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London: Cassell and Company, no date [circa 1900s]. [Ornithology] LEATHER-BOUND, a later edition. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 520. With six colour photographic plates including a frontispiece, six black and white plates showing birds, and 15 black and white egg plates. Contemporary black half morocco with gilt titles to..... More
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. [Pedagogy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 548 [2]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Arnold. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to green label and..... More
London: Scholastic, 2008. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[10] 403 [19]. One of 3000 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket illustrated by Lawrence, as well as the..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1888-9. [Children's classics] Fifteenth thousand and Twelfth thousand respectively. THE PEOPLE'S EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm). With illustrations by John Tenniel. Handsomely bound in modern half dark green morocco over original mid-green cloth covers pictorially stamped in black and red, with 'Mad Hatter'..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900-1901. [Literature] ALL FIRST BROCK-ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 5 volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 19cm). Abundantly illustrated with line drawing black and white full page plates. Finely bound in mid-green half calf with raised bands, gilt decoration, twin red title labels to spines; cloth boards; top edges..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. [Ancient History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the second edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxx; 426 [4]. With 62 maps and illustrations, including a folding map of Palestine. Contemporary tree calf by BICKERS & SON of London for Tonbridge School, with gilt titles to brown label and..... More
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874. [Fantasy Novel] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xvi; 348 [6]. Including the calling card of Miss Edith Coleridge; the author's daughter, and publisher of 'The Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge' (1873). Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. [Military History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 528 [2]. With occasional engraved plates by Caton Woodville, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration to..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. [Artist Biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 75 [3]. With 14 engraved illustrations, including a large folding plate and a frontispiece portrait of the subject. Contemporary tan full calf for Stamford School, with gilt titles to navy label..... More
London: J. Dicks, no date [circa 1880s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, three volumes as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 110; 159 [1]; 160 [2]. Very small print in two columns, on thin paper. With occasional in-text engravings and vignette title pages by Gilbert and Gerlier. Contemporary tan half calf..... More
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 886 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Text printed in two columns on thin paper. Contemporary full tree calf for London County Council, with gilt titles to red label and..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. [Dramatic Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the second impression thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 844 [4]. Contemporary red full calf for Cheltenham College, with gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration to spine, as well as the school arms stamped in gilt to..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1850. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND, a later printing thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] lxxx; 960 [2]. Small print in two columns. An edition first published in 1838, with the original engraved portrait frontispiece and vignette title page bound into this later printing. Contemporary brown morocco, with..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, no date [circa 1852]. [Christian Allegory] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Duodecimo in half-sheets (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] xii; 347 [3]. With 18 engraved plates by Thompson, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
New York, NY: Hearst's International Library Co., 1918. [Great War Memoirs] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[20] 338 [6]. With eight black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author 'yours sincerely, Harry Lauder' in black ink to blank following half-title. Contemporary green half..... More
Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1847. [Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xxx; 360 [2]. With frequent in-text illustrations, and one one double plate illustrating eight stages of marshalling arms. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges red..... More
Orpington: George Allen, 1889. [Aesthetics] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the ninth edition thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 184 [2]. Contemporary red full calf by BICKERS & SON of London for Radcliffe and Browne's School, Stamford, with gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration to spine, as well..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1889. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 581 [3]. Contemporary red full calf by RELFE BROTHERS of London for Beaconsfield School, with gilt titles to green label and further gilt tooling to spine, as well as the school coat of..... More