The Country Life.
[Denby Dale]: The Fleece Press, (1997). Limited edition, one of 300 copies, 32mo, covers measuring 64 x 48 mm, (52) pp. 20 wood engraved illustrations. Decorative cloth covers, fine. More
[Denby Dale]: The Fleece Press, (1997). Limited edition, one of 300 copies, 32mo, covers measuring 64 x 48 mm, (52) pp. 20 wood engraved illustrations. Decorative cloth covers, fine. More
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2008. Limited edition, one of 750 copies, two volumes, oblong folio. Numerous illustrations, mostly in colour, prospectus for this title loosely inserted. Cloth, slipcase, a fine set. More
(Upper Denby): The Fleece Press, (2012). Limited edition, one of 550 copies, 4to, 297, (3) pp. Numerous illustrations including many photographs, examples of marbled paper and some engravings tipped in, prospectus for this work loosely inserted. Original cloth backed patterned boards, slipcase, a fine copy. More
Huddersfield: The Fleece Press, 2002. Limited edition, one of 750 copies, oblong 4to, 300 pp. 200 illustrations, including 150 colour plates. Gilt titled light blue cloth with a paper label to upper cover, patterned paper slipcase, a fine copy. More
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, (2015). Limited edition, one of 250 copies, 4to, 191, (3) pp. Colour illustrations, including several folding plates tipped in, prospectus for this work loosely inserted. Quarter cloth, patterned paper sides, a fine copy. More
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2016. Limited edition, one of 150 copies from a total edition of 270, square 8vo, 169, (3) pp. Coloured plates tipped in plus illustrations in the text. Quarter cloth, patterned paper sides, a fine copy. More
London: Printed for C. and G. Kingsley, 1794. Seventh edition "with Considerable Improvements". Small 8vo. viii, 335, (1) pp. Late 20th century brown quarter calf over marbled boards, spine flat with gilt rules, gilt lettered black label,gilt tooling to the other panels. Frontispiece portrait, engraved dedication and 40 plates thus..... More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1856. First edition. 8vo. iv, 200, 4, 16 pp. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, inscribed on the title page "Minna Lovell With the Author's affectionate remembrance". Sometime rebacked preserving most of the original spine with renewed endpapers, a little light rubbing..... More
London: Published for William Hone, 1825. 8vo. (iv), (828) pp. printed in double columns numbered up to 1,656. Later tan quarter calf over red cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, lettered direct to another panel and dated at the foot. Numerous black and white illustrations in..... More
London: Printed for T. Kelly, 1821. xviii, (ii), 664; (ii), 719, (1) pp. Late 20th century quarter calf over green cloth boards, gilt lettered black labels, the rest of the spine lettered and decorated. Frontispieces and title vignettes, 22 plates plus 5 illustrations in the text. Degrees of foxing throughout..... More
London: Printed for J. Hodges... and J. James... 1739. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 272 pp. Late 20th century speckled half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label. Frontispiece portrait of Cromwell. Very good. More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1915]. First edition thus. Large 8vo. 70, (2) pp. Publisher's buckram, gilt lettering and blue, pink and gilt decoration to the upper board, gilt lettering to the spine, pictorial endpapers. 24 colour plates, an illustrated title and other decorations in the text. The cream..... More
London: Collins, 1984. 4to. 208 pp. Publisher's illustrated card covers. Profusely illustrated throughout. A minor marks to the covers and edges, very good overall. More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1950. First edition. 4to. 248, (6) pp. Publisher's brick red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, top edge red, dust jacket. Numerous black and white illustrations reproducing the originals. A little light edge wear to the jacket, very good..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. First edition. 8vo. x, 176, (2), 2 pp. Publisher's quarter linen over drab paper boards in the style of many Kelmscott books, printed paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait and 19 plates, a few two to a page. Spine label a little rubbed, One..... More
San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1985. 8vo.384 pp. Publisher's wine red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 16 pages of black and white photographs. Jacket spine faded, else very good. More
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1941. Fifth printing of this illustrated edition. 8vo. (xvi), 278, (2) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and a gilt device to the upper board, early owner's book label to the front pastedown, dust jacket. Frontispiece and 23 full page illustrations. Slight tanning..... More
London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1929. Small 8vo. xvi, 300, 4 pp. Publisher's taupe cloth, gilt to the spine, printed dust jacket. Decorative title pages. Spine tanned, a little light edge wear with small losses, else very good. More
Edinburgh: A. Guthrie, 1789-90. Eighth edition, eight volumes, 8vo. 21 folding maps and plates, a couple with some wear and tear to the outer edge, contemporary signature to the top of the titles, later armorial bookplates. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt banded spines with red morocco labels, heads of a couple..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1984). 4to, (32) pp. Coloured illustrations throughout, inscribed from Briggs on the fly leaf. Pictorial boards, d.w. with slight wear to the spine ends. More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. Fourth edition, two volumes, 8vo. Marbled endpapers, sides and edges, a little foxing at the beginning and end of both volumes. Contemporary half calf, gilt banded spines with morocco labels, spines slightly sunned, extremities with some scuffing. More
London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1909]. 4to, (128) pp. 24 coloured plates tipped in, inscription dated 1909 to fly leaf verso with a bookplate partially removed underneath, recipient's name to the recto. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, t.e.g., spine sunned, top corner of the upper cover bumped. More
London: Chapman and Hall, [c.1890]. Nineteen volumes. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary red half morocco over green cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, the other compartments with a gilt flower device, marbled endpapers. Numerous plates and illustrations in the text throughout by the likes..... More
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2019. Fourth impression. 4to. 416 pp. Publisher's colour illustrated boards. Colour illustrated throughout. Very good. More
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. 8vo. xlii, 938 pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Frontispiece and 12 plates. Very good. A "revised and expanded one-volume edition" of a work first published under a different title four years earlier, containing the complete unpublished manuscript version of The..... More