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Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland, Illustrated. From Original Drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering etc., with Descriptions by T. Rose.
London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1832-1834. [Northern Topography] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes bound as two. Folio (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] 116; pp.[6] 117-220. With 111 engraved plates, including a vignette title page to volume I and a frontispiece to volume II. Contemporary maroon half calf with raised..... More
Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases now in Vogue, with a list of the sixty orders of Prime Coves, the whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc.
London: J. Duncombe, 1848 [circa 1885]. [London] VINTAGE COPY, a later reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.131 [1]. With an advertisement for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' (1885) at rear. With a folding colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, by Cruikshank. Publisher's crocodile skin-effect tan cloth with gilt titles..... More
Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, To Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, With a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the Whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished With Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
London: J. Duncombe, 1848 [circa 1885]. [London] VINTAGE COPY, a later reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.131 [1]. With an advertisement for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' (1885) at rear. With a folding colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, by Cruikshank. Publisher's crocodile skin-effect tan cloth with gilt titles..... More
The Golden Ass of Apuleius. The Chiswick Library of Noble Writers.
London: printed at the Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons, 1904. [Latin Classics in Translation] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Quarto (35 x 22cm), pp.[12] 226 [6]. With a tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece and decorated title page by W.L. Bruckman. Number 128 of just 220 copies thus, hand-numbered to limitation page..... More
George Barker: Collected Poems.
London: faber and faber, 1987. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxii; 838 [4]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'For James | from | George Barker | 87.' Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the monogrammed dust-jacket, priced at £27.50. Heavily..... More
The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692 and its Practical Application to Our Own Time.
Stratford, CT: John E. Edwards, 1971. [Anomalistic Psychology] LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 112 [2]. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to top edge, with a small mark where a label has been removed to fly-leaf..... More
Great Golfers. Their Methods at a Glance.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. [Golf] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xxiv, 482, [2] advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine and gilt golfer to upper board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 268 action photographs. Light spotting to endpapers and edges. Cloth lightly rubbed to extremities, marginally..... More
Naval Tactics and Trials of Sailing. Illustrated by Diagrams of the Several Evolutions. To which are added: The Established Plan of Lights for Steam Vessels, and Regulations to avoid Collision.
London: Charles Wilson, 1850. First Edition. Illustrated with a fronstispiece of H.M.S. St. Vincent, 4 plates of the Trials, tables, and numerous battle plans heightened in blue and red. With the original Protractor housed in a pocket to front paste down. Publisher's embossed green cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Horkey.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. [Children's illustrated] ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUICKSHANK (the younger). Slim quarto (25 x 21cm), pp.48. Printed with colour illustrations to every page. Illustrated paper-covered boards, green cloth spine, all edges green. Blind stamp of W.H. Smith Library to flyleaf, some toning and light spotting. Boards rubbed..... More
Saraband & Satyricon: Poems and Verses, Orthodox and Heterodox.
Kineton: The Roundwood Press, 1970. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 235 [1]. Number 190 of 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titles to spine and green endpapers. With the light green typographic dust-jacket. A few..... More
Fishermen With Ploughs. A Poem Cycle.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 100. Publisher's light green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Stanley Hickson, priced at 25s/£1.25 to front flap. Some toning and light edgewear to jacket. Near fine. From the imagination of..... More
Magnus.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1973. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.206 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the striking dust-jacket designed by Ian MacInnes, priced at £2.00. A black ink ownership to flyleaf, dated 1973. A selection of related newspaper clippings loosely inserted..... More
Northern Lights. A Poet's Sources.
London: John Murray, 1999. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; [4]; 336. With eight full-page black and white illustrations by Charles Shearer, and two maps of Orkney and Shetland following editor's introduction. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket also designed by Shearer priced..... More
George Buday's Eleventh Little Book: The Rules of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, containing a useful record of the most indispensable laws which regulate the manner and behaviour of Polished Society, including maxims, prescriptive of the Correct conduct at Parties, the Dinner Table and on other occasions of Domestic of Social Intercourse, selected from various old handbooks, once much favoured by supporters of Progress and Refinement.
