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A 1981 limited edition of this work first published by J Johnson in 1810 which reproduces the journal written by Peter Harker, an officer and Captain in the Light Dragoons who was wounded at the battle of Talavera 1809. This facsimile edition, printed and bound in 1981 by Scolar Press in Ilkley is in beautiful condition. Quarter bound in red cloth… Read more…

In very good plus condition. A 1978 facsimile reprint of this volume first published by Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd in 1965. Reprint sponsored by the Midland Institute of Forensic Medicine in order that the volume assist in the training of Postmortem Room Technicians. Printed by The Scolar Press in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. PHYSICAL CONDITI… Read more…

In very good condition. Second edition of this autobiographical work written by Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, a popular Victorian English writer and novelist who wrote as Charlotte Elizabeth. Her work focused on promoting women's rights and evangelical Protestantism. She went deaf at the age of 10. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote of her memoir Personal Re… Read more…

Colin Clair’s very readable account of various aspects of Kentish life covers William Caxton, Hop-growing in Tudor times, Penshurst Place, Queen Elisabeth I’s travels and of course Kent Cricket in a chapter titled from Crawte to Cowdrey. Laid in is a typed and partly hand written letter from the Kent and England cricketer Colin Cowdrey, written in… Read more…

Several editions of the Holy Bible were printed in Dublin. The title page of this large family bible is that of the King James Version printed by the Executors of David Hay by Boulter Grierson, Dublin in 1782. The text block directly following the title page presents an anomaly. Although collated and complete from beginning of signature b (a is mis… Read more…

First Edition in very good condition. Printed by The Herald Press, Birmingham. Green cloth boards, blind ruled to edges and embossed in gilt to spine. Slight shelf wear to spine tips and corners. Brown endpapers strengthened with a later addition clear tape over front gutter; very slight cracking to rear. Pencilled ownership signature to half title… Read more…

In very good condition. Volume 3 containing 63 original issues numbered 121 - 184 of this weekly publication dating from August 6th 1834 until August 26th 1835. Quarter bound in marbled boards over brown calf. 5 panelled spine titled ‘3’ in gilt. Edges and corners shelf worn as expected, spine nicked in parts. Text block entirely sound. Endpapers a… Read more…

A beautiful copy in the publisher’s deluxe binding of this revised and expanded third edition. Small octavo format (13x8.5cm) bound in tan calf with stylised gilt foliate decoration to boards and spine; all edges gilt; gilt decoration to turn-ins. Dove grey endpapers; tissue guard to frontispiece. Beardsley’s ‘grotesques’ throughout the text. Aubre… Read more…

A beautiful copy in the publisher’s deluxe binding of this revised and expanded third edition. Small octavo format (13x8.5cm) bound in tan calf with stylised gilt foliate decoration to boards and spine; all edges gilt; gilt decoration to turn-ins. Dove grey endpapers; tissue guard to frontispiece. Beardsley’s ‘grotesques’ throughout the text. Aubre… Read more…

London: W Marchant, 1813. First edition. Association copy gifted from the nephew of the author. A pioneering work in Welsh botany, the first to cross-reference plant names in Welsh with their scientific classifications. The volume is in two parts: a systematic catalogue of Anglesey's native plants and an alphabetical list of Welsh plant names trans… Read more…

(Time of Gifts) [frontispiece] [8] pp 1-291 [1] (Woods and Water) [10] pp 11-248 (Broken Road) xxii, pp 1-362. The three volumes in first edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of his epic walk to Constantinople, now seen as one of the great travel books of the twentieth century and only completed in 2013 with the publication of the third volume… Read more…

A unique, handcrafted, five page mini concertina sketchbook with 5 finely executed original pen and water colour works depicting architectural elements within the British landscape. The colours are crisp and the very accomplished images pop on the high quality textured water colour paper. Included are Aygegyn Fawr in Gwynedd c1990, Baslow in Derbys… Read more…

