Splendid vellum binding of Chaucer's works. Done by John Bumpus (but doubtless outsourced) with elaborate gilt decoration to spine and leather labels. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers. Page edges tinted yellow. Printed in double columns. Con [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...]
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...]
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...]
First reprint, in the same format as the 1934 first edition. Wall's second Blinky Bill story, with b/w illustrations throughout. 4to. Rubbing to edges with cracking to joints. Bumping to edges. Light foxing to page edges. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Analysis of Dickens' moral and political philsophy and it was evinced by his work. Which is dealt with piece by piece, showing the evolution of his thought, alongside more general commentary on his novels. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Foxing to fore-e [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...]
'Lectures delivered in 1892 on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in The Johns Hopkins University.' With lectures on Homer and Epic Poetry, Pindar, Greek Drama etc. Full leather prize binding with King Edward VI, Stratford crest to cover and prize plate [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...]
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...]
Striking Folio Society edition of Golding's great novel. With an introduction by Ian McEwan and colour illustrations by Sam Weber. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some very light shelf-wear. Previous owner's small sticker to ffep. Otherwise crisp and [more...]
'A Reprint of the First Edition to which are added Mr. Boswell's corrections and editions'. Edited with new notes by Percy Fitzgerald. Preface by the editor and a Boswell Bibliography by H. R. Tedder. Boswell's epochal biography of Samuel Johnson, a work th [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...]
The first Folio Society edition of Melville's Moby Dick. Bound in blue illustrated cloth. With 25 b/w wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some rubbing, wear and toning. Toning to spine, previous owner's small sticker to [more...]
Collection of short stories by Miller and other authors on edifying, often rural theme. With b/w illustrations and titles. Decorative cloth. Prize plate to front pastedown. Rubbing to joints. Tanning within, else clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Ominous Folio Society edition of Dostoevsky's great novel. With b/w illustrations by Nigel Lambourne. Lacks slipcase. Mild wear to covers. Previous owner's small sticker to ffep and another previous owner's bookplate to half-title. Contents clean and soun [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...]
