" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher
Gift Books & Fine Bindings
London Illustrated 1604-1851. A Survey and Index of Topographical Books and Their Plates.
London: The Library Association, 1983. [Topographical Bibliography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[4] xxxiv; 586 [6]. With 12 double-sided black and white illustrated plates, as well as a frontispiece. Number 5 of 1000 copies, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation leaf. In contemporary dark..... More
Elvis & the Birth of Rock.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2006. [Music Biography] SIGNED COLLECTOR EDITION. Quarto (36 x 26cm), pp.156. Number 658 of 1400 copies thus, SIGNED by the photographer, Lew Allen, and guest editor Mike McCartney. Lew Allen's photographs are reproduced throughout in duotone inks with image varnishing on to heavyweight, 200 gsm matt art..... More
Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland, Illustrated. From Original Drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering etc., with Descriptions by T. Rose.
London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1832-1834. [Northern Topography] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes bound as two. Folio (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] 116; pp.[6] 117-220. With 111 engraved plates, including a vignette title page to volume I and a frontispiece to volume II. Contemporary maroon half calf with raised..... More
Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.viii; 250 [2]. With 28 colour plates illustrated by Dulac, including a frontispiece. An out-of-series copy numbered 0000, from a series numbered officially at 750 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the..... More
The Gulistan of Shaik Saday; a Complete Analysis of the Entire Persian Text.
Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co., 1861. [Persian Literature in translation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; pp.592 [2]. Re-bound in contemporary or slightly later brown half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and textured brown cloth over boards. Marbled endpapers, and vestiges of..... More
The Okavango River: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861. [Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxii; 364. With 17 wood engravings by Zwecker and Pearson, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a navy label on spine, further gilt decoration to spine..... More
Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Political Account of that Country, adapted for the General Reader, the Merchant, and the Colonist.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. [South American Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.cxxiv; 707 [3]; pp.[2] vi; 782 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, being Zea and Bolivar respectively, and a large folding engraved map to volume I. Recently re-bound..... More
Tales of the Classics: A New Delineation of the Most Popular Fables, Legends, and Allegories commemorated in the works of Poets, Painters, and Sculptors. Selected and Written by a Lady, for the amusement and instruction of her own daughters.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. [Greek Mythology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 370 [4]. Contemporary black half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels, further gilt decoration to spines..... More
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later printing thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 510 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full crushed morocco by SPOTTISWOODE & CO., with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges, gilt-ruled turn-ins, and machine-marbled endpapers..... More
The History of Gambling in England.
Chicago, MI: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. [Gambling] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] viii, 286 [8]. In contemporary maroon half morocco by the Eagle Art Bindery, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers. Text..... More
An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Russian and Scandinavian Museum Tour] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 455 [3]. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and lighter brown cloth over boards, with a gilt institutional device to upper..... More
Histoire des Diables de Loudun, Ou de la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines, Et de la condamnation et du suplice D'Urbain Grandier, Cure de la meme Ville. Cruels effets de la vengeance du Cardinal de Richelieu.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1740. [Huguenot History] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[8] 378 [4]. With a copper engraved frontispiece. All text in French. Contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers; edges speckled red. Recent repairs to head and..... More
Mansfield Park.
London: George Routledge and Sons, no date [circa 1890]. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 443 [7]. With an engraved frontispiece. Recently re-bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt decoration to spine. Marbled paper over..... More
![Item #66427 Novels by Miss Jane Austen. Comprising [I] Sense and Sensibility; [II] Pride and...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/66427.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700840104)
Novels by Miss Jane Austen. Comprising [I] Sense and Sensibility; [II] Pride and Prejudice; [III] Emma; [IV] Mansfield Park; [V] Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1833. [English Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION of the novels, also the first single volume edition of each title. Small octavo (16 x 11 x 15cm), two illustrations per volume being an engraved frontispiece and vignette title. With printed series title to each volume, bound without..... More
![Item #63319 The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/63319.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669483328)
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Recently re-bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
![Item #66246 The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/66246.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699550658)
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More
![Item #66247 The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/66247.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699465390)
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spines. Top edges gilt..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil, with Notes and Glossarial Index by W. Aldis Wright, M.A.
Cambridge and London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. [Philosophy] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2] xxxii; 388 [2]. In a later binding of brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt and blind decoration to boards, dated August 1930 in pencil..... More
Boating
Longmans Green and Co., London 1888. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Elegantly hand-bound in half dark blue oasis morocco leather over marbled sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge gilt. A little spotting to first and final leaves else a fine copy in attractive recent leather..... More
Moral Heroism; or, the Trials and Triumphs of the Great and Good.
London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1848. [Moral Biography] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[2] viii; 366 [4]. Contemporary red full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very elaborate decoration in gilt and blind to boards. All edges gilt, with yellow-coated endpapers. Light general handling and..... More
A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages. Improved and augmented with above Ten Thousand Words, omitted in the last Edition of Altieri. To which is added, and Italian and English Grammar.
London: Printed for W. Strahan [etc.], 1771. [English—Italian Dictionary] A NEW EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (17 x 22cm), pp.[10] xxxiv; [698]; pp.[4] xl; [672]. With an Italian introduction to volume I (Italian to English) and an English introduction to volume II (English to Italian). Main text printed over..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index..... More
BECK01.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2016. [Rock Autobiography] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (43 x 38cm), pp.352. Number 256 of 350 deluxe copies, SIGNED by Jeff Beck. Bound by hand in full Italian leather, with silver page edging and hand tooling. A stamped metal front cover reproduces a Californian number plate from the..... More