Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's historical novel set during the Jacobite uprising. Dark leather covers with gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Signature to ffep. Conten [more...]
Charming cloth edition of Goldsmith's 1766 novel from Dent's English Idylls series, featuring elaborate gilt decoration and 25 colour plates by C. E. Brock. Light green cloth. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Decorated end-papers. Previous owner's inscri [more...]
Nice edition of Dickens' novel. Top edge gilt. Decoration to spine. With b/w illustrations. Rubbing to edges. Marking to spine. Some splitting to inner hinge. . Binding sound. Good. [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth binding of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Marbled edges. Previous owner's label to front pastedown. Binding sound and contents clean. Good. [more...]
With b/w illustrations . No date but c. 1900. Rubbing to edges, especially to top and tail of spine. Mild sunning to spine. Previous owner's name to front pastedown.. Tanning to page edges. Contents sound. Good. [more...]
Handsome volume from the Active service series. With colour frontispiece. Some foxing to page edges. Bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Charming collection of quotes by Dickens chosen for each day of the year. With a frontisportrait. Previous owner's inscription to front blank. Contents clean and binding tight. Good [more...]
Elegant edition of Thackeray's first full novel with various later smaller pieces. From the new century library. Decorative cloth with blind-stamped design to cover and gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Mild bumping and rubbing to edges. Very light foxing to p [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Pleasant red leather edition of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Sunning, rubbing and wear to spine. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Pleasant blue faux-leather edition of Ainsworth's novel. Previous owner's name to ffep. Very light bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Neat leather-bound uniform edition of Sabatini's 1912 collection of short stories. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner's blind-stamped name to ffep. Contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Minerva library of Famous books edition of Carlyle's complex novel. An early example of meta-fiction in which a reviewer grapples with a curious philosophical text. Together with his essays of heroes and heroism. Plus a critical introd [more...]
Decorative red cloth. With tissue guarded photogravure frontispiece. Some mild wear to covers. Previous owner's name to ffep. Light foxing to page edges, tanning within, else clean and tight. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Account of English food, cooking and culinary culture. With b/w illustrations. Fore-edge rough cut. Toning to DJ, with some small closed tears. Some small marks to orange boards. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and tigh [more...]
From the Oxford Trollope Crown Edition. With illustrations by T. L. B. Huskinson. Lacks DJ. Slight sunning to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
From the Oxford Trollope Crown Edition. With b/w images of contemporary documents. Lacks DJ. Slight sunning to spine, mild bumpng to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
