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1. The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

Creator:: Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593–1649
Date:: MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Physical Description:: 196, [4] pages : maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. Cosmetics for my lady & good fare for my lord : collected recipes.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [6], 5-75, [3] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The white llama : being La venganza del condor of V.G. Calderon / now translated into English for the first time by Richard Phibbs ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: García Calderón, Ventura, 1886–1959
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 123 pages, [1] : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Maxims and considerations of Chamfort / translated, with an introduction, by E. Powys Mathers.

Creator:: Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, 1740?-1794
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Caesar, Julius
Date:: 1951
Physical Description:: 311, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A voyage round the world with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution / by Anders Sparrman ; introduction & notes by Owen Rutter ; wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

Creator:: Sparrman, Anders, 1748–1820
Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: 218, [2] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, maps, music ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Maya / a play by Simon Gantillon ; paraphrased into English by Virginia & Frank Vernon ; with XIII wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton.

Creator:: Gantillon, Simon, 1890–
Date:: MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: viii, 93, [4] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A rapture / by Thomas Carew ; with engravings by J.E. Laboureur.

Creator:: Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The book of days of Llewelyn Powys : thoughts from his philosophy / selected by John Wallis ; printed, with an introduction by Llewelyn Powys and twelve etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis, at the Golden Cockerel Press.

Creator:: Powys, Llewelyn, 1884–1939
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [4], 7-85, [3] pages : illustrations ; 34 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. The serpent's presence / by Eurof Walters ; with eight wood-engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Walters, Eurof
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: 105, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Lady from yesterday / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

Creator:: Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 70, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

Creator:: Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement of Sydney cove / compiled from the original documents in the Public Record office, with extracts from the log-books of H.M.S. Sirius and an introduction and notes, by Owen Rutter ; forward by the Hon. B.S.B. Stevens, M.L.A., Premier of New South Wales ; five engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 149, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A sentimental journey through France and Italy / by Laurence Sterne ; with six engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

Creator:: Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: 151, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. An apology for the life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews / by Henry Fielding? ; with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson.

Creator:: Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [2], x, [2], 80, [2] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Together and alone : two short novels / by Christopher Whitfield ; with engravings by John O'Connor.

Creator:: Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:: 1945
Physical Description:: [2], 5-109, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia : together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch Vlydt Packet : 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 : The Golden Cockerel Press 1937.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso / translated by the most eminent hands ; a selection from the 1717 edition ; with drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Date:: 1958
Physical Description:: 248 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Mr. Chambers and Persephone : a tale / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby.

Creator:: Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 62, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Chanticleer : bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, April 1921-1936 August ; introduction by Humbert Wolfe ; foreword & notes by the partners ; illustrations from the books.

Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: [10], 13-47, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The story of a lifetime / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911–
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: 93, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the great / by Henry Fielding ; with seven etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: viii, 278, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The ladies' pocket book of etiquette / by A. F. (1838) ; with engravings by Hester Sainsbury.

Creator:: Freeling, Arthur
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: [10], 55, [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Kanga Creek : an Australian idyll / by Havelock Ellis.

Creator:: Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
Date:: MCMXXII [1922]
Physical Description:: [7], 10-68, [2] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Flowers and faces / by H.E. Bates ; engravings by John Nash.

Creator:: Bates, H. E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905–1974
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: 52, [2] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Miscellaneous poems / by Jonathan Swift, DD., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ; edited by R. Ellis Roberts ; decorated with engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: MCMXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: viii, 67, [3] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. 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

30. Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi : being the 26th and 27th chapters of St. Matthew's gospel from the Latin text.

Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [2], 15, [2] pages : ilustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Red wise / by E. Powys Mathers.

Creator:: Mathers, E. Powys (Edward Powys), 1892–1939
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [8], 98, [3] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. The Phaedo of Plato / translated into English by Benjamin Jowett.

Creator:: Plato
Date:: MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: [2], 78, [2] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The silver crescent / by Somerset de Chair.

Creator:: De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911–
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 126, [2] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. 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

39. L'après-midi d'un faune / by Stephane Mallarme ; the translation by Aldous Huxley ; drawings by John Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842–1898
Date:: MCMLVI [1956]
Physical Description:: 10, [5] pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The apple trees : four reminiscences / by Hugh Walpole ; with wood-engravings by Lynton Lamb.

