Tom W. Ayling

Octavo. Finely bound in full crushed purple morocco. Five raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. Purple silk doublures, one with the an initial J. O. in gilt, decorated foliage border gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Housed in a white cloth lined black box with a G. M. Paris metal clasp. Black and white and sepia tone illustra…

Octavo. Bound for the publisher in full embossed brown morocco by Leon Gruel in a medieval revival style, with metal clasps. Housed in the original slipcase. Gilt decorated endpapers, pictorial title page, decorative borders throughout. A very good copy indeed. A very attractively bound prayer book, produced by Gruel et Engelman…

Octavo. Bound by Birdsall and Son of Northampton in attractive green morocco, decorated in gilt with flower motifs to the covers and spine. Gilt turn ins. All edges gilt. The corners of each cover are stamped with the initials "H.d.C.S.". The front pastedown is stamped in gilt, "From Margaret Talbot January 1, 1894", and the fir…

Folio. Four works bound in one volume. Bound in quarter red morocco over marbled paper boards. Six double raised bands to spine, ruled and decorated with starbursts, and five eagles over flowers, lettered in gilt. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. A near fine copy. Spine head and tail slightly pushed, minor rubbing to joints, marbl…

Alfred De Rothschild's set of the first collected edition of Samuel Rogers Poems. This set unites his 'Poems' and 'Italy', previously separately published, but here issued with general title pages to each volume, followed by separate title pages for each. Two volumes. Octavo. Finely bound in full green morocco, spine in rich gil…

Fifty bright chromolithographic plates in various sizes ranging from 77 x 50 x 120 x 77 mm of religious figures and scenes. To include Saint Helena, Saint Agnes, and the Assumption on Mary. Bound in red morocco, with gilt borders, five raised bands to spine with gilt decoration, gilt decorated turn-ins and gilt edges. A very nic…

A beautiful exhibition binding by Zaehnsdorf. Octavo. Bound in full red morocco, with a black morocco wheel with green and gilt decoration, with gilt rings, ruled in gilt. Lettered and decorated with gilt flowers to spine. All edges gilt. Red silk doublures. Signed by Zaehnsdorf in gilt to the front inner dentelle, and also with…

An exceptionally pretty binding by John Ramage. Octavo. Bound in full green morocco, with restrained decoration to the covers and spine, feature inlaid red morocco love hearts and inlaid brown morocco acorns. Smaller red morocco hearts to each corner of the turn ins also. A very good copy, spine toned and some uneven fading to c…

Third edition. Octavo. Finely bound for Hatchards in very attractive contemporary full purple morocco, finely decroated in gilt, with the monogram MS to the upper cover. A fine copy, exceptionally well-preserved. A finely bound copy of this rare collection of legends and poems of Westmorland. As the author explains in the prefac…

A fine pair of devotional works, in matching bindings by Leon Gruel. Two volumes. Small octavo. Each bound by Gruel in full olive crushed morocco with metal clasps. Metal insignia of a crown above three entwined crescents to each upper cover. Both volumes housed in a morocco box titled to spine "Livres De Devotion De Ma Mere". B…

An exceptionally pretty binding by John Ramage. Octavo. Bound in full green morocco, with thick, curved borders of stars and pointelle surrounding a repeated pattern of flowers and small gilt pointelles to the covers. The pattern is repeated to the spine and the turn-ins. Watered silk doublures. A near fine copy, spine slightly…

Second expanded edition. Octavo. Beautifully bound in full contemporary red morocco. All edges gilt. Gilt brocade endpapers, with heart compartment to front pastedown with the tooled initials 'S E W 1759' inside. Engraved frontispiece with further smaller woodcuts. A very good copy, covers and spine slightly rubbed, pages slight…

An exceptional bookbinding by John Ramage. Octavo. Finely bound in full teal morocco, and beautifully decorated in gilt. Gilt wheel, corner pieces and borders to upper cover, with corner pieces, boarders and the initial O.V.W to lower cover. Five raised bands to spine, the compartments lettered and decorated gilt. Watered silk d…

Octavo. Bound in a contemporary Bauerneinband of vellum over thin wooden boards, stained blue and pink and gilt to a panel design, each board with central hand-coloured stipple-engraved cartouche depicting a female saint. All edges gilt and gauffered at ends. Full-page woodcut frontispiece printed to half-title verso, woodcut he…

A beautifully bound Arts & Crafts bible, with fine bibliophilic provenance. Octavo. Finely bound in full brown crushed morocco by Sangorksi & Sutcliffe for J.W. Robinson. Spine lettered gilt, five raised bands with fillets on both sides, leading to trefoils, compartments with gilt double-rules. Covers decorated with double gilt…