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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.

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…

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…

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 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.

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

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…

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

Frontispiece of the War Number volume of Blast

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.

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

A tall quarto sized Zerkal page with a woodcut imprint of the goddess Diana descending upon a sleeping Pericles.

Two tall quarto sized Zerkal pages containing the title page information of Barbarian Press's edition of Pericles.The type-faces are Poliphilus and Bando. The pale blue calligraphy, centre page, was drawn by Andrea Taylor.

One tall quarto sized piece of Zerkal paper with a portrait of an old Pericles, a column of text printed in Poliphilus and Bando, and a small image of Marina and another woman.

Two tall quarto sized Zerkal pages containing comic vignettes of the riddle scene from Pericles, surrounding text and also a portrati of a young Pericles. The Type-face is Poliphilus and Bando.

Two tall, quarto size, Zerkal pages containing portraits of a young Pericles and Thaïsa, with surrounding text. The type-face is Poliphilus and Bando.

Woodcut imprint of Thaïsa and Pericles reunited from Pericles spanning two tall quarto sized pages of Zerkal paper, surrounding text in Poliphilus and Blado type-face.

Woodcut imprint of jousting scene from Pericles spanning two tall quarto sized pages of Zerkal paper, surrounding text in Poliphilus and Blado type-face.

Evidence of a flower having been pressed in the pages of this copy of S. Hollingsworth's The Present State of Nova Scotia.

The front page of The Present State of Nova Scotia as it appears in the second edition printed in 1787. Contains the publication information.