Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Tales of the Gods and Heroes.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd., 1895. [Greek Myths] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a New Edition. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 205 [3]. Contemporary red full straight-grained calf by RELFE BROS., with raised bands, gilt titles to a green label, further gilt decoration to spine, and a...... More
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. With the Notes and Illustrations of the Author, and an Analysis of his Doctrine of Ideas. Also, questions of Locke's Essay, by A.M., Gold Medalist and Ethical Moderator in Trinity College, Dublin.
London: William Tegg and Co., 1879. [Epistemology] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a New Edition, revised. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 664 [2]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author, and a large folding 'analysis' chart of Locke's ideas. Contemporary tan full calf by SETON & MACKENZIE, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
The Adventures of Oliver Twist. The World's Classics VIII.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1909. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a pocket edition. Sexto-Decimo (15 x 10cm), pp.[4] xiv; 511 [5]. With 24 engraved illustrations by Cruikshank, including a frontispiece. Exquisite contemporary full tree calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt ruling to boards..... More
The Novels [Works] of George Eliot. Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life; Felix Holt; Romola; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1890s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, mixed printings from a New Edition. Complete in eight volumes, bound as seven. Octavo (19 x 14 x 22cm), pp.[2] viii; 466 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 486 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 158; viii; 330 [2]; pp.[2]..... More
The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the old 43rd and 52nd Regiments).
London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life" by George Newnes, 1915. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, in the Deluxe binding. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 224 [20]. With two colour plates including a frontispiece, seven further black and white plates, a folding map at rear, and numerous in-text plans..... More
The World Crisis 1911-1918. [Complete in six volumes, including: 1911-1914; 1915; 1916-1918 Part I; 1916-1918 Part II; The Aftermath; The Eastern Front].
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931. [Military history] FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (24 x 16 x 29cm), pp.[8] 536; pp.557 [3]; pp.292; pp.x; 293-589 [1]; pp.474 [2]; pp.368. With errata slips, illustrated with black and white plates and folding maps. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spines. Crisp, clean copies showing some..... More
Jimmy Page: The Anthology.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2020. [Rock Autobiography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (36 x 29cm), pp.400. Number 902 of 2500 copies thus, now fully subscribed. Quarter-bound in black leather, with gold leaf blocking and gilded page edging, the book is presented in a lined slipcase within a felt bag. The case design..... More
The Boke of Saint Albans. Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour: Printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486, Reproduced in Facsimile. With an Introduction by William Blades.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881. [Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry] FACSIMILE EDITION, first impression. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.34; [176]. Printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean, with some offsetting to endpapers..... More
An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands.
Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1914. [Military Letters] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, dated 1914 only (some remaindered copies were over-stamped with the date 1916). Octavo, pp.183, with full-page photographic plates inserted. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over..... More
The Myths of Greece and Rome. Their Stories, Signification, and Origin.
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1909. [Greek and Roman Mythology] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 395 [3]. With 64 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full calf by BUMPUS, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, further..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 626. Contemporary navy full calf, boards gilt-ruled, with gilt armorial device of Marlborough College to upper. Spine with brown label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt tooling. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers..... More
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
London: The Folio Society, 2020. [Autobiography] FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 234 [4]. With six colour plates by Larkin, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and pink illustrated cloth over boards. Orange endpapers. With the publisher's orange paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy..... More
The Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova di Seingalt. Translated into English by Arthur Machen.
London: The Casanova Society, 1922. [Memoirs] LEATHER-BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes. Quarto (26 x 21 x 36cm). Privately printed for subscribers only on fine hand-made paper, number 452 of 1000 sets thus. With a frontispiece to each volume, as well as 17 maps, and an index. Recently re-bound..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, [1837] 1845. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[16] 609 [3]. With 43 engraved illustrations by Phiz and Seymour, including a frontispiece and vignette title page (from the first printing, dated 1837). Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at..... More
The Golden Ass of Apuleius. The Chiswick Library of Noble Writers.
London: printed at the Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons, 1904. [Latin Classics in Translation] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Quarto (35 x 22cm), pp.[12] 226 [6]. With a tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece and decorated title page by W.L. Bruckman. Number 128 of just 220 copies thus, hand-numbered to limitation page..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends.
London: Blackie and Son, no date [circa 1940s]. [Literature] SANGOSKI AND SUTCLIFFE BINDING. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.[2]; xiii; [1]; 394; [2]. Fully bound in red morocco with gilt tooling and lettering to spine, gilt ruling to boards, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled dentelles to turn-ins. Illustrated frontispiece, marbled endpapers. Light..... More
The Summing Up.
London: William Heinemann, 1938. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm) pp.[viii]; 317; [3], blank. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Tan endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Prelims toned, some spotting to edges, jacket with a few small chips and tears. Very good. Stott; A Bibliography..... More
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, ad Fidem Editionis Heynianae, plerumque exhibita [Complete Works].
London: J. Rodwell [et al.], 1815. [Classics] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (13 x 9cm), pp.[6] 370 [4]. Very small print; all text in Latin. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind roll-tooling to boards. Grey endpapers, all edges speckled red. A...... More
Triton, and Battle of Wizards.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949. [Fantasy] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.172 [4]. Recently bound in green half morocco, matching green buckram over sides. Gilt titles and raised bands to spine. Original cloth spine bound in at rear. Internally bright and clean. Binding as new. Fine. A...... More
Les Dieux Rouges. Roman.
Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, n.d. [1924]. [French literature] FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY LEVITZKY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.356. Fine contemporary red half morocco, gilt-ruled, with decorative paper over bevelled boards. Spine in five compartments, brown labels titled in gilt with onlays and gilt tooling. Decorative matching endpapers. Original yellow..... More
L'Entraîneuse. Roman.
Paris: Albin Michel, n.d. [1923]. [French literature] FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY LEVITZKY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.347 [5]. Fine contemporary navy half morocco, gilt-ruled, with decorative paper over bevelled boards. Spine in five compartments, red labels titled in gilt, with red onlays and gilt tooling. Original cream softcovers and backstrip..... More
The Life of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D. Late Bishop of London. By the Rev. Robert Hodgson, A.M.F.R.S. Rector of St. George's Hanover-Square, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to his Majesty.
London: For T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812. [Religious history] LEATHER-BOUND EARLY EDITION, the third. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 320 [4]. With a stipple-engraved frontispiece by Charles Picart. Contemporary tan full diced calf, board edges gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt titles, raised bands, and blind tooling. Marbled endpapers. All edges..... More
Memorial Topographique et Militaire, redige au Depot General de la Guerre; Imprime par Ordre du Ministre. No. 6 Historique. IV.e Trimestre de L'an XI [1803].
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Imperiale, Prairial an XIII [May 1805]. [Napoleonic Wars] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] civ; 246 [2]. All text in French. With a large folding map of the Black Forest at rear. Contemporary full marbled calf, with gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and..... More
A Short Account of the History and Antiquities of Evesham.
Evesham: Printed and sold by J. Agg, 1820. [English Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.vi; 145 [1]. With a folding plan of the town, and four aquatint plates. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red. One central..... More