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Beautifully bound in a blind-stamped Victorian leather binding. Five raised spine bands with gilt lettering; central decorative panel to upper and lower boards; all edges gilt and silk bookmark. Marbled endpapers and bookseller’s ticket of A Holden, Exeter. The book’s first owner has recorded on the verso of the first flyleaf that the book was publ… Read more…

The twentieth edition. 12 mo. In good + condition. Pleasingly worn smooth but robust calf boards, moderately scuffed as expected. Remnants of clasp fastenings remain on both boards. Previous ownership scribbling in pencil on front pastedown. Title page age toned to edges. Text block very sound; just cracking over pp. 268/269; small ink marks; very… Read more…

The Commercial Ledger with the contemporary ownership inscription for “John Kniveton” in black ink to the front free endpaper, with 27 pages subsequently filled out in his hand. Kniveton’s notes detail his accounts, including his expenses (“missionary money”, “flowers and washing”, a “glazier’s bill”, meat, butter, salt, pig feed, “a portion of lau… Read more…

Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s copy with critical notes in pencil, with verbal annotations, underlinings, marginal lines, asterisks, crosses and question marks, across around a third of the text. The verbal annotations range from a simple “Ha!” to lengthier commentary on the subjects under discussion. These are almost entirely focused on the introd… Read more…

The book bears the ink inscriptions of three previous owners across the front pastedown and the rear of the frontispiece: the first states “William Galthans[?] / His Book No.23”; the second, in a bold calligraphic hand, declares “J. S. Sanders / New York USA”; and the third, more curiously, “C. E. M. – Valparaiso, Chili / 157 So 9 th St. / Brooklyn… Read more…

Hardcover First Edition. Red cloth covered boards in very good condition; spine darkened; age toned title label to top. Just cracking over front endpapers. Inscribed in a contemporary hand to front pastedown and half title page ‘Louisa Barton to Mary Jane Barton. Nov 11th 1858’. A later inscription reads ‘M O Rattenbury Feb 1970’. Text block square… Read more…

A handsome volume containing the works of William Shakespeare, presented by Kings College London to John Thomas Arlidge who studied medicine there and went on to specialise in asylum psychiatry, publishing extensively on the subject. The book bears the College’s gilt crest to the upper board, dated 1829, the year the college was founded and the own… Read more…

Poems, stories and sketches kept as a personal record of his creative output by the wealthy ex-patriate Australian businessman, publisher and neighbour of Virginia Woolf and Hillaire Belloc in the Sussex village of Rodmell. James Murray Allison (1877-1929) was born in Melbourne, left Australia in 1908, managed advertising for The Times (he wrote a… Read more…

Beautifully illustrated guide to maritime science and theory, including navigation, from the final phase of sailing ships’ dominance over world trade. Contemporary green textured cloth-covered boards with paper library numbers on the spine. ‘Institution of Naval Architects... Scott Library Collection’ book plate to both pastedowns, no other library… Read more…

True first edition of this early poem, inscribed to a close friend on the northern poetry scene numbered 4 out of 26 signed copies. Printed brown paper wrappers which are browned and faded and separated along the spine. Harrison has inscribed the poem above the title with a double-edged quotation: ‘Nor need we to the distant Indies rome; The curst… Read more…

Super-plush and most uncommon private edition of these letters written between two members of one of Britain’s great Whig dynasties, found here in a presentation binding of crushed red morocco by Zaehnsdorff. Near fine binding, fractional rubbing to extremities; red silk doublures, signed ‘Zaehsdorff 1913’; half title precedes the window-framed, ha… Read more…

Memorial book bound in blue leather with gilt lettering to front board and raised bands to spine in very good condition with damage to leather to spine and some areas on lower board. Discolouration to top left corner of upper board and to lower board. Collection of 85 condolence letter addressed to Mr Norman E.Davis and one to his daughter Molly/Mo… Read more…

