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

1. 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

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

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

3. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

Creator:: Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. Lucina sine concubitu : a letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society : with 3 engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury.

Creator:: Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:: MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: [4], 40, [3] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Masques & poems / by Peter Quennell.

Creator:: Quennell, Peter, 1905–1993
Date:: [1922]
Physical Description:: 53, [3] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The puppet show / by Martin Armstrong.

Creator:: Armstrong, Martin, 1882–1974
Date:: MCMXXII [1922]
Physical Description:: [7], 10-153, [3] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 153 letters from W.H. Hudson / edited and with an introduction and explanatory notes by Edward Garnett.

Creator:: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [4], 191, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Daphnis & Chloe : a most sweet, and pleasant pastorall romance for young ladies / translated out of the Greek of Longus, by Geo. Thornley, gent.

Creator:: Longus
Date:: mcmxxiij [1923, that is 1930]
Physical Description:: 108, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

18. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [1], 4-67, [9] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Religio medici / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician, of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:: [1], 4-81, [9] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Miscellaneous poems / by Andrew Marvell.

Creator:: Marvell, Andrew, 1621–1678
Date:: MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:: [4], 148, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The garden of Cyrus, or, The quincuncial Lozenge, or, Network plantations of the ancients artificially, naturally, mystically consider'd / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:: [1], 4-58, [6] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Kisses : being the Basia of Iohannes Secundus / rendered into English verse by Thomas Stanley, 1647.

Creator:: Janus, Secundus, 1511–1536
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [24] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The xi bookes of The golden asse : containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius, interlaced with sundry pleasant & delectable tales : with an excellent narration of the marriage of Cupid & Psyches, set out in the iiij, v, & the vi bookes / translated out of Latine into English by William Aldington.

Creator:: Apuleius
Date:: mcmxxiij [1923]
Physical Description:: [2], 5-250, [6] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Hydriotaphia, urn-burial, or, A discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician of Norwich.

Creator:: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:: MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:: 47, [9] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. Pure poetry : an anthology / edited by George Moore.

Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: [4], vii-ix, [3],128 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Genesis : twelve woodcuts / by Paul Nash ; with the first chapter of Genesis in the authorized version.

Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: [28] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Henry Vaughan, Silurist : poems from Poems, Olor Iscanus, Silex scintillans, Thalia rediviva : An essay from The Mount of Olives : Two letters from Mss. in the Bodleian Library.

Creator:: Vaughan, Henry, 1621–1695
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: [6], 164 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. 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

37. The complete works of William Wycherley / edited by Montague Summers.

Creator:: Wycherley, William, 1640–1716
Date:: MCMXXIV [1924]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. Sonnets : with folk songs from the Spanish / by Havelock Ellis.

Creator:: Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [4], vii-xiv, [2], 81, [2] pages : 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts / by Lemuel Gulliver ; first a surgeon, & then a captain of several ships.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Selected essays / by the Reverend Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ; decorated with engravings on wood by Jon Farleigh ; edited by R. Ellis Roberts ; volume one.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [4], 9-80, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The song of songs : called by many the canticle of canticles.

Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: [4], 9-42, [6] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. An apology for the life of Colley Cibber : comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal / written by himself.

Creator:: Cibber, Colley, 1671–1757
Date:: MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. 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

48. 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

49. The birth of Christ : from the Gospel according to Saint Luke.

Date:: 1925
Physical Description:: [5], 10-43, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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

YCBA Collections Search

Refine your search

Search Constraints

Language English

Work Type private press books (publishing)

Search Results

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

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

5. Lucina sine concubitu : a letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society : with 3 engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. Masques & poems / by Peter Quennell.

11. The puppet show / by Martin Armstrong.

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

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

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

15. 153 letters from W.H. Hudson / edited and with an introduction and explanatory notes by Edward Garnett.

16. Daphnis & Chloe : a most sweet, and pleasant pastorall romance for young ladies / translated out of the Greek of Longus, by Geo. Thornley, gent.

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

18. A letter to a friend upon the occasion of the death of an intimate friend : together with, Christian morals / by Sir Thomas Browne, Physician of Norwich.

19. Religio medici / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician, of Norwich.

20. Miscellaneous poems / by Andrew Marvell.

21. The garden of Cyrus, or, The quincuncial Lozenge, or, Network plantations of the ancients artificially, naturally, mystically consider'd / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician of Norwich.

22. Kisses : being the Basia of Iohannes Secundus / rendered into English verse by Thomas Stanley, 1647.

24. Hydriotaphia, urn-burial, or, A discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician of Norwich.

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

26. 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.

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

28. 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.

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

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

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

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

33. Pure poetry : an anthology / edited by George Moore.

34. Genesis : twelve woodcuts / by Paul Nash ; with the first chapter of Genesis in the authorized version.

35. Henry Vaughan, Silurist : poems from Poems, Olor Iscanus, Silex scintillans, Thalia rediviva : An essay from The Mount of Olives : Two letters from Mss. in the Bodleian Library.

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

37. The complete works of William Wycherley / edited by Montague Summers.

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

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

40. 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.

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

42. Sonnets : with folk songs from the Spanish / by Havelock Ellis.

43. Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts / by Lemuel Gulliver ; first a surgeon, & then a captain of several ships.

44. Selected essays / by the Reverend Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ; decorated with engravings on wood by Jon Farleigh ; edited by R. Ellis Roberts ; volume one.

45. The song of songs : called by many the canticle of canticles.

46. An apology for the life of Colley Cibber : comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal / written by himself.

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

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

49. The birth of Christ : from the Gospel according to Saint Luke.

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