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 exceptional copy of Decker’s very rare suite of engravings – here in-plano and with exceptional additional colouring and highlighting in gilt by hand – illustrating the battles of the War of the Spanish Succession.

From the edition limited to 50 copies.

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 very rare large paper copy of the scarce first edition of Francis Barlow's undoubted masterpiece of English book illustration.

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 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.

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

An extraordinary Futurist drawing by Nevinson from the First World War executed on the verso of the rare photograph of Nevinson standing beside his Friends' Ambulance Unit Mors Motor 'bus'.

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

The deluxe issue of the first edition of Joyce's magnum opus to be printed in Great Britain.

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 large paper copy of the first edition of Delacroix’s masterful interpretation of ‘Faust’, a pioneering meeting of word and image and a monument of nineteenth-century illustration.