The Magic Apple Tree by Elaine Feinstein. Uncorrected proof copy, Hutchinson & Co Ltd, London, Provisional date 19th April 1971. Note in Frieda Hughes' hand on scrap of paper laid in "Feinstein 1971. The Magic Apple Tree. Uncorrected proof". Very good in card wrappers, staining to foot of front cover and a few pages. Feinstein was a close friend of… Read more…

Impassioned short essay, probably written in the USA, urging British and American publishers to reduce the quantity and improve the quality of their books in response to the post-war recession of 1920-1. Noyes has written on the rectos of four sheets of '"Rufford" Parchment' watermarked paper, small quarto-size, signed at the end. The first sheet h… Read more…

First edition, inscribed in Cambridge two years after publication ‘To Frances Hester Athuissa[?] with the kind regards of the Bishop of Cape Town Cambridge Nov 2.d 1858’. Gray was the first Bishop of Capetown which stretched across 250,000 square miles when he assumed the position, making this account an unusally ambitious project. DESCRIPTION: Pub… Read more…

First edition. John Long: London; 1942. Near very good copy in good pictorial, unclipped dust jacket. Dark blue boards titled in gilt to spine. Damp mark to tail of rear board, slight spine lean. Endpapers and text block clean, lightly age toned throughout. Dust jacket chipped to edges top and tail; small repair visible to small clean tear to top f… Read more…

From the estate of Marianne Faithfull where it was used by the singer songwriter in her Paris flat. Large octavo copy of The Christian Journal Vol V Glasgow, 1837 which is soberly bound in half calf over marbled boards, repurposed as leather-lined book safe. The book safe has been inscribed on the front flyleaf to Faithfull: ‘London 26.4.99. A very… Read more…

Substantial quarto volume of original hymns written by the enthusiastic Anglo-Catholic, educationalist, hymnist and, at the composition of this manuscript, a very recent bankrupt. Following his degree at Trinity College Cambridge and a fellowship at the Oxford movement-influenced Society of the College of St Nicolas, John William Hewett had attempt… Read more…

Two volumes of scrupulously executed mathematical rules, examples and handwriting exercises with provenance to the estate of South Yorkshireman Mr. Thomas Newbould, future manager of Earl Fitzwilliam’s Hemingfield Colliery. Included are: 1. A small card backed exercise book containing a superb example of Victorian cursive writing practice full of p… Read more…

A very fresh First edition of this biographical novel of the English essayist Charles Lamb. Near fine in red cloth, top edge a little marked; in a near fine dust jacket, tiny chip to one corner, not price clipped. Ownership inscription to the front free end paper. A very attractive copy. Read more…

1 of 225 copies, never published, only a few copies being distributed to friends at the Double Crown Club where Rene Hague was the speaker. Illustrated with woodcut by Eric Gill. Printed in 8pt Baskerville type on Batchelor hand-made paper watermarked ER. Sewn into original blue wrappers. The date, limitation and number of the printing appear on fi… Read more…

A lined ‘ John Heywood’ copybook containing 12 pp. handwritten invoices, letters, promissory notes, tradesman’s bills, inland bills and receipts recorded throughout the second half of the year 1876. The transactions within span a large geographical area and take place between a wide variety of clients. James Leech of Leeds requests and pays for goo… Read more…

Scarce cheap edition of Rochester’s poems with 9 crudely executed plates. Bound in contemporary sheepskin with wear to the head and tail of the spine; two volumes in one; two frontispieces and 7 further plates. Bottom 4cm of the first title page replaced with an old paper graft, losing the imprint which fortunately survives on the second title page… Read more…

A lifetime's financial records of the third member of the Gladstone family to own Fasque House in Aberdeenshire. Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire and the third Baronet, Sir John Robert Gladstone was the son of Sir Thomas Gladstone (elder brother of William Ewart Gladstone) and grandson of the Scottish business tycoon Sir John Gladstone who founde… Read more…

9th edition illustrated with military maps exhibiting movements of the respective armies. Octavo half bound in calf to spine and corners over marbled boards in very good condition. Titled in gilt over red ground to spine. Boards lightly worn, renewed spine sunned. Endpapers clean front and rear, a little age toned. ‘RJR’ initialled to front pastedo… Read more…