Charming compendium of british wild-flowers, described in a narrative fashion by an aunt to her nieces. With 16 original Poems by the author and 12 tissue guarded hand coloured plates including a decorated title page. Publisher's red leather elaborate gilt de [more...]
Scarce volume by the influential bibical scholar and hebraist, describing the history of world as told through the bible, as well as the relevant historical events that contextualize that text. With tissue guarded b/w engravings and fold out maps and images. [more...]
The Complete text of Clarke's great 1812 edition of the old and new testaments that include his copious notes and explanations. A methodist as well as a biblical scholar, some of Clarke's view may have been controversial but his erudition and detail was widel [more...]
The First volume of Stephen's well received 12 volume set the Illustrations of British Entomology. Here examining butterflies and moths. Complete with 12 hand-coloured plates. Quarter leather with textured cloth to boards. 8vo. 150pp. plus index. Rubbing a [more...]
First edition. Volume II of Jardine's Naturalist Library: Mammalia. A study of the felines. Complete with 36 plates, including engraved title and a fronstiportrait of Sloane. 34 engravings are delicately hand-coloured in a naturalistic fashion. Recently r [more...]
Revised and enlarged edition of this collection of verse, selected by the prominent bibliophile. Including poems by Wordsworth, Cowper, Swift, Byron, Keats, Hood etc. plus numerous lesser known authors. Handsome full leather binding, polished calf. Raised b [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...]
Nicely bound seventh edition of Congreve works, including his plays ( The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, Love for Love, The Mourning Bride, The Way of the World, The Judgement of Paris, Semele) as well as his poems. With a life of the author. Engraved fr [more...]
Beautiful Heron heirloom edition of Macaulay's controversial history of England, published from 1848 to 1855, starting from the ascension of James II to peace of Ryswick in 1697. Produced in lambskin leather with 23ct gold tooling to covers and to page edge. [more...]
'Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command.' Appointed to be read in Churches. Diamond 16. Full gothic/divinity style leather binding with blind stamped design [more...]
Splendid, detailed description of the forum and the palatine hill of Rome in light of archaeological evidence. With numerous b/w images and two fold out plans. Contains the many inscriptions found in the original abbreviated Latin. Publisher's quarter leath [more...]
The Second edition of the Norton facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623, printed by Blount and Jaggard. With two introductions explaining the origins, printing methods and modern scholarship of the First Folio. Bound in quarter bonded leather with pic [more...]
'The Alter, or, The spark of the altar'. Sparke's hugely influential Scintillula Altaris of 1652. In which Sparke describes the various feasts of the calendar and how they are to be celebrated. With engravings. Including the author's poem plus verse by Brom [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...]
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...]
Fourth revised edition of Menke's atlas of ancient history, derived from ancient sources, including Caesar's expeditions in Gaul, The kingdoms of the Diadochi, Italy, Greece, Persia, Britain and more. Complete with 18 colour double-page maps produced by the Ju [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...]
