Gift Books & Fine Bindings
["Mis"-Prints Connected with the French Revolution 1789] La Révolution française depuis l'ouverture des Etats-Généraux jusqu'au 9 brumaire. [and 11 other contemporary engravings relating to the French Revolution].
Paris: Chez Decrouan, Imp. de Baudouin, et al., various dates, especially 1838. [Revolutionary Engravings] RARE CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVINGS, including part of the second edition of Helman's famous print collection. Large portfolio codex (39 x 65cm), featuring 10 engravings of the French Revolution by Helman, after drawings by Monnet, and 11 other..... More
Illustrations of Tracts on the Greek-Egyptian Sun-Dial, with Seven Steps, etc.: Being the second and third series of illustrations for tracts on Christianity in its relation to Judaism and Heathenism, etc. etc.
London: Simpkin and Co., 1870. [Occult Astrology] RARE AND FINELY BOUND. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.9; pp.4. Filled with astrological diagrams and occasional illustrated plates, some folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label, and Masonic gilt tooling to spine. Marbled paper over boards; all..... More
Chronograms. 5000 and more in number excerpted out of various authors and collected at many places.
London: Ellliot Stock, 1882. [Chronograms] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.xx; 569 [3]. With a lithographic frontispiece reproduction of an engraving, and 12 illustrations placed throughout the text. Publisher's green quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and green leather-grain-effect cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
An Answer to the Representation Drawn up by the Committee of the Lower-House of Convocation concerning Several Dangerous Positions and Doctrines contain'd in the Bishop of Bangor's Preservative and Sermon.
London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for J. Knapton, and Tim Childe, 1718. [Bangorian Controversy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xvi; 342 [4]. With some woodcut head pieces and other vignettes to preliminaries. Very fine contemporary polished, panelled and speckled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine..... More
The Life of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D. Late Bishop of London. By the Rev. Robert Hodgson, A.M.F.R.S. Rector of St. George's Hanover-Square, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to his Majesty.
London: For T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812. [Religious history] LEATHER-BOUND EARLY EDITION, the third. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 320 [4]. With a stipple-engraved frontispiece by Charles Picart. Contemporary tan full diced calf, board edges gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt titles, raised bands, and blind tooling. Marbled endpapers. All edges..... More
Through the Eyes of Gilbert & George: The Line of Beauty. Shared Vision volume II.
Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2004. [First Chapter Book] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.41 [3]. Number 40 of 85 copies thus, from a total limitation of 100, SIGNED by the author, and with an original print SIGNED by Gilbert & George. A colour illustration to preliminaries..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cambridge Edition.
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. [American Poetry] FINELY BOUND, first thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xxii; 352 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, and a vignette title page. Small print over two columns. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to contrasting brown and..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, first thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] xvi; 773 [7]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the crest of New College, Oxford, stamped in gilt to..... More
General Gordon: The Christian Hero.
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1908]. [African Colonial Wars] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 369 [3]. A stamp at rear suggests a printing date of April 1908. Contemporary red full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles..... More
Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman, illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Illustrated Folk Tales] FIRST DULAC EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[8] 113 [3]. With 10 mounted colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's white cloth with elaborate pale blue and gilt decoration to..... More
The Blue Moon.
London: John Murray, 1904. [Children's fantasy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 14cm), pp.210. Nine full-page plates. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in red and gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated dust-jacket. Some trivial dustiness, jacket very lightly worn. An unquestionably fine copy. Scarce thus. More
Triton, and Battle of Wizards.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949. [Fantasy] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.172 [4]. Recently bound in green half morocco, matching green buckram over sides. Gilt titles and raised bands to spine. Original cloth spine bound in at rear. Internally bright and clean. Binding as new. Fine. A...... More
The Works of W.H. Hudson. [incomplete set].
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922-1923. [Natural History] FINELY BOUND COLLECTION. 19 of 24 volumes. Octavo (23 x 16 x 69cm). One of just 850 sets thus. In contemporary navy half crushed morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt..... More
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James The Second. With the author's Last Corrections. Embellished with Portraits.
Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver & Co., 1803-4. [English History] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. In eight volumes. Octavo (18 x 11 cm). With a short account of the author's life by himself, and a letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan. In contemporary marbled and polished brown calf with gilt decoration and..... More
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Accession of Henry VII; under the House of Tudor; the Revolution in 1688.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1759-1762. [English History] FINELY BOUND QUARTO EDITIONS, volumes I-IV FIRST EDITIONS, volumes V and VI NEW EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (26 x 22 x 20cm), pp.viii; 424; pp.viii; 446 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 402 [2]; pp.[2] iv; 403-739 [3], pp.vi; 473 [1]; pp.[2] vi;..... More
The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage in Great Britain and Her Dependencies, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
London: David Bogue, 1855. [Numismatics] PAPIER MACHÉ BINDING, the second edition. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.160. With 12 plates done in gold, silver and copper, including a frontispiece, and 11 supplemental plates at rear. Recently rebound in tough black buckram with gilt titles to spine, and the original black..... More
Pre-Rapaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 512; pp.[2]; xiv; 493; [3]. With forty photogravure plates including a frontispiece to each volume, and many more in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spines and gilt 'PRB' monogram to upper boards..... More
Translations & Verses
London: The Dropmore Press. September 1949. [Literaturel] LIMITED EDITION. One of fifty copies in Niger (although un-numbered/out-of-series) from a total edition of six hundred (the remainder in buckram). Large Octavo (24 x 15cm). pp.[6]; [vi]; 63; [3], blank, printed on cream wove paper, title and colophon printed in two colours..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.75 of 950 copies, with publisher's compliments slip inserted, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Type set in Eric Gill's Pilgrim and..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press, New York: the British Book Centre, December 1953. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. 1000 copies (this being un-numbered/out-of-series). Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5]. Original red cloth with gilt titles,illustrated dust-wrapper. Fine, in near fine price-clipped jacket, slightly..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.263 of 950 copies. Large Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Original red Buckram with gilt titles, and gilt 'QA' monogram to upper board, top..... More
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen. Copyright Edition.
London: William Heinemann, 1906-1910. [Literature] FINELY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. Eleven volumes, octavo (19 x 14 x 37cm). Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary deep blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt and leather onlays to spines. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Internally fine. Binding lightly handled. A sumptuous presentation of..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Life of George Washington. [The Works of Washington Irving volumes XI to XIV].
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859. [American Biography] FINELY BOUND. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 12cm), pp.[6] xlviii; 436 [2]; pp.[4] 437-908 [2]; pp.[6] 909-1304 [2]; pp.[4] 1305-1752 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece to volumes I and IV. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to contrasting..... More