An exceptional discrete collection - and a remarkable survival from the early eighteenth-century - of groundplans, elevations and documents, the proposal by Hawksmoor, Campbell and James for Queen Anne's North Pavilion at Greenwich.

The rare first edition - a beautiful copy in contemporary red morocco with the arms of Stanislas Leczinski for whom the book was produced - of one of the greatest and most beautiful 18th century books on gardens and architecture.

The magnificent 'Queen's Bible' illustrated with original photographs by Francis Frith and in elaborate decorative red morocco with extensive furniture by Leighton.

An exceptional extant corpus of the Neapolitan Coccagna engravings.

An extraordinary work of sympathy, empathy and synchronicity: Ceri Richards' ink illuminations to the poems of Dylan Thomas - with the beautiful painted dust-jacket - undertaken while the poet was dying.

The second edition of Vasari's famous 'Vite' but the first complete edition with much new material and the first to be illustrated.

A complete copy of Le Rouge's expansive and virtually unobtainable publication on gardens in the Anglo-Chinese manner.

A superlative large paper copy in a contemporary binding by the Barlow's Aesop Binder of Barlow's undoubted masterpiece of English book illustration.

An excellent unsophisticated copy of the notoriously rare Vitruvius Scoticus.

A collection of original etching plates for the first edition of Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées.

Manet’s illustrations for Cros’ Le Fleuve, the first truly modern illustrated book, with the rare original wrappers.

One of the scarcest fashion and caricature suites with superb coloured plates.

A very good complete set of Turner's famed Liber Studiorum, with all plates on uncut sheets.

Odilon Redon's 'Apocalypse de Saint-Jean', an excellent unsophisticated set in the original wrappers.

The rare first edition of the first announcement of William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype method - the negative / positive photographic process - the most important innovation in the history of photography.

The rare complete suite of hand-coloured engravings of dandies ('Incroyables') and their female counterparts ('Merveilleuses').

A beautiful and complete copy of the very scarce first complete edition in English of Rabelais' 'Gargantua and Pantagruel' in an elegant English contemporary binding.

Grandville's finest book and magnum opus, an extraordinary imaginative tour de force in a highly unusual variant of the publisher's binding.

Arguably the best edition of Dickens' works, with the definitive text, large type and facsimiles of title pages and original covers, etc.