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Presentation copy inscribed on the cover, 'Henry Bellingham from H.E. Cardinal Manning March 14th. 1876', probably in a secretarial hand. Bound in printed blue card wrappers, worn to edges and along spine fold where the upper and lower covers are partly separated. Internally very good, a couple of spots only. Sir Alan Henry Bellingham was Private C… Read more…

Stanislaus Joyce's copy, inscribed by him presumably in Triests where he shared lodgings with his brother James Joyce. Black textured cloth binding, presumed to be a mid twentieth century rebind, gilt spine lettering; original pastedowns laid down at either end of the small format Tauchnitz imprint - 15x11cm. Browning to paper stock which has becom… Read more…

Inscribed to the Deputy Dean of Westminster Abbey, the first and only edition of one of the most influential works on church restoration which is inscribed by the author to the Deputy Dean of Westminster, 'The Rev.d Lord John Thynne with the Authors very respectful compliments', just a year after Scott was appointed architect to the Abbey. Bound in… Read more…

Six volume set of English and American poetry contained in 'a Morocco [book]case with glass front' as described in The Gentlemen's Advertiser which originally offered the set at a guinea a piece in 1838. This set still boasts its original case (11.5x14cm) although the glass door has separated from its hinge leaving the original glass happily still… Read more…

Draft dustjacket design for the reissue of Blunden's classic account of battalion life on the Somme and in Flanders between 1915 and 1918. In this version the unnamed artist has laid out the montage, jotting a handwritten credit to the Imperial War Museum for the photograph of the stricken tank over a gouache backdrop of orange, red and crimson wit… Read more…

An excellent association copy inscribed by one eminent Scottish writer to another and annotated by the recipient, Alasdair Gray. Bound in the publisher’s illustrated card wrappers, about very good and inscribed on the first endpaper: ‘With fondest regards, Jeff Torrington 10-8-92’. Gray seems to have read the first two thirds of the book enthusiast… Read more…

The Letters of Samuel Beckett edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck, published in four volumes with slipcase. This edition encompasses “sixty years of of Beckett’s writing life (1929-1989), and include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues… Read more…

pp 366 [2] pp120 Enchiridion bound with De Imitatione. Contemporary calf binding, worn to hinges but sound. Stamp of St Edmund’s College ‘Avita pro fide’ to front pastedown with old handwritten shelf mark above. Internally very good. Read more…

Very uncommon in trade, the 1635 edition of this work on Athenian politics with the ownership signature of a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges and external bands along the hinges of the book. Ownership signature on the first flyleaf of ‘Wm Alex. Aytoun 1872’. On the verso of the title page an earlier owners… Read more…

A copy owned and lightly annotated by the Scottish rationalist, atheist and literary critic J M Robertson. Beautifully bound in half parchment over marbled boards, Robertson’s ownership signature on the first flyleaf dated 1879. Some foxing but a very good copy. Robertson has left a few pencilled notes, jotting down dates when he read the first ten… Read more…

Uncommon example of this Dublin imprint which formed part of Henshall’s Pocket Library. Full calf binding, cracking along outer hinges, morocco label to spine. Old ownership signature of ‘Caswell’ to first pastedown. Browning and soiling to early leaves, worm trail to last few leaves. Engraved frontispiece. Undated but around 1796. Read more…

Beautifully bound in straight grain red morocco with a black spine label and gilt decoration, all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and tiny oval green bookseller’s ticket of ‘P Rolande Foreign Bookseller...’ Browning to endpapers, otherwise near fine. A lovely copy. Read more…

Latin psalms in half pebbled black leather over blue textured cloth, lightly rubbed, top edge gilt. Pencil inscription to the flyleaf that seems to relate to Felsted school in Essex in the 1890s, noting that the book was rebound in 1908. Spotting to endpapers, browning to text; frontispiece of King David, text contained within red ruled boxes. Smal… Read more…

Vellum bound edition with bevelled edges and black spine lettering, marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Hugh Scott-Charles, all edges gilt. Browning to frontispiece and title page. An excellent copy. Read more…

An ‘Inner Library’ copy from the collection of the Catholic recusant Thomas Eyre of Hassop in Derbyshire with his posthumous bookplate: ‘Inner Library bequeathed by the Will of Thomas Eyre deceased, 1792’ to the front pastedown. Full English contemporary calf binding, faded gilt lettering and decoration to spine, speckled edges to the text block. E… Read more…

Pebbled deep red leather binding, a little rubbing to extremities; all edges gilt, pp 175. Interleaved for notes. An uncommon edition. The book’s editor was born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1800 but became a convert to Christianity after meeting Wilhelm Vatke at Berlin University. Read more…

Full sheepskin binding; both covers cracked along outer hinges but attached by cords. Browning to text: pp140. Uncommon Scottish edition of this sermon written a century earlier by the English presbyterian minister. Read more…

Incomplete but apparently unrecorded edition. Bound in worn calf, discoloured and cracked along hinges but still sound. Lacking preliminary blank endpapers, final blank endpapers and title page A1, consequently beginning with the ‘Avertissement du Libraire.’ Old inscription at head of page: ‘Bib: Theol: O. H...’ Manuscript casemark opposite. Librar… Read more…

Beautifully printed by the Chiswick Press, bound in blue cloth with a paper label, very good, top edge gilt, a little spine lean. Internally near fine, woodcut border to title page. A very nice copy of this interesting collection. Read more…

Bound in the publisher’s printed boards with old paper repairs to spine. Early ownership signature of ‘Anna Machen’ to title page and similar to front pastedown. Frontispiece with tissue guard, some browning and spotting to text. xxxvi; pp287 [2] A pleasingly unsophisticated copy of this work, the best known by its Baptist author, published here in… Read more…

Pickering edition in a signed binding by Riviere for William Pickering’s son, Basil Montagu Pickering after he took over the family publishing and book-selling business in the 1850s. Crushed black morocco with gilt spine lettering, rubbing to corners. All edges gilt. Marbled endpaper with bookplate to front paste-down. ‘Bound by Riviere’ stamped at… Read more…

Beautifully illustrated herbal, probably from the 1860s. Original printed cloth binding repaired with browned spine panel relaid over buckram, red edges to text block. New endpapers. Engraved title page and frontispiece precede letter press title page and 24 coloured plates of 130 herbs. 480 text pages, mostly arranged alphabetically with index. An… Read more…

Folio sized manuscript attempting to collate the indexes of Westwood, Monis and Goodwin’s butterfly studies. Worn half calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label and faded paper label with number. Brown endpapers and large bookplate showing the library of ‘Frederick A. Wood, Highfields, Chew Magna, Somerset’ with handwritten library numbers to t… Read more…

Illustrated Parisian guide acquired by an English Roman Catholic priest probably in the late eighteenth century while studying in France at Douai or during his Professorship at St Omer College. Unsophisticated example of this first edition complete in two volumes with 18 plates in volume I and 9 in volume II including the large folding map of Paris… Read more…

With the bookplate and annotation of a former President of the Royal Society (1827-1830), Davies Gilbert Early nineteenth century full calf binding with gilt to the spine and gilt double panelling to the boards. Cracked along the outer hinges, some wear to leather at head and tail of spine; marbled endpapers, engraved title-page and portrait and wo… Read more…