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Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Ivon Hitchens.
London: Lund Humphries, 1973. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Large Quarto (31 x 28cm), pp.35; [23]. With 120 colour plates and 82 black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the artist. In publisher's cream cloth with white titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Slightly shaken, with some light external..... More
The Savage Life. A Second Series of "Camp Notes."
London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. [Travel and Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; 332 [4]. Contemporary brown half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine, further gilt decoration, and marbled paper over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Heavy pencil ownership to title..... More
Bengal Fairy Tales.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920. [Children's illustrated] FIRST TAGORE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[2]; x; 209; [3]. With six chromolithographic illustrations including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration debossed to upper board. With the original blue dust-jacket. Top..... More
Clavis Calendaria; or, a Compendious Analysis of the Calendar: Illustrated with Ecclesiastical, Historical, and Classical Anecdotes.
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.], 1815. [Chronology]. FINELY BOUND, third edition. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4]; x; 404 [4]; pp.[6]; 406 [4]. With a frontispiece woodcut of an Anglo-Saxon 'Almonaght' and occasional in-text wood engravings and tables..... More
Nudes.
New York, NY: The Arts Publisher, 1986. [Art] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (38 x 34cm), Unpaginated, with 21 drawings, etchings, photographs, and chromolithographic reproductions of watercolours by Brandt, and a poem by Guest printed over four leaves at rear. Number 195 of 750 copies, signed by the artist in pencil..... More
![The Complete Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, comprising:] Wuthering Heights; Jane...](/pictures/thumb/53668.jpg?v=1555597689)
[The Complete Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, comprising:] Wuthering Heights; Jane Eyre; Shirley; Villette; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; The Professor; Agnes Grey. The Shakespeare Head Bronte.
Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 11 volumes. Octavo (23 x 15 x 46cm). Each volume illustrated with three lithographic plates from drawings by J. Hewer, except 'The Professor' and 'Wildfell Hall' II, which have two, and Wuthering..... More
The Novels of the Sisters Bronte. [The works include: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, Villette, etc.]
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. THORNTON EDITION. In twelve volumes. Octavo (22 x 16cm). Illustrated with numerous plates consisting of photographic reproductions of Bronte country. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spines. With original cream dust-jackets. Top edges green, others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription to front..... More
Beasts in Heraldry.
Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1974. [Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Square octavo (22 x 22cm), pp.96. Containing twenty colour illustrations by Marie Angel (1923-2010). Publisher's cream vegetable parchment with gilt titles to spine, presented in the original blue paper-covered box, with a cream insert and a tri-fold flier for the..... More
Nature Notes.
Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 1997. FINELY BOUND SIGNED EDITION. Oblong (22 x 27cm), pp.111. With colour illustrations to recto of every leaf, and captions to verso. Number 76 of just 100 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST in blue ink to limitation page. In contemporary full green morocco with gilt..... More
The Story of Africa and its Explorers. With Two Hundred Original Illustrations.
London: Cassell and Company, no date [1892-95]. [Colonial Exploration] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes bound as two. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312. With frequent half-tone vignette illustrations, as well as occasional maps and full-page illustrations. Contemporary red half morocco with raised bands..... More
Charterhouse Past and Present: A brief history of the Hospital founded in Charterhouse by Thomas Sutton, and more particularly of the school belonging thereto.
Godalming: H. Stedman, 1879. [Public School History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 239 [3]. With 20 illustrations, including a frontispiece and plans of the school. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to first blank: 'Cecil James Gladdish Hulkes | from Dr. Haig Brown | for History..... More
Chaucer's England.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869. [Literature / History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm). Illustrated. Elegantly bound in full tan polished calf by Riviere and Son, with twin red and green title labels, full gilt backs, top edge gilt, swirled marble endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, publisher's cloth bound..... More
Sonnets from the Portuguese, by E.B. Browning. To which is prefaced a 'Little Journey' to the Home of the Author, written by E. Hubbard.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1898. Limited Edition to 480 copies of which this is No.217. SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. Publisher's quarter white cloth with gilt titles to upper, grey paper boards and end papers; edges untrimmed. Hand coloured stylised capitals throughout the text; superb printing on thick pages..... More
Poems of Robert Browning. Containing Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Dramas, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Sordello, and Dramatis Personae. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 696 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary burgundy full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to black label on spine, elaborated gilt decoration to spine, and the crest of..... 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 Poetical works of robert burns: with Explanatory and Glossarial Notes; and a Life of the Author, by James Currie, M.D. The only complete American Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1854. [Scottish Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.xxxiv; 60; 575 [3]. With five steel engraved plates, including a frontispiece. In a later binding of full brown morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and upper, and elaborate blind..... 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
Bismark in the Franco-German War 1870-1871.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. [Political Biography] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, mixed printings. In two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 364; pp.iv; 347; [1]. Contemporary red half calf by SETON AND MACKENZIE, with raised bands, gilt titles to navy labels on spines, and red cloth boards. All edges and endpapers..... 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 Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and arranged with notes by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey, Professor Wilson, Thomas Moore, William Gifford, Rev. George Crabbe, Bishop Heber, J.G. Lockhart, Lord Broughton, Thomas Campbell. New and Complete Edition.
London: John Murray, 1883. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; 827 [3]. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, as well as two facsimile plates showing Byron's handwriting. Contemporary red full morocco for Henry Sotheran, with raised bands and gilt..... More