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Title Author Category No. in set Publ. Notes
Set of works Jane Austen Part leather 6 1950
Set of works Edgar Allen Poe Part leather 8 1905
Set Poetical Works Wordsworth Full leather 6 1870
When the World Was Wide & Other Verses Henry Lawson Full leather 
1912
Wilson's Animal Life & Habits Andrew Wilson Full leather
1887
Beppo & Don Juan Lord Byron Part leather
1853
The Arabian Nights
Full leather
1870
The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy Part leather 3 1922
Gulliver's Travels Swift Part leather
1894 1st ed.
 
Poetical Works Wordsworth Full leather 1 1878
Rambles & Adventures Davies Leather bound
1881
The Golden Treasury Palgrave Full leather
1882
Animal Life Buckland Full leather
1887
Lady of the Lake Walter Scott Full leather
1845
Poems Tennyson Full leather
1921
The "Bab" Ballads Gilbert Cardboard
cover

1870
Journal of Our Life in the Highlands Queen Victoria Part leather
1868 Rebound in 1986
The Virginians Thackeray Part leather 2 1858 1st ed.
Physical Education Maclaren Full leather
1885 Bookplate 1891
Poetical Works John Milton Full leather
1900
Life and Works Brontes Full leather 7 1897 One volume contains an undated letter.
Pursuit of Knowledge
Full leather
1830
Cook's Voyages Purves Full leather
1915 Contains prize certificate
Sir Edwin Landseer Manson Leather bound
1902
Boy's 2nd Book of Inventions Baker Full leather
1904
Tales of Old Travel Kingsley Leather bound
1873
Domestic Medicine Buchan Full leather
1786
The Spectator Vol 5
Full leather
1726 The oldest in my collection

Complete Works Shakespeare Full leather
1908 Inscribed to my grandmother 1908
Poems Gray Full leather
1778
Up the Rhine Hood Part leather
1850 1st ed.
Life & Letters Of Lady Russell
Full leather
1819
Thy Servant a Dog, told by Boots Kipling Full leather
1930 1st ed.
Duke of Wellington's Dispatches, Vol 9 - Peninsula Gurwood Full leather
1838
Good Things for Every Home
Cloth bound
1885 Contains many loose cuttings
Contour Road Book of England - SE Division
Full leather
1899
The Pleasures of Reading Balfour Leather bound
1887 Presentation copy (signed with author's initials)
Nine Coaches Waiting Mary Stewart Cloth bound
1958 1st ed
The Bunch Book Douglas Cloth bound
1939 Illustr. by Cecil Aldin.

When the Green Woods Laugh Bates Cloth bound
1960 1st ed.
A Breath of French Air Bates Cloth bound
1959 1st ed.

Poems & Songs of Robert Burns Burns Cloth bound
1925
Absurdities Heath Robinson Cloth bound
c1920 Full page illustrations. Large format
Now We Are Six Milne Cloth bound
1927 1st trade edition
How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa Stanley Cloth bound
c. 1930
Imaginary Conversations Landor Cloth bound
c. 1945
Legend of Sleepy Hollow Irving Leather bound
1928 Large format. 1st ed., Ill by Arthur Rackham

Just Among Friends Cecil Aldin Cloth bound
1935 Large format. Sketchbook
Sleeping Partners Cecil Aldin Cloth bound
1935 Large format. Sketchbook.

First AId in Accident & Sudden Illness Black Cloth bound
c.1900
25 Years in the Secret Service Le Caron Cloth bound
1893
Dot & the Kangaroo Pedley Cloth bound
1929 Inscribed to my mother from her aunt in 1930
Under the Punkah Robinson Cloth bound
1881 Signed by the author
The Hedge & the Horse Belloc Cloth bound
1936 1st ed. Ill by GK Chesterton. Rebound
Andersen's Tales for the Young Paull Cloth bound
c. 1910 From my mother's family - inscription in 1910
The Gift of the Magi O. Henry Cloth bound
1939 1st ed. 12 copper engravings
A Child's Garden of Verses Stevenson Cloth bound
c.1910 Many illustrations, some colour
Revolt in the Desert TE Lawrence Cloth bound
1927 1st ed.
Psalms & Church Hymnary
Leather bound
c. 1900 Belonged to my grandmother. Several pencil portraits on back flyleaf
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts Belloc Cloth bound
1924 3rd impression
A Dog Day Emanuel Cloth bound
1904 Ill. by Cecil Aldin. Large format. Poor binding
The Quiver
Part leather
1897 Large format. Gift from my brother.
Illustrated Natural History - Mammalia Wood Full leather
1869 Large format
  
The Household Physician M'Gregor-Robertson Full leather
1901 Large format
  
Dogs of Character Cecil Aldin Cloth bound
1927 Large format, illustrated
Biography for Beginners Clerihew Cloth bound
c. 1910 Large format. Soft cover. Ill. by GK Chesterton
Punch - Vols 154 & 5
Cloth bound 2 1918 Large format
Punch - Vol. 150
Cloth bound
1916 Large format
Punch - Vol. 135
Leather bound
1908 Large format
The Kennel Encyclopaedia Barton Cloth bound
c. 1930 Large format
Domesday Book - Facsimile. Devonshire
Cloth bound 3 1991 No. 427 of 1000 copies.
From on-line catalogue : "1,000 numbered facsimiles were reserved for the Domesday County Edition. Each set in this edition includes three volumes and two maps housed in a quarter bound leather box. One volume is a perfect facsimile of the original folios, a second reproduces the same information in exactly the same position on each page, but is typeset in modern English. The third volume tells you how the Domesday was compiles and describes the England of 900 years ago. The first map depicts all 31 Domesday counties. The other plots individual counties as Domesday tells us it was in 1086. "
Pick of Punch
Leather bound
1953 Large format
Pick of Punch
Leather bound
1950 Large format
Pick of Punch
Leather bound
1958 Large format
Pick of Punch
Leather bound
1959 Large format
Pick of Punch
Leather bound
1956 Large format
Pick of Punch
Leather bound
1957 Large format
Punch - Vol. 172-3
Cloth bound 2 1927 Large format
Punch - Vol. 138-9
Cloth bound
1910 Large format
Punch - Vol. 174-5
Cloth bound 2 1928 Large format
Born Free Joy Adamson Cloth bound
1960 Newspaper article inside, dated 12/12/60
Man Meets Dog Konrad Lorenz Cloth bound
1954
Cecil Aldin's Dogs and Hounds Rupert Collens Cloth bound
1990
The Guild of Play Book of Festival and Dance GT Kimmins Cloth bound
1907
A Mixture - Drawings HM Bateman Cloth bound
1924 1st edition
Poems Tennyson Leather bound
1909 Tiny "purse" edition. Falling apart.
Poems Walter Scott Cloth bound 2 c1885 Inscribed 1886. Small format
Letters from France Isaac Mack Cloth bound
c1925 Privately printed. From the house of Robert Whitehead.
Recollections 1849-1936 William Davey Cloth bound
1936 From the house of Robert Whitehead. (Possibly the father of Margaret and Bobbie).
The Mt. Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951 Eric Shipton Cloth bound
1952 From a Melbourne library.
Contains newspaper article 3/11/53 and church newsletter Feb 1954.
School Friend Annual 1928
Cloth bound
1927 2nd in the series. Inscribed "Xmas 1927"
Cottage and Garden in Australia Edna Walling Cloth bound
1947 Owned by my father (inscribed 1958)
The War's Best Photographs
Cloth bound
c1946
Ratcatcher to Scarlet Cecil Aldin Cloth bound
c1927 Inscribed 1927. Large format

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