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Printed English Pottery. History and Humour in the Reign of George III, 1760-1820.

DAVID DRAKARD. · 1992 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Jonathan Horne Publications, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. viii, 268pp. Brown cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With pictorial endpapers and over 750 reproductions, including seventeen in colour. Errata slip laid-in. A fine copy in virtua…

William Balston. Paper Maker 1759-1849.

WILLIAM BALSTON. Thomas Balston. · 1954 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Methuen & Co Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), printed by Brooke Crutchley at the University Press, Cambridge on mould-made J. Whatman paper manufactured by W. & R. Balston. 8vo. xii, 172pp. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine. With a p…

Sonnets. Edited by Josef Hofmiller and Robert Spindler.

ANTHOLOGY. Anna Simons. · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£300.00 (€359.59 | $396.32 | ¥63,287)

Bremer Press, Munich, 1st Edition, First edition, printed for the Association of Friends of the Bremer Press in an edition of 275 numbered copies (this being #238). 4to. 238pp. Cloth-backed paper covered boards with a slightly toned spine label. With title and initials designed …

edits, and contributes three poems plus his essay 'The Quality of Scots Internationalism' to the fifth and final issue of the miscellany 'Scottish Art and Letters' (a special P. E. N. Congress number).

HUGH MACDIARMID · 1950 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

William Maclellan, Glasgow, 1st Edition, First edition. Slim 4to. 56pp. Card wrappers, lightly rubbed at the yapped edges. Former owner name inked to the head of the first leaf. A nice crisp copy. MacDiarmid's poems are 'Two Scottish Boys', 'My Songs Are Kandym in the Waste Land…

Etchings of Today. Edited by C. Geoffrey Holme and with an introduction by W. Gaunt.

C. GEOFFREY HOLME. [Graham Sutherland, C. F. Tunnicliffe, C. R. W. Nevinson, Laura Knight, Robert Austin, Edmund Blampied, Frank Brangwyn, F. L. Griggs, Edward Hopper, Augustus John &c.]. · 1929 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

The Studio Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition, the card wrapper issue. 4to. iv, 24pp + cxx plates + ii advertisements. Top- and fore edge spotted. A very good copy. Illustrated with 120 plates including eight in colour reproducing works by Graham Sutherland, C. F. Tunnicli…

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 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

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 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

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 (€1,198.64 | $1,321.06 | ¥210,957)

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 | ¥3,164)

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 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

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 …