(24 cm), (4) 47 (1) pp., [8] leaves of plates (of items 1, 5, 7, 42, 53, 54, 55, 58), illustrations. [65] items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers (bound-in). - The firm’s first grand illustrated catalogue, containing books from the Imperial Library at Tsarskoe-Selo, some having the stamp of the Library, others the exlibris of Alexander III. The Robinson brothers had moved their business from Newcastle to London in 1930, and their first London catalogue had been no. 31. ¶ Two leaves excised (pp.21-22, 47-48).

(24 cm), 80 pp., folding frontispiece (item 1), 4 plates (of items 2/4, 5/8, 10/39 etc, 28/46 etc), illustrations. 50 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers (bound-in). - Includes two manuscripts of the New Testament in Syriac of the fifth to seventh centuries, discovered by James Rendel Harris (1852-1941) in the cupboard of a Syrian Jacobite church in Harput in Armenia (item 1, bought by the Morgan Library for £3500), and books from Fountains Abbey and Reading.

(21 cm), 67 (1) pp., folding plate (inserted after title-page), illustrations. 120 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Two of the fourteen books from Edward Gibbon’s library offered here (items 111 and 118) are not found in Geoffrey Keynes, The Library of Edward Gibbon: A Catalogue of His Books (London 1940). Includes the Lothian copy of the 1486 Machlinia edition of Caxton’s Chronicle (item 19, £250); shown on frontispiece is the original manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “An Essay on Mind” (item 1, £450). ¶ Pencil annotation on wrapper.

(24 cm), 71 (1) pp., 3 leaves of plates (of items 26/58, 70/61 etc, 96/91 etc), illustrations. 100 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers (bound-in). ¶ Description cut from pp.29-30.

(21.5 cm), 76 pp., folding frontispiece illustrations. 206 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The frontispiece illustrates 43 volumes bound in red morocco, comprising the “Greek Library” of Sophia Streatfield (1754-1835), of Chiddingstone, Kent (item 1, £195). ¶ Ink annotations on upper wrapper.

(24 cm), (2) 33 (1) pp., 2 leaves of plates (of items 14/32, 45/55), illustrations. 71 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers (bound-in).

(24 cm), 100 pp., illustrations. 102 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers (bound-in).

(24 cm), 84 pp., illustrations. 160 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers (bound-in). ¶ One leaf cut away (pp.41-42).

(24 cm), 104 pp., folding colour frontispiece (item 1), 5 leaves of plates (of items 5/6 etc, 22, 33/26, 50 etc/81, 67 etc/124), illustrations. 154 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers (bound-in).

(28 cm), pp.[i]-x, 11-189, [cxc]-xcxix [cc], 2 folding plates (inserted after pp.50, 102), illustrations. 192 items; priced. Publisher’s printed boards. - The frontispiece (p.[iv]) reproduces the binding of the Sherborne Abbey Cartulary (item 19, $20,000); the folding plates reproduce respectively Caxton’s Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (8 leaves in facsimile; item 46, $60,000) and a broadside ballad “Good newes from Virginia” printed by John Trundel in 1623 and claimed to be the earliest known piece of American verse (item 98, $11,000). ¶ Good copy.

(27 cm), [290] pp., including colour frontispiece, and 145 black & white illustrations; folding plate inserted (item 29). 120 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contains a manuscript in Greek, written and illuminated for a child in the sixteenth century (the first child’s picture book?); a presentation copy of Michael Drayton’s Poems (1619), with a stanza additional to the “Battle of Agincourt” and otherwise unpublished; and an illuminated manuscript of Boccaccio’s Cas des nobles hommes et femmes malheureux (now Pierpont Morgan Library, MS Glazier 35). “The catalogue disproves the supposition that the best of the Bibliotheca Phillippica has already gone” (E.C. Blunden, in The Times Literary Supplement, 5 January 1951, p.12). “Among the most costly and sumptuous catalogues ever issued by a bookseller.” (A.N.L. Munby, The dispersal of the Phillipps Library, Phillipps studies, no. 5, Cambridge 1960, p.108). ¶ Cutting from item 32; otherwise in perfect state of preservation.

(32 cm), viii, 192 pp., illustrations. Items priced, not numbered. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Good copy.

(23.5 cm), pp. [3]-113 (1), 6 leaves of plates, illustrations. 338 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 249, £750) Consul Smith’s copy of Piranesi’s graphic oeuvre (1761-1764), a presentation copy from the artist, bound in eleven volumes. ¶ Date stamp: May 10 1954 on cover.