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Two quarto size Zerkal pages with Andrea Taylor's calligraphic presentation of the Gower's opening lines.

A two page spread of the first storm scene from Pericles printed on two tall quarto size Zerkal pages. Images are printed from woodcuts, engraved by Simon Brett. The type-faces are Poliphilus and Bando.

Frontispiece of the War Number volume of Blast

Table of contents from the War Issue of Blast. Features Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Heuffer, J. Dismore, H. Sanders

Pasted-in picture of a printed sketch of Guadier-Brzeska's sculpture of Ezra Pound's Head. Note the resemblance to Hoa Hakananai'a, the moai sculpture from Easter Island. Also note the sliver of a fingerprint on each copy. The first copy (on the…

"Introduction" page of the first volume of The Strand Magazine.

Two Zerkal pages containing images of the courtly dancing scene in Pericles, framed with text. The image on the right page depicts Pericles and Thaïsa's first dance.

Two Zerkal pages containing an image of Pericles and Marina reuniting after years of separation, surrounded by text. The image came from a woodcut carved by Simon Brett.

Two tall quarto sized Zerkal pages containing background information and the Gower's opening lines from Pericles. Some of the city titles and the Gower's opening lines are printed in red, purple or blue ink. The Gower's lines in the middle of the…

First page of Gaudier-Brzeska's Vortex (Written from the Trenches. The piece is a Vorticist manifesto praising the war as "a great remedy." A death notice on the second page, titled "Mort Pour La Patrie" or "Death for the Fatherland," informs the…

Captain Cook's account of his voyage to find the "Northwest Passage" in the North Pacific. This is a global map that folds out. The biggest map in the books.

Views of the West Coast of America. Sketches of the skyline of the coast.

Map of the Northwest coast of America and the Northeast coast of Asia.

Captain Cook's account of his voyage to find the "Northwest Passage" in the North Pacific.
Ownership inscription by the name of Mary Lindsay inside each of the covers.

A sketch of the skylines of the West coast of North America

Map of the Bering Strait and Norton Sound

Map of Hawaiian Islands

Appendix of the variety and similarity of languages encountered by Cook in his voyages. He is interested in the pronunciation of numbers.

Handwritten marginalia on the back of the last page in Donne's Biathanatos.

Decorative "A" at the beginning of the dedication in Donne's Biathanatos.