Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Nouvelle Maniere de Fortifier Les Places.
The Hague: Arnout Leers, 1684. EARLY EDITION. Foolscap octavo, pp.[10], 96 [2]. All text in French. With 12 folding plans and tables at rear. In later mottled full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges flecked red. Armorial..... More
The Last Fight of the Revenge. With an Introduction by Henry Newbolt.
London: Gibbings and Company, 1908. [Maritime history] Quarto (26 x 17cm), pp.132. Contemporary binding by Onrock and Son in full red crushed morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine; period three-masted tall ship made from brown and white leather onlays to centre of upper with elaborate gilt-stamped..... More
Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on a Circular Motion. And an Experimental Examination of the Quantity and Proportion of Mechanic Power Necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of Velocity to Heavy Bodies from a State of Rest. Also New Fundamental Experiments upon the Collision of Bodies. With Five Plates of Machines.
London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1794. FIRST EDITION in book form. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] iv; 110 [2]. With five folding copper-engraved plates at rear, and two folding tables. In recent red half calf with two raised bands, gilt titles to spine and red cloth boards. Mark..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio, pp.306. Number 1604 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert programme from the..... More
[A collection of articles injunctions, canons, orders, ordinances, and constitutions ecclesiastical, with other publick records of the Church of England; chiefly in the times of K. Edward. VIth. Q. Elizabeth. and K. James. Published to vindicate the Church of England and to promote uniformity and peace in the same. And humbly presented to the Convocation]. Injunctions given by the most excellent Prince, Edward the Sixt; The Order of the Communion; Articles to be enquired of in the Visitation of the Dioces of London, By the reverend Father in God, Nicolas Bishop of London; Articles agreed upon by the Bishops and other Learned and Godly men, In the Last Convocation at London, In the year of our Lord 1552. to root out the discord of Opinions, and establish the Agreement of true Religion; Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi Anno Dom. MDLII; Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty concerning both the Clergy and Laity of this Realm. Published Anno Dom. 1559; Articles Agreed Upon By the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces, and the whole Clergie; In the Convocation holden at London, in the Year, 1562; Advertisments partly for due order in the publick administration of the Holy Sacraments; The Form and Manner of Making & Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons: According to the Appointment of the Church of England; Articles to be enquired in the Visitation, in the First Year of the reign of our most dread Sovereign Lady Elizabeth; Articuli per Archiepiscopum, Episcopos & reliquum Clerum Cantuariensis Provinciae in Synodo inchoata Londini vicesimo 1584; Celebratio Coenae Domini in Funerbribus, Si Amici & Vicini defuncti Communicare velint etc.; Articuli De quibus convenit inter Archiepiscopos, et Episcopos Utriusque Provinciae, et Clerum Universum In Synodo, Londini; Liber Quorundam Cononum Disciplinae Ecclesiae Anglicanae; Capitula sive Constitutiones Ecclesiasticae, per Archepiscopum, Episcopos, & reliquum Clerum Cantuariensis Provinciae, In Synodo inchorata Londini XXV die mensis Oct. Anno Domini MDXCVII; Constitutiones sive canones ecclesiastici, Per Episcopum Londinensem.
London: printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait at the little north-doore of St. Pauls Church, 1661. [English Church History] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Small quarto (20 x 16cm), pp.[16] 31; [3] 33-92; 63-85; [9] 87-99; 200-247 [3]; 6 [2]; 54 [2] 303-372 [2]. Collates as per the ESTC, except..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio (36 x 27cm), pp.306. Number 1898 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert..... More
Wood On Canvas. Every Picture Tells A Story Forewords by Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1998. [Music and Art] LIMITED COLLECTOR EDITION. Folio (40 x 32cm), pp.144. Number 369 of 2500 copies, SIGNED by the author. Four-colour printed leaves, some folding-plates. Quarter-bound in rich black cloth over blue art paper boards with colour title label, spine blocked in silver, accompanying CD in..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma]. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895-97. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, later impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 20cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles..... More
In Our Time.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. [American Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248; [2]. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean, some minor toning to edges of text block, exterior as new. A near..... More
Liverpool Days [and] Golden Dreams.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1994 and 1996. [Rock photo-documentaries] LIMITED EDITION SET. Two volumes in an exclusive box set. Quarto (29 x 26cm), pp.122; pp.122. Both volumes profusely illustrated on 200gsm matt art paper, and SIGNED by Kirchherr and Scheler, both being number 1026 of 2500 copies of each title. Both..... More
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904. [Pre-Raphaelite Poetry] FIRST KING-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 310. With 96 illustrations by King, including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and numerous in-text illustrations and full-page plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge..... More
The Plays of Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. [Shakespeare] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET. Twelve volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 44cm). With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and an engraved headpiece for each play by various artists. Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and..... More
The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. The Fourteenth Edition: To which is added an Appendix, including the Statures of the last Session of Parliament (20G.3.) and some adjudged Cases.
