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Unfinished Poems. "Musings" by William Cullen Bryant, and "Godfrey of Boulogne" by Henry D. Thoreau.
Boston, MA: The Bibliophile Society, 1907. [American Poetry] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[4] xxviii [4]. With a double-sided facsimile plate of the manuscript of each poem, and an engraving for each, together with the printed texts. One of 470 copies thus, finely printed on Japanese..... More
Leila; or, the Siege of Granada: and Calderon, the Courtier.
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838. [Literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16 cm), pp.[2] xii; 400 [2]. With 15 steel engraved plates by various artists supervised by Charles Heath, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, as well as an illustrated title page. Each plate except frontis..... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting..... More
The Complete works of robert burns. Including his Correspondence, etc., with a Memoir by William Gunnyon. The Text Carefully Printed, and Illustrated with Notes. With Portrait and Illustrations on Wood by Eminent Artists.
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1871. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.16; lxxviii; 405 [25]. With 10 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, blue cloth over..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited with A Memoir by George A. Aitken.
London, Covent Garden: George Bell and Sons, 1893. [Verse]. FINELY BOUND. 3 volumes; small octavo (17 x 11 x 8cm). Engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume. Elegantly bound by Morrell for bookseller Charles Lauriat in half mid blue morocco, spine gilt-titled in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and..... More
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
London: Longman, 1855-56. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xvi; 388; pp.[2]; iv; 426; pp.[2]; x; 448. With four maps and plans, three folding; and 13 lithographic plates, five coloured. Recently re-bound without adverts in burgundy full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines..... More
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are added, two brief dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, at the Primary Visitation, in the Year M.DCC.LI.
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, G. Wilkie, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown [etc.], 1817. [Theology and Philosophy] CONTEMPORARY BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.lxiv; 408. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label on spine, and marbled paper over boards..... More
William Blake, Mystic: A Study. Together with Young's Night Thoughts: Nights I and II with illustrations by William Blake and frontispiece Death's Door, from Blair's 'The Grave.'
Liverpool: The Liverpool Booksellers Co., 1911. [Biography] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.[6] 14 [5]; [2] 42. The first part printed and paginated to recto of each leaf only. Number 190 of 250 copies of the first edition, hand-numbered to verso of flyleaf. With a copper engraved..... More
Poetry of Byron.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. [Poetry Selection] FINELY BOUND, third impression thus. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.xxxvi; 276. With a vignette title page. Contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Spotting to preliminaries. Light rubbing to binding; spine..... More
Hebrew Melodies.
London: John Murray, 1815. [Romantic Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 53 [1]. Recently re-backed in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label; incorporating contemporary tan calf boards by W. Nutt, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound without the advertisement and without the half title..... More
The Poems and Dramas of Lord Byron. With Biographical Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc.
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Poetical Works] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 855 [3]. With a half-tone frontispiece portrait of the author. Rebound in 1929 in brown full morocco with gilt titles to spine and brown endpapers. All edges gilt. Black..... More
Results of Reading
London: John Murray 1843. First Edition. Octavo, pp.viii; 351; [1], imprint. Conforms to the BL copy. Original half navy calf with gilt and blind decorations to spine, combed marbled sides, coated yellow endpapers. Some light and acceptable wear, inside paper joint parted, minor spotting. Essentially a clean, near fine copy..... More
Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Regnante Elizabetha. [Annals of England and Ireland in the Reign of Elizabeth]. Tribus Voluminibus comprehensi. E Codice praeclaro Smithiano, propria Auctoris manu correcto, Multisque magni momenti Additionibus locupletato, Eruit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, Qui et alium Codicem e Bibliotheca Rawlinsoniana adhibuit.
[Oxford], 1717. [English History] FIRST THUS, a later edition. Three volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[6] ccviii; 200 [2]; pp.[2] 201-588 [2]; pp.[2] 589-1012 [2]. With two copper engraved portraits of Elizabeth to volume I. Text largely in Latin, with occasional small passages in English (blackletter type). Contemporary full speckled..... More
The Martyr of Erromanga. Or, the Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death and Character of the Late Rev. John Williams.
