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...]
Glorious limited edition of Balzac's humourous short stories in the style of the Decameron, appearing in 1832, 1833 & 1837. Bound in half cloth with decorative paper to boards. Fore-edge rough cut. With two tone illustrations by Barton. Limited to 2050 cop [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...]
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...]
Complete set of Scott's novels. With frontisportrait to volume one and fold out facsimile letter showing Scott's handwriting. Engraved title pages. Half leather bindings with marbled boards. Raised bands with gilt decoration. 8vo. Rubbing and wear to covers. [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Eliot's first published work, a series of stories on a clerical theme, featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by Chris Hammond and an introduction by William [more...]
Nicely produced Irish Texts society edition, Vol. L. Gaelic and English text side by side. With copious notes. Green cloth with gilt decoration. some foxing to top edge. Sunning to spine and toning to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good [more...]
Limited edition, selection of stories from the Decameron, taken from the anonymous translation of 1741 and revised by Orson in 1896. Illustrated in b/w with linocuts by Edmondo Lucchesi. Limited to c. 1000 copies, of which this is number 749. quarter cloth w [more...]
Early edition of Lady Gilbert's novel with pictorial covers and illustrations by Maynard Brown. Decorative end-papers. Rubbing to edges. Slight creasing to spine. Cracking to front hinge but binding sound and contents clean. Good. [more...]
Impressive Easton Press edition of Haggard's dramatic 1887 adventure of lost civilizations and sorceresses. Full leather with gilt design to covers. Decorative devices within. All edges gilt. Some light shelf-wear to edges, else crisp and clean. Fine cond [more...]
First edition, possible first printing of Dickens' christmas story. Lacks advertisement to rear that determines state. Skillfully rebacked with original covers and spine laid down. With illustrated title page and frontispice plus b/w illustrations within by [more...]
Pleasant Book-Lovers edition of Bronte's novel. With 7 b/w images showing locations and characters from the Bronte sisters' lives. Soft red leather with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Decorated end-papers, matching spine. Rubbing to edges, with slight lo [more...]
Pleasant Book-Lovers edition of Bronte's novel. With 16 b/w images showing locations and characters from the Bronte sisters' lives. Soft red leather with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Decorated end-papers, matching spine. No date but c. 1910. Rubbing t [more...]
Pleasant Book-Lovers edition of Gaskell's 1857 biography of Charlotte Bronte. With 8 b/w images showing locations and characters from the Bronte sisters' lives. Soft red leather with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Decorated end-papers, matching spine. No [more...]
Handsomely produced limited edition of Flaubert's 1874 novel on St. Anthony's temptations in the desert. With colour and b/w illustrations by Jean de Bosschere in his peculiar style. Number 2439 of 3000 copies. Fore-edge rough cut. 8vo. Bumping and rubbing [more...]
First edition of Barrie's novel, notable for the first appearance of Peter Pan. With tissue guarded frontispiece showing The Child's Map of Kensington Gardens. Beveled edges. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge rough cut. Some marking/toning to cover. Bumping to edg [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Thackeray's meandering novel featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by William Rainey plus introduction. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x145mm) [xxiii] 584p [more...]
English translation of Cottin's moral historical adventure written in 1806. Edited by Frances Burney. Bound together with Mackenzie's sentimental novel, The Man of Feeling. Engraved title page. Rebacked some time ago with original spine and boards laid down [more...]
Handsome cloth bound edition of Hawthorne's historical novel together with The House with the Seven Gables. With a design by Talwyn Morris. With b/w illustrations by John H. Bacon. 8vo. Slight sunning to spine. Foxing to fore-edge and end-papers. Tear to [more...]
