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34 volumes in 12 handsomely bound sturdy blue buckram volumes with gilt spine lettering and speckled edges. The bindings are about very good with a little wear to extremities; internally the text is near fine throughout. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about these books - additional postage m… Read more…

[25 sheets manuscript facsimile] [24] Pamphlet. A collection of poems commissioned by the inaugural Ilkley Literature Festival and reproduced in facsimile in April 1973 in honour of 'one of its most distinguished collaborators'. The publication comprises a green card folder with some bumping to the edges; a 24 page pamphlet giving the text of the p… Read more…

pp 578 A bound folio of 78 Acts of Parliament from the second session of the 1807 Parliament, including an Act 'preventing any dealing or trafficking in the buying or selling of Slaves within the Colony of Sierra Leone' which followed the act to abolish the slave trade earlier the same year. The book is bound in speckled calf with gilt decoration a… Read more…

The meterological archive of David Fellowes, a voluntary contributor to the Met Office based in Derbyshire. The archive is made up of ten pre printed volumes provided by the Met Office completed in two Derbyshire locations by Fellowes in conventional fashion with numerical entries and comments for two locations at Wingerworth and Clarborough: Vol I… Read more…

xvi, pp 1-191 [plates] The second volume of the Transactions of the Institute of British Architects formerly owned by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. The book is bound in the original brown decorated cloth with the Institute's crest in gilt on the front board. The backstrip is partly detached but the binding remains sound. The inner hinges ar… Read more…

pp 282 Twenty papers read at the Royal Institute of British Architects 862-1863 season, formerly owned by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. The book is bound in handsome pebble green cloth with the Institute's crest in gilt on the front board and is in very good condition with a little wear at the head of the spine. (The binder's ticket of Bone… Read more…

Third edition of Robert Blachford Mansfield's The Log of the Water Lily, 'Revised and Enlarged'. It's an account of 'the first English rowing-boat that was taken on an excursion to the Continent', bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rubbed with some wear at the top of the spine. Minor staining to endpapers. Entertaining steel engra… Read more…

pp 300 An 1861 edition of Frank Taylor's Confessions including chapters on rogues and fools, the great horse auction swindle and other such horse gossip. Bound in the original green cloth which is slit along the lower hinge; original yellow coated endpapers and some browning to paper stock. Probably a surreptitious edition. Read more…

[4] The official four page 'Programme' sent to delegates attending the Darwin commemoration held in Cambridge between 22 and 24 June, 1909 when the University hosted scientists, scholars and public figures from 167 different countries to celebrate the centenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the ?ftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Origi… Read more…

xx, pp 5-144 A collection extracted from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bound in red textured paper over boards with gilt decoration, all edges gilt, soiled binding and frayed to the corners; yellow endpapers, some fingermarks to early pages. A scarce title - one copy located on Worldcat at Cambridge only. Read more…

pp 268 [4] adverts. A Blackwood illustrated edition of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe from around 1880 with illustrations by Zwecker. Finger marks to preliminaries, otherwise very good in paper covered illustrated boards showing a very jaunty figure of Crusoe after the shipwreck. Read more…

[2 Vols] The first trade edition of the life and letters of Joseph Pennell inscribed by his wife and biographer to the couple's mutual friend, the Bradford librarian, Butler Wood on the title page: 'Inscribed for Butler Wood, with many Memories and much Appreciation of the Friendship he always showed to Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell.… Read more…

ff 40 The octavo-sized minute book of the Priory Church of St Anthony, Lenton, in Nottinghamshire from 1887 when the church was rebuilt to 1897. The book is bound in quarter green roan over textured paper covered boards and in its preamble sets out its role in 'unitedly' meeting 'together to consider matters of interest and efficiency in Church and… Read more…

pp 64; page/week. A young London mother's diary for 1921. Adele Margate's ownership signature appears on the first endpaper above the adverts: she has made around 150 short diary entries in the printed grid which allows one page per week. She reveals herself as a married woman living in the vicinity of Richmond in south west London. At least two of… Read more…

(102x64cm) A British Railways Poster of Stratford upon Avon which promises to take the visitor to 'Shakespeare Country' and showing the scene around Holy Trinity Church in the town, presumably an image from the late 1950s or early 1960s. Old folds and four small nibbles from the right hand side of the poster. Read more…

[13 Vols; 8x12cm) Bradbury and Agnew's 1870s pocket edition of Shakespeare in soft red morocco leather, all edges gilt, a little faded to spines but a very good set. The introduction to Volume I makes clear that this was an edition intended for the Shakespearian on the move: 'to form a handy readable series of Volumes, equally adapted for the Pocke… Read more…

xvi pp 44 The first anonymous edition of Delany's Apology: a disbound pamphlet with '5' in ink on the title page and 'By Patrick Delany, Dean Down in Ireland' written above the imprint. Top corner of half title neatly cut, probably removing a former ownership inscription, otherwise a near fine copy on bright clean paper stock, small woodcut embelli… Read more…

viii, pp 112 Serces' anti-Catholic polemic in its sole printing from 1737. Title page in red and black; a couple of holes close to the ink number '6' in the top corner which denotes its removal from a pamphlet collection. A substantial work by the Vicar of Appleby in Lincolnshire. Read more…

[4 Vols] Edmund Burke's speeches in four volumes from 1816, contemporary worn quarter calf over pretty paper covered boards with marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Some loss to backstrip of Vols I/IV. In an age of great oratory Burke is perhaps the only politician of his generation whose reputation has never waned. Read more…

Autograph letter from the architect and surveyor George Gwilt the Elder (1746-1807) in which he values the leasehold property in London's East Smithfield area held by the company Neave and Aislabie at £2250 but somewhat reduced taking into account the 'low Price of the public funds' presumably as a result of the war then raging between England and… Read more…

pp 156 Seedie's List, 1939-1969, with dozens of cut obituaries and other ephemera relating to the recipients of the awards laid in together with an original photograph and a letter. Read more…

pp 330 A very smart copy of the Burnley collection of hymn tunes, chants, kyries and glorias, with an introduction dated 1875 explaining that the book was published as a response to 'the rapid strides made by the people during the same period, in musical education and executive ability'. Textured cloth with decoration in black and gilt, black coate… Read more…

First edition in tan coloured boards, a very good copy with a little foxing to the endpapers in good pictorial jacket not price-clipped, split along hinges between both panels of the jacket, slight loss to the topof the spine. Household's first adult novel: 'a novel without a country'. Read more…

pp 288 Near fine first edition in near fine jacket of Thompson's full length novel of India. Not price clipped; bright jacket over black boards. Foxing to the book edges the only minor blemish. A very nice copy. Read more…

Near fine first edition in good jacket designed by 'A.N.' Green cloth, light foxing to the first few pages; good illustrated jacket with striking design similar to some of the illustrations to the Ariel Poems of the same period. Chipping to top and bottom of spine of jacket, not price clipped. A first novel, scarce in jacket. Read more…