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In good + condition. Early British edition of this series of six lectures originally written for the pulpit. Decoratively embossed cloth boards a little bumped to corners, shelf worn as expected. Spine cracking to top 1 cm along rear hinge. Yellow endpapers clean front and rear. Written inscription to front free endpaper reads in a contemporary han… Read more…

Signed limited edition, number 90 of 250 copies, bound in crushed green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. A lovely example of this beautifully produced book, in its original slipcase as issued. A fine copy with just a little fading to the spine; bright gilt decoration and all edges gilt. Inner dentelles and marbled endpapers, numbered to the titl… Read more…

Unpublished manuscript identifying and classifying the song lyrics written by the English dramatist, composer and theatre manager Charles Dibdin Junior (1768-1833), researched and written by his descendant. Edward Rimbault Dibdin has adapted a tabbed notebook to contain around 800 single line song entries noting titles, first lines, plays and books… Read more…

Affectionate and remarkably comprehensive, a friendship album compiled at ‘Yale College’ by Elizur T Washburn on what his friend A D Parker describes as ‘your hasty & unexpected departure from College’. Compiled in July 1826 Washburn persuaded 99 members of the 108 members of his graduating class to contribute to the book, and many have contributed… Read more…

Pen and ink drawing by the Irish artist Hugh Thomson depicting a dramatic confrontation with the heroine Evelina, and used in the 1903 Macmillan illustrated edition of Fanny Burney’s 1778 epistolary novel. Executed on paper and backed onto card (22.5x30.5cm) the image is signed ‘H. Thomson 1903’ and depicts the hot-tempered grandmother Madame Duval… Read more…

The manuscript of a Christian Hebraist, a Wiltshire vicar in the last quarter of the 18th century, with a fascination for languages. Rev Edward Spencer has transcribed John Parkhurst’s Hebrew Grammar and followed it with an abbreviated version of Byrom’s Universal Shorthand, completing his study with several test transcriptions that he set himself:… Read more…

A deluxe copy from the first 50 issued in a black morocco binding and with a suite of additional engravings, lacking one image. Full black morocco binding, top edge gilt; a little scuffed to edges; offsetting from glue used to secure the front pastedown. Vignette title and five engravings in the text with tissue guards printed on untrimmed leaves.… Read more…

Detailed atlas map in very good condition created by the British cartographer Herman Moll which depicts the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay and surrounding colonies of Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Plate mark measures 18.5 cm x 26.5 cm. Original b/w engraved map has been hand coloured. Neat tape repair to rear, all… Read more…

First edition in good plus condition, in Carter's more elaborate binding ‘A’. Blackwood and Sons advertisements at the rear which only appear in some copies. Original orange cloth, embossed to upper and lower; titled and tooled in gilt to spine; a little bumped to corners; scuffed to spine top and tail; a little spine lean evident. Cracking over fr… Read more…

Volumes I - IV beautifully bound in tree calf with delicately decorated spines tooled in gilt and titled over red ground. Text blocks sound and square; clean and unmarked throughout. b/w engraved frontispiece in Volume the First; additional engravings throughout; index to rear of Volume the Fourth. 324 pp.; 318 pp.; 285 pp.; 470 pp. A very attracti… Read more…

Rare, if defective volume, not found in any UK collection and located in a single complete copy only at the Lilly Library. Pleasingly illustrated throughout with naive woodcuts, and entirely unsophisticated, a rather endearing volume. Very worn contemporary sheepskin binding; boards holding by cords. No pastedown; frontispiece printed recto and ver… Read more…

An attractive late 18th century vellum binding, plausibly by Edwards of Halifax. Contemporary vellum, boards with a gilt roll border. Smooth spine gilt lettering on a dark label, divided into 6 compartments with gilt ornaments. External straps bound in. Gilt roll tool to edges of boards. The vellum is discoloured; a little outward bowing to the boa… Read more…

