Below is a short list of some of our more interesting titles. This list is updated regularly.
![Item #296887 [SPECIAL PRESS] L’ALLEGRO AND IL PENSEROSO. John Milton](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296887.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693615673)
New Rochelle, N.Y. The Elson Press, 1903. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 8vo.; in paper-covered boards backed in buckran, with paper label to the spine; [8], 9-28, [1] pages; printed in red and in black, and with in-text illustrations thoughout; with.....
![Item #296616 [SPECIAL PRESS] SAMSON AGONISTES: A DRAMATIC POEM. John Milton | Robert Ashwin...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296616.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688747929)
Harrow Weald: Raven Press, 1931. Quarter Leather. Limted Edition. Quarto; in quarter vellum over black paper covered boards, with the Raven device of the press stamped in gilt to the vellum, and tiling in gilt to the spine; top edge.....
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1984. Hard Cover. An uncommon bibliographical reference. An ex-library copy with a label to the spine, and a couple of stamps inside; no pockets or other excresences.
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1989. Of an edition of 350, this is number XXVI of 50 deluxe copies quarter-bound in Nigerian Goatskin over patterned paper boards, Signed by the author and illustrated. With a paper-covered portfolio containing a suite of initialled.....
![Item #297098 [SPECIAL PRESS] MINIATURE FOLIO OF PRIVATE PRESSES. John Ryder](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/297098.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700617601)
[London]: [Bodley Head], 1960. Hard Cover. 8vo; a gathering of 28 of samples from various private presses; from this list: Ashantilly, Barber Hill, Canterbury College of Art, Cuckoo Hill, Creekside, Damasine, Karuba, Kit-Cat Press, Laverock, Lincoln School of Art, Lion.....
![Item #296059 [POETRY] [SPECIAL PRESS] IN THE CEMETERY HIGH ABOVE SHILLINGTON: A POEM. John Updike...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296059.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1662498187)
Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewart, Publisher, 1995. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Quarto (10 1/4” x 7 1/4”); in printed blue laid-paper covered boards, backed in navy blue cloth; [16] pages, with illustrations by Barry Moser; with title page printed.....
Paris: J.-B. Dumoulin, 1856. Hard Cover. Avec Deux Plans De La Ville Et Cinq Planches Lithographiees; No pencil or ink markings in text. One quarter green leather spine and paper-covered boards. Rubbing and scraping at top of spine with leather.....
London: Daedalus Press for the Enitharmon Press, 1974. Folio. Hard Cover. First Edition, 85/200 copies. With Julian Trevelyan’s frontispiece and 17 additional plates. Backed in a heavy cream colored burlap with marbled paper over boards; bottom of the spine is.....
Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1912. Octavo. Hard Cover. First Edition, octavo, in quarter cream linen over blue-gray paper-covered boards. with titling in black to the upper board. The binding is soiled, with darkening to the spine. There is a......
![Item #297133 [SPECIAL PRESS] PRELUDE TO A MILLION YEARS. A BOOK OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS. Lynd Ward](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/297133.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699911160)
New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1933. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in quarter copper foil over star-patterned paper-covered boards, string-tied in the Japanese style, with an embossed title on the spine; hand-bound in Frence folds; one string on the back.....
Paris: Chez D’Authereau, 1827. 32mo. Full Leather. Mme. Sophie Cottin’s romance set in the Crusades. A charming little set in five volumes; full leather in rose straight grained morocco, double ruled at the perimeter; spine with decorations in gilt, gilt.....
![Item #259162 [Aldus Press] De Philosophia volumen secundum De natura deorum, De divinatione, De...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/259162.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591215799)
Venice: Apud Paulum Manutium, 1555. Octavo. Vellum Binding. The second volume of Cicero’s Philosophy, this volume “On the Nature of the Gods, etc.” Full contemporary limp vellum; with relatively significant worming to preliminary and final leaves (as well as the.....
