History & Biography
The Life and Times of James Catnach, (Late of Seven Dials), Ballad Monger.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1878. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xvi, 432 [12]. With frequent engravings. In publisher's green cloth with black titles to paper label on spine. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean. Title label badly worn; titles largely obscured. Good overall. 'Here, you may read how he was bred and..... 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
Pictures and Problems From London Police Courts.
London: Edward Arnold, 1900. [Law/Legal memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 329; [3]; 32. With the photogravure frontispiece. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Blind double rulings to boards. Fore edge untrimmed. Interior bright and clean. Gutter visible in a few areas, although binding..... More
Peeps at History: Ireland.
London: A. & C. Black, 1927. [Ireland] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.iv; 92. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and 20 in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the green dust-jacket titled and decorated in navy, not priced. Heavy..... More
General Gordon: The Christian Hero.
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1908]. [African Colonial Wars] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 369 [3]. A stamp at rear suggests a printing date of April 1908. Contemporary red full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles..... More
Simply Churchill.
London: Robert Hale, 1965. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. 192. Green publisher's cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Paul Mechan with printed price of 25/- to front flap. Photographs throughout the book featuring Winston Churchill. Shaken in case, toning and spotting to edges..... More
Heroes of The Argonne.
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Company. 1919. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's olive green cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Minor rubbing and edgewear, a trifle shaken, gilt somewhat dulled, strong and clean, a very good copy. Internally clean. Dogearing to some early pages, illustrated throughout..... More
The Cinque Ports. A Historical and Descriptive Record.
William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. [Kent]. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.xiv; 403; [1]. Publisher's beige cloth blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, red endpapers. Fourteen photogravure plates with tissue guards, nineteen in text and other illustrations. Small repaired marginal tear to page 43, discreet cancelled library stamp to flyleaf with..... More
Rugby Tennessee. Being Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau by The Board of Aid to Land Ownership.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12] 168 [32]. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, black ruling to spine, navy endpapers. Red stamp to first flyleaf, else internally clean. Upper hinge split. Textblock top edge heavily toned, with some light toning and wear..... More
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James The Second. With the author's Last Corrections. Embellished with Portraits.
Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver & Co., 1803-4. [English History] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. In eight volumes. Octavo (18 x 11 cm). With a short account of the author's life by himself, and a letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan. In contemporary marbled and polished brown calf with gilt decoration and..... More
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Accession of Henry VII; under the House of Tudor; the Revolution in 1688.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1759-1762. [English History] FINELY BOUND QUARTO EDITIONS, volumes I-IV FIRST EDITIONS, volumes V and VI NEW EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (26 x 22 x 20cm), pp.viii; 424; pp.viii; 446 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 402 [2]; pp.[2] iv; 403-739 [3], pp.vi; 473 [1]; pp.[2] vi;..... More
The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage in Great Britain and Her Dependencies, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
London: David Bogue, 1855. [Numismatics] PAPIER MACHÉ BINDING, the second edition. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.160. With 12 plates done in gold, silver and copper, including a frontispiece, and 11 supplemental plates at rear. Recently rebound in tough black buckram with gilt titles to spine, and the original black..... More
The Old Court Suburb: or, Memorials of Kensington Regal, Critical, & Anecdotal by the late J.H. Leigh Hunt Esq., edited by Austin Dobson Esq., & newly embellished by Herbert Railton, Claude Shepperson, & Edmund J. Sullivan Esq.
London: Freemantle & Co., 1902. [London Topography] ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[2] xviii; 211 [1]; pp.[2] x; 208. With 108 engraved illustrations, including numerous plates, and a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spines and uppers. Top edges gilt;..... More
The Octocentenary of Reading Abbey, A.D.1121—A.D.1921.
London: Elliot Stock, 1921. [Monastic History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 19cm), pp.x; 92 [2]. With 10 black and white illustrated plates, including a large folding frontispiece impression of the Abbey at its peak. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'E. Board Esq. | with the..... More
Sumer is icumen in.