Creator:: Walpole, Hugh, 1884–1941
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [4], 73, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Crusader castles / by T.E. Lawrence.

Creator:: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, maps ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Pelagea & other poems / by A.E. Coppard.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [2], 44, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The first crusade : the deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites : "Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum" / translated into English for the first time by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum. English
Date:: 1945
Physical Description:: 92, [2] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Twelfth night, or, What you will : with engravings by Eric Ravilious.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: 75 p. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. 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

46. 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

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 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

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. The voyage of the Bounty's launch : as related in William Bligh's despatch to the Admiralty and the journal of John Fryer / with an introduction by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 86, [2] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The Golden Cockerel Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / translated by Edward FitzGerald ; the first edition reprinted, together with FitzGerald's monk-Latin version now printed for the first time ; translations of the Latin & of the Persian originals and a critical essay by Sir E. Denison Ross ; introduction by Charles Ganz ; line engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Omar Khayyam
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: [2], 5-99, [3] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. 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

57. 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

58. 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

59. 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

60. 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

61. 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

62. W. H. Hudson's letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham : with a few to Cunninghame Graham's mother, Mrs. Bontine / edited, with an introduction, by Richard Curle ; drawings of Hudson and Cunninghame Graham by Sir William Rothenstein.

Creator:: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
Date:: 1941
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A crime against Cania / by Arthur Calder-Marshall.

Creator:: Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 1908–
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [2], 65, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The true historie of Lucian : the Samosatenian / translated from the Greeke into English by Francis Hickes, with an introduction by J.S. Phillimore M.A., L.L.D. ; together with the Greeke and decorated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Lucian, of Samosata
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: [4], 43, [3] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The Amazons : a novel / by Ivor Bannet ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Bannet, Ivor
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: 252, [2] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion / a new translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones ; with illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: [2], 266, [2] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Songs and poems of John Dryden / chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones ; drawings by Lavinia Blythe.

Creator:: Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:: 1957
Physical Description:: [2], 64 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. A croppe of kisses : selected lyrics of Ben Jonson / chosen, with an appreciation, by John Wallis.

Creator:: Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 48, [4] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The Pilgrim fathers : a journal of their coming in the Mayflower to New England, and their life and adventures there / edited, with preface and notes, by Theodore Besterman ; eight engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 87, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. 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

71. Gray's Elegy written in a country church-yard / with a foreword by Christopher Sandford ; and eight engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

Creator:: Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
Date:: McMxlvi [1946]
Physical Description:: 19, [3] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Pervigilium Veneris = the vigil of Venus / translation by F.L. Lucas ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 27, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Folk tales and fairy stories from India / by Sudhin N. Ghose ; with illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile.

Creator:: Ghose, Sudhindra Nath.
Date:: 1961
Physical Description:: 147, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Procreant hymn / by E. Powys Mathers.

Creator:: Mathers, E. Powys (Edward Powys), 1892–1939
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: 20, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Endymion : a poetic romance / by John Keats ; with engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Keats, John, 1795–1821
Date:: 1947
Physical Description:: 150 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Glue and lacquer : four cautionary tales / translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-hsieh ; preface by Arthur Waley ; with illustrations from drawings by Eric Gill interpreted on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Feng, Menglong, 1574–1646
Date:: 1941
Physical Description:: 139, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Crotty Shinkwin : a tale of the strange adventure that befell a butcher of County Clare : The beauty spot : a tale concerning the Chilterns / both tales by A.E. Coppard ; engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [6], 67, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Abyss / by Leonid Andreyev ; translated by John Cournos ; with engravings by Ivan Lebedeff.

Creator:: Andreyev, Leonid, 1871–1919
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: 31, [1] pages : illustations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The tragedy of Osmond the great Turk, or, The noble servant (1657) / by Lodowick Carlell ; printed from the edition of 1657 ; with an introduction by Allardyce Nicoll ...

Creator:: Carlell, Lodowick, 1602?-1675
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [5], x-xii, [6], 59, [5] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nigel Hamway.

