1. Hassall, Arthur.

Christ Church Oxford – An Anthology in Prose and Verse, Selected by Arthur Hassall, M.A., STudent of Christ Church, Oxford, With 26 Plates in Colour Reproduced from Paintings by Arthur Garratt and From Portraits in Christ Church Hall.

London / New York / Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Large Quarto (26.5 cm wide x 32 cm high). Frontispiece (Cardinal Wolsey Portrait-Painting), 182 pages with 27 stunning, tipped-in illustrations after Histoorical Paintings (full-page), including Frontispiece. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s half cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some signs of wear to the binding. The binding firm and strong, fully intact with the endpapers NOT cracked (which is often the case).

2. [Oxford University-History / The Bodleian Library] Best & Lloyd Limited.

Architectural Lighting. [Extremely Rare Art Deco Lighting Catalogue of Best & Lloyd Limited – With several imgae sof Lighting applied to Nos. 10 and 11 Downing Street as well as the image of “The Bodleian Library now lit by artificial light for the First Time since its foundation” (this dates the catalogue to 1929/1930)].

London, The Kynoch Press, [Best & Lloyd Limited, Handsworth – Birmingham and 40 Gt. Marlborough St.], no year (c.1929/1930). Octavo (19 cm wide x 25.4 cm high). 63 pages with numerous photographs of Art Deco Lights, Art Deco Lighting products, Art Deco Lighting Fixtures, etc. Original Hardcover. Spine slightly damaged / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

3. Rare Illustrations of 19th century Oxford University – [Hopkins, T.H.T. (Thomas Henry Toovey Hopkins (1831–1885)] Heywood, James.

Illustrations of the Principal English Universities. [With several Aquatints and Lithographical plates showing academical dress and University ceremonies by R. W. Buss, R. B. Harraden] – [This was the personal copy of Thomas Henry Toovey Hopkins, Bursar at Magdalen College Oxford and Curator of the University Chest etc.]. Collected by James Heywood, M.A. F.R.S.

[Oxford], James Heywood, [1843]. Octavo. IV pages of Title and Contents plus 44 plates / This being coloured lithographs [collation complete]. Original Hardcover / Original cloth with gilt lettering to front board. The boards of this volume are cleanly detached, spine is missing. Interior pages and illustrations all complete, including endpapers with the personal Library Stamp of Hopkins: “T.H.T.Hopkins – Magd, Coll. Oxford” on the endpaper and titlepage. Complete with all plates. Only very occasional, minor signs of foxing. Extremely scarce and wonderful publication on the student-life in Oxford and Cambridge during the first half of the 19th century ! Wonderful provenance.