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History of the French Revolution, and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event; From the commencement of Hostilities in 1792, to the Second Restoration of Louis XVIII. and the Deportation of Napoleon Buonaparte to the Island of St. Helena, including a complete account of the War between Great Britain and America; and the Memorable Battle of Waterloo, to which are appended Biographical Sketches of the Heroes of Waterloo, and other distinguished public characters. The whole compiled from official state-papers and other authentic sources; and embellished with a series of Equestrian Portraits, Historical Engravings, and coloured Maps.
London: printed for Thomas Kelly, 1817. [European History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4] 732; pp.[2] 733-1441 [1]. With 61 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume I and eight coloured maps, some folding. Bound in highly attractive contemporary marbled calf, with gilt..... More
Zoological Sketches: Consisting of Descriptions and Engravings of One Hundred and Eighty-Six Animals.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1859. [Zoology] RARE, a New Edition with Additions. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.vi; 346 [2]. With an in-text wood engraving of each animal by Whimper. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, a gilt bison stamped to upper, and blind decoration to boards..... More
Ulysses.
London: The Folio Society, 1998. [Modern Literature] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first edition thus. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xxii; 735 [3]. With 18 etchings in black and gold by Paladino, corresponding to one for each hour of the story. Also featuring an introduction by Jacques Aubert. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt..... More
Ulysses.
London: The Folio Society, 2004. [Modern Literature] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.xxii; 735 [3]. With 18 etchings in black and gold by Paladino, corresponding to one for each hour of the story. Also featuring an introduction by Jacques Aubert. Number 150 of 1760 copies published on..... More
On the Track of Unknown Animals.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. [Cryptozoology] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.558 [2]. With frequent in-text line drawings and numerous double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 35s. A nice clean copy with just a...... More
A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with some account of the Books of the Ancients.
London: Elliot Stock, 1894. [Historic Bookbindings] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.xvi; 277 [3]. With 10 full page plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and black decoration stamped to boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Brown patterned endpapers..... More
I will not ever Never eat a tomato.
London: Orchard Books, 2010. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 26cm). Number 130 of 1250 copies SIGNED by the author to slipcase. Publisher's colour-illustrated white cloth with red and white titles. With the illustrated white cloth-covered slipcase, priced at £30.00. Book still in the original..... More
Moonshine and Magic.
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.206 [2]. With 17 illustrated plates by Townsend, including a frontispiece and eight in colour. Publisher's colour-illustrated cloth, titled to spine and upper. Gently toned throughout, with moderate handling to cloth. Very good. A selection of fairy..... More
Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases now in Vogue, with a list of the sixty orders of Prime Coves, the whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc.
London: J. Duncombe, 1848 [circa 1885]. [London] VINTAGE COPY, a later reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.131 [1]. With an advertisement for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' (1885) at rear. With a folding colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, by Cruikshank. Publisher's crocodile skin-effect tan cloth with gilt titles..... More
Babar the King.
London: Methuen & Co., 1936. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST UK EDITION. Folio (37 x 27cm), pp.48. Printed with fine colour illustrations throughout, including the charming blue endpapers. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with illustrated yellow paper-covered boards. Somewhat shaken, with hinges starting. Internally clean, with perhaps a hint of toning. Quite heavy..... More
The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica.
London: The Folio Society, 2014. [Greek Mythology] FIRST EDITION THUS. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.xxii; 168 [4]. With eight colour illustrations by Egneus, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and black and white decoration. Maps to endpapers, and with the illustrated paper-covered slipcase. A...... More
The Old Man and the Sea.
London: The Reprint Society, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK ILLUSTRATED EDITION, preceding Cape's own illustrated edition (published in 1955). Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.117 [3]. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Tunnicliffe and Sheppard. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine against a red background, and a silver leaping..... More
Letters From Iceland.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. [Poetry and Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.268. With 15 double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as a frontispiece, seven charts and diagrams, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's green cloth with red and blue titles to spine. Top edge..... More
The Box of Delights, or, When the Wolves were Running.
London: The Folio Society, 2012. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 258. With nine colour illustrations by Ogilvie. Publisher's green cloth with red and white titles to spine, and red and white decoration to upper. With red endpapers, and with the green paper-covered slipcase. A fine..... More
Christmas Stories from 'Household Words' and 'All the Year Round.'
London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. [Classic Literature] VINTAGE COPY with the original illustrations. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 709 [3]. With 14 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow coated endpapers, and all edges untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of..... More
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [1871]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[14] 224 [2]. 'Wade' for 'Wabe' p.21. With fifty wood-engraved illustrations by John Tenniel, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a black label on the spine, and marbled paper..... More
Semolina Silkpaws Comes to Catstown.
London: Methuen, 1962. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.56. With numerous in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Ferns. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, and illustrated endpapers. With the orange illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. A lovely crisp, clean example, with just a touch of..... More
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