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Stud bound, in burgundy boards, Bawden design on cream paper to both boards printed in black. Full page illustrated title page by Bawden, vignettes and borders throughout. A very good copy.

First edition, 3 works in one vol., 8vo; woodcut printer's device to titles, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, each work with errata at end, some browning mostly confined to margins, occasional spotting, bookplate and ownership markings to front pastedown, old ink initials to first title; 18th century calf, edge wear, spine rubbed, upper cover detached; collates as complete.

8vo, 89 pp., various blank leaves, 12 pp notes at end, contemporary sheep, worn, joints weak.

number 493 of 525 copies, this one of the special copies bound in full morocco, inscribed presentation copy from the author/artist; folio; printed in black, red & blue, pictorial half-title, frontispiece, additional pictorial title, letterpress title with vignette device, black & white illustrations throughout, including full-page, gilt pictorial endpapers, bookseller's small sticker to verso of front free endpaper; original full blue morocco, gilt rule edged, gilt silhouette design to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, spine very slightly dulled, but really a fine example, gilt edges, marbled board slip-case.

Tenth edition; 8vo; 3 folding engraved plates, two with offsetting from folding, a few recent and older marginal repairs, numerous old pencil annotations. Rebound in twentieth century half black calf, marbled paper boards. Contents a little marked and toned, spine slightly faded, a very nice copy.

First London edition; 8vo; 8 lithographed plates, some foxing and oxidising, armorial bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving contemporary spine, edge wear.

Number 78 of 111 signed copies for presentation; small 4to; signed by Hecht on the colophon; original limp vellum by the American Book Bindery, some rippling, overall very good, original slip-case, slightly toned and rubbed; [4], 111, [1] pp.

Limited to 215 copies, this copy unnumbered; 4to, (310 x 310 mm); printed on J. Barcham Green's handmade paper, 32 coloured pochoir plates and illustrations by Paul Nash; publisher's vellum from a design by Paul Nash by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with brown morocco onlays and gilt-blocked quincunx on boards, gilt edges, original fleece-lined buckram slipcase.

Limited edition numbered no 19 of 95 on papier Impérial Japon (total number of copies 475); folio (37 x 29 cm), 312 pp, signed by both the author and the illustrator on half title, one manuscript letter by the illustrator and a manuscript poem from the author inserted loose before half title, interleaved pages of various sizes, 28 plates in five colours with 28 additional black and white plates at the rear; bound in contemporary brown calf, art deco style spine with gilt lettering and flower design, slight wear on spine, overall a fine copy.

8vo., xxiii, 416pp., engraved portrait frontispiece and seven engraved plates by Bertall, illustrated title-page vignette, numerous wood-engravings in the text, occasional light foxing throughout. Fine French-style calf, spine richly gilt with label, a.e.g.