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[pp] 12, 242 [2] Howard's first plays including his collaboration with his brother in law John Dryden in The Indian Queen and his inflammatory preface on dramatic verse. The book is bound in half brown rexine over marbled boards with new endpapers. The text is collated and complete with much toning to the paper stock and the following paper repairs… Read more…

Ten separate imprints including Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto dating from the early 1830s, bound together by the publisher together with an additional engraved frontispiece by ‘R Cooper’. 19th century half calf over cloth, worn and scuffed but soundly bound. Marbled endpapers; marks to title page and browning to frontispiece with the stub of a… Read more…

Four volumes of A A Milne's classic children's books bound in a Deluxe Publisher's Binding of brown calf with the author's monogram to upper covers and gilt decoration to the spines featuring characters from the books, all edges gilt. These volumes date from 1927-29, the editions being 16th, 6th, 4th and 3rd respectively. They are in good plus cond… Read more…

An inscribed copy of this rare book about the manners and customs on the Solway Firth. Small format bound in embossed blue-green cloth, neatly repaired, with yellow-coated endpapers and an albumen portrait of the author tipped in opposite the title page, inscribed below. Collates complete: pp208; a little paper decay at the foot of the title page a… Read more…

Nicolas Cox’s compendium of hunting, hawking, fowling, and fishing lore in one of the three variant imprints published in 1697. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Contemporary boards, sympathetically rebacked with a new spine, retaining the original endpapers. Extensively provenanced: ‘Ch: Parry 1742’ on the front pastedown looks to be the earliest owner follow… Read more…

Annotated presentation copy of the third edition with an affectionate note about the author’s life in Exeter, ‘now (1823) quite blind’ written by the book’s recipient, George Westlake. Half calf binding overlaid and strengthened with red cloth at some later stage - over marbled boards. Westlake’s bookplate appears on the front pastedown with offset… Read more…

Smart copy of the life of Nelson’s friend Admiral William Cornwallis written and inscribed by Winston Churchill’s step-father, a man just 16 days older than his distinguished stepson. The subject of the biography, Admiral Cornwallis, an ancestor of the author, was the brother of the defeated British general at Yorktown, Charles Cornwallis, and hims… Read more…

Pre-printed diary used interestingly by a member of Earl Haig’s family as a commonplace/ day book. Chunky small quarto bound in full calf, splitting slighly at outer hinges but very robust still. Laid in is a selection of quotations from Carlyle written on ‘Ramornie Ladybank’ headed paper. Marbled endpapers. Preceding the diary pages are two albume… Read more…

The author’s heavily annotated personal copy with corrections and emendations by the Manchester-based artist throughout. Bound in pictorial publisher’s cloth, a little rubbed to the extremities. Paton’s inscription appears on the half title ‘My Studio Copy Hugh Paton Oct/ 10’. The book is a lavish production which contains an original etched fronti… Read more…

A presentation copy of this guide to the use of sacred music in the liturgy. Tipped onto the title page a Vatican compliments slip from 'Secretarius consillii ad exsequendam constitutionem de sacra liturgia' - the secretary of the counsel for the implementation of the constitution on the sacred Liturgy. Opposite is the bookplate of Prinknash Abbey… Read more…

Mid-eighteenth century bound collection of 'Graveyard' poems including elegies and meditations such as the earliest publication by John Scott of Amwell (the first notable Quaker poet) and works by Thomas Gray, Edward Young, John Delap and Reginald Heber. Small quarto bound in eighteenth century speckled calf, the boards decorated with a border of c… Read more…

The book’s dedicatee has annotated this inscribed copy of Medawar’s Advice by revealing the names of the otherwise unnamed scientists cited by Medawar in his text. Alongside the relevant sections Todd has added the names Herman Kahn, Harry Johnson, Herbert Samuel, R E Billingham, effectively decoding Medawar’s anonymised text. Medawar has inscribed… Read more…

