Special Limited Folio Society of Melville's epic 1851 novel. Featuring Rockwell Kent's iconic b/w illustrations from the 1930 Lakeside Press edition. Limited to 1750 copies, of which this is number 797. Bound in black leather and blocked in silver after a de [more...]
Complete with 128 intricately engraved plates showing scenes not just of important sites, such as the Great Wall, Temples, Palaces and the landscape but also of more intimate scenes, such as dinner parties and cat -merchants. The plates are accompanied by deta [more...]
No date but c. 1840. Two volumes bound as one. A special hand-coloured first edition of Wright's impressive account of the various sites on the Mediterranean coast, encompassing Greece, Italy, North Africa and various islands. Complete with 64 steel engrave [more...]
The complete four volumes of Couch's account of British Fish, his most significant work, featuring illustrations from the author's own sketches. A comprehensive survey, including a scientific study of each species plus descriptions of their habitats and inte [more...]
Nicely bound example of Pardoe's 1838 account of Constantinople and its surrounding areas. Complete with 87 engraved plates done from drawings by W. H. Bartlett, plus a frontisportrait of the author and a tissue guarded engraved title page. This superbly ill [more...]
One of several compact editions brought out after the success of Alexander's 1803 'The Costume of the Russian Empire'. With 64 hand-coloured plates here, each with a description in English only. The plates were derived from the engravings done by Johann Go [more...]
Exquisite leather 'relievo' binding, designed and illustrated by Owen Jones, with verse by Mary Ann Bacon, with the engraving done by Edward La Trobe Bateman. One of a small selection of deluxe volumes produced using an innovative technique devised by the pri [more...]
Hatchards and Son; Bentham & Co.; Millikin, Dublin 1829
'With Anecdotes, documents and cases interesting to Christian Moralist who decline the combat; to experienced duellists; and to benevolent legislators.' Scarce volume containing Hamilton's collected writings on Duelling including The Royal Code of Honour and [more...]
Impressively produced edition of Cervantes' landmark work intended to echo the epochal 1780 Spanish edition by Joaquin Ibarra, using Smollett's 1755 translation. Featuring 22 engravings by Bromley after Spanish masterworks by Carnicero and Barranco. With a [more...]
Archibald Constable & Co.; Dawson; University of London Institute; Oxford University Press 1903
The first ten volumes of the colossal ongoing Victoria History of the County of Essex plus the bibliography and first and second bibliography supplements. Began in 1903 to rival and update Morant's comprehensive 1768 history of Essex, The first three volumes [more...]
'With illustrations on steel and wood by the most eminent artists'. Splendid half leather set of this lavishly illustrated guide to the sights and landscape of Great Britain and Europe. With dramatic, somewhat romantic full page, tissue guarded steel engravi [more...]
'Illustrated by A Series of Views taken on the spot, by Messrs. G. Arnold, A. R. A. Bartlett, Campion, etc.' Lavishly illustrated account of the history and antiquities of Essex, with a district by district description of the county. With 101 engraved plates [more...]
Ambitiously produced edition of Milton's epic poem, begun by the Richter brothers in 1794 but completed and published in 1796. With twelve splendid engraved plates and twelve engraved headpieces done by Henry James Richter to accompany each book of Paradise L [more...]
'A treatise on ancient painting, containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the greeks and romans. The High opinion which the great men of antiquity had of it, its connection to poetry and philosophy and the use that may b [more...]
Special limited Folio Society edition of The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, the only extant Roman novel, first appearing in the 2nd century AD. With new colour illustrations by Quentin Blake. With an introduction by James Wood. Limited to 1000 copies of which th [more...]
Tremendous illustrated 'Savoy' edition of Shakespeare's complete works. Including all his plays and his sonnets plus his longer poems, the Rape of Lucrece etc. Printed in double columns. With a brief biography. With 28 colour images, including the Chandos p [more...]
The five books of Juvenal's Satires and book one of Persius' satires, with annotations by Theodore Pulman. Printed by christophe Plantin. Text in Latin, annotations in latin to margin. Decorated initials, Plantin's device to title page. Later 17th/18th cen [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Nicely produced and presented reference library. containing: Asprey's Atlas of the World: A Series of 145 colour Plates with a Geographical and Statistical Summary; Francais - Anglais & English - French Dictionary; A Handy Classical Dicti [more...]
Handsomely rebound collection of Euripdes' most notable plays, collected from the George Allen soft cover editions of 1906/1907 and bound into two volumes. Full leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt. 8vo. (195x145mm) With th [more...]
Early collected works of Lord Byron. Prior to Don Juan but including The Childe Harold's pilgrimmage, The Giaour, The Siege of Corinth, The Corsair, The Bride of Abydos, Manfred, Hebrew Melodies and others. Contemporary Half leather binding with lyre motif t [more...]
