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The Silk Road
£8.00 +
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Frances Wood
The Folio Society 2002
Splendid Folio Society edition of Wood's history of the Silk Road. With numerous colour images. Bound in full silk with gilt decoration. Maps to end-papers. complete with slipcase. very mild marking to covers. Sunning to spine, as is common with this ed [more...]
Ars Amatoria [The Art of Love]
£8.00 +
FREE p&p
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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso); B. P. Moore (tra
Folio Society 1965
Nice little edition of Ovid's verse on love. Features archetypal, stylish illustrations by Victor Reinganum. Quarter leather with decorated endpapers. Lacks slipcase. Spine is worn and rubbed but otherwise the volume is tight and clean. Contents are prim [more...]
The Eventful History Of The Mutiny And Piratical Seizure Of HMS Bounty: Its Causes And Consequences
£7.75 +
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John Barrow
The Folio Society 1976
Pleasant Folio Society edition of Barrow's authoritative 1831 account of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty which had occurred some forty years previously. Drawing on the official documents and letters pertaining to the incident, Barrow looks critically at the figu [more...]
The Life of Mozart Including his Correspondence
£7.50 +
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Edward Holmes
The Folio Society 1992
Folio Society edition of Holmes' great biography of Mozart, first published in 1845. Edited and with an introduction by Christopher Hogwood. Quarter cloth with gilt silhouette to cover. Complete with slipcase and b/w images. Some very slight fading to spin [more...]
The Vicar of Wakefield
£7.50 +
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Oliver Goldsmith
The Folio Society 1952
Early Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's popular 18th century novel, With illustrations by Margaret Weathebee. Decorative boards with decorative edn-papers. No slipcase as issued. Some toning to spine and Some tanning to page edges but otherwise is clean, p [more...]
Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes
£7.50 +
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Robert Louis Stevenson
The Folio Society 1975
Charming Folio edition of Stevenson's first published work. Written to secure independence from his parents and a future with the woman he loved, Travels with a Donkey is a pioneering work of travel writing. Detailing Stevenson's journey through the curious [more...]
The Unlucky Family
£7.50 +
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Mrs Henry de la Pasture (Elizabeth Lydia Rosa
The Folio Society 1980
Pleasant Folio Society edition of de la Pasture's 1907 Children's novel. With an introduction by Auberon Waugh. b/w illustrations by John lawrence. Complete with slipcase. Some very light shelf-wear to slipcase. Very light toning to spine. Contents clean [more...]
The First Colonists: Hakluyt's Voyages to America
£7.50 +
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Richard Hakluyt; A. L. Rowse
The Folio Society 1987
'A Modern Version' edited and introduced by Rowse, containing Hakluyt's key writings on the English colonization of the Americas. Generously illustrated in colour and b/w. Nice 4to sized (280x220mm). Complete with slipcase. Some light toning and shelf-wea [more...]
Our Village
£7.50 +
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Mary Mitford
The Folio Society 1997
Pleasant quarter cloth edition of Mitford's evocative collection of sketches of rural life, first published in The Lady's Magazine in the early 19th century. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Slipcase has light shelfwear else crisp and clean. In Near Fi [more...]
The Worlds of John Aubrey
£7.50 +
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John Aubrey
The Folio Society 1988
'Being a further selection of Brief Lives, together with excerpts from his writings on antiquities and science'. Selected and edited by Richard Barber. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Some shelfwear and marking to slipcase. Light rubbing to label [more...]
The Life of Charlemagne
£7.50 +
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Einhard The Frank
Folio Society 1970
Important contemporary account of the Life of Charlemagne by the diminutive scholar, Einhard. Bound in a mock vellum with gilt titling. Full colour images of illuminated manuscripts and artifacts. Decorated endpapers, complete with slipcase. Slipcase has s [more...]
Our Village
£7.50 +
FREE p&p
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Mary Mitford
The Folio Society 1997
Pleasant quarter cloth edition of Mitford's evocative collection of sketches of rural life, first published in The Lady's Magazine in the early 19th century. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Slipcase has light shelfwear else crisp and clean. In Near Fi [more...]
The Third Crusade: An Eye-Witness Account of the Campaigns of Richard Coeur-De-lyon in Cyprus and the Holy Land
£7.50 +
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Ambroise of Normandy (?); Kenneth Fenwick (ed
The Folio Society 1958
Elegant Folio Society edition of the prose version of this chronicle of Richard I's crusade, thought to derive from the verse of Ambroise. With dramatic illustrations by Raymond Hawthorn. Bound in full vellum style vegetable parchment with gilt decoration. [more...]
Far From the Madding Crowd
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Thomas Hardy
The Folio Society 1990
Neat Folio Society edition of Hardy's great novel and his first literary success. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some heavy toning to rear panel. Sunning and light marking to spine. Contents bright and clean. Good overall. [more...]
Ars Amatoria [The Art of Love]
£7.50 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso); B. P. Moore (tra
Folio Society 1965
Nice little edition of Ovid's verse on love. Features archetypal, stylish illustrations by Victor Reinganum. Quarter leather with decorated endpapers. Complete with slipcase. Splitting to edges of slipcase. Spine is worn and rubbed but otherwise the volume [more...]
The Vicar of Wakefield
£7.25 +
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Oliver Goldsmith
The Folio Society 1971
Redesigned Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's popular 18th century novel, With illustrations by Margaret Weathebee. Decorative boards with decorative end-papers. Complete with slipcase. Some very light sunning to spine. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edge [more...]
Eminent Victorians
£7.00 +
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Lytton Strachey
Folio Society 1967
Stout Folio Society edition of Strachey's influential, pioneering and controversial sketches of a number of eminent victorians. Complete with slip case. Some sunning to spine and very minor shelfwear. Otherwise clean and square. Good+ overall. [more...]
What are the Seven Wonders of the World
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Peter D'Empiro; Mary Desmond Pinkowash
The Folio Society 2005
Amusing Folio Society volume featuring 61 culturally significant lists including what are the seven wonders of the world and what are the seven ages of man according to Shakespeare. Each list is supported with context and background information. With b/w dec [more...]
The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill
£7.00 +
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James Melville
Folio Society 1972
Memoirs of the Elizabethan diplomat, valuable for Melville's proximity to Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth. Complete with slip case. Features full colour illustrations and images. Sewn head band and coloured top-edge. Slight sunning to spine and very min [more...]
Voice from the ranks: A personal narrative of the Crimean campaign
£7.00 +
FREE p&p
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'A Sargeant of the Royal Fusiliers'; Kenneth
The Folio Society 1954
Early Folio Society volume, account by a veteran of the Crimean war with contemporary illustrations. Some light toning and marking to covers. Mild tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
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