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Literature: a - gBiography, Bibliography, the Classics, Poetry and Modern First Editions
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First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. 20 hand coloured plates plus illustrations in the text, some light marginal browning. Original gilt titled brown cloth, spines slightly sunned, that to volume I a little worn. £150
Three volumes, 4to. 30 hand coloured plates plus illustrations in the text, a few spots, marbled endpapers and sides, armorial bookplates of Ivor A.B. Ferguson. Contemporary red half morocco, a.e.g., top of one spine with slight loss, spines and extremities with some mostly light wear. £200
Limited edition, no. 10 of 20 copies, signed by the Author, folio, (8) pp. Full page etching signed by the Artist. Unbound as issued, still in the original tissue wrapping, this creased and with some loss, otherwise fine. £125
First edition thus, 8vo, (xii), 82, (2) pp. Frontispiece and 50 illustrations. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine ends rubbed, a.e.g., a near fine copy. £40
Limited edition, no. 245 of 426 copies, signed by both Translator and Illustrator, 4to, (50) pp, with 6 full page illustrations, cloth, some minor marks, a near fine copy. £75
Fables and Storyes Moralized. Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop... London: Printed for R. Sare [et al] 1699. Two works in one volume, first work third edition, second work first edition, folio, (xviii), 476, (xvi), 238, (2 advertisement) pp. Portrait and frontispiece plates, some occasional browning, some bumping of corners. Contemporary panelled calf, some wear to edges and corners, rebacked in a lighter calf retaining the original spine label. £750 A furiously prolific journalist and pamphleteer, L’Estrange’s edition of Aesop first appeared in 1692 and is described by DNB as “the most extensive collection of fables in existence”. Wing A709, L1247.
12mo, 239, (1) pp. Frontispiece and engraved title with light foxing, signature to fly leaf, small piece missing from corner of the same. Contemporary gilt decorated full morocco, a.e.g., a handsome copy. £45
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, (iv), 290; (iv), 264, 32 advertisement; (iv), 316 pp, W.H.Smith’s Subscription Library bookplate in each volume, a few spots and finger marks, in the original blue cloth, gilt Scottish flag on upper cover, spines dull, extremities worn. £90 Wolff 90.
Collecting extracts from Chatto and Windus’ books, including pieces on Lytton Strachey and Aldous Huxley and by Roger Fry, Chekov, Proust and Clive Bell.
First English edition, 12mo, viii, 298, 32 advertisement pp. Contemporary inscription to half title, upper hinge cracked with an old repair and new endpapers inserted. Original blind stamped cloth, marked and somewhat faded, upper joint with some wear. £95 Strangely this volume didn’t appear in Danish for almost a century.
Small 8vo, viii, 155, (5 advertisement) pp. 5 wood engraved plates, dated 1797, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary half morocco, light rubbing to extremities, spine with gilt bands and a maroon label. £75 A rousing success on its original publication in 1766, although Anstey never matched it afterwards. Horace Walpole wrote to Lord Montagu “so much wit, so much humour, fun, and poetry... never met together before... the man has a better ear than Dryden or Handel”, while Thomas Gray commented “Have you read the “New Bath Guide”? It is the only thing in fashion...”.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 364 pp. Marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red full morocco, gilt rules, spine with raised bands, slightly sunned, a.e.g., a lovely copy. £250 Wolff 170. Sadleir 57.
First edition, 8vo, xviii, 252 pp, 21 black and white illustrations, original cloth backed patterned boards, light browning to edges else very good. £40
First edition, 8vo, 12, (4) pp. Original pink wrappers, stapled as issued, edges slightly faded, a couple of marks to the upper wrapper. £50 “All the author’s royalties from the sale of this poem go to Medical Aid for Spain” - from the upper flap of the wrapper. Bloomfield & Mendelson A14a.
Small 8vo, xviii, 428, (2) pp. Black and white illustrations. Original publisher’s gilt titled maroon limp morocco, gilt spine with some light rubbing, t.e.g., a near fine copy. £120
Small 8vo, (xvi), 443, (1, 3 advertisement, 1) pp. Black and white illustrations, brief inscription to foot of fly leaf. Original publisher’s gilt titled maroon limp morocco, gilt spine, t.e.g., spine sunned otherwise very good. £100
First edition thus, 8vo, xvi, 443, (1) pp. 40 plates, title and frontispiece offset from a now-missing tissue guard, piece torn from top corner of one leaf without loss to text. Recent red half morocco, a.e.g. £150
AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. A Novel. London: George Routledge 1849. [bound with] HOEY, Mrs. F.C. Buried in the Deep; and other Tales. London: Chapman and Hall 1872. Two volumes bound in one, “Pride and Prejudice” bound in second, 12mo, (ii), 430, (iii)-290 pp, the Austen bound without its half title. Later small owner’s label to paste down, upper hinge cracked but sound. Contemporary blue cloth, marked, spine dull. £1500 A very scarce issue of “Pride and Prejudice” not listed in Keynes, Wolff or on Copac; Sadleir mentions it in his list of Routledge’s Railway Library (II p167/8) but doesn’t catalogue it elsewhere. “Buried in the Deep” not in Sadleir, Wolff or CBEL with only one copy noted on Copac.
8vo, (iii)-xv, (i), 331, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Engraved title and frontispiece, a little foxed, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary full blue calf, double gilt rules to covers, rebacked retaining the original backstrip, which is browned, and with later morocco labels. £1200 A volume originally published as part of the first collected edition of Jane Austen, being also the first illustrated and the first single volume edition. “After the publication of ‘Northanger Abbey’ and ‘Persuasion’ in 1818, no further edition of any of the novels was published in England until Bentley reprinted all of them in 1833. The appearance of Bentley’s edition... was an important event, as it was the beginning of an interest in Jane Austen’s works which has never flagged since that date”. Keynes 27.
LEIGH, J.E. Austen. A Memoir of Jane Austen. London: Richard Bentley & Son 1885-91. Six volumes, 8vo, including the sixth edition of the “Memoir”. Frontispiece in each volume, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary half morocco, a.e.g., gilt spines, some wear to joints and extremities. £1100 “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion” are bound in the same volume as usual, while the Memoir also includes “Lady Susan” and “The Watsons”. b - Back to top
First edition, 2 volumes, 4to. Frontispiece of Bacon’s signatures and facsimile title pages throughout. Original quarter buckram, some light marking otherwise very good. £125 Complete with the scarce supplement.
First edition, 8vo, 204 pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, slightly browned, some very minor creasing to edges. £120
Caxton edition, 53 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces and further plates in the text. Original gilt titled green cloth, gilt monogram to upper covers, a couple of bumps to spines, head of one spine a little worn, otherwise an excellent bright set, largely unopened, t.e.g. £500
First paperback edition, small 8vo, 184, (4) pp. Signed on the title page by the Author. Original black and white covers, minor rubbing. £50 The Author’s first book.
Two volumes, 8vo, (viii), 502; iv, 502 pp. Portrait frontispiece in volume I, engraved titles and 18 plates plus one engraving in the text by Cruikshank, Dalton and Leech, including a plate in volume II not listed, marbled endpapers, outer edge of rear free endpaper in volume II chipped. Beautifully bound by Hayday in contemporary full vellum, double gilt rules, spines with green labels and strips of red morocco, a.e.g., a few light marks otherwise a handsome set. £150
Two volumes, 8vo, (xx), 428; (xii), 466, (2) pp. Engraved titles and 23 plates by Cruikshank, Leech and others, including a facsimile plate of manuscript, plus 4 woodcuts in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, one plate in volume II loose. Contemporary calf, double gilt rules, gilt spines with brown and green labels, some minor rubbing otherwise good. £100
8vo, xvi, 546, (2) pp, with 50 plates by a variety of artist including Cruikshank, Tenniel and Leech, inscription on front blank, bound in contemporary red half morocco, red cloth sides, minor rubbing to upper joint and a few light marks to the cloth else a very good copy, t.e.g. £45
8vo, (xiv), 468 pp. 16 plates, marbled endpapers, Prize inscription to front blank. Contemporary red full morocco, gilt arms of Cordwalles School to upper cover, a.e.g., a fine copy. £60
First edition, 8vo, 181, (1) pp, free endpapers marked, cloth, a near fine copy in a fine d.w. £50
Limited edition, no. 56 of 100 copies, signed by both the Printer and Illustrator, tall 8vo, 34, (2) pp. Frontispiece and one other wood engraving by Robert Tilleard, plus a signed copy of the frontispiece engraving loosely inserted. Printed wrappers, fine. £60 A 19th century poet best known for his verse written in Dorset dialect.
First collected edition, 8vo, (xii), 467, (1), 32 advertisement pp. Contemporary inscription to half title, some light foxing, hinges with some cracking. Original gilt titled green cloth, extremities rubbed. £50 Originally published in three separate volumes.
12mo, (ii), 131, 128-214 pp. Later owner’s stamp to title, marbled endpapers. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, a.e.g., gilt ruled borders, light stain to part of the spine and the inner edge of the upper cover, otherwise very good. £150 Gaskell 50.
4to, (ii), 364 pp. Some light foxing at the beginning and end, 19th century inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked with repairs to the corners as well. £275 A beautifully printed edition of Terence’s six surviving comedies - Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphi, Phormio and Hecyra. Gaskell 46.
8vo, xvi, 540, 32 advertisement pp, frontispiece and 84 plates, slight cracking of hinges, in the original cloth, spine sunned, ends rubbed. £50 Subjects include Scott, Irving, Wordsworth, D’Israeli, George Cruikshank, Cobbett, Faraday and Thackeray plus a host of less well known figures.
Limited edition, no. 188 of 310 copies, square 8vo, 301, (1) pp, cleanly printed in black with red sidelines, uncut in the original wrappers, paper labels, spine a little browned, a couple of minor chips else a very good copy. £550
8vo, 237, (1) pp. Black and white portrait frontispiece, light foxing to front and rear blanks, silver endpapers. Strikingly bound in sewn glass beads over boards, showing a crude tulip and other decoration in six colours with a background of yellow, some wear to spine ends. A curious and unique volume. £100
First edition, folio, 16 pp. 7 fine lithographed plates with tissues, small mark to title, bookplate. Original gilt titled green cloth, somewhat marked and stained, recently rebacked. £150 An entertaining and amusingly illustrated story of two men, a barrel, and a tiger.