London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1780. [English Legal Procedure] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourteenth edition. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 540 [6]; pp.[2] 607 [1]; pp.[2] 581 [5]; pp.[4] 504 [170]. With an unpaginated table of statutes..... More
I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God.
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.494 [2]; pp.[2] 575 [2]. With a folding family tree of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to rear of each volume. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God.
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.494 [2]; pp.[2] 575 [2]. With a folding family tree of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to rear of each volume. Bound in dark blue half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism in Three Tracts: First—On the Winged Symbols of Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, compared with the Cherubim of Ezekiel's Typical Prophecies. Second—On the True Historic reference of Jewish Prophecy. Third—The Rise and Progress of Idolatry considered in the relation of its predicted fall to the establishment of Messiah's everlasting Kingdom [and] The Primeval Revelation, as Taught in "The Law & the Prophets:" of, God's Will typically manifested in His Works, especially in His Ordinances of Day and Night, under a threefold Traditional instruction of Science, History, and Religion, allegorically combined, as "The Parables and Dark Sayings of Old," which represent the power of a Threefold Cord not easily broken.
London: Simpkin & Co., 1860 and 1864. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 16; xiv; 7-177 [1]; 137 [1]; pp.xxxii; 72. Filled with astrological diagrams, tables, and lithographic illustrations, many folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt..... More
Through the Eyes of Gilbert & George: The Line of Beauty. Shared Vision volume II.
Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2004. [First Chapter Book] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.41 [3]. Number 40 of 85 copies thus, from a total limitation of 100, SIGNED by the author, and with an original print SIGNED by Gilbert & George. A colour illustration to preliminaries..... More
On Not Winning the Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize Lecture. Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2008. [Nobel Lecture] SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS. Two volumes. Tall octavo (27 x 15cm), pp.31 [5]; pp.31 [5]. Each letterpress printed on Zerkall mould made paper, and SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. With a woodcut portrait of the author by Abigail..... 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
Twentieth Century Impressions of Orange River Colony and Natal: their History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
Natal: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1906. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.667; [1]. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Light sunning to spine, with..... More
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, comprising A Large Fund of Biography of Actual Residents, and an Interesting Historical Sketch of Thirteen Counties.
Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company, 1890. [Louisiana Biographies] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 24cm), pp.703; [3]. With 14 lithographic portraits of notable residents. Publisher's deluxe red straight-grained morocco boards with gilt titles stamped to upper board and blind to lower, with further blind decoration. Recently re-backed and re-cornered..... More
Two Discourses. The First, Concerning the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation. The Second, Concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy.
Oxford: [no publisher stated] 1687. [Theology] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes as one. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[26]; [8]; 104; pp.[4]; 39; [35]. Contemporary brown panelled calf, rebacked to style with raised bands and gilt titles. Small black ink 'R.H.' to top right corner of fly-leaf, denoting the initials Woodhead..... More
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[8] xxxii; 462; lxxx [4]; pp.[8] 555 [5]; pp.[5] 622; lxii [4]. With a...... More
The Mysterious Mr. Quin.
London: W.Collins Sons and Co. Ltd. 1930. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287; [1], imprint. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger, pistol, moustache..... More