![The Meditations, Soliloquia, and Manual, of the Glorious Doctor... Translated into English [by John Floyd]. St. AUGUSTINE, attributed.](/pictures/thumb/27951.JPG?v=1481883970)
London: Printed for Matthew Turner, 1686. 12mo, (xxiv), 432 pp. Mild browning to early leaves, rear free endpaper stained, new front free endpaper. Contemporary gilt ruled speckled calf, spine in compartments with a gilt tool to each, upper hinge and top of spine with subtle repair. Wing A4212A. A work... More
London: J.M. Dent, 1897-8. Sixth edition thus, 10 volumes, small 8vo. 31 plates, some light browning, mostly to endpapers. Original light green gilt decorated cloth, top edges gilt, gilt spines slightly darkened, minor rubbing to several spine tops. 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
London: George Routledge, 1851. 12mo, (3)-286, (4 advertisement) pp. Ink signature to title, brief pencilled inscription to the next leaf, upper joint slightly cracked but sound. Contemporary cloth, gilt titled spine, some marks and rubbing. A scarce issue of "Sense and Sensibility" published in Routledge's Railway Library, not noted in... More
London: Printed for Thomas Underhill, and Francis Tyton, 1651. Second edition, 8vo, (xl), 184, (40), 185-304, 196, (56), 197-312, 312 pp. Some occasional, and mostly marginal, browning, marbled endpapers. Period style 19th century black morocco, covers with blind stamped rules and gilt tooled flower cornerpieces, recently rebacked retaining the original... More
London: W. Lee, at the Turks-Head in Fleet Street: and R. Roytson at the Angel in Ivie Lane, 1652. Second edition. 8vo. (xiv), 366, 84 pp. Recent full calf, gilt lettered to the spine. Wanting the frontispiece called for in some copies of this edition. Some marginal staining, though generally... More
London: J. Bell, 1797. Three volumes. First English translation. Contemporary full speckled calf, spines with gilt rules, gilt lettered red title labels and dark green oval number labels, the later armorial bookplate of the Cobbold family of Ipswich to the front pastedowns of volumes II and III, all three volumes... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1841. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 453, (1); x, 488 pp. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth, gilt to the spines, blindstamped to the boards, contemporary ownership inscription to the half titles. 2 colour frontispieces, 10 lithographic plates and 1 folding map. Both volumes sympathetically rebacked with almost... More
London: The James Press, [1931]. First edition, 8vo, 57, (1) pp. Dedication leaf and 7 full page illustrations on pink paper, text on light blue paper with light marginal browning throughout, some other small illustrations, armorial bookplate of Geoffrey and Cecilia Codrington. Original pink striped boards, decorative paper label to... More
Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hogson, for Beilby & Bewick [&] Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1797 [but 1798], 1804. Two volumes, imperial 8vo, second edition of "Land Birds" and first edition of "Water Birds". 445 wood engraved illustrations. Uncut in 20th century half roan, buckram sides, an excellent... More
London: Printed for John and Paul Knapton [et al], 1746. Sixth edition, 8vo, (xxxii), 360 pp. 7 folding plates, armorial bookplate of Sir John Hynde Cotton to title verso with a descendant's bookplate to the rear paste down. Contemporary speckled calf, some light wear, recently rebacked retaining the original spine... More
Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, [1929]. First French edition, folio, xv, (i) pp, followed by 120 black and white plates. Mild browning to endpapers only. Original gilt titled green cloth, d.w. browned and a little soiled with some loss to spine ends and extremities. Scarce. More
London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1770. Third edition thus. 8vo. viii, (iv), 179, lxxix, (1) pp. Twentieth century dappled roan, spine with raised bands, older gilt lettered red label preserved, attractive book label of a Henry L. Lloyd to the front pastedown contemporary with the binding. Very good. An enlightened... More
London: Sherwood, Jones and Co. 1820]. 8vo, (56) pp. 27 hand coloured lithographic plates (being no.'s 1-27 from 98 in total), one folding. Some mostly mild marking, marbled endpapers. Contemporary black half calf, marbled paper sides, defective and loose in places, spine ends worn. A part collection of plates from... More
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, (1995). Limited edition, one of 204 copies from a total edition of 240, folio, 28, (4) pp. 9 illustrations tipped in plus the frontispiece and 24 wood engraved illustrations, small booklabel to the top of the paste down. Quarter vellum, marbled endpapers, folding cloth case, a fine copy. More
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1879. First edition. Two volumes. xxviii, 338; viii, 319, (1) pp. Contemporary brown full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red labels, blindstamped decoration to the panels and an ornate border to the boards, marbled endpapers, prize bookplates from the Royal Masonic Institution... More
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher and Co. 1829. Sole edition, 8vo, (iii)-xxxvi, 196, (12 advertisement) pp, bound without the half title. One illustration and 7 pages of facsimile manuscript, some occasional light foxing. Uncut in modern half calf, marbled sides, a very good copy. Wise II p93. More
Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (iii)-xiv, 187, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Handsomely bound in brown crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to two panels and decorated to the others, gilt inner... More
London: Macmillan and Co. 1889 [but later]. First edition, variant issue. 4to. (viii), 56, (8) pp. Publisher's cloth backed cream boards, lettered in red and black to the upper board and featuring Tenniel's illustration of Alice amid a shower of playing cards from the original work, contemporary gift inscription Frontispiece... More
Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen and François Halma; Utrecht: Wilhelm vande Water, 1700. Two volumes. Second edition. Folio. (28), 666, (10) [pp. 183-184 repeated and page numbers 343-348 omitted as usual, the text and signatures continual]; (18), 390, (6), 393-608, 61, (1) pp. Contemporary mottled full calf, spine with raised... More
London: J.G. for Nathanial Brook, 1660. Sole edition. Small 8vo. (viii), 128 pp. Later burnt orange full roan, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel and dated to the foot, early ownership inscription to the original front free endpaper beneath which a similarly aged printed device. Fading to... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1900. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 498, (2 advertisement), 32 catalogue pp. 4 maps - 3 folding plus 4 plans in the text, contemporary signature and some mild foxing to front blanks. Original fawn pictorial cloth, some mild rubbing and soiling, slight darkening of spine otherwise a very good copy. Wood A4. More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. (1934-38). Four volumes, volumes I and II "new edition revised", volumes III and IV first editions. 8vo. Contemporary blue half morocco over matching cloth sides, likely a publisher's binding, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered or decorated to the panels, top edges gilt... 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. [with] The Natural History Prose Writings of... Edited by Margaret Grainger. [and] The Letters of... Edited by Mark Storey. John CLARE.](/pictures/thumb/27291.JPG?v=1468247673)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989; 1996-2007; 1984; 1983; 1985. Eleven volumes, comprising three distinct sets: "Early Poems" in two volumes, "Middle Poems" in five volumes and "Later Poems" in two volumes plus the two separate works in one volume each. All but three of the volumes first editions, with reprints of... More