A handy illustrated guide to Appleby and its surroundings in Westmorland, Cumbria, England offering information on local attractions like Appleby Castle, St Lawrence's Church, and the River Eden. Written by the Vicar of St Lawrence, Appleby. Sections on antiquities, excursions, fishing, geology, hotels and rainfall. Chapters 1 -5, 72 pp followed by… Read more…

In very good plus condition. First edition in original unclipped dust jacket protected by removable, transparent wrapper. Jacket very minimally shelf worn to edges, spine lightly nicked to top and tail, small nick to top rear panel. Bright green cloth boards titled in gilt to spine in excellent condition. Endpapers clean. Front loose endpaper inscr… Read more…

Wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker; paper covered boards, a little cracking along the inner hinge between the upper board and text block. Otherwise very good internally. The jacket is fair only with a square missing from the spine where a later price has been added and then removed. Uncommon thus. Read more…

The fifth edition of Jonathan Swift’s work and the first to include the ‘Author's Apology’ and explanatory notes by William Wotton. In addition to the main satire, this edition also contains the essay ‘An Account of a Battel between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James's Library’ and a third work, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operati… Read more…

Second edition of this important historical work by Joseph Kingsmill, the chaplain of Pentonville Prison, London. In good condition. Publisher’s cloth binding decoratively embossed to front and rear, age toned to spine and edges, bumped to corners. Front endpapers clean, rear endpapers contain pencil written numerical annotation to top edge. Front… Read more…

A scarce copy of this perfect little pocket book in very good condition. Green cloth boards incorporating embossed decoration very modestly worn. Titled and embossed in gilt to near perfect spine panel. Endpapers and flyleaves clean and crisp. Title page in excellent condition. A bound in publisher’s ticket reads ‘As there is no authentic portrait… Read more…

First deluxe edition. In good condition. Now We Are Six was printed in an edition of 50,000 copies of which 5,000 were bound in leather by the Ship Binding Company and 1,500 of those bound and published in this special blue deluxe sheep binding. A charming book which has been looked after and read. Boards and spine lettered and decorated in gilt wi… Read more…

In very good condition, 16 mo, in very appealing tree calf binding modestly worn to corners. Beautifully decorated in gilt to spine panel which is a little chipped to the top. Endpapers and flyleaves clean and unmarked, very lightly spotted. Full page frontispiece and illustrated title page a little water stained to fore edges and spotted. With ‘Me… Read more…

In good condition. Written in welsh. Red cloth boards. Illustrated and titled to front and spine. Slight spine slant but text block in good condition. End papers clean front and rear. Handwritten ownership inscription in black ink to free end paper reads “Ceridwen Cain”. “Nadolig 1919”. Full page illustration on frontis piece. Decorative capitals a… Read more…

A collection of 16 short stories by Frank Norris with an introduction by William Henry Irwin, published posthumously in 1909 depicting life in San Francisco, California before the 1906 earthquake and especially the ‘terrible conditions’ in Chinatown. John Lane: London, 1909. In good condition. Deep blue boards blind ruled and titled in gilt to fron… Read more…

An essential compilation of short stories by Edith Wharton, one of the most celebrated novelists in the English language. First appearing in fashionable publications including Scribner's, Cosmopolitan and Collier's Weekly her stories exposed the excesses and hypocrisies of refined society while replete with passion, sexual politics, and the rumblin… Read more…

A charming little book intended to serve 3 purposes – provide a daily text, be a book of autographs and a record of birthdays of friends. Owned by an Italian named Amina Puccini, resident of Adelaide, Southern Australia circa 1870 and used liberally to record the names and birthdays of family and friends, the majority from within the Italian commun… Read more…

Scarce First edition with six original b/w full page illustrations in very good condition. A tale of the slums written in words of one syllable only and dedicated to the ragged school teachers of Manchester and Salford. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Hardbacked paper covered boards in good condition incorporating embossed decoration front and rear, titled i… Read more…