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A Restoration era play quarto from a collection compiled by the financier and book collector, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778-1859) and rebound by 'T Connolly' of Dublin. [4] pp1-52 and 55-62 [2]. The imprint has been torn off the title page but this copy appears to be ESTC Citation number R22736, printed for R Bentley and S Magnes, 1684, lacking lea… Read more…

A Restoration era play quarto from a collection compiled by the financier and book collector, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778-1859) and rebound by 'T Connolly' of Dublin. [6] pp68, collated, no half title. Bound in half vellum over marbled boards with black Morocco label with gilt lettering, red edges, last quarter of the 19th century, binder's ticke… Read more…

Two hand written contemporary manuscripts logging the accounts of the ships St Trinian and Providence, both on entry to London and both with links to the Sunderland area. In very good condition measuring 38 cm x 25 cm. Account sheet of the St Trinian of Sunderland – Paperwork addressed to Capn Sam Burleigh at Sunderland, Durham and headed ‘London e… Read more…

Two rather striking and certainly intriguing painted portraits. The sitters command our attention. Who were they and how did they fit into society? Nameless for now but how they have been presented reveals more than a mere name. The patriarchal gaze of the gentleman and the idealised thoughtfulness of the woman in a slightly smaller work point imme… Read more…

7 small water colours painted during the days of the British Raj in India which capture the spirit of an excursion taken in December 1890. A flat bottomed wooden boat manned by local men travels along a river carrying a couple in western dress, elephants emerge from the lush vegetation carrying travellers and lunch supplies, camp tents nestle among… Read more…

First edition of this compilation of scientific and technical articles on theory, construction, use and performance of bows and arrows. The contents are reprinted from pre WW2 journals of science and archery including Sylvan Archer, Journal of Applied Physics, Archery Review and American Bowman Review. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION First Edition in very goo… Read more…

In very good + condition. First edition in original unclipped dust jacket protected by transparent removable wrapper with very minimal shelf wear to edges. Endpapers clean. Front pastedown inscribed by the author, ‘For Stanley Revell with graditude from Elizabeth Jennings 11 Jan 1970’. Very slight spotting to title page otherwise clean and entirely… Read more…

First edition of this scarce work by Solomon J Solomon R.A., a well established artist who had trained at the Royal Academy Schools, Munich Academy, and École des Beaux-Arts. While serving as a private in the Artist's Rifles, he began to promote his ideas about the importance and application of camouflage through the press, eventually attracting th… Read more…

A single sided broadside ballad which echoes Jesus's command to love one another. The first lines read, Let Christians all in love unite, And never disagree, But look up to their living head, Who died upon the tree. In very good condition. Woodblock illustration to top suffering a little loss along top edge. Chipped to tail otherwise very clean and… Read more…

Two copies in good condition of this successful Victorian-era penny magazine aimed at working-class young women and published weekly by Edwin J. Brett. Each issue contained a short novel, often sensational tales of romance or mystery, along with celebrity gossip and illustrations. Both copies available are very sound, crisp and unmarked; collated a… Read more…

An owner’s handbook, applicable to 1981 model year cars destined for USA and Canada. Card wrappers in very good condition titled in silver gilt to front and embossed to rear with Rolls Royce logo. Small crease to front corner. Staples to spine rusted. Leaves within crisp and clean throughout. 22 pp. Printed by The Scolar Press, Ilkley, West Yorkshi… Read more…

Gabrielle Enthoven’s marked up copy of a French’s Acting Edition (No.338) of Black Eyed Susan. Enthoven was an English playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist, and prolific collector of theatrical ephemera relating to the London stage. Much of her private collection of playbills, programmes and associated ephemera is now in the theatre and p… Read more…

An original playbill in very good condition for a Saturday evening at the New Theatre Buxton on June 22nd 1833. The programme includes ‘Poor Gentleman’ a celebrated comedy followed by a ‘Comic Song by Mr Weston’’, dancing by Miss Smith and a laughable farce of the ‘Spoil’d Child’. Print remains bold and crisp. A small nick to tail and a very small… Read more…

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…