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The Jubilee Years
£6.00 +
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Roger Hudson; Jerome K Jerome; Max Beerbohm e
The Folio Society 1996
Pleasant compilation of writings detailing life in the jubilee years from 1887 to 1897. Features diary entries, articles and sketches from a range of characters describing society, technology, culture and more. With colour images. Complete with slipcase. Sl [more...]
Greville's England: selections from the Diaries of Charles Greville, 1818-1860
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Charles Greville; Christopher Hibbert (editor
The Folio Society 1981
Engaging selection from Greville's controversial diaries. With b/w contemporary images of the events. With slipcase. Shelf-wear to slipcase. Volume is crisp and pristine. Fine condition. [more...]
The New Newgate Calendar
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Norman Birkett (editor)
The Folio Society 1960
Folio Society edition of the New Newgate Calendar, the continuation of the Newgate Calendar. A series of 'edifying' sketches of notorious trials and executions of well known criminals of the 18th and 19th centuries, including William Burke and the Earl of Car [more...]
Memoirs of a Mercenary
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Johann Dietz; Bernard Miall (trans)
The Folio Society 1987
'Being the Memoirs of Master Johann Dietz Surgeon in the Army of the Great Elector and Barber to the Royal Court'. Engaging account of life as a 17th century mercenary by efficient German Surgeon. With (near) contemporary illustrations from various manuscrip [more...]
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story
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Max Beerbohm
The Folio Society 1966
First Folio Society edition of Beerbohm's biting satire of undergraduate life at Edwardian Oxford. With Beerbohm's own delicate illustrations. Lacks slipcase. Some toning to covers and spine. Contents bright and clean. Good+ [more...]
The Cream of Noel Coward
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Noel Coward
The Folio Society 1996
A creamy selection chosen by Michael Cox from the writings of Noel Coward. Features extracts from his plays and his poems. Fun gold cloth binding. Illustrations by Helen Smithson. Complete with slipcase. Smudge type mark to spine and similar to for-edge [more...]
The Life of Charlemagne
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Einhard The Frank
Folio Society 1970
Important contemporary account of the Life of Charlemagne by the diminutive scholar, Einhard. Bound in a mock vellum with gilt titling. Full colour images of illuminated manuscripts and artifacts. Decorated endpapers, complete with slipcase. Slipcase has s [more...]
The Spanish Bawd: Being the Tragi-Comedy of Callisto and Melibea (La Celestina)
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Fernando de Rojas; J. M. Cohen (trans)
The Folio Society 1973
Folio Society edition of de Rojas' great novel published in 1499 and considered the first renaissance work in Spanish. With b/w illustrations by Dodie Masterson. No Slipcase but with protective wrapper. Some light shelf-wear to edges but contents crisp and [more...]
Roger de Coverly
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Joseph Addisson; Richard Steele; Eustace Budg
The Folio Society 1967
Handsome Folio Society edition of these humorous vignettes from the Life of Roger de Coverley, an 18th century country gentleman, taken from The Spectator Magazine, illustrated with wood engravings by Rochard Shirley Smith. No slipcase but with protective wra [more...]
The Fire of Liberty
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Esmond Wright (editor); Jefferson, Cornwallis
The Folio Society 1983
Selected extracts from a variety of first hand sources that tell the story of the American Revolution. With b/w images and colour endpapers and frontispiece. Issued without a slipcase but complete with glassine jacket. Some light shelf-wear, contents crisp [more...]
The Red Badge of Courage
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Stephen Crane
The Folio Society 1964
Crane's affecting novel of a young soldiers experiences in the American Civil War, renowned for its "psychological portrayal of fear". Illustrated by striking photographs of the civil war. Lacks slipcase. Toning and marking to spine. Mild shelf-wear, light [more...]
Greville's England: selections from the Diaries of Charles Greville, 1818-1860
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Charles Greville; Christopher Hibbert (editor
The Folio Society 1981
Engaging selection from Greville's controversial diaries. With b/w contemporary images of the events. Lacks slipcase. Very faint foxing to page edges. Otherwise volume is clean and prim. Very good condition. [more...]
The Fire of Liberty
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Esmond Wright (editor); Jefferson, Cornwallis
The Folio Society 1983
Selected extracts from a variety of first hand sources that tell the story of the American Revolution. With b/w images and colour endpapers and frontispiece. Issued without a slipcase. Faint toning to spine. Some light shelf-wear, contents crisp and clean. [more...]
The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54
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Dorothy Osborne; Kingsley Hart (editor)
Folio Society 1968
Letters wrtten by the 17th century aristocrat to her husband, poliican and diplomat Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet. First published in 1888. They tell of the final two years of their fraught courtship before their marriage in 1654, describing their romance [more...]
The Creevey Papers
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Thomas Creevey
Folio Society 1970
The diaries and correspondences of politician and ambler Thomas Creevey. Reminescent, some say, of Pepys. Complete with slipcase. Rubbing, scuffing and staining to covers and slipcase. Contents sound. Fair. [more...]
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