Proofed and covered with typographic instruction, a bound typescript of Miskin's novel inspired by Andreyev's short story with additional double page spreads on tracing paper showing the layouts for the half title, title page, chapter headings and sample text page, annotated 'Specimen pages for Willmer Brothers Ltd for Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited… Read more…

First edition, signed, inscribed with teasingly private annotations intended for the book’s recipient alone. Plante has written on the half title “To Frank / with countless / years of devotion / and love! / David / Cambridge, 2009”, and again in blue ink to the title page: “To Frank once / again, with even / more devotion and / love, / though we /… Read more…

Cartoonist John Ryan’s copy (“ex John Ryan” in pencil to the front free endpaper). Although without annotations to the text itself, Ryan, best known as the creator of Captain Pugwash, has, for his own amusement, added the letter S to the beginning of the title on the dustwrapper, thus re-naming the work “Strumpets from Montparnasse”. A simple, yet… Read more…

A prompt copy, with extensive annotations throughout, adapting the text for use in a performance of the play. The annotations consist of numerous pencil underlinings, highlighting the various printed stage directions in addition to scattered verbal additions and alterations to these, as well as prompts for sound, lighting, and visual effects, and f… Read more…

Alasdair Gray’s copy, with an original manuscript poem in red ink and pencil to the half title page and continuing on the final index page. The poem (potentially a work in progress, as indicated by its numerous corrections) considers the nature of power and wealth, beginning: “The loneliness of power / self pity for the / many hearts you broke / ne… Read more…

Signed and inscribed by Colin Wilson to the literary critic G. Wilson Knight (1897-1885) in black ink on the title page “For G. Wilson Knight / warm regards & / admiration / Colin Wilson / Exeter 13-4-62”. Wilson Knight has subsequently added numerous pencil annotations to the text, often quizzical or critical in nature, comprising underlinings, ma… Read more…

Owned and annotated by folk lore researchers, Nigel and Mary Hudleston of Rillington in north Yorkshire, two First Editions of these seminal works in the field of folklore and children's studies based on many years of research involving contributions from over 10,000 children across England, Scotland, and Wales. Laid in is a handwritten letter and… Read more…

Prompt Copy and seventh Impression in near very good condition of this dramatic play first produced at the Mercury Theatre, London in 1946. ‘PROMPT COPY’ is written in bold capitals to the top of the free endpaper above a list of rehearsal dates and times to take place at Shiplake House or Rawbrook Cottage - Henley on Thames area. Further annotatio… Read more…

Future Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s school copy in near very good condition with his expert annotation to the Latin text. A charming little volume in red cloth boards titled to front and spine. Very lightly bumped to corners, very modestly worn boards to rear. A sound and square copy which is crisp and clean throughout. Front free endpaper is ins… Read more…

Owned and inscribed by the author, composer, and Professor of English at the University of Connecticut George Brandon Saul (1901-1986) in red ink on the front free endpaper, and with his detailed verbal annotations in red, green, and blue ink scattered throughout. These comprise meticulous bibliographical corrections and additions, numerous quotati… Read more…

Uncommon Dublin edition owned by the Irish MP, judge and developer of Balbriggan, George Hamilton (1732-1793). From a small collection of books owned by Hamilton, the book is bound in worn contemporary calf; portions of leather having flaked off but the integrity of the binding unaffected. Half the front pastedown no longer present; Hamilton has in… Read more…

pp 40 & 100 blanks. Manuscript recipe book owned by the Liverpool abolitionist and historian William Roscoe whose recipes were entered into the book a generation after his death, probably by one of his daughters-in-law. Neat Regency period quarto manuscript book bound in decorative green cloth with 'W.m Roscoe Book' in black ink to the front pasted… Read more…

Oxford presentation copy to the former Warden of Keble College, inscribed on the first blank: 'Walter Lock From E. B. Poulton, in memory of much kindness & much fresh stimulus received from him while a colleague in work at Keble, and in years of friendship since then. Oxford. March 1924.' Bound in publisher's blue buckram, slight fading to the spin… Read more…