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                ARNOLD
Selected Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold
edited by
Brian Crick & Michael DiSanto
316 pp. royal 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 81 1
Price £9.60

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BARRATT
Pictures of Jesus
poems by
Daniel Barratt
24 pp demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 45 3
edition limited to 200 numbered copies
Price £4.80




BARRATT
Sifting Eliot
on T. S. Eliot
by
Daniel Barratt
44 pp. A5 wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 24 8
Price £3.60




BORROW
The Dingle Chapters
by
George Borrow
edited with biographical and critical commentary
by Richard Shepheard and Barrie Mencher
372 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 63 7
Price £20.00




BURKITT
Eucharist and Sacrifice
by
F. C. Burkitt
26 pp. demy 8vo wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 48 4
Price £1.80




BURNET
Remarks on John Locke
with Locke's replies
by
Thomas Burnet
edited with introduction by George Watson
93 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 43 9
Price £9.60




CARLYLE
Criticism of Thomas Carlyle
selected and edited with introduction by
Michael DiSanto
302 pp. royal 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 91 0
Price £9.60




CHESTERTON
The Victorian Age
in Literature

by
G. K. Chesterton
160 pp. 120 x 190 mm. paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 65 1
Price £6.00

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CRICK
Love Confounded:
Revaluing the Great Tradition

Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy,
Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence
by
Brian Crick
288 pp. royal 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 80 4
Price £30.00




CRICK
The Story of the “Prussian Officer” Revisions
Littlewood among the Lawrence Scholars
by
Brian Crick
32 pp. A5 wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 72 9
Price £3.60




DRUMMOND
In Defence of Adam
Essays on Bunyan, Milton and Others
by
C. Q. Drummond
edited by John Baxter & Gordon Harvey
286 pp. royal 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 89 7
Price £16.00

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ELLIOTT
“Discourses that Pretend
to Inform or Instruct”

Rhetoric,Empiricism and Religion
by
Roger Elliott
44 pp. A5 wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 32 3
Price £3.00




GRIFFIN
The Gatekeeper
a novel by
Brian Griffin
196 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 94 1
Price £9.60

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HOLBROOK
Nothing Larger than Life
a novel by
David Holbrook
240 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 46 0
Price £12.00



HOMILIES
The Homilies
Appointed to be Read in Churches
the edition of John Griffiths revised
458 pp. large royal 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 82 8
Price £27.00 not available for trade purchase

Ian Robinson's unexpurgated Introduction




HOMILIES
The Homilies
Appointed to be Read in Churches
the edition of John Griffiths revised
458 pp. 6.7 x 9·15" paper covers ISBN 978 0 907839 96 5
Price £19.20




KERRIDGE
Beside the Seaside
and Other Tales

by
Roy Kerridge
223 pp. crown 8vo hard covers
ISBN 978 0 9502723 2 0
Price £12.00




KERRIDGE
Druid Madonna
by
Roy Kerridge
with line drawings by Musa
78 pp. tall crown 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 07 1
Price £9.00




KERRIDGE
The Store's Outing
by
Roy Kerridge
with line drawings by Musa
118 pp. crown 8vo hard covers
ISBN 978 0 9502723 5 1
Price £9.00




KINCH
Q. D. Leavis, 1905–81:
an Appreciation

by
M. B. Kinch
limited to 250 numbered copies 24 pp. 120 x 190 mm wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 01 9
Price £1.50




LEAVIS BIOGRAPHY
Dr MacKillop and “The Cambridge Quarterly”
edited by
M. B. Mencher
46 pp. A5 paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 60 6
Price £4.80




LEE
Poetry and the System
by
Brian Lee
40 pp. demy 8vo wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 05 7
Price £3.20




LEE
The Dislocation
of Everyday Life

by
Brian Lee
47 pp. A5 wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 33 0
Price £3.60




LEE
The Heart of All England
by
Brian Lee
230 pp. 110 x 185 mm ISBN 978 0 907839 69 9
Price £15.00




LITTLEWOOD
D. H. Lawrence:
the Major Phase

Studies in Tradition and Renewal
by
J. C. F. Littlewood
edited with Introduction by William Shearman
326 pp. royal 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 61 3
Price £30.00

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MARCHANT
A Picture of Shakespeare’s Tragedies
by
Robert Marchant
180 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 71 1
Price £12.00

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MARCHANT
For an Ave Mary
art and life
by
Robert Marchant
Robert Marchant’s last book, For an Ave Mary, was published in an edition limited to eighty copies and is now out of print, but can be read online or downloaded by clicking here.


