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A scarce Bradford Theatre playbill for Monday Evening March 21 st , 1859. The main performance of the evening is billed as the popular historical play by TJ Serle Esq entitled The Man in the Iron Mask featuring the English actor Wybert Rousby; to be followed by the Haymarket Interlude of Box and Cox featuring Mr James, Mr Eugene O’Reilley and Madll… Read more…

First Edition. Large hard backed Victorian quarto. 30 b/w engravings and genealogical tables collated and complete. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Half bound red calf boards over red cloth, gilt edged to corners front and rear. Moderately bumped to corners. Handsome 6 panelled spine decoratively adorned and titled in gilt. Firmly bound. Marbled text block e… Read more…

Rare Halifax playbill in good condition promoting a Saturday Evening Concert for the People on 7th January 1860 at the Mechanic’s Hall, Halifax. Billed as a trial concert with more to follow ‘if appreciated’. Vocalists including Miss Hirst, Mr Westmoreland and Mr Garner. Tickets available from Messrs Pohlmann & Son,Waterhouse St., Messrs T & W Birt… Read more…

Seemingly unrecorded Edinburgh edition of Rebecca Wilkinson’s Sermons for Children, bound with three other works, including one other Edinburgh imprint. A pleasing binding in good condition comprising 4 small 48 mo octavo religious books. Quarter bound in cloth over faded marbled boards which show wear and are nicked along edges and spine tips. Int… Read more…

Pocket Edition published at the Yorkshire Factory Times Office in Huddersfield. Heavily worn colour pictorial boards show wear and tear; browned, corners bumped, spine panel distressed but intact. Text block shaken but intact. Front clean endpapers cracking over gutter with pencilled ownership initials read JSM . Rear endpapers clean. Leaves unmark… Read more…

A Climber’s Club handbook to the climbs in the Ogwen district including The Gylder Fawr, The Gribin, The Gylder Fach, Tryfan, Twll Du and Creigiau. With connections to the Rucksack Club Library – a club at the forefront of British mountaineering, rock climbing, long-distance walking and other challenging outdoor activities since 1902. PHYSICAL DESC… Read more…

RAF Cosford opened in 1938 as an aircraft storage and repair facility and became a major training unit during WW2. These 7 volumes dated between March 1953 and April 1955 have been created and published by those stationed at RAF Cosford, Staffs. The volumes are jam packed with news and notices. The magazine committee is presided over by Air Commodo… Read more…

Second edition greatly enlarged by WH Leeds. 2 volumes. Containing over 150 beautifully intricate architectural drawings of London’s finest public buildings alongside historical and descriptive essays of each. Volume 1:Contains 75 full page b/w illustrations in excellent condition including 8 of St Paul’s and 6 of Covent Garden. 375 pp. (1 illustra… Read more…

First Edition. Both volumes housed in red and white decorative publisher’s slipcase in excellent condition. Quarter bound in red cloth over red roan to spines. Titled in gilt to spine. Red page ribbons. All in excellent and pristine condition. Text block pristine incorporating b/w photos. Volumes contain 48 essays. Volume 1 Essays A - C, pp. 1 - pp… Read more…

Founded as a weekly on 10th December 1831, Figaro in London used satire in humorous articles and illustrations to critique various aspects of English society, including the aristocracy, parliament, and the British army. The magazine included theatre news, political poetry, anecdotes, and commentary on wide ranging issues of the time. It is also not… Read more…

An offshoot of the famed British satirical magazine Punch, ‘Punch’s Pocket Book’ was an annual publication functioning simultaneously as a ledger, diary, almanac and source of entertainment and business information. This 1866 pocket book is full of Punch’s characteristic wit and wonderfully Illustrated by prominent English illustrators including Jo… Read more…

Early edition in pleasingly unsophisticated contemporary sheep binding, unadorned except with blind rules Small octavo in very good early 18th century full sheep, just starting at the tail of the hinge between front board and spine; no pastedowns; engraved title page on verso of A1, as if functioning as a frontispiece; fraying to foreedge of this l… Read more…

