Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Lady Chillingham's House-Party. Or Margery's Romance.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1901. [Drama] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 150; [2]. INSCRIBED to half-title: 'Harriet Longman | with love and very good | wish from the author |... 1901.' Full green calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruling to boards, gilt..... More
Poems.
London: Privately printed for Eton College in The Riccardi Press Fount of The Medici Society, 1928. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, ex libris Sir Martin Gilliat. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[4] viii; 87 [9]. With two black and white plates from another book, showing Gray's Summer House and Stoke Poges..... More
The Lost Childhood. And other Essays.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. [Literary Essays] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 191 [3]. Recent burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge burgundy. Slightly toned throughout. Very good. Greene's collection of literary essays about authors such..... More
The Trumpet Major, John Loveday, A Soldier in the War with Buonaparte and Robert his Brother, First Mate in the Merchant Service. A Tale.
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, no date [circa 1915]. [Historical Fiction] FINELY BOUND, a later American edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 374 [4]. With a photographic frontispiece. Recently bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, further gilt decoration..... 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
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press, New York: the British Book Centre, December 1953. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. 1000 copies (this being un-numbered/out-of-series). Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5]. Original red cloth with gilt titles,illustrated dust-wrapper. Fine, in near fine price-clipped jacket, slightly..... More
The History of England. From the Accession of James the Second.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 776 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 820 [2]. Contemporary tan full calf for Hurstpierpoint College, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting brown and green labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and and..... More
Isagogicorum in Institutiones Imperiales, libri IV Digesta, seu Pandectas, libri L Codicem, libri XII Decretales, libri V.
Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Typis Rudolphi a Zyll, Bibliopolae, 1680. [Roman Law] REVISED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[34] 854 [26]. In a mid-nineteenth-century binding of quarter brown calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to an orange label, and further gilt decoration to bands. Brown grained cloth over boards, marbled..... More
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets; together with some few of Later Date. Reprinted entire from the Author's Last Edition.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1867. [English Ballads] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xcvi; 290 [2]; pp.viii; 318 [4]; pp.xxxvi; 340 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and upper boards, and elaborate blind tooling all over. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
London Cries: with Six Charming Children, printed direct from stippled plates in the Bartolozzi style, and duplicated in red and brown, and about forty other illustrations, including ten of Rowlandson's humorous subjects in facsimile, and tinted; examples by George Cruikshank, Joseph Crawhill, etc., etc.
London: Field and Tuer, ye Leadenhalle Presse, no date [1883]. [Street Selling] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[3] 48 [2]. Leaves printed only to recto. In recent red half morocco with gilt titles to spine and orange cloth over boards. Brown endpapers, with the original brown title label..... More
Barmy in Wonderland.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. [Classic Humour] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 222 [4]. Recently re-bound in tan half calf, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands, and matching cloth over boards. Toning to edges, with spotting also to edges, and to the first few leaves. Presented in..... More
Pigs Have Wings.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. [Classic Humour] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 220 [4]. Recently re-bound in black half morocco, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands, and matching cloth over boards. Toning to edges, with spotting also to edges, and to the first / final few..... 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
A Father's Legacy to his Daughters.
London: Printed for W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1774. [Social history] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (17 x 10cm), pp.[6]; xii; 132; [4]. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt titles to a recent black title label on spine. Marbled endpapers. Two ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, internally clean, toned to edges. Boards rubbed and worn, splits..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More
Allemagne. L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de leurs Religions, Moeurs, Coutumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1838-39. [German history] EARLY EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 495; [1]; pp.[4]; 480. All text in French. With 100 steel engraved plates at the rear of each volume, and two folding maps to volume II. Contemporary tan quarter calf with gilt titles..... More
An Epitome Of The Elementary Principles Of Mechanical Philosophy, Divested of mathematical demonstrations, comprehending the general properties of matter, mechanics, accoustics, pneumatics, hydrostatics, meteorology, hydraulics, and a copious account of the invention, progress, and present state of the steam engine, with many practical remarks on the construction of machinery.
London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1830. Second Edition, Prize Binding. Octavo. Bound in full brown calf, with ruled gilt panelling and gilt crest of the University of Glasgow to boards, raised bands, gilt decoration and title label to spine; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, board edges decorated with blind..... More
Between the Church and the Lighthouse. The History of Burnham and Berrow Golf Club.
Droitwich: Grant Books, 2002. SIGNED SUBSCRIBERS EDITION. Pott Quarto. pp. x, 182. With frequent b/w photographic illustrations. SIGNED by the author and Sir Michael Bonallack to title page. One of just 50 copies. In half green morocco with two raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Gilt titles also to..... More
In Darkest Africa, or, The Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. With Two Steel Engravings and One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations and Maps.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1890. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Two volumes, octavo. Illustrated, with three folding maps housed in pockets to the rear of each volume. Publisher's green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and black. Some edgewear and rubbing to extremities, spine tips frayed, loose maps with some expected wear..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil, with Notes and Glossarial Index by W. Aldis Wright, M.A.
Cambridge and London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. [Philosophy] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2] xxxii; 388 [2]. In a later binding of brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt and blind decoration to boards, dated August 1930 in pencil..... 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
Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs.
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, Longman and Rees, 1802. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.xii [2] 120. With 11 woodcuts and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary brown half calf, marbled paper over boards. Spine in six compartments with gilt embellishment, and green label with gilt..... More
The Life of Samuel Johnson. Including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides.
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1865. [Biography] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition, with notes etc. In four volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 12cm), pp.xxxvi; 25-468 [2]; pp.[2] 479 [3]; pp.[2] 452 [6]; pp.[2] 452 [6]. With an engraved frontispiece to volumes I and II. Contemporary tan half calf..... More
The Pilgrim's Progress, from This World to That Which is to Come.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, no date [circa 1860s]. [Christian Allegory] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi; 400 [2]. With over 100 full page and in-text wood engravings by Selous and Priolo, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full panelled morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles, and blind..... More