12mo, 16, (2), 7-176 pp. Engraved title and 5 plates, these with some light foxing, bookplate of Bishop Spencer pasted over an older bookplate, contemporary ticket of S. Vincent, Oxford, to top of paste down. Handsomely bound in contemporary dark green morocco, a.e.g., covers with gilt rules and ornate borders plus blind rules and cornerpieces to the central panels, gilt spine, some faint rubbing otherwise a lovely copy. £90
First edition, 8vo, 36, (2) pp, original decorative wrappers, spine and top edge sunned. £60
First UK edition, 8vo, (vi), 194, (2) pp. Signature to fly leaf. Cloth, extremities rubbed. £75 A collection of twelve essays on James Joyce’s “Work in Progress” - later to appear as “Finnegans Wake” - notable for being Samuel Beckett’s first appearance in print with his contribution “Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce”. Originally published by Shakespeare and Co. in Paris in 1929 and reprinted in “Transition” magazine in the same year. Federman & Fletcher 1.1.
Limited edition, one of 1,250 copies, this copy marked “out of series”, small 8vo, (vi), 51, (1), iv, (4) pp, bound in the original limp vellum, slight marking from the binding ties under the vellum otherwise fine in the original card slipcase. £60 Originally appearing posthumously in 1641, this was Beedome’s only published work. “...of his life nothing is known” (DNB).
First complete edition, six volumes, 8vo, end papers and edges foxed, partly unopened in the original cloth backed boards, spines faded with paper labels, that on volume III missing, that on volume II chipped, a scarce set. £150 The dedication describes it as the first collected edition, but CBEL regards it as missing the Pindarics.
BELLOW, Saul. More Die of Heartbreak. New York: William Morrow and Company (1987). First edition, 8vo, 335, (1) pp. Inscribed from the Author on the half title. Cloth backed boards, d.w., not price clipped but with the edges of the flaps slightly browned, a near fine copy. £100 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976.
First edition thus, 8vo, xv, 209 pp, small photographic illustrations, Errata slip loosely inserted, signed on the fly leaf by Tom Stoppard, cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £50 Including 2 works each by Tom Stoppard and Michael Stevens as well as plays by Harold Pinter and Wolf Mankowitz.
Limited edition, no. 66 of 175 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, 62 pp. Marbled endpapers. Original bright yellow buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, original clear glassine wrapper with a couple of pieces lost otherwise a fine copy. £150 Peterson A43b.
4to, xvi, 527, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 17 plates plus engravings in the text, some light foxing. Original parchment, browned and a little soiled, t.e.g. £60
First edition, 8vo, (vi), 349, (1) pp. Contemporary pencilled inscription to fly leaf, with the date in ink at the foot of the page. Original brown cloth, d.w. with slight loss to spine ends and some minor marks otherwise an excellent bright copy. £350
First edition, small 4to, xiv, 208, (2) pp, with 56 plate and 5 illustrations in the text, a very good copy partly unopened in the original buckram, d.w. browned, head of spine chipped. £45
First edition, 8vo, (iv), 301, (3) pp. 58 black and white illustrations plus seventeen pages in facsimile from Blake’s sketch book (the Rossetti manuscript), recent owner’s address label to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, browned and slightly worn. £75
8vo, 532, 32 advertisement pp. Frontispiece and 10 engraved plates, some foxing to the beginning and end of the volume, inscription dated 1880 to front blank. Original gilt titled cloth, spine sunned. £50
Two volumes, imperial 8vo, (xxiv), 325; (xiv), 383 pp, with 15 plates, some foxing and finger marks, original cloth faded, ends of spines a trifle fingered. £65 One of an edition of 1000 copies, most of which, like this one, are without the ‘extra’ 5 plates.
Two volumes, 8vo. 15 plates. Original gilt titled cream buckram, spines a little darkened, t.e.g. £50
First Amsterdam edition, later issue, 12mo, (xxiv), 744 pp. Title page printed in red and black, some light marks to first and last few leaves. Attractively bound in 20th century speckled calf, very slight sunning, red spine label, a.e.g., a handsome copy. £900 A finely printed pocket edition of the medieval classic. Willems 1349, noting two states of the Preface. Italian text.
First edition thus, two volumes, one of 1,500 copies signed by Freeman, 8vo. Fine pictorial bookplate, in Greek style by Flury, of James David Zellerbach. Original cloth, slipcase, one edge slightly cracked. £60 Leeds Romany Collection 433. Newman & Wiche 77.
Norwich edition, 16 volumes, no. 46 of 775 sets signed by the Publisher, 8vo, marbled endpapers, finely bound by Henry Sotheran in contemporary green half morocco, spines a little sunned, with raised bands and gilt titles, t.e.g., a fine set. £900 The only collected edition of Borrow’s writings, with a great deal of previously unpublished material, including parts of “Lavengro” and “Wild Wales” as well as many ballad translations and “Songs of Scandinavia”; the latter being in 3 volumes. Collie & Fraser pp170-180.
First English edition, 8vo, (x), 60 pp, inscribed from the Author on fly leaf “To Robin Haines and Mrs. Robin, with warm good wishes on their marriage; from his father’s friend...” and dated 1941, green cloth, spine and edges of upper cover faded, lower cover marked. £60
Fourth edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, (viii), 207, (1); (iv), 216 pp, marks to last page of volume II, otherwise internally fine, contemporary speckled calf, upper joint of volume II cracked, some other minor wear to edges, gilt banded spines with recent black morocco labels. £95
8vo, 823, (1) pp, frontispiece - rather foxed, marbled endpapers, original publisher’s gilt decorated vellum, green morocco spine label, t.e.g., some minor soiling else a fine copy. £50
(BRITISH POETS). ADDISON, James. AKENSIDE, Mark. ARMSTRONG, John. BEATTIE, James. BLAIR, Robert. BOWLES, William Lisle. BURNS, Robert. BUTLER, Samuel. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. CHURCHILL, Charles. COLLINS, William. COWPER, William. CRASHAW, Richard. DENHAM, Sir John. DRYDEN, John. DYER, John. FALCONER, William. GAY, John. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. GRAHAME, James. GRAY, Thomas. GREEN, Matthew. HERBERT, George. JOHNSON, Samuel. KIRKE WHITE, Henry. MILTON, John. PARNELL, Thomas. PERCY, Thomas. POPE, Alexander. PRIOR, Matthew. QUARLES, Francis. SCOTT, Sir Walter. SHAKESPEARE, William. SHENSTONE, William. SMOLLETT, Tobias. SOMERVILLE, William. SPENSER, Edmund. SURREY, Earl of. THOMSON, James. WALLER, Edmund. WARTON, Thomas. WYATT, Sir Thomas. YOUNG, Edward. The Poetical Works of... Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Speciments with Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets. With [Lives], Critical Dissertation[s] and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol 1853-61. Forty-eight volumes, 8vo. Marbled endpapers. Uniformly bound by W. Worsfold in later half morocco, t.e.g., gilt spines, some slight sunning, a few minor abrasions, a very good set. £1200 A complete set of the Library edition of the British Poets, including Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry and Less-Known British Poets in three volumes each. A number of poets are collected in multiple volumes - Spenser in five, Chaucer and Scott in three, Bowles, Burns, Butler, Cowper, Dryden, Milton and Pope all in two as well as nine volumes collecting more than one poet.
Large 8vo sheet, 10 x 7 inches, printed on one side only. Two line title above a woodcut illustration, with two columns of verse separated by a decorative strip. One faint horizontal fold crease, slight browning to righthand edge otherwise in very good condition. £425 A very scarce Victorian ballad telling the sad tale of a policeman “took to stealing” (“prig” being slang for this practice). The eight stanzas (seven of 8 lines, one of 4 lines) tell how he escapes to Ireland with silks, satins and silver before being caught and brought back to London, concluding “I wish I was in Portland street, A rabbit pie a munching, With a leather belt around my waist, And in my hand a truncheon...” Only one copy located, in the Firth collection in the Bodleian Library, c.17(294), but with a different picture and a vertical rule separating the stanzas instead of the decoration.
Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (viii), 220 pp. Frontispiece and one plate by Jack Hewer plus a drawing by the Author. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a couple of very minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £75
Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes 8vo. 5 plates by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, fine. £125
Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (x), 283, (1) pp. Frontispiece by Jack Hewer and a view of Brussels by Colonel Batty. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a fine copy. £75
Small 8vo, (iv), 534 pp. Original orange wrappers and yellow endpapers with advertisements bound in, a couple of early signatures at the front. Recent green half morocco, marbled sides. A handsome copy. £150 First published in 1849 in three volumes.
Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes 8vo. 6 plates including 2 by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a few very minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £125
Seven volumes, 8vo. Wood engraved illustrations. Original green silk-covered boards, spines sunned, slipcase with some minor fraying otherwise very good. £60
Third edition (same year as the first), 2 volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece, view of Haworth and a facsimile plate of manuscript, signature to paste downs. Original gilt titled blind stamped brown cloth, spine ends rubbed, a very good set. £150 “The original publication of [this work] excited a considerable amount of adverse criticism as a result of the errors and exaggerations its authoress had been led into making. For the third edition, therefore, the work was thoroughly revised, and the passages containing statements to which objection had been taken were removed from its pages”. Wise p220.
Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (xii), 385, (1), 9, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 3 plates by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a couple of very minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £95
First edition, 8vo, xviii, 1082 pp. Cloth, d.w. with some chips and loss to edges. £45
First edition thus, small 4to, viii, 40 pp. Some light foxing, old signature to title. Recent black quarter calf, marbled boards. £250 A celebrated work first published in the same year as “De Animi Immortalitate”. Browne’s meagre output is not matched by his reputation; Johnson describing him as “one of the first wits of the country, [who] got into Parliament and never opened his mouth”. William Hay was M.P. for Seaford and lived at Glyndebourne, producing a number of essays, poems and translations.
First edition, small 8vo, (viii), 157, (1, 2 advertisement) pp, light foxing to half title, original red cloth with bevelled edges, minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. £50 Wise 28. Actually published in December 1889.
First edition with these illustrations, 8vo, (vi, 128) pp, with a frontispiece, pictorial title page and attractive decorative borders to each page, marbled endpapers and side, contemporary brown half morocco, some light marks, attractive art deco gilt tooling to spine, t.e.g. £95
8vo, (viii), xii, 9-203, (1) pp, 25 vignette woodcuts in the text, contemporary tree calf, upper joint cracked, corners worn, with small loss to head of spine, red morocco spine label. £150 A scarce book by a little known poet with rough but lively woodcuts accompanying the text.
