"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1707 and 1727. [Epic Poetry] FINELY BOUND EARLY EDITIONS, the thirteenth and fifth respectively. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xxxvi; 514 [34]; pp.[2] 457 [5]. Page 514 in 'Paradise Lost' misnumbered 524. With the copper engraved frontispiece by George Vertue to 'Paradise Lost.' Also..... More
London: John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. First Baskerville edition. 2 volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm). Full red English calf with full gilt backs, twin labels, elaborate gilt border to sides, Dutch marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Contents clean, bindings nicely aged, spines a little chipped..... 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
London: C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, J. Nunn, J. and W.T. Clarke, Longman and Co., T. Cadell, Jeffery and Son, J. Richardson, Carpenter and Son, J. Mawman, Baldwin and Co., J. Booker, J. Bohn, J. Duncan, Black and Co., G.B. Whittaker, J. Bain, W. [Poetry]. FINELY BOUND. Six volumes..... More