Two short readable biographies with numerous b/w images. No date but c. 1890. Full blue leather with gilt crest to cover. Gilt decoration. Outer dentelles. Marbled endpapers with matching marbling to page edge. Rubbing to edges with nicks to spine. Bin [more...]
Nice leather binding of the abridged version of Napier's great history of the Napoleonic wars, focusing on the battles of the English Army. Full leather with decorated spine. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edge. Outer dentelles. small 8vo [more...]
Hefty dictionary cum encyclopaedia featuring b/w images throughout with 16 pages of colour maps to rear. No date but c. 1920 Quarter leather. 8vo. (240x170mm) [viii] 1336pp. Covers are marked and stained. Tanning and light marking to page edge. But content [more...]
Quarter cloth binding of Galsworthy's collected plays, including The Silver Box and Strife. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Blind stamped decoration. 8vo. Toning to front cover. Foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
First Kegan, Paul vellum edition of Tennyson's acclaimed verse requiem for a deceased friend. Containing of course, the line: 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all'. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Toning and mild creasing to [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Nicely rebound, half-leather binding of Scott's collected poetical works. Including his ballads and verse from his novels. Red Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to boards and p [more...]
Surtees' popular humorous hunting themed novel. Featuring hand coloured steel engraved plates by John Leech plus hand-coloured title pages and dozens of b/w wood engravings within the text. 8vo. Half leather with marbled boards. Ornate bookplate of Sir Franc [more...]
Handsome world's classics edition of Trollope's novel from his Chronicles of Barsetshire series. In publisher's blue quarter leather binding. Blue cloth to boards, top edge gilt. 12mo. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edges. Light tanning within, else conten [more...]
Handsome world's classics edition of Trollope's novel from his Chronicles of Barsetshire series. In publisher's blue quarter leather binding. Blue cloth to boards, top edge gilt. 12mo. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edges. Light tanning within, else conten [more...]
In 'Latin and English, arranged according to the reformed Roman Breviary. Neat little black leather edition. Printed in double columns. 32mo. Previous owner's elegant inscription to fly leaf. Mild rubbing to edges, contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
'and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland; Together With the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as They Are to Be Sung or Said in Churches; And the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and [more...]
Volume I of the essays of Charles Lamb, this volume containing the complete Essays of Elia, Rather nice half vellum binding with metallic marbled paper boards with matching marbled end-papers. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. small 12mo. [more...]
Issues no. 304 to 329 plus christmas issue. Half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and wear to leather with portion missing from top of spine. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
'Translated out of the Original Greek and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command.' Neat little (120x80mm) soft leather bound edition of the New Testament. Yapp edges, all edges gilt. With a previous o [more...]
Charming compact volume of 17th century lyric poet Herrick's selected work on a romantic theme, including, of course, his 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'. With decorated initials and devices throughout. Full leather with an intricate blind-stamped des [more...]
Charming Oxford Miniature edition of Browning's selected poems, including pieces from Pippa Passes, Poems, Men and Women and more. Red leather with all edges gilt. Inner dentelles. Small 32mo. (110x75mm). Rubbing to edges, slight cracking to tail front hin [more...]
Handsome illustrated edition of Bunyan's allegorical christian tale. With 28 rather romantic colour plates done by Byam Shaw, plus a frontis-portrait of Bunyan. With the author's apology. No date but c. 1930. Red cloth with gilt decoration and titling. Top [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Nicely rebound, half-leather binding of Longfellow's poetical works. Including Hiawatha and the Courtship of Miles Standish etc. Blue Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled end-papers and matching marbling to board [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Morier's somewhat fantastical novel set in Persia featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by H. R. Millar plus introduction. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x [more...]
Red leather india paper edition of Dickens' novel. With b/w illustrations by Phiz. No date but c, 1900. Top edge gilt. Some toning to covers and spine. Rubbing to edges with some loss from top of spine. Contents clean and tight. Good [more...]