London: John Snow, 1842. [South Pacific Missionary] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xii; 526 [2]. With a hand coloured frontispiece and a wood engraved title page vignette. Contemporary brown full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label, and further gilt decoration to..... More
Moral Emblems. with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of all Ages and Nations. With Illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works, by John Leighton, F.S.A., the whole Translated and Edited, with Additions, by Richard Pigot, Member of the Leyden Society of Netherlands Literature.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [Illustrated Aphorisms] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.[2] xvi; 242 [2]. Heavily illustrated with engravings by Leighton, and other artists, including a frontispiece. Fine contemporary red full morocco by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
History of the Rebellion of 1745-6.
London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, n.d. [1869]. [Jacobite History]. FINELY BOUND, seventh edition. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[2] 525 [3]. With a steel engraved vignette title page. In contemporary tan full calf by SETON AND MACKENZIE, with gilt titles to burgundy label on spine, further gilt decoration to..... More
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BASILIKA. The Workes [works] of King Charles the Martyr: with a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, And other Papers Concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament.
London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, 1662. [English History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (35 x 24cm), pp.[12] 118; [10] 458 [2]; 733 [7]. Complete with the frontispiece, engraved title page, and three further double-page-spread engraved plates. Also with the title page and preliminaries to..... More
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W. H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie.
London: George Virtue, 1842. [British Coastal Topography] FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. In two volumes. Quarto (28 x 22cm), unpaginated. With 96 of the original 126 steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces and title page vignettes after various artists, engraved by the Finden brothers and Bartlett. One leaf of text faces each engraving, to..... More
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tales of Canterbury, Boece, Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, The Legende of Good Women, The Romaunt of the Rose
Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-Upon-Avon and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1928-1929. [Literature] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. The Shakespeare Head Press edition. Eight volumes, quartos (29 x 21 x 26cm). Liberally strewn with hand-coloured illustrations. Beautifully bound by James MacDonald of New York in brown..... More
The Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at The Vicarage, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, The ABC Murders, Murder in The Mews, Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgeware Dies, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, The Hound of Death, Appointment with Death, Death on The Nile, Death in The Clouds, Death Comes as the End, Peril at End House, Crooked House, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot's Christmas, Poirot Investigates, Parker Pyne Investigates, They Do it with Mirrors, The Mirror Crack'd, The Clocks, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, A Carribean Mystery, The Mystery of The Blue Train, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Ten Little Niggers, Five Little Pigs, Third Girl, The Big Four, The Thirteen Problems, Towards Zero, Three Act Tragedy, The Hollow, The Moving Finger, 4.50 From Paddington, Passenger to Frankfurt, Evil Under the Sun, At Bertram's Hotel, Why Didn't They Ask Evans, Dumb Witness, Taken at The Flood, They Came to Baghdad, Sparkling Cyanide, The Secret of Chimneys, After the Funeral, The Body in The Library, Halloween Party, The Plae Horse, The Secret Adversary, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, The Mysterious Mr Quin, Endless Night, The Man in The Brown Suit, Ordeal by Innocence, One, Two Buckle my Shoe, Cards On the Table, N or M?, Cat Among the Pigeons, The Labours of Hercules, Hickory Dickory Dock, Partners in Crime, Sad Cypress, Nemesis, A Pocketful of Rye and Destination Unknown.
London: Hamlyn, 1969-1970. [Crime Fiction Collection] FINELY BOUND SET. In 24 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 82cm). Elegantly bound in recent brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt decoration to spines. Marbled paper over boards. Internally clean, externally fine..... More
Christmas Greetings card.
London and Tunbridge Wells: Printed by Photocrom, n.d. [circa 1945]. Card-backed cut-out photographic print of Winston Churchill, with "The Prime Minister Faces Facts and Gives Facts", printed on the front. Sent out as a greetings card by A. Cohen and Co. of Great Dover Street, London with the text reading..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. [English History] HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. [English History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1956-1958. [English History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1956-1958. [English History] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent maroon half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles..... More