Roxburghe Club from Wykeham Books

Printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford, first edition, 1914. Later Roxburghe maroon morocco spine and boards with gilt rules, top edge gilt,others uncut, 4to, 29 cm, title printed in red and black,. xliii, 325 pp, portrait frontispiece and one collotype facsimile. Scarce. The work was presented to the Club by the 1st Marquess of… Read more about this item

Printed for the Roxburghe Club, Oxford, first edition, 1980. Two hundred copies were made available for sale. Cherry quarter morocco and boards, top edge gilt, large folio,. xiii, 68 pp, 21 leaves of facsimile (some heightened in gilt), [8] pp of plates. From the introduction: "The Roxburghe Club has decided to make available in a partial reproduction a… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, Cambridge, first edition, 1981. Burgundy quarter morocco and burgundy boards, large 8vo,. [8], 19 pp, [8] pp of plates of facsimile. Includes an Introduction by Flower which is handset in types cast from Baskerville's original matrices and a transcript and facsimile of the four surviving leaves from this lost play. … Read more about this item

Printed for the Roxburghe Club, London, first edition, 1860. Brown morocco spine and Roxburghe boards, title printed in red and black, 4to, 29 cm,. [4], lx, 95, [1] pp. The scarce first printing of a polemical text written to urge recovery of the English possessions disastrously lost to France and the restoration of the English monarchy to its… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, Cambridge, first edition, 1977. Full red morocco, double gilt filet border on boards, top edge gilt, folio, 35 cm. xv, 31 pp, 48 plates. 8 in colour. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. A facsimile of an Early Medieval Gospel book of great iconographical interest, with an introductory study by Frances Wormald and an… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, Academic Press, London, first edition, 1977. Burgundy quarter morocco and burgundy cloth, folio, black skiver spine-label between bands, top edge gilt, 34 cm,. [12], 69 pp, [52] leaves of plates, 88 monochrome and 9 colour plates. Includes reproductions of all miniatures of the ms., by 3 illuminators identified as the Bedford… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, London, first edition, 1981. Quarter morocco and brown boards, top edge gilt, 8vo,. xv, 120 pp, coloured portrait frontispiece. The contemporary journal of Stephen Martin Leake, sometime Garter King of Arms, recording much about the College of Arms and his struggles with John Anstis the elder. Howard M. Nixon's copy,… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, Cambridge, first edition, 1977. Full red morocco, double gilt filet border on boards, top edge gilt, folio, 35 cm. xv, 31 pp, 48 plates. 8 in colour. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. A facsimile of an Early Medieval Gospel book of great iconographical interest, with an introductory study by Frances Wormald and an… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club by the Earl of Perth, London, first edition, 1984. Edition limited to 200 copies for sale according to a contemporary advertisement for the book. Dark brown quarter morocco and wine-coloured boards, gilt spine title and decoration on both boards, gilt top, 4to, 29 cm,. [114] pp, ills. A facsimile of the… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford, first edition, 1981. Half morocco, top edge gilt, folio, 62 cm,. xvi, 96 pp, 32 leaves of plates. A splendid volume reproducing Jean Rotz' manuscript Boke of Idrography (British Library manuscript, Royal MS 20 E.ix) in facsimile, with expert introductory essays by contributors including Helen Wallis, Janet… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the members of The Roxburghe Club, Cambridge, first edition, 1992. Cloth, small 8vo, 19 cm,. 64 pp, [18] facsimile plates. From the introduction: "The anonymous Latin prose text of the Speculum Peccatorum, printed in London, at the Sign of the Sun in Fleet Street, by Wynkyn De Worde, exists in an unique copy in… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, London, first edition, 1987. Quarter morocco and cloth, gilt arms on front board, top edge gilt, 8vo, 26 cm,. 43 pp, 3 plates. Edited with notes, introduction, and an extract from Evelyn's diary by John Martin Robinson. "Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and eldest grandson of the attainted 4th Duke of… Read more about this item

Printed for the Roxburghe Club, Oxford, first edition, 1980. Two hundred copies were made available for sale. Cherry quarter morocco and boards, top edge gilt, large folio,. xiii, 68 pp, 21 leaves of facsimile (some heightened in gilt), [8] pp of plates. From the introduction: "The Roxburghe Club has decided to make available in a partial reproduction a… Read more about this item

Printed for the Roxburghe Club, Oxford, first edition, 1953. Approximately 100 copies printed,of which 40 were reserved for members. Roxburghe maroon morocco spine and boards, top edge gilt, 4to, 39 cm, title printed in red and black,. 51 pp, 34 plates. Text in English with Old French "Directions for the illuminator" and illustrations including texts in Old French… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, first edition, 1909. Folio, Roxburghe maroon morocco spine and boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, title printed in red and black, 49 cm,. viii, [2], 35, [1] pp, 62 pp of collotype facsimile and 3 coloured plates heightened in gold,. Rare in the market - the last copy seen… Read more about this item

J.B. Nichols and Sons, printed for the Roxburghe Club, London, first edition, 1862. Roxburghe maroon morocco spine and boards, title printed in red and black, 4to, , 27 cm,. []6], 12, //liv, 299, [1] pp, engraved half-title, facs. A member's copy with Ralph Neville Grenville's name in red in the list of members.

Printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford, first edition, 1952. Cloth, top edge gilt, folio, 40 cm, title printed in red and black,. 22 pp, 12 plates printed by Emery Walker. The manuscript is now known as the Hunterian Psalter. Millar's volume includes a transcript of the kalendar and litany. The ms. was acquired in… Read more about this item

Roxburge Club, printed for Henry Hicks Gibbs, Esq., by Stephen Austin, Hertford, first edition, 1865. Roxburghe maroon morocco spine and boards, title printed in red and black, small 4to, 26 cm,. [8], xxxvi, 334, [1] pp. The first modern edition of the Middle English verse romance Generides, which was composed in the Midlands in the 14th century.… Read more about this item

Printed for the Roxburghe Club, London, first edition, 1855. Small edition of 40 copies or so. Roxburghe maroon morocco spine and boards, title-page printed in red and black, additional engraved title-page, 27 cm,. [9], x-xii, [1], 2-211, [2], 214-215 pp. A scarce early Roxburghe Club book - Quaritch's 1880 catalogue states that 40 copies were printed, although… Read more about this item

Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, Academic Press, London, first edition, 1977. Burgundy quarter morocco and burgundy cloth, folio, black skiver spine-label between bands, top edge gilt, 34 cm,. [12], 69 pp, [52] leaves of plates, 88 monochrome and 9 colour plates. Includes reproductions of all miniatures of the ms., by 3 illuminators identified as the Bedford… Read more about this item