Handsome binding of Lover's lively, literary satire, featuring sketches of Irish life and society. With 24 tissue guarded illustrations on steel done by the author. Half leather rebind done by Morrell. Raised bands and floral decoration to spine. Gilt rul [more...]
Nicely bound and produced copy of Longfellow's poetical works. Including Hiawatha and the Courtship of Miles Standish etc. Full leather, tree calf binding, with raised bands and gilt decoration. Inner dentelles. Marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Printed [more...]
The butterflies portion of the illustrated edition of Newman's significant guide to british lepidoptera. With numerous b/w engravings within the text. Bound in full leather. Inner and outer dentelles, marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. No date but c. 1871 [more...]
The collected volumes for two years, bound as one. All 24 issues for those years of the Children's magazine. With stories, poems and articles and 24 colour plates plus further b/w illustrations within the text. Bound in half-leather with marbled paper to bo [more...]
T Osborne, C Hitch, A Millar, John Rivington, S Crowder, P Davey and B Law & Co., T Longman and C Ware 1763
Volume of the universal history dealing with the Americas, from the arrival of Columbus and the earliest spanish explorers to aftermath of the campaigns of the conquistadors from Peru to Mexico. Half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and wear to leather, c [more...]
Pleasant Book-Lovers edition of Bronte's novel. With 7 b/w images showing locations and characters from the Bronte sisters' lives. Soft red leather with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Decorated end-papers, matching spine. Rubbing to edges, with slight lo [more...]
Pleasant Book-Lovers edition of Bronte's novel. With 16 b/w images showing locations and characters from the Bronte sisters' lives. Soft red leather with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Decorated end-papers, matching spine. No date but c. 1910. Rubbing t [more...]
Pleasant Book-Lovers edition of Gaskell's 1857 biography of Charlotte Bronte. With 8 b/w images showing locations and characters from the Bronte sisters' lives. Soft red leather with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Decorated end-papers, matching spine. No [more...]
A Neat, worn but rakish, quarter leather binding of the Handy-Volume edition of the complete works of Shakespeare, including his poems. Complete in 13 volumes. Top edge gilt. Decorated initials. Compact 32mo. (130x90mm). Leather is rubbed to edges. Some f [more...]
Handsome fine leather binding of Scott's epic historical poem concerning the Battle of Flodden Field. Featuring photographic plates. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and covers. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-paper [more...]
'A Reprint of the First Edition to which are added Mr. Boswell's corrections and editions'. Edited with new notes by Percy Fitzgerald. Preface by the editor and a Boswell Bibliography by H. R. Tedder. Boswell's epochal biography of Samuel Johnson, a work th [more...]
Rather nice divinity style leather binding of Percy's famous collection of old Ballads, poetry and songs culled from a variety of sources including Pepys' Library and the mysterious Percy Folio. First published in 1765. Full leather with elaborate blind-stamp [more...]
Nicely done deluxe leather binding of Tennyson's selected works, including Ulysses, Morte D'Arthur and The Lady of Shalot. With decorative devices throughout. Red leather with raised bands to spine, Gilt monogram of Tennyson to cover. All edges gilt. Mar [more...]
The collected works of Calverley with a biographical notice by Walter Joseph Sendall, his contemporary at Cambridge. Contains the popular poems Beer and an Ode to Tobacco. Splendid half leather binding done by Hatchards. With gilt decoration to spine. Top e [more...]
From the castles in Bavaria series (Schlösser in Bayern), the plates volume from The Prince-Bishop's Residence in Würzburg section. With 219 b/w tissue guarded plates, each with descriptions in German, plus further illustrations. 4to. Half leather. Rubbin [more...]
English translation of Cottin's moral historical adventure written in 1806. Edited by Frances Burney. Bound together with Mackenzie's sentimental novel, The Man of Feeling. Engraved title page. Rebacked some time ago with original spine and boards laid down [more...]
Elegant tree-calf, leather binding of Austin's appreciation of the poetry of his peers, written in 1870 prior to becoming his becoming Poet Laureate in 1896. Contains essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Algernon Swinburne and more. With raised b [more...]
Rare, early guide to the British museum and its exhibits, with numerous b/w wood engravings. Contains a brief history then a 'guided' tour describing the various rooms and display cabinets with detailed explanations of the science and history behind them. Ha [more...]
Collection of verse by the popular edwardian poet. Fine binding done by Bumpus. Full leather with raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Inner dentelles. 8vo. Toning to spine. Rubbing to joints. Small scratches to spine. Tanning and spotting to page ed [more...]
Pleasant half leather binding of the popular Ingoldsby Legends, a collection of often humorous tales involving ghosts, witches, historical figures & mysteries that draw on, a frequently send up, existing legends. With reproductions of the original illustratio [more...]
