Browse by Date—1900–1949

c1940s, with seventeen full page original drawings

Not stated, Liverpool, 1945

1901, also filled with charming drawings and quotations

Not Published, London, 1901

1947, a rare first printing of Iris Origo's Italian wartime diary

Jonathan Cape, London, 1947

1926, the first illustrated edition of G K Chesterton's biography, signed by Welsh opera singer Leila Megane

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1926

1902–1924: Macmillan's red cloth editions of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

Macmillan, London, 1924

1946, a quiet country cottage with large writing room

Not Published, Essex, 1946

1946, with colour perspective, elevations, and floorplan

Not Published, Essex, 1946

1947, with floorplan and two dancers in evening wear

Not Published, Essex, 1947

1946, watercolour (with maid), and technical plan

Not Published, Essex, 1947

1947, with watercolour image and floorplan

Not Published, Essex, 1947

1947, by a student architect, with colour elevations and a floorplan

Not Published, Essex, 1947

[1929], a collection of 24 images on card by Flora White

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1929

1928, A history of smoking, and why people smoke etc etc

Methuen, London, 1928

A guide to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex, served by the Metropolitan Railway

Metropolitan Railway, London, 1931

1912, first edition of Norman Douglas's travels among the oases of Tunisia

Martin Secker, London, 1912

with handwritten poem "Song of the Chaklala Chindits" by R T D Smith (No 3 Parachute Training School, Rawalpindi)

Methuen, London, 1946

15 Queer and Quaint stories from P C Wren

John Murray, London, 1942

Signed by Ion L Idriess, 'Sunshine and Shadows in the Kimberleys'

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1949

The first printing of 1938, in the original dustwrapper

Oxford University Press, London, 1938

1936, half-vellum, a comprehensive list with biographies

The Garrick Club, London, 1936

Limited edition, signed by Stephen P Mizwa, and presented to Peter Frazer, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand

The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, 1943

from the library of architect Roderick Gradidge

T C & E C Jack, London, 1910

1928, this copy from the library of architect of Roderick Gradidge

George Routledge & Sons, London, 1928

1928, Emily Eden's two novels

Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928

Signed by actress Violet Vanbrugh

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925