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Adam Bede. Novels of George Eliot vol. I.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 466 [2]. With seven wood engraved illustrations by Small, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Contemporary light green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label and further gilt..... 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
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
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
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's labels to rear endpapers. Gilt a little rubbed..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 145 [5]. Recently bound in green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, and..... More
A History of Spanish Literature.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Spanish Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 423 [3]. Contemporary full tree calf for the King Edward VI School, Grantham, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and school crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges and endpapers marbled. School prize..... More
The Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; Together with the Evidences of the Christian Religion, and the Lives of the Evangelists, Apostles, and Chief Disciples.
London: John G. Murdoch, no date [circa 1870s]. [Devotional Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.[2] xlviii; 874. With 13 colour plates, including a frontispiece. Very large print over two columns. Contemporary brown full morocco with raised bands, and elaborate gilt tooling all over. All edges gilt;..... 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
Nouveau Dictionnaire des Passages François-Allemand et Allemand-François, oder Neues Französisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Französisches Wöter-Buch, worinn alle Französische Wöter, auch der Künste und Wissenschaften, aus den vollkommensten und neuesten Wöterbuchern, nebst den nöthigen Constructionen und Redensarten, durch kürzlich gezeigte Etnmologie, und durch das gebräuchlichste, auch reineste Deutsch erklärt worden, daß die liebhaber bender Sprachen dieses Buch mit großem Rußen gebrauchen können.
Leipzig: In Johann Friedrich Sleditschens Handlung, 1780. [French-German Dictionary] NEW EDITION, revised. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[32] 2039; 4-743. French printed in Italic; German printed in Gothic. With a copper engraved frontispiece. In a contemporary or slightly later vellum binding with black titles to spine and a faint blind armorial..... More
The Plays of John Galsworthy.
London: Duckworth, 1929. [Drama] FINE PRIZE BINDING, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 1149 [5]. Printed on india paper. Contemporary tree calf by BICKERS & SON of London for Sherborne School, with raised bands, gilt titles to maroon label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Gilt school medal 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
The Savoy Operas. Being the Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1893.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. [Comic Opera] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 698 [2]. Contemporary red half calf by RAMAGE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers. Some toning to edges, otherwise crisp..... More
Hugh MacDiarmid: An Essay for 11th August 1977.
Preston: Akros Publications, 1977. [Literary Criticism] LIMITED SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto pamphlet (21 x 21cm), pp.12 [4]. Number 67 of 300 copies thus, SIGNED by the author and publisher in black ink to limitation page at rear. Publisher's red card covers, stapled, with black card fly-leaves. Light handling to..... More
![The Works of Nikolay Gogol. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. [Including] Dead...](/pictures/thumb/55132.jpg?v=1584533268)
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
The Vicar of Wakefield, Essays, and Poems.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo (13 x 9cm), pp.[4] viii; 517 [7]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary deep mauve full calf, with wide raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt panelled decoration to boards. All edges and endpapers..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1915. [Illustrated Classic] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; xxxvi; 305; [3]. With numerous wood engravings by Thomson, including a frontispiece. Contemporary lilac half calf by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine, and blue cloth over..... More
![The History of Greece [and] The History of Rome. The History of Greece from the Earliest State to...](/pictures/thumb/56833.jpg?v=1591116130)
The History of Greece [and] The History of Rome. The History of Greece from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great. To which is Added, a Summary Account of the Affairs of Greece, from that Period, to the Sacking of Constantinople by the Othomans. [and] The History of Rome from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire.
Derby: Henry Mozley, 1826. [Greek and Roman History] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 382; pp.viii; 432 [4]. With a folding map as a frontispiece to each title. Contemporary full marbled calf with gilt titles to black label, and extensive gilt decoration to..... More
History of Greece, Abridged, for the Use of Schools.
London: Printed for J. Brambles [etc.], 1807. NEW EDITION. Duodecimo, pp. viii, 269 [3]. With a frontispiece engraving of the death of Alexander the Great. In contemporary half brown calf with gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. Black ink ownership inscription to front free end-paper. Lightly browned throughout; wear..... More
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1971. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST SHEPARD COLOUR EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[4] 262 [2]. Heavily illustrated with Shepard's drawings, produced in colour for the first time. Number 231 of 250 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to limitation page. Finely bound..... More
Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard.
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date [circa 1870]. [Surrealist Humour] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 551; [3]. With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with..... More
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et autre Choses.
Paris: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. [Surrealism] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[6] 295 [3]. All text in French. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings by the author throughout, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as 36 hand-coloured plates. Recent quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and decoration..... More
The Heiress of Bruges; A Tale. Standard Novels XXXIX.
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. [Historical Romance] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[6] 530 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. In a later nineteenth-century binding of mid brown half morocco by Antoine CHATELIN, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1854. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf..... More