Handsome publisher's special leather bound edition of the first volume of Roule's great work on Fish and ocean life. With colour plates and b/w illustrations within the text. Quarter leather with marbled boards. Marbled end-papers. 8vo. Some light rubbing [more...]
Oxford At the Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press 1902
Half Vellum edition of Quiller Couch's popular collection of english verse from Chaucer and anonymous poets of the 13th century to Kipling and his contemporaries. With gilt decoration to spine. Marbled paper to boards and end-papers. Top edge gilt. Toning [more...]
French translation with colour and b/w illustrations by Jourcin. Faux-leather cover. Rubbing to edges. Bumping to corners. Tanning to page edges. Light spotting. Good overall. [more...]
Handsome later full leather binding of this collection of Addison's writings on Christianity, including elements of Cato. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 12mo. [xxvii] 268pp. Some splitting to spine. Marking to covers. Rubbing to extremities. Tanning [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...]
Nice edition of Scott's 1821 historical novel. In publisher's green leather binding with gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled end-papers. With 47 b/w illustrations. Rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Second volume of Wilson hefty topographical dictionary that began in 1870, 'forming a complete description of the country'. Quarter leather with marbled end-papers and matching marbling to page edges. 4to. Rubbing to edges. Cracking to front joint. Conten [more...]
Marvelous, if unorthodox, account of Lurchers and their often dubious owners, who would engage in hunting, coursing, poaching and the like. With b/w images. Red leatherette boards with gilt titling. Possible reissue (published by the author with no referenc [more...]
Quarter cloth binding of Galsworthy's collected plays, including The Silver Box and Strife. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Blind stamped decoration. 8vo. Toning to front cover. Foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
First Kegan, Paul vellum edition of Tennyson's acclaimed verse requiem for a deceased friend. Containing of course, the line: 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all'. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Toning and mild creasing to [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Nicely rebound, half-leather binding of Scott's collected poetical works. Including his ballads and verse from his novels. Red Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to boards and p [more...]
Surtees' popular humorous hunting themed novel. Featuring hand coloured steel engraved plates by John Leech plus hand-coloured title pages and dozens of b/w wood engravings within the text. 8vo. Half leather with marbled boards. Ornate bookplate of Sir Franc [more...]
Handsome world's classics edition of Trollope's novel from his Chronicles of Barsetshire series. In publisher's blue quarter leather binding. Blue cloth to boards, top edge gilt. 12mo. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edges. Light tanning within, else conten [more...]
Handsome world's classics edition of Trollope's novel from his Chronicles of Barsetshire series. In publisher's blue quarter leather binding. Blue cloth to boards, top edge gilt. 12mo. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edges. Light tanning within, else conten [more...]
In 'Latin and English, arranged according to the reformed Roman Breviary. Neat little black leather edition. Printed in double columns. 32mo. Previous owner's elegant inscription to fly leaf. Mild rubbing to edges, contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
'and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland; Together With the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as They Are to Be Sung or Said in Churches; And the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and [more...]
The first six volumes of the Tauchnitz copyright edition of Tennyson's collected works (bound as three[two subsequent volumes were published in 1872]). Including The Idylls of the King, Maud, Ulysses, In Memorandum, Enoch Arden, The Holy Grail and poems. Hal [more...]
Volume I of the essays of Charles Lamb, this volume containing the complete Essays of Elia, Rather nice half vellum binding with metallic marbled paper boards with matching marbled end-papers. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. small 12mo. [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...]
'Translated out of the Original Greek and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command.' Neat little (120x80mm) soft leather bound edition of the New Testament. Yapp edges, all edges gilt. With a previous o [more...]