80. Ana the runner : a treatise for princes & generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul / by Patrick Miller ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

Creator:: Miller, Patrick, 1885–1949
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 108, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Euphormio's Satyricon / by John Barclay ; translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner ; ten wood engravings by Derrick Harris.

Creator:: Barclay, John, 1582–1621
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: [2], 158 pages, [10] leaves of plates : ilustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Tomorrow's star : an essay on the shattering and remoulding of a world / by L. Cranmer-Byng.

Creator:: Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot), 1872–1945
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 179, [3] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Jurgen : a comedy of justice / by James Branch Cabell ; with wood engravings by John Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Cabell, James Branch, 1879–1958
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: 349, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Glory of life / by Llewelyn Powys ; with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings.

Creator:: Powys, Llewelyn, 1884–1939
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [2], 34, [2] pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The poems & sonnets of William Shakespeare / edited by Gwyn Jones.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: 1960
Physical Description:: 245, [1] pages ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Micro-cosmographie, or, A piece of the world discovered in essayes and characters / by John Earle ; edited by Gwendolen Murphy.

Creator:: Earle, John, 1601?-1665
Date:: MCMXXVIII [1928]
Physical Description:: [2], vi, [2], 73, [3] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The metamorphosis of Pigmalion's image / by John Marston ; with engravings by Rene Ben Sussan.

Creator:: Marston, John, 1575?-1634
Date:: MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:: [2], 17, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Laus veneris / by Algernon Charles Swinburne ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: [6], 9-27, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. 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

90. Hymn to Proserpine / by Algernon Charles Swinburne; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:: 1944
Physical Description:: 9, [3] pages: illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A pilgrim in Arabia / H. St. J.B. Philby.

Creator:: Philby, H. St. J. B. (Harry St. John Bridger), 1885–1960
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 191, [8] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. 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

93. The Tenbury letters / selected & edited by Edmund H. Fellowes, hon. librarian of St. Michael's College, Tenbury ; & Edward Pine.

Date:: 1942
Physical Description:: [2], 5-223, [9] pages : facsimiles ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The green island : a novel / by Gwyn Jones ; engravings by John Petts.

Creator:: Jones, Gwyn, 1907–1999
Date:: 1946
Physical Description:: 84 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. 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

96. The golden carpet / by Somerset De Chair.

Creator:: De Chair, Somerset Struben, 1911–
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Against women : a satire / translated from the old Welsh by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 25, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. 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

99. Matthew Flinders' narrative of his voyage in the schooner Francis, 1798 : preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c. / by Geoffrey Rawson ; with engravings by John Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Flinders, Matthew, 1774–1814
Date:: 1946
Physical Description:: 100, [2] pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The wisdom of the Cymry / translated from the Welsh triads, by Winifred Faraday.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 47, [1] pages 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

2. 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.

3. Cosmetics for my lady & good fare for my lord : collected recipes.

4. The white llama : being La venganza del condor of V.G. Calderon / now translated into English for the first time by Richard Phibbs ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

5. Maxims and considerations of Chamfort / translated, with an introduction, by E. Powys Mathers.

6. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

7. A voyage round the world with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution / by Anders Sparrman ; introduction & notes by Owen Rutter ; wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

8. Maya / a play by Simon Gantillon ; paraphrased into English by Virginia & Frank Vernon ; with XIII wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton.

9. A rapture / by Thomas Carew ; with engravings by J.E. Laboureur.

10. The book of days of Llewelyn Powys : thoughts from his philosophy / selected by John Wallis ; printed, with an introduction by Llewelyn Powys and twelve etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis, at the Golden Cockerel Press.

11. The puppet show / by Martin Armstrong.

12. The serpent's presence / by Eurof Walters ; with eight wood-engravings by Clifford Webb.

13. Lady from yesterday / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

14. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

16. A sentimental journey through France and Italy / by Laurence Sterne ; with six engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur.

17. An apology for the life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews / by Henry Fielding? ; with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson.

