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Two surviving leaves (title page and page numbers 7 and 8) in very good condition of this scarce ephemeral work which promotes Christianity through a fictional conversation between two sailors after weathering a storm. Sold also by F Collins and J Nesbit. Binding is fragile but holding the surviving leaves which are crisp, clean and age toned as ex… Read more…

An uncommon broadside ballad telling a cautionary tale. Printed one sided by Anne Ryle & Co Printers, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials circa. 1850. In good condition. A previous owner has mounted the song sheet onto a thin piece of card using a small amount of paste to each corner. Text is crisp and clean. Small fold lines to bottom corners. A ver… Read more…

Chapbook titled Three True and Remarkable Stories . In very good condition. 8 pp. collated and complete. Leaves crisp and unmarked, age toned as expected. p.5 shaved a little short to fore edge. Sewn binding intact. Printed and sold by J Evans and Sons, Long Lane. Sold also by F Collins, Patternoster Row and J Nisbet, 15 Castle Street, Oxford Stree… Read more…

An uncommon example of this didactic story, typical of More's writings, originally published in 1796, which explores the consequences of dishonesty and the importance of truthfulness. Published in Edinburgh by James Gall on behalf of the Scottish Sabbath School and Tract Depository, 24 Niddry St. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Frontispiece, title page and p… Read more…

A rare surviving playbill from the New Theatre Buxton promoting Tobin’s Comedy of The Honey Moon on Saturday June 15th 1833. Including a song by Miss Carr; dancing by Miss Smith; a comic song by Mr Weston and a new Romantic Melo-Drama called The Robber’s Wife. Tickets available from Mr C Thornhill at the Theatre or Mr Moore at the Post Office. In v… Read more…

First edition of Anthony Hope's most famous book, memorably adapted for stage, screen and radio on several occasions. Arrowsmith’s 3/6 Series. Volume XVIII. 8 vo. In good condition in original russet red cloth boards; a little age toned, sunned to spine which is minimally nicked to top and tail. Slight spine slant. Cracking over internal gutters fr… Read more…

Third Edition in fair condition. Ownership signature reads ‘Annesley Powys, St John’s Coll, Oxon alongside the date 1878’. Research reveals later positions as Assistant Master at Leeds Grammar School 1875-83 and Vicar of Meanwood, Leeds, 1883. Arthur Hugh Clough was similarly an alumnus of Oriel College, Oxford. PHYSICAL CONDITION: Original green c… Read more…

In very good condition. A scarce first edition 1847 printed work of sensational popular fiction. Translated by Thomas De Quincey from Der Freischutz by Johann August Apel. PHYSICAL CONDITION: In original brown cloth binding, blind stamped with decorative detail to boards and titled encompassing additional design to spine. Slightly bumped to corners… Read more…

A rare one-penny pamphlet from the press of Augustus Applegath (1788-1871) and his brother-in-law Edward Cowper, printed for the Religious Tract Society c. 1820. One other copy from this same printer noted in the collection of Cambridge University Library. Author unknown, Written by a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army . In very good condition. Woodblo… Read more…

A rare one-penny pamphlet from the press of Augustus Applegath (1788-1871) and his brother-in-law Edward Cowper, printed for the Religious Tract Society c. 1820. Sold by F Collins, Paternoster Row and J & C Evans Smithfield. Appears unrecorded. Author unknown. In very good condition. Woodblock vignette to title page. 8 pp. collated and complete. A… Read more…

A printed single sheet broadside ballad containing eight songs Sung at Various Places of Amusement. In good condition, lightly worn to edges, age toned with feint fold lines as expected. Contains the songs titled Sung by Miss Stevens, Lemminty by J Catnach Mar 15, 1819 , Farewell Rosina, Native Highland Home Sung by Mr Sinclair in the Slave, Dunois… Read more…

A surviving chapbook containing four stories by Hannah More billed as A Warning to all Young Women both in Town and Country. In good condition, a little edge worn and age toned as expected. Sewn binding fragile but all leaves holding well. Sold by J Evans and Sons, printers to the Cheap Repository. Sold also by J Hatchard, London and Binns & Robins… Read more…

