Maggs Bros. Ltd.

ALLIX (Susan)

Colours of Persia, 2007.

ONE OF SUSAN ALLIX'S FINEST BOOKS

£4,500

ALLIX (Susan)

Attitudes, 2024.

An artist's book by Susan Allix

£2,500

ALLIX (Susan)

In Paradise. Images from near the Andaman Sea,… 2012.

SUSAN ALLIX EXPLORES THE PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS OF AN IMAGINED PARADISE

£450

ALLIX (Susan) & LEON BATTISTA (Alberti)

On Painting. Translated from the original Italian, abridged… 1999.

ALBERTI'S MANUAL OF PAINTING, VIA SUSAN ALLIX

£4,500

PÉCHEUR (Jane), ANOUILH (Jean) & ANTHOINE-LEGRAIN (J.)

Antigone, 1945.

A STUNNING TYPOGRAPHIC BINDING

£12,000

ASCHAM (Roger)

Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.

A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS

£7,500

RILEY (Dominic) [Binder] & BARNFIELD (Richard)

Richard Barnfield's Sonnets, 2001.

A BEAUTIFUL AND THOUGHTFUL BINDING BY DOMINIC RILEY

£7,500

BEAUMONT, Cyril W.

The Mysterious Toyshop

£150

BIBLE

(King James Version). The Holy Bible. Contemporary red… 1768.

£4,000

SAYENKO (Dmitry) & BODMAN (Sarah) [Text adaptation by]

The Royal Hunt. Selected historical observations, 2016.

POWERFUL & STRIKING LINOCUTS

£1,750

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

The Book of Common Prayer, 1788.

£1,800

BROCKMAN (James), FRANKLIN (Colin), BROCKMAN (Stuart) & TURNER (Decherd)

The Mystique of Vellum, 1984.

BOUND BY FATHER AND SON

£4,500

CHELONIIDAE PRESS & BROCKMAN (James) [Binder]

Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare, 1990.

A MASTERFUL BINDING BY JAMES BROCKMAN

£12,000

ROBINSON (Ivor) [Binder] & BULL (René) [Illustrator]

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1913.

AN EARLY BINDING BY THE GREAT MASTER

£7,000

Bacon (Francis), RILEY (Dominic) [Binder] & PENNELL (Betty)

Of Gardens, 1993.

DOMINIC RILEY BINDING INSPIRED BY GARDENS

£6,000

[Anon], LALAU (Maurice), CANAPE (George) [Binder] & CORRIEZ (George) [Binder]

Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage, 1928.

A STRIKING ART DECO BINDING

£2,000

CASTELLESI (Adriano)

De sermone Latino, et modis Latine loquendi. Eiusdem… 1524.

LAVISHLY GILT AND GAUFFERED

£2,250

CHINESE REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.

Zongli fengan shilu. [A Record of the Prime… 1929.

£3,800

DAN (Kazuo) & TSUKASA (Osamu), illus. and design.

Kataku no hito [The man of the burning… 1979.

A tactile, limited edition of Dan Kazuo's final novel

£1,500

DANTE

Dante con l'espositione di Christoforo Landino, et di… 1564.

THE SIGNET LIBRARY COPY

£9,500

DELESSERT (Édouard).

Vingt et un jours à la Mer Morte.… 1851.

INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION

£350

MITCHELL (Margaret) & DELRUE (Paul) [Binder]

Gone with the Wind, 1936.

FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY PAUL DELRUE

£7,000

GUIRAND DE SCÉVOLA (Lucien Victor) & DIDEROT (Denis)

Les Bijoux Indiscrets, 1928.

THE ARTIST'S COPY, WITH FOUR ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS

£2,500

DIPLOMA

Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.

A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT

£9,500

DOVES PRESS. & THE HOLY BIBLE

The English Bible Containing the Old Testament out… 1903.

£17,000

ELIOT (George).

Romola, 1880.

Eliot’s Romola, bound in vellum and hand-painted, featuring a lion rampant holding a crest of the flag of Florence

£650

FARLEIGH (John) & WOMESLEY (Edward)

The Creative Craftsman, 1950.

A THOUGHTFUL AND UNUSUAL BINDING

£900

FLETCHER (William Younger)

English Bookbindings in the British Museum [with] Foreign… 1895.

£3,000

GARRET (Frank) [Binder)

My Recipe Book, 1929.

£800

OLIVER (Nicky) & GIONO (Jean)

The Man Who Planted Trees, 2015.

£1,000

GOLTWURM (Caspar)

Biblische Chronica, darinn die fürtrefliche Geschicht der heiligen… 1558.

NO COPIES OUTSIDE GERMANY

£5,000

GREGYNOG PRESS & MILLER PARKER (Agnes)

Wood Engravings From the Fables of Esope, with… 1996.

A SURVEY OF AGNES MILLER PARKER'S ENGRAVINGS

£1,500

PARRY (Robert Williams) & GWASG GREGYNOG

Cerddi. Edited and with an Introduction by Sir… 1980.

£3,000

HORIGUCHI (Daigaku).

Token Ryubisho [Notes about Attractive Eyes], 1976.

Poetry and luxurious lacquer

£2,500

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551.

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

PERSIUS FLACCUS (Aulus) & JUVENALIS Decimus Junius

Satyrae. Cum annotat. Th. Farnabii, 1650.

A SCHOOLMASTER'S EDITION OF JUVENAL

£275

KAMISAKI (Sunao).

Hinoe tora goshi ginka kana tsuguru ban katazome… 1986.

BLENDING EAST AND WEST IN TWELVE MONTHS

£1,250

KAMISAKI (Sunao).

Toki seou [Bearing the weight of time], 1987.

Time: in fourteen influential thinkers

£450

KAWAKAMI (Sumio)

Cinderella, 1943.

The East-meets-West version of Cinderella

£1,000

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Shonen shojo [Boys and Girls], 1952.

Reflecting on childhood and the passing of time

£850

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Ima wa mukashi [Once upon a time], 1967.

Bound with a reverse glass painting

£800

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Hirado genso [Hirado fantasy], 1977.

The Dutch trading port of Hirado, Nagasaki

£450