London: Published by the author and printed at the Albion Hand Press, 1954. [Private Press] FINE WOOD ENGRAVINGS, an advance copy printed for friends and acquaintances of the artist. Pott octavo (14 x 11cm), pp.[28]. With two full page plates and seven vignette wood engravings by Buday. Publisher's plain paper..... More
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and Arranged, with Notes and Illustrations.
London: John Murray, 1866. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16] 827 [3]. Finely bound by HAYDAY in full black morocco, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt panelled decoration to boards, raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle turn ins over plain endpapers. With an engraved frontispiece..... More
The Works of Lord Byron. Complete in One Volume.
London: John Murray, 1842. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] viii; 827 [5]. With an engrave frontispiece portrait of the author and a vignette title page, as well as two double-sided facsimile plates showing the author's handwriting at different ages. Very small print over two columns. Contemporary..... More
Marino Faliero. Doge of Venice, An Historical Tragedy. In Five Acts. With Notes.
Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1821. [Tragedy] FIRST PARIS EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4]; 271; [1]. Brown half calf, Shell marbled paper over boards. Grey label with gilt titles, gilt bands, and blind-tooled designs to spine. Edges speckled black. Blue endpapers. Original bookmarking ribbon loosely inserted. Interior bright, though..... More
Rifle Green at Waterloo. An account of the 95th Foot in the Netherlands Campaign of 1813-14, at Quatre Bras and Waterloo 16th-18th June 1815 and the occupation of Paris. With a full medal and casualty roll for the fourteen companies at Waterloo and details of weapons, clothes and equipment used in the campaign.
Leicester: Bugle Horn Publications, 1990. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. 207; [1]. 42 pages of photographs. Publisher's green cloth, silver illustration to front-board, silver lettering to spine. Tiny nick to cloth on upper spine, very slight bumping to spine. Near fine. More
The German Conquest of England in 1875, and Battle of Dorking; Or, Reminiscences of a Volunteer.
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates. n.d. c.1871. US Edition. Octavo, pp. 62, 2 of adverts. Green cloth covers with decorative gilt titles to front, brown endpapers. Neat ownership inscription to the the recto of the frontispiece page. Front hinge has split the paper along the bottom half, rear hinge just starting..... More
The Poetical Works of William Cowper.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1854. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxx; 416 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 428 [2]. Reasonably-sized print on good paper. Very fine contemporary green full morocco by J. WRIGHT, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very fine..... More
Tales of the Gods and Heroes.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd., 1895. [Greek Myths] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a New Edition. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 205 [3]. Contemporary red full straight-grained calf by RELFE BROS., with raised bands, gilt titles to a green label, further gilt decoration to spine, and a...... More
A Spliced Yarn. Some Strands From the Life Cable of Bill Bullen.
London: Gibbings and Company, 1899. [Maritime fiction] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 300. With five tissue-guarded halftone plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Red pictorial decoration to upper and spine. Top edge gilt. Toning to margins, foxing..... More
The Adventures of Oliver Twist. The World's Classics VIII.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1909. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a pocket edition. Sexto-Decimo (15 x 10cm), pp.[4] xiv; 511 [5]. With 24 engraved illustrations by Cruikshank, including a frontispiece. Exquisite contemporary full tree calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt ruling to boards..... More
The Old Curiosity Shop.
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [circa 1910]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 370; [1], blank; pp.ii; 363; [1], blank. With introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. With the original illustrations throughout. Title pages printed in two colours. Beautifully bound by Root & Son in..... More
Master Humphrey's Clock [The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge].
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION in book-form. 3 volumes, quartos (25 x 17 x 9cm), pp.[2] iv; 306, pp.vi; 306, pp.vi; 426 [4]. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Publisher's vertically-ribbed brown cloth, elaborately blocked in gilt and blind, with gilt-blocked clock design to..... More