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Five bound volumes of book and publishers' advertisements issued with The Gentleman's Magazine, 1834-1843. The advertisements are found inside the relevant pink card wrappers for each magazine starting with Vol 1, No 1 dated January 1834, 24 issues in each bound volume. Quarter parchment over green cloth, stab sewn binding, very good, spines worn b… Read more…

Four volumes. Complete vocal scores by Karl Klindworth, English translations by Frederick Jameson. Very good in green cloth with gilt titles, spines sunned, binding firm, the boards have been protected by homemade plastic covers but these have left tape marks to the end papers. Ownership label of J Victor Pollard to plastic covers. Annotations in p… Read more…

24 issues of this early 19th century English Book Trade Journal bound in one volume, No's 27, 38 and 42 reproduced in facsimile. Very good in half leather over marbled boards. The binding has been professionally restored, original boards rebacked with soft calf and a green leather label with gilt title; the end papers have been replaced and the hin… Read more…

[1 ALS] A manuscript letter from English actor Trevor Howard to film director Peter Duffell, congratulating him on a new venture "It's bloody marvellous", wishing him luck "for the hard grind of getting it launched" and asks the director to let him know when he will be "ready to go". Howard appeared in several of Duffell's television films includin… Read more…

xi [52] pp 1-382 The First Volume of the 1767 eight volume edition of Theobald's Shakespeare edition containing 'The Tempest, The Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Measure for Measure'. The Van de Gucht portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare is present and each play has its own Gucht engraving. The t… Read more…

pp 172 Near fine in white printed card covers protected by a blue Joseph Gilbert dust jacket which has the title inscribed in blue ink. The covers are very clean, light spotting to the top edge, the text is bright with occasional marginal marks in pencil. A very smart copy. Read more…

xxxvi, pp939 [adverts] The corrected second edition of the Reverend J A Giles' Greek Lexicon. The book is bound in green cloth with attractive blind tooled decoration and gilt spine lettering, yellow endpapers. Bookbinder's ticket of Westleys and Clark, London. Very good, cloth sunned to spine and lower panel, binding starting to crack, the text is… Read more…

pp67 Lectures by Dutch botanist Johannes Paulus Lotsy delivered at the University Colleges of the New Zealand University 1925 with introduction and List of New Zealand Hybrids by Dr L Cockayne. Near fine in printed card wrappers, lightly soiled, internally clean and complete. Ownership inscription of W Arthur Sledge, Christchurch NZ 1929. Read more…

Very good, a few brown stains and lightly soiled, most of the pages remain uncut. Inscribed to Mr Carpenter by the author Lacaze-Duthiers. Read more…

pp 223 A near fine presentation copy which was a gift from Sir James and Lady Frazer to Trinity College, Cambridge. Bound in printed card covers, shelf wear to the edges and the paper on the spine is cracked; the text is age toned but has not been read as the pages are uncut. Read more…

A collection of Mary Wilson’s school prize books including: Erling the Bold: A Tale of the Norse Sea-Kings by R M Ballantyne, Blackie, London, undated. Near fine in decorative green cloth, crisp, clean pages in a tight binding, probably unread. Prize bookplate awarded to Gladys Baldwin by Fulbourn School 'First place for 1924-5'. The Setons by O Do… Read more…

An album of photographs of Israel and Lebanon dating from 1942 taken by a young British soldier. An oblong photograph album with a textured cloth cover, linen tie, metal and plastic, possibly Bakelite, clasp with leather strap. It contains 32 pages of neatly annotated black and white photographs, complete with tissue guards. The subjects include Ja… Read more…

An album of albumen photographs of drawings of the Eglinton Hunt dating from about 1881. The collection comprises of lively portraits of members of this prestigious Scottish hunt on their mounts including Lord Eglinton, The Hon F Villiers, The Hon G Vernon, Colonel Stewart, Admiral J Montgomerie RN, Col Henry Boyd of Symington and Sir James Ferguso… Read more…

pp 1295 The complete works of Saint Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, (1110 - 1167). Large folio, in modern binding of fresh blue cloth with leather spine label, text browned, extensive annotations esp to Speculum Charitatis, De Spirituali Amicitia and some of the sermons. No ownership inscription. Additional postage charges may apply as this is a substan… Read more…

[12] pp 1-378 A four hundred page commonplace from the mid 19th century which reveals a demanding scheme of reading by its Victorian author. The writer does not reveal his or her identity although the author seems to have been bilingual in French and English and reads and writes in both languages. The manuscript which dates from 1837-1852 is writte… Read more…

pp27 A poetic tribute to the British soldier and statesman, Arthur Wellesley who was created Duke of Wellington on 3rd May 1814. The pamphlet is printed in black letter. Despite engravings being mentioned in the title no illustrations are found except for the vignette on the final leaf. Very good, the stab sewn binding is loose but holding together… Read more…

xiv [2] pp165 A handsome volume in a late 18th century binding of vellum with pretty gilt decoration to the covers and spine which features suns and bunches of grapes between Greek-key patterns, all edges gilt, marbled end papers. Very good, the vellum is browned and slightly warped but the gilt decoration is still bright, the binding is tight and… Read more…

A desk diary by the luxury goods brand Asprey of Bond Street, London, presented to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, whose private address, '5 Ashley Gardens' is embossed in gilt to upper cover. As new in burgundy leather with stitched margins, all edges gilt, cream paper. In original Asprey slipcase, red boards sunned and rubbed to edges and corners.… Read more…

pp 175 The 8th impression from November 1972 of Kathleen Raine's collection of poetry selected from her four previous publications. Laid in: three Christmas cards written with warm greetings from Raine to Barbara Stancliffe, wife of the Dean of Winchester, Michael Stancliffe, whose ownership inscription is found on the front end paper. The book is… Read more…

pp 413 Large folio. In a fine French binding of red leather with imitation renaissance strapwork decoration to both covers and spine, all edges gilt, elaborate brown and gold end papers, engraved title page, many illustrations with tissue guards. Near fine, spine edges rubbed, some foxing throughout the text. A splendid copy. Extra postage charges… Read more…

pp 198 A book of popular science by Marie Stopes, paleobotanist and lecturer in Fossil Botany at Manchester University, the first female member of its science faculty. After a failed marriage she became a campaigner for women's rights and author on birth control and family planning. The book is bound in good looking green cloth with embossed black… Read more…

A history of Rome in two volumes. Volume 1 pp 349; volume 2 pp343. Very good in decoratively embossed red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Armorial bookplate of Admiral Archibald Duff, a Scottish naval officer with a distinguished career who served with Lord Nelson. The title page is inscribed "Drummuir 1862" which was Duff's castle on Speyside. Th… Read more…

pp 346 The recollections of Princess Catherine Radziwill (1858-1941), a Polish aristocrat and noteable author of two dozen books on European royalty and the Russian court. Very good in fresh grey cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt, edges dusty and some spotting to the preliminaries. The book was written in London and is an interesting memoir of… Read more…

Two volumes of a set of four in an attractive 19th century binding of green half leather over marbled boards, marbled edges, gilt spine decoration and raised bands, marbled end papers. Bookbinder's ticket of J Winstanley, Manchester, dating the binding to only a few years after publication of the book. Directions for boarding and binding present at… Read more…

pp399 Mrs Henry Goddard Leach's copy of the Official Report of the Democratic National Convention, her name embossed in gilt to front cover. Fine in blue cloth with gilt titles, the book appears to be in unread condition. This book comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, 1910 - 2001, the son of Ellen Walte… Read more…