Gift Books & Fine Bindings
LaChapelle Land.
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 29cm), pp.152. Fine art photographs printed on clay paper, with the 'map' loose to preliminaries. Publisher's glossy and very colourful paper-covered boards, with illustrated endpapers. Presented in the original matching card box. Box lid split to corners..... More
La Mythologie, Racontée aux Enfants.
Paris: Librairie Dufart, 1840. [Children's Mythology] FINELY BOUND THIRD EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.viii; 324. All text in French. With 15 engraved plates at rear. Contemporary blue half calf, with gilt titles and ruling to spine, and blue marbled cloth over boards. All edges speckled red, with green-coated endpapers..... More
An Account of the Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians, Written in Egypt during the years 1833-35.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1890. [Egyptian Travel] FINELY BOUND, reprinted from the Third Edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 552 [2]. With 16 full page plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text engravings, all from drawings by the author. Contemporary red full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
Memoirs of Mr. Henry Masers de La Tude, containing An Account of his Confinement Thirty-Five Years in the State Prisons of France, and of the Stratagems he Adopted to Escape, once from the Bastille, and twice from the Castle of Vincennes; with the Sequel of those Adventures.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1787. [French Prison Breaks] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 63 [3]. Contemporary brown full calf with gilt titles to red label on spine and raised bands. Various black ink ownerships to endpapers and blanks. Black ink inscription of Kelso Library..... More
Espagne, depuis L'Expulsion des Maures jusqu'a L'Annee 1847 [Spain, from the expulsion of the Moors until the year 1847]; Iles Baleares et Pithyuses; Sardaigne; Corse: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1850. EARLY EDITION. Octavo, pp.413; 27; 49; 144. With 55 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Recently bound in tan half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to a navy label, and further..... More
Allemagne. L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de leurs Religions, Moeurs, Coutumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1838-39. [German history] EARLY EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 495; [1]; pp.[4]; 480. All text in French. With 100 steel engraved plates at the rear of each volume, and two folding maps to volume II. Contemporary tan quarter calf with gilt titles..... More
The Spirit of the Links
London: Methuen and Co 1907. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vi; 314; [40], catalogue dated July 1907. Elegantly hand-bound in later quarter green oasis morocco leather over marbled sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, black leather title label, gilt rules. Some spotting, edges of text block toned, old paper..... More
Canterbury Tales. Standard Novels XII.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. [Gothic Novellas] FINELY BOUND, revised, with a new Preface. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2] xx; 455 [3]; pp.[8] 518 [2]. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. In a later nineteenth-century binding of mid brown half..... More
Modern Sons of the Pharaohs: A Study of the Manners and Customs of the Copts of Egypt.
London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1918. First Edition of a Scarce Title. Octavo. pp. xvi, 355. With 16 photographic plates, including double-page frontispiece of a Coptic wedding and a portrait of the author. Featuring minor addenda, bibliography and index. In publisher's tan cloth with yellow, green and blue decoration to upper..... More
Addresses Delivered to the Students of The Royal Academy by the Late Lord Leighton.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1896. [Art] FINELY BOUND, first edition thus. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 310. With a photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary green half crushed morocco by BUMPUS with raised bands, green cloth over boards, and a gilt armorial device stamped to upper..... More
On Not Winning the Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize Lecture. Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2008. [Nobel Lecture] SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS. Two volumes. Tall octavo (27 x 15cm), pp.31 [5]; pp.31 [5]. Each letterpress printed on Zerkall mould made paper, and SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With a woodcut portrait of the author by Abigail..... More
Extracts from Colonel Tempelhoffe's History of the Seven Years War: His Remarks on General Lloyd: On the Subsistence of Armies; and On the March of Convoys. Also a Treatise on Winter Posts. To which is added A Narrative of Events at St. Lucie and Gibraltar, and of John Duke of Marlborough's March to the Danube, with the Causes and Consequences of that Measure.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1793. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] clxiv; 214; [6]; pp.[2]; vi; 215-516; [4]. With three folding maps to volume II. Contemporary brown calf with gilt titles to spine and armorial device stamped to all boards. All edges yellow;..... More
Up, Into The Singing Mountain.
Doubleday, New York 1960. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. From the Library of Richard Kayne, with his intials in gilt to corner of upper boards. Finely bound for SOTHERANS (probably by Bayntun) in half grey calf, gilt, panelled spines, title labels, cloth boards, original endpapers bound in, slight rubbing else fine..... More
Windsor Castle. With a Description of the Park, Town, and Neighbourhood. Jubilee Edition.
London: Seeley and Co., 1887. [English Topography] FINELY BOUND, the second edition. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[4]; xii; 297; [3]. With 66 wood engraved illustrations, and a photogravure frontispiece of a statue of Queen Victoria, who celebrated her Golden Jubilee in 1887. A fine contemporary tree calf binding, recently re-cased..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[2] iv; 556 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers after illustrations by Gilbert, and a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full panelled calf with..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. Author's Complete Copyright Edition.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 680; [2]. With 14 engraved plates. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards. Gilt textured endpapers; all edges gilt. Spotting to preliminaries and..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Reprinted from the Revised American Edition) with Explanatory Notes. The "Albion" Edition.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 630 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary navy full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... 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 Poetical Works. Complete Copyright Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1901. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 878. Beautifully bound by in contemporary brown full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Printed in double columns. Internally nice and clean..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. New Edition Containing "Michael Angelo".
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. [Poetry] PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.viii; 763. Prize binding by Bickers in full brown calf with two-line gilt border adorning front and rear boards, attractive gilt detailing to board edges, blind tooling to leather turn-in, green title label to spine with..... More
Aphrodite: Mœurs Antiques.
Paris: Libraire Illustree. — J. Tallandier, Editeur, no date [1902]. [Erotic Historical Fiction] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[4] xiv; 374 [6]. Liberally illustrated with both full page and in-text half-tone illustrations by Zier, including the decorative paper front cover bound in. All text in French. Contemporary..... More
A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotical. Containing an Index to the first Twenty Volumes of the " Sussex Archaeological Collections."
Lewes: George P. Bacon, 1870. [Sussex History and Topography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] xxx; 270 [2]; pp.[6] 278; xiv [2]. With the folding map to volume I, and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 78 additional topographical engravings, carefully trimmed and mounted to fit..... More
Ariadne.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1932. [Epic Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 144. An out of series copy from a edition of just 500 copies, including a loose compliments slip of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, London. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles..... More
A History of Eton College (1440-1910).
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. FINELY BOUND, Fourth Edition. Large Octavo, pp.[4]; xxiv; 627; [5]. With 11 full-page plates, some colour, including a frontispiece. Also with 63 in-text woodcuts. In contemporary brown full morocco by SPOTTISWOODE, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black..... More