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Rupert. The Daily Express Annual 1978.
London: Express Newspapers, 1978. [Children's Annual] ORIGINAL ANNUAL. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.116. With colour illustrations by Bestall to every page. Cover art and endpapers by Harrold. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and colour-illustrated endpapers. Light browning to edges. Near fine. The first Rupert Annual to feature cover art by..... More
Rupert. The Daily Express Annual 1970, No. 35.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1970. [Children's Annual] ORIGINAL ANNUAL. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.114. With colour illustrations by Bestall to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. Colour-illustrated endpapers. Name within 'book belongs to' box, price clipped, some foxing within, minor shelfwear. An attractive copy. More
Rupert. The Daily Express Annual 1972.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1972. [Children's Annual] ORIGINAL ANNUAL. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.116. With colour illustrations by Bestall to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. Colour-illustrated endpapers. Internally clean and unmarked. Some light wear to covers; spine very slightly toned. Near fine. The penultimate Rupert Annual with cover art..... More
Rupert. The Daily Express Annual 1972.
London: Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1972. [Children's Annual] ORIGINAL ANNUAL. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.116. With colour illustrations by Bestall to every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. Colour-illustrated endpapers. Contents very clean. Pencil name within 'book belongs to' box, price clipped, minor shelfwear. An attractive copy. The penultimate Rupert Annual with..... More
The Interest of the Princes and States of Europe.
London: Printed by J.M. for John Wickins, 1681. [European Power Politics] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 11cm), pp.[16] 357 [3]. In contemporary speckled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges speckled red. Loss to lower edge of title page due to a production fault..... More
Poems in the Porch.
London: S.P.C.K., 1957. [Poetry] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[28]. With in-text illustrations by Piper. Publisher's soft covers titled in blue and red, stapled twice and priced at 2s. Blue ink gift inscription to half-title. Covers toned with some light handling. Very good. Some blank verse..... More
Poems in the Porch.
London: S.P.C.K., 1955. [Poetry] SIGNED ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[28]. With in-text illustrations by Piper. Publisher's soft covers titled in blue and red, stapled twice and priced at 2s to back cover. Author's signature to half-title page in black ink. Spotting throughout, sunning to covers..... More
Summoned By Bells. With Drawings by Michael Tree.
London: John Murray, 1960. [Verse Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. With engraved head-pieces by Tree. Publisher's blind stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine and decorative endpapers. With the typographic dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 16s. Blue ink ownership to verso..... More
Summoned By Bells. With Drawings by Michael Tree.
London: John Murray, 1960. [Verse Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. With engraved head-pieces by Tree. Publisher's blind stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine and decorative endpapers. With the typographic dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 16s. Near fine in like wrapper..... More
Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
London: John Murray, 1977. [Poetry] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. With in-text illustrations by various artists. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the dust-jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, priced at £2.95. Jacket toned and rubbed to spine, with a few small closed..... More
Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
London: John Murray, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. With in-text illustrations by various artists. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to upper. All edges gilt. With the dust-jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, priced at 7/6. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to cloth, with..... More
A Few Late Chrysanthemums.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.viii; 95 [1]. Publisher's purple cloth, with printed titles to a plain paper label pasted to upper. With the plain yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Spotting to jacket, with some toning also to..... More
New Bats in Old Belfries. Poems.
London: John Murray, 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.vi; 54. Publisher's red cloth, with printed titles to a plain paper label pasted to upper. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s. A small black ink ownership to fly-leaf, with some light spotting and bubbling to endpapers..... More
Sand and Canvas; a Narrative of Adventures in Egypt, with a Sojourn Among the Artists in Rome.
London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. [Travel Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 370 [2]. With eight engraved plates, including a frontispiece, after drawings by the author, six being hand-coloured, each with a tissue guard. Pencil note to verso of fly-leaf stating: 'Wm. Bevan - my..... More
Select Fables; With Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, And Others, Previous to the Year 1784: Together With a Memoir; and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick.
Newcastle: Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, c. 1880s. [Fables] LEATHER-BOUND STEREOTYPE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; xl; 332. With numerous wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Thomas and John Bewick. Brown half-calf with brown cloth to boards and blind ruling to calf..... More
The Veiled Wanderer. Letters to the Duc de Guiche and Unpublished Papers.
London: The Falcon Press, 1949. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.88. With all 12 collotype plates. Title page lettered in red and black. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to front flap. Internally bright and clean, minor..... More
The Illustrated Family Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, With the Self-Interpreting and Explanatory Notes, and Marginal References, of the Late Rev. John Brown, Minister of the Gospel at Haddington: to Which is Appended, A Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments.
