The most recent catalogue from Collinge & Clark is the forty-eighth book list and is rather longer than usual. Although it contains one special collection (from Edward Walters’s collection which was formerly in the possession of Father Brocard Sewell) it is almost entirely made up from books from private presses.

A History of British Birds (Volumes 1 & 2.) by Thomas Bewick is valued at £180. The work was printed by J. Blackwell, for R.E. Bewick in 1847.There are wood-engravings within the text.  Earlier editions (according to the cataloguer) had about 131 figures of birds, 119 tailpieces in volume 1 and 101 figures of birds,136 tailpieces in volume 2, this set contains more and is an attempt at a definitive edition by Robert and Jane Bewick. It introduces nineteen new vignettes, one new figure of a bird 'Bewick's Swan' (thought to be Thomas Bewick's finest wood-engraving). The arrangement of the text varies from previous editions. Finally, this is the first and only edition to carry John Hancock's 'Synopsis' and is sometimes called “Hancock's edition” from the revisions he supplied.

Published by Camberwell Press  in 1996 Eric Ravilious’s, Submarine Dream: Lithographs and Letters is edited by Brian Webb with an Introduction by Peyton Skipwith. This copy is one of seventy-five copies in a folder with an extra set of lithographs. This copy is not numbered, but the seller believes it to be a ‘Presentation’ as it is signed upon the colophon by Eileen Hogan, President of Camberwell College, (rather than Brian Webb). The work contains ten five-colour lithographs with Ravillious’s correspondence regarding their (hoped for) publication in 1940-41. The work has various relevant Double Crown Club ephemera inserted. When published in 1996 only about half the edition was bound up by Roy Howell at Camberwell. Owing to his death (among other problems) the binding of the remaining sheets was delayed for three years until taken up by Shepherds. The binding runs horizontally on the first issue, vertically on the second. The lithographs, of which only a very few original sets exist, are ranked among the artist’s highest graphic achievements. The work is priced at £2,250.

With twelve aquatints by Patrick Prockter The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. There are also some additional inserted plates. Published by Editions Alecto, London, in 1976 the work for sale is number eight of one hundred and ten copies which has been signed by the artist but without four extra loose aquatints in a pocket at the rear. The book is for sale at £950 and was printed at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge. Although Patrick Procktor (1936-2003) did most work as an independent printmaker, his sequence of `Ancient Mariner' aquatints are amongst his most memorable compositions. They are loosely based on Dore's famous engravings. The series begins with a portrait of Coleridge and ends with a self-portrait.