MARCHANT
Principles of Wordsworth’s Poetry
by
Robert Marchant
112 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 9502723 3 7
Price £9.00




MARCHANT
Tragedy against Psychology
by
Robert Marchant
92 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 11 8
Price £7.20




MARCHANT
The English Bible
and the Tragic

by
Robert Marchant
192 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 76 7
Price £18.00




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MASKELL
Politics Needs Literature
by
Duke Maskell
56 pp.demy 8vo paper covers ISBN 978 0 907839 13 2
Price £4.20




MASKELL & ROBINSON
The New Idea of a University
by
Duke Maskell & Ian Robinson
208 pp. royal 8vo hard covers
published by Haven Books but you can purchase from us: Price £15.60

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MENCHER
A Knot
a novella by
M. B. Mencher
96 pp. tall crown 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 06 4
Price £9.00




MENCHER
Betrothal
together with
Fidelity
by
M. B. Mencher
241 pp. 118 x 160 mm paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 59 0
Price £7.25




MITCHELL
T. F. Powys
Aspects of a Life

by
J. Lawrence Mitchell
180 pp. + 8 pp. illustrations royal 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 86 6
Price £14.40

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MORGAN
The Fire Jump
and Other Poems

by
Christopher Morgan
87 pp. demy 8vo hard covers
ISBN 978 0 9502723 6 8
Price £9.80




“My Native English”
criticisms of an unnecessary crisis in English studies
edited by
Roger Knight and Ian Robinson
203 pp. A5 hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 37 8
Price £18.00




NASH
Settlement in a School of Whales
poems by
Roger Nash
56 pp. 153 x 223 mm paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 26 2
Price £4.80




NASH
Psalms from the Suburbs
poems by
Roger Nash
73 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 27 9
Price £4.80




NASH
The Poetry of Prayer
by
Roger Nash
96 pp. royal 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 83 5
Price £4.80




OLIPHANT
The Autobiography and Letters
of
Mrs M. O. W. Oliphant
edited by Mrs Harry Coghill
with an Introduction by Q. D. Leavis
516 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 44 6
Price £30.00




PARRY
Englisc
Old English for Beginners
by
David Parry
172 pp. A5 paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 73 6
Price £6.00

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PICK
Vile Jelly
The Birth, Life, and Lingering Death
of the Arts Council of Great Britain
by
John Pick
119 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 52 1
Price £9.80




PICK & PROTHEROUGH
Managing Britannia
Culture and Management in Modern Britain
by
Robert Protherough & John Pick
212 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 68 2
Price £18.00



T. F. POWYS
Father Adam
a novella by
T. F. Powys
edited by Ian Robinson with an account of the story's genesis
by Elaine Mencher
and two hitherto unpublished short stories
152 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 85 9
Price £8.40

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T. F. POWYS
Kindness in a Corner
by
T. F. Powys
with an Introduction by Glen Cavaliero
222 pp. A5 paper covers
The Sundial Press edition: not available for trade purchase
Price £12.00



T. F. POWYS
Mock’s Curse
by
T. F. Powys
nineteen first-published stories selected and edited by Elaine and Barrie Mencher
213 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 58 3
Price £18.00




T. F. POWYS
Selected Early Works
of
T. F. Powys
edited with an introduction and notes by Elaine Mencher
two buckram-bound volumes in slip case
744 pp. + folder of facsimiles, demy 8vo ISBN 978 0 907839 88 6
Edition limited to 200 numbered copies, 175 of which are for sale
Price £120.00

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T. F. POWYS
Soliloquies of a Hermit
by
T. F. Powys
with an Afterword by John Williams
103 pp. A5 paperback: the Powys Society edition not available for trade purchase
Price £7.80




T. F. POWYS
The Market Bell
by
T. F. Powys
edited with notes by Ian Robinson assisted by Elaine Mencher
with an Afterword and account of manuscripts and dating by J. Lawrence Mitchell
404 pp. crown 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 93 2
Price £14.40




T. F. POWYS
The Sixpenny Strumpet
by
T. F. Powys
The three tales first published in The Two Thieves with the newly pubished title story
edited with notes by Ian Robinson assisted by Elaine Mencher
with a textual history by J. Lawrence Mitchell
437 pp. crown 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 41 5
Price £24.00




T. F. POWYS
Unclay
by
T. F. Powys
with an Introduction by John Gray
345 pp. A5 paperback: the Sundial Press edition not available for trade purchase
Price £15.00

T. F. POWYS: see also SCUTT and MITCHELL.


PURVIS
The Offensive Art
The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire
by
Christopher Purvis
236 pp. A5 hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 34 7
Price £18.00




RIGELHOF
The Education of J. J. Pass
a novel by
T. F. Rigelhof
197 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 02 6
Price £12.60