Limited edition, no. 37 of 200 large paper copies, signed by the Author, 8vo, 383, (1) pp, uncut in the original quarter cloth, grey paper boards with some browning, gilt stamped morocco spine label. £165
Second edition, 8vo, (x), 205, (3), 16 advertisement pp. Etched title and 6 etched plates by D.Y. Cameron. Original cloth backed decorative buckram boards, gilt spine, slight bumping of spine otherwise a fine copy. £150 A collection of short essays. The Author’s second book.
First English edition, small 8vo, (vi), 86, (2 advertisement) pp. Original colourful patterned boards, paper labels to upper cover and spine, spine and labels slightly browned, a very good copy. £75 Four short stories, the first of which was translated by D.H. Lawrence. Woolmer 19 - “about 1,000 copies printed”. Roberts B9.
Limited edition, no. 718 of 750 copies, small 8vo, (ii), 426, (4) pp. Wood engraved frontispiece, with tissue guard, with the character’s names and side-notes printed in red. Original contemporary vellum, yapp edges, slight rubbing to lower cover otherwise a very good copy. £325 “This is the third book printed at the Essex House Press, which was founded by Laurence Hodson and C.R. Ashbee, in the hope to keep living the traditions of good printing that William Morris had revived, and with the help of T. Binning and J. Tippett, compositors, and S. Mowlem, pressman, who came from the Kelmscott Press to that end” (Colophon). Tomkinson p68. Franklin p198.
8vo. (ii), xviii, 321, (2), 250, 6 pp. Later tan full polished calf, spine with raised bands, black gilt lettered label, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, old ownership inscription to upper corner of title page, a more recent inscription dated 1912 to second free endpaper. Frontispiece portrait and eight engraved plates. Extremities rubbed, lower compartment of spine marked, otherwise in very good condition. £100
8vo, x, 364 pp, some light spots, unopened in the original cloth, spine ends bumped, two small marks to upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. £40 Publications of the Folk-Lore Society volume 73.
Eighteen volumes, 8vo (six volumes in a slightly smaller format). Many volumes with illustrations by C.B. Reinhart, Reginald B. Birch and others, marbled endpapers and sides, monogrammatic bookplates of William Douglas Sloane, 1844-1915, husband of Emily Vanderbilt and son of the founders of the New York furniture store W. & J. Sloane. Contemporary light blue half morocco, spines with raised bands and gilt flowers, faded to brown, t.e.g., some minor rubbing otherwise an attractive set. £725
Two volumes in one, small 8vo, 3-334, (2), 3-328 pp, bound without the half titles, endpapers foxed, contemporary quarter calf, red cloth sides, spine darkened with some minor marking, red morocco spine label with gilt trim still bright. £65 Todd & Bowden 2183/4.
Three volumes, 12mo. 9 plates. Original gilt titled green cloth, spines a little dull, ends bumped, t.e.g. £60
Two volumes, 12mo. 7 plates. Original gilt titled green cloth, spines a little dull, ends bumped, t.e.g. £40
Two volumes. 12mo. (2), 256 pp.; (2), 248 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines flat with double gilt ruled compartments, gilt lettered direct to two panels. A title page vignette to each volume. Extremities lightly rubbed, small mark towards foot of spine of the second volume, a very good set overall. £125 First published in 1778, this charming edition was published by the Chiswick Press. A reference on Copac alludes to the volumes being part of Whittingham’s Novel Library series, from which they record twenty-six titles published between 1822 and 1834.
Limited edition, no. 58 of 250 copies, 4to, (44) pp. Illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w., spine and edges faded otherwise very good. £40
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece portraits, cloth, d.w.’s, spines browned, price clipped from upper flaps. £75
8vo, (3)-61, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Frontispiece, engraved title and 18 plates. Contemporary black half morocco, marbled sides, edges and joints rather worn, gilt spine with loss to top. £75
Five volumes, 8vo. Two portrait frontispieces and 54 plates, plus a double page facsimile plate of hand-writing, a later owner’s brief inscription to the fly leaf verso in volume I. Original gilt and black decorated red cloth, a.e.g., spines sunned, ends a little bumped otherwise a very good sound set. £100
First edition, first issue, 8vo, 225, (3) pp. Original paper wrappers, d.w., small closed tear to the top of the spine, light browning to the spine also, otherwise an excellent bright copy. £1600 The first issue with the green title border, but with the price crossed out and the new price stamped on the lower cover, and the price blacked out to the lower wrapper.
4to, (ii), 496, xviii Index, (2) pp, with a portrait frontispiece and vignette on the title, marbled endpapers, finely bound in contemporary red straight grained morocco, inside gilt dentelles, decorative gilt borders to covers, very slight rubbing to joints, spine very slightly sunned, a.e.g., a near fine copy. £200 One volume only of a 3 volume set of which only 200 copies were printed, according to Lowndes. Finely printed and bound with wide margins. Lowndes II
Two volumes, 8vo, (vi), 346; (ii), 403, (1) pp, portrait frontispiece and a plate of facsimile handwriting, plus title vignettes, slight foxing to frontispiece, otherwise a very good clean copy, marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary half calf, cloth sides, gilt and blind stamped spines, a little worn, red and black morocco labels. £80
Third authorised edition, with the watermarks as per Wise, 8vo, (viii), 85, (3 advertisement) pp. Old signature and small ink stamp to title, the latter slightly offset onto the half title recto. Later 19th century black half morocco, some minor marks and rubbing otherwise an excellent copy. £100 Wise I p24; “a scarce book”.
First edition, small 8vo, (iii-viii), 128 pp, bound without the half title and advertisements. Contemporary signature to title, later 19th century inscription to fly leaf. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, black spine label, some rubbing to extremities, very good. £75 Wise I p101.
Second edition. 8vo. (v), vi-viii, 322, (2); (iv), 306, (2) pp, complete with half titles and the advertisement leaves at rear of each volume. Handsomely bound in contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, spine with single gilt ruled compartments, gilt lettered direct to two panels, marbled edges and endpapers, armorial bookplates of the Marquess of Conyngham to the front pastedowns. A little wear to the boards with slight loss of paper to the upper board of volume two, otherwise an excellent set. £500 The novel was published anonymously and purportedly was written by Medora Gordon Byron. Her first novel “The English Woman” appeared in 1808 and was also printed at the Minerva Press, the name “Miss Byron” appearing on the title page. Her final novel “The Spinster’s Journal” bears the caption “By a Modern Antique”, as here. The bookplate bears the crown symbol of a British marquess, by the date of the book and the binding one can assume that the books originated from the library of Henry, 1st Marquess Conyngham and his wife Elizabeth (née Denison, apparently the final mistress of George IV). Blakey, p. 227. c - Back to top
8vo, (xvi), 72, 134 pp. Printer’s woodcut device to the title page, some light foxing, title browned with some small ink marks. Contemporary dappled calf with a central decorative blind stamped panel, a little worn, outer edge of lower cover darkened, recently rebacked with a maroon spine label. £950 The text is printed in Greek with the notes in both Greek and Latin. “...he was the chief of the elegiac poets... imitated by Ovid, Catullus and especially Propertius. The extant hymns are especially learned...” (Ency. Brit). Adams C232. Brunet I 1480, erroneously calling for 144 pages and noting that this was the first time part of the Epigrams and the fragments had been printed.
Thirteenth edition, small 8vo, viii, 214 pp, Harrow School Prize inscription on fly leaf verso, marbled endpapers, attractively bound in contemporary brown diced calf, double gilt rules, gilt cornerpieces of the school device of crossed arrows, gilt spine, a.e.g., an excellent copy. £75
CAMPBELL, Roy. The Collected Poems of... London: The Bodley Head, (1949). First edition, 8vo, 297, (1) pp. Inscribed from the Author to the publisher Michael Legat on the fly leaf “...with thanks for the production”. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a little browned and marked with the top of spine rubbed. £60
First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, cloth, d.w.’s, light rubbing to spines of volumes I and II, slipcases (2 volumes per slipcase), near fine. £60
8vo, (xii), 306 pp. Frontispiece of a bust of the Author plus steel-engraved vignettes in the text, these mostly after Turner, some light foxing, later inscription to fly leaf verso, marbled endpapers. Contemporary full morocco, a.e.g., gilt spine and double rules, some light rubbing and a couple of small patches of wear. £55
CAREW, Thomas. A Rapture. With Engravings by J.E. Labourer. (Waltham Saint Lawrence): The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Limited edition, no. 122 of 375 copies, 8vo, 14, (2) pp. 2 plates. From the Library of Eric Gill with his bookplate to the paste down. Original buckram backed patterned boards, slight browning of spine else fine. £300 Gill’s bookplate reads “Ex Libris Eric Gill” above a hand and an open book with a Latin motto, and the initials T.O.S.D., which stand for “Third Order of Saint Dominic”. Skelton P504, who in the Introduction to his “Engraved Bookplates of Eric Gill” quotes Walter Shewring on the matter of the Latin motto (“Liber est causa sui”). “[Gill] had a Victorian fondness for puns, & this is an elaborate one... Two quite different words in Latin have the same spelling... ‘Liber’ with a long i = free or free man... with a short i = book. In the first case, the Latin gives the Scholastic dictum ‘The free man is responsible for himself...’. In the second case, it means ‘a book is its own justification’, or as Gertrude Stein would have put it ‘a book is a book is a book’”.
First edition, 8vo, xviii, 268, (2) pp. 9 plates, endpapers spotted plus 2 leaves stained. Cloth, d.w. browned and marked with price clipped from upper flap. £60 Containing 170 letters, many published here for the first time. Williams, Madan & Green 311.
Two volumes, both first editions, 8vo, xxiv, 400, (3 advertisement, 1); xxxii, 423, (2, 5 advertisement) pp, frontispieces and numerous illustrations in both volumes, original gilt decorated red cloth, spines faded, some slight wear to lower joint, a.e.g. £150 Williams, Madan & Green 217, 250.
