
| Title | Author | Category | No. in set | Publ. | Notes |
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| 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 | ![]() |
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| Wilson's Animal Life & Habits | Andrew Wilson | Full leather | 1887 | ![]() |
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| Beppo & Don Juan | Lord Byron | Part leather | 1853 | ![]() |
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| The Arabian Nights | Full leather | 1870 | ![]() |
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| The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy | Part leather | 3 | 1922 | ![]() |
| Gulliver's Travels | Swift | Part leather | 1894 | 1st ed.![]() |
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| Poetical Works | Wordsworth | Full leather | 1 | 1878 | ![]() |
| Rambles & Adventures | Davies | Leather bound | 1881 | ||
| The Golden Treasury | Palgrave | Full leather | 1882 | ![]() |
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| Animal Life | Buckland | Full leather | 1887 | ![]() |
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| Lady of the Lake | Walter Scott | Full leather | 1845 | ![]() |
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| Poems | Tennyson | Full leather | 1921 | ![]() |
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| The "Bab" Ballads | Gilbert | Cardboard cover |
1870 | ![]() |
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| Journal of Our Life in the Highlands | Queen Victoria | Part leather | 1868 | Rebound in 1986![]() |
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| The Virginians | Thackeray | Part leather | 2 | 1858 | 1st ed.![]() |
| Physical Education | Maclaren | Full leather | 1885 | Bookplate 1891![]() |
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| Poetical Works | John Milton | Full leather | 1900 | ![]() |
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| Life and Works | Brontes | Full leather | 7 | 1897 | One volume contains an undated letter.![]() |
| Pursuit of Knowledge | Full leather | 1830 | ![]() |
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| Cook's Voyages | Purves | Full leather | 1915 | Contains prize certificate![]() |
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| Sir Edwin Landseer | Manson | Leather bound | 1902 | ![]() |
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| Boy's 2nd Book of Inventions | Baker | Full leather | 1904 | ![]() |
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| Tales of Old Travel | Kingsley | Leather bound | 1873 | ||
| Domestic Medicine | Buchan | Full leather | 1786 | ![]() |
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| The Spectator Vol 5 | Full leather | 1726 | The oldest in my collection![]() |
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| Complete Works | Shakespeare | Full leather | 1908 | Inscribed to my grandmother 1908![]() |
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| Poems | Gray | Full leather | 1778 | ![]() |
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| Up the Rhine | Hood | Part leather | 1850 | 1st ed.![]() |
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| Life & Letters Of Lady Russell | Full leather | 1819 | ![]() |
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| Thy Servant a Dog, told by Boots | Kipling | Full leather | 1930 | 1st ed.![]() |
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| Duke of Wellington's Dispatches, Vol 9 - Peninsula | Gurwood | Full leather | 1838 | ![]() |
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| Good Things for Every Home | Cloth bound | 1885 | Contains many loose cuttings![]() |
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| Contour Road Book of England - SE Division | Full leather | 1899 | ![]() |
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| 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. |
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| When the Green Woods Laugh | Bates | Cloth bound | 1960 | 1st ed. | |
| A Breath of French Air | Bates | Cloth bound | 1959 | 1st ed. |
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| Poems & Songs of Robert Burns | Burns | Cloth bound | 1925 | ![]() |
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| 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 |
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| Just Among Friends | Cecil Aldin | Cloth bound | 1935 | Large format. Sketchbook | |
| Sleeping Partners | Cecil Aldin | Cloth bound | 1935 | Large format. Sketchbook. |
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| 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.![]() |
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| Illustrated Natural History - Mammalia | Wood | Full leather | 1869 | Large format![]() |
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| The Household Physician | M'Gregor-Robertson | Full leather | 1901 | Large format![]() |
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| 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. " |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
