" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables.
New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1980. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.142 [2]. With colour plates by Gilbert and in-text drawings by Campbell. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To R.W. Smith | Yours with best wishes | Richard..... More
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Rupert and the Bottled Moonbeams [and Rupert and the Frosties]. Adventure Series No. 28.
London: Oldbourne Book Co., no date [April 1956]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. More
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Rupert and the Snow Sports [and Rupert and the Vanishing Pet]. Adventure Series No. 23.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, no date [February 1955]. [Children's Cartoon] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), twelve leaves illustrated in colour throughout, including soft covers with two staples. Light rubbing and thumbing to covers. Very good. 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
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. for Boots Pure Drug Co., no date [circa 1930]. [Illustrated Literature] RARE DUST-JACKET, 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
Germany.
London: A. & C. Black, 1930. [German Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 195 [5]. With 32 colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in silver to spine, blind to upper, and blind decoration all over. With the colour-illustrated..... 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 Seven Lost Trails of Africa. Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure.
London: Cassell and Company, 1930. [Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 242. With eight black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, and eight maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavy spotting to edges, with occasional heavy spotting internally. Light rubbing and some marks..... More
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Classic Fiction] FIRST EDITION, bound from mixed issue parts. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 624. With 39 engraved plates by Phiz, and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Maclise. This copy does not have "visiter" for "sister" on p.123 line 17, but it does..... More
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[2] xvi; 624 [2]. With 39 engraved plates by Browne, and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Maclise. 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, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[2] xvi; 609 [3]. With 43 engraved plates by Browne and Seymour, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
The Old Curiosity Shop.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[2] vi; 533 [3]. With frequent in-text illustrations, and occasional engraved plates, by various artists, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
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[Works of Charles Dickens, including:] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. The "Charles Dickens" Edition.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1880]. [Literature] FINELY BOUND SET. Nineteen volumes bound as thirteen. Octavo (18 x 13 x 42cm). Each title with eight illustrated plates. Contemporary tan half calf with gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and marbled paper..... More
The Booze Book.
San Francisco, CA: Determined Productions, 1967. [Cocktail Book] FIRST EDITION. Square octavo (15 x 15cm), pp.68. Illustrated in colour throughout by Astrop and Hill. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and black endpapers. With the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Rubbing and bumping to head and tail of spine, and to corners. Jacket..... More
Allan's Wife. And Other Tales.
London: Spencer Blackett, 1889. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.331 [36]. With eight black and white illustrated plates by Greiffenhagen and Kerr, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and plum-coated endpapers. Large gum mark to front pastedown where a bookplate..... More
Black Heart and White Heart. And Other Stories.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. [Fantasy Adventures] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 14cm), ppxii; 414. With the error '18' for '16' on page [xi] line 7. Illustrated with 34 plates, including a frontispiece, by Kerr and Townsend. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Cleopatra. Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis, the Royal Egyptian, as set forth by His Own Hand.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, later issue. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 336 [16]. Catalogue dated August 1889. With 29 illustrations by woodville and Greiffenhagen, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue-grey cloth, bevelled edges, and gilt titles to spine and upper. Publisher's swan-patterned endpapers. Lightly toned..... More
Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets, Fives. With Contributions by the Hon. A. Lyttelton, W.C. Marshall, Miss L. Dod, H.W.W. Wilberforce, H.F. Lawford, Spencer W. Gore, R.D. Sears and Herbert Chipp. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. [Racquet Sports] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 488. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and..... More
The Old Court Suburb: or, Memorials of Kensington Regal, Critical, & Anecdotal by the late J.H. Leigh Hunt Esq., edited by Austin Dobson Esq., & newly embellished by Herbert Railton, Claude Shepperson, & Edmund J. Sullivan Esq.
London: Freemantle & Co., 1902. [London Topography] ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[2] xviii; 211 [1]; pp.[2] x; 208. With 108 engraved illustrations, including numerous plates, and a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spines and uppers. Top edges gilt;..... More
The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines.
London: Scholastic Children's Books, 2018. [Science Fiction Setting Encyclopaedia] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.192. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour by various artists. SIGNED by Philip Reeve in black ink to title page, with accompanying sad frog stamp. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and..... More
Tale of the Crusaders: The Betrothed; The Talisman; Ivanhoe; Count Robert of Paris.
London: J. Dicks, no date [circa 1880s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND OMNIBUS EDITION. Four titles bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 112; 111 [1]; 160; 141 [3]. Very small print in two columns, on thin paper. With occasional in-text engravings and vignette title pages by Gilbert, Gerlier and..... More
The Bride of Lammermoor; The Fortunes of Nigel; The Pirate.
London: J. Dicks, no date [circa 1880s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, three volumes as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 110; 159 [1]; 160 [2]. Very small print in two columns, on thin paper. With occasional in-text engravings and vignette title pages by Gilbert and Gerlier. Contemporary tan half calf..... More
Swimming. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Swimming] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 452. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and upper. Green..... More
The Wrecker.
London: Cassell & Company, 1892. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 427 [12]. Publisher's catalogue dated May 1892. With 12 half-tone illustrated plates by Hole and Metcalf, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Repair to split lower hinge. Spotting and..... More