London: John Sharpe, 1822. 8vo. viii, 160 pp. Contemporary green full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, ornate gilt tooling to the rest of spine, all edges marbled. Engraved title page. Some rubbing. otherwise very good. Two complementary works on female conduct, first published in 1761 and..... More

London: Virtue and Company, [1904-06]. First edition, 6 volumes, large 8vo. 6 coloured double page maps and 192 plates plus illustrations in the text, some foxing at the beginning and end of each volume. Original decorative cloth, a.e.g., volume VI bound using a slightly darker material, some light soiling and..... More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. First edition. 8vo. 157, (1) pp. Publisher's wrappers with flaps, illustrated to the upper cover. Frontispiece, 8 plates (some featuring two illustrations) and 3 pages of diagrams. Some light wear and marking to the covers, else very good. More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1927-1928. Third edition. Five volumes. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, ownership inscription repeated to the front free endpapers, top edges gilt, dust jackets. Frontispieces and 92 plates, some in colour, plus further black and white illustrations in the text. Jacket spines tanned evenly..... More

London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1913. 8vo, xiii, (i), 394, (2) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 59 black and white plates, contemporary prize inscription from St. Johns School, Leatherhead, to front blank, marbled endpapers. Bound by Relfe Brothers in contemporary full calf, all edges stained red, school arms in gilt..... More

Romae [Rome]: Ex Typographia Vaticana, Jo: Mariæ Henrici Salvioni Typogr. 1737. Small 4to. (xvi), 384, clxxv, clxxviii-clxxxiv pp, complete in spite of the erratic pagination at the rear. Recent panelled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, all edges red. Small loss to the title page at the..... More

London: Privately Printed, 1994. Limited edition, one of 1,200 copies, 4to, x, 206 pp, well illustrated in both colour and black and white, this copy one of the specially bound copies in black quarter morocco, slipcase, a fine copy. With 130 pages of bindings and title pages illustrated followed by..... More

London: James Nisbet & Co., 1875. Large 8vo, (vi), 398 pp. Small tear to top edge of title from careless opening, ink stamps of the Danish National Library to title, marked as "discarded" below the imprint. Partly unopened in later cloth, a little dull and marked. Scarce. More

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1840. First edition, 8vo, (xxiv), 456 pp. Frontispiece and 38 plates, somewhat foxed, later signature to fly leaf. Original green cloth, spine and edges browned, rebacked retaining the original backstrip. Lake & Wright p135. More

London: Hardy & Page, 1892. 8vo, (ii), 240, lxiii Index, (1) pp, original red cloth, a little dusty. More

London: John Murray, 1858. First edition. viii, 208, 31 pp. 19th century blue half cloth over marbled boards, recent gilt lettered red spine label, front endpapers renewed. Recurring light dampstain, the fore edge of the last leave of the publisher's catalogue to the rear slightly ragged. More

London: Macdonald, 1954. First edition. 8vo. 676 pp. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt to spine, dust jacket, price clipped, the posthumous booklabel of the writer and historian C.J. Sturman to the front pastedown. Illustrations set into the text throughout. The jacket spine tanned and with small losses at the head, a...... More

London: The Gregg Publishing Co. Ltd., 1952. Second impression. 8vo. (viii), 140 pp. Publisher's gold cloth, black lettered to the spine and upper board, illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Slight wear to the spine ends of the jacket with a small tear without loss to the upper panel..... More