Third impression, eleventh thousand, 8vo, xx, 448 pp, portrait frontispiece plus numerous illustrations in the text, Prize Inscription on fly leaf dated 1902, marbled endpapers, bound by Baker and Son in contemporary full vellum, maroon morocco spine label, gilt stamp of Mortimer House [Bristol] stamped in gilt to upper cover. £65
First edition, 8vo, 36 pp, signed by the Author on the title page, 3 illustrations, decorative endpapers, spiral bound card covers, a fine copy. £60
CARTER, Barbara Barclay. Abelard. A Play by... (Author of “Ship without Sails” [added in manuscript], “Old Nurse”, “Italy Speaks”). [Not published, late 1930s]. 4to, (4), 118 leaves of typescript, with some erratic numbering and evidence of leaves being removed and replaced with later versions. Manuscript annotation and editing by the Author throughout. Rough paper covers with the Author’s address to the foot of the upper cover, edges and lower part of spine. £45 An unpublished play. The Author had two books published in the 1930s, and her entry in the Book of Catholic Authors mentions how this work’s chances of publication were doomed by the outbreak of the second world war.
8vo, (x), 342, 191, (1) pp. Initial letter to page 91 partly coloured, some browning and foxing, last 2 gatherings with a light stain to the top corner, brief later inscriptions to the paste down. Contemporary vellum, covers slightly bowed, handwritten spine title in a compartment stained blue, this slightly faded, a few marks otherwise a very good sound copy. £450
Forty-four volumes (of 45), 12mo, lacking volume XII, or the seventh of ten volumes of the Spectator. 17 volumes with portrait frontispieces. Contemporary tree calf, gilt banded spines, sunned and with 12 volumes lacking their labels, all but 11 volumes also lacking their small roundels of green morocco showing the volume numbers, some wear to a few spine ends otherwise a pretty and well preserved set. £400 Containing the articles of some of the 18th century’s most brilliant polemicists, including Samuel Johnson, Joseph Warton, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift, this set collects in full twelve publications, viz. the Tatler, the Spectator, the Guardian, the Rambler, the Adventurer, the World, the Connoisseur, the Idler, the Mirror, the Lounger, the Observer and the Looker-on. A major work of scholarship, DNB comments of Chalmers “No man ever edited so many works... for the booksellers of London”
Limited edition, no. 46 of 87 copies, 8vo, (viii, 72) pp. Handsomely printed with a woodcut title page and sidenotes printed in red, limitation briefly noted in manuscript to a front blank, contemporary tls. from a previous owner to the publisher and two copies of the same press review loosely inserted. Original parchment, printed label to upper cover, some minor marks, a near fine copy. £60 A book dedicated to William Morris, and printed in imitation of his Kelmscott Press titles.
First edition, folio, a dos-à-dos production with 64 pp in one direction and 64 pp in the other. Signed by Terry Jones on the title page. Original pictorial wrappers, slightly worn and creased. £100
Twenty-four volumes, large 8vo, each containing either 48 or 56 pp, original decorative wrappers, some very slight wear to some spine ends otherwise a fine set. £300 A complete run of this excellent publication on all things Bloomsbury. The separately published 8pp Index to the first 10 issues is also included.
First edition. 8vo. 248, (2) pp. Publisher’s grey cloth gilt lettered to spine, dust jacket, not clipped though original price label not present, neat ownership inscription in ink to first free endpaper. Excellent condition. £50
Six volumes, 8vo, frontispieces in volumes I-IV, 6 further plates, some occasional spotting, original cloth, slight fraying to tops of several spines, otherwise a very good set. £200 A seventh supplementary volume was published in 1897.
Limited edition, no. 1,025 of 1,500 copies, signed by the Designer (George W. Jones), 4to, double page decorative title, bookplate, white quarter canvas, spine slightly browned a very good copy, lacking the slipcase. £65
Large 8vo, (xiv), 496 pp. 5 coloured plates. Dark green quarter morocco, patterned boards, slipcase, a fine copy. £40 Nash 678.
First English edition, 8vo, (viii), 403, (1) pp. Errata leaf bound in, free endpapers lightly foxed, owner’s initials on fly leaf. Original green cloth, small burn mark to upper cover, some slight rubbing, t.e.g. £50 First published in New York the year before. Sullivan 17A, with the title page and pp357/8 as cancels.
First edition, small 4to, xliv, 132 pp, 6 coloured plates with captioned tissues, text and images within decorative borders, browning to endpapers otherwise a near fine copy in the original decorative cream cloth, a few minor marks, t.e.g. £50
First edition, 8vo, 60, (2) pp. Some light spotting, marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Bayntun’s in full blue calf, a.e.g., gilt rules, gilt spine with brown and red labels, a fine copy. £75
Seventeenth edition, 12mo, viii, 413, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges. Attractively bound in contemporary tree sheep, gilt spine with wear to foot, maroon label. £65
First edition, 8vo, 284, (4) pp. Some occasional light foxing. Original orange cloth, spine slightly sunned, spine ends and one corner bumped. £150
First edition, 8vo, 254, (2) pp. Bookplate partly removed from fly leaf. Original cloth, spine sunned, a couple of small marks. £75
First edition, 8vo, 252, (4) pp. Signature to fly leaf, which is slightly creased. Original cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a little browned with loss to spine ends and corners and with signs of a label having been removed from spine. £500
CHRISTIE, Agatha. A Pocket Full of Rye. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1953). First American edition, 8vo, (viii), 211, (1) pp. Signed by the Author on the title page. Cloth, light rubbing to extremities, d.w., not price clipped, some light browning and soiling, minor loss to lower corner of upper wrapper. £950
First edition, 8vo, viii, 320 pp. 16 plates, marbled endpapers, Prize inscription to front blank. Bound by Relfe Brothers in red morocco, gilt arms of Cordwalles School to upper cover, gilt spine, a.e.g., a fine copy. £80
CHURCHILL: The British Gazette. London Wednesday May 5 - Thursday May 13, 1926. Eight issues (all published) of this broadsheet newspaper, each of 4 pp, the first two issues printed on one side of the sheet only, folded in four and with some minor marginal tears, otherwise very good with no marking or browning. £195 Edited by Churchill during the General Strike of 1926, with the circulation increasing from 232,000 to 2,209,000 from the first to the last issue. Although as Editor he would have been involved in all aspects of production, only one article, in the last issue, can be confidently assigned to him, entitled “The Birth and Life of ‘The British Gazette’” and concluding with the splendid phrase “It becomes a memory; but it remains a monument”. Woods p321.
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 302 pp, 16 pages of illustrations, cloth, d.w., a little marked. £40
Limited edition, no. 26 of 30 copies “on special paper” from a total edition of 480 copies, signed by the Author on the half title, 8vo, 29, (3) pp. Cloth backed boards, fine. £40
CLARKE, Lindsay. Sunday Whiteman. London (1987). First edition, 8vo, 221, (1) pp, inscribed by the Author on title, cloth, pictorial d.w., a fine copy of Clarke’s first book. £65
First edition, 8vo, 63, (1) pp, some light foxing, initialled inscription to title, original cloth backed boards, some marks. £70
Third edition, 8vo, (vi), 373, (1) pp, with a portrait frontispiece plus an engraved title and 22 plates by Onwhyn, a very good copy bound in contemporary green half calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, marbled sides, slight rubbing to spine ends. £80 First published 1845.
8vo, xxiii, (i), 614 pp. Marbled endpapers. Full blue morocco, gilt spine, a fine copy. £60
Limited edition, no. 254 of 500 copies, large 8vo, (viii), 130 pp. 3 full page wood engravings by Stefan Mrozewski, patterned metallic endpapers with oxidisation as is usual. Original limp orange vellum, t.e.g., a very good copy. £110 Printed at the Fanfare Press. Lacking the slipcase.
12mo, 189, (3) pp. Final blank leaf loose. Contemporary speckled calf, edges worn, joints cracked but sound. £80 Gaskell 224.
First edition thus, large 8vo, (viii), 222 pp. 12 plates plus illustrations in the text, patterned endpapers and sides, fine bookplate of Lœlia, Duchess of Westminster. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in contemporary red half calf, gilt spine with green morocco labels, t.e.g., light wear to extremities. £75
Limited edition, 135 of 150 copies, large 8vo, 24, (4) pp. Portrait frontispiece. Printed wrappers, fine. £40
Limited edition, no. 184 of 500 copies, 8vo, (iv), 67, (3) pp. Title decorations and 7 wood engravings in the text, plus the press device below the Colophon. Blue quarter morocco, spine faded to brown, patterned boards designed by Tirzah Garwood (later Ravilious), t.e.g., a very good copy. £125 Chanticleer 84. Kirkus 42. Fabes p13.
Limited edition, no. 622 of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (iv), 57, (3) pp. 4 wood engravings plus the press device below the Colophon, Notice to Subscribers concerning the increase in limitation loosely inserted. Green quarter morocco, spine faded to brown with slight wear to top, patterned boards designed by Tirzah Garwood (later Ravilious), edges a little browned, t.e.g., a very good copy. £135 Chanticleer 74 - “Printed in the new Golden Cockerel type, specially designed for the Press by Eric Gill”. Kirkus 39. Fabes p36.
First edition, 8vo, 296 pp, advertisement for Coppard’s “Fares Please!” tipped in at end, a few spots to fly leaf, otherwise a very good copy in the original cloth backed “harlequin” boards, d.w., lightly soiled, spine browned, small piece missing at foot of spine. £50
COPPARD, A.E. Pelagea, & other Poems. (Waltham Saint Lawrence): The Golden Cockerel Press 1926. Limited edition, no. 345 of 425 copies, 8vo, (ii), 44, (2) pp. 6 wood engravings plus the Press device by Robert Gibbings. Buckram backed patterned boards in fine condition, d.w. repeating one of the wood engravings to the upper cover, slight loss to the top of the spine, some minor soiling. £125 Chanticleer 43.
CORNWELL, Patricia. All That Remains. A Novel. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1992). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 373, (3) pp. Signed by the Author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, slight rubbing to spine otherwise a near fine copy. £100
First edition thus, 8vo, vi, 210 pp, errata slip tipped in at the front, original light blue cloth, spine slightly browned. £100 First published in 2 parts, in 1858 and 1877. This collected edition was an important influence on the Uranian poets - “...at once an inspiration and an example.” D’Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, pp 8-11, 246.
Twelfth edition, 12mo, 3-141, (2 publisher’s advertisements, 1) pp, lacking half title, frontispiece by Charles Grignion, contemporary full calf, rebacked. £60 Cotton’s verse was never published under his name; as well as his writings he kept a private asylum, into which Cowper was committed during the 1760’s.
