Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Churchill 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
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-1954. [Military history] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Elegantly bound for Hatchards of Piccadilly (likely by Morrell) in..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-1954. [Military history] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Elegantly bound by BAYNTUN of Bath in red half crushed..... More
Cambridge.
London: Seeley and Co., 1907. [Topography and University History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 325 [3]. With 34 engravings and etchings, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green full calf for Croydon High School, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt school crest..... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide, or, an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, with a Particular Description of all the Towns, Villages, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Ancient and Modern Seats, Founderies etc., within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles, with Accurate Views of the Principal Objects.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Clifford, 1829. [Town Guide] FIFTH EDITION. Small Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6] viii; 188. With 22 engravings, including four folding plates, a vignette title page, and a frontispiece folding map. Not including an engraving of the Royal Kent Hotel, but with two engravings of Mereworth House. Contemporary..... More
Letters to My Grandson on the Happy Life.
London: Mills & Boon, 1922. [Philosophy] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.96 [2]. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, and marbled endpapers. Also with a seemingly-unconnected manuscript letter dated 1882, in a very obscure..... More
The Art Teaching of John Ruskin.
London: Rivingtons, 1900. [Art Criticism] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a cheap edition. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] xvi; 376 [2]. In contemporary brown full calf for Cranleigh School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the school crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges and endpapers marbled;..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; containing a detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors By which Public and Private Property and Security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention.
London: Printed by H. Fry for C. Dilly, 1797. [London Policing] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION, revised and enlarged. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxxvi; 444; xxviii [6]. With the folding table of prisoners facing p.230. Recent full speckled and panelled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to a red..... More
A Companion to the Altar. or, an Help to the worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper; by Discourses and Meditations upon the Whole Communion Office, to which is added, an Essay upon the Offices of Baptism, Catechism and Confirmation. [and] The Occasional Offices of Matrimony, Visitation of the Sick, Burial of the Dead, Churching of Women, and the Commination, Explained in the Method of the Companion to the Temple: Being the Fourth and Last Part.
London: Printed by John Maycock for John Martyn, [and] Printed by M.C. for Henry Brome and Robert Clavel, 1678; 1679. [Anglican Liturgy] SECOND EDITION of the first title, and FIRST EDITION of the second. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[16] 489 [7]; pp.[16] 580 [6]. In..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches: and the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, and sold by S. Crowder, 1776. [Prayer Book] FINE BINDING WITH ROYAL ARMS. Folio (42 x 27cm), unpaginated. Collation: p; A-H2; A-4Q2; a-f2. Printed in two columns, ruled in red and black ink. Contemporary black full calf with raised bands, gilt decoration..... More
The Annotated Book of Common Prayer, being an Historical, Ritual, and Theological Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England.
London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1869. [Anglicanism] FINELY BOUND, the fourth edition thus. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.lxxx; 610 [2]. With a lithographic frontispiece, and two plates at rear showing ecclesiastical vestments. Moderate to small text in parallel columns. Contemporary full tree calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to a...... More
The Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes used in Churches.
London: Printed by W. Burton, for the Company of Stationers, 1740. [Psalm Book] BURNED BOOK. Octavo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm), pp.138 [4]. Contemporary brown full speckled calf, with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. A black ink ownership to title page, dated 1758. Ink numbers also written in..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches; the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion; and their Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical: with Notes Explanatory, Practical, and Historical, from Approved Writers of the Church of England, Selected and Arranged by the Right Reverend Richard Mant, D.D. Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, and Late Domestick Chaplain to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
London: J. G. F. and J. Rivington, 1840. FINELY BOUND, fifth edition thus. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.[6] 2, lxxii, 966 [4]. In two columns with very extensive notes by Rev. Mant. In contemporary dark brown diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and further blind decoration to..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches; the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion: with Notes Explanatory, Practical, and Historical, from Approved Writers of the Church of England, Selected and Arranged by the Right Reverend Richard Mant, D.D. Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, and Late Domestick Chaplain to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter for J. Parker and C. and J. Rivington, 1825. FINELY BOUND, third edition thus. Quarto (31 x 25cm), pp.[6] lxxii, 966 [2]. In two columns with very extensive footnotes by Rev. Mant. Contemporary panelled and gilt-decorated brown calf, re-backed in the late nineteenth or early..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches; and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1855. FINELY BOUND EDITION, with quite large print. Octavo (23 x 15cm), unpaginated. Contemporary deep burgundy full morocco by Hayday, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Gilt embossed decoration to boards. All edges gilt. With a gilt embossed leather monogram roundel loose to prelims..... More
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 317 [9]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Recently bound in green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original gilt-titled green cloth laid over..... More
The Leatherstocking Tales. [The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Pioneers; The Prairie].
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900 and 1901. [American Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST BROCK EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 522 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 398 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 463 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 455 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 437 [3]. With 40 illustrations by Brock to..... More
The Works of James Fenimore Cooper. [Including 'The Last of the Mohicans'; 'The Pathfinder'; 'The Deerslayer' etc.] The Mohawk Edition.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, no date [circa 1895]. [American Literature] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET. 32 volumes, ctavo (22 x 15 x 96cm). Printed by the Knickerbocker Press. Each volume with a photogravure frontispiece reproducing illustrations by F.T. Richards. Contemporary tan half calf with gilt titles to contrasting red..... More
The Leatherstocking Tales: The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie. With Illustrations by H.M. Brock and an Introduction by Mowbray Morris.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900-1901. [Literature] ALL FIRST BROCK-ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 5 volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 19cm). Abundantly illustrated with line drawing black and white full page plates. Finely bound in mid-green half calf with raised bands, gilt decoration, twin red title labels to spines; cloth boards; top edges..... More
A Review of Aristotle's Sytem of Ethics. A Prelection Read before the Vice-Chancellor, and Council of the Senate, Feb. 16, 1867.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1867. [Philosophy Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 56 [2]. Contemporary brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red; apricot endpapers. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. The lightest hint of spotting to blanks and..... More
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: Consisting of those Which were formerly Printed; and those which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman-Street.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1707. [Poetic and Dramatic Works] TENTH EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[2] lxxxvi; 392; pp.[2] 393-894 [2]. Complete with 28 copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and one folding. Contemporary full speckled and panelled calf, with gilt titles..... More
The Poetical Works of William Cowper.
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1864. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xxviii; 483 [1]. With 10 engraved plates by Cameron, including a frontispiece portrait of the author and a decorated title page. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, heavy blind decoration all..... More
Poems: by William Cowper.
London: W. Kent & Co., 1859. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vii-lxxii; 274 [2]; pp.viii; 336 [2]. With 75 in-text engravings after Gilbert. Contemporary brown full morocco for Hatchard's, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and panelled decoration..... More
The Poetical Works of William Cowper.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1854. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxx; 416 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 428 [2]. Reasonably-sized print on good paper. Very fine contemporary green full morocco by J. WRIGHT, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very fine..... More