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An extensive collection of this Kentish artist’s work in designing bookplates and greetings cards. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Black paper covered boards with brown paper covered spine in fair condition. Spine tips and edges rubbed. Corners bumped. Chafed to front and rear. Embossed ‘Scraps’ to front board. Internally gutters tender over end papers, stil… Read more…

A comprehensive early nineteenth century letterbook relating to the business of Lord Lonsdale in Cumberland and Westmorland, especially the complex intestacy and probate relating to his vicar at Lowther, Dr Sattherwaite (d. Nov. 1827), which references correspondence with William Wordsworth. William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, KG (1757–1844) was… Read more…

Strong early 18th century commonplace book compiled by an educated adult reader of contemporary and near-contemporary English language writers who include John Wilkins, Thomas Browne, John Locke, Pascal (a French exception), Dryden and Congreve, but most strikingly of all, Shakespeare. The manuscript writer quotes from Hamlet's greatest soliloquy,… Read more…

Beautifully bound Shakespeare selection in its third edition, with the original black papier mache binding with red paper backing (probably renewed), brown oval relief portrait of Shakespeare on upper cover and WS initialled on lower cover. Spine relaid, a little cracking to the papier mache, loss to the lower outer corner on upper cover and opposi… Read more…

Angling diary of a passionately committed fisherwoman in the Scottish Highlands during the first half of the 20th century. The first hand written entry in this angler’s record book records Norah Hopkin’s ‘first salmon!’ weighing 8.5 pounds caught on August 19 th 1911 at The Rocks in Ballindalloch, Scotland. Over the years the book is packed full of… Read more…

Thirteen mimeographed lectures given by Berkeley’s distinguished physics faculty including lectures by three Nobel Prize Winning scientists from the Radlab - now the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Edwin Mcmillan on Particle Accelerators and Luiz Alvarez on Linear Accelerators as well as Ernest Segre on Ionisation Chambers. Notes from each… Read more…

Picaresque 18th century life-writing in English by a medical doctor who trained at the Albertina in Konigsberg and at the University of Leiden before pursuing alchemical studies in London and Paris from where he had to flee French persecution of protestants in the late 1680s to settle in England. Moving first to London and then Norwich, Henry Lampe… Read more…

Presentation copy of the 2nd impression lavishly inscribed to Patricia Dougill, recent and sudden widow of the architect Wesley Dougill, who led the Planning Group that helped prepare this report who died shortly before its publication. Both authors have signed the title page and tipped onto the title there is a most affectionate letter from Patric… Read more…

Young Anglesey man’s meticulously and decoratively laid out, hand written mathematical manuscript: full of calculations, rules and answers divided into sections titled Rule of Three in Decimals, Interest, Commission, Purchasing of Stocks, Compound Interest, Discount, Equation of Payments, Barter and Fellowship. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Half bound marb… Read more…

The first Welsh Bible printed in Wales, present here in the New Testament from 1770: written clues provide an insight into the history behind this family-owned bible which has passed down through. The front board is blind stamped M.T 1771 and inside is inscribed ‘Morgan Thomas’s Book’, written in his hand in black ink twice. Margaret Mordecai Thoma… Read more…

A handwritten reversioning of George Lorimer’s text which adds 2 original documents including one in the hand of the covenanter - and later moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland - David Williamson (1694), minister at the church in the 17th century. Additionally there is a document in the hand of his succesor at the Kirk, Neil… Read more…

Visually fascinating photographic diary written by an officer with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps who - against all rules - took a camera to the front which allowed him to record the Battle of El Alamein (1942) as well as the chaotic British evacuation from St Nazaire (1940) from where he offers an eye witness account of the sinking of HMS Lancastri… Read more…

Hybrid daybook, notebook and school exercise book used by James Smellie of Carstairs over 50 years from 1802 and into the 1850s to record business transactions, Carstairs’ village meetings, auctions, the activities of the Benevolent Society and on Friday evenings the ‘Church Music Society’. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Small quarto (17x20cm) bound in exce… Read more…