London: Novello and Company, 1914. [English Music] INSCRIBED SECOND EDITION. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.53 [3]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece facsimile of the original manuscript, and a transcript of the whole score in modern notation. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'E. Board | with the author's..... More
The Fifth Division in the Great War.
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1921. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 278 [2]. With a colour frontispiece, 16 further black and white photographic plates, 16 maps through the text, and two folding maps at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with titles in gilt to spine..... More
The Story of Lamb House Rye: The Home of Henry James.
Rye: Adams of Rye, 1966. [Guide Book] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet in soft covers, stapled (22 x 14cm), pp.84. With black and white photographs. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to inside cover: 'For | Joyce and John Harkness, | Souvenir of their visit | to Lamb House..... More
England's Topographer or a New and Complete History of the County of Kent. From the Earliest Records to the Present Time. Including every Modern Improvement. Embellished with a Series of Views from Original Drawings by Geo. Shepherd, H. Gastineau, etc., with Historical, Topographical, Critical and Biographical Delineations.
London: Geo. Virtue, 1828-1830. [Kent] FIRST EDITION, ILLUSTRATED. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 21cm), pp.[4]; ii; 712; xix of index; [1]; pp.[2]; 713; [1]; xv of index; [1]; pp.[4]; 698; xviii of index; [4]; pp.[2]; 780; xiii of index; [1]; [8 of errata]; 19 list of subscribers; [1]..... More
A History of New York, From the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty. Containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governers of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that hath ever been published.
London: John Bumpus, 1825. [History] Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.xx; 340. Bound in pictorial paper boards, with titles to spine and publisher's advertisements to rear boards, edges uncut. Binding is rubbed and chipped, with a small split to front hinge. Text shows some spotting, particularly to front matter. Very good..... More
Life Between the Lines.
London: Umbria Press, 2012. [Journalism Memoirs] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.viii; 359 [1]. With occasional in-text black and white photographs. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Wendy | every good wish | Enjoy! | John Izbicki | April 2016'. Publisher's photographic soft..... More
The Hand-Book of Swindling. By the late Captain Barabbas Whitefeather, late of the Body-Guard of His Majesty, King Carlos; Treasurer of the British Wine and Vinegar Company; Trustee for the Protection of the River Thames from Incendiaries; Principal Inventor of Poyais Stock; Ranger of St George's Fields; Original Patentee of the Parachute Conveyance Association; Knight of every Order of the Fleece; Scamp and Cur.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Crime and Con-Artistry] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.viii; 87 [1]. With four engraved plates by "Phiz", including a frontispiece. Publisher's green limp cloth covers, with gilt titles and decoration to upper. All edges gilt, with yellow-coated endpapers. A highly attractive armorial bookplate..... More
The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793, to the Accession of George IV, in January 1820. A New Edition, with considerable Additions and Improvements, including Diagrams of all principal Actions.
London: Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1826. [History] New Edition. Six volumes, all folding tables present. Octavos (23 x 14 x 25cm) pp.L; [2]; 568, pp.vi; [2]; 568, pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 533; [5], pp.[2]; v; [3]; 539; [3], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 581; [5], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 740; [4]. Bound in half..... More
The Charters and other Documents Relating to the King's Town and Parish of Maidstone, in the County of Kent. With Notes and Annotations Clearly Showing the Right of Election of Members of Parliament to be in the Inhabitant Householders.
London: Printed for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1825. [Kent history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxxi; [1]; 238; [2]. Contemporary brown calf with single gilt borders to boards, recently rebacked in brown calf, modern grey endpapers, edges speckled red. Some spotting to first and last leaves but generally very..... More
Hodge and his Masters.
London: Smith, Elder, 1890. NEW EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 424. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and black decorative stamping to upper board. Black end-papers. Reading lean and some light shelf-wear. Very good overall. A collection of articles on farming and the rural economy first published in the..... More
The Old Rectory: The Story of the English Parsonage.
London: Continuum, 2009. [Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 282 [2]. With a series of glossy photographic plates in black and white and colour. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. A fine as-new copy. More