Elegant collection of significant english verse from a variety of poets, from Chaucer to Arnold. Limp blue leather. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Decorated end-papers. Toning and creasing to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to edges. Contents clean and [more...]
Handsome publisher's leather binding of Ruskin's extremely popular lectures. All edges gilt. Decorative end-papers. Gilt rules. Rubbing to edges with slight loss to top and tail of spine. Binding sound and contents clean. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1890. Readable guide on how to incorporate Christian values and prayers into everyday life. Half leather, with marbled end-papers. 8vo. Rubbing to edges. Previous owner's name to half-title. Mild toning within, else clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Chronological listing of the Royal engagements and orders of George IV for the year 1824, including those relating to the Anglo-Ashanti war, taken from the London Gazette. Half leather. 12mo. Rubbing to leather, fading to boards. Binding sound and contents cl [more...]
Handsome Half leather binding of Goldsmith's works. Marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities and top of spine. Very sparse foxing to fore-edge. Binding tight and contents clean. Good. [more...]
The complete essays of Charles Lamb, containing the Essays of Elia, Last Essays of Elia and The Essays of Eliana, his collected later pieces. Full leather with gilt decoration to spine. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edges. small 8vo. Ru [more...]
Nicely rebound illustrated edition of Scott's 1820 historical Waverley novel. From the Dryburgh edition of Scott's collected works, B/w illustrations by john Williamson. Half leather with marbled boards, with matching marbling to end-papers and page edges. [more...]
Nicely rebound illustrated edition of Scott's novels from his Tales of My Landlord series. From the Dryburgh edition of Scott's collected works, B/w illustrations by Walter Paget and Lockhart Bogle. Half leather with marbled boards, with matching marbling [more...]
Nicely rebound illustrated edition of Scott's two Waverley novels. From the Dryburgh edition of Scott's collected works, B/w illustrations by Godfrey C. Hindley. Half leather with marbled boards, with matching marbling to end-papers and page edges. Some m [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of four of Ibsen's key works. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Tony Eubanks. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
Full leather binding of the collected works of the late 18th and 19th century Scottish poet who played a role in the creation of University College London. Includes The Pleasures of Hope. With a critical memoir by William Rossetti and b/w illustrations by Tho [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of a selection of 29 essays, chosen by Mortimer J. Adler . With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Carol Wald. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp [more...]
Impressive small quarto edition of Bunyan's allegorical story. With numerous excellent b/w engravings by H. C. Selous and M. Paolo Priolo. With decorated initials and ornate borders. Half leather binding. No date but c. 1900. Spine label faded. rubbing to [more...]
Poetical, philosophical aphorisms on a variety of topics including cheerfulness, beauty, ambition, etc. Full leather, bound by Riviere. All edges gilt. Raised bands to spine. Frontisportrait. Toning and rubbing to spine. Previous owner's inscription to fro [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of Fielding's novell. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. Elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some marking to covers. Some mild shelf-wear, otherwise Crisp and [more...]
French drawings of the 19th century. With numerous b/w images and descriptions of the artists. Text in french. Quarter leather. 4to. Rubbing and toning to leather. Contents clean and tight. Good. *Due to size and weight, extra shipping fees may apply t [more...]
Neat collins edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic. In a limp faux-leather cover with gilt titling. Top edge gilt. Some light shelfwear. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents clean and prim. Good+ condition overall. [more...]
Half leather binding of this children's magazine, Volume 9 edited by Barnardo, the founder of the home for destitute boys and girls. With b/w illustrations plus colour plates. 8vo. Rubbing and cracking to edges and joints. Tanning to page edges but content [more...]
'Taken from the Best English and German Sources'. Complete with 18 colour plates by A. Bichard. Quarter leather. large 4to. Leather is rubbed and disintegrating. Joints cracked. Light foxing to page edges. Contents otherwise sound. Fair. [more...]
Handsome art-deco style binding of Galsworthy's epic history of a newly-monied family and their progress through British high society. Printed on fine paper, contains all three books and two interludes: The Man of Property (1906); Indian Summer of a Forsyte ( [more...]