12mo, xxiv, 695, (1) pp. Frontispiece portrait, engraved second title and 6 plates, engraved Prize label of the Coopers’ Company to paste down. Contemporary maroon morocco, gilt borders and spine, gilt arms to upper cover, a.e.g., a fine copy. £80
Second edition, (iii-xxviii), 258 pp, bound without the half title. Armorial bookplate of Lord Vivian to paste down. Contemporary full morocco, a.e.g., gilt rules, some rubbing to joints, very good. £60
Two volumes bound in one, small 8vo, 287, (1), 288 pp. Light foxing to endpapers. Contemporary dark green half calf, gilt banded spine with a red label, marbled edges, light wear to the top corner of the lower cover otherwise very good. £60 Todd & Bowden 3250, 51.
CREASEY, John. Alibi. London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1971). First edition, 8vo, 192 pp. Inscribed on the fly leaf from the Author to the publisher Michael Legat - “A book you don’t have to read...”, and with Creasey’s signature to the title as well. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, an excellent bright copy. £40
CREASEY, John. Hang the Little Man. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (1963). First American edition, 8vo, 188 pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf to the publisher Michael Legat and his wife. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, one minor tear and some light creasing to the top edge. £40
CADDICK, Arthur. The Speech of Phantoms. HEATH-STUBBS, John. Aphrodite’s Garland. MORRIS, Guido. Songs at High Noon. WRIGHT, David. Moral Stories. WELCH, Noël. Ten Poems. BERGONZI, Bernard. Godolphin & other Poems. NEWTON, Douglas. Metamorphoses of Violence. TRAKL, Georg. Decline. Saint Ives: The Latin Press 1951-2. Eight volumes complete, first editions, 8vo. Each sewn in the original printed wrappers, a few minor spots otherwise fine. £80
Second impression, 12mo, 174 pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., slight edgewear, one mark to upper wrapper. £40
DUNN, Sara. Blanche Fleming. [with] McDERMOTT, P. The Lost Earl. [with] THOMPSON, A.W. The Violet and the Rose. London: John Dicks, Office of “Bow Bells” [n.d., 1870s]. Five works in one volumes, 8vo, 118, 119, (1), 118, 118, 128 pp, with wood engraved plates by Louis Huard, Richard Huttula and J. Abbott Pasquier, binder’s blind stamp to fly leaf, contemporary half morocco, marbled sides, green morocco spine label, spine a little sunned, some rubbing. £85
First edition, 8vo, x, 76 (2) pp. Inscribed on the fly leaf from the Author, and with loosely inserted three autograph letters from her to the same recipient as well as a couple of newspaper cuttings, a printed invitation to a party at her house and a typed programme from a production of one of her plays. Cloth, d.w., browned with slight loss to the top edge. £60 d - Back to top
Five volumes, 8vo. 73 plates plus 150 head and tail pieces. Original gilt titled white buckram, some minor marks, spines very slightly browned otherwise a very good set. £60 First published 1558. The plates, by the Swiss artist Freudenberg, were first used in a late 18th century Berne edition.
One of 500 copies “for Private Circulation only, amongst Friends and Subscribers”, 8vo, 360 pp, foxing throughout, small bookseller’s label of Charles Carrington, Paris, on rear paste down, original parchment boards, a little marked. £100 Sebastian Melmoth was the pseudonym Oscar Wilde used after his imprisonment, however it seems likely that Wilde had no hand in this volume’s production and the use of his pseudonym was a ruse by the publisher.
First edition thus, 8vo, (vi), 762 pp. Cloth, slight sunning to the top edge, d.w., spine again faintly sunned, a very good copy. £40
8vo, (xvli), 578 pp. Portrait frontispiece, brief contemporary inscription to half title. Contemporary quarter vellum, t.e.g., gilt spine decorated with art nouveau flowers, a very good copy. £45
Limited edition, no. 31 of 500 copies, signed by the Author, 8vo, (viii), 54, (2) pp. Frontispiece and 6 illustrations, with a presentation inscription on the fly leaf “To Betty and Teddy, this little book, not a little of which was written at Downside and Lubia House, Cowes, with the warm love of the author, Xmas 1930”. Original green buckram with bevelled edges, spine sunned, coloured illustration on upper cover with some marks, but a very good copy. £75
First edition, small 8vo, vi, 128, (4), 4, 16 advertisement pp. Small stain to fly leaf. Original gilt titled black buckram, art nouveau design to upper cover, slightly rubbed, a very good copy. £50
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, viii, 327, (1); [viii], 308 pp, occasional finger and other marks, 1 or 2 short tears, blank tip of 1 leaf torn away, volume 2 partly detached in case, original cloth dull and rubbed. £40 Amusing literary tilt at ‘comic’ writers including Chaucer, Shakspere, Pantagruelism, and on other themes such as National Fun, Roman Satire, Attic Salt &c. &c.
First edition, 8vo, (vi), 218, 16, 12 advertisement pp, illustration on title, faint ink stamp on half title and paste down, bookplate, 2 leaves of advertisements carelessly opened, free endpapers foxed, overall a very good copy in the original decorated cloth, slightly soiled. £80
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 220, 14, 12 advertisement pp. Decorative title page showing kangaroos in motion. Original green cloth, replicating the title illustration to the upper cover, slightly rubbed. Scarce. £75 A collection of short stories, including much Australian content.
First edition, 8vo, 136 pp. Original gilt decorated cloth, some marks and soiling, t.e.g., others uncut. £50
First edition, 8vo, 58 pp. Inscribed from the Author on the half title. Cloth backed boards, d.w. with slight fading and wear to spine. £50
First edition, first issue, 8vo, (x), 437, (1) pp, white cloth, a fine co py in a fine d.w. £300
4to, xvi, 42, (2), lxviii pp, portrait frontispiece and 16 plates, 2 in colour, foxing to last few leaves, binding a little loose but sound, original cloth, gilt illustration on upper cover, spine and edges a little faded. £75 A 14th century French poet and contemporary of Chaucer.
First edition, 12mo, (viii), 208 pp, some spotting at the beginning and end, contemporary half calf, rather worn, paper boards, black morocco spine label. £50 A collection of pieces in imitation of popular Authors, including Byron, Coleridge, Scott and Wordsworth. The Introduction is signed “W.G.”, intending to mean William Gifford, who was indeed Editor of the Quarterly Review.
Fourteen volumes, one of 750 sets, 8vo. Original light blue buckram, all but one of the spines darkened, one spine with a white mark, t.e.g., a very good set. £200
First edition, 8vo, (iv, 7 List of Subscribers, 5), 295, (1) pp. Contemporary maroon half morocco, extremities with some wear, spine darkened with gilt tooling, slight loss to foot, marbled sides, edges stained yellow. £500 Four unacted plays. “The author of numerous works long since forgotten” (DNB), Delap had several of his pieces staged by Garrick, but none achieved any real success.
First edition, 8vo, 475, (3) pp. Genealogy to endpapers. Inscribed from the Author on the title, and with a further inscription from the dedicatees above the printed dedication above a photograph of the Author with the two dedicatees which has been tipped in. Cloth, d.w., spine sunned with some light edge wear and a small closed tear. £40
Two volumes, 8vo, (iv), xxxii, 386; (iv), 383, (1) pp, occasional light foxing, unopened in the original boards, upper hinge in volume I cracked, later cloth spines and paper labels, spines sunned. £50 This translation was originally published in the mid-18th century “A work of extraordinary merit: the translation is executed with a spirit and energy nearly equal to the original” (Lowndes III p627).
First edition, small 8vo, (iv), 90 pp. Title slightly browned. Original blind stamped green cloth, a near fine copy. £50 The only work the Author published, including a poem on the Olympic games.
First edition, small 4to, (iv), 46 pp, lacking the 2 leaf dedication at the beginning and the final leaf (advertisement and errata), but with the text of the poem complete. 3 folding plates, one with an old repair, some light foxing, title page soiled with minor loss to one corner, later bookplate. 19th century half sheep, marbled boards, £500 Elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1714, Desaguliers contributed papers on colour and the barometer to Philosophical Transactions, lectured widely to general audiences and was “held in great esteem” (DNB) by Newton. This poem, published the year after Newton’s death, celebrates his achievements with copious footnotes explaining the science in some detail. Foxon D234.
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 296 pp, with 2 maps, with a nice inscription from the Author on the title page - “...So glad you enjoy morose old Morse!...”, cloth, d.w. with some very slight creasing to edges else a near fine copy. £50
[with] The Dickens Birthday Dinner, to Commemorate the [118th] Anniversary of the Birth of Dickens... Friday, 7th February, 1930. London: The Dickens Fellowship Two works, the first limited edition, no. 4 of only 50 copies, 8vo, the second large 8vo, 24 and 16 pp respectively. First volume signed by 16 of the 22 guests listed, printed card wrappers, a little faded; the second with many illustrations, sewn as issued in larger stiff paper wrappers. £100 Loosely inserted is an envelope addressed to A.C. Rogers, to whom both these items at one time belonged, containing a letter from Florence Dickens, Charles Dickens’ niece, concerning items of Dickensiana she was searching for and touching briefly on the Author’s death “...that sad day when the news of his sudden death came as a shock to the whole world”
Six volumes, folio, with 16 pp and 3 photogravure plates per volume plus a title page in volume I, making 98 pp and 18 plates in all, numerous engravings in the text, internally very good, bound in the original cloth backed printed boards, with some marking and wear. £180
“Cheap edition”, 8vo, (iii-xvi), 175, (1) pp, with a frontispiece, foxing to the outer edge of this only, marbled endpapers, contemporary black half morocco, joints and spine ends a little rubbed, cloth sides, slightly faded. £85 Dickens’ account of his travels was perhaps too honest - “though he strove hard to do justice to their good qualities, it is clear that he returned disillusioned and heartily disliking the country” (DNB) - and met with much hostility from American critics. First published 1842 and with a new Preface added to this edition.
8vo, (ii), 547, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary red calf, gilt borders, gilt spine with a black label, some light marks otherwise very good. £65
Small 4to, (xii), 440 pp. 61 illustrations, including 3 plates, printed in double column, a few light spots. Contemporary half morocco, gilt titled spine, some minor rubbing otherwise very good. £75 A volume originally published in the Household edition.
First book edition, three volumes, small 8vo. Light foxing throughout, contemporary signature to half titles, armorial bookplates of J.J. Richardson, Kircassock. Contemporary full morocco, spines sunned, marbled edges. £125 Partly preceding the London first edition of 1848, this set comprises the earliest issues of volumes I and II, and probably III as well, although it doesn’t quite match what is called for in any issue listed. Todd & Bowden 119Aa, 120Aa and 121.
