Stately Folio Society edition of Douglas' biography of William the Bastard of Normandy and the effects of his invasion of England. With an introduction by Roy Strong and Maps and colour images. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some very minor shelfwear. [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Fielding's great comic novel. Complete in two volumes. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. In crisp fine condition. [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Kipling's 1895 sequel to the Jungle book, continuing the tale of Mowgli in a series of short stories. Featuring the striking illustrations of Edward Detmold, redone in colour by David Eccles. Complete with slipcase. Some [more...]
The most amusing and/or exciting episodes extracted from Casanova's famous memoir. Lavish pictorial cover, full colour plates. Some light rubbing to edges. Contents bright and clean. Very good. [more...]
Pleasant Folio Society edition of essays on great literature written between 1874 and 1879 by the critic and biographer Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf. Topics include the works of Sterne, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Walter Scott, Balzac and many [more...]
Tremendous Folio Society redux edition of the eminent Victorian's account of the engineers who had transformed Britain. With a plethora of black and white diagrams and colour images this is a reverent and educated look at the industrial revolution. With decor [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' travel writings. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by Maurice Grieffenhagen. Some light rubbing to extremities but cont [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' final unfinished novel together with his own entirely delf-written periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, a plethora of short stories. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edg [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' entertaining and engaging history of England, intended for his own Children. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by Hutton [more...]
Oxford University Press; British and Foreign Bible Society 1940
'Containing the Old and New testaments translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesty's Special Command.' Printed in double columns. With colour illustrations, Faux-leather yapp style [more...]
First Folio Society edition of Carcopino's 1939 account of the realities of life in Ancient Rome. Split into two sections, the first describes the material and moral background of the Roman Empire, the second details the specifics of daily life. With an intr [more...]
Splendid Folio Society edition of Clark's exploration of the nude form throughout Art History. With hundreds of colour images. An introduction by Charles Saumarez Smith.4to. Quater cloth with pictorial covers. Complete with slipcase. Some light marking [more...]
Charming cloth edition of Goldsmith's 1766 novel from Dent's English Idylls series, featuring elaborate gilt decoration and 25 colour plates by C. E. Brock. Light green cloth. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Decorated end-papers. Previous owner's inscri [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of the first novel to feature Lord Ramage and set during the French Revolutionary Wars. Red faux-leather cloth with gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. Mild foxing to top edge. Small marks to free end-papers (caused by tape resi [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Wouk's pulitzer prize winning novel set during world war 2. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. . Foxing to top edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of Boccaccio's renaissance compendium of short stories. With illustrations by Buckland-Wright. Complete with Dust-jackets. Decorative cloth boards. Some water damage to rear cover of volume 1, affecting rear free end-papers and [more...]
Decorative quarter cloth edition of Gilbert White's great account of the Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, written in 1789 as a series of letters. Decorative gilt to spine, Top edge gilt. Ex-girls school library with stamps to half-title. Bumpin [more...]
Evocatively produced Folio Society edition of Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel with b/w illustrations by George Grosz. Complete with slipcase. Some very light bumping to edges. Contents bright and clean. Very good. [more...]
Attractive Guild edition of Dickens' classic novel. Green faux leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Very, very light shelfwear. A few pages not cut correctly at top fore-edge, with extra paper there, not loss. Otherwise in Fine condition. [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Priestley's novel on duelling civil servants. Blue faux-leather cloth covers with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpaper and b/w frontispiece. Very faint foxing to page edge. A previous owner's protective dust jacket has le [more...]