New Arrivals
EGYPT AND THE SUDAN.
Simpkin Marshall, ltd. London. 1929, 1929. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Illustrated with 27 maps and plans, one with small amount of sellotape repair to edge. Publishers red cloth, lettered in gilt. A very good copy in the original rare red paper dustwrapper, printed in black. Creasing and rubbing to edges. Some..... More
SHAKESPEARE'S BOY ACTORS.
J. M. Dent & Sons. Ltd. London. 1939, 1939. First Edition of the author's first book. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.9 inches). Illustrated with 8 mono plates. Original blue cloth with blind stamped device to upper board, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained blue. With the rare dustjacket. Spine a...... More
TWENTY FOUR NATURE PICTURES BY E. J. DETMOLD. Produced in facsimile. Edition of First Proofs limited to 500 copies and signed by the artist.
J. M. Dent & Sons Limited. London. 1919, 1919. TWENTY FOUR FINE FULL COLOUR PLATES BY DETMOLD. Each mounted onto card with a printed border and protected with a tissue guard. The title of each picture printed on the guard in brown ink. The colour plates measure 14.9 x 9.6..... More
THE WORKS. Complete in Twenty Volumes with Illustrations By Cruikshank, "Phiz" &c.
Chapman & Hall, Limited, London and Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press American Branch. New York. - No date. circa 1910, 1910. COMPLETE SET OF WORKS. 20 volumes. 8vo (6.7 x 4.4 inches). Illustrated throughout with line engravings by various artists. A very good bright set in the publishers delux full..... More
THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald
Hodder & Stoughton. London. No Date. Circa 1918, 1918. EARLY DULAC EDITION. Large 8vo. (7.9 x 5.9 inches). viii,189p. Finely illustrated with 12 fine coloured plates by Edmund Dulac, tipped on to thick buff paper with a triple ruled brown border. Each plate with a printed tissue guard. Two plates..... More
THE TRUE AND ROMANTIC HISTORY OF WILLIAM PIGG, ESQUIRE. M. P. FOR HAM(P)SHIRE. Or life's burlesque in black and white, by the Hon. Charlotte Ellis. The poetical accompaniment by the Rev. H. A. Martin, M.A.
Kerby and Endean. London. 1879, 1879. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10 x 7.7 inches). 80pp. Frontis and 27 full page illustrations, all within decorative border, by Catherine Ellis. A clean fresh copy. Publishers dark blue cloth with gilt and black lettering and full illustration to the front board. Spine lettered in..... More
THE LONDON ART OF COOKERY. And Housekeepers complete assistant. On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every Housekeeper, Cook, and Servant, in the Kingdom.... To which is added an Appendix.... Embellished with A Head of the Author, and a bill of fare for every month of the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper plates. --- Fourth edition with upwards of one hundred and fifty new and elegant receipts in the various branches of cookery.
J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, B. Law, and G. and T. Wilkie. London. 1787, 1787. FOURTH EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.4 inches). Portrait frontis of Farley, plus 12 copper engravings of a bill of fare for each month of the year. Some light browning to a handful of leaves but..... More
THE NOVELS. Tom Jones. - Amelia. - Joseph Andrews. - Jonathan Wild.
Basil Blackwell/The Shakespeare Head Press. Oxford. 1926, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. TEN VOLUMES. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.4 inches). One of 1030 sets printed, of which 1000 are for sale. Fine clean books which have been finely bound in recent half red morocco leather, spines with raised bands, the compartments lettered and..... More
ALBUM OF TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION MATERIAL. Printed and manuscript items; Photographs, letters, documents, drawings, Loose bank notes, printed views and maps. China, Russia, West Indies, Europe, U.S.A, Africa....
NP. ND. HAND TOOLED FINE BINDING. Large 4to. (7.4 x 5 inches.). A collection of maps, engraved views, bank notes, photographs and hand written letters, one detailing the writer's travels which accompanies the photos. Engraved views and maps, some hand coloured, letters (one relating to travels across Kurdistan dressed as..... More
A TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES. In which a new method of pruning and training is fully described. -- The Second edition, with additions.
Longman, Rees, Cadell and Davies. London. 1803, 1803. SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.5 inches). iii-xxvii, 523pp. Bound without half title but otherwise complete, with 13 engraved plates, all but two folding. A clean copy finely bound in recent half burgundy morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands..... More
THE ART JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION 1851.
George Virtue, London. 1851, 1851. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (13.2 x 10 inches). Packed with 100's of detailed mono line drawings, the work provides not only a catalogue of the Great Exhibition but its history. A very good copy in attractive early leather binding of full red morocco. Spine with raised..... More
A DAY IN A CHILD'S LIFE.
