Pleasant half leather binding of the first edition of Irving's Tales of a Traveller, a collection of essays and short stories written by his Geoffrey Crayon persona - responsible for the Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hall. Less well received than his previous w [more...]
Oblong Folio. The third volume in Bingham's Animals series. With numerous b/w illustrations plus colour plates. Rubbing to edges. Crude tape repairs to hinges. Tanning within and mild spotting to edges. Fair. [more...]
Handsome binding of Lover's lively, literary satire, featuring sketches of Irish life and society. With 24 tissue guarded illustrations on steel done by the author. Half leather rebind done by Morrell. Raised bands and floral decoration to spine. Gilt rul [more...]
With numerous illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank and others. A collection of various comic poems bound togther each with b/w illustrations. 12mo. Full leather. Labels missing from spine. Splitting to joints, binding starting. Contents clean. [more...]
Impressive illustrated edition of Cervantes' pioneering early novel, adapted from Thomas Shelton's 1612 translation. With striking tinted/two tone colour plates plus b/w illustrations within the text, done by Jean de Bosschere. 4to. Recently rebacked with [more...]
Collection of articles, humour, stories and illustrations, many plates in colour with b/w images within the text, including a beautiful chromolithographic frontispiece. Advertisements to rear cover and end-papers. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Tanning to pag [more...]
Collection of nonsensical, sometime satirical verse by Baumer with the author's stylish colour illustrations. 4to. No date but c. 1902. Some rubbing and wear and toning to covers. Binding starting to weaken but holding and contents sound. Fair/good. [more...]
Green cloth/cranford style edition of Irving's follow-up to his wildly popular The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Bracebridge Hall employs a similar format, consisting of loosely connected stories from his pseudonym Crayon who has installed himself at an Eng [more...]
Fetching gilt and green cloth binding in the 'Cranford series' style of Goldsmith's popular 18th century novel. Illustrated throughout by Hugh Thomson in b/w. All edges gilt. Previous owners name to ffep. Spine cocked. Dusty staining to covers and rubbing [more...]
Wodehouse's first Wrykin school story. Lacks DJ. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Spine very slightly cocked. Whisper of foxing to top edge. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Fetching gilt and green cloth binding in the 'Cranford series' style. Illustrated throughout by Charles Brock in b/w. All edges gilt. Previous owners name to ffep. Dusty staining to covers and bumping to edges. Occassional light spotting to front matte [more...]
Issues no. 304 to 329 plus christmas issue. Half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and wear to leather with portion missing from top of spine. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Handsome quarter cloth edition of Trollope's innovative short novel; the author's only piece of speculative/dystopian fiction describing a British colony that has ordained that citizens must be euthanised at the age of 68. With b/w illustrations by Eliza Tri [more...]
Humourous tales of animals in army barracks. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration. With b/w illustrations by Shepard. DJ is sunned to spine. Rubbed to edges. Toning to ffep. Very light foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Published in the company's centenary year. Numerous b/w cartoons and humorous illustrations relating to trains and railways. Pictorial covers. Rubbing to edges of soft covers. Contents clean and tight. Very good overall. [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of Wordsworth's selected poems. Quarter leather with cloth boards. Complete with numerous b/w wood engravings by Thomas Bewick interspersed throughout text. With slipcase. Some very mild wear to spine. Contents bright and clean [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth binding of Hood's humourous poems with b/w illustrations. Marbled boards. rubbing and wear to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Contents clean and binding tight. Good. [more...]
Ninth impression. With the illustrations of Nicholas Bentley. In protective jacket. Toning to spine, small marks to covers. Previous owner's name to front pastedown, beneath DJ flap. Offsetting to end-papers. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
W. S. Gilberts beloved light verse featuring his own b/w illustrations. Elements from the poems would go on to inspire his work with Arthur Sullivan. Top edge gilt. Light marking to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
First Edition. A second collection of humourous articles about military life that first appeared in Punch magazine. Some rubbing and tearing to top and tail of DJ spine. Light marking and toning to covers. Mild foxing to top edge. But contents clean and [more...]