A charming chapbook narrating the lives of Richard Nancollas aka Rhyming Dick , Henry Hitchcock A Strolling Player and a poor man, named Bain , designed to teach behavioural and ethical lessons. It opens with the life of Richard Nancollas who died on the first of August, 1802 and who used to ramble through the western counties of England, exciting… Read more…

In very good condition. Undated but circa 1820-1840. Issued in 52 parts, this being No. 46. This copy folds as issued with no evidence of binding. Printed by John Pitts who traded from 6 Great St. Andrews Street, Seven Dials, London advertised as a Toy and Marble Warehouse. Consists of a single page folded into four, giving eight numbered pages, 36… Read more…

Unrecorded broadside ballad c 1850 not found elsewhere in this form. The Child's Dream is a dialogue between two children, in which they discuss how much better it would be to be in heaven than on earth. At the end it is revealed that the next winter the two children and their mother are taken to be with their father in heaven.  Printed to one side… Read more…

Unrecorded shepherd’s guide compiled by the Bentham and District NFU covering the central area of the Yorkshire Dales including Austwick, Horton in Ribblesdale, Ingleton and the Forest of Bowland. Card wrappers, discoloured and lightly soiled, a Preface and 2 page guide to the marks is followed by 80 pages detailing those marks, village by village.… Read more…

1A very uncommon First Edition owned only by 3 universities worldwide (Cornell, Manchester and British Library). In very good condition. Original cloth boards embossed to edges and decoratively titled in gilt to front. Sunned to spine. Dark brown endpapers crisp and clean. Half title page age toned. Very minimal spotting to opening leaves otherwise… Read more…

A 48 page catalogue produced by Myers & Co of New Bond Street, London advertising books for sale including those from the libraries of the late prolific English author Arnold Bennett and the art critic C Lewis Hind. The catalogue is numbered 282, dated December 1931 and contains over 500 titles alongside brief descriptions and prices. PHYSICAL DESC… Read more…

Rare example of the People’s Penny Library edition of Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe published in this cheap, now elusive, edition in 1860s Manchester in the 1860s. Number 1. Missing original boards. Leaves 1-4 are loosened to lower halves along gutter but surviving text block remains otherwise entirely sound. Illustrated frontispiece in go… Read more…

Volume II containing No. 36 - No. 53 of Grant’s London Journal (18 consecutive issues) published originally as weeklies between Saturday September 5th 1840 and Saturday December 26th 1840. Each issue takes the form of a general interest magazine publishing short fiction and non-fiction pieces. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A half binding of calf over marbl… Read more…

With an important and evocative provenance to the Grimke and Drayton library at South Bay House, South Carolina and one of the most prominent abolitionist families in American history. The Grimké family's abolitionism began with the sisters Sarah (1792-1873) and Angelina (1805-1879), the daughters of a South Carolina slave owning plantation owner w… Read more…

Uncommon first edition examining the prison system, in good condition. Publisher’s brown roan boards decoratively embossed to front and titled in gilt to front and spine panel. A little bumped to corners, moderate shelf wear to spine top and tail, binding cracked approx. 2 cm along hinge to top. Dark green endpapers reveal a partial pasted in subsc… Read more…

Publication No 5, 3 RD Edition. Scarce copper-coloured, cloth hardback book, spiral bound with copper wire in very good condition. Pencilled numbers jotted to front cover by previous owner. Text block clean throughout. An interesting book with diagrammatic drawings by Winston Walker and descriptions of copper work processes. 14 full page plates con… Read more…

One of 25 pre-publication draft copies of what would become The Testament of Beauty, printed for the author and distributed to his friends for comment and feedback. This is a known but previously unlocated copy which was presented to the historian and novelist Ernest Thompson as an invitation to criticise and improve his friend’s work. In his 1944… Read more…

A sustained and outrageous forgery purporting to be a collection of essays individually owned, inscribed and in places even annotated by the naturalist and writer Gilbert White. The fictitious chain of provenance has the book being owned by White’s successor at Selborne, the vicar Thomas Cobbold who has supposedly written on the flyleaf that ‘These… Read more…