Gift Books & Fine Bindings
The Works and Life of Laurence Sterne. [Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey, etc.]
New York, NY: J.F. Taylor and Co., 1904. [Literature] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS, the Stonegate Edition. 12 volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 40cm). With 60 engraved plates, each duplicated on different paper, each with a tissue guard. Number 18 of just 150 sets in this edition. Very fine contemporary..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top..... More
Treasure Island.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION, First Issue, with '23' for '123' to p.x. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 273 [3]. With 14 colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, as well as an illustrated title page. Recently re-bound..... More
The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, accurately revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-Plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, by John Hawkesworth.
London: Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis [etc.], 1755. [Literature] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. In six volumes. Quarto (27 x 23 x 28cm), pp.[4]; 44; xviii; 184; [2], viii; 286; [2]; pp.[6]; 232; [4]; 182; [2]; pp.[4]; vi; iv; 192; [6]; 253 [3]; pp.[10]; 318; [2]; ii; 237; [3]; pp.[6]; 258;..... More
Atalanta in Calydon. A Tragedy.
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1865. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.[2] xii; 111 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt devices stamped to upper board, designed by D.G. Rossetti (1828-1882). One of just 100 copies thus. All edges untrimmed..... More
Poems.
Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] vi; 436 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 443 [5]. With a steel-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume. Contemporary green full straight-grained morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spines and gilt ruling to..... More
The Life of Sethos. Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians. Translated from a Greek Manuscript into French. And now faithfully done into English from the Paris Edition.
London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1732. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xvi; 460; pp.[4] 480 [4]. With a folding map to each volume. Recently re-backed in brown calf to match the original brown speckled calf boards, ruled in gilt to..... More
The Light Side of Egypt.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. [Illustrated Satire] FIRST EDITION with fine colour plates. Oblong quarto (23 x 30cm), unpaginated. 36 chromolithographic plates, each with a facing leaf of explanation. Publisher's cream buckram, with titles and decoration blocked to upper in black, white, red, blue and gilt. Heavy spotting to..... More
The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1867. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 652 [2]. Contemporary green half calf, with gilt titles to red label on spine, gilt decoration to raised bands, and blind-patterned green cloth over boards. All edges speckled red; green-coated endpapers. Some..... More
The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 584. With six wood engraved plates by Rainey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink ownership..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio (36 x 27cm), pp.306. Number 1898 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio, pp.306. Number 1604 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert programme from the..... More
BIG: Beatles in Germany.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Beatles History and Photography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.138. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, and occasional colour images. Number 1026 of 1750 copies SIGNED by Tony Sheridan, Günter Zint, Ulf Krüger to limitation page. Also with an original West German Gingerbread..... More
Postcards From The Boys.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2003. [Rock Music / Sixties Culture] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY RINGO. No.1398 of 2500 copies. Quarto (30 x 19cm). An exquisite box set of reproduction postcards sent to Ringo from John Lennon, Paul McCartney & George Harrison, with text and extras. Photo album format in a fine..... More
The Seasons, Odes, Songs, and Hymns.
London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1822. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 192 [4]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and an introductory biography by Aikin. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.
Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. FINELY BOUND. Twenty volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 61cm). The Walden Edition. Handsomely bound in contemporary dark blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and ornate tooling to spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. All volumes illustrated..... More
The Principles of Great Circle and Composite Sailing; a paper read before the Literary and Philosophical Society, December 1853. With observations made from more recent voyages. [and] Tables to Facilitate the Practice of Great Circle Sailing, and Determination of Azimuths.
Liverpool [and] London: Printed for Private Circulation [and] Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1855 [and] 1854. [Navigation] PRIVATELY PRINTED, with a fifth edition copy of 'Tables'. A Presentation copy to AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD. Two pamphlets bound as one. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[6] 30; iii-viii; 67 [5]. With a...... More
Realities of Irish Life.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. [Irish Biography]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 407 [3]. With 30 etched plates including a frontispiece after drawings by Trench's son, and a very large folding coloured map of Ireland. In contemporary burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Writings of Anthony Trollope. Collector's Edition.
Philadelphia, PA: Gebbie and Company, 1900. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION SET. Complete in 30 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16 x ). Each volume with a frontispiece and three further illustrated plates. Number 5 of just 250 sets thus. Finely bound by HADDON and Co. in black full crushed..... More
London Cries: with Six Charming Children, printed direct from stippled plates in the Bartolozzi style, and duplicated in red and brown, and about forty other illustrations, including ten of Rowlandson's humorous subjects in facsimile, and tinted; examples by George Cruikshank, Joseph Crawhill, etc., etc.
London: Field and Tuer, ye Leadenhalle Presse, no date [1883]. [Street Selling] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[3] 48 [2]. Leaves printed only to recto. In recent red half morocco with gilt titles to spine and orange cloth over boards. Brown endpapers, with the original brown title label..... More
Latin Poetry. Lectures Delivered in 1893 on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the John Hopkins University.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. [Classical Lectures] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 323 [5]. Contemporary black full calf for Bedford School, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration to spine, and the school crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges and endpapers..... More
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814..... Feb. 1815.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo, pp.[8], 560 [2]. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The..... More
Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. [Childhood Anthology] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii, 124 [4]. In contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Binder's label for Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. to copyright page. A little toning to edges, and some light marks and discolouration..... More
Twentieth Century Impressions of Orange River Colony and Natal: their History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
Natal: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1906. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.667; [1]. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Light sunning to spine, with..... More
Cape Colony (Cape Province): Its History, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
London: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., 1910-1911. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.792. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary dark green full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. A large gilt motif showing four national..... More