Hanna’s, Thaxted, Essex: The Workshop Press, 1983. Limited Edition. This edition limited to 80 copies, numbered and signed by the author, of which this is #25. Bound in marbled papers boards backed in brown cloth, with a pastedown title label;.....
![Item #296612 [SPECIAL PRESS] [PENTAGRAM PRESS] THE PENTAGRAM PRESS COMMONPLACE BOOK. A SELECTION...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296612.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688747915)
Minneapolis, Mn. Pentagram Press, 1988. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. 8vo.; in quarter black morocco lettered at the spine in gilt; over cream-colored Roma paper-covered boards; [44] pages, with linocuts by Gregor Campbell, mounted specimen of marbled papers, and mounted black.....
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1833. Hard Cover. First American Edition. First American Edition. A clean copy of Volume II only of the first novel by Jane Austen. Bound in the original publisher’s drab boards with a cloth spine. Lacking label.....
London: The Whittington Press & William Heinemann, 1979. Illustrated by: Sally Scott. Folio. Full Leather. Limited Edition, numbered XIII of XXV from a larger limitation of 200. Signed by Sally Scott and Grant on the colophon. Bound as issued in.....
London: Printed for John Walker, 1794, 1796. Full Leather. The Works of Peter Pindar, in Three Volumes, published by John Walker, to which was added a Volume IV in 1796, and a fifth in 1801. With Vols. I-IV, four volumes.....
London: G. and W. Nicol, et al. 1813. Royal Octavo. Three Quarters Leather. Second Edition. The advertisement for the Third Edition of Massinger’s Plays has these encouraging words for the prospective purchaser: “In Lowndes’ Bibliographer’s Manual, it is stated, speaking.....
![Item #296613 [SPECIAL PRESS] [SIGNED] DREAMS & DERISIONS. Ralph Pulitzer, Rockwell Kent](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296613.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688747918)
New York: Pynson Printers, Inc., 1927. Half Leather. Limited Edition. Quarto, in brown half morocco over marbled boards, housed in the publisher’s paper covered slipcase; this is #2 of 200 copies signed by illustrator Rockwell Kent; the binding has minor.....
![Item #296716 [SPECIAL PRESS] FOR LOVE OF LEDA. Raymond Lister](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296716.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689800564)
Linton: Windmill House Press, 1976. Vellum Binding. Small quarto, in original limp vellum, with leading yapp edges; housed in a printed paper slipcase; #5 of 14 signed copies, each with one of the original illustrations by the author, and with.....
![Item #296851 [SALESMAN’S SAMPLE BOOK] THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS [WITH PROSPECTUS]....](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296851.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693168314)
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., Publisher’s, 1886. Large 8vo.; in flexible tan cloth boards with decorative border in a thistle patterns and a vignette in gilt; the pagings are of course various; with an engraved portrait of Burns as frontispiece and.....
![Item #296630 [BINDINGS] [NAVAL HISTORY] THE LIFE OF NELSON [2 VOLUMES]. Robert Southey](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/296630.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688747965)
London: John Murray, 1813. Full Leather. First Edition, Second Issue. Two octavo bindings; in blue diced calf with red labels and ship devices in compartments; the perimeters of the boards are rolled in gilt and in blind and turn-ins with.....
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1987. This set being a Special Edition limited to 40 copies with the limitation noted in roman numerals, this being IV; signed on the limitation page by Roland Gant and Howard Phipps. The second volume being.....
Northampton, Mass. Gehenna Press, 1971. Hard Cover. Signed. “One hundred copies printed at the Gehenna Press during the summer of 1971...The great R was made by John E. Benson of Newport. The portrait of Romeyn de Hooghe was engraved by.....
![Item #281583 FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] MODERN PAINTERS (2 Volumes; Set). John Ruskin](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/281583.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591216769)
Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1885. 12mo. Hard Cover. FINE BINDINGS WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS; 2 Volumes in full blue leather with school prize decoration stamped on each front board; one Fore-edge painting of Beddgelert Bridge in Snowdonia, Wales; the other.....