Edinburgh: R. Grant & Son; London: Simpkin Marshall & Co., 1888. Sole edition. 47, (1) pp. Publisher's paper backed boards, the upper cover illustrated in the style of the reverse side of a framed painting. Frontispiece illustrated by Edith Somerville. A little light soiling to the lower cover, very good..... 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: John Lane, the Bodley Head, (1926). First edition thus, large 8vo, (xiv), 408 pp. Black and white illustrations, some occasional light foxing. Original gilt titled cream buckram, t.e.g., d.w. with some minor loss to extremities. More
London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1929. Limited edition, no. 344 of 550 copies, large 8vo, (xvi, 64) pp. 4 plates printed in purple plus further black and white illustrations, free endpapers browned. Original quarter vellum, t.e.g., top of covers with light sunning, purple silk sides with a gilt illustration to the..... More
London: John Murray, 1839. Eight volumes. 8vo. Contemporary purple straight grain morocco, spines faded to brown, twin olive gilt lettered spine labels, gilt decoration to the edges of the boards, endpapers and all edges marbled, armorial bookplate of Frederick Wildman Burnett to the front pastedowns. Frontispiece portrait and 8 engraved..... More
London: Alexander Moring, the De La More Press, 1903. Small 8vo. xxxiv, (2), 497, (1) pp. Simply and elegantly bound by Bumpus in brown full polished calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel, gilt tooling to edges, all edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait. Very good. More
[Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1577. 8vo, (xvi), 72, 134 pp. Printer's woodcut device to the title page, some light foxing, title browned with some small ink marks. Contemporary dappled calf with a central decorative blind stamped panel, a little worn, outer edge of lower cover darkened, recently rebacked with a...... More
(London: The Camberwell Press, 1984). One of 750 copies, large 8vo, (22) pp, with 6 full page illustrations - one for each book advertised, including a sketch by Helen Roeder and a wood engraving by John Lawrence, order form loosely inserted, paper wrappers, wood engraving on upper wrapper, a fine..... More
London: David Nutt, 1891. First edition. 8vo. xl, 292 pp. Publisher's beige buckram, lettered to spine and upper board. Frontispiece portrait of Ian Campbell of Islay plus one plate. Spine a little darkened and worn, a very good copy. No. IV of the Waifs and Strays of the Celtic Tradition..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1838. 8vo, (xii), 306 pp. Frontispiece of a bust of the Author plus steel-engraved vignettes in the text, these mostly after Turner, some light foxing, later inscription to fly leaf verso, marbled endpapers. Contemporary full morocco, a.e.g., gilt spine and double rules, some light rubbing and a...... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1949. First edition thus, 8vo, lxxx, 297, (1) pp. Frontispiece, brief inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. price clipped with some browning and mild loss to spine ends. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1980. First British edition. 8vo. 186 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Small scratch to the front free endpaper, trivial creasing to the spine ends of the jacket, an excellent copy. The author's first book, first published in..... More
London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for Private Distribution, 1869. Limited edition, one of 150 copies, this copy not numbered, 4to, (x), 105, (1) pp. Frontispiece, inscribed from Cosens on a front blank. Original gilt titled cloth, some light marks, mild damp staining to the lower cover. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition, 8vo, xviii, 268, (2) pp. 9 plates, endpapers spotted plus 2 leaves stained. Cloth, d.w. browned and marked with price clipped from upper flap. Containing 170 letters, many published here for the first time. Williams, Madan & Green 311. More
Oxford: At the New Bodleian, 1956. Limited edition, no. 66 of 100 copies, signed by Cary and the publisher, Herbert Davis, 8vo, (vi), 44 pp. Title vignette and 6 plates, 2 in colour. Original boards, paper label, spine sunned, corners bumped. More
Hanoviæ [Hanover]: Typis Wechelianis apud Cl. Marnium... 1608. 8vo, (x), 342, 191, (1) pp. Initial letter to page 91 partly coloured, some browning and foxing, last 2 gatherings with a light stain to the top corner, brief later inscriptions to the paste down. Contemporary vellum, covers slightly bowed, handwritten spine..... More
London, 1808. Forty-four volumes (of 45), 12mo, lacking volume XII, or the seventh of ten volumes of the Spectator. 17 volumes with portrait frontispieces. Contemporary tree calf, gilt banded spines, sunned and with 12 volumes lacking their labels, all but 11 volumes also lacking their small roundels of green morocco..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1870. 8vo, 476 pp. Marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary red half calf, gilt spine with a green label, mild rubbing and darkening to extremities, very good. More
The Charleston Trust, 1990-2001. Twenty-four volumes plus the separately issued index to the first 10 issues. Large 8vo. Each either 48 or 56 pp. Original decorative wrappers. Occasional light wear to the spines, a very good set. A complete run of this excellent publication on all things Bloomsbury. More
Richmond: The Charleston Trust, 1985-1989. 13 issues, 8vo. Well illustrated, occasionally in colour. Held in contemporary bespoke green faux-leather binders, separately produced index to the first 20 issues also included, in two parts - one part inserted into issue 20. Scarce in anything like this quantity. More
London: William Pickering, 1830. Five volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece and one further plate in volume I, marbled endpapers and edges, three of the free endpapers detached. Contemporary calf, edges worn, rebacked in plain calf without labels. Keynes p. 57. An edition originally published in 1822. More
London: Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, 1598. First Speght edition. Folio. (28), 394, (13) ff., lacking the front and rear blanks and the "Faults escaped" errata leaf, as often, text printed throughout in double column black letter. Later brown full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered..... More
Horsham: Stuart Guthrie, (1937). Limited edition, one of 250 copies, small 4to, (vi), 25, (1) pp. Frontispiece. Original cloth backed boards, mild browning to the spine, an excellent copy still with its original tissue wrapper, this browned. With an introduction by John Cowper Powys. More
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith [and] London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, 1908. First edition. 8vo. 329, (3) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, black lettered to the spine, also to the upper board in the style of the lettering to the title page. Slight sunning to the spine, some light..... More