Two thank you gifts presented by the poet Geoffrey Hill, after a spell in hospital, to a close friend and colleague in the School of English at Leeds University. D S Savage’s The Personal Principle has a note laid in on Hill’s printed notecard thanking ‘Alastair and Jennifer’ for ‘your kindness during my time in hospital’ and offering to Jennifer ‘… Read more…

The complete set of 5 novels in very good condition in the four volume Children of Violence sequence: Books I & II. MacGibbon and Kee: London, 1965. Martha Quest and A Proper Marriage: Red paper boards titled in gilt to spine in good condition with just a little spine lean. Text block clean and unmarked. Foyle’s Bookshop label to front pastedown. O… Read more…

An original engraved plate in very good condition produced c. mid 16th century, most probably in Antwerp by Philips or Johannes Galle. This print originates from the celebrated 104-print series titled ‘Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium’ designed by Johannes Stradanus. Measures 20.7 cm x 28.4 cm. Pasted neatly onto a piece of cream card. Printed si… Read more…

Crisp First Edition in original jacket in very good plus condition. Half blue over black cloth boards very good with a little shelf wear just evident to fore edges and a small stain to top edge of upper. Endpapers and text block clean, fresh and unmarked throughout; text block edges very lightly speckled. 558 pp. Original illustrated jacket very go… Read more…

Signed on the half title by Eduardo Paolozzi, one of the pioneers of pop art. Large format soft backed catalogue which accompanied an exhibition organised by Leeds City Art Galleries from 10 October to 7 December 1986 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London in 1936. Colour and b/w plates throu… Read more…

First Edition inscribed to front flyleaf, ‘Geoffrey Hill York 1968’. Publisher’s blue cloth boards in near very good condition, very slightly bumped to the corners and spine top and tail; endpapers and text block age toned as expected; unmarked; sound and square. Original clipped dust jacket near good; nicked to spine top and bumped to corners; spi… Read more…

First Edition and only printing of Churchill’s 20 minute broadcast speech addressed to the British public on the country's economic and international situation, delivered in December 1951 following his return to the office of Prime Minister in late October 1951. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: In good condition in striking blue paper cover, wire stitched, me… Read more…

A - surely - unique miniature bas-relief bust of Jonathan Swift mounted permanently to a backing card. More usually an 18th century literary figure like Swift would be commemorated with the more traditional marble or bronze bust but this item does not appear to be mass manufactured and possibly an extremely characterful one off studio piece. PHYSIC… Read more…

An incomplete first edition dated 1766 of this renowned 18th century atlas containing 14 of the original double page maps which remain in very good condition. Original boards in very soft calf, decoratively tooled to the edges. The upper board is loose from the binding as is the original title page which is nicked to edges and suffers loss to the t… Read more…

In fine condition in a splendid homemade dustjacket. From the collection of a Yorkshire engineer, chess enthusiast, amateur magician and scholar of the science of black holes. Boards wrapped in a (removeable) unique, custom made jacket beautifully annotated to upper and lower with chess pieces hand drawn over red and tan backgrounds by previous own… Read more…

One of a kind, hard backed volume containing a 64 page collection of wonderfully illustrated campfire songs, hymns and blessings. The songs, penmanship and accompanying illustrations point heavily to the scouting or girl guiding aesthetics and traditions of the mid 20th century. Rounds meant for group singing include contemporary classics like Kook… Read more…

Maritime broadside posted by the Newhaven Harbour Master, Thomas Tasker in 1825. A single sheet intended for public display in very good condition. Provides essential safety and navigational information for sailors and mariners ‘by order of the Commissioners and Trustees, with Trinity House approval’. The notice captures Newhaven at a pivotal momen… Read more…

A very handsomely bound volume with the ownership inscription and expert mathematical annotation by Dublin born mathematician Robert William Genese (1848–1928) who matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge and graduated as the 8th Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1871, receiving his MA in 1874. He subsequently served for 40 years as a prof… Read more…