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— Mark Twain
Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Colloquia, cum notis selectis Variorum, Addito Indice novo, Accurante Corn. Schrevelio.
Amsterdam: Ex Typographia Blaviana, 1693. FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Octavo, pp.[12], 784 [20]. With a wood engraved decorated title page, an unpaginated index and footnotes. All text in Latin. In contemporary brown full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to dark red label on spine, and further gilt decoration to spine..... More
Danemark: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1846. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.415. With 22 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from labels. Light external..... More
The Early Days of Christianity.
London: Cassell and Company, 1909. [Church History]. FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xvi, 664 [2]. With a frontispiece lithographic portrait of the author. In contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine and armorial gilt device of the Mathematical School, Rochester, stamped..... More
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1844. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. In two volumes. Octavo (16 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 456; [2]; pp.[6]; 443; [3]. Contemporary tan quarter calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red spine labels, and marbled boards and endpapers. Browning and spotting throughout. Spines lightly toned with some marks and..... More
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[The Novels of Henry Fielding]. The History of Tom Jones; Jonathan Wild; Amelia; Joseph Andrews.
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [c.1900]. FINE UNIFORM BINDINGS. Four separately published volumes. Octavo, pp.[2] xxx, 455 [1], xii, 442 [2]; pp.xii, 313 [3]; pp.[2] x, 535 [3]; pp.[2] xvi, 333 [3]. Volume I two volumes in one with illustrations. In contemporary red half calf with slightly raised bands..... More
The Works of Henry Fielding.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., and New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. Twelve volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 38cm). Beautifully bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for E.P. Dutton and Company in contemporary dark red half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and..... More
A Winter Season: Being an Attempt to Draw from the Storms of Winter, some Observations, which may warm our Hearts amidst its Cold, with Divine Love and True Benevolence. To which is added, an Essay on the Good Things of this Life.
Edinburgh: John Moir [etc.], 1813. SECOND EDITION, Improved and Enlarged. Octavo, pp.viii, 207. With a frontispiece engraving of the author and an engraved vignette for each Part of the text. In recent quarter cream cloth with black titles to white paper label on spine. marbled boards. All edges untrimmed. Black..... More
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A Treatyse of Fysshynge [Fishing] wyth an Angle. Being a Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book on the Subject of Fishing Printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496. With an Introduction by Rev. M.G. Watkins.
London: Elliot Stock, 1880. Publisher's original embossed thick vellum boards, stained, respined in vellum; internally very clean; pages untrimmed. "The book is of extreme interest... that it has served as a literary quarry to so many succeeding writers on fishing, who have not disdained to adapt the authoress's sentiments to..... More
Flappers and Philosophers.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. [The jazz age]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 269; [1]. Smartly bound in recent green full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to spine, marbled endpapers. Paper stock slightly toned as often found, but clean. A very good copy in a smart..... More
The Vegetable, Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. With the original green cloth cover and spine bound in at rear. Recent green full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and a gilt autograph stamped to upper board. Marbled endpapers; fore-edge..... More
Lectures on Sculpture. Delivered before The Royal Academy.
London, 1892. Prize-binding by Riviere and Son in full tan calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt; school name and recipient gilt-tooled to front board (this copy awarded by The Royal Academy of Arts, 1906). With engraved portrait frontispiece, and fifty three plates. A fine copy. More
Dr No.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pat Marriott. The first issue without the 'Dancing Lady' design on the upper board (present on the later issue). Book is clean and bright with some minor..... More
The Book of Martyrs, or the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church, Being a complete History of Martyrdom, from the Commencement of Christianity to the present Time. Revised and Improved.
London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1811. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Folio, pp.cviii, 692 [4]. With 62 copper engravings on 31 plates, being two more than called for in the binder's instructions. Also with copper engraved frontispiece and title page. In recent mottled full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label..... More
Respectability: Its Rise and Remedy.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters [Roycroft Press], 1905. [Philosophy and Self-Help] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 122; [2]. Number 68 of just 107 copies finely printed on Imperial Japan Vellum, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Contemporary blue half morocco with raised bands..... More
Journal of the Franklin Institute, of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, and the Recording of American and other Patented Inventions. Third Series. Vol. XXI, Whole No. Vol. LI [and] LII.
Philadelphia, PA: Published by the Franklin Institute, 1851. [Engineering Papers] ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, FINELY BOUND. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 444; pp.[2]; 444; [4]. With numerous folding charts and diagrams. Later straight grained tan morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, as well..... More
Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied. For the Use of Colleges and Schools.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. FINE PRIZE BINDING, fourteenth edition. Octavo, pp.[2]; xii; 1115; [3]. With 9 colour plates including a frontispiece, and numerous futher in-text engraved illustrations. In contemporary aubergine full morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and large gilt crest of King's College London to..... More
Cromwell's Place in History. Founded on Six Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. FINELY BOUND, FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.[10], 120 [2]. With a wood engraving of Oliver Cromwell loose to prelims. In contemporary brown half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Bookplate of Rangemore Hall, Staffordshire..... More
The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. [European History] PRIZE BINDING, Second Edition. Small octavo (15 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 233 [3]. With a coloured folding map of Germany as a frontispiece. Contemporary prize binding for the St. Clere Collegiate School, near Sevenoaks. Red full calf with gilt titles to black..... More
Cranford and Mary Barton.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xx; 409 [3]. With three wood engravings by Hammond, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink ownership..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. A New Edition, with Additional Notes, by William Smith.
London: John Murray, 1862. [Late Antiquity] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a new edition. Eight volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 28cm). With a frontispiece etching of the author to volume I, and one or two folding maps to each volume. Slightly later black full morocco with gilt titles to spines and..... More
The World's Foundations, or, Geology for Beginners.
London: Seeley and Co., 1892. Octavo; fine prize binding for Aske's Hatcham School for Girls, 1894; full red calf-leather with gilt lettering / tooling and green title background; all edges marbled; inner dentelle and marbled endpapers; prize bookplate on front free endpaper; 16 illustrations; pp. xiv, 315; some slight wear..... More
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Ian Fleming: The Bibliography. [In Custom Slipcase].
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. Royal quarto, with black and white illustrations throughout plus four suites of eight colour plates. Set in Albertina type and printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in full green cloth with black endpapers, gilt lettering and ornament. SIGNED by the author. Supplied with a felt..... More
The Life of Robert, First Lord Clive.
London: John Murray, 1861. [East India Company] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 314 [4]. Contemporary orange full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt and yellow coated endpapers. Black ink gift inscription related to Eton College to flyleaf, dated 1884..... More
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[Dead Souls] Chichikov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia.
New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. [Russian Literature] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. In two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 308; pp.[8] 309-484 [6]. With occasional in-text chromolithographic illustrations by Lucille Corcos. Number 648 of 1200 copies SIGNED by the artist in red ink to the..... More
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The Works of Nikolay Gogol. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. [Including] Dead Souls; The Overcoat and Other Stories; Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka; Mirgorod; and The Government Inspector and Other Plays.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1922-28. [Literature] FIRST EDITIONS OF THE GARNETT TRANSLATION. Six volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 21cm). Elegantly hand-bound in blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, with raised bands and gilt titles to red labels on spines, top edges gilt. Occasional light marginal marks to 'The..... More