Rather nice divinity style leather binding of Percy's famous collection of old Ballads, poetry and songs culled from a variety of sources including Pepys' Library and the mysterious Percy Folio. First published in 1765. Full leather with elaborate blind-stamp [more...]
New impression of Nansen's 1890 account of his crossing of the interior of greenland. With numerous b/w illustrations within the text and a map. Bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling [more...]
dalla Tipografia Cardinali; Cardinal Printing Office 1832
Splendid hefty 4to. English-Italian, Italian English dictionary, A 'New edition, modeled after that of Leghorn and augmented with numerous additions and improvements'. Printed in triple columns with guide to the grammar and alphabets of both languages. Bound [more...]
Second edition. Nicely rebound using original leather boards with blind-stamped design. Raised bands to spine with gild titling and blind-stamped decoration. With charts and tables. Lacks map as is common. Advertisements to rear. 12mo. 764pp. +ads. Small [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...]
Nice stout, half leather binding of Shakespeare's complete works, including his Histories, Comedies and Tragedies as well as his sonnets and longer poems. With 64 b/w images of pictures of shakespearian scenes done by well known artists including Hamilton 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...]
Specially bound leather edition of Wootton's history of the British Legion. This copy presented to Sir Brunel Cohen, a key figure in the history of the organisation. The presentation letter attached to ffep and hand written note by J. T. Spinks to rear. Wit [more...]
The first six volumes of the Tauchnitz copyright edition of Tennyson's collected works (bound as three[two subsequent volumes were published in 1872]). Including The Idylls of the King, Maud, Ulysses, In Memorandum, Enoch Arden, The Holy Grail and poems. Hal [more...]
The collected poetical works of Lord Byron, complete in one volume, including The Childe Harold's pilgrimmage, Don Juan etc. Printed in double columns with an engraved frontisportrait and title page plus 9 illustrations, plus a facsimile reproduction of lett [more...]
Special limited edition half leather binding of the selected poems of Ronsard. Recueillies Sur Un Plan Nouveau Et Annotées Par Pierre de Nolhac. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 249. Text IN FRENCH. Edition limitee a mille exemplaires numero [more...]
Pleasant early illustrated of Stevenson's historical adventure. With 16 excellent b/w illustrations by W. B. Hole and fold out map. Bound in half leather marbled boards. Top edge gilt. 12mo. [vi] 311pp. With advert of Treasure Island to rear. Previous own [more...]
Half leather binding of Wood's accessible guide to the english countryside, what is to be found there and how best to observe it. First edition. With colour plates and b/w illustrations within the text. Recent rebind. small 12mo. (165x110mm)[iv] 182pp. Ve [more...]
Curious special edition of Conrad's 1907 political novel, a response to the growing threat of anarchism and terrorism. 17th edition. Publisher's elaborate special decorative leather binding with onlays and gilt cross. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. 12 [more...]
The collected works of Calverley with a biographical notice by Walter Joseph Sendall, his contemporary at Cambridge. Contains the popular poems Beer and an Ode to Tobacco. Splendid half leather binding done by Hatchards. With gilt decoration to spine. Top e [more...]
Second edition of Lytton's novel. Full leather with gilt decoration. Outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers, marbled page edges. Bound by Smyth & Co., Liverpool. Rubbing to extremities, some small marks to covers. Contents clean and bright. Binding tight. [more...]
Neat quarter leather binding of the Everyman edition of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, plus his poems. Reprinted editions from 1929, 1931 and 1932. Blue leather with gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. 12mo. Rubbing to leather at top [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...]
'Printed from the original editions with a life of the author by A. Chalmers'. Handsome full leather binding of Milton's works, done by Bickers and son. Tissue guarded frontisportrait of the author. Decorated initials and devices throughout. Red leather wit [more...]