No date but c. 1900. From the Moxon's Popular Poets series. Decorative cloth binding of Cowper's collected verse, including Yardley-Oak etc. plus his translations. Beveled edges, all edges gilt. Decorated end-papers. With frontispiece and b/w illustrations [more...]
Second edition of Lytton's novel. Full leather with gilt decoration. Outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers, marbled page edges. Bound by Smyth & Co., Liverpool. Rubbing to extremities, some small marks to covers. Contents clean and bright. Binding tight. [more...]
Collected Essays of Goldsmith that first appeared in various journals and pamphlets. Calf leather binding. 12mo. 230pp. Rubbing to covers. Some cracking to spine. Some very light spotting within. Binding holding sound, contents clean. Good. [more...]
Pleasant early illustrated of Stevenson's historical adventure. With 16 excellent b/w illustrations by W. B. Hole and fold out map. Bound in half leather marbled boards. Top edge gilt. 12mo. [vi] 311pp. With advert of Treasure Island to rear. Previous own [more...]
Nicely produced Folio Society edition of Gaskell's tragic 1863 novel. Bound in patterned cloth with gilt titling. With a colour frontispiece and 9 b/w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. With an introduction by Jenny Uglow. Complete with slipcase. Previous own [more...]
Stylish Folio Society of great 1885 novel exploring the plight of miners in the nineteenth century and the rise of the first International. With b/w illustrations by Phillip Bannister and an introduction by Ruth Scurr. Complete with slipcase. Prevous owne [more...]
Nicely produced Folio Society edition of Gaskell's 1866 novel. Bound in patterned cloth with gilt titling. With a colour frontispiece and 10 b/w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. With an introduction by Victoria Glendinning. Complete with slipcase. Previous [more...]
Complete set of Scott's novels. With frontisportrait to volume one and fold out facsimile letter showing Scott's handwriting. Engraved title pages. Half leather bindings with marbled boards. Raised bands with gilt decoration. 8vo. Rubbing and wear to covers. [more...]
Handsome leather binding of Gostwick's overview of German Literature. Red leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled end-papers. 8vo. Prize plate to front pastedown. Rubbing to edges. Light spotting to front matter. [more...]
Curious volume of literary essays that seeks to describe books and authors that are well known but seldom read. Subjects include Nostradamus, George Psalmanazar, Paracelsus, Quevedo and others. Publisher's decorative cloth. Tissue guarded frontisportrait of [more...]
First edition of Godden's 1997 novel. Inscribed by the author to the title page. With some related newspaper clippings. Some bumping and shelf-wear to DJ. Mild foxing to page edges. Contents clean and sound, Very good overall. [more...]
First edition of the influential edition of Gaskell's popular comic novel on rural and small town life in Victorian Britain. Lavishly illustrated by Hugh Thomson with over one hundred b/w drawings and decorations. Bound in the publishers's simple cloth cover [more...]
Charming collection of stories including Rose Fyleman's Why Pigs have Curly Tales and the Rhyming Prince, The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting and others. Illustrated throughout in b/w and colour by Seredy. First edition in a variant binding. Decora [more...]
French translation with colour and b/w illustrations by Jourcin. Faux-leather cover. Rubbing to edges. Bumping to corners. Tanning to page edges. Light spotting. Good overall. [more...]
Brooding Folio Society edition of Dostoevsky's great novel. With b/w illustrations by Charles Keeping. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some rubbing and wear commensurate to age. Mild shelf-wear to volume, faint mark to spine. Contents clean and tight. [more...]
Splendid Folio Society edition of some of the greatest English, American and Russian short stories by its most celebrated practitioners, including D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Irving Washington, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twai [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Eliot's novel featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by T. H. Robinson plus introduction. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x145mm) [xi] 438pp. Rubbing to leat [more...]
Nicely produced translation of Apuleius' 2nd century AD novel. With colour frontispiece and 10 b/w and colour plates by Jean de Bosschere in his inimitable style, plus further decorations within the text. 8vo. Sunning to spine. Tanning to page edges, else [more...]
Handsome edition of Lamb's 1833 collection of essays. From the works of Charles Lamb Series with b/w illustrations by C. E. Brock. Quarter cloth binding with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Rubbing to edges. Previous owner's inscript [more...]