London: Smith, Elder, and co., 1838. [Bible] EARLY VICTORIAN BINDING. Small folio (34 x 24cm), pp.[12] xlii; 590 [2]; 256 [2]; 104; 54 [4]. Red full morocco to boards. Gilt tooling and blind ruling to lower and upper. Gilt titles and additional tooling to spine. Raised bands. Gilt interior dentelles..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha; explained with Short, Apt, and Instructive Notes, in a Method entirely different from all Modern Publications of the Sacred Book: and Cleared from that Variety of Opinions and Conjectures, many of which have no Support in the Scriptures; have been collected without Judgement; and serve more to disturb and confound, than to instruct, edify, and confirm the Reader in the Faith and Practice of a Christian.
London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, date misprinted [1770]. [Illustrated Bible] RARE IMPRINT. Folio, (42 x 28cm), unpaginated. Collation: A-13F2. Date misprinted as 2170 in Roman numerals. With a copper engraved frontispiece by Cole after Wale, as well as 33 further copper engraved plates by various artists. With an index..... More
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; Carefully and Diligently compared with the Original Greek, and the Several Translations of it: and Illustrated with Critical and Explanatory Notes, Extracted from the Writings and Sermons of the celebrated Grotius, Hammond, Stanhope, Whitby, Burkitt, and many other curious and Modern Annotators and Preachers.
London: Printed by R. Penny, 1736. [Annotated New Testament] FIRST THUS. Folio (40 x 28cm), pp.[2] 875. Final twenty pages misnumbered. Printed in two columns, with extensive notes below every small section of text. Original sewing and boards, with an extremely rough later nineteenth century covering of black leather-grain-effect cloth..... More
The Christian's Family Bible; or, Library of Divine Knowledge. Containing the Sacred Texts of the Old and New Testaments; with the Apocrypha, at Large. Illustrated with Short, but Suitable, Annotations, Historical, Chronological, Biographical, Geographical, Theological, Moral, and Practical. In which many difficult Passages are rendered clear, seeming Contradictions reconciled, and important Truths confirmed; calculated to dispel the Mists of Darkness, enlighten the Ignorant, encourage the Diffident, reclaim the Vicious, reconcile the Doubtful, lead the Wavering into the Paths of Truth, and implant in the Mind of every Reader that Divine Knowledge which is essentially necessary to Salvation. Being a Brief Explanation of the Various Books in the Old and New Testaments. And, as a Farther Illustration, will be given, a Chronological Index of Places mentioned in the Holy Scriptures; a Brief Account of the Apostles and their Successors, who propagated the Christian Religion, by presiding over the Apostolic Churches of Antioch, Jerusalem, etc. The Whole Forming a Body of Christian Divinity. Notes are selected from the most eminent and approved Authors, and are designed to assist plain Persons, who cannot purchase more expensive commentaries, in gaining Knowledge of Divine Truth. Embellished and Enriched with Engravings, illustrative of the various Transactions recorded in the Sacred Writings.
Liverpool: Caxton Press, printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, no date [circa 1840]. [Bible] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[2] 960 [2]. With 45 engraved plates by various artists, including an engraved frontispiece and a decorated title page. Plates dated variously between 1815 and 1839. Contemporary tan..... More
The Holy Bible. A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha.
London: Richard Priestley, 1822. FINELY BOUND. Quarto (32 x 26 x 28cm). Bound in contemporary diced tan calf, gilt titles on black calf squares to spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Bishop Patrick to volume I, folding map of the Holy Lands in volume V. Bookplate of..... 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, and Co., 1883. [Bible] ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing thus. Quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.xvi; 540. With 60 wood engravings by the named artists, as well as ubiquitous marginal ornamentation. Publisher's brown cloth, heavily illustrated and titled in gilt, grey and black to spine and upper. Grey..... More
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; Translated out of the Original Greek; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.
London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1818. [New Testament] CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Very small octavo (9 x 5cm), unpaginated, containing the whole New Testament in very small print to thin paper. Contemporary horizontal-grained brown full morocco, with gilt titles to spine and extensive blind decoration all over. All edges gilt, with..... 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 Offices According to the Use of the Church of England, for the Solemnization of Matrimony; Publick and Private Baptism of Infants; Churching of Women; Visitation and Communion of the Sick; and the Burial of the Dead. To which is now added, an Appendix, Containing useful Directions for the Due Discharge of the foregoing Offices, and other Articles relative to the Ministerial Function in general. [Also with 'Thanksgiving for Harvest' circa 1881].
Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press, by W. Jackson and W. Dawson, 1795. [C of E Ceremonial Usage] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 102 [22]. The complete text, with appendix at rear. Main text numbered in heavy pencil as original pagination has been trimmed away. Thanksgiving for Harvest..... More