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Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation. A Practical Handbook, setting forth at length the modern application of Electricity as a Motive Power for Railways and Tramways; containing Complete Financial and Engineering Data as to Design, Construction, Equipment and Working; fully Illustrating all modern and accepted types of Machinery and Apparatus; and describing in detail the principal Installations of Europe and America.
London: Offices of "Engineering," 1897. [Engineering] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a revised and enlarged edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[20]; xxviii; 678; [22]. With frequent in-text engraved illustrations and tables. Contemporary burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and red cloth over boards with a UCL stamp in..... More
"Castelli Romani", an account of certain towns and villages in Latium, with an appendix containing short notices of Tivoli, Anzio, and Nettuno, illustrated with original sketches by Roman artists.
Florence: Alinari Brothers, 1904. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto, pp.158 [2]. With many monochrome reproductions of paintings by various artists. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to upper board and significantly raised relief-decoration. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Some marks to boards and bumped corners, otherwise very good... More
This Year: Next Year.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small Quarto, unpaginated. SIGNED by both artist and author in black ink to verso of front free endpaper; hand-numbered 100 of 100 copies. Brightly illustrated throughout with lithographs by Jones. In publisher's colour-illustrated cloth boards, with matching jacket and illustrated endpapers. Some..... More
The Revolutions of Portugal, Written in French by the Abbot De Vertot, of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions. Done into English from the last French Edition.
London: Printed for W. Taylor and C. Rivington, 1724. EARLY EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; iv; 138; [10]. With a copper engraved frontispiece. In contemporary tan calf boards with blind decoration. Recently re-backed to style with raised bands and gilt titles to a red label on spine. Faint ink..... More
Carte Blanche. 'Bentley Edition' with engraved bullet.
London: Bentley 007 / Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. [Spy thriller] LIMITED EDITION by Bentley Motors, just one of 500 copies of their 'Red' edition (A 'white' binding was also issued, in a similar style but with a chrome box in the shape of a Bentley GT). Publisher's red leather, stamped..... More
Le Ballon Fantome.
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame, n.d. [1909]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.142; [2]. French language. With frequent in-text wood engravings and full-page lithographic plates by Robida. In publisher's colour-illustrated grey cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, with further gilt decoration. All edges gilt and light blue endpapers. Light..... More
Our Mutual Friend.
London: Chapman and Hall [1896]. CROWN EDITION, in scarce original printed DUST-WRAPPER. Octavo, pp.x; 683; [1], blank. Publisher's russet-coloured buckram blocked in gilt and black, complete with rare paper jacket. With forty illustrations by Martin Stone. One of the author's most famous tales, issued as part of the 'Dickens Crown..... More
The Christmas Books. Being; A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1905 and 1907. [English literature]. FIRST BROCK-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 5 volumes, octavo (18 x 12 x 15cm). With illustrations in colour by Charles Brock. Finely bound in full deep red morocco with raised bands, gilt decoration and gilt titles to spines, marbled endpapers; top edges gilt..... More
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1932. [Illustrated] BROCK ILLUSTRATIONS, first edition thus. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.752. With Sixteen chromolithographic plates, including a frontispiece, by Charles Brock. In publisher's light red cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge orange, illustrated dust-jacket. Textblock shaken with the endpapers split along..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1873. [Classic Literature]. FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xviii; 471 [5]; pp.[4] x; 491 [5]. With 43 wood engraved plates by Phiz, including frontispieces and a title page vignette. Contemporary dark brown full morocco with raised bands and gilt..... More
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, October 1891. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 624. With 39 engraved plates by 'Phiz' and a frontispiece of the young Dickens by Maclise. Reprinted from stereotype plates. Contemporary green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1890's]. [Classic iterature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xvi; 609 [3]. Illustrated with forty-three engravings by Seymour and Phiz. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and pebble-grained green cloth over boards. All edges..... More
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xvi; 624 [4]. With the dated title page vignette, but 'screwed' for 'screamed' to page 132, line 20. With 40 steel engravings by Phiz, including frontispiece and title vignette. In a later tan half..... More
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Charles Dickens' Complete Works. The University Edition. [Including] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, [etc.]
