Literature
Jane Austen's Sanditon: A Continuation by her Niece, Together With "Reminisces of Aunt Jane."
Chicago: The Chiron Press, 1983. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies of which this is number 198. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.lii [4] 183 [3]. With four black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece. White quarter leatherette, blue paper over boards. Typographic paper label to spine. With the typographic..... More
The Alder Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Black Medick Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Cat's-Ear Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Goose-Grass Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Hazel-Catkin Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Lime Tree Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Pine Tree Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Silver Birch Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Stork's-Bill Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Sycamore Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
The Tulip Fairy [Flower Fairies mounted colour plate].
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., No date [circa 1940s]. [Children's Illustration] ORIGINAL PRINT. An attractive illustration printed in colour, initials of the artist printed to bottom left corner, with a three-line border. Presented in an elegant archival green card mount, with a single-line rule in gilt. Image size 14 x...... More
[Scrapbook].
[Privately produced]. 1892- circa 1903. LATE VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[16]; 1-2; 9-68. With three leaves removed near the beginning, and two from the back. Containing a great panoply of decorative monograms, crests and printed signatures and addresses belonging to the English gentry, cut from letters or..... More
Social Life in England and France, From the French Revolution in 1789, to That of July 1830. By the editor of Madame du Deffand's Letters.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. [Social Studies] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.vii; [1]; 214; [4]. INSCRIBED to Lord Henry Peter Brougham by Berry in brown ink to title page: 'To | The Lord Chancellor Brougham | from the author | MB.' Advertisements to..... More
An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., c.1900. AN ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOK. Slim oversized octavo, pp.22. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards, depicting two men in Georgian attire holding a portrait of a lady in side profile. Front and rear pastedown illustrated with full colour plates. Publisher's advertisement to rear. A...... More
Tokiwa and Other Poems.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 357; [3]. Publisher's stippled pink cloth over boards with red pictorial decoration and titles to upper, small rose design to lower. Gilt titles to spine. Edges untrimmed. Interior toned with some foxing, mostly to preliminaries and endpapers..... More
Bird Notes From the Nile.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and co., 1904. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xii; 113; [3]. Advertisements to rear. With 22 illustrated plates, including a tissue-guarded colour frontispiece. Also with numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, black titles to upper and spine, pictorial decoration in black to upper. Fore and..... More
Jerramy Green-Eyes.
London: Hurst & Blackett, no date [1947]. [Romance] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.333. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by J. Vibart, priced at 10/6. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a...... More
L'Alleluja. Poesie di Ennio Contini e La Prima Decade dei Cantos di Ezra Pound.
Mazara: Societa Editrice Siciliana, 1952. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.131 [5]. All text in Italian. Publisher's soft covers titled in red and black, priced at L.1000. Publisher's promotional slip to preliminaries. Toned throughout, especially to edges. Vertical crease to front cover, with light spotting and moderate wear..... More
Half in Shadow.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1978. [Weird fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.ix [3] 212 [4]. With a monochrome frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tim Kirk priced at $8.95 to front flap. Grey endpapers. Fine, as-new. A collection of short..... More
The Novels [Works] of George Eliot. Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life; Felix Holt; Romola; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1890s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, mixed printings from a New Edition. Complete in eight volumes, bound as seven. Octavo (19 x 14 x 22cm), pp.[2] viii; 466 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 486 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 158; viii; 330 [2]; pp.[2]..... More
Rural Employments; or, a Peep into village concerns Designed to instruct the minds of children. Illustrated by numerous copper-plates
London: William Darton, 58 Holborn Hill 1820. 72pp. Twelvemo. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards. Rather rubbed and worn, some inscriptions and juvenile drawings, spine with glue marks, lacking two of the eighteen plates; the plate at p.4 is misbound as the frontispiece. Apparently a scarce childrens' book covering..... More
The Late Uncle Max.
London: MacDonald. 1957. First edition. Octavo, pp. 192. Publisher's black cloth with yellow titles to spine, dynamic pictorial dustjacket. Small pen annotation on flyleaf, plus a small area of rough surface where a sticker or similar has been removed, some staining to the top edge. Dustwrapper shows well with just..... More
The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham.
London: Henry and co., 1895. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 290; 14. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt titles and blue pictorial decoration blocked to upper and spine. Illustrated title page. Half-title lettered in orange. Advertisements to rear. Top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Light toning throughout..... More
Tales From Shakespeare. Arranged and Illustrated by May Mulliner.
London: Robert Scott, 1915. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST MULLINER ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 19cm), pp.[4] 242 [2]. With 16 mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Mulliner, each with a captioned tissue guard. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More