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Four volume 18th century edition in attractive speckled calf whose first owner in the 1780s was Mary Tunstall, subsequently given to her cousin, Maria Salvin. Uniformly bound with gilt spine band and a red morocco spine label. A little tenderness to upper hinge of volume I but otherwise a very good set of bindings which are also very attractive. In… Read more…

First separate edition of Cicero's Verrine orations with Giunta’s preface addressed to Tommaso Pighinucci. A little sequence of early ownership signatures on the first flyleaf take us back to 17th century Venice, the earliest from 1621; then from the town of Gorizia: ‘Andreas de Thomasinis Goritia Dolce ingano d'amor cossanon voglie’ and a later in… Read more…

Scarce first edition recording through 26 letters a journey from London to Edinburgh & Glasgow via Yorkshire and Northumberland on the journey North and returning via Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire. About two thirds of the book is devoted to describing Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Scottish lowlands. Written by an opinionated, educated but un… Read more…

A fairy drama preceded by a long dissertation by the author ‘On Fairies’, the Scottish Language and Pastoral. Handsomely bound in half dark green morocco over marbled boards. Frontispiece of the Falls by R Scot; engraved title to the play drawn by J Burnet and engraved by R Scott: pp241. A lovely copy. In the early 19th century, fairies, or Sìthich… Read more…

Four page setting of Feste’s song ‘Come Away, Death’ from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Written over four oblong octavo pages (a bifolium extracted from a book of printed manuscript paper) with prettily embossed borders. Neukomm sets the music for a low voice over two verses and with a keyboard accompaniment that introduces and ends his setting. At… Read more…

Presentation copy inscribed by Benson to ‘J.N.D. from the author ACB July 1892 No. 80/200’. J.N.D. seems certain to be John Neale Dalton (1839-1901) for whom he served as best man in 1886. Benson wrote in his diary of the older man that "Dalton showed me much fatherly kindness" while Dalton described Benson as "an object of adoration". Published at… Read more…

Negotiations with Scotland over the future of Charles I, first printed in 1646 for Edward Husband, collated and complete. DESCRIPTION: In very good condition in a very pleasing, later half binding of brown calf over very lightly rubbed marbled boards. Titled in gilt over red ground to the spine; very lightly bumped to corners; endpapers clean; a li… Read more…

First Edition in very good condition in very good dust jacket with the author’s original 138 pp. autograph manuscript of the first 5 chapters of the novel which was made into a movie in 1963 by Metro Goldwyn starring Jane Fonda, Peter Finch, and Angela Lansbury. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth boards, endpapers and text block in very good conditio… Read more…

Two of the artist’s earliest self-portraits, created while he studied at the school and published here in the school magazine, The Bradfordian. Hockney’s cartoon-style self-portraits appear in the March 1953 issue (235), both signed in print ‘Okni’ and depict the young David protesting ‘about Compulsory Running’; in the second image opposite he is… Read more…

A remarkable and mystical unpublished short story written in April 1898 by a young woman called ‘Ecila’ - presumably a reversal of her actual name, Alice - which presents as a sort of adolescent fever dream in which the young woman is led through a mystical landscape, distracted by Sensuality and finally arrives at a vision of the Goddess Truth. Th… Read more…

Lytton Strachey’s copy, formerly the Britwell Court copy, owned by Samuel Christy Miller. Large octavo bound in contemporary speckled calf with a gilt double fillet and shell motifs to the corners of the boards in gilt; remnants of a spine label; red speckled edges to the text block. Some cracking to the leather over the outer hinges. Dora Carringt… Read more…

First edition, first impression in publisher’s black cloth effect paper covered boards, sharp corners, just a trace of spine lean. Spotting to text block edges; internally clean and unmarked. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket with a little fading to the red lettered spine and some browning to extremities. A lovely square copy of this remarkabl… Read more…

Manuscript leaf in the hand of the Romantic poet, friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Robert Southey who quotes from the fable written by the 17th century writer Thomas Fuller about ‘A Sagamore or petty king in Virginia, guessing the greatness of other kings by his own, sent a native hither, who understood English’. Southey continues with Fuller’s… Read more…

Sara Delano Roosevelt’s copy of her son’s biography with her initials, “SDR”, in pencil to the front free end paper, from the collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams, a relative of FDR and his mother. Sara Delano Roosevelt clearly read the book with close interest, as indicated by the marginal pencil lines scattered throughout the text. As these anno… Read more…

Fictionalised and satirical life of the supposedly chivalric highwayman Claude Du Vall who inspired a number of biographers and playwrights to add to his legend with claims of alchemy, gambling and much womanising. Duval (1643-1670) was born in France, worked for exiled Royalists before coming to England at the Restoration where he robbed stagecoac… Read more…

Annotated Cambridge edition of Julius Caesar owned by the life long Shakespearian George ‘Dadie’ Rylands who began directing Shakespeare at school, oversaw professional recordings of the plays at Cambridge and schooled in Shakespeare some of the leading actors of the twentieth century. In association with the Marlowe Society and a group of professi… Read more…

Scarce pirated 1851 Routledge London edition of Hawthorne's classic novel. Half burgundy cloth over marbled boards (binder’s ticket of ‘G Parker Stationers Kirkdale, Ripon’ to lower pastedown). Spotting to preliminaries; early gift inscription to title page: ‘A Staples to S Hoy’. Old paper repair to verso of title page in gutter at tail of page. Co… Read more…

An excellent copy of this first edition rebound in a later pristine cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Beautifully clean and crisp throughout. 112 pp. collated and complete. Leaves 86 and 87 remain sealed together along a small section of fore edge noted on collation. The volume details reports from Parliament in April 1657 (during the Protectorate),… Read more…

Homemade doe-skin binding on this chapbook publication by the English printer and bookseller variously known as Nathaniel Crouch, Robert or Richad Burton. The doe-skin binding which seems likely to be contemporary with the book has been wrapped tightly around the boards and sewn down the spine with the result that that the book opens comfortably to… Read more…

Gill's exquisitely-produced and illustrated essay on the two things that make him both famous and unforgivably notorious: art and love. One of a signed limited edition of 260 copies of which this is hand numbered 164. Bound in black buckram, lettered in gilt to the spine. A very good copy showing a couple of small scuffs to the external boards and… Read more…

A much gifted book, presented in the first instance by its editor George ‘Dadie’ Rylands to the preeminent Shakespearean actor Ralph Richardson whose bookplate appears on the front pastedown and who has annotated chunks of the text and the endpapers, apparently for performance at an event celebrating Shakespeare’s 375th birthday. (In 1939 Richardso… Read more…

Sir Albert Charles Seward’s copy, with his printed bookplate to the front pastedown and scattered pencil annotations in his hand throughout. These largely compose marginal lines, although there are also ten pages with verbal annotations (“the gloom”, Seward notes besides a passage on Malthus’s population principle; elsewhere he perceives “the eleme… Read more…

‘Gaucho’ binding bound in cow or buffalo skin with a burnt or branded design to the front cover and toggles to close. A near fine binding, inscribed at length to a ‘Mr Grenville Greenall’ in May 1948 as a ‘souvenir of your visit to my country Argentina “Faust” jocular work representing the simple gaucho spirit’. Bookshops label of Mitchell’s Book S… 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…

Pictou-imprint map of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island from the estate of the British Commander in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the late 1850s, General Sir Charles Trollope. A map produced by James Dawson as the third edition in 1854 and lithographed in Edinburgh. Cloth-backed coloured map, dated 1854 (73x56cm) folded to 14x18cm; a little spotting.… Read more…