Four volumes of the famous Percy Anecdotes, a collection of stories and facts that would enable a poseur to appear well read and interesting in company. Volumes 2, 3, 7 and 9 featuring the topics of Hospitality, The Bar, Youth, George III, Genius, Shipwreck, [more...]
First English edition of the esteemed Russian/soviet novelist's account of a child and his village in post war Russia, called Serioja originally. Dust jacket is toned with small tears to top spine. Contents clean and binding tight, Good. [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...]
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...]
Illustrated edition of Marryat's 1832 novel, describing the adventures of a press-ganged sailor. With tissue guarded frontispice and b/w illustrations by Sullivan. Some staining and toning to cover. Foxing to end-papers. Tanning within. Previous owner's n [more...]
From the Oxford Trollope Crown Edition. With illustrations by T. L. B. Huskinson. Lacks DJ. Very Slight sunning to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Neat volume on Shelley from The English Poets in Pictures series, with a selection of his key poems including Ozymandias, Ode the West Wind etc. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 12 b/w images. Selected and introduction by Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wel [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...]
Pleasant red leather collins edition of Dumas' novel. With frontisportrait. Top edge gilt. Complete with slipcase. 12mo. Slight sunning, rubbing and fading to spine. Contents crisp and clean. Very good overall. [more...]
Nicely produced collection of Carroll's Alice stories, Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; plus poems The Hunting of the Snark and Phantasmagoria plus a biography and Carroll's letters. All featuring the original illustrations by John Tenn [more...]
Pleasant edition of Defoe's Journal of the Plague year, a fictional account of the plague in london. With a frontispiece featuring the title of a Bill of Mortality that interested Defoe. With an introduction by Louis Landa. Mild shelf-wear to covers. Conte [more...]
Second impression of Huxley's first novel, in the same striking yellow cloth of the 1921 first edition. Fore-edge rough cut. No DJ. Heaving toning and some staining to covers. Tanning to page edges, occasional light spotting within. Binding sound. Fair+ [more...]
Neat volume on Tennyson from The English Poets in Pictures series, with a selection of his key poems including The Rime of the Ancient mariner, Kubla Khan etc. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 17 b/w images. Selected and introduction by Dorothy Wellesley, [more...]
Quarter leather binding EX-LIBRARY copy of the Lambs' great renderings of the stories of Shakespeare. With an introduction by Andrew Lang and b/w illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. Tags removed but stamps and such to ffep and front pastedown. Spine cocked [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Disraeli's novel featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by Claude A. Shepperson plus introduction. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x145mm) [xxii+vii] 432pp. [more...]
Pleasant half leather (publishers?) binding. Floral decoration to spine. Marbled edges with matching marbled end-papers. With a frontispiece of Gordon Browne and colour and b/w plates. No date but c. 1900. 8vo. Rubbing to edges, Tearing to top of spine. [more...]
From the Kingston Library series. With colour illustrations. No date but c. 1900. All edges gilt. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Binding sound and contents clean. Good+ [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Kipling's 1895 sequel to the Jungle book, continuing the tale of Mowgli in a series of short stories. Featuring the striking illustrations of Edward Detmold, redone in colour by David Eccles. Complete with slipcase. Some [more...]
Collection of sketches describing notable French archetypes and professions, extracted from the writings of notable French authors and illustrated throughout with engravings from a variety of French sources. Reprint. 8vo. Publisher's original cloth. Lacks [more...]