18. Together and alone : two short novels / by Christopher Whitfield ; with engravings by John O'Connor.

20. Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso / translated by the most eminent hands ; a selection from the 1717 edition ; with drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

21. Mr. Chambers and Persephone : a tale / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby.

22. Chanticleer : bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, April 1921-1936 August ; introduction by Humbert Wolfe ; foreword & notes by the partners ; illustrations from the books.

23. The story of a lifetime / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

24. The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the great / by Henry Fielding ; with seven etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

25. The ladies' pocket book of etiquette / by A. F. (1838) ; with engravings by Hester Sainsbury.

26. Kanga Creek : an Australian idyll / by Havelock Ellis.

27. Flowers and faces / by H.E. Bates ; engravings by John Nash.

28. Miscellaneous poems / by Jonathan Swift, DD., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ; edited by R. Ellis Roberts ; decorated with engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

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

30. Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi : being the 26th and 27th chapters of St. Matthew's gospel from the Latin text.

31. Red wise / by E. Powys Mathers.

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

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

36. The Phaedo of Plato / translated into English by Benjamin Jowett.

37. The silver crescent / by Somerset de Chair.

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

39. L'après-midi d'un faune / by Stephane Mallarme ; the translation by Aldous Huxley ; drawings by John Buckland Wright.

40. The apple trees : four reminiscences / by Hugh Walpole ; with wood-engravings by Lynton Lamb.

41. Crusader castles / by T.E. Lawrence.

42. Pelagea & other poems / by A.E. Coppard.

43. The first crusade : the deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites : "Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum" / translated into English for the first time by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

44. Twelfth night, or, What you will : with engravings by Eric Ravilious.

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

46. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

54. The voyage of the Bounty's launch : as related in William Bligh's despatch to the Admiralty and the journal of John Fryer / with an introduction by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.

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

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

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

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

60. The green ship / by Patrick Miller.

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

62. W. H. Hudson's letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham : with a few to Cunninghame Graham's mother, Mrs. Bontine / edited, with an introduction, by Richard Curle ; drawings of Hudson and Cunninghame Graham by Sir William Rothenstein.

63. A crime against Cania / by Arthur Calder-Marshall.

64. The true historie of Lucian : the Samosatenian / translated from the Greeke into English by Francis Hickes, with an introduction by J.S. Phillimore M.A., L.L.D. ; together with the Greeke and decorated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings.

65. The Amazons : a novel / by Ivor Bannet ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

66. The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion / a new translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones ; with illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

67. Songs and poems of John Dryden / chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones ; drawings by Lavinia Blythe.

68. A croppe of kisses : selected lyrics of Ben Jonson / chosen, with an appreciation, by John Wallis.

69. The Pilgrim fathers : a journal of their coming in the Mayflower to New England, and their life and adventures there / edited, with preface and notes, by Theodore Besterman ; eight engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

71. Gray's Elegy written in a country church-yard / with a foreword by Christopher Sandford ; and eight engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

72. Pervigilium Veneris = the vigil of Venus / translation by F.L. Lucas ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

73. Folk tales and fairy stories from India / by Sudhin N. Ghose ; with illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile.

74. Procreant hymn / by E. Powys Mathers.

75. Endymion : a poetic romance / by John Keats ; with engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

76. Glue and lacquer : four cautionary tales / translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-hsieh ; preface by Arthur Waley ; with illustrations from drawings by Eric Gill interpreted on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

77. Crotty Shinkwin : a tale of the strange adventure that befell a butcher of County Clare : The beauty spot : a tale concerning the Chilterns / both tales by A.E. Coppard ; engravings by Robert Gibbings.

78. Abyss / by Leonid Andreyev ; translated by John Cournos ; with engravings by Ivan Lebedeff.

79. The tragedy of Osmond the great Turk, or, The noble servant (1657) / by Lodowick Carlell ; printed from the edition of 1657 ; with an introduction by Allardyce Nicoll ...

80. Ana the runner : a treatise for princes & generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul / by Patrick Miller ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

81. Euphormio's Satyricon / by John Barclay ; translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner ; ten wood engravings by Derrick Harris.

82. Tomorrow's star : an essay on the shattering and remoulding of a world / by L. Cranmer-Byng.