The first and second volumes of the Lloyd's natural history section on British Birds, including Owls and other birds of prey. With numerous colour plates. In publisher's quarter leather bindings. Rubbing and bumping to covers, marking to cloth. Mild toning [more...]
Interesting full leather binding of Shakespeare's complete works, featuring the plays, sonnets and longer poems, plus a glossary and notes. The larger format india paper edition. Yapp style binding, with elaborate blind-stamping to produce a woven leather ef [more...]
Handsome full leather tree calf prize binding of Lytton's novel, written under the pseudonym Owen Meredith. With Wellington college crest to cover. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edges. With unassigned prize b [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Eliot's novel featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by T. H. Robinson plus introduction. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x145mm) [xi] 438pp. Rubbing to leat [more...]
Handsomely rebound Oxford Illustrated edition of Dickens' novel that satirises the british class system and its institutions such as the debtors prisons. Complete with the 40 b/w illustrations by Phiz, From the Oxford New Illustrated Dickens series. Half red [more...]
Special limited edition of Masefield's collection of poetry. Featuring A letter from Pontus, an extended piece on Ovid's exile to Tomi. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 55. Quarter Vellum with decorative paper. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge rough [more...]
Splendid full leather binding of Mangin's popular and readable tome on the Ocean. Exploring its various facets and wildlife. With 130 b/w illustrations by J. Freeman and Noel. Decorated initials.Beveled edges. Elaborate gilt decoration. Raised bands. Inn [more...]
Terrific special Folio Society quarter leather edition featuring episodes from the Icelandic Sagas, selected, translated and edited by Magnus Magnusson. Includes The Saga of the Greenlanders; The Saga of Erik the Red; Hrafnkel's Saga; Njal's Saga and others. [more...]
Leather binding. Four volume set of Macaulay's great yet controversial history of England. Macaulay drew ire for his Whiggish interpretation of history. Bound in half leather with gilt decoration to spine. Marbled paper to boards, with matching marbling to [more...]
Roman Breviary, 'restored by the decree of the most holy Council of Trent'. Printed in red and black by the company of Christophe Platin, towards the tail end of its existence. With similar texts bound in to rear, including pieces on St. Francis of Assisi an [more...]
Handsome edition of Betjeman's complete poetical works, with an introduction by Lord Birkenhead. red faux-leather covers with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. 8vo. Some mild shelf-wear. Contents bright and clean. Near fine. [more...]
Collection of 16 colour caricatures of various characters from Dickens' works, by J. Clayton Clark (Kyd). Each with a title card featuring an extract from the relevant work. Blue leather like cloth with gilt titling to cover. Beveled edges. All edges gilt. [more...]
The second volume from the 1914-17 issue, containing Iron and Fireproof construction elements, materials, decorations and parts, with advertisements/explanations by the suppliers for architects. Divided into tabbed sections. Half leather. 4to. Rubbing and [more...]
The Second volume of Chisholm's generously illustrated account of the various countries, their cultures, topography etc. Here containing India, China, Japan, North and South America, Africa and Oceania. With colour maps, b/w and colour plates plus further b/w [more...]
'With a Particular Account of their lives, amours and misfortunes.' Compact volume of the letters sent between Peter Abelard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil describing their abortive romance and lives in 12th century france. With four poems, including Pope's 1717 [more...]
24 volumes bound as 8. Nice set of Chamber's miscellany 'containing a choice selection of interesting and instructive reading for the old and the young.' Featuring hundreds (thousands) of short stories, poems and articles on a variety of subjects. Rather di [more...]
Nicely bound edition of accessible lectures delivered by the great physicist Hermann von Helmholtz whilst a professor in Berlin. Topics include the Eye and Optics, Music, Ice and Glaciers and Goethe's scientific research. With an introduction by John Tyndall [more...]
Full leather prize binding done by Bickers and Son. Containing Tennyon's collected works, including Ulysses etc. Printed in double columns. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled endpapers with matching marbling to pa [more...]
Rousseau's pioneering auto-biography, complete with the two parts, containing books I - XII. Half leather with marbled boards. 32mo. (135x90mm). Rubbing to leather, especially to top of spine. Previous owner's stamp to ffep. Tanning to pages but otherwise [more...]
Leather binding of Rogers' poetical works. Full mottled leather with elaborate gilt decoration. With inner dentelles. marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. 32mo. Previous repairs to front joint. With original spine and front board reinforced. Rubbing and [more...]
