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Two copies in good condition of this successful Victorian-era penny magazine aimed at working-class young women and published weekly by Edwin J. Brett. Each issue contained a short novel, often sensational tales of romance or mystery, along with celebrity gossip and illustrations. Both copies available are very sound, crisp and unmarked; collated a… Read more…

Two consecutive volumes of this uncommon Victorian boy’s magazine published by Edwin J Brett at Boys of England Office, Fleet St. London. An excellent example of the significant shift in boys' literature during the late 19th century, moving away from strictly educational content towards more entertaining and sensational narratives featuring young h… Read more…

An owner’s handbook, applicable to 1981 model year cars destined for USA and Canada. Card wrappers in very good condition titled in silver gilt to front and embossed to rear with Rolls Royce logo. Small crease to front corner. Staples to spine rusted. Leaves within crisp and clean throughout. 22 pp. Printed by The Scolar Press, Ilkley, West Yorkshi… Read more…

A very scarce reference guide for dealers and collectors written and published in 1979 by Henry Donn a leading expert in the Limited Edition and original work of LS Lowry. With an introduction and notes by the author. Illustrated card wrappers in excellent condition. Text within clean and crisp throughout. 88 b/w reprints of limited edition works b… Read more…

Two rather striking and certainly intriguing painted portraits. The sitters command our attention. Who were they and how did they fit into society? Nameless for now but how they have been presented reveals more than a mere name. The patriarchal gaze of the gentleman and the idealised thoughtfulness of the woman in a slightly smaller work point imme… Read more…

7 small water colours painted during the days of the British Raj in India which capture the spirit of an excursion taken in December 1890. A flat bottomed wooden boat manned by local men travels along a river carrying a couple in western dress, elephants emerge from the lush vegetation carrying travellers and lunch supplies, camp tents nestle among… Read more…

Rules laid down by Queen Elizabeth I on her accession to the throne which would govern the religious life of the English people and the clergy under the Protestant settlement. This 1600 printing dates from towards the end of her reign. DESCRIPTION: Disbound small quarto; first three leaves detached from sewing; worm hole close to gutter, some stain… Read more…

An excellent association copy in very good unclipped dust jacket. Boards and text block very sound. Two horizontal black lines across tail of text block; jacket minimally shelf worn to top and tail. Remnants of glue marks to front and rear pastedowns which are otherwise fresh. Front free endpaper contains an inscription from the author ‘For Geri...… Read more…

Gabrielle Enthoven’s marked up copy of a French’s Acting Edition (No.338) of Black Eyed Susan. Enthoven was an English playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist, and prolific collector of theatrical ephemera relating to the London stage. Much of her private collection of playbills, programmes and associated ephemera is now in the theatre and p… Read more…

An original playbill in very good condition for a Saturday evening at the New Theatre Buxton on June 22nd 1833. The programme includes ‘Poor Gentleman’ a celebrated comedy followed by a ‘Comic Song by Mr Weston’’, dancing by Miss Smith and a laughable farce of the ‘Spoil’d Child’. Print remains bold and crisp. A small nick to tail and a very small… Read more…

A rare original copy of part 3 of the serialised second edition of ‘Pickwick Abroad or the Tour in France’ by GWM Reynolds. Throughout his career Dickens was the victim of plagiarism and a lack of enforcement of copyright law saw many authors including George Reynolds claim their work to be a continuation of Dickens’s original novel ‘The Pickwick P… Read more…

A delightful hand written letter dated March 24th 1813 written and signed by Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (Adolphus Frederick 1774 –1850), the tenth child and seventh son of King George III and Queen Charlotte. He writes to The Duchess of Dorset ‘to congratulate you on the match which I understand is soon to take place in your family’..... ‘a… Read more…

A collection of 11 plays in the ‘Dicks’ Standard Plays’ series. Issued as individual plays, each with an engraved illustration to the front and in overall very good condition. Several are stamped ‘British Drama League, Fitzroy Square’ which was founded in 1919 but the styles of binding and decoration date several of the issues to possibly the late… Read more…

