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Twelve Views in Middlesex and Essex Drawn from Nature.
SAYER, (Robert).
Twelve engraved views. Oblong 4to. Sewn as issued. London, Strong impressions. Sayer achieved a leading position in the print and map trades through his considerable commercial skills. A shrewd publisher, he spotted trends in popular taste and built up a large collection of plates of successfull images, going on in the later... [more]
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Stock Code: TR1661

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Finnegans Wake

In a new edition edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Houyhnhnm Press 2010

The fruit of an astonishing feat of scholarship. Presented in a remarkable new two volume edition, with note by Seamus Deane, foreword by Hans Walter Gabler, introduction by David Greetham.
Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at Verona by Stamperia Valdonega. To obtain a copy please click here.

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Featured Subject: The Abolition of the English Slave Trade

The story of one of the world's greatest social movements told through the books, manuscripts, and related objects of the period.

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Featured Collection: Japanese Photography from the Pre-War Period

Maggs are very pleased to be able to offer two important collections relating to Japanese photography from the pre-War period. The first is a group of 135 titles comprising over 1000 photo-books and magazines spanning the rich history of this most challenging period of Japanese artistic photography. The second is a collection of 70 original photographs from the same period. We have published a fully illustrated catalogue in a limited edition of 450 copies giving detailed bibliographical information on each title as well as providing background information. To obtain a copy please click here or contact

Boredom - the desire for desires
Tolstoy

Inigo Jones's Roman 'Sketchbook'

Published previously only in a rare lithographic facsimile in 1831 this is the first scholarly publication of the modest, vellum-bound notebook now known as the 'Roman Sketchbook' and catalogued at Chatsworth House as 'Album 6'. The text has been fully reproduced in photographic facsimile and accurately transcribed [more...]