RIGELHOF
The Education of J. J. Pass
a novel by
T. F. Rigelhof
197 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 03 3
Price £6.00




ROBINSON
Chaucer and the English Tradition
second completely revised edition
by
Ian Robinson
256 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 84 2
Price £18.00

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ROBINSON
Chaucer’s Prosody
by
Ian Robinson
263 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 28 6
Price £30.00




ROBINSON
Cranmer’s Sentences
The Establishment of Modern English Prose
in the Reformation and the Enlightenment
by
Ian Robinson
234 pp. royal 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 79 8
Price £12.00

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ROBINSON
Holding the Centre
by
Ian Robinson
316 pp. royal 8vo sewn hardback ISBN 978 0 907839 97 2
Price £18.00

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ROBINSON
Prayers for the New Babel
a Criticism of The Alternative Service Book 1980
by
Ian Robinson
106 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 04 0
Price £9.00




ROBINSON
Prayers for the New Babel
a Criticism of The Alternative Service Book 1980
by
Ian Robinson
108 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 31 6
Price £4.80




ROBINSON
“Richard II” and “Woodstock”
by
Ian Robinson
51 pp.A5 wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 35 4
Price £6.00




ROBINSON
The New Grammarians’ Funeral
a Critique of Noam Chomsky’s linguistics [to 1975]
by
Ian Robinson
203 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 30 9
Price £21.00




ROBINSON
The English Prophets
a Critical Defence of English Criticism
by
Ian Robinson
336 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 66 8
Price £30.00

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ROBINSON
The Survival of English
Essays in Criticism of Language
by
Ian Robinson
254 pp. demy 8vo paper covers ISBN 978 0 907839 00 2
£12.00

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ROBINSON
Untied Kingdom
by
Ian Robinson
392 pp. demy 8vo sewn hardback ISBN 978 0 907839 98 9
Price £19.80

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ROBINSON
Who Killed the Bible?
Last Words on Translating the Holy Scriptures
by
Ian Robinson
140 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 49 1
Price £7.80




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Ian Robinson’s four books The English Prophets, Who Killed the Bible?, Holding the Centre and Untied Kingdom were conceived as a unity with the name Coming to Judgement.
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ROBINSON & SIMS
The Decline and Fall
of Mr Heath

by
Ian Robinson & David Sims
78 pp. demy 8vo paper covers
ISBN 978 0 9502723 4 4
Price £4.20




ROSS
Adenocarcinoma
and Other Poems

by
Colin Ross
103 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 38 5
Price £12.00




SAVAGE
And Also Much Cattle
from The Book of Jonah: Scenario for Four Voices
in the manner of a calypso
by
D. S. Savage
14 pp. A5 wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 57 6
Price £2.75




SAVAGE
Winter Offering
Selected Poems 1934–1953
by
D. S. Savage
60 pp. A5 hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 51 4
limited edition signed by the Author
Price £9.60




SCUTT
Cuckoo in the Powys Nest
a Memoir
by
Theodora Gay Scutt
(T. F. Powys’s adopted daughter)
296 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 62 0
Price £27.00




SELBY
Jesus, Aramaic and Greek
by
G. R. Selby
120 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 40 8
Price £12.00




The Real Common Worship
edited by
Peter Mullen
200 pp. demy 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 64 4
Price £12.00




The Real Common Worship
edited by
Peter Mullen
200 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 67 5
Price £9.00




TOON
Common Worship Considered
by
Peter Toon
160 pp. royal 8vo hard covers ISBN 978 0 907839 78 1
Price £16.80

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TOON
The Anglican Formularies and Holy Scripture
by
Peter Toon
64 pp. 125 x 203 mm wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 92 7
Price £2.40




TOON
Worship without Dumbing-down
Knowing God through Liturgy
by
Peter Toon
123 pp. 135 x 215 mm ISBN 978 0 907839 90 3
Price £6.60




TOON & TARSITANO
Neither Archaic nor Obsolete
the Language of Common Prayer and Public Worship
by
Peter Toon & Louis R. Tarsitano
97 pp. royal 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 75 0
Price £4.80




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WALLERSTEIN
Dear Mr Howard
the Changing of Modern English
by
Michael Wallerstein
81 pp. demy 8vo paperback ISBN 978 0 907839 RR R
Price £3.60




WITTGENSTEIN
Remarks on Frazer’s
“Golden Bough” /
Bemerkungen über Frazers “Golden Bough”

by
Ludwig Wittgenstein
edited by Rush Rhees with English Translation by A. C. Miles revised by Rush Rhees
44 pp. A5 wrappers ISBN 978 0 907839 25 8
Price £3.60