Second edition rebound in a very good, decorative, brown diced calf with panelling and gilt lettering to spine. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown: ‘Stephen Conway, Bradford’. Front and rear endpapers also later additions, clean and crisp with small mark to top right of front loose endpaper. Original text block sound in good condition, leaves slight… Read more…

Undated chapbook edition of Defoe’s satire on William III’s xenophobic critics with the ownership signature of ‘Ja[me]s Norie 1787’ on the title page. Norie (probably) has retained the sugar paper pink original wrappers of the chapbook (old pencil signature on upper wrapper of ‘W R Sorley’) and had them bound into a pre-existing case of half vellum… Read more…

Beautifully Riviere-bound and extra-illustrated with 26 amateur photographs of turn-of-the-century Spain including 3 images of a bull fight. Crushed red morocco, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers with gilt turn-ins. The 26 additional silver gelatin photographs are mounted on inserted leaves and include images of Gibraltar, Toledo, Madrid and three… Read more…

Satire on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, ending with a Latin version of the final 36 English lines. Very pretty polished calf with case mark indicated by two circular morocco spine labels; minor loss of leather close to the upper joint between spine and front cover, adjacent to lowest label; speckled edges. Casemark repeated in ink on the f… Read more…

24 separately published sermons bound into a single sammelband volume with the ownership inscription of an 18th century Lincolnshire woman. Small octavo sized volume, modern brown buckram and new endpapers (see 20th century pencil note to final pastedown ‘Bound Mr Liddon 16.XI.61.’) and a pencilled list of the imprints on the first flyleaf. Precedi… Read more…

A document of the Irish diaspora: a physics manuscript, with strong Newtonian content, written by an Irishman obliged to attend university - the Irish College - in France in the 1770s. Bound in dyed Irish green vellum with the remnants of an inscription in black ink to the upper cover and an old spine label. Splitting along outer hinges does not af… 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…

pp 592 Custom-bound French missal which has been embellished with family mementoes as an aid to prayer and meditation including a 1944 letter written by 'R Sagnieres', a grieving mother, to Lieutenant Cherassus from Embrun in the Haute-Alpes asking for more information about 'la mort de mon cher fils' and begging for the return of some of his posse… Read more…

pp 89 The 1914 reprint of Musketry Regulations Part II, well illustrated with numerous technical diagrams. Near fine in red cloth laid onto thick card with gilt spine lettering, edges lightly rubbed, binding tight, pages crisp and clean, no marks or inscriptions. 23 pages of adverts for military books printed on pink paper at the front and rear of… Read more…

From the private collection of a Yorkshire art connoisseur, this collection includes 7 hardback first editions in good conditions, all in original dust jackets including A Calendar of Love (1967 First Edition); Greenvoe (1972 First Edition); Fishermen with Ploughs (1971 First Edition); A Spell for Green Corn (1970 First Edition); Letters From Hamna… Read more…

Rare autograph letter in which the architect presents the book that he co-wrote with his fellow medievalist George Gilbert Scott. Burges (1827-1881) has come to be seen as perhaps the pre-eminent dreamer of the ‘Victorian dream of the Middle Ages’ as Betjeman put it. According to J Mordaunt Crook, author of William Burges and the High Victorian Dre… Read more…

A richly provenanced copy of this memoir of an Englishwoman in Paris, first acquired by the artist Rex Whistler, probably around the time of the book’s publication and his own first visit to the French capital in 1931. Subsequently the book was owned by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s second son, Arthur Baldwin whose ownership inscription on the f… Read more…

Rare unproduced screenplay which was constructed around the lyrics of a leitmotif song provided by Stephen Sondheim which structures the entire narrative. Screenplay script dated September 1969 to title sheet, ‘Screenplay by William Goldman from his novel. Songs and other musical moments by Stephen Sondheim’. Bound to spine using 2 metal brads. 172… Read more…