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Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xvi, 624 [1]. Illustrated with 38 plates, vignette title page and engraved frontispiece by Phiz. Bound from the parts with the vast majority of sheets in the earliest state of the text. 'Dark' plate opp. p.547 in fine order..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and textured green..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1870]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary burgundy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper..... More
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Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. [in] The "Charles Dickens" Edition.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1880]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 543 [3]. With eight engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red half morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled..... More
Little Dorrit.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[2] xiv; 625 [3]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and textured..... More
Our Mutual Friend.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. First issue text with 'pricipal' for 'principal', page 115 of volume II, line 38. Two volumes. Octavo, pp.[2] xii; 320 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 309 [3]. With 41 engraved plates by Stone, including a frontispiece to each volume and a decorated title..... More
Our Mutual Friend.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. First issue text with 'pricipal' for 'principal', page 115 of volume II, line 38. Two volumes. Octavo, pp.[2] xii; 320 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 309 [3]. With 40 engraved plates by Stone, including a frontispiece to each volume. Complete with the half-titles..... More
The Shrine of Death.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. [Macabre] LIMITED EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.160. With illustrated majuscules, vignettes and headpieces. Number 75 of just 150 copies in this edition, printed by Unwin Bros., Ludgate Hill. Expertly bound in a suitable sombre full black oasis morocco in the..... More
A View of Ancient Laws Against Immorality and Profaneness; Under the following Heads; Lewdness; Profane Swearing, Cursing, and Blasphemy; Perjury; Prophanation of Days devoted to Religion; Contempt or Neglect of Divine Service; Drunkenness; Gaming; Idleness; Vagrancy, and Begging; Stage-Plays and Players; and Duelling. Collected from the Jewish, Roman, Greek, Gothic, Lombard, and other Laws, down to the middle of the Eleventh Century.
Cambridge: Printed for Corn. Crownfield, 1729. [Law] FIRST EDITION. Folio (39 x 28cm), pp.[34] 351 [3]. Printed with very generous margins, and the original Latin or Greek of the Laws discussed on the right-hand side of the commentary. Recently re-bound in brown speckled half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
Austin Dobson: An Anthology of Prose & Verse.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. [Miscellany] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] xxii; 174 [6]. With a half-tone photographic portrait of the author, and a facsimile reproduction of his bookplate. Contemporary blue half morocco by RAMAGE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to..... More
Italic Quartet: A Record of the Collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker, and Edward Prince in the Making the Cranach Press Italic.
Cambridge: at the University Printing House, 1966. [Private Press] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (27 x 17cm), pp.viii; 50 [2]. With a selection of collotype illustrations, on fine handmade paper. One of 500 copies thus. Publisher's tan cloth wit gilt titles to spine and orange and brown decoration all-over. With the matching..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden. The Globe Edition: Edited with a Memoir, Revised Text, and Notes.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.lxxxviii; 662. Contemporary red half morocco by MUDIE, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Lightly browned throughout. Pencil ownership to first blank dated..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1855. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 314 [2]; pp.[2] xxiv; 344 [2]. Reasonably-sized print on good paper. Very fine contemporary red full morocco by J. WRIGHT, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very fine..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden; containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations; with notes by the Rev. Joseph Warton, D.D.; the Rev. John Warton, M.A.; and Others.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; lx; 445 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Very small print in two columns. Contemporary red full morocco by WISEMAN, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt crest of..... More
Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with Original Poems.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1713. [Verse Translations] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, an early printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.l; 550 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full speckled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges speckled red. Some minor ink notes to fly-leaf. Top..... 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
Peter Ibbetson. With an Introduction by his Cousin, Lady ***** ("Madge Plunket").
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896. [Strange Tale] FINELY BOUND, a uniform edition. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[8] 381 [7]. With frequent engraved illustrations by the author. Contemporary green full calf by SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels and further gilt..... More
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Sindbad [Sinbad] the Sailor, & Other Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1914]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, trade issue. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] 222 [2]. With 23 stunning colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each mounted with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's brown cloth, extensively decorated in green and gilt to spine and..... 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
Harry and Lucy Concluded; being the Last Part of Early Lessons.
London: Printed for R. Hunter [etc.], 1827. [Children's Literature] SECOND EDITION, corrected. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.iii-xviii; 287 [1]; pp.[4] 342; pp.[4] 319 [1]; pp.[4] 350. Contemporary brown quarter morocco (possibly an early publisher's binding), with gilt titles to spines, and marbled paper over boards. Lacking..... More
Patronage.
London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1814. [Didactic Novel] SECOND EDITION. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 11 x 11cm), pp.[8] 418 [2]; pp.[4] 431 [3]; pp.[4] 400 [2]; pp.[4] 388 [2]. Contemporary half marbled calf, with gilt titles to red labels and gilt ruling to spines. Marbled..... 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
Chromes.
Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. Quarto (34 x 33cm), pp.728. Publisher's blue, red and yellow cloth with black titles to spine. With the grey cloth-covered slipcase titled in yellow and orange, still in the original shrink wrap. A fine, as-new copy. William Eggleston's standing as one of..... More
The Mill On The Floss.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1890s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a stereotyped edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] x; 486. With six of the seven wood engraved plates by Allen, lacking the frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red and brown labels..... More