History & Biography
A Dinner of Herbs.
London: Collins, 1966. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.224. With six photographic illustrations and two maps of Italy, as well as illustrated chapter headings. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill priced at 25s to front flap. Mild toning to..... More
The County Companion, Diary, Statistical Chronicle, and Magisterial and Official Directory for 1887; Containing: the Calendar—Post Office Regulation—Names of British and Foreign Ambassadors—A Topographical, Geological, and Historical Description of the Counties of England and Wales, Supplemented by Electoral, Financial, Administrative, Police, Criminal, Agricultural, and General Statistics, and Comprising Useful Information respecting the Quarter Sessions, Petty Sessional and Lieutenancy Divisions, Prisons, Industrial and Reformatory Schools, Asylums, Chambers of Agriculture and Commerce, Urban and Rural Sanitary Authorities, School Boards, Burial Boards, Poor-Law Districts, and Militia and Volunteer Forces; also a County Magisterial Directory, a Table of Acts of the Parliamentary Session of 1885, and a reliable Government, Public Offices, Law, Parliamentary, Banking, and Insurance Guide.
London: Waterlow & Sons, 1887. [Country Almanac] ORIGINAL DIRECTORY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lxxxviii; 586. Also with an unpaginated diary and cash account section towards rear, not filled out. Publisher's grain-effect cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges speckled red; advertisements to endpapers. Hinges split..... More
The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain: Illustrated by Topographical, Historical, and Critical Notices; Combining every Interesting Object, Ancient and Modern. From an Elaborate Survey, and Original Designs Taken Upon the Spot. Kent.
London: George Virtue, no date [1829]. [Kent] PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[4]; ii; 130. Contemporary polished calf with gilt double rules, gilt titles to black leather square to spine, later plain brown endpapers. Profusely illustrated with a steel engraved frontispiece, and a vignette title, 126 fine steel engravings..... More
Report of The Santiago Campaign, 1898.
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. 1908. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, a little scuffed and soiled. Titled in black to spine and front board. Very good. Portrait frontis. Internally clean. A clean tidy copy of a near contemporary account by an officer who served in the campaign. More
Heralds of England. A History of the Office and College of Arms.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1967. [English Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 23cm), pp.xxviii; 609 [1]. With 44 illustrated plates, many in colour. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and light blue endpapers. Top edge gilt, with the red illustrated dust-jacket. Presented in the original plain card..... More
Taken on Trust.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [Hostage Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 370. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and cream endpapers. With the..... More
William of Wykeham. And His Colleges.
London: David Nutt, 1852. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 473; xv [11]. With five steel engravings and twenty-seven wood engravings. Contemporary full tan calf, with gilt titles on green label to spine, and further gilt decorations to spine, as well as raised bands and gilt and..... More
Greater London. A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places.
London: Cassell & Company, no date [1889-1890]. [London Topography] PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, later printings. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi, 576; pp.xii, 560. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. With the large folding map loose to a pouch in volume II. Volume I coded 03.90 to advertisements at rear..... More
Memoirs of India: Comprising a brief Geographical Account of The East Indies; a succinct History of Hindostan, from the Most Early Ages, to the end of the Marquis of Hastings' Administration in 1823. Designed for the Use of Young Men Going Out to India.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. [Indian Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] xii; 504 [4]. In a slightly later full calf binding for Glasgow Highschool, by CARRS & GOY of Glasgow (binder's label to verso of fly-leaf). with blind tooling to..... More
The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr Robert Sanderson: To which are added the autographs of those eminent men, now first collected; an index, and illustrative notes.
London: John Major, 1825. First Major Edition. Octavo. Bound in contemporary black morocco, with blind panelling and corner motifs to boards, titles in gilt to spine; all edges gilt, interior gilt rulings, cream endpapers. Binding is rubbed to joints and extremities, with bumping to corners. Largely clean inside, with spotting..... More
The Complete Angler [Compleat Angler]. New edition, edited by "Ephemera".
London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1854. Second Cooke edition. Pp.309 with woodcut frontispiece, engraved general title and vignette title, facsimile title, and other illustrations within the text, followed by three numbered plates accompanied by explanatory text leaves. Original blind-stamped pale green cloth, with elaborate gilt tooling to spine, yellow coated..... More
Walton's Lives. The lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotten; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert Sanderson.
