Collected Essays of Goldsmith that first appeared in various journals and pamphlets. Calf leather binding. 12mo. 230pp. Rubbing to covers. Some cracking to spine. Some very light spotting within. Binding holding sound, contents clean. Good. [more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
The rare deluxe Heron full leather edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works. Containing all his plays; his longer poems, The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis; and all of his sonnets. These compact volumes are in full leather and blocked with 23ct gold. W [more...]
Handsomely rebound Tusitala edition of Stevenson's enduring adventure. Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled end-papers. Top edge gilt. With a map as frontispiece. 12mo. Previous owner's inscription to fly-leaf. Mild foxin [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...]
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 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...]
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...]
No date but c. 1930. Pleasant full leather edition of Shakespeare's Complete dramatic Works, divided into Comedies, Tragedies and Histories. Each with an original, quite excellent engraved frontispiece. Publisher's soft leather binding with gilt decoration. [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...]
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...]
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...]
No date but c. 1863 in this collected form. Generously illustrated, thorough history of the United States of America from its founding to the early days of the American Civil War - the final paragraph laments that it cannot report a peaceful settlement to thi [more...]