Small 8vo, 846 pp. Decorative title and 8 plates, some marginal browning, marbled endpapers. Contemporary quarter vellum, green cloth sides, brown morocco spine label, slightly rubbed otherwise an excellent copy. £50
8vo, 961, (1) pp, marbled endpapers and edges, bound in contemporary maroon calf, gilt border and spine, head of spine rubbed, slight cracking of upper joint. £40
8vo, iv, 525, (1) pp. Frontispiece, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary dark blue calf, gilt scroll borders, gilt spine with a maroon label, faint stain to upper cover otherwise a bright copy. £65
Small 8vo, 846 pp. Decorative title and 16 plates, some browning to text leaves, marbled endpapers. Contemporary quarter vellum, green cloth sides, brown morocco spine label, a lovely copy. £60
8vo, (iv), 122 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette and further engravings in the text, printed in double column, slight cracking to upper hinge, small closed tear to the final leaf. Contemporary black half cloth, marbled sides, a little rubbed, Author and title in a childish crayon to the upper cover. £40
Facsimile edition, two volumes, 8vo. Plates after the original engravings plus reproductions of parts of the manuscript, some light foxing. Original gilt titled green cloth, slightly dusty. £50 Originally part of the Lombard Street edition of Dickens’ Novels.
DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1857. First edition, early issue. 8vo. Bound without half title, (iii)-xiv, (2), 609, (1) pp. Later 19th century brown half calf over marbled boards by James S. North of Brighton, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, gilt lettered black label, author gilt lettered direct to another compartment, blindstamped rules to sides, plain brown endpapers. The verso of the frontispiece and the additional illustrated title page bearing the old manuscript signatures of one Laurence Maydwell. Frontispiece, title vignette and 41 plates drawn by Seymour or Phiz as is usual, the latter generally with page locations and without captions or imprints. The sign on the title vignette reads “Tony Veller”. The two Buss plates (10 and 11) have been replaced with illustrations by Phiz. Extra Illustrated with 32 plates from a pirated edition of the work which contained “illegitimate” illustrations and are signed either “Saml. Weller del.” or “J.V. del.” and bear the imprint of E. Grattan.` A number of abrasions causing loss to the leather, foxing throughout though more pronounced on the plates and those leaves adjacent. A very good copy. £625 Smith, I, 3. The text conforms with many, but not all, of the issue points listed by Smith himself, but only on a few does it match those he refers to from Hatton and Cleaver. The states of the “standard” plates are mixed and appear to conform with those which Smith suggests normally appear in volume copies.
Victoria edition, two volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, vignette title in volume I and 47 plates, plus facsimiles of Dickens’ handwriting and of the wrapper from one of the parts. Some light marginal foxing to text pages, tissues also with some foxing. Unopened in the original gilt titled green cloth, spine ends bumped otherwise very good. £125 One of 500 copies with india proofs of photogravure reproductions of the original artists’ drawings, from a total edition of 2,000 copies.
DICKENS, Charles. The Works of... The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. The Old Curiosity Shop. Barnaby Rudge. Hard Times. Sketches by Boz. The Adventures of Oliver Twist. Dombey and Son. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Pictures from Italy. American Notes for General Circulation. Bleak House. Little Dorrit. Christmas Books. A Tale of Two Cities. Great Expectations. Our Mutual Friend. The Uncommercial Traveller. A Child’s History of England. Christmas Stories. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall [n.d., c.1890]. Illustrated Library edition, 30 volumes, 8vo. Engraved plates throughout, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Attractively bound in contemporary half calf, gilt blocked spines with raised bands and red and green labels, the latter mostly with some fading, one volume (Barnaby Rudge) recased, slight wear to a few tops of spines, otherwise a very handsome set. £3000
Authentic edition, 22 volumes, 8vo. Coloured frontispieces plus black and white illustrations throughout, small tear to one half title. Original gilt titled green cloth, t.e.g., some light marks and bumps otherwise a very good set. £400 Published in 21 volumes, here with the additional volume of Miscellaneous Papers.
(DICKENS, Charles). WARD, Adolphus William. Dickens. London: Macmillan and Co. 1882. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 224 pp. Some occasional light foxing. Extra Illustrated with 50 plates, including portraits of both Dickens and other Authors as well as images from his novels, and with a penny stamp showing Dickens with the caption “A Tribute to Genius” pasted to the front blank. Slightly later full calf, gilt rules, t.e.g., gilt spine with a red label, dated to foot of spine, some minor marks otherwise a handsome copy. £150 “English Men of Letters” series.
First edition, 4to, 146 pp, with 30 colour plates, 2 monochrome portraits (all with captioned tissues) plus 2 facsimile plates, original red cloth, spine sunned, ends rubbed. £50 Extracts from 11 of Dickens’ books with fine painted illustrations.
12mo, (8) pp, paper wrappers, slight wear to lower part of spine, light fading also. £40 Including 10 poems.
First English edition, 8vo, (x), 374 pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, very minor bumping to one corner otherwise a fine copy. £40
First edition, small 8vo, 56 pp. Original decorative boards designed by Vanessa Bell, spine title faded otherwise an excellent copy. £40 Woolmer p189. Hogarth Essays, third series - the only one published.
8vo, (xx), 623, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, some light foxing at the beginning and the end, marbled endpapers. Bound by Riviere and Son in contemporary half vellum, t.e.g., spine with gilt acorns and oak leaves and a brown morocco label, very slight wear to the edges of the cloth sides, otherwise a bright copy. £60
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 120 pp. Frontispiece and 31 plates plus illustrations in the text. Original gilt decorated maroon cloth, t.e.g., very slight rubbing to spine ends and corners otherwise a near fine copy. £50 An splendidly designed volume in open imitation of Macmillan’s “Cranford” series. Alban Dobson XXVII.
Six volumes, 12mo. 14 engraved vignettes to titles and at the heads of poems, edges of a few leaves frayed, some very slight worming in margins of several leaves, piece cut from corner of half title to volume I. Contemporary polished calf, extremities worn, spines with morocco labels and gilt tooling. £175 First published in 1748, this famous collection includes works by many eminent authors such as Johnson, Warton, Pope, Gray and Fielding.
Second edition, twelve volumes, small 8vo, frontispiece in volume I, a few other engravings in the text, later decorative bookplates to paste downs, bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt banded spines with red morocco labels, a few spine ends worn with careful restoration to most others, volume X lacking its label. £400 An important collection of early drama, containing work by John Heywood, Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, James Shirley, Shackerley Marmion and John Webster, among many others. Containing 66 plays, including 10 added and 12 removed from the first edition, published in 1744.
First edition, 8vo, (vi), 193, (1), 12 advertisement pp, small closed tear to fly title, a few light marks, cloth, with some discolouration and wrinkling, d.w., spine browned. £50
DOUGHTY, Charles M. Mansoul, or the Riddle of the World. London: Jonathan Cape & the Medici Soiety, 1923. Limited edition, no. 97 of 500 signed copies, 8vo, (viii), 239, (1) pp. Inscribed from the Author to the biographer Samuel C. Chew on the half title, and Doughty has also added a Bible verse (Psalm 23:4) below the printed quotations preceding the text. A later inscription, also to the half title, is to a distant descendent of the Author. Original gilt titled full parchment, t.e.g., fine. £100
First reprint, 8vo, (iv), 496 pp. Original free endpapers showing a map preserved, bookplate, owner’s name and address to fly leaf verso. Contemporary blue half morocco, gilt spine. £40
Limited edition, no. 53 of 150 copies, 8vo, (viii), 283, (5) pp. Portrait plate tipped in plus 21 illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers by Sylvia Packard. Original gilt titled quarter morocco, upper cover damp stained and slightly bowed, top of spine with slight loss. £125 “...Douglas was a social worker and contributor to Hilaire Belloc’s ‘The Eye Witness’ and to Cecil Chesterton’s ‘The New Witness’”. Taylor & Sewell A212. Sullivan 374.
First English edition, 8vo, (vi), 271, (1) pp. Some light foxing, particularly to preliminaries. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine browned with a small piece lost from the top. £45
Limited edition, no. 273 of 500 copies, large 8vo, 55, (3) pp. 2 photographic portraits. Original boards, slightly faded with some minor marks, very good. £80
Limited edition, no. 198 of 800 copies, 8vo, (xiv), 107, (3) pp, inscription to Douglas Cleverdon from the Illustrator on fly leaf, original purple cloth, spine faded, held in a gilt flecked purple slipcase, faded and with some light wear, paper label with some loss. £40
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1906. Third impression, 8vo, x, 300, (8 advertisement) pp. Duncan Grant’s copy, with his signature, dated 1932, on the fly leaf. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine dull with some light wear to ends, some marks. £150
8vo, x, 406 pp, 10 illustrations, marbled endpapers, Prize label of Ludgrove School on paste down, contemporary half morocco, cloth sides, a few marks else a near fine copy, t.e.g. £65 First published 1887.
Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 407, (1, xxxii), 310 pp. Some browning throughout, later inscriptions to fly leaf and front blank, a couple of closed tears to fly leaf. Contemporary panelled calf, a little worn, recently rebacked with restoration to corners as well, red spine label. £425 An important collection of classical verse by Dryden and many others, including as well a handful of pieces on contemporary subjects. The second part, complete with its own title page, is titled “Sylvæ” and is dated 1693. MacDonald 42b-ii, 43b. Wing D2316.
Five volumes, small 8vo. Armorial bookplates of Richard Tidswell, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary half morocco, gilt spines, t.e.g., some minor rubbing, a handsome set. £225 Published as part of the Aldine Poets series.
DUDENEY, Mrs. Henry E. The Finger-Post. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. (1923). First edition, 8vo, (iv), 310, (6 advertisement) pp. Light foxing to early leaves, with a single page als. from the Author apologising for not replying to a letter asking for her autograph loosely inserted. Original cloth, spine ends and lower edge of covers rubbed. £100
First edition, 8vo, 351, (1) pp. Signed on the title page by the Author. Cloth backed boards, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. £60
First edition, 8vo, xii, 352 pp, with 17 plates and a map, bookplate of Sir John Glubb, original red cloth, marked, spine dull. £65 Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), popularly known as “Glubb Pasha”, Commander of the Arab Legion 1939-1956 and Author of many books and articles on the middle east.
Limited edition, no. 259 of 1,200 copies, 8vo, 48 pp, red buckram, printed advertisement sheet inside the original glassine wrapper over the upper cover, black cloth slipcase, a fine copy. £45 e - Back to top
Limited edition, no. 231 of 450 copies, 4to, (xii), 44, 47, (3) pp, coloured title vignette and one other coloured illustration, original cloth, spine faded, t.e.g., others uncut, a near fine copy. £75 With the poems first printed in Greek and then, in the second half of the book, in English. Only the second book to be printed in the “Antigone” type.
