Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Shakespeare's Comedy As You Like It.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Illustrated Shakespeare] FIRST THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.xxxvi; 143 [1]. With 24 mounted colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and red titles with dark green decoration..... More
The Library Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: William Mackenzie, no date [1873-75]. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in three volumes. Quarto (32 x 27cm), pp.[6] 396 [2]; pp.[6] 406 [2]; pp.[6] 476 [2]. With a full-page engraved plate for each play, nine very fine coloured plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and very..... More
The Plays of Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. [Shakespeare] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET. Twelve volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 44cm). With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and an engraved headpiece for each play by various artists. Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and..... More
The Sonnets of Shakspere.
London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1881. [Love Poetry] FIRST DOWDEN EDITION, finely bound and printed. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[6] lxii; 251 [5]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, as well as extensive notes and an introduction. Printed by A. and T. Constable at the Edinburgh University..... More
An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands.
Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1914. [Military Letters] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, dated 1914 only (some remaindered copies were over-stamped with the date 1916). Octavo, pp.183, with full-page photographic plates inserted. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over..... More
Pastoral.
London: William Heinemann, 1944. [Wartime Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 218 [4]. Recently re-bound in green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to black label on spine, and green cloth over boards. Edges toned, otherwise a crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding..... More
A Yankee's Adventures in South Africa.
Chicago, IL: Rhodes and McClure Publishing Company, 1898. [Children's literature]. SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14 cm), pp.234; [12]. With 33 illustrations, including a frontispiece of Cecil Rhodes. In publisher's green cloth with elaborate silver titles and decoration to spine and upper board. Green patterned endpapers. Heavily browned paper stock;..... More
Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on a Circular Motion. And an Experimental Examination of the Quantity and Proportion of Mechanic Power Necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of Velocity to Heavy Bodies from a State of Rest. Also New Fundamental Experiments upon the Collision of Bodies. With Five Plates of Machines.
London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1794. FIRST EDITION in book form. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] iv; 110 [2]. With five folding copper-engraved plates at rear, and two folding tables. In recent red half calf with two raised bands, gilt titles to spine and red cloth boards. Mark..... More
Literary and Characteristical Lives of John Gregory, M.D., Henry Home, Lord Kame, David Hume, Esq., and Adam Smith, L.L.D. To which are added a Dissertation on Public Spirit; and Three Essays.
Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by Alex. Smellie, [etc.] 1800. [Scottish Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 450 [2]. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to red label, gilt ruling, blind tooling to spine and corners, and grey-brown paper over boards. All edges speckled brown. Small yellow..... More
The Dictionary of National Biography, The Concise Dictionary From the Beginnings to 1930, Being and Epitome of the Main Work and its Supplement, to which is added and Epitome of the Twentieth Century Volumes covering 1901 - 1930.
London: Humphrey Milford. c. 1939. Attractive single volume. Octavo. pp. viii, 1456; 184. Bound in half red morocco leather with raised bands and gilt titles and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt and marbled end papers. Light foxing to prelims and the beginnings of a split to upper joint. Otherwise..... More
Elements of Geography. [in] The Scientific Library; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: Comprising Astronomy, Geography, Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. Vol. II.
London: Printed for J. Wallis, 1806. [Historical Geography] FIRST EDITION, volume II of VI only. Duodecimo (13 x 9cm), pp.[8] 152 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red quarter morocco, with gilt titles and ruling to spine, and light blue paper over boards. Contemporary label of Grosvenor's Toy Rooms, Holborn..... More
Maria and Some Other Dogs.
London: Methuen, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 126. With in-text illustrations by Somerville. In publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine and blue dog motif to upper board. With original orange pictorial dust jacket. Chipping to jacket edges; one particularly large chip from front cover bottom edge. Good overall..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Southey.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a later impression thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 828 [2]. Small print in two columns. With the engraved frontispiece and vignette title page from the original 1845 edition. Contemporary tan full calf by STEPHEN AUSTIN of Hertford..... More
Poems of Childhood.
London: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1912]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[8]; 46; [2]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by Millicent Sowerby. In publisher's quarter cream cloth with textured cream red and green cloth over boards. Gilt titles to spine and..... More
Harper and Wilton.
London: Colophon Press, 1996. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 17 [5]. Number 59 of 110 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear. Printed by letterpress on Velin Arches paper. Publisher's brown quarter morocco, with gilt titles to spine..... More
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur.
London: Colophon Press, 2001. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 15 [7]. Letter Z of 26 lettered copies thus, from a total limitation of 157, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear, with a holograph quotation from the text. Printed by..... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange, 1801 [1797]. SEVENTEENTH ISSUE. Octavo, pp.xi, 336. With 13 engraved plates including frontispiece, and a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. Not including the 'List of Rare Plants'. In recent quarter grey card with black titles to white paper label on spine. Marbled boards. All..... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange, 1808 [1809]. TWENTY-FIRST ISSUE. Octavo, pp.xi; 336. With 14 engraved plates, some folding, including frontispiece. Also with a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. In recent quarter vellum with hand-written titles in black ink to spine. Marbled paper-covered boards; top edge red. Housed in a...... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange, 1797. [Town Guide] SIXTEENTH ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[8] xii, 336 [4]. With 13 engraved plates including a frontispiece and calligraphic dedication, and a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. Recently re-backed in plain brown card, with remains of original brown card laid over..... 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
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey.
London: John Murray, 1868. [Architectural and Ecclesiastical History] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition, revised. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 632 [2]. With 22 illustrations including a frontispiece, as well as a title page vignette. Contemporary peach diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt crossed..... More
In Darkest Africa, or, The Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. With Two Steel Engravings and One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations and Maps.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1890. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Two volumes, octavo. Illustrated, with three folding maps housed in pockets to the rear of each volume. Publisher's green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and black. Some edgewear and rubbing to extremities, spine tips frayed, loose maps with some expected wear..... More
The Romish Horseleech: or, an Impartial Account of the Intolerable Charge of Popery to this Nation, In an Historical Remembrance of some of those Prodigious summs of money heretofore extorted from all degrees during the exercise of the Papal power here. To which is Annexed an Essay of the Supremacy of the King of England.
London: Printed by R.W. for Ralph Smith, 1674. [Anti-Catholic Propaganda] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[32]; 286; [4]. Later (likely late eighteenth-century) brown straight grained calf, with gilt titles to a black label, and gilt decorations to spine. Trimmed, with all edges and endpapers marbled. Some black ink scribbling..... More
The Guardian.
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1745. [Newspaper] JANE AUSTEN FAMILY ASSOCIATION. In two volumes. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.362; [10]; pp.369; [15]. Contemporary full speckled calf with gilt volume numbers to spines. Armorial bookplates of Thomas Austen to pastedowns of both volumes. Black ink..... More
Heroes and Villains.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2005. [Hollywood / Rock Music] SIGNED DELUXE EDITION. Folio. Number 221 of 350 copies thus, SIGNED by photographer David Steen and contributor Sir Roger Moore. Supplied with an additional signed print exclusive to the deluxe copies. Handsomely bound in metallic-effect covers with all edges silver, housed in..... More