4 volumes bound extremely handsomely at a later date as 2. In notably splendid condition, both volumes are quarter bound in vibrant green marbled boards with stunning brown calf to spine. Boards in very fine condition. Spines in 6 compartments incorporating title lettered in gilt on red ground to top of spine and volume number lettered in gilt with… Read more…

A collection of 10 poetry books, largely firsts, by Jon Silkin all in good condition each containing the author’s signature and written notes to his friend Dennis Saunders. Saunders who died last year was a lecturer in poetry and literature who organised events involving writers who included Silkin himself, Seamus Heaney, Dannie Abse and others. Th… Read more…

Beautiful examples of Virginia Woolf's two great essay collections that were published in her lifetime. The first volume is in first edition grey cloth-backed paper covered boards to Vanessa Bell’s design, a bright clean copy, internally unmarked, a near fine copy. The second volume is in publisher's green cloth which is brightly attractive and in… Read more…

FIRST EDITION. THE AUTHOR’S PERSONAL COPY: A compendium of information on matters connected with printing, its first introduction into Europe and its spread throughout the world. The work spans the reputed invention of paper in China in 105 through until the death of Stanley Morrison, typographer, scholar and historian of printing in 1967. PHYSICAL… Read more…

A remarkable memento of the creative presence of the artistic super-couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera - ‘equals and accomplices’ as they were described - in the mid-western city of Detroit, early in 1933. With these drawings into a young woman’s autograph album, made a few days before their departure for New York, Kahlo and Rivera marked the clos… Read more…

A fascinating archival collection relating to the development and publication of Marwin Delcarol’s ‘resurrection’ romance, Fire and Water (London: Duckworth, 1920), pseudonymously co-authored by close high-society woman friends, Margot Glyn and Winnaretta Singer. The collection includes affectionate hand-written and typed letters, synopses, and a t… Read more…

Crammed full of culturally important poems, each typed in black, one per leaf on Dickinson Croxley paper throughout the book. 128 pp. Commencing with the 6 th century BC Greek lyric poet Anacreon, the Roman Rufinus and moving through the courtly poets of France, 16 th and 17 th century English lyrical poets, 18 th and 19 th century Italian and Germ… Read more…

Jan Christian Smuts is a complex figure in South African history. His legacy is contested and evokes strong reactions. This biography is a record of Smut’s life by his son J.C. Smuts, inscribed by both the author and his mother, wife of the biography’s subject. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: South African edition published 1852. Original dust jacket protect… Read more…

Publisher’s dummy for this award-winning if controversial children’s book in which Babette Cole ‘unleashes her endearingly loony sense of humor on the subject of the birds and the bees, and the result is, as expected, hilarious’ (Publisher’s Weekly). In the book a couple of parents attempt to explain the facts of life to their two children, who res… Read more…

Volume 1. A collection of John Ross Macduff’s verses, gathered from his prolific output of essays, books, magazines and papers and dedicated to his brother Hector Macduff Duncan. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Pale blue cloth bound boards in good condition, decoratively ruled in a black repeating pattern and lettered in gilt to front and spine. Lightly bump… Read more…

A small pamphlet by Eric Gill containing an essay/polemic on unemployment with specific reference to Catholicism and therefore, his beliefs. Owned by the critic and w iter Neville Braybrooke: Eric Gill was regarded as one of the greatest craftsmen of this century, a typographer, letter cutter and a wood engraver. His conversion to Catholicism influ… Read more…

Half bound marbled boards with soft calf to spine in fair condition. Boards faded, marked and bumped to corners. Spine panel starting and cracked to top showing 5cm section of binding. End papers age worn, binding visible along gutter but remain soundly attached. Front paste down soiled to fore edge and annotated in a contemporary hand ‘Anne Ellis… Read more…