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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

First edition of this quirky compendium which catalogues something fascinating or surprising about tea, coffee, fruit, spice, china, glass, leather, the human body, electricity, oils and so on... In very good condition in publisher’s decoratively embossed binding with gilt to spine. Just a little fraying to top and tail. A square copy, crisp and cl… Read more…

In good condition. A small octavo surviving in original binding printed by J.L. for Luke Meredith at the Angel in Amen Corner. The boards are well worn with only remnants of their original paper covering. The backstrip has gone and the binding beneath revealed. Cracked along front and rear gutters though boards still holding to rear and only just t… Read more…

First edition, signed and inscribed by the author 'for John from Tony 22.1.51'. With laid in letter to 'My dear John' (Lehmann), thanking him for a copy of English Stories from New Writing. The author describes his book as 'rather broody', but says he is 'in the middle of writing something much more gay, called Young Man on a Dolphin'. In near very… Read more…

An excellent first edition, uncommonly fresh and unblemished in near fine jacket, slight shelf wear to edges. A King Crime novel. Read more…

5 volumes of ‘The Improved Newgate Calendar’ with provenance to the library of the Windle family of Colne and Bradford. Illustrated throughout and annotated in parts by a John Windle with additions and erratum to text. In fair condition. Contemporary boards half bound in calf over marbled boards. Front boards and preliminary leaves cracked from spi… Read more…

A scarce copy of this English first edition translated from the second French edition with introductions by Gabriel Tarde and Roscoe Pound. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: In very good condition. Red cloth boards minimally shelf worn, titled in gilt to spine and embossed with the Heinemann imprint to rear. Endpapers unmarked, a little age toned as expected.… 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…

Private journal of an English aristocrat, a recent Cambridge graduate, Mayfair-resident, avid ball and theatre-goer and, strangely, future husband of the socialist and suffragist Ruth St Maur from whose union sprang the 8th and 9th Dukes of Portland. Known by his third given name, Frederick - William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck (1856-1948)… Read more…

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…