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Faber and Faber. London. 1939, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. (9.6 x 6.6 inches). Finely bound in recent full burgundy morocco leather. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt, other page edges untrimmed. Aside from some..... More
The Heritage Press. New York. 1938, 1938. FIRST HERITAGE PRESS EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.5 x 6.6 inches). Complete text with five volumes in one. Illustrated throughout by Lynd Ward with full page and smaller illustrations. Fine late twentieth century leather binding of full burgundy morocco. Spine with raised bands. Compartments..... More
Hodder & Stoughton, Limited. London. 1957, 1957. 8vo. Bright, clean copy finely bound in mid twentieth century full red morocco leather binding by Morrell. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Spine compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Ronald Knox's Monsignor coat of arms with the motto "Lux in..... More
Adam and Charles Black. London. 1905, 1905. NEW EDITION, reprinted with minor alterations in December 1905, shortly after the first printing of October the same year. 4to. (9 x 6.6 inches). Fully illustrated with fifty three colour plates. each with a printed tissue guard, and ninety mono illustrations. A fine..... More
Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1894, 1894. The Peoples edition. Twenty-third thousand. 8vo. (7.3 x 4.9 inches). Illustrated with fifty line illustrations by John Tenniel. Some foxing to the plain tissue paper guard over the frontispiece and a few minor spots throughout but overall a very clean and bright copy..... More
Chapman and Hall. London. 1945, 1945. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.1 inches). A bright and clean copy Finely bound in quarter burgundy morocco leather. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom made slip-case covered in morocco grained paper. A fine..... More
Baynard Press. London. 1940, 1940. FIRST EDITION. Printed stapled wraps. 16pp. (9.5 x 6 inches). Some minor creasing otherwise this is a very near fine, bright, crisp and clean copy throughout. Overall a much better copy than is usually found of this fragile pamphlet. ---- Housed in a felt lined..... More
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1872 - 74, 1872. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Previous owner armorial bookplate (Isaac Holden, politician and inventor of a wool-combing machine, who received a Baronetcy in 1893) and also ink name and address stamped to the front blank free endpapers..... More
The Folio Society. London. 1978, 1978. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.7 inches). Finely illustrated by Virgil Burnett with full page frontispiece and 75 head pieces, printed in red. A fine copy in a fine unique leather craft binding. Full mid brown morocco. Front board with blue..... More
Alfred A Knopf. New York. 1930, 1930. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.4 inches). viii,268pp. A few leaves spotted and a small area of loss to the bottom of one page, just on the margin and well away from the text. Feint mark to the top outer corner of the..... More
Printed by R. Tullis, for A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh. 1804, 1804. TWO VOLUMES. 6mo. (7.32 x 4.3 inches). Vol.1; xii, 287pp - Vol.2; iv, 275pp. Bound in contemporary full tree calf with gilt ruling and red morocco volume numbers and title labels to spines. Trinity College Dublin arms in..... More
Methuen & Co. London. 1929, 1929. SECOND EDITION. Published just weeks after the First edition which was issued on October 31st 1929. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with beautiful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. A clean and bright copy internally, bound in Publishers special delux full dark..... More
Oxford University Press. London. 1938, 1938. NEW EDITION. 8vo. (7.9 x 5.4 inches). 22, 590pp. Colour frontispiece of Vauxhall, by Thomas Rowlandson, and 13 mono plates. A fine clean copy throughout. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco by Bayntun of Bath. Raised bands with gilt dotted lines on the..... More
Longmans, Green and co. London. 1887, 1887. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated with 20 mono plates engraved on wood by J. Cooper from drawings by C. H. M. Kerr. A very good copy bound in early twentieth century half dark green morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt..... More
No place. No date. Circa 1870, 1870. ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT. Oblong 8vo. (9.4 x 5.5 inches). Longfellow's popular eearly poem, An April day, written in a neat hand on 12 thick paper leaves. Ten of the leaves are beautifully illustrated in watercolour by an unknown but very skilled artist. Bound in..... More
Macmillan & Co. Limited. London 1926, 1926. Reprint. 8vo. (6.2 x 4.2 inches). Contemporary fine binding, by Riviere and Son of full dark blue calf. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments double ruled and decorated in gilt. Burgundy title and dark brown author name labels, ruled and lettered in gilt..... More
Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1911, 1911. Reprint of the 1899 Golden Treasury edition. Small 8vo. (6.1 x 4.1 inches). Finely bound, by Riviere and Son, in beautiful early full dark green morocco, extra gilt. The spine with raised bands, dotted in gilt. Compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt..... More
Henry Colburn. London. 1847, 1847. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED. -- NEW EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Colour printed extra title page and 236 wood engravings throughout the text but the volume has been beautifully extra illustrated with 23 full page plates, three fold-out and six of these hand coloured, dating from..... More
John Stockdale. London. 1794 + 1801, 1794. FIRST EDITION OF VOLUME THREE AND SECOND EDITION OF VOLUMES 1 AND 2.--- Three volumes. 4to. All 3 bound without the half titles, otherwise complete. Illustrated with 22 engraved maps and plates, four of these are large folding plates, including the general map..... More
Doubleday, Page and Company. New York. 1910, 1910. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION (U. S). IN RARE PUBLISHERS DELUX IMITATION LEATHER BINDING. Precedes the first U.K separate edition by 4 years. Oblong 8vo. (4.4 x 6.4 inches). 8 double leaves, uncut at the top. Each double leaf has a green rule and..... More
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1909, 1909. FIRST DULAC EDITION. 4to. (10.8 x 8.6 inches). 20 mounted colour plates on thick art paper, framed with decorative border design. Each plate covered with printed tissue paper guard. Finely bound in early full white vellum binding. Spine with elaborate gilt tooling and red..... More
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London. 1811, 1811. FIRST SCOTT EDITION. Six volumes. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.8 inches). Illustrated with six full page copper engraved frontipieces, after paintings by Robert Smirke, which were originally published in Edward Forster's translation of this work in 1802. The plates were specially re-engraved..... More
Fred De Fau & Company. New York. 1902, 1902. LIMITED EDITION. One of 1,000 numbered sets, this number 942. 10 volumes. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.5 inches). Finely bound by Brentanos in contemporary half tan morocco. Each spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt piping. Compartments multi ruled and lettered..... More
Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. USA. 1979, 1979. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. (9.1 x 6.2 inches). Illustrated with 58 mono photos. A fine and clean copy in a fine leather binding of full dark blue morocco. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, including a previous owner's..... More
