Language: English / Work Type: private press books (publishing)

201. Abd-er-Rhaman in paradise / by Jules Tellier ; translated by Brian Rhys ; with wood-engravings by Paul Nash.

Creator:: Tellier, Jules, 1863–1889
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: [4], 34, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

202. 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

203. 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

204. 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

205. 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

206. 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

207. 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

208. Latterday symphony / by Romer Wilson.

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

209. Where I lived & what I lived for / by Henry David Thoreau.

Creator:: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: [2], 9-45, [4] pages : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

210. The week-end book.

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

211. 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

212. Candide, or, Optimism / François Marie Arouet de Voltaire ; translated from the French by Richard Aldington ; with an introduction by Paul Morand ; and twenty illustrations in colour by Sylvain Sauvage.

Creator:: Voltaire, 1694–1778
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: xix, [1], 147 [1] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

213. A German idyll / by H.E. Bates ; with wood engravings by Lynton Lamb.

Creator:: Bates, H. E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905–1974
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [4], 39, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

214. 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

215. Grimms' other tales : a new selection / by Wilhelm Hansen ; translated & edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Arthur Ratcliff ; illustrated with ten wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 160 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

216. Adam & Eve & Pinch me tales / by A. E. Coppard.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: MCMXXI [1921]
Physical Description:: [7], 10-140 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

217. Ecclesiastes, or, The preacher.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 21, [3] pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

218. Homer : Odyssey / Pope.

Creator:: Homer
Date:: MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:: [2], 759, [3] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

219. The works of Alexander Pushkin : lyrics, narrative poems, folk tales, plays, prose / selected and edited, with an introduction, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky.

Creator:: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837
Date:: [1939]
Physical Description:: viii, [2], 11-896 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

220. 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

221. Love night : a Laotian gallantry / by Powys Mathers ; engravings by Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Mathers, E. Powys (Edward Powys), 1892–1939
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: [4], 7-140, [2] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

222. Troilus and Criseyde / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by Arundell del Re ; with wood engravings by Eric Gill.

Creator:: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 309, [5] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

223. 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

224. Gilgamesh, king of Erech / by F.L. Lucas ; with twelve engravings by Dorothea Braby.

Creator:: Lucas, F. L. (Frank Laurence), 1894–1967
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: [2], 5-63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

225. The wedding songs of Edmund Spenser : being the Prothalamion & the Epithalamion / printed from the best editions ; with wood-cuts by Ethelbert White.

Creator:: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Date:: [1923]
Physical Description:: 46, [4] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

226. The 7th man : a true cannibal tale of the South Sea islands / told in fifteen wood-engravings and precisely one hundred and eighty nine words by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Gibbings, Robert, 1889–1958
Date:: MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: [4], 14, [3] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

227. The fool would be a favourit, or, The discreet lover (1657) / printed from the edition of 1657 ; with an introduction by Allardyce Nicoll.

Creator:: Carlell, Lodowick, 1602?-1675
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [5], xii, [8], 88, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

228. 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

229. The epicure's anthology / collected by Nancy Quennell ; with an essay on the epicure and the epicurean by A.J.A. Symons ; and decorations by Osbert Lancaster.

Creator:: Quennell, Nancy
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: 187, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

230. Consequences : a complete story in the manner of the old parlour game : in nine chapters, each by a different author.

Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: 66 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

231. A communication to my friends / by George Moore.

Creator:: Moore, George, 1852–1933
Date:: 1933
Physical Description:: 86, [2] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

232. 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

233. 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

234. The amores of P. Ovidius Naso / newly translated by E. Powys Mathers ; with 5 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: 81 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

235. 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

236. The princess of Babylon / by M. de Voltaire ; with decorations by Thomas Lowinsky.

Creator:: Voltaire, 1694–1778
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: [8], 156, [2] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

237. The Book of Ruth : translated out of the original tongue : & with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command.

