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Lot 1 - The Wood Engravings of John Nash, compiled by Jeremy Greenwood. Wood Lea Press, Liverpool 1987
Sold for £130
Lot 2 - Edward Bawden editioned prints by Jeremy Greenwood
Sold for £155
Lot 3 - The Chester Play of The Deluge, ill. David Jones, London, Clover Hill Editions, 1977, limited to 250 copies
Sold for £210
Lot 4 - Art for Life - The story of Peggy Angus, Incline Press, 2004
Sold for £320
Lot 5 - The Natural History of Selborne, illustrated by John Nash
Sold for £85
Lot 6 - Wilfred Blunt - Tulips and Tulipomania
Sold for £220
Lot 7 - Julius Ceasar’s Commentaries, The Golden Cockerel Press 1951
Sold for £80
Lot 8 - Theocritos - with wood engravings by Lionel Ellis
Sold for £20
Lot 9 - Ann Muir - Harvesting Colour, Incline press 1999, no. 89 of 225 signed copies, slip case
Sold for £270
Lot 10 - Hans Schmoller - Mr Gladstone's Washi, Bird and Bull Press, 1984, numbered 22/500
Sold for £55
Lot 11 - George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1st Ed, 1932
Unsold
Lot 12 - Penelope Hughes-Stanton, The Wood-engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, Private Libraries Association 1991
Sold for £40
Lot 13 - John Dreyfus “A Typographical Masterpiece – An Account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill’s Collaboration With Robert Gibbings, 1991
Lot 14 - Paul Nash, Monster Field, limited to an edition of 1000, together with Aerial Flowers
Sold for £70
Lot 15 - Christopher Sandeman - Thyme and Bergamot, illustrated by John O'Connor, Dropmore Press, 1947, numbered 179/550, with dust jacket, 27cm high
Lot 16 - Mary Skempton - The Wood Engravings of Mary Skempton limited edition of 150
Sold for £65
Lot 17 - Herman Melville ; “Benito Cereno”, publ. 1926, illus. by E. McKinght Kauffer, number 1100;of 1650
Sold for £36
Lot 18 - P. J. Jackson - three very limited edition private publications
Lot 19 - John Gray - Edward Walters, printer and engraver, together with The death of Hector
Sold for £105
Lot 20 - Theodore Francis Powys, Goat Green, The Golden Cockerel Press 1937
Sold for £180
Lot 21 - "Faithful John”, 1998, woodcuts by Harry Brockway, transl. Lucy Crane, number 29 of 220 copies
Sold for £44
Lot 22 - F. L. Lucas: “Gilgamesh, King of Erech”, published Golden Cockerel Press 1948
Lot 23 - William Cynwal - In defence of Women, ill John Petts, London, together with GWYN WILLIAMS: Gwyn Williams: Against Women
Sold for £95
Lot 24 - Claire Bolton: Awa Gami: Japanese Handmade Papers, Alembic Press , also Delittle, Alembic Press
Sold for £125
Lot 25 - John Taylor - A Dog of War
Lot 26 - Alan Powers, Barry Kitts, Ronald Maddox - In Place of Toothpaste, Incline Press, 2004
Lot 27 - George Szirtes - Kissing Place, Adrian Henri - Lowlands Away, But flashes of wit'. (3)
Lot 28 - Elizabeth McClintoch - California Flora, The Book Vlub of California, 1995, two others
Lot 29 - Evelyn Ansell - Twenty Five Poems, also Poems from the Works of Charles Cotton, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser. (2)
Lot 30 - Alicia Pearson - Memories of Childhood, three others. (4)
Sold for £100
Lot 31 - C Day Lewis - Posthumous Poems, two others
Lot 32 - Ronald King and Circle Press publications, good collection (9)
Sold for £115
Lot 33 - George Borrow - The eagle of Alder Grove, six further private press publications
Lot 34 - The Seasons by James Thomson, Nonesuch Press 1927, numbered 186 out of 1,500 copies, 1927
Sold for £22
Lot 35 - Gwyn Jones - The Green Island, Golden Cockerel Press 1946, numbered 230/500
Lot 36 - Miriam MacGregor - Whittington, Aspects of a Cotswold village, limited edition of 350 numbered and signed by the artist, Whittington Press, 1991
Lot 37 - Miriam Macgregor - The Engraver’s Cut, and two others by the same Miriam Macgregor. (3)
Sold for £120
Lot 38 - Ford Madox Ford - Mister Bosphorus and the Muses, 1st edition
Lot 39 - Alfred Tennyson - Morte d’Arthur, printed London Central School or Arts and Crafts, Holborn
Lot 40 - Margaret Macgregor - Allotments, Whittington Press, 1985, signed and numbered 152/300
Sold for £135
Lot 41 - The Locks of the Oxford Canal, with fifty wood engravings by John Craig
Sold for £300
Lot 42 - Margaret Lock - Poem about nothing, William of Poitiers, four other private press books
Lot 43 - Miriam Macgregor - Diary of an Apple Tree
Lot 44 - Leonard Clarke -An intimate landscape, Nottingham Court Press, 1981, limited to 500
Lot 45 - John Craig - Britten’s Aldeburgh, Whittington Press, 1997, signed and numbered 135 of 440 copies, slip case
Lot 46 - In Praise of Patterned Papers, Incline Press, 200/300
Lot 47 - Gwenda Morgan - The diary of a land girl, Whittington Press, 106/300
Lot 48 - Miriam Macgregor A House by the Sea, Whittington Press, 2006, number 11 of 80;copies, signed by the artist
Sold for £340
Lot 49 - Lewis Carroll - The Hunting of the Snark, Whittington Press 1975, 404/750
Lot 50 - Pauline Paucker - New Borders, The Working life of Elizabeth Friedlander
Sold for £110
Lot 51 - Haiku of Basho, translated by Lucien Stryk, Embers Handpress, Norwich 1984, signed 65/80.
