Felix Holt. The Radical.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, [1870s]. 8vo, (viii), 430 pp. Second title and 6 plates, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, spine sunned with mild wear. More
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The Works of... Scenes of Clerical Life. Adam Bede. The Mill on the Floss. Silas Marner [including] The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob. Romola. Felix Holt. Middlemarch. Daniel Deronda. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Poems. [and] CROSS, J.W. George Eiiot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals Arranged and Edited by Her Husband...
New York: Merrill and Baker, [c.1895]. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Twenty four volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered red and olive labels, marbled endpapers with the pictorial bookplates of Jean Chisholm and Francis Edwin Drake to the front pastedowns, top edges gilt..... More
Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe. By the Author of "Adam Bede", "The Mill on the Floss", and "Scenes of Clerical Life".
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861. First American edition, 8vo, 265, (1, 22 advertisement) pp, endpapers marked, in the original cloth, slightly worn, ends of spine torn with minor loss. More
Homage to John Dryden. Three Essays on poetry of the seventeenth century.
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927. Second impression, 8vo, 46 pp. Original wrappers, design by Vanessa Bell to upper wrapper, some browning and light soiling. The Hogarth Essays, first series, no. 4. Gallup A7. Woolmer 43. More
Murder in the Cathedral.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1935. First edition. 8vo. 87, (9) pp. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Dust jacket with some wear and tear to the edges with occasional small losses, else a decent copy. More
Social Distinction: or Hearts and Homes.
London: J. & F. Tallis, [c.1850]. Three volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, engraved titles and 25 plates, a few spots. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt decorated dark blue morocco, a.e.g., spines lightly rubbed with slight loss to the tops of volumes II and II. More
South Wales Echo. With an Introduction by David Blamires.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1973. Limited edition, one of 400 copies, 4to, xx, 22, (4) pp, coloured frontispiece tipped in, from a painting by Judith Shackleton, Errata slip loosely inserted, inscribed from the Author on the half title with a quote from John Donne below, original orange wrappers, a fine copy..... More
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists. Comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle, Macaulay, Froude, Freeman and Gladstone.
London: Bickers and Son, 1886. Second edition, 8vo, (x), 395, (1), 4 advertisement pp. 12 portrait plates, being tipped in photographs, prize label of the Southfield Institution, Auchtermuchty. Original gilt decorated cloth with bevelled edges, a.e.g., one small mark otherwise a handsome copy. The photographs including 6 woodburytypes by the..... More
The Treatises of... on Goldsmithing and Sculpture.
[London]: Printed by (C.R. Ashbee) at the Guild's Press at Essex House, 1898. Limited edition, no. 344 of 600 copies, 4to, xiv, (ii), 164, (4) pp. 11 plates with tissue guards plus 7 diagrams in the text and a press device at the end. Original green buckram, spine and edges..... More
An Address Delivered by... on the Opening of the New Buildings of the Campden School of Arts and Crafts.
(Campden: Essex House Press, 1904). Limited edition, one of 50 copies, 8vo, 11, (1) pp. One woodcut illustration. Original cream buckram, title to upper cover, some light foxing, small mark to one corner, a very good copy. Tomkinson 52. More
Diary and Correspondence of... To which is subjoined The Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde... and Sir Richard Browne. Edited from the original Mss. at Wotton by William Bray.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859. Four volumes, 8vo. 45 plates, booklabels of Edward Newton. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, red morocco labels, spines a touch dull otherwise a very good set. More
Memoires for my Grand-son.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. No. 917 of 1,250 copies. Small 8vo. xii, (ii), 104, (2) pp. Publisher's limp parchment, gilt lettered to the spine and blind ruled to the covers, the circular armourial bookplate of a Stanley William Sykes to the front pastedown. A few light marks to the binding..... More
"And So to Bed." A comedy in three acts.
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1927). First limited edition, no. 2 of 200 copies signed by the author, 8vo, (x), 140 pp. Inscribed from the author to his second wife, the actress Mary Grey, on the fly leaf. Original buckram, t.e.g., spine browned with some old ink addition to the gilt..... More
The Roadmender. Illustrated by E.W. Waite.
London: Duckworth & Co., (1920). 8vo, (x), 121, (1) pp. 8 coloured plates, one with a small tear, marbled endpapers. Bound in contemporary tree sheep, gilt borders, gilt spine, t.e.g., a couple of minor marks otherwise an attractive copy. More
A Reader's Choice. Selections from books by... chosen and introduced by Diana Crook.
Lewes: Dale House Press, (1996). Limited edition, no. 3 of 52 copies signed by both Author and Editor, small 8vo, (xvi), 57, (3) pp. Cloth backed boards, fine. More
The Violins of Saint-Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles. Decorations by Robin Ironside.
London: John Murray, Andre Deutsch, 1958. Third impression. 8vo. 139, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, price clipped. A handful of black and white illustrations. A little wear to the edges of the jacket with a few discreet tissue repairs on the verso, else..... More
The Adventures of Joseph Andrews... with Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
London: James Cochrane and Co., 1832. First edition thus, small 8vo, (iii)-xii, 336 pp, bound without the half title. Frontispiece and 3 plates, marbled endpapers and sides. Later half morocco by Riviere and Son, t.e.g., joints slightly rubbed. The first appearance of Cruikshank's illustrations for this work. More
Don Juan. A Play in Three Acts. With a Preface by Hellé Flecker.
London: William Heinemann, 1925. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 159, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., spine browned with slight loss to the top. More
Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues, Collected, and Newly Much Augmented by Iohn Florio, Reader of the Italian unto the Soueraigne Majestie Anna... Whereunto are Added Certaine Necessarie Rules and Short Observations for the Italian Tongue.
London: Melch. Bradwood [and William Stansby], for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611. Second, enlarged edition. Small folio. [xii], 617, [3], 617-690 pp, with some erratic pagination at intervals, lacking the blanks at the front and rear plus another at Fff4. Nineteenth century tan half calf over marbled boards for..... More
The Folded Paper Mystery. A Crime Club Book.
London: W. Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd., [1930]. First English edition small 8vo, 250, (2) pp. Cloth, d.w. with some mild soiling and a little rubbing to edges. Originally published in New York as "The Mystery of the Folded Paper" More
The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford. The Good Soldier. Selected Memories. Poems. The Fifth Queen. Privy Seal. The Fifth Queen Crowned. Parade's End: Some Do Not... No More Parades. A Man Could Stand Up. Memories and Impressions.
London: The Bodley Head, 1963-71. Five volumes, volumes III-V first editions, others first reprints. 8vo. Cloth, d.w.'s, spines with mild browning, one with a small chip, overall very good. More
The African Queen.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1935). First edition. 8vo. (iv), 283, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers. Recent dark green full morocco, a.e.g., a handsome copy. More
The Wonderful Week.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., (1927). First edition. 8vo. (viii), 314, (6) pp. Publisher's beige cloth, brown lettered to the spine and upper board. A very good copy. More