Mythology from Rare Illustrated Books

London: F.S. Ellis, 1871. Night passed, day dawned, and we grew full of mirth As with the ever-rising wind Still farther lay our threatened death behind, Or so we thought : some eighty men we were, Of whom but fifty knew the shipman's gear, The rest were uplanders ; midst such of these As knew not of our quest,… Read more about this item

Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, no date. First Edition. Poem published by Australian poet and journalist, Kenneth Slessor (1901 -1971) in veneration of James Tyrell's wonderful old bookshop. "Broadsheets there are, of horrid hangman's tales; Yellow-stained maps from some forgotten book; Journals of convict years in New South Wales, And Captain Cook." [K.S.]. Single folded sheet, 250 mm x 153… Read more about this item

London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1920. First Edition. SCOTT, Tom.. This history of the Scottish border from Roman to recent times. A lovely example of the skilful printing and generous book design that characterise the works of the publishers T.C. & E.C. Jack. With six illustration plates in photogravure from paintings by Tom Scott, RSA. Small quarto, six photogravure… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911. First Edition. Florence Kate Kingsford Cockerell. First edition: an Egyptian fragment translated by Gilbert Murray. The classicist explains in his preface that "the origin of this tale is in Demotic Egyptian, in prose, on a fragmentary papyrus dated ‘the first month of winter, in the fifteenth year' of some king unnamed. Palaeographical evidence suggests some… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Printed by Cecil and James Johnson at the Windsor Press, 1932. Limited Edition. ANGELO, Valenti. With a delicate decorated frontispiece by Valenti Angelo. Edition of 150 copies. Slim octavo, original papered boards, old bookseller's stamp on front endpaper, a near-fine copy of an elegant production.

London: Published by Philip Lee Warner at the Ricardi Press for the Medici Society, 1912. A deluxe and desirable edition of this treasury of Greek myths for younger readers, illustrated with stunning mounted plates by Russell Flint. A humble masterpiece of typographic taste and discretion. Numbered limited edition of 500 copies. Quarto, green cloth with paper labels, top-edge gilt… Read more about this item

Gregynog Press, 1931. Translated into rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray... with wood-engravings from the Greek vase paintings by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray. This magnificent and generously printed edition of Euripides is a testament to the composition, typography and production standards of the Greygnog Press. Numbered limited edition of 500 copies. Two volumes, folio, original russet cloth… Read more about this item