Date:: MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:: [18] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

238. A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.

Creator:: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

239. The confessions of J.J. Rousseau : in an anonymous English version first published in two parts in 1783 & 1790 / now revised and completed by A.S.B. Glover ; with an introduction by Havelock Ellis ; ornamented with wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone.

Creator:: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712–1778
Date:: MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

240. Daisy Matthews : and three other tales / by Rhys Davies ; with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker.

Creator:: Davies, Rhys, 1901–1978
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [4], 63, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

241. 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

242. Songs & poems / by Henry Carey ; with decorations by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: [4], 9-64, [4] pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

243. 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

244. Directions to servants / by the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ; with decorations by John Nash.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [4], 35, [3] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

245. 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

246. 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

247. 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

248. 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

249. 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

250. The Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1956-1990 / David Butcher ; with an introduction by John Dreyfus ; and a memoir of Dame Hildelith Cumming by the Abbess of Stanbrook.

The Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1956-1990 / David Butcher ; with an introduction by John Dreyfus ; and a memoir of Dame Hildelith Cumming by the Abbess of Stanbrook.

Creator:: Butcher, David, 1945–
Date:: [1992]
Physical Description:: [7], x-xvi, 225, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

251. Signs & wonders / by J.D. Beresford.

Creator:: Beresford, J. D. (John Davys), 1873–1947
Date:: MCMXXI [1921]
Physical Description:: 151, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

252. 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

253. Strawberry time, and, The banquet / by R.H. Mottram.

Creator:: Mottram, R. H. (Ralph Hale), 1883–1971
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [2], 87, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

254. Moral maxims / by the Duke de la Rochefoucault.

Creator:: La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613–1680
Date:: MCMXXIV [1924]
Physical Description:: [6], 13-133, [3] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

255. Hips & haws : poems / by A.E. Coppard.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: MCMXXII [1922]
Physical Description:: 44, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

256. Love's progress, or, The education of Araminta / by James Laver.

Creator:: Laver, James, 1899–1975
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [2], 7-30, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

257. 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

258. 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

259. 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

260. The book of Jonah taken from the authorized version of King James I / with engravings on wood by David Jones.

Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: 15, [2] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

261. 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

262. A ballad upon a wedding / by Sir John Suckling ; with engravings by Eric Ravilious.

Creator:: Suckling, John, Sir, 1609–1642
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: [4], 8, [5] p. : ill., music ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

263. 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

264. Retrospectus and prospectus : The Nonesuch Dickens.

Creator:: Nonesuch Press
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 130, [2] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

265. 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

266. 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

267. The atrocities of the pirates : being a faithful narrative of the unparalleled sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the pirates of the island of Cuba / with an account of the excesses and barbarities of those inhuman freebooters, by Aaron Smith ; together with a copious and explicit report of his subsequent trial at the Old Bailey ; decorated throughtout with engravings by Eric Ravilious.

Creator:: Smith, Aaron, active 1823–1852
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [2], v, [3], 156, [2] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

268. A circle of the seasons : a translation of the Ritu-Samhāra of Kalidasa / made from various European sources by E. Powys Mathers ; with engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Kālidāsa
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: 28, [4] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

269. 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

270. Lord Adrian : a play in three acts / by Lord Dunsany ; engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Dunsany, Lord, 1878–1957
Date:: 1933
Physical Description:: [4], 73, [3] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

271. Men & manners / by William Shenstone ; selected and introduced by Havelock Ellis.

Creator:: Shenstone, William, 1714–1763
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: [2], xxiii, [3], 97, [3] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

272. The poetical works of Robert Herrick / with a preface by Humbert Wolfe and decorations by Albert Rutherston.

Creator:: Herrick, Robert, 1591–1674
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

273. Pertelote, a sequel to Chanticleer : being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, October 1936-1943, April / foreword & notes by the partners ; illustrations from the books.

Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 51, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

274. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite / a new translation by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; with ten engravings by Mark Severin.

Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: 35, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

275. The history of Pompey the Little, or, The life and adventures of a lap-dog.

Creator:: Coventry, Francis, 1725?-1759
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [5], viii-xvi, 225, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

276. Supper at Beaucaire / by Napoleon Bonaparte ; translated into English for the first time, by Somerset De Chair.

Creator:: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
Date:: MCMXLV [1945]
Physical Description:: 38, [1] pages : portrait ; 15 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

277. 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

278. Bibliography of William Hazlitt / by Geoffrey Keynes ; author of Bibliographies of John Donne, William Blake, Sir Thomas Browne, Jane Austen, etc.

Creator:: Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887–1982
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: xix, [2], 135, [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

279. The Canterbury tales / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; with wood engravings by Eric Gill.

Creator:: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929-1931]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

280. Songs from Robert Burns / selected by A.E. Coppard ; with wood engravings by Mabel M. Annesley.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [4], ix-xvi, 112, [2] pages : illlustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

281. Cockalorum : a sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote : being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, June 1943-December 1948 / foreword and notes by Christopher Sandford ; illustrated from the books.

Date:: [1948]
Physical Description:: 112 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

282. 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

283. Samson and Delilah : from the book of Judges according to the authorised version.

Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [2], 17, [3] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

284. The tale of the golden cockerel / by Pushkin.

Creator:: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837
Date:: [1936]
Physical Description:: 22, [1] pages : illustrations ; 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

285. 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

286. Art & prudence : an essay / by Eric Gill, T.O.S.D.

Creator:: Gill, Eric, 1882–1940
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: [6], 18, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

287. 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

288. Jeremy Taylor : a selection from his works / made by Martin Armstrong.

Creator:: Taylor, Jeremy, 1613–1667
Date:: [1923]
Physical Description:: [2], 5-132, [4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

289. 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

290. 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

291. The lives of gallant ladies / by Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur & abbot of Brantome ; translated out of the French by H.M. ; embellished with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, -1614
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

292. The Song of songs : the authorized version / together with a new translation, an introduction and notes by W.O.E. Oesterley ; with engravings on copper by Lettice Sandford.

Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: 59 p. : ill., plates ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

293. 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

294. The Athenians : being correspondence between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends, Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.

Creator:: Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792–1862
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 86, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

295. 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

296. 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

297. The Nonesuch century : an appraisal, a personal note and a bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the press, 1923-1934.

Creator:: Nonesuch Press
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 80 pages, [74] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

298. Clorinda walks in heaven : tales by A.E. Coppard.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: MCMXXII [1922]
Physical Description:: [7], 10-130, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

299. 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

300. Love-tales from Tallemant : rendered from the French.

Creator:: Tallemant Des Réaux, 1619–1690
Date:: 1925
Physical Description:: [6], 13-247, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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201. Abd-er-Rhaman in paradise / by Jules Tellier ; translated by Brian Rhys ; with wood-engravings by Paul Nash.

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

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

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

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

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

207. 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.

208. Latterday symphony / by Romer Wilson.

209. Where I lived & what I lived for / by Henry David Thoreau.

210. The week-end book.

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

212. Candide, or, Optimism / François Marie Arouet de Voltaire ; translated from the French by Richard Aldington ; with an introduction by Paul Morand ; and twenty illustrations in colour by Sylvain Sauvage.

213. A German idyll / by H.E. Bates ; with wood engravings by Lynton Lamb.

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

215. Grimms' other tales : a new selection / by Wilhelm Hansen ; translated & edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Arthur Ratcliff ; illustrated with ten wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

216. Adam & Eve & Pinch me tales / by A. E. Coppard.

217. Ecclesiastes, or, The preacher.

218. Homer : Odyssey / Pope.

219. The works of Alexander Pushkin : lyrics, narrative poems, folk tales, plays, prose / selected and edited, with an introduction, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky.

