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The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814..... Feb. 1815.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo, pp.[8], 560 [2]. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The..... More
Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. [Childhood Anthology] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii, 124 [4]. In contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Binder's label for Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. to copyright page. A little toning to edges, and some light marks and discolouration..... More
The Strand Magazine, volumes I to XII. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, etc.]
London: George Newnes, January 1891 to December 1896. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. 12 volumes. Large octavo (25 x 17 x 50cm). Illustrated throughout. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes. In contemporary green half calf, with gilt titles to red labels, gilt and blind ruling to spines, and matching textured..... More
Twentieth Century Impressions of Orange River Colony and Natal: their History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
Natal: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1906. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.667; [1]. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Light sunning to spine, with..... More
Cape Colony (Cape Province): Its History, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
London: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., 1910-1911. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.792. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary dark green full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. A large gilt motif showing four national..... More
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, comprising A Large Fund of Biography of Actual Residents, and an Interesting Historical Sketch of Thirteen Counties.
Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company, 1890. [Louisiana Biographies] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 24cm), pp.703; [3]. With 14 lithographic portraits of notable residents. Publisher's deluxe red straight-grained morocco boards with gilt titles stamped to upper board and blind to lower, with further blind decoration. Recently re-backed and re-cornered..... More
Instruction in Military Engineering, Volume I (Part III) Military Bridges. Compiled at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1877. [Military history] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.iv; 174. With forty illustrated plates. Contemporary straight grained red morocco, gilt titles to spine and upper board, gilt name to base of front cover: Lieutenant G. Turnbull. All edges gilt; yellow coated endpapers. Small ex..... More
Memorial Topographique et Militaire, redige au Depot General de la Guerre; Imprime par Ordre du Ministre. No. 6 Historique. IV.e Trimestre de L'an XI [1803].
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Imperiale, Prairial an XIII [May 1805]. [Napoleonic Wars] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] civ; 246 [2]. All text in French. With a large folding map of the Black Forest at rear. Contemporary full marbled calf, with gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and..... More
[On the Occasion of James Booth's Retirement from the Position of General Manager at the Co-operative Printing Society].
Manchester: The co-operative Printing Society, February 1923. [Manchester Printing and Binding History]. FINE ILLUMINATED DOCUMENT IN A FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Two sheets of vellum hand-illuminated in red, blue, green and gilt, announcing the retirement of the General Manager, James Booth. A token of the high esteem in which he was..... More
[Navarre Society Illustrated Classics]. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel, Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle, Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin Epistle. [and] The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. [and] The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the most indomitable of Lovers. [and] The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Translated into English from the Authentic Text of M. le Roux de Lincy, with an Essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury, M.A., also the Original Seventy-three full-page Engravings Designed by S. Freudenberg, and One hundred and fifty head and tail pieces by Dunker. [and] The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes by Thomas Shelton, reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey Darton, and Illustrated with two portraits, eighteen plates and facsimiles of the original engraved titles. [and] The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New Married Couple.
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1921-1923. [Private Press Classics] SIX LIMITED EDITION TITLES, collected in fourteen volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 65cm). All text in English. Each volume with various engraved illustrations, title pages printed in two colours. Each set strictly limited and printed on fine laid..... More
Three of Them [and] Jeeves and the Chump Cyril [and] The Film that was Never Shown [and] The Magic Plus Fours [and] Billy Bones [and] The Forbidden Subject [and] First Aid for Dora [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 55, 56, 64, and 66; numbers 328, 331, 332, 366, 384 and 392.
London: George Newnes, April, July, August, and December 1918, December 1922, and August 1923. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.44; 265-344; 45-52; pp.20; 76; 21-32; pp.16; 77-152; 17-34; pp.64; 361-484; 65-82; pp.84; 487-628; 85-118; pp.48; 105-212; 49-64. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's..... More
Kings of England: Characters of the Kings and Queens of England; Selected from the Best Historians. To which is added, a Table of the Succession of each, from Alfred to the present Time. With Heads, by T. Bewick, Newcastle.
London: Printed for E. Newbury, 1795. [English Royalty] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.viii; 204 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, and a vignette bust portrait for each Monarch, all by Thomas Bewick. Recently re-backed in brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and the original brown..... More
Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of some of the best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English Authors. Revised and Enlarged Edition.
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891. [Verse Anthology] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 19cm), pp.[2] xx; 425 [3]. Number 178 of 500 copies thus, SIGNED by Frederick Locker-Lampson in black ink to the limitation page. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the editor. Publisher's quarter vellum, with gilt..... More
[A collection of articles injunctions, canons, orders, ordinances, and constitutions ecclesiastical, with other publick records of the Church of England; chiefly in the times of K. Edward. VIth. Q. Elizabeth. and K. James. Published to vindicate the Church of England and to promote uniformity and peace in the same. And humbly presented to the Convocation]. Injunctions given by the most excellent Prince, Edward the Sixt; The Order of the Communion; Articles to be enquired of in the Visitation of the Dioces of London, By the reverend Father in God, Nicolas Bishop of London; Articles agreed upon by the Bishops and other Learned and Godly men, In the Last Convocation at London, In the year of our Lord 1552. to root out the discord of Opinions, and establish the Agreement of true Religion; Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi Anno Dom. MDLII; Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty concerning both the Clergy and Laity of this Realm. Published Anno Dom. 1559; Articles Agreed Upon By the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces, and the whole Clergie; In the Convocation holden at London, in the Year, 1562; Advertisments partly for due order in the publick administration of the Holy Sacraments; The Form and Manner of Making & Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons: According to the Appointment of the Church of England; Articles to be enquired in the Visitation, in the First Year of the reign of our most dread Sovereign Lady Elizabeth; Articuli per Archiepiscopum, Episcopos & reliquum Clerum Cantuariensis Provinciae in Synodo inchoata Londini vicesimo 1584; Celebratio Coenae Domini in Funerbribus, Si Amici & Vicini defuncti Communicare velint etc.; Articuli De quibus convenit inter Archiepiscopos, et Episcopos Utriusque Provinciae, et Clerum Universum In Synodo, Londini; Liber Quorundam Cononum Disciplinae Ecclesiae Anglicanae; Capitula sive Constitutiones Ecclesiasticae, per Archepiscopum, Episcopos, & reliquum Clerum Cantuariensis Provinciae, In Synodo inchorata Londini XXV die mensis Oct. Anno Domini MDXCVII; Constitutiones sive canones ecclesiastici, Per Episcopum Londinensem.
London: printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait at the little north-doore of St. Pauls Church, 1661. [English Church History] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Small quarto (20 x 16cm), pp.[16] 31; [3] 33-92; 63-85; [9] 87-99; 200-247 [3]; 6 [2]; 54 [2] 303-372 [2]. Collates as per the ESTC, except..... More
Reports from the Commissioners, appointed by His Majesty to execute the measures recommended in an address of the House of Commons, respecting the Public Records of Ireland: with Supplements and Appendixes. 1810-1815.
London: [Hansard], ordered to be printed 13th July 1819. ORIGINAL REPORT. Large Folio (47 x 30cm), pp.[2]; 571; [5]. With 21 plates featuring facsimile reproductions of Irish charters, some coloured, as well as a number of large folding engraved illustrations of buildings in Dublin, all with tissue guards. In recent..... More
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