London: Sold by C. Hitch..., W. Johnston... & by W.H. Toms, [1742]. 12mo. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style with raised bands, gilt rules to the compartments, elaborate ownership inscription by a Samuel Thomas of St. James's, Bristol to one of the versos of the title page dated 1767. Engraved...

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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1933. First edition. 8vo. 661, (3) pp. Recent black full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two compartments, all edges gilt. An excellent copy. The first instalment of the author's momentous memoirs, covering her later childhood and, most significantly, her experiences as a....

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London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-58. First English edition. Five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tan full calf, spines with raised bands, original red title labels with sympathetically renewed green author and volume labels, loss of gilt to the other compartments, all edges and endpapers marbled. Gift inscription to the...

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London: Printed for the Society, Published and Sold by Francis Westley... and Sold by Black and Co.... [et al]. 1822. First edition. Two volumes bound in one. 8vo. viii, xii, 322; (iv), 384 pp. Fine recent red full calf, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered blue and green labels...

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London: The Guild and School of Handicraft, Essex House, Mile End Road, 1894. First edition, 8vo, 165, (1) pp. Attractive vignettes and head and tail pieces throughout. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf to a Miss Ethel Moxon with a nine line poem below. Original light pink cloth...

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London: John Murray, 1894. Sixth edition, 45th thousand, 8vo, xxi, 432 pp. Folding plate, contemporary prize label to paste down with the recipient's name rather messily excised. Original dark green cloth, light rubbing to spine otherwise very good. Freeman 442.

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London: H.S. Nichols, 1894. Library edition, 12 volumes, large 8vo. Half title and the final leaf of text in each volume browned, bookplates designed by Max Beerbohm of Granville Barker, actor, producer and playwright, later inscriptions to the fly leaf and the foot of each bookplate. Original black cloth, t.e.g......

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Manchester: G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd. [c.1906]. Map dimensions 93 x 118 cm, overall 94.5 x 120 cm. Decorated with 46 flags across the top edge, 6 tables of data at the bottom, an inset map of the British Isles and 22 others, mostly of ports but also featuring the...

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Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick [&] Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1797, 1804. First edition, two volumes, demy 8vo. 445 wood engraved illustrations, small blind stamps of the University of Bristol to the lower margin of the first two and final leaves in each...

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London: John Murray, 1898. Sixth edition, 51st thousand, 8vo, xxi, (1), 432 pp. Folding plate, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary dark maroon half morocco, t.e.g., gilt spine slightly rubbed and sunned. Freeman 455.

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Westminster: Printed by A. Campbell for J. Roberts, 1728. 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...

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London: John Murray, 1891. Sixth edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xxvi, 365, (1, 1 advertisement, 1); (vi), 339, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece and a folding plate. Original grey-green cloth, spines slightly dull, extremities a little rubbed. Freeman 437. Published the same year as the 41st thousand of the standard issue of...

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