Elegant tree-calf, leather binding of Austin's appreciation of the poetry of his peers, written in 1870 prior to becoming his becoming Poet Laureate in 1896. Contains essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Algernon Swinburne and more. With raised b [more...]
Second edition. Nicely rebound using original leather boards with blind-stamped design. Raised bands to spine with gild titling and blind-stamped decoration. With charts and tables. Lacks map as is common. Advertisements to rear. 12mo. 764pp. +ads. Small [more...]
Handsome full leather Easton Press edition of Graham's beloved 1908 novel, featuring the colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham and an introduction by A. A. Milne. All edges gilt. Silk moire end-papers. 8vo. Some very light shelf-wear but crisp and clean. [more...]
Fascinating, somewhat fantastical, account of the author's experiences in India and beyond, adapted from his popular series of lectures meant to convey the history and culture of the region to an American christian audience. With an extended section on the Thu [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...]
The first part of Davis' edition of Maximus of Tyre's Dissertations, essays on various philosophical themes, expanded with notes by Jeremiah Markland and Jakob Reiske. Contains the first 24 pieces with the original ancient greek and latin translation. Full cal [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...]
Single volume edition of this generously illustrated history and architectural guide to the significant religious buildings of England and Wales. With numerous b/w engravings within the text and 18 plates. Half leather binding with marbled boards, raised ban [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Belgian Printing and Publishing Society; Hauman & Co. 1840
'Containing Descriptions of the Principal Cities, their Museums, Picture Galleries, &c, The Railways and Great High RoadsAlso Directions for Travellers and hints for Tours'. Fourth revised edition of Murray's guidebook, published here by Belgian Printing and [more...]
