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...]
'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.' India paper edition of the Bible. Special blue leather binding with elaborate f [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...]
William Makepeace Thackery Smith, Elder and Co. 1902
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne William Heinemann 1906
Neat red leather edition of Stevenson's short novel concerning high seas shenanigans. A critique of free-booting imperialist society, written with his son in law. All edges gilt. Spine slightly cocked, previous owner's signature to ffep. Clean and tight. [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...]
Frances Frith; Roger Hudson (editor) The Folio 2001
Fascinating volume featuring the photography of Francis Frith married to contemporary accounts of the regions of Britain he recorded. Contains a host of b/w (sepia) images of London, Yorkshire et al. with text by Charles Kingsley, Thomas Carlyle, Henry James [more...]
Nice edition of Wuthering Heights in quarter faux leather and decorated cloth boards. Features colour illustrations by Skip Liepke. A couple of small marks to page edge but otherwise tight and clean. Very good overall. [more...]
Penguin and Puffin Designer classics limited editions
Jane Austen illustrated by Charles Brock or Hugh Thomson (The peacock edition)