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Masons Yard to Primrose Hill.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1995. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small folio, in slipcase. No 1233 of 1750 copies in black quarter leather with silk-screened slipcase, signed by the photographer. An original 3-frame contact strip direct from the negative is pasted into each copy. This copy with additional 4-page photographic order form for..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches: and the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, and sold by S. Crowder, 1776. [Prayer Book] FINE BINDING WITH ROYAL ARMS. Folio (42 x 27cm), unpaginated. Collation: ; A-H2; A-4Q2; a-f2. Printed in two columns, ruled in red and black ink. Contemporary black full calf with raised bands, gilt decoration..... More
Cleopatra. Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis, the Royal Egyptian, as set forth by his own Hand.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. [Adventure Fiction] FIRST EDITION, First issue, adverts dated January, 1889. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 336; [16]. With thirty illustrations. Publisher's blue-grey cloth, bevelled edges, gilt titles, edges untrimmed, patterned endpapers. Some spotting, contemporary newspaper review clipped and affixed to flyleaf, armorial bookplate to..... More
The Embassy Case [Publisher's retained copy].
London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1915. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304; [1], advertisements. Frontispiece illustration by Gilbert, with tissue guard. Original black cloth decorated in red and gilt, illustrated dust-jacket. A near fine copy of the book in price-clipped wrapper, lightly chipped and rubbed..... More
Finished.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1917. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. Hinges split; spotting to edges and preliminaries. Rubbing to boards; spine head pulled; corners bumped. Good. The..... More
Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of any Age.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, ex libris Maurice Baring. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.viii; 168. With nine wood engraved plates by Hardy, including a frontispiece, as well as in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt and illustrations in black to spine and..... More
Mr. Meeson's Will.
London: Spencer Blackett, 1888. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Later issue without publisher's advertisements at rear. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.286. With 16 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black and gilt to spine and upper board. All edges untrimmed, black coated endpapers. Textblock shaken, light, very..... More
Queen of The Dawn.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1925]. [Fantasy novel] FIRST EDITION. Undated, but published 8th April 1925. FIRST ISSUE, with 'sisturm' for 'sistrum' page 11 line 12. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.287; 48, advertisements dated 'Spring 1925'. Bound in publisher's grey/green cloth, titled in black. Spotting to prelims and edges..... More
Queen of The Dawn.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1925]. [Fantasy novel] FIRST EDITION. Undated, but published 8th April 1925. FIRST ISSUE, with 'sisturm' for 'sistrum' page 11 line 12. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.287; 48, advertisements dated 'Spring 1925'. Bound in publisher's grey/green cloth, titled in black. Upper panel of scarce original..... More
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1844. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. In two volumes. Octavo (16 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 456; [2]; pp.[6]; 443; [3]. Contemporary tan quarter calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red spine labels, and marbled boards and endpapers. Browning and spotting throughout. Spines lightly toned with some marks and..... More
Family Secrets. or hints to those who would make home happy.
London: Fisher, Son and Co., no date [1843]. [Literature] ILLUSTRATED Three volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 8cm). Brown half calf over brown cloth sides, gilt titles on darker brown calf squares to spine. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and half title page plus another twenty-five plates spread between..... 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
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et autre Choses.
Paris: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. [Surrealism] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[6] 295 [3]. All text in French. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings by the author throughout, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as 36 hand-coloured plates. Recent quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and decoration..... More
The Works of Henry Fielding.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., and New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. Twelve volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 38cm). Beautifully bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for E.P. Dutton and Company in contemporary dark red half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and..... More
[Manuscript Letter Declining an Invitation].
London. no date [circa 1860]. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER. One small sheet of headed note paper from The Priory, 21 North Bank, Regent's Park, written in purple ink and backed onto a sheet of card (13 x 12cm). George Lewes here writes to Mrs Binyon, informing her that his partner Mary..... More
La Corde au Cou. [The Rope Around His Neck].
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Lettres, 1873. [Literature] EARLY EDITION, possibly the seventh. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.vi; 489; [1]. All text in French. Later tan half calf with gilt titles to spine., marbled boards. Internally clean, slight chip[ping to flyleaf, binding lightly rubbed to..... More
An Incident of African History [and] M.I. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volumes XIII and XIV.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1900 to November 1901. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. In two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.vi; 754; pp.vi; 714. With frequent photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and dark brown titles and decoration to spines and upper boards. Blue ink ownership inscription to..... More
Beatrice. Newnes Sixpenny Novels Illustrated.
London: George Newnes, n.d. [c.1895]. SIXPENNY NOVEL. Octavo, pp.192. With eight lithographic illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo. In publisher's colour illustrated paper covers. Browned, as expected, with some marks to front cover. Very good indeed considering its fragility. More
Cleopatra. 6d Paper Novels 38.
London: Wight and Brown, n.d. [c.1930's]. SIXPENNY NOVEL. Octavo, pp.128. In publisher's colour illustrated paper covers. Heavily browned; some losses to spine; hinges very weak. Good overall considering fragility. Egyptian (or Ptolemaic) historical fiction set during the reign of the famous Queen Cleopatra (51-30 BC). More
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. Pictured by R. Caldecott.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., c.1890. AN ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOK. Slim oversized octavo, pp.30. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards, depicting two men carrying a dead dog upon a stretcher, flanked by mournful black hounds. Front and rear pastedown illustrated with full colour plates. A lovely copy of a...... More
The Windsor Magazine No. 264. Vol. 45.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1916. RARE ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Demy Octavo. pp. xl, 192 [8]. With frequent b/w in-text illustrations and 15 full-page colour plates. In original colour pictorial paper covers featuring Windsor Castle above the Thames; red and white titles. Adverts to prelims in the style of the..... More
Ruth.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields 1853. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Slim octavo, pp.160. text printed in two columns. Elegantly bound in period-style half speckled brown calf with red and green labels, gilt decoration to raised bands, marbled sides. Bound without ads or half-title, cheap paper suffers from inevitable browning and spotting;..... More
A Changed Man: The Waiting Supper And Other Tales concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.
MacMillan and Co., Limited, London, 1913. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. With a map of Wessex and a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, gilt decoration to upper board, top edge gilt. In the original printed dust-jacket. Book is fine, but for some offset browning from flaps, neat ink name hidden beneath. The fragile..... More
The House of the Whispering Pines.
London, Eveleigh Nash, 1910. 8vo. Uncommon British First Edition. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and to upper with colour illustration within a gilt frame. Slight rubbing to extremities. Edges dusty. A sound, attractive copy. Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of Detective Fiction..... More
The Filigree Ball.
America, The Bobbs Merrill Co. 1903. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative title in red with the subject of the title, the Filigree Ball, stamped in gilt to upper board. One illustration as frontispiece by C.M. Relyea. 21 pages advertisements to rear of text. Gentle..... More