Illustrated & Plate Books
Elvis & the Birth of Rock.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2006. [Music Biography] SIGNED DELUXE EDITION. Quarto (36 x 26cm), pp.156. Number 273 of 350 copies thus, SIGNED by the photographer, Lew Allen, and guest editor Mike McCartney. Lew Allen's photographs are reproduced throughout in duotone inks with image varnishing on to heavyweight, 200 gsm matt art..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio (36 x 27cm), pp.306. Number 1898 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Elegantly hand-bound in red half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt 'lion rampant' motif to spine, matching..... More
Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse. Illustrated by Eighteen Plates in Colour Specially Drawn For This Edition by Cecil Aldin.
London: Jarrold Publishers, no date [1912]. [Children's classic] FIRST ALDIN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[2] xviii; 291 [5]. With 18 colour plates including a frontispiece, and other in-text illustrations, by Aldin. Recenty re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the..... More
Treasure Island.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION, First Issue, with '23' for '123' to p.x. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 273 [3]. With 14 colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, as well as an illustrated title page. Recently re-bound..... More
Five on a Treasure Island. An Adventure Story for Boys and Girls.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. [Children's Adventure] EIGHTH IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.191 [1]. With a black and white frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations by Soper. Publisher's burgundy cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, priced..... More
The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. With Drawings by C.E. Brock.
London: Sampson Low, 1916. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 600. With 21 colour halftone illustrations with captioned tissue-guards, including a frontispiece. Also with a title-page vignette. Red publisher's cloth, gilt pictorial designs and titles to upper board and spine, small onlay illustration to upper. Top edge gilt..... More
A Saunter Through Kent with Pen and Pencil. Volume I.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1900. [Kent Topography] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.80. With 12 engraved plates after sketches by X. Willis. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles and decoration to spine and upper. A large quantity of associated news clippings loose to preliminaries. A small blue ink ownership..... More
Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. [Ballet Photography] LEATHER-BOUND First Edition. Large Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with gilt titles to twin red labels, four raised bands to spine, and matching..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.75 of 950 copies, with publisher's compliments slip inserted, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Type set in Eric Gill's Pilgrim and..... More
India and Its Native Princes. Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal. Carefully Revised and Edited by Lieut.-Col. Buckle.
London: Bickers and Son, 1878. [Indian Colonial Travel] NEW EDITION. Quarto (35 x 28cm), pp.[2] xviii; 579 [1]. With 317 engraved illustrations after photographs by Rousselet, including a frontispiece, and six maps. Recently re-backed using the original publisher's red cloth, heavily decorated and titled in gilt and black to spine..... More
Mrs. Beeton's Household Management. Comprising Information for the Mistress; Housekeeper; Cook; Kitchen Maid; Butler; Footman; Coachman; Valet; Parlour-Maid; Housemaid; Lady's-Maid; General Servant; Laundry-Maid; Nurse and Nurse-Maid; Monthly, Wet and Sick-Nurse; Governess. Also Sanitary, Medical and Legal Memoranda. With a History of the Origin, Properties and Uses of all Things connected with Home Life and Comfort. Revised, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged, Containing New Coloured Plates and Numerous Full-Page and other Engravings. Several Hundreds of New Recipes for English, French, German, Italian, American, Australian and Indian Cookery. New Menus for Breakfasts, Luncheons, Dinners, Teas and Suppers. With Valuable Information upon Household and Domestic Matters.
