Charming Folio edition of Stevenson's first published work. Written to secure independence from his parents and a future with the woman he loved, Travels with a Donkey is a pioneering work of travel writing. Detailing Stevenson's journey through the curious [more...]
Pleasant Folio Society edition of de la Pasture's 1907 Children's novel. With an introduction by Auberon Waugh. b/w illustrations by John lawrence. Complete with slipcase. Some very light shelf-wear to slipcase. Very light toning to spine. Contents clean [more...]
'A Modern Version' edited and introduced by Rowse, containing Hakluyt's key writings on the English colonization of the Americas. Generously illustrated in colour and b/w. Nice 4to sized (280x220mm). Complete with slipcase. Some light toning and shelf-wea [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth edition of Mitford's evocative collection of sketches of rural life, first published in The Lady's Magazine in the early 19th century. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Slipcase has light shelfwear else crisp and clean. In Near Fi [more...]
'Being a further selection of Brief Lives, together with excerpts from his writings on antiquities and science'. Selected and edited by Richard Barber. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Some shelfwear and marking to slipcase. Light rubbing to label [more...]
Important contemporary account of the Life of Charlemagne by the diminutive scholar, Einhard. Bound in a mock vellum with gilt titling. Full colour images of illuminated manuscripts and artifacts. Decorated endpapers, complete with slipcase. Slipcase has s [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth edition of Mitford's evocative collection of sketches of rural life, first published in The Lady's Magazine in the early 19th century. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Slipcase has light shelfwear else crisp and clean. In Near Fi [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition of the prose version of this chronicle of Richard I's crusade, thought to derive from the verse of Ambroise. With dramatic illustrations by Raymond Hawthorn. Bound in full vellum style vegetable parchment with gilt decoration. [more...]
Neat Folio Society edition of Hardy's great novel and his first literary success. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some heavy toning to rear panel. Sunning and light marking to spine. Contents bright and clean. Good overall. [more...]
Redesigned Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's popular 18th century novel, With illustrations by Margaret Weathebee. Decorative boards with decorative end-papers. Complete with slipcase. Some very light sunning to spine. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edge [more...]
Stout Folio Society edition of Strachey's influential, pioneering and controversial sketches of a number of eminent victorians. Complete with slip case. Some sunning to spine and very minor shelfwear. Otherwise clean and square. Good+ overall. [more...]
Amusing Folio Society volume featuring 61 culturally significant lists including what are the seven wonders of the world and what are the seven ages of man according to Shakespeare. Each list is supported with context and background information. With b/w dec [more...]
Memoirs of the Elizabethan diplomat, valuable for Melville's proximity to Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth. Complete with slip case. Features full colour illustrations and images. Sewn head band and coloured top-edge. Slight sunning to spine and very min [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. Crisp and clean. Fine [more...]
Neat Heron edition of Shaw's early politically conscious novel. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. Foxing to top edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from a previous owner's protective jacket). Cont [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Swift enduring satire. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations by Herbert Cole and introduction by Peter Quennell. Mild shelfwear. Small white mar [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Thackeray's great social novel. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. Mild shelfwear. Small white marking and rubbing to top of [more...]
Pleasant red cloth collins edition of Stevenson's historical novel set during the Jacobite uprising. With b/w illustrations by J. K. Maxton. No date but c. 1950. Lean to spine. Rubbing to edges. Contents clean and binding sound, Good. [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Conrad's tragic romantic novel on a young sailors fall and rise. With b/w illustrations by David Knight. Some rubbing to edges. Foxing to page edges. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]