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Sense and Sensibility.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 342. With forty wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Contemporary brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed;..... More
Antiente Epitaphes (from A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1800). Collected and sett forth in Chronological order.
London: Joseph Masters and Co., 1878. [Headstone epitaphs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 196; [2]. With a folding facsimile frontispiece. Contemporary blue half calf with gilt titles to maroon label on spine. Marbled paper over boards; all edges speckled red; grey endpapers. A small, neat repair to frontispiece..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. [English History] HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
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[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1910. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt..... More
On The Road.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1957. [Finely bound] FIRST EDITION, first printing. 7500 copies only. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.310. Modern black morocco with blind-stamp tyre-track motif to boards, bold gilt titled along spine, top edge metallic grey, gilt and black Japanese endpapers. A lovely fine copy in a...... More
Verve: The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque. Vol. VIII, No. 31 / 32.
Paris: Verve, 1955. [Art] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Large quarto (36 x 27cm), pp.160. With 20 colour plates and a colour illustrated title page; some Lithographs, others Heliographs. 132 further heliographs in black and white. Recently re-bound in quarter green morocco with two raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled..... More
Nudes.
New York, NY: The Arts Publisher, 1986. [Art] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (38 x 34cm), Unpaginated, with 21 drawings, etchings, photographs, and chromolithographic reproductions of watercolours by Brandt, and a poem by Guest printed over four leaves at rear. Number 195 of 750 copies, signed by the artist in pencil..... More
Scrapbook Drawings of Stanley Spencer.
London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1964. [Artist Sketchbook]. LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (34 x 25cm), pp.16. With 60 offset lithographs reproducing drawings from Spencer's sketchbooks. Number 230 of 400 copies printed by the Lion and Unicorn Press. Publisher's pictorial grey cloth-covered boards; white cloth spine with grey titles, brown endpapers. Small..... More
After Dinner Golf.
Brighton: Ellesborough Press, 1986. LIMITED NEW EDITION. Oblong octavo (18 x 25cm), pp.[2] x; 125 [3]. Number 9 of 400 copies SIGNED in blue ink by Hutchinson's Great-niece, Mrs. Cicely Sparling, to the limitation page. Contemporary green full morocco with gilt titles to orange label on spine, and larger gilt..... More
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Verve: Revue Artistique et Litteraire. [Matisse], Vence 1944-48. Vol. VI, Nos. 21 et 22.
Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, 1948. [Art]. FINE COLOUR PLATES. Large quarto (36 x 27cm), pp.[80]. With a finely printed colour frontispiece, and 24 further chromolithographs, interspersed with simple black and white illustration, all from original pieces by Matisse. Recently re-bound in quarter red morocco with two raised bands..... More
The Walker Cup: 1922 to 1999, Golf's Finest Contest.
Droitwich: Grant Books, 2000. LIMITED 'AUTHOR'S EDITION'. Small Quarto. pp. xvi, 280. With frequent b/w photographic illustrations and colour frontispiece of the Royal and Ancient, St Andrews. SIGNED by the author, Sir Michael Bonallack and William C. Campbell to title-page. Number 126 of just 200 copies. In publisher's full blue..... More
Humorous Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, the second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxxii; 236. With frequent in-text illustrations by Brock, as well as a frontispiece. In contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine. All..... More
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