Pleasant compilation of writings detailing life in the jubilee years from 1887 to 1897. Features diary entries, articles and sketches from a range of characters describing society, technology, culture and more. With colour images. Complete with slipcase. Sl [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Butler's provocative social novel. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. Very light shelfwear. Contents prim and clean. Very g [more...]
Folio Society edition of di Carpino's account of Garribaldi's invasion and liberation of Sicily. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Spine is sunned. Previous owner's bookplate to front blank. Contents clean and prim. Good/very good. [more...]
Folio Society edition of the autobiography of the 16th century Italian sculptor and artist. Red cloth. Gilt decoration. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase is toned and worn. Slight marking to spine. Markings to rear cover. Previous owner's bookplate to fr [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of Thompson's popular semi-autobiographical novel of her childhood in Juniper Hill, which spawned two sequels, forming the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some marking and spi [more...]
Pleasant Folio Society edition of Barrow's authoritative 1831 account of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty which had occurred some forty years previously. Drawing on the official documents and letters pertaining to the incident, Barrow looks critically at the figu [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of Defoe's novel presented as the autobiography of the eponymous con-artist. With b/w illustrations by Nigel Lambourne. No slipcase but with protective jacket. Sunning to spine. Clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Twenty one of Kipling's best short stories, Contains Beyond the Pale, The Brush-wood boy and more. In protective wrapper. Some mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Two key pieces in the debate over Richard III. More's biased but convincing account depicts him as a deformed murderer whilst Walpole's later works casts doubt on these claims. A central part of the Tudor Myth. lacks slipcase. Some toning and marking to co [more...]
Splendid, generously illustrated Folio Society edition detailing the rediscovery of Pompeii and the effect it had on europe in the early 18th century. Issued without a slipcase , lacks wrapper. Some foxing/staining to fore-edge and cover. contents clean and [more...]
Lively study of the apogee of the avaricious and amoral city-state. Issued without slipcase as issued, lacks wrapper. Some mild rubbing to edges. Marking to fore-edge and rear. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
'Being an account of the reign of the Pope Alexander VI'. An account of life under the Borgia pope, written by his Master of Ceremonies, Burchard. Maps as end-papers and b/w images. lacks slipcase. Light sunning to spine. Contents prim and binding sound. Ve [more...]
Memoirs of the 17th century French Nobleman describing of the licentious court of Charles II, written by his Irish Brother-In-Law. Sunning to spine but otherwise clean and tight. Lacks slipcase. Very Good.. [more...]
Neat Folio Society edition of this selection from Sherman's memoirs detailing his destructive march from Atlanta to the port city of Savannah. With b/w images and maps and an introduction by B. Liddell Hart. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase is split to one [more...]
Attractive Folio Society edition of Anne Hughes' Diary. The fascinating comings and goings of an 18th century farmer's wife, an intimate look at life during that period. Features linocuts by Tony Evora and an introduction and notes. Complete with slipcase. [more...]
Charming Folio society edition of young King-Hall's novel, the supposed diary of irish artistocrat, Cleone Knox. When first published in 1925 it was presented as a actual 18th century diary, the subsequent revelation causing a minor scandal. Quarter Cloth wi [more...]
Quarter cloth. A selection of b/w images of Toulouse-Lautrec's sketches of Paris and Parisian life. With an introduction and notes by David Piper. Lacks glassine DJ. Some mild toning to edges. Offsetting to free end-papers. Contents clean and tight., Go [more...]
A study of the life of Elizabeth I largely drawn from her own letters and writings. An intriguing account, often in Elizabeth's own voice. Quarter cloth with decorated boards. Features a plethora of colour and b/w images. Slip-case is a trifle grubby. . V [more...]
Swift, readable history of english literature from Chaucer to the victorian era. With b/w images. Quarter leather with gilt decoration. Complete with slipcase. slipcase has some rubbing and toning. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Toning and light marking t [more...]
Twenty one of Kipling's best short stories, Contains Beyond the Pale, The Brush-wood boy and more. With b/w illustrations by Ian Ribbons. complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some toning and rubbing to edges. Toning to spine. Light marking to spine and f [more...]
