Gift Books & Fine Bindings
The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange, 1801 [1797]. SEVENTEENTH ISSUE. Octavo, pp.xi, 336. With 13 engraved plates including frontispiece, and a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. Not including the 'List of Rare Plants'. In recent quarter grey card with black titles to white paper label on spine. Marbled boards. All..... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange, 1808 [1809]. TWENTY-FIRST ISSUE. Octavo, pp.xi; 336. With 14 engraved plates, some folding, including frontispiece. Also with a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. In recent quarter vellum with hand-written titles in black ink to spine. Marbled paper-covered boards; top edge red. Housed in a...... More
The Tunbridge Wells Guide; or an Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place, to which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies, etc. etc. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange, 1797. [Town Guide] SIXTEENTH ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[8] xii, 336 [4]. With 13 engraved plates including a frontispiece and calligraphic dedication, and a folding table of inter-town distances to rear. Recently re-backed in plain brown card, with remains of original brown card laid over..... More
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. The Minerva Library of Famous Books.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. [Pedagogy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 548 [2]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Arnold. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to green label and..... More
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey.
London: John Murray, 1868. [Architectural and Ecclesiastical History] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition, revised. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 632 [2]. With 22 illustrations including a frontispiece, as well as a title page vignette. Contemporary peach diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt crossed..... More
In Darkest Africa, or, The Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. With Two Steel Engravings and One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations and Maps.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1890. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Two volumes, octavo. Illustrated, with three folding maps housed in pockets to the rear of each volume. Publisher's green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and black. Some edgewear and rubbing to extremities, spine tips frayed, loose maps with some expected wear..... More
The Romish Horseleech: or, an Impartial Account of the Intolerable Charge of Popery to this Nation, In an Historical Remembrance of some of those Prodigious summs of money heretofore extorted from all degrees during the exercise of the Papal power here. To which is Annexed an Essay of the Supremacy of the King of England.
London: Printed by R.W. for Ralph Smith, 1674. [Anti-Catholic Propaganda] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[32]; 286; [4]. Later (likely late eighteenth-century) brown straight grained calf, with gilt titles to a black label, and gilt decorations to spine. Trimmed, with all edges and endpapers marbled. Some black ink scribbling..... More
The Guardian.
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1745. [Newspaper] JANE AUSTEN FAMILY ASSOCIATION. In two volumes. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.362; [10]; pp.369; [15]. Contemporary full speckled calf with gilt volume numbers to spines. Armorial bookplates of Thomas Austen to pastedowns of both volumes. Black ink..... More
Heroes and Villains.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2005. [Hollywood / Rock Music] SIGNED DELUXE EDITION. Folio. Number 221 of 350 copies thus, SIGNED by photographer David Steen and contributor Sir Roger Moore. Supplied with an additional signed print exclusive to the deluxe copies. Handsomely bound in metallic-effect covers with all edges silver, housed in..... More
The Works and Life of Laurence Sterne. [Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey, etc.]
New York, NY: J.F. Taylor and Co., 1904. [Literature] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS, the Stonegate Edition. 12 volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 40cm). With 60 engraved plates, each duplicated on different paper, each with a tissue guard. Number 18 of just 150 sets in this edition. Very fine contemporary..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top..... More
Treasure Island.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION, First Issue, with '23' for '123' to p.x. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 273 [3]. With 14 colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, as well as an illustrated title page. Recently re-bound..... More
The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, accurately revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-Plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, by John Hawkesworth.
London: Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis [etc.], 1755. [Literature] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. In six volumes. Quarto (27 x 23 x 28cm), pp.[4]; 44; xviii; 184; [2], viii; 286; [2]; pp.[6]; 232; [4]; 182; [2]; pp.[4]; vi; iv; 192; [6]; 253 [3]; pp.[10]; 318; [2]; ii; 237; [3]; pp.[6]; 258;..... More
Atalanta in Calydon. A Tragedy.
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1865. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.[2] xii; 111 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt devices stamped to upper board, designed by D.G. Rossetti (1828-1882). One of just 100 copies thus. All edges untrimmed..... More
Poems.
Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] vi; 436 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 443 [5]. With a steel-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume. Contemporary green full straight-grained morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spines and gilt ruling to..... More
The Life of Sethos. Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians. Translated from a Greek Manuscript into French. And now faithfully done into English from the Paris Edition.
London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1732. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xvi; 460; pp.[4] 480 [4]. With a folding map to each volume. Recently re-backed in brown calf to match the original brown speckled calf boards, ruled in gilt to..... More
The Light Side of Egypt.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. [Illustrated Satire] FIRST EDITION with fine colour plates. Oblong quarto (23 x 30cm), unpaginated. 36 chromolithographic plates, each with a facing leaf of explanation. Publisher's cream buckram, with titles and decoration blocked to upper in black, white, red, blue and gilt. Heavy spotting to..... More
The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1867. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 652 [2]. Contemporary green half calf, with gilt titles to red label on spine, gilt decoration to raised bands, and blind-patterned green cloth over boards. All edges speckled red; green-coated endpapers. Some..... More
The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 584. With six wood engraved plates by Rainey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink ownership..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio (36 x 27cm), pp.306. Number 1898 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert..... More
Concert For George.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] COLLECTOR EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio, pp.306. Number 1604 of 2500 copies. Publisher's decorative padded cloth binding, housed in a silk-screen printed clamshell box. Inside a pocket in the box are four laminated back-stage passes and an original concert programme from the..... More
BIG: Beatles in Germany.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Beatles History and Photography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 25cm), pp.138. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, and occasional colour images. Number 1026 of 1750 copies SIGNED by Tony Sheridan, Günter Zint, Ulf Krüger to limitation page. Also with an original West German Gingerbread..... More
Postcards From The Boys.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2003. [Rock Music / Sixties Culture] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY RINGO. No.1398 of 2500 copies. Quarto (30 x 19cm). An exquisite box set of reproduction postcards sent to Ringo from John Lennon, Paul McCartney & George Harrison, with text and extras. Photo album format in a fine..... More
The Lawson History of the America's Cup. A Record of Fifty Years.
Boston, MA: Thomas W. Lawson, 1902. [Sailing] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, number 2434 of 3000 copies thus, inscribed in black ink to the Ellenville Public Library. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.xv; 402. With 89 illustrated plates in colour and black and white, with captioned tissue-guards. Recently re-bound in navy full morocco..... More
The Seasons, Odes, Songs, and Hymns.
London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1822. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 192 [4]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and an introductory biography by Aikin. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and gilt..... More