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LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1607965
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1917. Almost very good condition.

Deluxe edition, limited to 525 numbered and signed copies. Bound in light grey cloth with gold pictorial spine. Gold pictorial white label to front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 13 tipped-in colour plates and 43 b/w drawings. Mauve on white pictorial endpapers. 250pp. 12 x 9.5". SIGNED by Rackham. Limited edition: this is copy number 352 of 525. Spine and corners bumped, with some wear to the cloth. Some marks to boards. Cracking ans splitting to front joint. Endpapers browned. Bookplate pasted to half-title page. All colour plates present: last plate is corner creased but all others are in fine condition. A few scattered foxspots. Contents generally clean and bright, but pages 248-9 are browned.

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THE ERNE, ITS LEGENDS AND ITS FLY-FISHING
Written by Henry Newland.
Stock no. 2119785
Published by The Flyfisher's Classic Library. 1999. Fine condition.

Green full bonded leather covers, gilt titles. Colour frontis and title page. Limited edition of 450 copies. Contained in a fine slip-case. This is copy Number 117. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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INNS AND TAVERNS OF CHEPSTOW AND THE LOWER WYE VALLEY PART 5
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 2117360
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1976. Very good condition.

Card wrap orange booklet. 500 printed. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0900278331. Spine is faded. Couple of foxspots to outer page edges/page margins.

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CHEPSTOW STREET LITERATURE AND EPHEMERA
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1607131
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1979. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. 90 examples of posters, handbills, timetables etc. Limited to 120 copies. Red boards. ISBN: 0906134064. Wrapper has some edge creasing and a couple of marks.

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WYE INTO SEVERN
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1607077
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A collection of short stories with a local Chepstow background. Limited to 130 copies. ISBN: 0906134439. Spine and corners scuffed. Scattered foxspots. Wrapper edge creased and has some fading / browning to spine.

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WYE INTO SEVERN
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1607075
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A collection of short stories with a local Chepstow background. Limited to 130 copies. ISBN: 0906134439. Edge of wrapper lightly worn.

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SNORUM A CHORUS OF COUNTY TALES
Written by John Barrington Barrett. Illustrated by Carol Walklin.
Stock no. 1713405
Published by Mullet Press. 1st 1994. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Limited to 150 copies. B/w illustrations. Dark cloth boards with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0951992155. Copy no. 141. Wrapper has a couple of marks.

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A HISTORY OF THE SHIP LETTERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Alan W. Robertson.
Stock no. 2115920
Published by Pardy & Son Ltd.. Circa 1955. Almost very good condition.

An edition on Art Paper Limited to 600 copies. Large format. Blue cloth 'folders'. One volume contains sections A-D, next volume contains Section E (the catalogue) and third volume contains Supplement No. 4 (Section E, Part 4). Many b/w photos. SIGNED by author to Volume containing sections A-D. This is copy no. 353. Ex-lib. with some old library stamp marks etc. Covers have some uneven fading and a few marks. Foxing to outer page edges; some page browning.

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THE FLORA OF BRISTOL
Written by James Walter White.
Stock no. 1606462
Published by Chatford House Press Ltd.. 1972. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Being an Account of all the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and their Allies That Have at Any Time Been Found in the District of the Bristol Coal-Fields. A facsimile of the 1912 edition. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 722 pages. 3 b/w plates and a map. Limited to 400 copies. ISBN: 0950083658. Spine bumped. Name in ink to front endpaper, with partially erased pencil annotation. Wrapper is faded to spine and edge torn with a little loss.

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BILL THE MINDER
Written by W. Heath Robinson. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1314202
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

Limited edition of 380 numbered and signed copies. Gilt decorated vellum. 16 superb tissue-guarded mounted colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. B/w text illustrations throughout. 254 pages. SIGNED by Robinson plus and inscription in ink "To Peter & Christopher Brinsmead, with best wishes for Xmas 1944 from Granny Heath Robinson". Copy no. 213. Very faint musty smell to contents. Covers are a little soiled. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Lacking silk ties. Joints are cracked but binding still tight. Endpapers browned. Foxspots to endpapers and some page margins. Pale page browning. A nice copy of this scarce item.

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SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL
Written by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1314200
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Signed limited edition of 350 copies. Printed on handmade paper and bound in white vellum, gilt. 40 superb tipped-in colour plates on dark green mounts with captioned tissue-guards. 143 pages. Large, heavy format. SIGNED by the artist, this is copy no. 53. A few small, light marks to covers. Silk ties are missing. Foxing to textblock and to some page margins. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf.

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THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE
Written by Algernon C. Swinburne. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1314199
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1918. Almost very good condition.

Limited Deluxe edition of 765 numbered, signed copies. Vellum-style boards and vellum spine. Gilt titles and vignette. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 133 pages. 11.5 x 9.25". 9 tipped-in colour plates mounted on heavy brown paper with captioned tissue-guards. 52 drawings. Pictorial endpapers. Contains extra colour plate not in trade edition. SIGNED by the artist, this is copy no. 76. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some foxing/browning/spotting to covers. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing to contents and a couple of light marks to page margins. Two of the plates have corner creases.

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