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

221. Love night : a Laotian gallantry / by Powys Mathers ; engravings by Buckland Wright.

222. Troilus and Criseyde / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by Arundell del Re ; with wood engravings by Eric Gill.

223. 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.

224. Gilgamesh, king of Erech / by F.L. Lucas ; with twelve engravings by Dorothea Braby.

225. The wedding songs of Edmund Spenser : being the Prothalamion & the Epithalamion / printed from the best editions ; with wood-cuts by Ethelbert White.

226. The 7th man : a true cannibal tale of the South Sea islands / told in fifteen wood-engravings and precisely one hundred and eighty nine words by Robert Gibbings.

227. The fool would be a favourit, or, The discreet lover (1657) / printed from the edition of 1657 ; with an introduction by Allardyce Nicoll.

228. 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.

229. The epicure's anthology / collected by Nancy Quennell ; with an essay on the epicure and the epicurean by A.J.A. Symons ; and decorations by Osbert Lancaster.

230. Consequences : a complete story in the manner of the old parlour game : in nine chapters, each by a different author.

231. A communication to my friends / by George Moore.

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

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

234. The amores of P. Ovidius Naso / newly translated by E. Powys Mathers ; with 5 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

235. Bleak House.

236. The princess of Babylon / by M. de Voltaire ; with decorations by Thomas Lowinsky.

237. The Book of Ruth : translated out of the original tongue : & with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command.

239. The confessions of J.J. Rousseau : in an anonymous English version first published in two parts in 1783 & 1790 / now revised and completed by A.S.B. Glover ; with an introduction by Havelock Ellis ; ornamented with wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone.

240. Daisy Matthews : and three other tales / by Rhys Davies ; with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker.

242. Songs & poems / by Henry Carey ; with decorations by Robert Gibbings.

243. 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.

244. Directions to servants / by the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ; with decorations by John Nash.

246. Dombey and Son.

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

248. The green ship / by Patrick Miller.

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

250. The Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1956-1990 / David Butcher ; with an introduction by John Dreyfus ; and a memoir of Dame Hildelith Cumming by the Abbess of Stanbrook.

251. Signs & wonders / by J.D. Beresford.

252. 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.

253. Strawberry time, and, The banquet / by R.H. Mottram.

254. Moral maxims / by the Duke de la Rochefoucault.

255. Hips & haws : poems / by A.E. Coppard.

256. Love's progress, or, The education of Araminta / by James Laver.

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

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

259. 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.

260. The book of Jonah taken from the authorized version of King James I / with engravings on wood by David Jones.

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

262. A ballad upon a wedding / by Sir John Suckling ; with engravings by Eric Ravilious.

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

264. Retrospectus and prospectus : The Nonesuch Dickens.

265. Great expectations : Hard times.

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

268. A circle of the seasons : a translation of the Ritu-Samhāra of Kalidasa / made from various European sources by E. Powys Mathers ; with engravings by Robert Gibbings.

269. 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.

270. Lord Adrian : a play in three acts / by Lord Dunsany ; engravings by Robert Gibbings.

271. Men & manners / by William Shenstone ; selected and introduced by Havelock Ellis.

272. The poetical works of Robert Herrick / with a preface by Humbert Wolfe and decorations by Albert Rutherston.

273. Pertelote, a sequel to Chanticleer : being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, October 1936-1943, April / foreword & notes by the partners ; illustrations from the books.

274. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite / a new translation by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; with ten engravings by Mark Severin.

275. The history of Pompey the Little, or, The life and adventures of a lap-dog.

276. Supper at Beaucaire / by Napoleon Bonaparte ; translated into English for the first time, by Somerset De Chair.

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

278. Bibliography of William Hazlitt / by Geoffrey Keynes ; author of Bibliographies of John Donne, William Blake, Sir Thomas Browne, Jane Austen, etc.