Gift Books & Fine Bindings
The Antiquary.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 438; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
Noah Webster: American Men of Letters.
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. [Literary Biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] vi; 302 [4]. With a frontispiece engraving of the subject. Contemporary blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others..... 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
Laneton Parsonage. A Tale for Children on the practical use of a portion of the Church Catechism.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. [Christian Novel] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[4] 550 [2]. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red; grey endpapers. Small black ink..... More
William Shakespeare. The Complete Works. A new edition, edited with an introduction and glossary by Peter Alexander, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow.
London and Glasgow: Collins, 1954. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxxii; 1376. Recently rebound in red morocco, edges gilt ruled. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Machine-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Interior bright and clean. Some faint scuffing to boards..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of the Text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
London: Bickers & Son [etc.], 1869. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND SET. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] liv; 725 [3]; pp.[8] 730 [2]; pp.[8] 700 [2]; pp.[8] 751 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Bard to volume I. Contemporary tan full polished calf by BICKERS..... More
The Leopold Shakespeare. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III.," and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin & Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Shakespeare's Works] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. The thirty-second thousand. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[4] cxxviii; 1056 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, and frequent in-text wood engravings. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
Hamlet. The Letterpress Shakespeare.
London: The Folio Society, 2007. [Drama] LIMITED EDITION. Folio (37 x 27cm), pp.[2] 129 [5]. Number 1667 of 3750 copies thus, set 'monotype' Baskerville, printed by Hand and Eye Letterpress, London, on Zerkall mould-made paper. Hand-bound in red half morocco by G. Lachenmailer, Reutlingen, with gilt titles to spine and..... More
[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
Shakespeare's Comedy As You Like It.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Illustrated Shakespeare] FIRST THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.xxxvi; 143 [1]. With 24 mounted colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and red titles with dark green decoration..... More
The Library Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: William Mackenzie, no date [1873-75]. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in three volumes. Quarto (32 x 27cm), pp.[6] 396 [2]; pp.[6] 406 [2]; pp.[6] 476 [2]. With a full-page engraved plate for each play, nine very fine coloured plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and very..... More
The Plays of Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. [Shakespeare] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET. Twelve volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 44cm). With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and an engraved headpiece for each play by various artists. Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and..... 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
An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands.
Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1914. [Military Letters] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, dated 1914 only (some remaindered copies were over-stamped with the date 1916). Octavo, pp.183, with full-page photographic plates inserted. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over..... More
Pastoral.
London: William Heinemann, 1944. [Wartime Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 218 [4]. Recently re-bound in green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to black label on spine, and green cloth over boards. Edges toned, otherwise a crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding..... More
A Yankee's Adventures in South Africa.
Chicago, IL: Rhodes and McClure Publishing Company, 1898. [Children's literature]. SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14 cm), pp.234; [12]. With 33 illustrations, including a frontispiece of Cecil Rhodes. In publisher's green cloth with elaborate silver titles and decoration to spine and upper board. Green patterned endpapers. Heavily browned paper stock;..... More
Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on a Circular Motion. And an Experimental Examination of the Quantity and Proportion of Mechanic Power Necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of Velocity to Heavy Bodies from a State of Rest. Also New Fundamental Experiments upon the Collision of Bodies. With Five Plates of Machines.
London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1794. FIRST EDITION in book form. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] iv; 110 [2]. With five folding copper-engraved plates at rear, and two folding tables. In recent red half calf with two raised bands, gilt titles to spine and red cloth boards. Mark..... More
Literary and Characteristical Lives of John Gregory, M.D., Henry Home, Lord Kame, David Hume, Esq., and Adam Smith, L.L.D. To which are added a Dissertation on Public Spirit; and Three Essays.
Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by Alex. Smellie, [etc.] 1800. [Scottish Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 450 [2]. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to red label, gilt ruling, blind tooling to spine and corners, and grey-brown paper over boards. All edges speckled brown. Small yellow..... More
The Dictionary of National Biography, The Concise Dictionary From the Beginnings to 1930, Being and Epitome of the Main Work and its Supplement, to which is added and Epitome of the Twentieth Century Volumes covering 1901 - 1930.
London: Humphrey Milford. c. 1939. Attractive single volume. Octavo. pp. viii, 1456; 184. Bound in half red morocco leather with raised bands and gilt titles and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt and marbled end papers. Light foxing to prelims and the beginnings of a split to upper joint. Otherwise..... More
Elements of Geography. [in] The Scientific Library; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: Comprising Astronomy, Geography, Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. Vol. II.
London: Printed for J. Wallis, 1806. [Historical Geography] FIRST EDITION, volume II of VI only. Duodecimo (13 x 9cm), pp.[8] 152 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red quarter morocco, with gilt titles and ruling to spine, and light blue paper over boards. Contemporary label of Grosvenor's Toy Rooms, Holborn..... More
Maria and Some Other Dogs.
London: Methuen, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 126. With in-text illustrations by Somerville. In publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine and blue dog motif to upper board. With original orange pictorial dust jacket. Chipping to jacket edges; one particularly large chip from front cover bottom edge. Good overall..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Southey.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a later impression thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 828 [2]. Small print in two columns. With the engraved frontispiece and vignette title page from the original 1845 edition. Contemporary tan full calf by STEPHEN AUSTIN of Hertford..... More
Poems of Childhood.
London: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1912]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[8]; 46; [2]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by Millicent Sowerby. In publisher's quarter cream cloth with textured cream red and green cloth over boards. Gilt titles to spine and..... More
Harper and Wilton.
London: Colophon Press, 1996. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 17 [5]. Number 59 of 110 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear. Printed by letterpress on Velin Arches paper. Publisher's brown quarter morocco, with gilt titles to spine..... More
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur.
London: Colophon Press, 2001. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 15 [7]. Letter Z of 26 lettered copies thus, from a total limitation of 157, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear, with a holograph quotation from the text. Printed by..... More