History & Biography
Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast.
Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co., 1897. [American Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 221 [5]. With numerous in-text engravings by the author, as well as a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary Art-Nouveau style binding of green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii.
London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1817-1819. [Ancient History and Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Parts one and two complete, bound as one volume. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.xxxii; 273 [3]. Including a leaf with emendations and instructions to the binder. Complete with 77 engraved plates, some folding, each with a tissue..... More
English Guns and Rifles, Being an Account of the Development, Design and Usage of English Sporting Rifles and Shortguns - from their Introduction during the Fifteenth Century until the Advent of the Metallic Cartridges in the Nineteenth Century - together with Notes on Muskets, Service Rifles, Blunderbusses and Other Arms.
Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1947. [Firearms] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 344; [2]. With twenty three black and white plates including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to green squares on spine and upper board, dust-jacket priced at $7.50. Textblock clean..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1782-88. [Late Antiquity] COMPLETE QUARTO EDITIONS. First volume 'New Edition', vols II-III 'Second Edition', final three volumes are First Editions. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.xx; 704; pp.[12] 640; pp.[12] 640; pp.[4] xvi; 620; pp.[12] 684; pp.[14]..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1788-1789. [Late Antiquity] COMPLETE QUARTO EDITIONS. First three volumes 'New Edition', final three volumes are First Editions. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.[4] xx; 704; pp.[14] 640 [2]; pp.[14] 640 [2]; pp.[6] xvi; 620 [2]; pp.[14] 684..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for Cadell & Davies [et al.], 1807. [Late Antiquity] EARLY OCTAVO EDITION. Complete in twelve volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 37cm). With an engraved portrait of the author to volume I, and two large folding maps. Contemporary full marbled calf, with gilt decoration and twin black title..... More
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters, With Occasional Notes and Narrative by John Lord Sheffield. A New Edition, with Considerable Additions.
London: John Murray, 1814. [Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Octavo (23 x 14 x 18cm). Complete in five volumes. With a frontispiece portrait and other engraved illustrated plates. Contemporary binding of deep purple/dark brown full morocco. Spines gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt border to boards, and coated yellow endpapers..... More
Oscar Wilde: A Study.
Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1905. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[12] 110 [2]. From an edition of 500 copies. With five illustrated plates, including a frontispiece caricature of Wilde. Publisher's slate blue paper-covered boards with red and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. All..... More
Churchill.
London: Park Lane Press for St Michael, Marks & Spencer, 1979. [Illustrated Biography] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.192. Heavily illustrated in both colour and black and white, with accompanying text. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, not priced..... More
Winston S. Churchill: Volume IV Companion. Parts I, II, and III: January 1917-November 1922.
London: Heinemann, 1977. [Winston Churchill] FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Octavos (24 x 16 x 13cm), pp.xxiii; [1]; 720, pp.[10]; 721-1426; [4], pp.[10]; 1427-2165; [3]. The complete companion volumes to volume IV of the Life. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, and red top edges. With the white typographic..... More
Plan for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor; for Enforcing and amending the Laws respecting Houses of Correction, and Vagrants; and for Improving the Police of this Country. Together with Bills intended to be offered to Parliament for those Purposes.
London: Printed for G. Wilkie, 1781. [English Law and Politics]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 139 [3]. Sewn but lacking original covers; loosely housed in brown paper-covered board with brown cloth hinge. Red pencil inscription to top left corner of title page; a little grubbiness to title page..... More
Letters of Eric Gill.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.480. With twelve illustrations by various artists. Publisher's red cloth over boards, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 15/- to front flap. Top edge red. Toning to leaves, light spotting to fore-edge. Bumping to cloth..... More
The State In Its relations with The Church.
London: John Murray, 1838. [Political and religious works] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 324. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind embossed bands to spine, uncut pages. A first edition of the author's first book. Some light spotting to front and rear flyleaves, toning to textblock edges..... More
James Joyce. Modern Writers and Playwrights Series, Edited by Thomas Moult.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1933. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine. With the grey dust-jacket titled in blue, priced at 4/6. Light spotting to edges and endpapers, as well as first and final few leaves. Very light handling indeed..... More
Festivals and Songs of Ancient China.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1932. [Chinese History] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 281 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink; others untrimmed. With the plain dust-jacket, titled in green and priced at 18s to spine. Spotting to preliminary leaves..... More
'twixt Sand and Sea: Sketches and Studies in North Africa.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., no date [1911]. [North African History and Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 504. With 58 black and white plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower..... More
Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Great War Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.448. Including the Sassoon poem to pp.341-43, and no deletions to p.290. Sewn and bound with tapes, endpapers, and glue to spine, but no binding. Possibly a proof or advance copy, printed on thinner paper..... More
Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth.
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd. 1940. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.376. Folding map to rear. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Aldridge, priced at 8/6. Lightly handled only, with some minor toning to edges. Toned to jacket spine..... More
A Short History of the English People.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xlviii; 872 [2]. With a chronology, genealogical tables, six coloured maps, and dates printed to margins. Contemporary navy half morocco with gilt titles to spine, blue cloth over boards, and the gilt crest of King..... More
Kate Greenaway.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[xx]; 301; [2], advertisements. Illustrated with numerous photos, plates and in-text line drawings, including several in colour. Bound in early quarter brown calf over blue cloth sides with red morocco title label to spine, ruled in gilt..... More
The Myths of Greece and Rome. Their Stories, Signification, and Origin.
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1909. [Greek and Roman Mythology] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 395 [3]. With 64 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full calf by BUMPUS, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, further..... More
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte; for a Conspiracy, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814: With the Subsequent Proceedings in the Court of King's Bench: Taken in Short Hand by William Brodie Gurney, Short Hand Writer to Both Houses of Parliament.
London: J. Butterworth and Son, 1814. [Court Transcript] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 604 [6]. Folded chart to page 184. Black calf to boards with gilt roll-tooled ruling to borders. Spine re-backed in brown calf with gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands. Inside gilt dentelles. Edges speckled. Toning..... More
Regeneration. Being an Account of the Social Work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910. [Charity History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 264. With six black and white photographic illustrations, including a frontispiece. Publisher's maroon cloth with titles in gilt to spine, and blind to upper. Gently toned throughout, with a little light spotting to preliminaries. Fairly..... More
William Pitt the Younger.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004. [Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 652 [10]. With three suites of four double-sided colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page; 'For Roger | with best wishes | William Hague.' Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
Diamond.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1956. [Gemstones / mining / Colonial history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.262; [2], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Subtle ownership to free endpaper. A particularly clean, fresh copy in price-clipped jacket. Traveller, journalist and novelist, Hahn was an..... More