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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…

Wonderfully colourful French publisher’s binding from the late 1850s. Embossed coloured paper with a central vignette to the upper board of Fenelon in full flow, declaiming from the pulpit, and a floral motif in the equivalent frame on the lower board. There is extensive rubbing to the binding which has cracked along the upper outer hinge and has o… Read more…

Scarce copy of this guide, lacking the map. Publisher’s paper covered illustrated binding with vignette of St Paul’s to upper cover, rubbed and worn, lacking part of paper covering to backstrip. Map is absent and top 2cm of frontispiece has been torn away. The plates are all present otherwise though the bridges page is detached and laid in. Read more…

Smartly bound in quarter calf over marbled boards, probably recently restored but very well done. Frontispiece, iv, pp212. A lovely copy of this work by a Somerset minister (1698-1762) who blends theology, philosophy and religion in this volume. Read more…

Most attractively bound in contemporary calf: four raised spine bands, double blind fillet framing boards with floral corner ornaments; red speckled edges. ‘Society Book’ in an early hand to the first blank which has slightly ragged edges. Probably same hand, ‘The Rev.d Mr Davids’ to the head of the title page. At the tail of the title page an earl… Read more…

[4], pp12 [lacking 13-16] pp 17-20. Imperfect pre-civil war pamphlet housed in a pretty nineteenth century binding quarter red morocco over marbled paper bound by Palmer and Howe of Manchester. Additional blank leaves bulk out the pamphlet which has a seventeenth century ownership inscription at the tail of the title page: ‘Steph: Revelle peer’. Th… Read more…

(24x14cm) Gouache given by the artist to the creator of Captain Pugwash, John Ryan. Inscribed along the tail of the image in pencil: ‘for John [Ryan] from Steven (Appleby) 1993’. Executed in gouache on thick art card ncilled with a line to the right of the image, probably intended for cropping. The image shows a hunt in full flow, at the centre of… Read more…

Three volume hardback edition bound in library buckram in Aberdeen. Internally fine - and excellent edition. Read more…

Small oblong octavo bound in bright red cloth, internally fine. Printed in red and black - a lovely little book, and very uncommon. Read more…

Early edition bound in contemporary sheepskin with a later spine label. Some loss to leather backstrip but the binding is intact and collates complete: viii, pp5-204; pp33 [6] plates; [8] index; 1 folding plate at beginning and 1 folding plate with tape repairs before index. Noted during collation: no preliminary endpapers, tape repair along gutter… Read more…

Whiteback edition, bound in the original decorative pictorial paper covered boards; adverts to the endpapers, staining to text. A near very good copy attractively bound of Ouida’s most novel which tells the story of an English aristocrat who and joined French forces in Algeria. pp608 plus coloured plate of Marie Antoinette Read more…

First edition, first state, complete with the frontispiece and 16 plates illustrated by A.C. Michael; 2 pages of advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth blocked and lettered in gilt with gilt publisher's device to spine. Part of a W H Smith’s bookplate to front pastedown; foxing to edges of text block. Otherwise a good square copy. pp390; 2pp advert… Read more…

Yellowback-style scarce edition bound in the original decorative pictorial paper covered boards, scuffing and wear to binding, upper board detached. Adverts on endpapers, pp372. Read more…

Yellowback edition form the Run and Read Library, though actually bound in the original orange decorative pictorial paper covered boards, extensive rubbing to upper cover and outer hinges, lower board nearly detached with blue stain near foreedge. Endpapers with adverts. Bookseller’s ticket from Ipswich on front pastedown. A good copy but scarce th… Read more…

‘New edition’ bound in the original decorative pictorial paper covered boards, extensive rubbing to upper cover and outer hinges, no backstrip. Endpapers with pictorial adverts. A good copy but scarce thus. pp388 Read more…

With the salutation from a letter signed by Robert Stephenson tipped onto the first blank endpaper. A near fine copy in attractive gilt embossed cloth, bookplate of Sandeman Public Library on the first pastedown and a number on the verso of the title page. A very attractive copy of this biography of both great railway engineers by Samuel Smiles. Read more…

Uncommon signed first English edition with an attractive inscription on the title page: ‘To Maureen Lawrence (yes I am alive!) Yours Christa Wolf’. A near fine copy, pushed to corners, in a near very good jacket. Wolf was one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany. Read more…

Naomi Jacob’s personal copy of her own novel. Worn black cloth, the front panel of the jacket laid down on the front pastedown as was Jacob’s habit with her own copies of books. Opposite is written in her hand: ‘NAOMI JACOB SIRMIONE PROV. DE BRESCIA.’ Prolific, opininated and wildly eccentric (listen to her appearance on Desert Island Discs with th… Read more…