Highlights
Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale.
As we have not had a fair since 2019 due to the pandemic, our booksellers have curated many lovely and desirable books to exhibit.
Here are just a few of the exhibitors' highlights you can expect to see at the Fair in 2022!
There are a number of pages of highlights. To browse all the highlights - choose a page from the list below.
You can also check the highlights listed under your favourite booksellers in the exhibitor directory
Spenser’s Faerie Queene
$16500
SPENSER, Edmund; [WALTER CRANE, illustrator]
Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. London : George Allen, 1894-97. Quarto, nineteen parts in original illustrated wrappers, illustrated by Crane throughout. The deluxe edition printed on Japanese vellum, limited to 28 copies of which 25 were for sale.Magnificently illustrated by Crane and a highpoint of Arts and Crafts publishing.
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'An Unveiling in Vienna', drypoint by Will Dyson, circa 1929
$950
Signed and titled by the artist below the image. Satirical scene of Dr Sigmund Freud pointing the way to a spirit figure representing "scandal".
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The Clipper Blue Jacket at Sea 1869 by Hugh Hughes
$3500
Pencil and coloured crayon drawing on prepared board
32.5 x 46.3 cm
Signed and dated; also titled below the image under the mount.
Provenance: Private collection, UK until 2011.
The Blue Jacket was an American clipper built in Boston in 1858 and well known for the lavish decoration of the staterooms and saloon. She served in the Liverpool and Australia trades between 1860-1864. The ship was named after The Blue Jackets, a traditional name for sailors in the US and British navies.
Hugh Hughes was an Able Seaman aboard the Blue Jacket in 1867.
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AESOP'S FABLES. Illustrated by Stephen Gooden. London, 1936
$1500
One of 525 numbered copies on hand-made paper (total edition 533), signed by the artist.
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PRINCESS COVER PAPERS
$550
Princess Cover Papers
Windsor Locks, CT: C.H. Dexter and Sons, n.d. circa 1895
Trade catalogue: from the paper mill of C.H. Dexter & Sons, established in the early 1800s, with examples of nineteen colour paper samples, beautifully illustrated in the style of art nouveau.
Stationery fetish aside, this is an important document in the development of printing history, with historical and cultural significance.
Quarto, bound in pictorial wrappers, sewn, original ties intact. rubbed on rear panel and nicked at edges, a very good copy indeed, clean and unmarked within.
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