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Inscribed with drawings and doodles by the artistic super-couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at the unveiling of Rivera’s newly completed masterpiece, the Detroit Industry Murals at the city’s Institute of Art, early in 1933. With these drawings into a child’s autograph album, made a few days before their departure for New York City, Kahlo and Riv… Read more…

‘This is a book warmly recommended to all who enjoy strong and lively writing with the warmth, colour, drama and humour of the South.’ C.V Wedgwood. 4th impression. Red cloth covered boards in excellent condition titled in gilt to spine. Spine ends a little shelf worn. Original dust jacket in good condition protected by non-adhesive clear plastic.… Read more…

Uncommon in original cloth binding, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction was a weekly and later a monthly anthology-like publication featuring a variety of essays, articles, and illustrations. Originally published in the early 19th century, it reflected the interests and societal aspects of the time, particularly during the Victoria… Read more…

The last and in some ways most desirable volume of this edition by Edmond Malone and others containing Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Printed by John Exshaw, Grafton St Dublin with Irish provenance. Bound in contemporaneous full calf with gilt tooling and calf labels to spine over red and dark brown. Corners a little bumped, chip to spine bottom, age worn.… Read more…

A scarce copy of this 1845 edition of the Works of Edmund Spencer, the English poet best known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene which appears in this volume alongside a selection of notes from various commentators and a glossarial index with an account of the life of Spenser by the Rev. Henry John Todd. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION A robust volume in ve… Read more…

Volume 1 published in Dublin in 1795 with provenance to an Irish collection. Considered a landmark work in literary criticism, The Lives of the Poets offers valuable insights into the literary landscape of the time, with Johnson's distinctive style and critical perspective shaping the understanding of these poets. The book includes short biographie… Read more…

Laid into this First Edition is a typed and hand signed letter on House of Commons headed paper dated 26 th February 1960 from British soldier, lawyer and MP Airey Neave who during the Second World War was the first British prisoner of war to succeed in escaping from Colditz Castle, and who later worked for MI9. Ben Macintyre’s account tells the ta… Read more…

A collection of original artefacts dating from the time of the Coup d’Etat. Collection contained within contemporary blue envelope includes: A scarce copy of the original 1848 pamphlet, ‘La Revision de la Constitution’. In green paper wrappers, interior leaves in good condition. A little foxed to earlier pages. Published in Paris by Typographie Plo… Read more…

Volume 5 of a collection containing fictional letters claiming to have been written by an Ottoman spy named Mahmut in the French court of Louis XIV. In good condition. Panelled calf delicately blind ruled and embossed to front and rear. Corners bumped, a little chipped. Spine in 5 compartments, numbered 5 to top in worn gilt. Head and tail chipped,… Read more…

1754, Volume 2. The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin. In good condition but sadly split completely and very cleanly into 2 parts down the very centre of the spine and held only by a single string binding to spine bottom. Calf boards embossed in gilt to edges, corners bumped, some abrasions. Spine panel in spite of damage sti… Read more…

In very good condition 1890s edition in publisher’s cloth featuring gilt lettering and scarce design to front and spine. Minor shelf wear to corners, edges and spine ends. A few slight spots to front and rear boards. End papers and flyleaves clean, a little age toned. A very sound copy. Over 100 charming illustrations throughout by Harrison Weir. 4… Read more…

The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure was a periodical published in London in the period 1747–1814 by John Hinton and W. Bent. This bound volume presenting 30 contemporary engravings featured in the magazine represents its interests in Architecture, Travels, Voyages, History, Geography and Mechanics. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Contemporary lan… Read more…

Leeds born Marie Hartley was a graduate of Leeds College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. As an illustrative artist she travelled round the Yorkshire dales in the 1930s gathering information and talking to dales folk about their lives and traditions. Her contribution to an understanding of the Yorkshire region has been recognised by honorar… Read more…

4 volumes - 3, 4, 5 and 8 - presented to George Hamilton in 1750 on his successful matriculation in Law from Trinity College Dublin. George was an Irish politician, barrister and judge. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for Belfast, and held office as Third Serjeant-at-law and later as a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). Today he… Read more…

1809 map and case in good condition. Attractive, hand coloured, very detailed and scarce map in its original slip case. Published as a loose sheet map segmented and pasted on folding linen in twenty sections measuring 54 cm x 68 cm. All panels sound and intact, a little age toned. Visually the print is clear and clean. Map is dedicated to Baron Har… Read more…

A pioneering anthropologist and folklorist, Andrew Lang was the first to compile a serious, critical survey of ghost stories. This First Edition of his work presents scores of well-attested tales from civilisations around the world about visitations from spirits. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Hardcover in good condition throughout bound in blue cloth printe… Read more…

A bound volume of pamphlets, 2 alluding to current affairs, belonging to Sir Stafford Northcote, one of them inscribed to him by the writer Augustus Brackenbury. Northcote was a prominent late nineteenth century politician who spent nine years as Tory leader in the House of Commons from 1876 to 1885, almost a forgotten Tory leader in spite of the c… Read more…

A hand-crafted from paper, fold out Union flag and attached written statement which together explain the significance of the 1801 Act of Union which united and created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Divided into its component parts this little piece of history represents the red cross of St George, the white saltire of St Andrew a… Read more…

A good copy. 8 vo. Contemporary age worn limp vellum with yapp edges. Spine titled in ink, worn and rubbed. A little shelf worn to top. Remnants of tie fastenings to fore edges front and rear. Front endpapers and title page cracked over hinges revealing bindings. Rear endpapers sound. Text block solid. Front pastedown ownership details read ‘JS 184… Read more…

Laid into this second edition is a sequence of letters between the author Charles P Hobkirk and their recipient, the book’s owner, James Eustace Bagnall. The letters mention the ‘club’ which is most probably a reference to The Moss Exchange Club set up in the 1800s with the main object of assisting its members in building up collections of correctl… Read more…

165 pieces of Conservative Party electoral ephemera gathered together by the victorious candidate in the General Election of 1922 in East Dorset. It is a collection of original letters (handwritten and typed), postcards, telegrams and cables sent to Gordon Ralph Hall Caine on his election victory for the East Dorset seat. The letters have been tipp… Read more…

A rare collection of original blueprints and engineering diagrams from Croft Engineering Ltd in Thornbury, Bradford depicting the manufacturing designs for the WW2 British General Purpose HE 500 lb and 1000 lb aircraft bombs and the General Purpose HE 1000 lb MC aircraft bomb. Also included is a photograph album of the visit of the Princess Royal,… Read more…

Todmorden Botanical Society was formed in 1852 and this catalogue opens with a list of the names of officers for 1867 including the President, Mr. Abraham Stansfield Senr, and Vice President Mr. John Nowell. Included is a list of the society’s rules as decreed at its formation in 1852, a list of current members and an extensive catalogue of the c.5… Read more…

Written during the last years of Hemingway's life, A Moveable Feast is a lively and powerful reflection of his genius and a deeply personal insight into his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties. Warmly affectionate and full of wit. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION First edition in original dust jacket. Brown cloth boards in very good condi… Read more…

Scarce fourth Edition of this ‘divine poem’ considered a derivative from a popularisation of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Claimed by the author to be a history ‘such as not Greece nor Rome could ever yield’ and peppered with the signatures of previous owners dating back to 1749. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION 12mo in a contemporary calf binding, lacking two leave… Read more…