Gift Books & Fine Bindings
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Lacks the half-title. Contains most first issue points, but 'Birds-Eye' is hyphenated in the Contents. Contemporary tan half calf, with..... 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 Christian's Dictionary; or, Sure Guide to Divine Knowledge. Containing a full and familiar explanation of all the words made use of in the Holy Scriptures, and Body of Divinity, as set forth in the Writings of the most eminent and pious Divines, whether ancient of modern. Wherein all the various Terms, Phrases, Titles and Allusions, are traced from their Originals: The several Acceptations in which they are held, are clearly pointed out, in such Manner as will enable the serious Christian to give an Account of the Faith that is in him, and render him Wise unto Salvation. The Whole calculated to promote the interests of Religion and Virtue, by conveying Knowledge even to the most ignorant, rectifying the Errors that too many are apt to run into, and representing real Religion in its Native Colours, as taught in the Sacred Volume of Inspiration; and applied to the Faith and Duty of every Sincere Believer. To which is added, and brief explication of all the Proper Names found in Scripture, including the senses wherein they were used by the Jews: As every one of them are significant to some remarkable Transaction, or Providential Event.
London: Printed for J. Cooke, 1773. [Christian Dictionary] FIRST EDITION, a variant with an earlier imprint. Quarto in half-sheets (27 x 22cm), unpaginated. With 30 copper engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Wale, after various artists. Subscriber's list at rear. Contemporary speckled full calf, with raised bands and gilt titles..... More
Death to the French.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1932. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 308 [6]. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. With the original orange cloth spine and upper bound in..... 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
Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. [Game Shooting] FINELY BOUND, the ninth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 623 [3]. With numerous in-text woodcuts, and several full page engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and Papier Tourniquet over..... More
Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.263 of 950 copies. Large Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Original red Buckram with gilt titles, and gilt 'QA' monogram to upper board, top..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Chrysal; or, the Adventures of a Guinea: Wherein are exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes; with Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Personsin Every Rank of Life, through whose hands it has passed. By an Adept.
London: Printed for Samuel Richards and Co., 1822. [Object Narrative] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] 319 [1]; pp.[2] 326; pp.viii; 326. With 12 aquatint engraved plates, including a frontispiece to each volume. Heavily trimmed for a recent binding in period style..... More
The Looking-Glass War.
London: Heinemann, 1965. [Spy Thriller] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 246. Elegantly hand-bound in half red morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, with matching cloth over boards and top edge gilt. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Follow-up to the Edgar-winning..... More
A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotical. Containing an Index to the first Twenty Volumes of the " Sussex Archaeological Collections."
Lewes: George P. Bacon, 1870. [Sussex History and Topography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] xxx; 270 [2]; pp.[6] 278; xiv [2]. With the folding map to volume I, and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 78 additional topographical engravings, carefully trimmed and mounted to fit..... More
Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse. Illustrated by Eighteen Plates in Colour Specially Drawn For This Edition by Cecil Aldin.
London: Jarrold Publishers, no date [1912]. [Children's classic] FIRST ALDIN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[2] xviii; 291 [5]. With 18 colour plates including a frontispiece, and other in-text illustrations, by Aldin. Recenty re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the..... More
The Sonnets of Shakspere.
London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1881. [Love Poetry] FIRST DOWDEN EDITION, finely bound and printed. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[6] lxii; 251 [5]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, as well as extensive notes and an introduction. Printed by A. and T. Constable at the Edinburgh University..... More
The Romish Horseleech: or, an Impartial Account of the Intolerable Charge of Popery to this Nation, In an Historical Remembrance of some of those Prodigious summs of money heretofore extorted from all degrees during the exercise of the Papal power here. To which is Annexed an Essay of the Supremacy of the King of England.
London: Printed by R.W. for Ralph Smith, 1674. [Anti-Catholic Propaganda] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[32]; 286; [4]. Later (likely late eighteenth-century) brown straight grained calf, with gilt titles to a black label, and gilt decorations to spine. Trimmed, with all edges and endpapers marbled. Some black ink scribbling..... More
Kings of England: Characters of the Kings and Queens of England; Selected from the Best Historians. To which is added, a Table of the Succession of each, from Alfred to the present Time. With Heads, by T. Bewick, Newcastle.
London: Printed for E. Newbury, 1795. [English Royalty] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.viii; 204 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, and a vignette bust portrait for each Monarch, all by Thomas Bewick. Recently re-backed in brown calf, with gilt titles to spine and the original brown..... More
Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
Very Good, Jeeves!
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930. [Humour / Satire] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 312 [10]. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed. A hint of spotting to preliminaries, otherwise a lovely crisp..... More
London Illustrated 1604-1851. A Survey and Index of Topographical Books and Their Plates.
London: The Library Association, 1983. [Topographical Bibliography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4] xxxiv; 586 [6]. With 12 double-sided black and white illustrated plates, as well as a frontispiece. Number 5 of 1000 copies, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation leaf. In contemporary dark..... More
Mansfield Park.
London: George Routledge and Sons, no date [circa 1890]. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 443 [7]. With an engraved frontispiece. Recently re-bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt decoration to spine. Marbled paper over..... More
The New Testament, Of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With Engravings on Wood from Designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo Di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Daniel Di Volterra, and Others.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY. Post Quarto. pp. xvi, 540. With 60 wood engravings by the named artists, as well as ubiquitous marginal ornamentation. In full black morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Blind decoration to spine and boards. All edges..... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Extra-illustrated with later engraved plates by Chapman and Hall, depicting Little Paul, Florence, Edith and Alice. Lacks the half-title. Contains..... More
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 384 [2]. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recently re-bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge burgundy; lower edge..... More