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![The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and...](/pictures/thumb/52845.jpg?v=1568819749)
[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1906. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt..... More
The Works of Jane Austen. Being: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895-1897. [English Literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS - each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 13 x 18cm). Handsomely bound in recent burgundy half morocco over red cloth boards, gilt titles and tooling to spines, contrasting blue title..... More
The Works. Comprises: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS - each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 13 x 18cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson in each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha; explained with Short, Apt, and Instructive Notes, in a Method entirely different from all Modern Publications of the Sacred Book: and Cleared from that Variety of Opinions and Conjectures, many of which have no Support in the Scriptures; have been collected without Judgement; and serve more to disturb and confound, than to instruct, edify, and confirm the Reader in the Faith and Practice of a Christian.
London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, date misprinted [1770]. [Illustrated Bible] RARE IMPRINT. Folio, (42 x 28cm), unpaginated. Collation: A-13F2. Date misprinted as 2170 in Roman numerals. With a copper engraved frontispiece by Cole after Wale, as well as 33 further copper engraved plates by various artists. With an index..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Bensley, Cooke and Collingwood, 1815. FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Three volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with many copper engravings by Charles Heath, after Richard Westall. Contemporary horizontal grained red full morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt decorations to..... More
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. for Boots Pure Drug Co., no date [circa 1930]. [Illustrated Literature] WITH DUSTJACKET, a later edition. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.x; 520. With 16 tipped-in chromolithographic plates after illustrations by Brittan and Brock, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and..... More
Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies.
London: Collins, 1960. [Ornithology] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256; [1], blank. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 35s. Contents clean, related 1964 news-clipping (Bond and Fleming) affixed with sellotape to..... More
Rhyme? and Reason?
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] SECOND EDITION, the fourth-thousand. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 214 [6]. With sixty-five wood engraved illustrations by Frost and Holiday including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt illustration to upper board. All edges gilt; black coated..... More
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BASILIKA. The Workes [works] of King Charles the Martyr: with a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, And other Papers Concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament.
London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, 1662. [English History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (35 x 24cm), pp.[12] 118; [10] 458 [2]; 733 [7]. Complete with the frontispiece, engraved title page, and three further double-page-spread engraved plates. Also with the title page and preliminaries to..... More
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W. H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie.
London: George Virtue, 1842. [British Coastal Topography] FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. In two volumes. Quarto (28 x 22cm), unpaginated. With 96 of the original 126 steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces and title page vignettes after various artists, engraved by the Finden brothers and Bartlett. One leaf of text faces each engraving, to..... More
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, October 1891. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 624. With 39 engraved plates by 'Phiz' and a frontispiece of the young Dickens by Maclise. Reprinted from stereotype plates. Contemporary green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE: "Veller" title and two "Buss" plates; bound without the half-title. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iii-xvi; 609; [1]. With 41 engraved plates, as well as an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. Later green half straight grained morocco, with raised..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE: "Veller" title and all of Smith's first issue text points save for one, 'Phiz' plates in early states with page numbers as called for but no titles or imprints; bound without the half-title. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iii-xvi; 609;..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1890's]. [Classic iterature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xvi; 609 [3]. Illustrated with forty-three engravings by Seymour and Phiz. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and pebble-grained green cloth over boards. All edges..... More
![Charles Dickens' Complete Works. The University Edition. [Including] Pickwick Papers, The Old...](/pictures/thumb/54763.jpg?v=1568387173)
Charles Dickens' Complete Works. The University Edition. [Including] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, [etc.]
Boston, MA: Estes and Lauiat, 1882. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND SET. Fifteen volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 55cm). With occasional wood engraved plates by various artists. Fine contemporary dark brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and marbled paper over boards. All edges and..... More
The Works of Charles Dickens.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1890-95. FINELY BOUND SET. 24 titles in 17 volumes, together with a one-volume Life of Dickens by John Forster. Octavo. With illustrations from the original plates by Cruikshank, Stone, Phiz, et al. In half blue calf by Mudie, with striking blue marbled boards, end-papers and edges..... More
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1907. [Christmas Story] SIGNED BY THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. First edition thus. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 204. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and 12 further engraved illustrations. SIGNED by Lord Mayor Treloar in black ink to half title. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to..... More
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Celebrated Crimes [Includes the classic tales of Martin Guerre and The Man in the Iron Mask]. Translated by I.G. Burnham. Illustrated with Photogravures after Original Drawings by De Los Rios, Prodhomme, Wagrez, etc.
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1895. [True Crime] Octavo (20 x 14 x 30cm), eight volumes. With several full-page illustrations, all with tissue guards. Handsomely bound in half red morocco, gilt, with matching red cloth sides, top edges gilt, gilt-patterned endpapers. Some foxing within, lightly handled to exterior; a very good set..... More
The Old Man and the Sea.
London: The Reprint Society, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK ILLUSTRATED EDITION, preceding Cape's own illustrated edition (published in 1955). Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.117; [3]. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Tunnicliffe and Sheppard. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine against a red background, and a silver leaping..... More
Collected Animal Poems: The Iron Wolf; What is the Truth?; A March Calf; The Thought-Fox.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED TO VOLUME I. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 7cm) Publisher's black cloth, white dust-wrappers, publisher's white pictorial slipcase. Signed by Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, in Volume 1. Illustrated by Chris Riddell in volume 1 and by Lisa Flather..... More
Tom Brown's Schooldays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. [Children's Literature] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 308. With frequent in-text and full page wood engravings after Hughes and Hall by D. Cooper. Contemporary red full calf for Heddon Court School by BUMPUS, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
![Golf [The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes]. With contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir...](/pictures/thumb/46670.jpg?v=1493310998)
Golf [The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes]. With contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, Bart., Right Hon. A.J. Balfour M.P., Andrew Lang, H.F.C. Everard, and others.
London: Longmans, Green, 1901. SIXTH, CHEAP EDITION. Octavo, pp. xiv, 483. With 32 full-page engraved plates and numerous full in-text engravings. In publisher's pictorial brown cloth, with library scene and titles in black to upper board, titles in black and gilt to spine. Swan and ship patterned endpapers. Light edge..... More
![Golf [The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes]. With contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir...](/pictures/thumb/47254.jpg?v=1501253561)
Golf [The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes]. With contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, Bart., Right Hon. A.J. Balfour M.P., Andrew Lang, H.F.C. Everard, and others.
London: Longmans, Green, 1895. NEW EDITION, REVISED. Octavo, pp. xiv, 483. With 32 full-page engraved plates and numerous full in-text engravings. In publisher's pictorial brown cloth, with library scene and titles in black to upper board, titles in black and gilt to spine. Swan and ship patterned endpapers. A used..... More
The Jungle Book. With illustrations in colour by Maurice and Edward Detmold.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. [Children's classic] First Detmold colour illustrated Edition. Octavo (22 x 4.5 cm); pp.xii, 314, [2] advertisements. With 16 full-page colour plates. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. Contents clean, a little shelfwear/rubbing to binding. Near fine. Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward..... More
The True Story Book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Childrens illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 337; [1], blank; [1], advertisement; [1], blank. With numerous engraved illustrations by Ford, Speed and others. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, coated black endpapers, all edges..... More