224 [BECKFORD, William] A Dialogue in the Shades. Rare Doings at Roxburghe Hall. Printed in 1819 now reprinted in facsimile with an introduction. Claude Cox, 1985.  £12
Edition limited to 250 copies; pp.(26); headpiece engraving of Caxton, Beckford and the bookseller William Clarke; fine in original marbled stiff paper wrapper, paper label. Two poems satirising the bibliomania of the Roxburghe sale of 1812 and the great book-collecting boom which it heralded, reproduced from an uncut copy of the scarce original.

225 BLATCHLY, John. East Anglian Ex-Libris. Bookplates and labels made between 1700 and the present day. The Bookplate Society, 2008.  £18
FIRST EDITION limited to 100 copies, numbered & signed by the author for private distribution, (+ 350 copies for The Bookplate Society). Folio, pp.128; over 260 illustrations & facsimiles throughout (16 in colour); new in laminated pictorial card covers. A well produced sequel to Dr Blatchly's earlier 'Suffolk and Norfolk Ex-Libris', essential reading for local collectors for the biographical notes alone, with three separate indexes of: place, owner, and artists, engravers & printers, which incorporate both works. The first 75 copies sold will include a tipped-in copy of the pictorial bookplate etched by Suffolk painter Anna Airy for Sir Harry Newton, sometime MP for Harwich. A discreet crest and baronet's helm fills the lower left corner but the main feature of unpicked apples presumably alludes to Sir Isaac, from whom no one can claim direct descent. A noted yachtsman and expert on Danish husbandry, Sir Harry succeeded his father the 1st baronet in 1921 and died thirty years later.

226 BLATCHLY, John. Some Suffolk and Norfolk Ex-Libris. Bookplates and Labels relating to East Anglian Owners, Artists and Printers. The Bookplate Society, 2000.  £15
FIRST EDITION limited to 450 copies (200 for sale), folio, pp.(6)154; illustrations throughout; new in stiff printed wrappers. A well produced survey with extremely useful biographical notes & effective index.

227 COPSEY, Tony. Suffolk Writers from the beginning until 1800. A Catalogue of Suffolk Authors with some account of their lives and a list of their writings. [Claude Cox Books for the Author], Ipswich, 2000.  £40
FIRST EDITION limited to 150 copies; pp.558; new in gilt-lettered boards. A remarkably researched sequel to Tony Copsey's study of Suffolk Imprints; full of good things & eminently readable, barely 10% of the authors featured may be found in the Dictionary of National Biography. We are sole distributors of this important reference.

228 COPSEY, Tony. Suffolk Writers who were born between 1800-1900. A Catalogue of Suffolk Authors with some account of their lives and lists of their writings. [Claude Cox Books for the Author], Ipswich, 2002.  £40
FIRST EDITION, 200 copies printed; pp.416; new in gilt-lettered boards & pictorial dust-wrapper. The second volume of Tony Copsey's Suffolk Dictionary includes nearly 1000 biographies. An essential reference for all interested in Suffolk history & literature. We are sole distributors of this work.

229 CROOK, Capt. Ronald Lewis. Wartime Letters of a West Kent Man. The World War Two letters and related correspondence of Captain Ronald Lewis Crook, 6th Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, who was killed in action in Tunisia, 30th November 1942. Edited by Martin Lewis Crook. Privately Published [Distributed by Claude Cox Books, Ipswich] 2007.  £15
FIRST EDITION, limited to 400 copies; sm.4to., pp.x,132; 20 half-tone illustrations, facsimiles & map; new in printed laminated card covers. A moving account, skilfully edited, with useful appendices. We are sole distributors of this book, trade terms available.

230 FITZGERALD, Edward. A Letter from Woodbridge. Edward FitzGerald to Anna Biddell, 8th October 1879. Now first printed with a facsimile, introduction and notes. Claude Cox, 1994.  £10
FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies; pp.10 + 4pp. facsimile letter printed in red, new in printed wrappers. With a 4pp. introductory essay by Claude Cox, 2pp. transcript of the letter and accompanying notes.