viii, 151 pp., Brown full morocco binding. Cracking and loss to the spine, with splits to the joints and some wear to the board. Small numbered label to the spine. Repair to the front hinge, pasted on to the title page. Binding otherwise solid. Owner's name in ink to the title page. Some scattered spotting, with staining effecting some of the fore edge and the pages, 5-20, 111-124. ESTC T112122. Simon - Bibliotheca Vinaria P.154; Maclean 33. View More...
xx, 419 pp., Maroon half calf binding with marbled boards and edges uncut. Raised bands to the spine with gilt decoration and top edge gilt. Minor wear to the head of the spine and corners. Binding firm. Internally clean with slight toning to the leaves. Selection of poems by various women including Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti and many more. View More...
Scarce. First Edition. viii, 306, [vi], 24 pp. Brick cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight marking to boards, minor rubbing to board edges. Embossed owner address to half-title. Internally clean. Publisher's catalogue at rear. OCLC records just five UK copies. View More...
First edition. xvi, 367, iv pp., 6 plates, contemporary speckled brown quarter calf, marbled boards and red title label to the spine. Some wear to the boards and extremities. Binding firm with occasional marks and slight spotting internally. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 5 fold out plates. Owner's name in ink to the front end papers. George Adams (1750?1795) was a mathematical instrument maker to King George III of Great Britain, succeeding his father to the post. An inventor of optical devices and microscopes, he wrote a variety of early texts on subjects such as electricity, as... View More...
vii, 331, (viii) pp. PORTUGUESE TEXT. Bound in later half calf over snakeskin-patterned boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. New endpapers. Slight waterto the boards particularly the rear. Light water damage to the leaves particularly affecting the front endpapers and tail edge and corner . With three folding plates at rear. Neat paper repairs to plates. Aglae Adanson (1775-1852) was a French naturalist and author of books on gardening and rural economy. Her first book 'The Country House,' published in 1822, was reprinted several times due to its popularity. This Portug... View More...
96 pp. Publisher's boards in pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket creased & edgeworn with short tears. Boards clean. Internally clean. Illustrations throughout by the author. View More...
xxiv, 262 pp., Rebound with gilt lettered calf spine, marbled boards and new endpapers. Boards fresh with minor bump to the corners. Slight spotting internally and staining to the leave's fore edge. Lacks the final leaf of text. A fantastic guide to regency cooking it contains a wealth of information, from a guide to confectionary, how to roast woodcocks or to make a curry in the Indian way. In addition to how to cook these recipes the front of the book contains a guide on when to eat them, from what to eat each month and how to best arrange your dinner's menu. A scarce title OCLC records 5 co... View More...
viii, 193, (vii) pp. Blue publishers cloth with black and gilt decoration to spine and front board. Boards clean, with slight wear to the spine ends with minor fraying to the corners. Minor shaking to the binding. Some minor marks internally with slight offsetting to some of the leaves from pressed plants. Bookplate and owners name to the front pastedown, both of which have been crossed out and obscured. Book seller's stamp to the front pastedown with publisher's cataloguer to the rear. View More...
290 pp. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 12. Signed by W. Heath Robinson. Recently handsomely rebound in a richly gilt-illustrated red morocco at the Chelsea Bindery, with ornamental gilt stamping on front, raised gilt bands on spine, gilt line along edges and dentelling on the endpapers. Wonderful illustrations: 94 in black and white, and 16 in full colour. Gorgeous. View More...
viii, 250 pp. Full vellum binding with gilt-decoration and top edge gilt. Boards clean. Significant damage with loss to the head and webbing exposed 9apparently chewed by a dog), affecting the spine text. Minor shaking to the binding. Internally clean and bright, with owners name in ink to the verso of the frontis piece. Beautifully illustrated with 28 full-page tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Number 160, of an limited run of 750 and signed by the artist. View More...
Unpaginated [40 pp.]. Pictorial card covers bound with staple at lower edge. Miniature book measuring 5.5cm x 7.5cm. Flip-book with illustration to each page showing Hotsy Totsy doing her Fanny Dance. OCLC records just one copy at the University of Virginia. Scarce. View More...
226 pp. Contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards. Ex-institutional library of Bibliothek der Musse, Riga with usual markings. Rubbing to spine and board edges. Internally clean. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Manoug Parikian, British concert violinist and professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Loosely inserted are three TLS by Isaiah Berlin, dated 1972-73 on 'Headington House, Oxford' letterhead, in which he thanks Parikian for the loan of the book and then apologises for not returning it in a timely manner, as the book had become buried somewhere in his library. The autho... View More...
124, (3) pp., Publisher's grey cloth binding with graphic black lettering. Slight marks to the boards and staining to the tail of the front. Minor shaking to the binding. Generally internally clean, with small pen mark to p.97 and owner's mark to the front free paper that someone has obscured with Tipp-ex. Contains a wealth of information to make all the Daisies, Juleps, Toddies and Smashes one could want. 17 x 11 cm. View More...
Unpaginated. FRENCH TEXT. Red full snakeskin binding, with top edge burnished red and patterned cloth endpapers. Original yellow paper wraps bound in. Boards fresh and bright. Binding firm. Slight, occasional spotting to the fore edge and the edges of the leaves. Number 933 of a limited run of 1200. Illustrated through out with woodcuts by the fauvist artist and designer Raoul Dufy. This edition was published the year after Apollinaire's death from Spanish Flu after being injured serving in WWI and contains a tribute to the author by Raoul Dufy. Apollinaire was a major figure in early twentie... View More...
French language. Unpaginated. Original yellow paper wraps. Slight wear to edges, very slight loss to top of the spine. Binding a little loose in places within, but still together and internally clean. Number 78 of a limited run of 1200. Illustrated through out with woodcuts by the fauvist artist and designer Raoul Dufy. This edition was published the year after Apollinaire's death from Spanish Flu after being injured serving in WWI and contains a tribute to the author by Raoul Dufy. Apollinaire was a major figure in early twentieth century art movements including Cubism, and indeed this collec... View More...
3 volumes. [2], cxxviii, 194; [2], 582; [2], 428 pp. Recently recased with red calf boards, with gilt detailing to the spine and edges of the boards. All edges gilt. Some scratches to the boards and patches of sunning. Original boards by Eedy. Some Darkening to the front endpapers and slight spotting throughout, particularly to the second and third volumes. With marbled endpapers and heraldic bookplates to the front endpapers of every volume. The first county history published of Berkshire, with a focus on the antiquarian - gravestones, monuments, family 'pedigrees' etc. With a fold out fronti... View More...
xvi, 342 pp. Recently beautifully bound in speckled brown calf over marbled boards, with raised bands, red title label, gilt-stamped devices and lettering to spine; top edge gilt. In fine cloth slipcase. