'Printed from the original editions with a life of the author by A. Chalmers'. Elegant tree calf leather binding. Contains Milton's poetry, including Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and his sonnets. With 12 b/w plates by Richard Westall Gilt decoration to s [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...]
All three volumes of Ast's great lexicon based on Plato's works and further works in which he was discussed, published from 1835 to 1838. Bound as one. Half leather, raised bands, marbled endpapers, marbling to page edge. 8vo. 1971pp. Foxing to front matter [more...]
'Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his M.S. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works'. Handsome tree calf leather binding of Pope's influential philosophical poem on mankind's place in the universe, a strident example of op [more...]
24 volumes bound as 8. Nice set of Chamber's miscellany 'containing a choice selection of interesting and instructive reading for the old and the young.' Featuring hundreds (thousands) of short stories, poems and articles on a variety of subjects. Rather di [more...]
Palgrave's great history of the Anglo-saxon period first published in 1831 as A History of England: The Anglo-saxon period. Starting with swift examination of Roman Britain, Palgrave is able to describe emergence of Anglo Saxon England, with its customs, reli [more...]
Shelley's complete works, edited by his second wife, Mary Shelley with her preface and notes on most significant pieces. Contains His poems, translations and lyric dramas including Prometheus Unbound. Full leather. Rebacked with new spines but retaining ori [more...]
A Neat, worn but rakish, quarter leather binding of the Handy-Volume edition of the complete works of Shakespeare, including his poems. Complete in 13 volumes. Top edge gilt. Decorated initials. Compact 32mo. (130x90mm). Leather is rubbed to edges. Some f [more...]
Rare, early guide to the British museum and its exhibits, with numerous b/w wood engravings. Contains a brief history then a 'guided' tour describing the various rooms and display cabinets with detailed explanations of the science and history behind them. Ha [more...]
Handsome Bayntun Riviere full leather binding of the Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacrements According to the Use of the Church of England, bound together with Hymns, ancient and modern. No date but c. 1950. 24mo. (140x95mm) Printed on fin [more...]
Volume one of the fourth edition of Rapin's influential history of England, concerning the period of Roman rule in Britain until 1066 and reign of William the Conqueror. Complete with 2 fold out maps of Roman and Saxon Britain, 4 pull out genealogical trees of [more...]
The complete four volumes, bound as two. Handsome quarter leather binding of of Swaysland's comprehensive, readable and generously illustrated guide to wild birds. Each entry has a full page colour plate and usually two b/w sketches, plus decorated initial. [more...]
Handsome fine leather binding of Scott's epic historical poem concerning the Battle of Flodden Field. Featuring photographic plates. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and covers. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-paper [more...]
Handsome leather binding of Bacon's famous essays, with copious notes by Whately, archbishop of Dublin. With raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt. Particularly beautiful inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. 8vo. (220x150mm) [xxiv] 616pp. [more...]
'A Reprint of the First Edition to which are added Mr. Boswell's corrections and editions'. Edited with new notes by Percy Fitzgerald. Preface by the editor and a Boswell Bibliography by H. R. Tedder. Boswell's epochal biography of Samuel Johnson, a work th [more...]
Handsome fine leather binding of Gray's poems, including his odes and Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard. With a significant biography and analysis of Gray's verse, with appendices. With engraved frontisportrait. Full leather with raised bands and gilt d [more...]
Tree-calf leather binding of Bunyan's allegorical christian tale. With seven b/w engravings and a frontisportrait and title-page. With a life of the author. Rebacked with original spine and tree calf laid down. 8vo. (240x160mm) [xlvii] 360pp. Rubbing and [more...]
Handsome full leather tree calf prize binding of Lytton's epic poem. Only published after his death, Lytton had worked on King Poppy for a number of years, re-writing it more than once. A melange of fable and fairy-tale, Lytton supplied marginal notes which [more...]
'Traduction nouvelle avec une practique la fin de chaque chapitre'. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis IN FRENCH. With engraved plates throughout. Full blue leather with gilt decoration and blind-stamping. Inner and outer dentelles. All edges gilt. [more...]
Marvellous quarter leather Folio Society edition featuring many myths and legends of Celtic original or interest. Including sections on King Arthur, various saints and those stories concerning the Welsh, Irish and Scottish. With tremendous gilt raised full c [more...]