Five issues published between 1837 - 1839 of Thomas Peckett Prest's illustrated weekly periodical parodying Charles Dickens' first novel, 'The Pickwick Papers'. Numbered 49, 50, 54,86 and 87. Thomas Peckett Prest, a prolific producer of penny dreadfuls was known as a skilled author in the horror genre, best known as the co-creator of the character… Read more…

Two hand written contemporary manuscripts logging the accounts of the ships St Trinian and Providence, both on entry to London and both with links to the Sunderland area. In very good condition measuring 38 cm x 25 cm. Account sheet of the St Trinian of Sunderland – Paperwork addressed to Capn Sam Burleigh at Sunderland, Durham and headed ‘London e… Read more…

An interesting collection of 25 stand alone, late 18th and early 19th century hand written, folded letters spanning the dates 1782 - 1874, all from the same estate. Networks, connections and realities reveal themselves within. The introduction of the Penny Post which established a new Victorian postal network shows in the later letters a new found… Read more…

How many receive a telegram with a special blessing from His Holy Father the Pope on the occasion of their golden wedding? Mr and Mrs Patrick Dempsay did. This original pencil written Post Office Telegram originating from Cita Del Vatican is stamped on receipt at Spean Bridge, a village in the parish of Kilmonivaig in the Highlands of Scotland and… Read more…

pp 647-678 (Pppp1-Tttt4 - lacking the engraved plate) An early edition of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society containing contributions from Van Leeuwenhoek, Hevlius, Flamsteed, Cassini and a review of Robert Boyle's Experiments, Notes. Quarto pamphlet bound by Sotherans of London marbled paper covered boards with an antique-style pa… Read more…

Opening issue of this handmade periodical by a group of Cambridge school boys, written on 4 pages in the style of a newspaper dated Sept 3 rd and titled ‘The Mercury’. The editors in their opening address declare politics to be a ‘fertile source of strife’ and chose to concentrate instead on the miscellaneous, arts and literature. Incorporated are… Read more…

A remarkable manuscript tour of Ireland written by the young Scottish landowner James Stirling in which he unites the curiosity of Arthur Young around agriculture and commerce, with the pictorial enthusiasms of William Gilpin. Writing a few short years after the political Union of Ireland and Britain and only a little longer after the Irish Rebelli… Read more…

A pocket album which once belonged to Marjory Eda Lane of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, A Division, at Summerdown Camp, Eastbourne. c80 pages brim with poems, sketches and warm thanks to Marjory from the soldiers injured in the First World War who were convalescing in the camp during the years 1918 - 1919. The Blueboys as they were known due to… Read more…

A collection of risque Belle Epoque French postcards with American military provenance linking the collection to US combatants in Europe during the First World War. Just off the boat from convoy during ‘Henry Mercier U.S.S. Albany’ has recorded his ownership first, before giving it to a member of the Marine Corps: ‘to James J Bell U.S.M.C.’ Artisti… Read more…

Hardcover. First Edition. In fine condition. Richard Long’s work has used walking as a method to generate sculpture, photographs and text works and became a hallmark of land based artwork during the 1970's and 1980's. He has exhibited in over 300 group and solo exhibitions since 1969 and his work is included in the collection of every major contemp… Read more…

Anthony Burgess's influential novel, A Clockwork Orange, his signature on a bookplate in black ink - and tipped into the book on the first blank. This reprint is near fine in a very good dust jacket only lightly shelf worn to edges and folds. An attractive copy of a cult novel. Read more…

In very good condition,. First edition in red cloth boards embossed and blind ruled to spine side. Spine panel sunned and nicked to tail. Binding square and firm. Black endpapers unmarked. Very minor foxing to preliminary leaves. Frontispiece protected by tissue guard depicts Jane Welsh Carlyle. Inscribed by author to top of title page ‘To R C Phil… Read more…