Non-Fiction

A comprehensive annotated list of the published writings of Typographer Stanley Morison.

A collection of essays on typescripts first published as a Christmas keepsake.

Produced as a tribute to the typographer and calligrapher Stanley Morison on his sixtieth birthday

The sixth edition of the beautifully illustrated Fleuron.

Number IV in the periodically published journal, illustrated with many beautiful examples of the typographers art.

A description of excavations carried out at the cemeteries at Cyrene by a team from Manchester University over three successive years following an earlier dig in 1952. Descriptions of coins by John F. Healy.

A comprehensive description of the important Roman town at Colchester, based on excavations and research to date.

A fascinating travel guide from the 1870's with much historical detail.

A history of Roman Bath, based on available sources at the time. From its first occupation and the construction of the famous baths, fed by the natural spring which gave the town its name: Aqua Solis.

The Birmingham Archaeological Society's highly detailed report on the continuing  excavations at Wroxeter.

The third report by the research committee of The Society of Antiquaries of London on the ongoing excavations at Wroxeter.

A detailed and beautifully illustrated account of excavations organised by the Woolhope Naturalists Field Club and funded by private subscriptions.

The true story of the sinking of the Dumaru after a munitions explosion, and the harrowing struggle of the survivors adrift in the Pacific.

A first hand narrative by the first mate of  the sinking of the Nantucket whaler Essex after being rammed by a sperm whale. The original was and Inspiration for Herman Melvilles Moby Dick. Edited for young readers, with prologue and epilogue, by Iola Haverstick and Betty Shepherd. 

Introduced and annotated by the novelist John Fowles. An historical collection of photographs of shipwrecks around the Isles of Scilly taken by four generations of the local Gibson family from the 1860's onwards.

An authoritative guide to the 1959 revision of the International Yacht Racing Rules.

An authoritative guide to yacht racing, revised following the adoption of the 1950 I.Y.R.U. rules.

The true story of how three airmen of the US Navy survived in a raft for 34 days after their scout bomber crashed in to the Pacific.