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British Birds' Nests. How, Where, and When to Find and Identify Them.
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
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. The Minerva Library of Famous Books.
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
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Northern Lights [The Golden Compass]. His Dark Materials. The Lantern Slides Edition.
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
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
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
The Leather - Stocking Tales. Comprising: The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie. With Illustrations by H.M. Brock and an Introduction by Mowbray Morris.
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
The Jews Under Roman Rule.
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
Phantasmion, a Fairy Tale. With and Introductory Preface by Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
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
Battles of the British Army, being a continuous history of Its Services, its Defeats and its Victories from the Earliest Times.
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
Meissonier.
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
The Bride of Lammermoor; The Fortunes of Nigel; The Pirate.
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
The Poetical Works of Longfellow. Oxford Edition.
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
The Plays of J.M. Barrie. In One Volume [Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Quality Street, etc.]
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
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With remarks on his life and writings by Thomas Campbell.
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
The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World, or, the Losing and Taking again of the Town of Mansoul.
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
A Minstrel in France.
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
A Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry: with a Chronological Table, Illustrative of its Rise and Progress.
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
Frondes Agrestes. Readings in "Modern Painters." Chosen at her pleasure, by the author's friend, the younger Lady of the Thwaite, Coniston.
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
The Poetical Works of John Milton. The "Albion" Edition.
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
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