London; Ward, Lock & Co., no date [circa 1890]. [Cookery and Domestic Economy] LEATHER-BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (21 x 14 x 8cm), pp.[4] xlviii; 1644 [14]. With 13 colour-illustrated plates including a folding frontispiece, 68 full-page black and white plates, and hundreds of in-text woodcuts. Recently rebound in red..... More
The Compleat Angler, or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1931. [Fishing] leather-bound FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.224. With 12 chromolithographic plates, and occasional in-text illustrations by Rackham. Recent navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the original publisher's cloth over boards, with gilt pictorial..... More
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Juvenilia; Northanger Abbey; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion; Later Manuscripts; Jane Austen in Context.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, first editions thus. Nine volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 34cm), pp.lxx; 502 [4]; pp.lxvi; 354 [4]; pp.lxx; 500 [6]; pp.lxxii; 540 [2]; pp.lxxxviii; 738 [6]; pp.lxxx; 600; pp.lxxxviii; 392; pp.cxxx; 742; pp.xxx; 467 [7]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles..... More
Cary's Survey of the High Roads from London, to Hampton Court, Bagshot, Oakingham, Binfield, Windsor, Maidenhead, High Wycombe, Amersham, Rickmansworth, Tring, St Albans, Welwyn, Hertford, Ware, Bishops Stortford, Chipping Ongar, Chelmsford, Gravesend, Rochester, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, East Grinsted, Ryegate, Dorking, Guildford, Richmond. On a Scale of one Inch to a Mile; wherein every Gentleman's Seat, situate on or seen from the Road, however distant are laid down, with the Name of the Possessor; to which is added the Number of Inns on each separate Route; also, the different Turnpike Gates, shewing the Connection which one trust has with another.
London: Printed for J. Cary, July 1st 1790. [Roads and Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), unpaginated. Complete with all 80 coloured route illustrations, including a folding general map. Recently re-back in brown calf, with gilt titles to spine, and the original tree calf boards. Marbled endpapers. A lovely..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press, New York: the British Book Centre, December 1953. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. 1000 copies (this being un-numbered/out-of-series). Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5]. Original red cloth with gilt titles,illustrated dust-wrapper. Fine, in near fine price-clipped jacket, slightly..... More
Heroes and Kings: Stories from the Greek.
London: Seeley and Co. Ltd., 1905. [Greek Myths] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Sexto-Decimo (14 x 10cm), pp.[2] xii; 242 [2]. With 11 engraved plates. Contemporary tan full calf by RELFE BROS., with raised bands, gilt titles to a black label and further gilt to spine, a large gilt crest of Hazelhurst..... More
Kings and Colonists, Aspects of Macedonian Imperialism.
Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, 1995. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 240 [12, unpaginated plates]. With 10 halftone illustrations to rear. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, unpriced. Sunning to jacket backstrip, otherwise fine. An account of the Macedonian..... More
The Adventures of Oliver Twist. The World's Classics VIII.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1909. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a pocket edition. Sexto-Decimo (15 x 10cm), pp.[4] xiv; 511 [5]. With 24 engraved illustrations by Cruikshank, including a frontispiece. Exquisite contemporary full tree calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt ruling to boards..... More
With the "Ophir" Round the Empire, an Account of the Tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales 1901.
London: Cassell and Company, 1902. [English History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 332. With 23 halftone plates and a frontispiece map of the Ophir. Red full calf, gilt armorial device of the Royal Academy Gosport to upper board. Brown label with gilt lettering, gilt tooling, and..... More
Alphabets Old and New. Containing Over One Hundred and Fifty Complete Alphabets, Thirty Series of Numerals, and Numerous Facsimiles of Ancient Dates, Etc., for the Use of Craftsmen, with an Introductory Essay on "Art in the Alphabet."
London: B.T. Batsford, 1898. [Arts and crafts] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxii; 40 [159 unpaginated plates], 10. SIGNED by the author in black ink to front blank. With 178 illustrations of alphabets throughout. Publisher's red cloth, designs and titles blocked in black to upper and spine..... More
Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha.
London: Skeffington & Son, 1910. [South Atlantic Islands] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 280. Complete with 37 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a black and white photographic image to..... More
Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth over boards, with gilt and brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers. Pink 'Book Fund' book plate to front pastedown..... More
The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the old 43rd and 52nd Regiments).
London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life" by George Newnes, 1915. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, in the Deluxe binding. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 224 [20]. With two colour plates including a frontispiece, seven further black and white plates, a folding map at rear, and numerous in-text plans..... More
Poets of Ohio, Selections Representing the Poetical Work of Ohio Authors from the Pioneer Period to the Present Day, With Biographical Sketches and Notes.
Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd, 1912. [Poetry] PUBLISHER'S LEATHER BINDING, third impression. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.356. With a tissue-guarded halftone frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy full morocco, boards gilt-ruled. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelles to turn-ins. Marbled fabric endpapers, tissue-guard to rear flyleaf. All edges gilt. With..... More