Lot 52 - Christopher Whitford - Together and Alone, Golden Cockerel Press 1945, two others
Lot 53 - Patrick Miller - Ana The Runner, Golden Cockerel Press 1937
Lot 54 - Patchwork Quilt. Poems by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, with illustrations by Edward Bawden, Franfrolico Press, 1930
Sold for £24
Lot 55 - Anatolii Kalashnikov - Anglo- Russian Relations, three other private press publications
Lot 56 - Gunnar Brusewitz - The Amazing Miss Brooke, together with three further private press publications
Lot 57 - P J Kavanagh - Real Sky, The Whittington Press, edition of 500, together with eight further private press publications
Lot 58 - Geoffrey Chaucer and Ronald King (British b.1932) - The Prologue, From the Canterbury Tales
Sold for £165
Lot 59 - Thomas Lowinsky (1892-1947) by Colin Myers, Incline Press 2001
Sold for £90
Lot 60 - John Ridgwell "Fine Papers at the Oxford University Press", The Whittington Press 1999
Lot 61 - E. M. Clarke - ‘A Litter of Letters’ copy number 19 of 25
Lot 62 - Christopher Brown - ‘An Anamorphic Alphabet' Previous Parrot Press 1999
Lot 63 - Douglas Cleverdon: 'Sixe Idyllia’ 1971
Lot 64 - John Craig - Venice, Whittington Press, 2015, 54/175
Lot 65 - Edward Lear ‘The Pobble who has no toes’ illustrated Margaret Lock
Sold for £410
Lot 66 - John Milton and Henry Lawes - The Mask of Comus, Nonesuch Press 1937
Lot 67 - William Blake - Songs of Experience, Songs of Innocence, together with Mr Kilburn’s Calicos
Lot 68 - Mervyn James - Mountains, illustrated by Rigby Graham, Brewhouse Publications 1972, 112/200
Sold for £28
Lot 69 - Jo Spaul - Urban Birds, Incline Press, three further private press books
Sold for £30
Lot 70 - Caroline Archer and Robert Harling - The St Bride Notebook, with wood engravings by Eric Ravilious., to celebrate the centenary of his birth, Incline Press 2003
Lot 71 - Charles D’Orleans - Rondels, decorated by Guy Worsdell, The Caravel Press. London 1951
Sold for £42
Lot 72 - John Petts and Johan Jones. Susanna and the Elders, numbered 23 of 400 copies
Sold for £34
Lot 73 - Sappho - illustrated by Lettice Sandford, Boars Head Press 1932, together with two further private press books
Lot 74 - Thomas Burke - The real East End, 1932 first edition
Sold for £75
Lot 75 - Good collection of small edition Gruffyground Press publications (17)
Lot 76 - Louis How - Narcissus, The Harbor Press 1928, two others
Lot 77 - Arron Smith -The Atrocities of the Pirates...,...
Sold for £145
Lot 78 - The Whittington Press - Matrix, 24 volumes
Sold for £1,280
Lot 79 - Fame’s trumpet, twenty rhymes, Lock’s Press, Brisbane, 1982
Lot 80 - Andrew Marvell - The Press, together with seven private publications relating to printing
Lot 81 - Jim Turner - Other days, illustrated by Miriam Macgregor, two other publications illustrated by Miriam Macgregor
Lot 82 - Carolyn Trant - ‘Gawain’ together with a good group of private printed ((8)
Sold for £310
Lot 83 - A Primer of life along the Hammer Creek, John De Pol, seven further private press publications
Lot 84 - Samuel Johnson - The Fountains, Lock’s Press Brisbane 1984
Sold for £32
Lot 85 - Edward Lucie Smith - Beasts with Bad Morals, illustrated by Leonard Baskin, 1984, 2 copies
Lot 86 - William Beckford - Vathek, Nonesuch Press 1929, two others
Sold for £60
Lot 87 - Aesop’s Fable - The Miller, his Son and their Ass, Incline Press, 2006
Lot 88 - Narci & Echo, Weather Bird Press, 2005, one of 50 copies, together with three other Weather Bird Press publications
Sold for £350
Lot 89 - William J. Ibbett - One Hundred Facets of Winter and Spring
Lot 90 - John Randle - One rainy day, Whittington Press, together with two others
Lot 91 - Mandeville Press publications (19)
Lot 92 - Collection of local interest private print publications
Lot 93 - Collection of five Prospero Poets publications
Lot 94 - A bundle of private press booklets
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Lot 96 - The wood engravings of Tirzah Ravilious, three others