Two volumes, second volume first edition, 8vo, x, 3-656; (ii), ix, (iii advertisement), 3-668 pp. Hand coloured second title in each volume plus 32 hand coloured aquatints - 2 more than are called for in the “Directions to the Binder”, small marginal tears to one plate, occasional light browning to some text leaves. Uncut in the original diced cloth, spines faded with wear to the paper labels, a very good set. £500 An imitation of Egan’s popular “Life in London”, published almost immediately after it appeared. “A favoured rival” (DNB), the lively plates and energetic adventures are as vivid as any of Egan’s own work. Tooley 198-200. Abbey, Life in England 280.
First edition, three volumes bound in one, large 8vo, viii, 244, 248, 230 pp. Full page engraved illustrations, text printed in double column, some foxing, later signature to front blank, marbled endpapers. Later half calf, green cloth sides, green spine label, some light rubbing otherwise a handsome copy. Scarce. £375 Not in Sadleir or Wolff.
Two volumes in one, 8vo, 327, (1), 416 pp, small inscription on front blank, marbled endpapers and sides, finely bound in contemporary half dappled calf, spine with raised bands and label in a darker calf, small blind stamped decorations, t.e.g. £45
Eight volumes bound in seven (Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner bound in one volume as usual), 8vo. Title vignettes plus 22 plates in all, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary dark blue half calf, red and black spine labels, some minor rubbing otherwise very good. £350
First American edition, 8vo, 265, (1, 22 advertisement) pp, endpapers marked, in the original cloth, slightly worn, ends of spine torn with minor loss. £75
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, (iv), 303, (1); (iv), 290; (iv), 283, (1), 4, 20 advertisement pp. Some light marks, mostly marginal, in volume I, small binder’s label to rear paste down of the same volume. Original brown cloth, a little worn, some bumping to corners and spine ends, spine of volume I wrinkled. £300 Baker & Ross A8.1, binding style A. Muir 7.
First trade edition, 8vo, 21, (1) pp. Light marginal browning throughout. Original gilt titled brown cloth, a few minor marks, top of spine rubbed. £80 Gallup A15b.
First separate edition, 8vo, 15, (1) pp. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled as issued with slight rusting to the staples, mild browning and rubbing of edges otherwise a very good copy. £125 Gallup A37. Originally published in Collected Poems (1936).
First edition, early state, small 8vo, 28 pp, in the original printed pale blue printed wrappers, very slight wear to top of spine, edges a little bumped and faded. £40 Gallup A40.
First edition, 8vo, (4) pp. Full page coloured illustration. Original printed wrappers with a further design by Kauffer to the upper wrapper, sewn as issued, a couple of minor marks, near fine. £50 No. 8 of the Ariel Poems. Gallup A9a.
First edition, 8vo, 86 pp. Signature to fly leaf. Printed paper wrappers, spine and edges browned. £80 Gallup A26a.
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 114 pp. Signed by the Author on the title page, Prospectus for this work loosely inserted. Cloth backed boards, d.w. with some light marks, a very good copy. £100 The Author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.
First edition, 8vo, (x), 119, (1) pp, cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some light spots to lower wrapper, a very good copy. £45
FROUDE, James Anthony. Bunyan. JEBB, R.C. Bentley. London: Macmillan and Co. 1892, 85, 89. Three works bound in one volume, 8vo, viii, 227, (1), vi, 181, (1), xi, (1), 224 pp. Prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound by Mudie in full calf, gilt rule, some minor marks otherwise an excellent copy. £80 Three volumes published in the “English Men of Letters” series edited by John Morley.
Limited edition, one of 400 copies, 4to, xx, 22, (4) pp, coloured frontispiece tipped in, from a painting by Judith Shackleton, Errata slip loosely inserted, inscribed from the Author on the half title with a quote from John Donne below, original orange wrappers, a fine copy. £45
12mo, (xxiv), 672, 44 pp, with an engraved title page showing Erasmus using a telescope, a closed tear to leaf C8, affecting text but without loss, later dark red morocco bookplate with a simple crest in gilt, bound in contemporary vellum with yapp edges, contemporary hand written title on spine, a few slight marks, a very good, tight, copy. £325 A series of “Conversations” concerning the issues of the day, discussed with a freedom which ensured their popularity. The second Elzevir edition (first 1636). Willems 552. Printing and the Mind of Man 53.
Limited edition, no. 255 of 400 copies, folio, (xii), 387, (1) pp. Woodcut illustrations and initial letters by C.R. Ashbee, plus subtitles, responses and tables printed in red. An 8 page supplement recording the differences between the British and American text is loosely inserted. Later full calf, red spine labels, some light rubbing, small chip to the foot of the lower joint. £1000 “The magnum opus of the press” (Franklin, The Private Presses).
First edition, 8vo, 298, (11 advertisement, 1) pp. Some light foxing, upper hinge cracked. Original blind stamped green cloth, soiled, spine worn with loss to ends and lower joint. Very scarce. £100
Four volumes, 8vo. 45 plates, booklabels of Edward Newton. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, red morocco labels, spines a touch dull otherwise a very good set. £250
Four volumes, 8vo, with 174 portrait plates and an extending pedigree, modern bookplate to front blanks, small Elkin Matthews blind stamp to front blank in volume I, marbled endpapers, attractively bound in red quarter morocco, red cloth sides, slight cracking of heads of joints, gilt spines, t.e.g. £400 Kept from his 21st birthday in 1641 until his death in 1706, Evelyn’s Diary is a unique portrait of 17th century life, including accounts of court life and travels on the Continent as well as his friendship with that other great English Diarist, Samuel Pepys. f - Back to top
Three volumes in one, small 4to, (xx), 876, (xiv), 830 [mispaginated as 860], (xxviii), 784 [mispaginated as 824] pp, with 3 woodcut frontispieces, some marginal browning and light damp staining, bound in contemporary vellum, head of upper joint a little worn else a very well preserved copy with some light soiling to the covers, handwritten spine title. £200 In all, 14 volumes were published in this series between 1708 and 1728. A major collation of classical works and their sources, with extracts.
FAIRBRIDGE, Kingsley. Veld Verse. London 1928. 8vo, viii, 84 pp. Lengthy inscription from the Author on rear paste down, detailing this copy as no. 12 of 150, also with a piece of leopard skin stuck to the same, apparently shot by the Author or someone in his party, some foxing, spare spine label loosely inserted. Cloth backed paper boards, title with further details in the author’s hand on upper cover. £80
8vo, (x), 121, (1) pp. 8 coloured plates, one with a small tear, marbled endpapers. Bound in contemporary tree sheep, gilt borders, gilt spine, t.e.g., a couple of minor marks otherwise an attractive copy. £50
First edition, 8vo, (vi), 286 pp. Small W.H. Smith label to foot of paste down. Two tone cloth, d.w. designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, not price clipped, spine slightly sunned, a little wear to edges. £50 The first issue with E. McKnight Kauffer’s name misspelt to the upper flap.
Seventeenth edition, 2 volumes, 12mo. Portrait frontispiece in volume I and 24 plates, plus a folding map, light stain to the top margin throughout both volumes, later signature to titles. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt tooled spines with morocco labels, joints cracked, some loss to spine ends. £150
Limited edition, no. 172 of 275 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, (viii), 536 pp. Portrait frontispiece, pages largely unopened. Original blue buckram, spine slightly faded, t.e.g., d.w. a little browned and marked, some slight loss to edges, a very good copy. £125
4to, (98) pp, with 45 coloured illustrations, 15 full page, cloth, coloured illustration on upper cover, lower cover partly faded, otherwise a very good copy. £50
First edition thus, large 8vo, (xxxii), 350 pp. 12 black and white plates, pictorial endpapers. Gilt titled black cloth, d.w. with some light edgewear, very good. £40
First edition, 8vo, 221, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, spine a little browned with some slight rubbing to the top, otherwise a very good copy. £125 The second state, with a plain upper cover.
First edition, 8vo, 288 pp. Recently rebound in black half morocco, t.e.g., gilt spine, fine. £200
8vo, 12 pp. Card wrappers, printed label, original tissue wrapper, a fine copy. £100
First edition, small 8vo, (iv), 165, (3) pp, hinge cracked after title, small blind stamp of W.H. Smith & Son on fly leaf, patterned endpapers, original green cloth, gilt decorated spine, a little dull, t.e.g., others uncut. £295 The Author’s first book.
FORTUNE PRESS: CLARK, Leonard. Poems. London: The Fortune Press [1940]. 8vo, 64 pp. Inscribed “Miss F.M.Tann from Leonard Clark” on fly leaf. Loosely inserted are two later pieces, “Poem for Christmas 1951” (and “...1952”, the former inscribed “Greetings to an old friend from Leonard Clark”, both 4pp and type set, the first being on a sheet of deckled paper folded once, the other on card similarly treated Original cloth, d.w. slightly marked and with tidy sellotape repairs. £60 d’Arch Smith 119.
First edition thus, 8vo, viii, 193, (1) pp, frontispiece and 20 plates, endpapers foxed, a few other spots, original gilt decorated cloth, spine ends bumped, 2 edges uncut, t.e.g. £40
First edition, no. 94 of 500 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, 460 pp. Minor paper fault to top corner of two leaves. Original quarter linen, marbled paper sides, near fine. £75
Limited edition, no. 400 of 1,500 copies, signed by the Illustrator, large 8vo, xvi, 324, (2) pp, full page black and white illustrations, L.E.C. monthly letter for June 1947 loosely inserted, quarter calf, patterned boards, spine browned and a little rubbed, patterned slipcase, a very good copy. £40
First edition, 8vo, 251, (1) pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, some light browning otherwise very good. £60
First edition, 8vo, 48 pp. Original cloth backed patterned boards, paper label to upper cover, some minor wear otherwise very good. Scarce. £50
Three volumes, no. 348 of 1,000 sets, 8vo. Frontispieces. Cloth, a fine set. £150 Includes Franklin’s Autobiography, scientific, economic and political works, letters and A.H. Smyth’s “Life”.
First edition, large 8vo, xiv, 94 pp, 8 coloured plates, a very good copy, two edges uncut, cloth backed boards, printed d.w. chipped with slight loss. £40 Millard 189.
