A Storybook Life.
(Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, (2003). First edition, oblong folio. 75 colour plates, signed by the artist on the title page. Cloth, d.w. with some faint soiling, very good. More
(Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, (2003). First edition, oblong folio. 75 colour plates, signed by the artist on the title page. Cloth, d.w. with some faint soiling, very good. More
London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1721. Folio, (lii), 626, 81, (1) pp. Portrait plates of Urry and of Chaucer, title vignette and 27 engravings in the text, being portraits of the protagonists in the Canterbury Tales, some occasional light foxing, marbled endpapers, early 19th century bookseller's label to paste down..... More
London: John Lehmann Ltd., 1950. First edition. 8vo. 191, (1) pp. Publisher's pink cloth, gilt lettered brown spine panel, dust jacket on a design by John Minton, nor price clipped. Frontispiece, title and further illustrations in the text also by Minton. Some losses to the upper edge of the jacket..... More
London: Eragny Press, 1901. Limited edition, one of 226 copies, (200 of which were for sale). Small 8vo. 113, (3) pp. Publisher's plain linen backed drab boards, printed title label to the upper cover. Frontispiece, first page and the press device to the rear designed by Lucien Pissaro. Some spotting..... More
London: Longmans & Co. and Edward Stanford, 1875. First edition, large 8vo, xiv, 503, (1) pp. 7 plates, including 2 folding maps - one hand coloured, plus a frontispiece and 59 woodcuts in the text, both maps with some foxing, marbled endpapers. Later half morocco, t.e.g., a very good copy..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1992. First edition thus, three volumes, large 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, slipcase with some minor scuffs otherwise an excellent set. More
London: R.H. Porter, 1891-97. Second editions, two volumes, large 8vo. 421 chromolithographs by Thorburn, Keulemans and others, with some mostly light foxing, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplates of the photographer Peter Henry Emerson, with his pencilled signature to the title page in volume I. Contemporary green half calf, t.e.g., spines sunned..... More
London: Philip Lee Warner, 1910. First trade edition. Small 4to. (x), 67, (1) pp. Publisher's buckram, gilt to the spine and upper boards, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 9 plates, all colour and tipped in. Uneven fading and light rubbing to the covers, spotting to the endpapers, else a decent..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Limited edition, no. 281 of 500 copies signed by Palgrave. Large 8vo. (xii), 448 pp. Contemporary quarter parchment over wine red boards, gilt lettering and rules to the spine. Some discolouration to the parchment and a little sunning to the boards, browning to the endpapers..... More
Lewes: Mapbooks, 1999. First edition. 4to. xviii, 558 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Photographic illustrations and several maps. Fine. More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907. 8vo. xlii, 786 pp. Contemporary red full calf by Spottiswoode & Co., spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and decorated to the others, early school prize inscription to the front flyleaf, endpapers and all edges marbled. Numerous black and white..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. First edition. 4to. xx, 511, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, original owner's inscription to the head of the first free endpaper. 581 black and white illustrations plus 10 in colour. Sunning to the jacket spine, else..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1899. Small 8vo, (vi), 245, (1) pp. Colour frontispiece and title page. Later full morocco, gilt titled spine very slightly sunned. The Temple edition. More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1899. Two volumes, small 8vo. Coloured frontispiece and title in volume I. Later full morocco, gilt titled spines very slightly sunned. The Temple edition. More
London: John Murray, 1820. First edition, 8vo, vi, 601, (1) pp. Contemporary black half calf, a little rubbed, covers very slightly damp stained and bowed, gilt spine and red label. "The Principles had only a limited impact at the time... more recently it has received greater recognition, largely as a...... More
(Sandton): Constantia Classics, (1982). Limited edition, no. 225 of 850 copies, folio. 64 colour plates. Full green morocco, a fine copy held in the original slipcase, some scuffing to the top and bottom ends of this. Originally published 1809-1816. More
(Printed for private circulation at the Westminster Press, 1897). First edition, small 8vo, 14, (2) pp. Printer wrappers with an illustration of 47 Palace Court, Wilfrid and Alice Meynell's home, to the lower wrapper. A few minor marks otherwise an excellent copy. More
[London]: Published by Mr. Everard Meynell; (Printed by Douglas Pepler, Ditchling), 1916. 8vo, (8) pp, sewn as issued. One engraving plus the Press device by Eric Gill. Some minor soiling, near fine. Taylor & Sewell A7. More
London: The Pelican Press, 1923. First edition, 8vo. Folding title page and one other folding plate, inscribed on the fly leaf from Queen Mary to one of her ladies-in-waiting, Lady Mary Trefusis. Original buckram, spine sunned. More
London: Burns and Oates, [1907]. First edition, 8vo, 8 pp. Original printed wrappers, some mild browning and a few marks. More
London: Chatto & Windus, (1997). First edition, 8vo, xxx, 546 pp. Signed on the title page by the author. Cloth, d.w., spine sunned otherwise very good. More
Cambridge: Printed by R.D. for John Williams, 1648. Second edition, folio, (viii), 189, 200-394, 435-510 pp, the pagination rather eccentric. Engraved second title, later bookplate of Major Arthur Yeatman-Biggs, edges of the endpapers and a rear blank a little worn. Contemporary calf, spine with a later label and gilt rules..... More
Edinburgh and London: T.N. Foulis, [1907]. Small thin 8vo. Publisher's grey cloth, dark grey decoration designed by King to both boards supplemented with gilt to the spine and upper cover, early owner's name pencilled to the front free endpaper. 6 tipped in colour plates including the frontispiece and title. Some..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1934. 8vo. 348, (4) pp. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, top edge gilt, the original illustrated front wrapper bound in plus the original spine to the rear. Black and white illustrations. A little light rubbing, very..... More
Glasgow: Joseph Swan; London: Moon, Boys & Graves, 1830. 4to. (ii), iv, (ii), 168, (6), 4 pp. Later brown half calf over marbled boards, new endpapers, spine with raised bands, the original spine labels preserved. Engraved title and 42 plates. Some foxing, mostly to the margins and versos of the..... More