London: Richard Bentley, 1856. Small 8vo. (iv), 424 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel and richly decorated to the others, endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece and engraved title, both dated 1833. The head of the upper joint neatly... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. Winchester edition, 10 volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece in the first volume, several hinges very slightly cracked but sound. Original green cloth, t.e.g., gilt spines with mild rubbing and bumps, faint marks to the heads of the spines of the two volumes of "Sense and Sensibility", generally... More
![Twoo [Bookes of...] Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane. Francis BACON.](/pictures/thumb/27592.JPG?v=1472137960)
London: Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605. First edition. Small 4to. (1), 45, 118 ff., plus leaves 70b, 70c and 70d, bound without the final blank and the succeeding two errata leaves as often. Recent period style full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt device repeated to the panels, a handful... More
(Dublin and London): The Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber, (1986). First edition. Square 4to. xxviii, 402 pp. Publisher's russet cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine and in blind to the upper board, dust jacket, with loosely inserted a ten line handwritten note from Beckett dated... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1862. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 480 pp. Contemporary tan full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, gilt decoration to the other panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, school prize bookplate from St. John's Collegiate School to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 7... More
(London): Warren Editions, (1977). Limited edition, no. 163 of 220 copies signed by both Betjeman and Harte, oblong 8vo, (34) pp. 15 coloured lithographic plates, the text printed on thin paper. Original white cloth with a further illustration to the upper cover, blind stamped red cloth folding box, a fine copy. More
London: Printed by J. Davis, 1793. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 241, (1) pp, 6 folding plates - five of Athens and one of Palermo, some subtle repairs otherwise a very good clean copy recently bound in quarter roan, marbled sides, black morocco spine label. Setting out from Palermo, Bisani travelled... More
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907. First edition, 8vo, 350 pp. Marginal foxing throughout, contemporary signature to fly leaf, light damp staining to the endpapers and the outer edge of the final three leaves. Original cloth, some marks and rubbing, spine slightly skewed. More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. [1916]. First edition. 4to. xvi, 194, (2) pp. Publisher's pale green buckram, gilt lettered and decorated to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Frontispiece and 11 plates, all in colour and tipped in. The scarce jacket with some wear to the edges and... More
London: Shepherd and Sutton, and Wyld, 1839. Third issue, 16mo, (32) pp. Folding general map with routes hand coloured plus 8 double page maps, including those of Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester. Original cloth with a gilt and green label, a lovely copy. Dated "10th Mo. [ie October] 25th, 1839"... More
Amstelædami [Amsterdam]: Joannem Walters, 1699. 8vo. (vi), 544 pp., lacking the final 14 pages. Recent half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label. Frontispiece, title vignette, 2 folding maps of the world and 12 illustrations in the text, some full page. Dampstaining to the rear... More
![[Arabian Nights]. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by... Reprinted from the Original Edition and Edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Captain Sir R. F. BURTON.](/pictures/thumb/23291.jpg?v=1446579265)
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.... More
![A Treatise on the Non-Naturals. In which the Great Influence They have on Human Bodies [is] Set forth, and Mechanically accounted [for]. To which is subjoin'd, A Short Essay on the Chin-Cough: with a New Method of treating that Obstinate Distemper. John BURTON.](/pictures/thumb/14284.jpg?v=1446579225)
York: Printed by A. Staples... 1738. First edition, 8vo, xxiii, (1), 367, (1) pp. Signatures to title, one partly removed affecting a couple of the printed words, modern owner's ink stamp to fly leaf. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked with a red label, some repair to corners also. Burton lists the... More
![A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainment, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights. [with] Supplemental Nights. Richard F. BURTON.](/pictures/thumb/22817.jpg?v=1446579260)
Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers only, [c.1920]. Luristan edition, no. 303 of 1,000 sets, seventeen volumes, large 8vo. Frontispiece and several plates in each volume. Original grey cloth, t.e.g., spines with paper labels, browned and faded, spines ends a little bumped otherwise a good set. More
London: Macmillan and Co. 1867. Eighth thousand, or fourth edition, 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel, some occasional spots, marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in later maroon half morocco, t.e.g., red cloth sides, spine, sunned, with gilt vignettes, a very good copy. Williams... More
![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [bound with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Lewis CARROLL.](/pictures/thumb/26227.jpg?v=1449674732)
London: Macmillan and Co. 1868 & 1872. Two volumes bound in one. "Alice" twelfth thousand, or the first issue of the sixth edition, "Looking-Glass" first edition, first issue. 8vo. (x), 192; (xii), 224, (2) pp. Slightly later red half morocco over matching cloth sides by Maclehose of Glasgow, spine with... More
London: Thornton Butterworth, (1923-31). Volume I second edition (i.e. first edition, second impression), volumes II-VI first editions. Six volumes. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to spines, bookplate of Churchill's aunt Leonie Leslie to front pastedown of the first volume, signed and dated (July 1923) by the author to... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition, 8vo, xiii, (i), 226, (2, 16 advertisement) pp. 48 plates and 3 maps, some foxing to the text leaves, contemporary inscription to half title. Original pictorial red cloth, spine sunned. A lively travelogue through Kenya and Uganda before journeying down the White Nile to Egypt. Woods A12. More
![[The Poems of...] The Early Poems 1804-1822. Poems of the Middle Period 1822-1837. The Later Poems of... 1837-1864. General Editor Eric Robinson. Edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell [and] P.M.S. Dawson. Associate Editor Margaret Grainger. John CLARE.](/pictures/thumb/27291.JPG?v=1517571110)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989; 1996-2007; 1985. Together nine volumes, comprising three distinct sets: "Early Poems" in two volumes, "Middle Poems" in five volumes and "Later Poems" in two volumes. All but three of the volumes first editions, with reprints of the last volume of the "Middle Poems" and the two... More
Boughton Monchelsea, Kent: Ebeneezer Press, [1969]. Limited edition, no. 71 of 100 copies. Folio. 16 folio folded sheets bearing the text and the plates, each of the plates signed by the artist, all printed in colour on Mellotex High White Cartridge using a Cogger press. Original gilt lettered hide spine... More
London: John Murray, 1879. Second edition, 13th thousand. 8vo, xvi, 693, (1), pp. Original dark green cloth, spine gilt. 78 illustrations in the text. Mild patchiness to the spine along with a gentle central vertical crease, one gathering slightly proud though the binding remains sound, very good overall. Freeman, 951. More
London: John Murray, 1860. Second edition, tenth thousand. 8vo. (xvi), 519, (1) pp. Contemporary prize binding from Rugby School, dark green full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, the college crest in gilt to the upper board, endpapers and all edges marbled. Vignettes in the text. A.... More
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. More
London: John Murray, 1882. Second edition, fifth thousand, two volumes, 8vo. 43 illustrations in the text. Original gilt titled green cloth, very mild rubbing to corners otherwise a lovely set. Freeman 883. More
(Harmondsworth): Penguin Books, (1963). 8vo, 364, (2) pp. Inscribed from the author to Joan Baylis "...Greetings for Christmas 1963" on the half title, marginal browning throughout, original covers bound in at the end, marbled endpapers. Recent dark green full morocco, a.e.g. More