First edition of the famed 'Peacock Edition' of Austen's novel. Features numerous b/w illustrations, decorated initials and devices by Hugh Thomson, who also designed the elaborate and iconic Peacock on Sundial cover done in gilt on green cloth. The scheme fo [more...]
English Idyll edition of Austen novel featuring Charles Brock's watercolor illustrations. Light green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Contains the complete 24 illustrations by Brock, his work for this series is widely considered the finest depictions o [more...]
Charming half leather set of Austen's novels, published and bound by Riviere and Son. Each with a tissue guarded frontispiece taken from C. E. Brock's great colour illustrations of Austen. Small 12mo. (175x115mm) Blue calf with blue cloth. Marbled endpaper [more...]
'And in the South of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814'. Complete set of Napier great history of the Peninsula war. With 55 detailed maps and diagrams of battles. Full leather with raised bands. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edge [more...]
Sumptuous prize binding of an charming book on some 'modern' inventions. With 25 b/w images, Williams examines devices like Dirrigible Torpedoes, Horseless carriages and the Telephone. Explaining how it was developed and how it works. Smooth tree calf with [more...]
Splendid green cloth illustrated edition of Jane Austen's novel. With 20 colour images done by A. Wallis Mills. Illustrated end-papers. Gilt decoration and titling to covers with portrait. 12mo. (190x130mm) 236+245pp. Some rubbing and bumping to extremitie [more...]
Handsome fine binding of Bacon's essays in which he holds forth on a number of topics including friendship, cunning, atheism and marriage. Square 8vo. Red and black titles. Half leather with raised bands and elaborate gilt to spine. Top edge gilt, others u [more...]
Charming deluxe leather edition of three of Kipling's dog stories: Thy Servant a Dog; Toby Dog and The Great Play Hunt. Features b/w illustrations by G. L. Stampa throughout. Blue mottled leather wth gilt decoration and titling. Inner dentelles, all edges [more...]
John Buchan; R. M. Ballantyne; H. Rider Hagga Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1955
Selection of adventure themed novels including Prester John; The Coral Island; King Soloman's Mines; The Last of the Mohicans; Tom Sawyer & Tom Brown's Schooldays. Bound in full vellum with gilt decoration. Top edge tinted. In display case, which is just a [more...]
Pleasant 12mo. edition of Mansfield Park with an introduction by Austin Dobson and b/w illustrations by Hugh Thomson, one of the most renowned illustrators of Jane Austen's work. Red cloth with gilt decoration and titling. Previous owner's neat inscription. [more...]
Charming, and interesting, edition of Fitzgerald's final novel on morality and psychoanalysis. Text is in English but introduction and notes are in Russian. Attractive gilt design and titling to black covers. Decorated endpapers. Without dust-jacket. A fe [more...]
Charles Aitchison Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1905
Handsome leather rebinding of this biography of John Lawrence, Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869. With pull out map of Britain's Indian Empire and index. small 8vo. Full red leather with inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling [more...]
Handsome edition of Donne's collected poems. Features 16th and 17th century engravings. Quarter leather with decorated cloth boards. All edges gilt. Marbled end-papers. Very minor shelf-wear. Contents crisp and clean. very good+ [more...]
Attractive Guild edition of Dickens' classic novel. Green faux leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Very, very light shelfwear. Otherwise in Fine condition. [more...]
Neat collection of Stevenson's memories and elegiac portraits of people he knew, linked, he claims, in a way that reveals himself. Fine paper edition. Bound in full leather with decorated end-papers. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to spine and extremities bu [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's collected poems. Fine paper edition. Red leather covers with gilt titling and design. All edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Contents clean. N [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...]
Two Volumes. Nicely produced edition for the Dickens collection. A facsimile of the 1874 chapman hall edition with faux-marbled endpapers and original titles with illustrations by H.K. Browne. Fine condition. [more...]
William Makepeace Thackery Smith, Elder and Co. 1898
Pleasant decorated cloth edition of Thackery's classic. Gilt titling. Illustrated by the author. Neat owner's inscription and most minor foxing to page edge. Contents are clean and binding is nice and sound. Very good. [more...]
Penguin and Puffin Designer classics limited editions
Jane Austen illustrated by Charles Brock or Hugh Thomson (The peacock edition)