The mystery of Edwin Drood : Christmas stories.

13. Martin Chuzzlewit.

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

15. The week-end book.

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

18. The Golden Cockerel Greek anthology : a selection of the poems / edited, with translations into English verse and an introduction, by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; line engravings on zinc by Lettice Sandford.

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

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

21. Bleak House.

22. The seasons / by James Thomson : with five pictures by Jacquier and an introduction by John Beresford.

23. 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.

24. The old curiosity shop.

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

26. Anacreon / done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683 ; newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden.