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Heath Robinson's Helpful Solutions. With a foreword by Graeme Garden.

HEATH ROBINSON. Simon Heneage. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Cartoon Museum, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), issued upon the occasion of a July-October exhibition at the Cartoon Museum, London. 4to. 144pp. Pictorial card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). With scores of full-page reproductions, plus further ex…

Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849. With a three-page preface by J. A. Froude.

THOMAS CARLYLE. · 1882 · Clearwater Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 263pp + xxxii publisher's catalogue. Green cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine, and with a double border blind-stamped to the upper and lower boards. A sliver of …

The Auto-biography of Luke Hansard, written in 1817. Edited with an introduction and notes by Robin Myers, and with wood-engraved illustrations by John Lawrence. (WITH SIGNED PRINT)

FLEECE PRESS. John Lawrence. · 1991 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

The Fleece Press, Wakefield, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 250 copies on Zerkell mould-made paper, each with a signed John Lawrence print housed within an internal pocket at the rear pastedown. Landscape 8vo. 156pp. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards with a pri…

The Image of Antiquity. Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination.

SAM SMILES. · 1994 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. x, 252pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with nearly 130 monochrome reproductions in the text. …

Edward Bawden in the Middle East. With an essay by Robin O'Neill. (SIGNED)

EDWARD BAWDEN. Nigel Weaver. · 2008 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. Landscape 4to. 95pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. With forty-five of the magnificent watercolou…

John Rocque's Dublin. A Guide to the Georgian City. (SIGNED)

JOHN MONTAGUE AND COLM LENNON. · 2010 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Royal Irish Academy, Dublin in association with Dublin City Council,, 2nd Edition, Signed by Author(s), The revised second edition, issued the same year as the first edition. This copy signed by John Montague at the head of the title page and dated the year after publication. Sm…

John Bewick. Engraver on Wood 1760-1795. An Appreciation of his Life, together with an Annotated catalogue of his Illustrations and Designs.

JOHN BEWICK. Nigel Tattersfield. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The British Library, London & Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 256pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a colour portrait frontispiece and illustrated with nearly 150 reproductions. A fine copy in very good …

Tayler and Green, Architects 1938-1973. The Spirit of Place in Modern Housing. With an introduction by Norman Scarfe.

ELAIN HARWOOD AND ALAN POWERS. · 1998 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), issued on the occasion of a 1998 exhibition at The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture and later at the RIBA Architecture Gallery, Cambridge. 4to. 108pp. Glossy card wra…

The London Stage 1660-1800. A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments & Afterpieces together with Casts, Box-Receipts and Contemporary Comment compiled from the Playbills, Newspapers, and Theatrical Diaries of the Period. Edited by William Van Lennep and with critical introductions by Emmett L. Avery, Arthur H. Scouten, George Winchester Stone Jr., and Charles Beecher Hogan. (COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES)

WILLIAM VAN LENNEP (edits). · 1960 · Clearwater Books

£1,000.00 (€1,198.66 | $1,321.14 | ¥210,969)

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1960-1968., 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), complete in five volumes. Individual volumes as follows: 'The London Stage. Part 1: 1660-1700' (1965). First edition. Large 8vo. clxxv, 532pp + index. Maroon cloth lettered an…

Excellent Dr. Stanley. The Life of Dean Stanley of Westminster.

ARTHUR STANLEY. John Witheridge. · 2013 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Michael Russell, Norwich, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvi, 400pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-four reproductions over sixteen plates. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A biography of the influential n…

The Story of the Garden. With a chapter on American Gardens by Mrs. Francis King.

ELEANOUR SINCLAIR ROHDE. · 1989 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

The Medici Society Ltd, London, First edition thus, a facsimile of the 1932 edition, with additional colour plates. 8vo. [viii], 326pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a title page decoration, a colour frontispiece, and thirty-five plates, twelve of which are in…

Nollekens and His Times; and Memoirs of Contemporary Artists from the Time of Roubiliac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake. Edited and annotated by Wilfred Whitten.

JOSEPH NOLLEKENS. John Thomas Smith. · 1920 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1920, 1st Edition, First edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo. xxxix, 382pp and xi, 423pp. Brown cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spines, with black lettering and bordering to the upper boards. Each volume with a tissue-protected fronti…

The Other Ireland. Changing Times, 1870-1920.

MARY JONES. · 2011 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. [iv], 287pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with hundreds of monochrome photographs. A tiny area of blemishing to the lower board, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper, with the…

Bensoniana. From two Notebooks of A.C.Benson. Selected by J. A. Gere; and Cornishiana. Sayings of Mrs. Cornish. Mostly collected by Logan Pearsall Smith.

A. C. BENSON AND BLANCHE WARRE-CORNISH. · 1999 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Stone Trough Books, Settrington, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 650 copies. Slim 8vo. 61pp. Light blue card wrappers with a printed title label. Illustrated with one photograph of Benson and another of Cornish. A virtually fine copy in fine non-price-clipped patterned du…

Seven Men.

MAX BEERBOHM. · 1919 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

William Heinemann, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 219pp + iv uncut publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with gilt lettering and a blind-stamped border to the upper board. Publisher's monogram blind-stamped …

The Art of the Book-Jacket.

CHARLES ROSNER. Hans Tisdall. · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Published for the Victoria & Albert Museum, by H. M. S. O., London, 1st Edition, Hans Tisdall., First edition. Slim 8vo. 12pp stapled into card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall, which is very slightly rubbed and dust soiled. A very good copy of thi…

Poets' Fare.

EDGELL RICKWORD. [Hart Crane interest]. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Privately printed for the author and Enitharmon Press by the Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, 1st Edition, First edition [of which 325 copies were printed]. Slim 8vo. [4pp] sewn into very slightly marked and soiled lettered card wrappers. A very good copy of this poignant two-page a…

Zero. Hans Schleger. A Life of Design. With a foreword by Paul Rand, and an introduction by Fiona MacCarthy. (PLUS EXHIBITION CATALOGUE).

HANS SCHLEGER. Pat Schleger. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Square 4to. 271pp. Black cloth lettered in white at the spine and with blind-stamped lettering to the upper board. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of colour and monochrome reproductions throughout. A fine…

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. · 1920 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

William Heinemann, London, 1st Edition, Second and final impression of the first edition, issued three months after the original impression (there were no subsequent impressions). Small 8vo. ix, 95pp. Red cloth with slightly tanned and chipped lettered paper labels to the spine …

Tiepolo's Hound. A poem. With twenty-six colour-plates reproducing the author's paintings.

DEREK WALCOTT. · 2000 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 164pp. White cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Fine