Handsome Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's letters, purportedly from an outsider, satirizing the manners of the English. Quarter cloth with marbled boards and decoration by Cecil Keeling. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some light toning and rubbing [more...]
Handsome red leather edition of Stevenson's final completed work, also known as South Sea Tales, a collection of short stories. With gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges, with slight loss to top of spine. Contents cl [more...]
Quarter Leather Folio Society edition of Sidney's late 16th century collection of interconnected sonnets and poems. With an introduction by Kingsley Hart. Decorated end-papers and matching decoration throughout. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some wea [more...]
Handsome Quarter Leather Folio Society edition of this selection of Hakluyt's writings on the various naval expeditions undertook during his life, primarily concerning the colonization of America. With wood effect decorative paper. B/w images. Complete with [more...]
Pleasant Folio Society edition of Barrow's authoritative 1831 account of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty which had occurred some forty years previously. Drawing on the official documents and letters pertaining to the incident, Barrow looks critically at the figu [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Eliot's novel. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. With b/w illustrations and introduction. Mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and prim. Very Good [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Conrad's response to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. With b/w illustrations by Geoffrey Plant. Some rubbing to edges. Foxing to page edges. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Stowe's 1852 abolitionist novel. From the 'Books that have shaped Man's thinking' series. Quarter cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With an introduction and b/w images. An Appreciation of the author to t [more...]
Folio Society edition of Holmes' great biography of Mozart, first published in 1845. Edited and with an introduction by Christopher Hogwood. Quarter cloth with gilt silhouette to cover. Complete with slipcase and b/w images. Some very slight fading to spin [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's popular 18th century novel, With illustrations by Margaret Weathebee. Decorative boards with decorative edn-papers. No slipcase as issued. Some toning to spine and Some tanning to page edges but otherwise is clean, p [more...]
Charming Folio edition of Stevenson's first published work. Written to secure independence from his parents and a future with the woman he loved, Travels with a Donkey is a pioneering work of travel writing. Detailing Stevenson's journey through the curious [more...]
Pleasant Folio Society edition of de la Pasture's 1907 Children's novel. With an introduction by Auberon Waugh. b/w illustrations by John lawrence. Complete with slipcase. Some very light shelf-wear to slipcase. Very light toning to spine. Contents clean [more...]
'A Modern Version' edited and introduced by Rowse, containing Hakluyt's key writings on the English colonization of the Americas. Generously illustrated in colour and b/w. Nice 4to sized (280x220mm). Complete with slipcase. Some light toning and shelf-wea [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth edition of Mitford's evocative collection of sketches of rural life, first published in The Lady's Magazine in the early 19th century. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Slipcase has light shelfwear else crisp and clean. In Near Fi [more...]
'Being a further selection of Brief Lives, together with excerpts from his writings on antiquities and science'. Selected and edited by Richard Barber. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Some shelfwear and marking to slipcase. Light rubbing to label [more...]
Important contemporary account of the Life of Charlemagne by the diminutive scholar, Einhard. Bound in a mock vellum with gilt titling. Full colour images of illuminated manuscripts and artifacts. Decorated endpapers, complete with slipcase. Slipcase has s [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth edition of Mitford's evocative collection of sketches of rural life, first published in The Lady's Magazine in the early 19th century. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Slipcase has light shelfwear else crisp and clean. In Near Fi [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition of the prose version of this chronicle of Richard I's crusade, thought to derive from the verse of Ambroise. With dramatic illustrations by Raymond Hawthorn. Bound in full vellum style vegetable parchment with gilt decoration. [more...]
Neat Folio Society edition of Hardy's great novel and his first literary success. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some heavy toning to rear panel. Sunning and light marking to spine. Contents bright and clean. Good overall. [more...]