Literature
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In The Potter's Field. and Other New Poems.
London: John Murray, 1936. [Poetry] PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED WITH LETTER. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. [8]; 98; [12]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, embossed ruling to front board with gilt titling, dust-jacket with printed price 5s to flap. Letter attached to front endpaper from Gorell to George..... More
The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, from the Illuminated Drawings contained in a valuable Ms. of the Original Romance.
London: Printed for White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. Limited Edition to 175 regular copies. Quarto; pp: half title page, frontispiece, title page, (12), (1), vi - xxvii, (1), iv, 544. Illustrated with black and white plates based on drawings from the original manuscript. Complete. This edition is edited by Edward..... 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
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay. A New Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. [Politics/History] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 784 [2]. Tan half calf, nonpareil marbled paper over boards. Brown label with gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges matching boards. Lightly toned internally with infrequent spotting, heavier..... More
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., from 1659 to 1669, with Memoir.
London: Frederick Warne, No date [c.1900]. [Diaries] FINE LEATHER BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 639 [1]. Red full calf, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label lettered in gilt, gilt-tooling, and raised bands to spine. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and matching marbled edges. Some toning to first..... More
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. Secretary to the admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. the diary deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, A.M., from the original shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke.
London: Henry Colburn, 1848. [Diaries] THIRD EDITION, much enlarged and extended. Five volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xli; 388; [3]; 16, pp.[5]; 450; 2, pp.[4]; 440; 4, pp.[4]; 511; [1], pp.[4]; 561; [1]; 16. Publisher's brown cloth with blind tooling to boards, gilt tooling to boards and gilt..... More
The Queen's Awards. Series 6.
London: Gollancz, 1953. [Crime fiction collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red clothwith black titles to spine, typographical dust-jacket with printed price 10/6 to flap. Contents clean, owner bookplate beneath flap, light spotting to edges, some minor rubs and marks to covers and jacket, which is a...... More
The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1892. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean, some light bumping to boards corners and spine. Near fine. Poems from a Poet Laureate. More
Gareth and Lynette. etc.
London: Strahan and Co., 1872. [Arthurian Legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] 136 [10]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow-coated endpapers. A lovely clean copy, partially unopened, with some rubbing to spine. Near fine. Begun in 1859, Tennyson's classic exploration of the legend of King..... More
Gareth and Lynette. etc.
London: Strahan and Co., 1872. [Arthurian Legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] 136 [10]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow-coated endpapers. Contents clean, discreet ink name to endpaper, frayed at spine ends, extremities rubbed. Very good. Begun in 1859, Tennyson's classic exploration of the legend..... More
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, etc.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. [Poetry and Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 201 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Edges untrimmed. Bookseller's blind stamp to fly-leaf. Light toning throughout, and somewhat cocked. Spine toned, with light rubbing to cloth. Very good. Including the title..... 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 Holy Grail. And Other Poems.
London: Strahan and Co., 1869. [Poetry] ADVANCE COPY. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 222; [2]. Publisher's green cloth with embossed patterning lettered in gilt to spine. Light spotting throughout, toning to edges of textblock, sunning to spine, wearing and bumping to spine and edges. Very good. Despite the book's publication..... More
Irish Short Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. [Short Story Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.428; [4]. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket priced at 3/6. Small blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Light spotting and browning to edges and endpapers. Jacket with chips and closed..... More
News Cuttings: [Campaign to errect a Memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson].
London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, circa 1896-1904. [News Cuttings Album] ORIGINAL CUTTINGS AND LETTERS. Quarto (30 x 24cm), with 70 numbered pages of news clippings, 111 blank numbered pages, and 12 pages of official typed letters from the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Committee at rear. Publisher's burgundy cloth with..... More
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