Handsome edition of Smiles' biography of the Potter and early industrialist who later became a leading abolitionist. Decorative red cloth with gilt to spine. Fore-edge rough cut. Large John Murray catalogue to rear. Sunning to spine. Light foxing to end-pa [more...]
Account of this boom period for Country Houses and how it changed the physical and cultural landscape. With b/w images. Some light rubbing to edges. Contents crisp and clean. Very good. [more...]
Account of the territories of the British Empire at the close of the second world war. With histories, personal accounts and data. With numerous b/w images. No DJ. Some mild bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Wilson classic text on the history, design and craft of bookmaking. With numerous b/w images and diagrams. Some creases to cover, otherwise crisp and clean. Very good. [more...]
Interesting exploration of the Mind's eye and how visual imagination has influenced art. With numerous b/w and colour images. Toning and creasing to covers. contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Folio Society edition of Dana's great memoir of his two years as a merchant seaman in the early 19th century. With drawings by Ian Ribbons and an introduction by Mervyn Horder. Diagram of a ship to endpapers. Complete with slipcase. Faint mark to rear cove [more...]
Written in 1796, Spavens gives a thorough and illuminating account of his time at sea as well as explaining nautical life, navigation and geography to the lay-person. Featuring terrific colour images of relevant contemporary water-colours. Complete with slip [more...]
Swift but scholarly history of Greece from pre-history to the hellenistic period. Some rubbing to edges. Marking to page edges. Contents sound. Good. [more...]
Minerva library edition. Wih b/w illustrations. Decorative end-papers. Some wear to hinge. Tanning to end-papers. Foxing to page edges. Bumping to edges. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Second edition of the second series. a collection of essays and reviews culled from various publications on Ancient Greece and Rome. Previous owner's bookplate to front-pastedown. Mild sunning to spine and tanning to page edges. Contents clean and sound. [more...]
First edition of the third series. A collection of essays and reviews culled from various publications on late antiquity and the early middle ages. Previous owner's stamp to half-title. Mild sunning to spine and tanning to page edges. Contents clean and so [more...]
Everyman edition of Coleridge's writings on Shakespeare and other, drawn from his literary criticism. Light rubbing and bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Silver library edition of Froude's lectures on Erasmus with detailed discussions on his letters, with abbreviated translations. Slight sunning to spine. Spotting to page edges. Contents clean and tight, Good. [more...]
Handsome quarter cloth binding of Prescott's learned account of the Conquest of Peru written in 1847, soon after and in the same vein as his ground-breaking History of the Conquest of Mexico. Art deco style gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. No date [more...]
From the New Library Edition of Parkman's work, featuring the latest revisions. Top edge gilt. Bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
With tissue guarded frontisportrait. Some sunning to spine. Bumping to edges. Mild foxing to page edges. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Pleasant edition of Thackeray's historical novel. With gilt and blind-stamped decoration to covers. Top edge gilt. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Spine slightly cocked. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and tight. [more...]