George Routledge and Sons. London. 1881, 1881. FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. 4to (9.9 x 8.3 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with full colour illustrations, some in and around the text. The printing by Edmund Evans, the master of British colour printed books of the late nineteenth century. A very good copy..... More
THE MALTESE FALCON.
Alfred A Knopf. New York. 1930, 1930. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.6 inches). viii,268pp. A bright clean copy in a fine recent leather binding. Full black morocco. Spine with raised bands. Red title label, gilt. Compartments with gilt lettering, ruled lines and decoration. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed..... More
ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES.
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1950, 1950. FIRST U.S. EDITION. 8vo. (8.5 x 6 inches). First printing with Scribner logo and letter A on verso of title page. A fine, bright copy bound in recent full dark green morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands, ruled, lettered and decorated in..... More
ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES.
Jonathan Cape. London. 1950, 1950. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. This UK edition precedes the U.S edition. Finely bound in recent full dark green morocco leather. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. More
THE HOUSEKEEPER'S INSTRUCTOR. Or universal Family Cook. Being a full and clear display of the Art of Cookery in all its branches.... To which is added, The Complete Art of Carving, Illustrated with engravings.
J. Stratford. London. 1807, 1807. FOURTEENTH EDITION, corrected, revised and considerably improved by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie. 8vo. (8.3 x 5.6 inches). 12 copper engravings, including two fold outs that are a bit rubbed and creased but complete. Pages generally clean and free from marks. Contemporary tree calf boards with new..... More
THE BOYS' BOOK OF CRICKET. With a foreword by P. F. warner. .
G. Bell and Sons. Ltd. London. 1936, 1936. Reprint of title originally published in 1924. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). Illustrated with 24 mono photographic plates. A bright and clean copy bound, by G. F. Laurence binders of london, in early half burgundy calf. Spine with five raised band. Compartments..... More
THE WORKS. A new edition in twelve volume. With an essay on his life and genius, by Arthur Murphy.
J. Nichols & Son; F & C. Rivington, &c. London. 1810, 1810. TWELVE VOLUMES. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.4 inches). New edition. Portrait frontis after Sir Joshua Reynolds, engraved by James Fittler. Some minor foxing to some pf the pages but generally a very good clean set. Contemporary full tree calf..... More
THE FAMOUS AND MEMORABLE WORKS OF JOSEPHUS.-- Extra illustrated. A man of much honour and learning among the Jews. Faithfully translated out of the latin and French, by Tho. Lodge, Doctor n Physick. Whereunto are newly added the the references of the Scriptures throughout the History, and afterwards collected into a Table.
Printed by J. L. for Richard Tomlins, and are to be sold at his house at the sign of the Sun and Bible near Py Corner. London. 1655, 1655. Extra illustrated copy. (13.1 x 8.7 inches). 10, 812, 32(Table) pp. Curiously, the extra title page to part two (The lamentable..... More
ULYSSES.
Random House. New York. 1934, 1934. FIRST AUTHORISED AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. (8.3 x 5.8 inches). Finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Decorative gilt roll border on boards. Top edge gilt. Original cloth front board bound..... More
POEMS. Illustrations by Robert Anning Bell and introduction by Walter Raleigh.
George Bell & Sons. London. 1901, 1901. Reprint of the Second edition, revised and with new illustrations, originally published in 1898. 8vo. (7.9 x 5.3 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with dozens of full page and smaller illustrations in line. Attractive early leather binding by Riviere and Son for Henry Young..... More
AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL. Translated from the Latin, with large notes. To which are added two sermons by the same Author, the former concerning Divine Prescience, the latter on the fall of Man. The Third edition corrected. By Edmund Law. M. A. Fellow of Christ College.
Printed for William Thurlbourn. Cambridge. 1739, 1739. THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.2 inches). A clean and fresh copy in an attractive contemporary full panelled calf binding. Spine with five raised bands. Title label ruled and lettered in gilt. Blind tooling around the lighter tan panels on both boards..... More
THE WATER BABIES. A Fairy tale for a Land Baby.
Macmillan and Co. London. 1863, 1863. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.1 x 6.4 inches). Second state, without with the L'Envoi poem leaf at the start of the book, which Kingsley had removed from all but the first few hundred copies issued. Two full page mono plates and 8 smaller engravings..... More
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Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1914, 1914. SECOND SEPARATE ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo. (6.5 x 4.6 inches). A rare bibliographical variant, printed in black on white paper cover plus 4pp rather than than the dark burgundy ink on light grey or brown paper noted in the bibliography (Richards; A269 - note)..... More