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The Middle Temple Bench Book. Being a Register of Benchers of the Middle Temple from the Earliest Records to the present time with Historical Introduction.
London: Printed at the Chancery Lane Press, and published by order of the Masters of the Bench, 1937. [Legal History and Biography] SECOND EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.lviii; 368. With 14 photogravure plates, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's green quarter straight-grained morocco, with gilt..... More
The Life of Sethos. Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians. Translated from a Greek Manuscript into French. And now faithfully done into English from the Paris Edition.
London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1732. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xvi; 460; pp.[4] 480 [4]. With a folding map to each volume. Recently re-backed in brown calf to match the original brown speckled calf boards, ruled in gilt to..... More
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Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae [A Latin to English Phrasebook], tam accurate congestus, ut nihil pene in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latine complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglice, toties aucta Eliotae Bibliotheca: opera et industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis. Quid fructus ex hoc Thesauro studiosi possint excerpere, et quam rationem secutus author sit in Vocabulorum interpretatione et dispositione, post epistolam demonstratur. Accessit Dictionarium Arium Historicum et poeticum propria vocabula Virorum, Mulierum, Sectarum, Populorum, Urbium, Montium, et caeterorum locorum complectens, et in his iucundissimas et omnium cognittione dignissimas historias.
London: [Henry Denham], 1573. [Latin to English Dictionary] THIRD EDITION. Folio in sixes (32 x 21cm), unpaginated, containing 859 leaves. Collates as per the English Short Title Catalogue, lacking only the first blank. Latin words and phrases arranged alphabetically with English comments and translations appended in Gothic type. With the..... More
The History of England, under the House of Tudor. Comprehending the Reigns of K. Henry VII. K. Henry VIII. K. Edward VI. Q. Mary, and Q. Elizabeth.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1759. [English History] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.[2] viii; 402 [2]; pp.[2] iv; 403-739 [3]. With the half-title to volume I. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt..... More
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 317 [9]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Recently bound in green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original gilt-titled green cloth laid over..... More
The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Spy Novel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 247 [3]. Recently bound in burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to green labels on spine, and matching cloth over boards. Edges lightly trimmed. A lovely clean copy in an attractive new leather..... 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 Lady with a Lamp.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.136. Publisher's black cloth with red paper title label to spine. With the plain dust-jacket, priced at 3/6 for paper, or 5s for cloth. A small blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Quite heavy spotting and offsetting to endpapers..... More
Treasure Island.
London: Cassell and Company, 1883. [Classic adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, EARLIEST ISSUE TEXT. Octavo (18 x 13cm), with frontispiece map lettered in colour, pp.viii; 292. Bound without ads. With the following points: 'Dead Man's Chest' not capitalised on p. 2; No 'a' on p. 63 line 6; number '7' hand-stamped..... More
Henry Fielding's Novels: The History of Tom Jones; The Adventures Joseph Andrews; The History of Jonathan Wild the Great and A Journey from This World to the Next; The History of Amelia.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1884. [Classic Literature] LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION. Five volumes. Octavo (26 x 17 x 16cm), pp.[6] xxx; 455 [5]; pp.[4] xii; 442 [6]; pp.[6] xvi; 333 [5]; pp.[4] xii; 313 [7]; pp.[4] x; 535 [5]. With an engraved frontispiece to 'Joseph Andrews.' Number 116 of..... More
A Collection of Unlikely Tales and Wrong-Headed Essays.
London: John Camden Hotten, no date [1872]. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 10cm), pp.viii; 152 [24]. With engraved head and tail pieces, a frontispiece and vignette title page, and an illustration to the blue/grey paper covers. Light spotting to edges and preliminaries. Black ink ownership to front cover and..... More
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, no date [circa 1900]. [Drama and Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] viii; 1264 [4]. Small print in two columns, printed on thin paper. Contemporary brown full morocco by MUDIE of London, with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All..... More
The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. With illustrations by Sidney Paget.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1908. [Detective Fiction] 2 Volumes, stated 'New Edition'; previously published by George Newnes, this is the first edition thus. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.341; 296. Illustrated with plates by Sidney Paget. Both volumes uniformly bound in recent half red calf with burgundy morocco title labels..... More
Three Hymns to Lenin.
Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, no date [1957]. [Political Poetry] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the pale blue dust-jacket titled in red, priced at 5s. Jacket spine sunned otherwise a lovely fine copy. Three related poems written between..... More
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide.
London: Harper Collins, 2001. [Film Reference]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.120. With photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers in dust-jacket priced at £16.99. A fine, as new copy, carefully dark-stored by ourselves since publication. Advertised as the 'Collector's Hardback Edition', this book was simultaneously issued as a trade..... More
A Small Town In Germany.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Burgundy cloth hardcover in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s. A moderately used copy, jacket with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good. 'A Small Town In Germany' is set in Bonn, the small..... More
A Small Town In Germany.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Burgundy cloth hardcover in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s. A lightly handled copy with clean page edges, faint offset on endpapers, trivial edgewear to jacket, spine is not sunned (seemingly a common problem with this title)..... More
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. [Fantasy] First Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 782 [8]. Contains several rather haunting illustrations, including frontispiece, by Portia Rosenburg. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the white dust jacket with black lettering, designed by William Webb (one of two distinct bindings, the..... More
Suffer the Little Children.
London: William Heinemann, 2007. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 264. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. Lightly browned throughout. A fine copy. The sixteenth in..... More
The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Joan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618. Who were specially arraigned & condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, Judges of Assize, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry, Lord Rosse, with their damnable practices against others the Children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall Examinations and Confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, Witches in Leicestershire.
Leicester: Vance Harvey Publishing; 1970. [Witch Trials] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.26 [20]. With a woodcut vignette title page. A facsimile of a Victorian edition, circa 1841, limited to 500 copies, including the alarmingly large publisher's catalogue. Publisher's brown hard covers reproducing the title page to upper. Light..... More
Witchery of the West. Some Legends of Cornwall.
Penzance: The Cornish Library, no date [1950]. [Cornish Mythology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. With eleven line drawings by Quick. Publisher's plain grey cloth boards. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the green dust-jacket titled and illustrated to front cover, priced at 6s. Spotting and damp staining to endpapers. Boards bowed..... More
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane. A Facsimile of the Original Sherlock Holmes Manuscript.
London: Westminster Libraries, The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1992. [Sherlock Holmes] MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILE. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.102 [2]. Manuscript printed to one side of each leaf. With a frontispiece illustration. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards, with gilt titles to upper. With the matching dust-jacket, titled in dark brown to..... More
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xvi; 436 [2]; pp.x; 438 [2]. With 40 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume and a decorated title page to volume I. In contemporary aqua full calf by James HAYDAY..... More
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No Dust in the Attic. [with Original Artwork].
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION with the ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the deep pink dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose, priced at 12/6. Together with two separate original artworks by..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Adventures. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2011; 2012; 2013. [Children's Adventure Sequels] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, one volume SIGNED by the author. Three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 216 [2]; pp.[6] 234; pp.[6] 293 [5]. Frequent in-text illustrations by Joe Berger. Volume I SIGNED by the author with a doodle in black..... More