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

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.

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 very scarce copy of the vellum issue of the Doves Press' Keats in a highly accomplished binding of red morocco by Frieda Thiersch.

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

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A superlative large paper copy in a contemporary English 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.

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.

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

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.

Extremely scarce third edition of Jamnitzer's famous book on perspective, originally published as 'Perspectiva corporum regularium' in 1568.

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').

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

One of the finest Eragny productions - Pissarro's second commission and, all in all, his finest book - a superb copy in the original limp apple calf and with the additional signed suite on Chine.

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.