York: Wilson and Sons, 1817. [Biographies] Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[14] 488 [2]; pp.[10] 470 [4]. Full brown calf with gilt titles and gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, gilt and blind ruling to boards, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelle to turn ins. Eight plates across..... More
Original Letters, from Richard Baxter, Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Montague, Rev. William Gilpin, Rev. John Newton, George Lord Lyttleton, Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, etc. etc. With Biographical Illustrations.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 303; [1]. Contemporary brown half calf recently re-backed, with the original marbled boards and the original spine laid over. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Light occasional spotting. Heavy wear to boards and original..... More
Appendicia et Pertinentiae; or, Parochial Fragments relating to the Parish of West Tarring, and the Chapelries of Heene and Durrington, in the County of Sussex; containing a Life of Thomas A Becket, an Historical and Descriptive Account of his (so called) Palace at West Tarring, and of the Figs he introduced; some Account of the Learned John Selden, and Selden's Cottage at Salvington, etc. etc. etc.
London: Francis and John Rivington, 1853. [English Ecclesiastical History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 369 [3]. Publisher's blind-decorated cloth with paper title label to spine. A fine contemporary (and relevant) black ink inscription to recto of rear flyleaf. Typed bookseller's description pasted to rear pastedown. Heavy foxing to..... More
A Little Learning. The First Volume of an Autobiography By Evelyn Waugh.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1964. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 234. With five double-sided black and white plates, and a photographic frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 30s. Fine, but for some spotting to..... More
The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation.
London: The Fabian Society and George Allen and Unwin, Limited, 1923. [Social History and Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 182; [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with green titles to spine, blind ruling to front board. Erratum slip to title page. Light browning to textblock top edge, spotting to..... More
Hugh Wynne. Free Quaker.
New York, NY: The Century Co., 1897. [American Revolution novel] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Duodecimo (19 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 306; pp.[12]; 261; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles and small gilt decoration to spine, red titles to front board, embossed grey decoration to boards. Newspaper review cutting to flyleaf..... More
Red Eagle. The Story of the Russian Revolution and of Klementy Efremovitch Voroshilov, Marshal and Commissar for Defence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
London: Hutchinson, 1937. [Military History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.390 [26]. With a coloured halftone frontispiece, 16 plates (30 illustrations), and 8 maps. With author's gift note in blue ink to the title page: 'For / Percy Muir / With the best of / good wishes /..... More
Saturdays with Bricks. (and other days under shell-fire).
London: Hutchinson, 1961. [Literary Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.126; [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: "For | K. T. Williams | with best wishes | from | Dennis Wheatley". With five double-sided photographic plates of walls build by the author..... More
Children In Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life.
London: Murdoch and Co., 1898. FIRST EDITION in book-form. Pamphlet, pp.16, printed wrappers. Trivial toning. A fine copy, but for the rust-through from the single staple at fold. The text of Wilde's celebrated letter to the Daily Chronicle, appearing on 28th May 1897, which concerned the affair of Warder T...... More
[Lives of the Rakes and Dandies]. Madame de Pompadour, Five Fair Sisters, The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu, A Fair Conspirator, The Women Bonapartes, The Brood of False Lorraine, Rival Sultanas, The Pearl of Princesses, The Hand of Léonore, A Gallant of Lorraine, Unruly Daughters.
London and New York, NY: Harper and Brothers; London: Hutchinson and Co.; London: Methuen and Co., Ltd.; London: Eveleigh Nash Company; London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1904-1925. [Biography] FINELY BOUND COLLECTION. Eleven titles bound as fourteen volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 62cm). Finely bound by Fox in red straight..... More
The Middle Temple Bench Book. Being a Register of Benchers of the Middle Temple from the Earliest Records to the present time with Historical Introduction.
London: Printed at the Chancery Lane Press, and published by order of the Masters of the Bench, 1937. [Legal History and Biography] SECOND EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.lviii; 368. With 14 photogravure plates, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's green quarter straight-grained morocco, with gilt..... More
Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers: The Hogarth Press, 1917-41.
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1992. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS ALAN ANDERSON. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 451 [11]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with black titles to red backing on spine, and red cloth over boards. With the red and blue dust-jacket, not priced. Simple light..... More
Plane Tales from the Skies.
London: Cassell and Company, 1918. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.x; 182. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by G.H. Tavis. A collection of fact-based short stories about early aerial combat in WWI, mostly on the Western Front. Faint ghost of a stamp..... More
Portraits by Inference.
London: Methuen & Co., 1934. [Literary Vignettes] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.xii; 194 [2]. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s. A little spotting and toning to edges. Jacket toned to spine, with some rubbing..... More