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Three beautifully bound volumes of this monthly magazine using the most up to date technology of the 1890s with half-tone photographs printed onto the coloured cloth. This religious periodical served as the official organ for The Children's Home, a Methodist charity focused on orphanages and charity schools. Each volume is bound in striking pictori… Read more…

A scarce volume of 12 sermons ‘to be read to country congregations when no preacher arrives’ written and inscribed to the front flyleaf by its author, Methodist minister Reverend Richard Felvus of Harrogate. Dated 1848 to title page although preface is dated 1868. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Faded red roan boards in good condition titled in gilt to front… Read more…

In good plus condition, two hymn books by Hugh Bourne bound together in one volume containing over 690 hymns plus index. Soft calf boards in good + condition titled ‘Hymns’ and embossed to 5 panelled spine; bumped to corners and edges; moderate surface abrasion. Browned endpapers contain a contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown readi… Read more…

First Edition. Dust jacket in near fine condition. Hard backed boards in very good condition. Very slight shelf wear to spine tail and jacket top edge. Crisp and clean throughout. A lovely copy. 148 pp. Read more…

Four posters advertising Beverley, Hull and East Riding Races in 1882 and 1883 which offer a glimpse into the world of Victorian era horse racing including the names of owners, officials and stewards. Lord Durham and Mr I’Anson’s mounts feature heavily throughout the race card. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 2 x race posters dated June 14th and 15th 1882 to… Read more…

Third Edition in very good condition, revised and rnlarged. In eye catching red and gilt decoratively embossed boards featuring an image of a condensing steam engine designed by James Watts, dedicated to engine men and firemen throughout the United Kingdom. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Sturdy red cloth boards with bevelled edges in good condition, age ton… Read more…

Ornate 2 page legal ’Recovery’ on vellum from the reign of George III outlining an agreement made between the gentleman James Shepnitt (the demander) and the gentleman Thomas Southouse (the tenant) in relation to 160 acres of land covering numerous named parishes within London. Witnessed by lawyer and judge Sir William de Grey, Knight of Westminste… Read more…

A characterful copy in a contemporary half calf binding over marbled boards which remain in good condition. Text block in fair condition. Fold out frontispiece plate titled ‘S.E. View of Harewood House, Yorkshire’ by S Brown of Leeds is splitting along 1 fold and shows remnants of tape repairs. Lacking leaves 17 -20 including genealogical table. Si… Read more…

A small archive from Charles Skipper & East Limited, the London bank note printers including 2 hand written letters on company headed paper which divulge negotiations regarding the potential supply of new bank notes to the Banco da Republica dos Estados Unidos du Brazil and Banco Nacional de la Republica de Colombia. The letters are dated March and… Read more…

A scarce complete first edition set of William Thoms's collection of early prose romances composed of eleven tales divided into three volumes published in 1827 and 1828. Rebacked, most probably in the late 19th century in half red roan over bright pink cloth, in good condition throughout the three. Volume 1 a little more faded than the others and n… Read more…

Presentation copy in contemporary blue card wrappers in tired condition suffering loss in parts to corners and edges both front and rear. Stitching and binding remain very sound. Text block good, corners moderately knocked, title page age toned. ‘From the Author’ written in a contemporary hand to top of title page. 30 pp. collated and complete. Read more…

Very good first edition murder mystery in a bright dust jacket. Bright blue boards, pages crisp and clean in creased, chipped jacket. Read more…

Six art gallery catalogues, 1877-1878, for exhibitions in London and Manchester, in a good contemporary half binding of calf over lightly scuffed roan boards in sound condition. Spine panel chipped to top and tail with loss to edge of title panel. Endpapers clean. Light foxing to preliminary and final few leaves. Text block in very good condition t… Read more…

Archaeologist Charles Roach-Smith’s copy of this second edition, in very good condition, with a few combative annotations correcting the author’s assertions about the Roman world. Roach-Smith strongly disagrees in his annotation with Pulleyn’s stated view of the origins of pottery and the use of glass in the ancient world. ‘Window glass is often fo… Read more…

Second edition rebound in a vernacular style within card wrappers titled in a contemporary hand to front. Binding remains entirely sound. Front wrapper is lacking top right hand corner leaving only a glimpse of previous ownership. Title page is browned to top and lacking a 1cm square section to top left corner where again a previous ownership inscr… Read more…

Thomas Blount's celebrated account of the future Charles II's escape from Parliamentary soldiers after the Battle of Worcester complete with the two maps but lacking van Houe’s portrait of Prince Charles. This is the third edition of Blount’s text which appears here alongside Anne Wyndham’s Claustrum Regale. Late 17th or early 18th century panelled… Read more…

Uncommon and very inviting landscape album of views throughout Cornwall and Devon containing 60 accomplished wood engravings by William Willis, John. W. Tucker (1808-1869), George Townsend (1813-1894), J. Newman, C. King, Richard. T. Pentreath (born 1806) and John Thomas Blight (1835-1911). Undated but based on the publication dates of some engravi… Read more…

A first UK edition of ‘Legends of the Fall’ by Jim Harrison published by Collins in 1980. An epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration and danger at the beginning of the Great War. A near fine copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket which is nicked very slightly to top front corner and rear top edge. Endpapers c… Read more…

Collection of Acts of Parliament and signed and sealed legal manuscripts and indentures dated around 1809 relating to the lease of a schoolhouse in the Parish of All Hallows, Barking by the Inland Revenue. Included are: 4 x King George III ACTS OF PARLIAMENT dated 3 rd June 1809 titled ‘ An Act for enabling the Minister and Churchwardens of the Par… Read more…

Early manuscript copy - apparently English in origin - of a French novel of diabolic seduction that has inspired everyone from Jacques Lacan to Jonny Depp. Small quarto (16.5x20.5cm) bound in (likely) English full sheep, rubbed with some loss close to outer hinges but boards remain well attached. No decoration apart from a gilt roll to the edge of… Read more…

Handsome edition bound in full tree calf with an intriguing pelican device on the spine labels. Full tree calf; old repairs to the outer hinges (not affecting the endpapers). Pelican device framing the green spine labels relating to an unidentified family - ownership inscription of ‘W M Newton’ (?) on the front pastedown. Both volumes very good; in… Read more…

Rare collection of psalms and hymns printed for the Chapel of the Magdalen Hospital in Southwark in London ‘for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes’. One of the reformed prostitutes is depicted in the frontispiece - the young women who sung these hymns were shielded from view in the octagonal chapel from behind a curtain. The Magdalen Chapel beca… Read more…

Attractive provenance relating to Samuel Webbe, friend of an early owner of the book whose borrowing of it lasted longer than expected. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1787. Sixth Edition. Both works are bound as one within contemporary calf boards with gilt roll tool to all edges. Boards bruised to the corners, showing minor abrasions and wear. Spine in 6 g… Read more…

Beautifully bound commonplace book and verse miscellany of ‘Stephen Bassett’. Medium quarto in straight-grained red morocco with gilt decoration to boards and spine, slight marking to boards, light rubbing to ends of spine; marbled end-papers; all edges gilt. 150 leaves (300pp) watermarked 1826 with 208pp blank and 92pp of handwritten entries inclu… Read more…

35 volume sequence covering 38 years of the Norwegian Tourist Association’s Yearbook between 1894-1981. All volumes bound in original blue publisher’s cloth but for one volume, 1963 in red. The following years are present: 1894-5; 1896-7; 1898-9 (two volumes bound in one, with advertisements) followed by individual year volumes for: 1930-1939; 1960… Read more…