"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Illustrated & Plate Books
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [Military History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Attractively bound in navy half morocco with matching cloth over boards, red..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [Military History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Attractively bound in burgundy half morocco with matching cloth over boards, blue..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [Military History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Recently bound in navy half calf with matching cloth over boards, red..... More
The Two Last Pleadings of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Caius Verres; Translated and Illustrated with Notes, by Charles Kelsall, Esq., author of a Letter from Athens. To which is added a Postscript, containing remarks on the state of Modern Sicily.
London: Printed by T. Bensley for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1812. [Classics in Translation] FIRST KELSALL EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 365; [3]. With four engraved plates, including one folding. Contemporary tan polished calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a red label on the spine, and further gilt..... More
Landscape into Art.
London: John Murray, 1949. [Landscape Art] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 148. With 52 double-sided half-tone plates at rear. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Graham Sutherland, priced at 25s. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Slightly short jacket toned to..... More
Reuben Ramble's Travels in the Eastern Counties of England.
London: Darton and Clark. c. 1840. Rare, with hand-coloured illustrations. Octavo. pp. 16, with 8 large colour plates of the selected counties (Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Rutlandshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk). Black ink title page to wrapper, with map of the region. Protected by additional clear plastic wrapper, within modern..... More
The Hermits and Anchorites of England. The Antiquary's Books, General Editor: J. Charles Cox.
London: Methuen, 1914. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xx; 272; [32]. With 37 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, as well as several further in-text illustrations. Extensive appendices and an index. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Spine quite heavily sunned to a pink..... More
English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times.
London: McCorquodale and Co., no date [1919]. [Hops and Agriculture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 120. With 30 illustrations, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green cloth with gilt titles and price of 10/6 to spine. A presentation copy with the plate of W.H. and H. Le May, London Hop..... More
A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland; showing how that event has impoverished the main body of the people in those countries. In a Series of Letters addressed to all sensible and just Englishmen. Containing also, a List of the Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals, and other Religious Foundations in England and Wales, and in Ireland, confiscated, seized on, or alienated, by the Protestant "Reformation" Sovereigns and Parliaments.
London: Catholic Publishing and Bookselling Company, no date [circa 1850]. [Social History] FINELY BOUND, a stereotyped edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4]; 333; [1]; pp.[2]; xxxiv; 192; [2]. With occasional wood engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary black half calf with raised bands and gilt..... More
Lithops: Flowering Stones.
Randburg, SA: Acorn Books, 1988. [Botany] LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.x; 254. Illustrated with diagrams and colour photographs. Number 268 of 2500 copies. Publisher's yellow cloth with green titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Green endpapers. A fine copy. More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
After Dark.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 355 [1]. With six wood engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink..... More
The Works of Wilkie Collins. Including The Woman in White, The Moonstone, After Dark, The Evil Genius, The Dead Secret, etc.
New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, n.d. (circa 1900). Complete in 30 volumes. Octavo. With frontispiece illustrations and many other full-page plates. Handsomely bound in brown half calf, gilt titles and decoration to spines, matching buckram boards, all edge speckled. Internally clean. A most attractive set in an elegant recent leather..... More
Chester. Painted by E. Harrison Compton. Described by Francis Duckworth.
London: A. and C. Black, 1910. FIRST EDITION. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles and decorated with grey lines to spine and upper, with the coat of arms of the city of Chester to centre of upper; top edge gilt. Illustrated with 20 colour plates from paintings by Compton with..... More
The Strand Magazine no. 322.
London: George Newnes. October 1917. First publication of Joseph Conrad's short story 'The Tale'. 24 x 17cm. pp. 62; 323 - 416. With 3 illustrations by C.M. Padday. In publisher's paper plain covers with blue Strand design and red 'Powerful Story by Joseph Conrad' to top, and 'The Fate of..... More
The Pilot; A Tale of the Sea.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. [Classic Literature] EX LIBRIS WILLIAM GLADSTONE, a later edition. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.viii; 420; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary brown half calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers marbled. Armorial bookplate..... More
Deerslayer. Or, The First War-Path. With Pictures by N.C. Wyeth.
New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1925. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. x; 462. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and paper cover mounted to upper. Pictorial endpapers depicting native warriors. Title page shown in decorative colour plate format. Features nine additional colour plates throughout textblock. Cloth in..... More
The History of Winchelsea, One of the Ancient Towns Added to the Cinque Ports.
London: John Russell Smith, Hastings: Henry Osborne, 1850. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii,264,12 of publisher's catalogue. Original green blind stamped cloth with gilt titles to spine, spine has at some point been professionally rebacked with the original cloth laid on. Folding street plan of Winchelsea facing the title page, ten other..... More
Of the Burning and Repair of the Church of Canterbury in the Year 1174. From the Latin of Gervase, a Monk of the Priory of Christ Church, Canterbury. The Pilgrim Players 1949, in Commemoration of the Festival Play 'The Zeal of Thy House' by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Canterbury: Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, 1938 [1949]. [English History]. SIGNED COMMEMORATIVE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 15cm), pp.21 [3]. SIGNED by Dorothy Sayers lightly in pencil to front cover. With six plates in photogravure. Publisher's blue card covers with titles to front cover. Also with special cream dust-jacket celebrating the..... More
The Century Book of Gardening. A Comprehensive Work for Every Lover of the Garden.
London: Country Life, n.d. (c.1930). 4to. Publisher's beige cloth beautifully decorated and titled in black, green and red to spine and upper, speckled edges. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white photogravures. Binding very little rubbed to extremities. A lovely copy. More
The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence.
London: William Tegg and Co., 1849. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 736; [2]. With six steel engraved plates by various artists including a frontispiece, as well as an engraved vignette title page. Contemporary full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and extensive gilt decoration..... More
Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; Containing Armorial Bearings, Fac Similes, Maps, and Military Plans.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. FINE COPPER ENGRAVED MAPS. Quarto, unpaginated. Containing 22 large coats of arms, facsimile letters and folding maps, being a supplement to the Octavo edition of the 'Memoirs'. Some maps with coloured battle positions. In original pink leather-effect cloth boards, recently re-backed in..... More
The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978-1985. FOUR VOLUMES, volume one a reprint. Quarto, pp.[10], 722; pp.[8], 695; pp.[8], 913 [2]; pp.[10], 960. With a wealth of colour illustrations. In publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spines. With original colour illustrated dust-jackets. Jackets lightly sunned to spines. Very good indeed. The..... More
A Pageant of the Spice Islands.
London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1936. First Edition. Octavo, pp. i, 131. With 5 b/w plates including frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original cream dust jacket, featuring black titles to spine and upper board. Corners slightly bumped, and some light wear to boards..... More
The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower, and Other Stories.
London: John Lehmann, 1947. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.86; [2]. With eight letterpress line block illustrations by Minton, including a frontispiece, and numerous further in-text. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to a black background on the spine, and Minton illustrated paper-covered boards. Illustrated..... More