First edition, 8vo, 295, (1) pp. Map endpapers. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, some light marks, top of spine very slightly rubbed. £75
Four volumes, 8vo, marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary red half calf, red cloth sides, spines, a little sunned, with raised bands and gilt tooling. £95 A wide range of historical, religious and literary analysis by one of the most popular 19th century critics.
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, bound without the half titles, and also the advertisements at the end of volume III. Some foxing. 19th century morocco-style cloth, spine ends rubbed. £225 “‘Ellen Middleton’ was a product of [Fullerton’s] Anglo-Catholic period and provoked considerable criticism by representing the heroine confessing to, and being absolved by, an Anglican clergyman” (Sadleir). Sadleir 913. Wolff 2370. g - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, 434 pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf - “To Ruth Martin and her little tape recorder...” Cloth, d.w., spine slightly sunned with small tears to ends. £40
GASCOYNE, David. Poems, 1937-1942. (London): P.L. Editions (1943). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 62 pp. Title and 5 plates by Graham Sutherland. Cloth backed pictorial boards, pictorial d.w. with loss to corners and spine ends plus some creasing to edges, spine browned. £85
First Brock edition, 8vo, xvi, 255, (1) pp. Vignette title and 24 coloured plates, tissue guard by the title foxed with some light foxing elsewhere, minor loss to the top and bottom edges of the rear free endpaper and rear paste down. Original gilt decorated vellum, t.e.g., very slight bowing of the covers otherwise a lovely bright copy. £175
First reprint of this edition, 8vo, 255, (1) pp. Wood engraved illustrations in the text, patterned endpapers, signature to fly leaf, small book label to verso. Contemporary blue quarter morocco, t.e.g., faint mark to top of spine, otherwise fine. £45
First edition, 4to, 22 leaves, printed on one side only with gatherings opened in error, with 6 illustrations, final gathering of blanks carelessly half-opened, original paper boards, some wear to spine, a few marks. £100
Limited edition, no. 400 of 1,500 copies, signed by the Illustrator, 4to, (xlvi), 299, (3) pp, hand coloured illustrations, maroon quarter morocco, edges of boards slightly rubbed, slipcase rubbed and with slight cracking. £45
GAWSWORTH, John. Fifteen Poems. Three Friends. London: Twyn Barlwm Press, 1931. Limited edition, 162 of 200 copies, 8vo, 30 pp, 3 wood engravings, inscribed on the half title by the author “John Godfrey from John Gawsworth, after much good conversation”, original printed paper wrappers, slight browning to edges. £60
Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, this copy unnumbered, 4to, xxxiv, viii, 99, (1) pp, 24 plates, including a facsimile title page of the first edition, some spotting to endpapers only, cloth backed boards, some marks and browning, t.e.g., others uncut. £40
GAY, John. Fables. Havant: Printed by Henry Skelton 1816. 12mo, (iv), 194 pp. Inscribed to Harriet Walters, dated 1852, on the fly leaf. Later full red morocco, lettered in gilt “Harriet Walters, Exeter...” to the upper cover, top of lower joint cracked, remains of an old paper spine label, some general marks and wear. £40 An uncommon Hampshire imprint; Copac listing only 11 titles printed by Skelton.
12mo, (xii), 275, (1) pp. Frontispiece, engraved title and 10 plates, three stanzas copied to a front blank in a contemporary hand, marbled endpapers. Recent full red calf, a.e.g., some minor marks. £65 A collection of prose and verse including work by John Keats, James Hogg, John Clare and Mary Howitt.
Limited edition, one of 315 copies signed by the Author, small 8vo, 59, (1) pp. Quarter morocco, patterned linen boards, a fine copy. £100
First edition thus, 4to, (iv), 130 pp, engraved title and 9 plates, 13 vignettes in the text, all by Gessner, a few marks and light spots, contemporary half calf, marbled boards with some wear. £225 Salomon Gessner, 1730-88, German artist and poet and sponsor of the young Henry Fuseli.
Limited edition, no. 290 of 500 copies, 8vo, (iv), 14, (4) pp. 15 wood engravings in the text plus a vignette to the title and the press device at the end. Original quarter buckram, red and white patterned boards showing palm trees and a few skulls, spine and edges a little browned. £275 Chanticleer 72. Kirkus 16.
Sixth edition, 8vo, xii, 563, (1) pp. Illustrations throughout by the Author, contemporary inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers, light foxing to front and rear blanks, some pencilled marginalia to the Index. Contemporary brown half morocco, t.e.g., cloth sides, spine, slightly sunned, with raised bands gilt decoration, a near fine copy. £50
8vo, (xxx), 432, 473, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., with a small tear to the top edge otherwise a very good copy. £40
Limited edition, no. 207 of 250 copies, small 4to, (ii), 15, (3) pp. Six wood engravings and a wood engraved press device, internally a fine unopened copy. Original cream buckram, recently recased, covers with horizontal creasing across the middle, causing slight cracking to the front paste down. £1000 Chanticleer 35. Evan Gill 276.
Limited edition, one of 250 copies, square 8vo, 176 pp, internally fine, uncut in cloth backed boards, a few marks, spine a little browned. £45 Ridler, Modern Press Books, p133.
Limited edition, no. 129 of 350 copies, large 8vo, 86, (2) pp. Frontispiece silhouette of Hogg, later signature to fly leaf. Original quarter morocco, buckram sides, some slight fading, t.e.g., a very good copy. £150 The first publication of these letters.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. Dalziels’ Illustrated Goldsmith: Comprising The Vicar of Wakefield, The Traveller, The Deserted Village, The Haunch of Venison... a Sketch of the Life of Oliver Goldsmith by H.W. Dulcken. With... Pictures Drawn by G.J. Pinwell. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: Ward, Lock and Tyler [1865]. First edition thus, large 8vo, xx, 378 pp. 100 engraved illustrations, later inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers. Bound by Bickers in contemporary full calf, double gilt rules, some light fading and rubbing, a few marks, gilt spine with a red label, a.e.g., an attractive copy. £300
Limited edition, one of 469 copies, large 8vo, (ii), 23, (1) pp. Etched title and 6 etched plates by H.W. Bicknell. Full calf, t.e.g., a fine copy. £50
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 298, (2) pp. Original brown cloth, lower cover damp stained. £40
First edition, 8vo, 318 pp. Signed on the title page by the Author. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, otherwise a very good copy. £50
Limited edition, no. 595 of 2,000 copies and signed by Graves, 8vo, 298, (2) pp. Parchment backed marbled boards, d.w. a little browned and with small sellotape mark to one corner, tissue wrapper, in the original printed card slipcase, browned and a little rubbed. £50 Higginson & Williams A66b.
First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, 81, (1) pp, some occasional foxing, small label of the Poetry Bookshop on paste down, uncut in the original light blue patterned boards, d.w. soiled and chipped, spine worn with pieces missing at head and foot. £60 Higginson & Williams A5a.
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 40 pp. Cloth, spine slightly faded, d.w., not price clipped, some light marks and browning otherwise a very good copy. £45 Higginson & Williams A67a.
Two volumes, 4to, with a portrait frontispiece, 4 pages of facsimile handwriting and 2 further engravings, finely bound in later black full morocco, gilt rules and arms of Pembroke College, a.e.g., some minor rubbing to joints else a lovely set. £375 A handwritten note on the fly leaf in volume I states “A limited number (probably about 100) copies of this collection... were printed and left by the editor to the Master and Fellows of Pembroke College with directions, that a copy should be presented to each Fellow on his election. On my election in 1874, I received this the last remaining copy. T.H. Orpen”. Gray lived for much of his life at Pembroke College, and many of his manuscripts reside there.
Two volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece in volume I, slightly later Eton leaving inscription to fly leaf verso. Finely bound in near contemporary dark green morocco, a.e.g., covers with gilt and blind stamped rules, blind stamped cornerpieces, upper covers with a large gilt picture of Eton College chapel. Some very minor rubbing, a lovely set. £150
GREENE, Graham. The Captain and the Enemy. (London): Reinhardt Books, (1988). Second impression, 8vo, 188, (2) pp. Signed by the Author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £150
First edition, 8vo, 313, (1) pp. Contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, one small tear and some minor rubbing. £40
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 247, (1) pp. Contemporary signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, mild creasing to the top of the lower wrapper otherwise a very good bright copy. £95
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 371, (1) pp, 24 plates, text printed on brown paper, corner torn from one leaf without loss to text, original cloth, some marks and rubbing. £40 Woolf 2755. Greene 217.
First edition. 8vo. viii, 243, (1) pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered to spine, pictorial dust jacket, not price clipped. Some light wear to jacket causing slight loss at corners, a few light marks to edges, otherwise in very good condition. £50
GREGYNOG PRESS: GRUFFYDD, W.J. Caniadau. Gwasg Gregynog 1932. Limited edition, no. 309 of 400 copies, large 8vo, (viii), 101, (3) pp. Initial letters and 4 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, pages partly unopened. Original gilt titled buckram backed boards, some light rubbing otherwise a very good copy. £225 Harrop 21, stating only 275 copies printed.
GREGYNOG PRESS: SAMPSON, John. XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales. Collected by... With Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Newtown: The Gregynog Press 1933. Limited edition, no. 20 of 235 copies from a total edition of 250 copies, large 8vo, xi, (iii), 108, (2) pp. 8 wood engraved illustrations and a small press device, bookplate, very light marginal browning throughout. Original gilt titled Welsh sheepskin, some marks and darkening, light scuffing to the edges of the upper cover. £2250 The second title Parker illustrated for Gregynog, and bound especially in “a gypsy colour”. Harrop 27, pp121-2.
First edition, 3 volumes bound in one, 8vo, (iv), 286, (iv), 296, (iv), 315, (1) pp. Title to volume I soiled, later signature to fly leaf. Slightly later half calf, maroon spine label, cloth sides, some light wear. £175 Not in Sadleir or Wolff.
GUITRY, Sacha. Memoirs of a Cheat. Sacha Guitry’s Tale. Illustrated by the Author. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. First edition. Tall 8vo. 128 pp. Publisher’s dark blue lettered green cloth, Publisher’s compliments slip tipped at the front of the volume with the publication date handwritten in ink, ownership inscription of Harold Nicolson in pencil to the front pastedown. Twenty monochrome illustrations. Cloth faded to spine and upper edges of boards, otherwise in very good condition. £45
Uncorrected proof copy, 8vo, 56 pp, printed wrappers, a fine copy. £40
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