Boston, MA: Estes and Lauiat, 1882. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND SET. Fifteen volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 55cm). With occasional wood engraved plates by various artists. Fine contemporary dark brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and marbled paper over boards. All edges and..... More
Mr. Pickwick, Pages from the Pickwick Papers, with Illustrations by Frank Reynolds, R.I.
London: The Westminster Press / Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1910]. FINE COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.xvi, 174 [2]. With 25 fine chromolithographic plates, each with a captioned tissue guard. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as a black and gilt..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: The Westminster Press [Hodder and Stoughton], n.d. [c.1910]. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto, pp.[2] viii, 534 [2]. With 20 chromolithographic plates by Frank Reynolds, R.I., each with a captioned tissue guard. In publisher's red cloth with gilt and black titles to spine, and gilt and black titles to upper board, with..... More
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[Works of Charles Dickens, including:] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, etc.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1868]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, 20 titles in 14 volumes. Not including 'Edwin Drood' (1870). Octavo (18 x 13 x 44cm). Each title with eight engraved illustrations by various artists, some with postscripts by Dickens dated 1868. Contemporary tan half calf with..... More
Familiar Letters on a Variety of Important and Interesting Subjects, from Lady Hariet Morley, and Others.
London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Caddel, 1773. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii; [4]; 460 (final page misprinted as 560, as usual). In contemporary full tree calf with gilt titles to red label on spine. Marbled endpapers. pp.227-230 beginning to come loose. Black ink ownership inscription to verso of..... More
The Martian, A Novel.
London: Harper and Brothers, 1898. LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION. Quarto, pp.[4] x, 471 [5]. With 49 engraved plates, including a frontispiece of the author, and six facsimiles of original sketches by the author reproduced by P. Dujardin. Number 138 of just 250 copies printed on large paper. In publisher's quarter..... More
Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross.
London: Published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1915]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[8]; 135; [1]. With 20 tipped-in chromolithographic illustrations, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles and decoration to spine and upper board..... More
Worthies of the World, A Series of Historical and Critical Sketches of the Lives, Actions, and Characters of Great and Eminent Men of all Countries and Times.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., n.d. [c.1880]. [Historical Biographies]. FINELY BOUND. In two volumes. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[4] 416 [2]; pp.417-832 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engraved portraits of notable characters. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt title to spines and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers; all..... More
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Celebrated Crimes [Includes the classic tales of Martin Guerre and The Man in the Iron Mask]. Translated by I.G. Burnham. Illustrated with Photogravures after Original Drawings by De Los Rios, Prodhomme, Wagrez, etc.
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1895. [True Crime] Octavo (20 x 14 x 30cm), eight volumes. With several full-page illustrations, all with tissue guards. Handsomely bound in half red morocco, gilt, with matching red cloth sides, top edges gilt, gilt-patterned endpapers. Some foxing within, lightly handled to exterior; a very good set..... More
Tales and Novels.
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1832-1833. FINELY BOUND. Eighteen volumes, octavo (18 x 12 x 44cm). Finely bound by Riviere for Little, Brown and Co. Early twentieth century brown half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titles and extra gilt to spines, gilt top edges, marbled endpapers. All volumes illustrated..... More
Articulorum XXXIX Ecclesiae Anglicanae Defensio, una cum nova eorundem versione [In Defence of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England]. His Accedunt Articuli Lambethani, una cum Rev. and Doct. virorum in eos Censura etc.
Cambridge: Johann Hayes, 1694. SECOND EDITION. Vigesimo-Quarto (very small). In two parts, pp. [2] 143; 75. Text in Latin. With occasional blank pages for notes. In nineteenth century half brown mottled calf with raised bands and gilt titles to red morocco label. Marbled boards. Chip from edge of title page..... More
Winston Churchill. Being an Account of the Life of the Right Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, P.C., C.H., T.D., M.P.
London: Mills and Boon, Limited, 1927. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 272, 24 of adverts. With eleven illustrations over eight plates. Handsomely bound in recent light brown half calf over similar cloth. Raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Fore and tail edges untrimmed. Some dustiness to edges. Some very occasional..... More