Gift Books & Fine Bindings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
London: The Folio Society, 2020. [Autobiography] FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 234 [4]. With six colour plates by Larkin, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and pink illustrated cloth over boards. Orange endpapers. With the publisher's orange paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy..... More
Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. [Ballet Photography] LEATHER-BOUND First Edition. Large Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with gilt titles to twin red labels, four raised bands to spine, and matching..... More
BECK01.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2016. [Rock Autobiography] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (43 x 38cm), pp.352. Number 256 of 350 deluxe copies, SIGNED by Jeff Beck. Bound by hand in full Italian leather, with silver page edging and hand tooling. A stamped metal front cover reproduces a Californian number plate from the..... More
The Boke of Saint Albans. Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour: Printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486, Reproduced in Facsimile. With an Introduction by William Blades.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881. [Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry] FACSIMILE EDITION, first impression. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.34; [176]. Printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean, with some offsetting to endpapers..... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting..... More
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll. Includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; The Hunting of The Snark; Puzzles From Wonderland; Phantasmagoria; Acrostics, Verse, Stories and A Miscellany.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Children's] FIRST NONESUCH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 1165 [3]. With Tenniel's original in-text illustrations to the Alice books. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles, and gilt-stamped 'Wonderland' devices to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Toning to edges..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. A Story of New York by Stephen Crane.
Mount Vernon, NY: printed for The Limited Editions Club by A. Colish, 1974. [American Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] 105 [5]. With six photogravures from etchings by Abeles, including a frontispiece. Number 1642 of 2000 copies thus, SIGNED in black ink by the illustrator to..... More
Three Tales. A Simple Heart; The Legend of Saint Julian; Herodias.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1978. [French Literature] LEATHER BOUND, first edition thus. Octavo (28 x 19cm), pp.[2] xx; 132 [6]. With six colour plates by Neama, and several in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue full morocco, with four raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and heavy gilt decoration to..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1854. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1847. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; lxvi; 142 [2]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary red full morocco..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 626. Contemporary navy full calf, boards gilt-ruled, with gilt armorial device of Marlborough College to upper. Spine with brown label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt tooling. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers..... More
Our Village.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [English Village Life] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, the second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.lx; 256 [2]. With numerous in-text wood engravings after illustrations by Thomson, as well as a frontispiece. Contemporary light brown half crushed morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets; together with some few of Later Date. Reprinted entire from the Author's Last Edition.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1867. [English Ballads] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xcvi; 290 [2]; pp.viii; 318 [4]; pp.xxxvi; 340 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and upper boards, and elaborate blind tooling all over. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. [Satirical Novels] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] xlvi [2]; 341 [7]; pp.[4] xiv; 455 [5]. With 15 photogravure illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to volume I, with tissue guards. Number 247 of 1000 copies thus. Contemporary green..... More
The Leopold Shakespeare. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III.," and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin & Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Shakespeare's Works] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. The thirty-second thousand. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[4] cxxviii; 1056 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, and frequent in-text wood engravings. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Seasons, Odes, Songs, and Hymns.
London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1822. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 192 [4]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and an introductory biography by Aikin. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
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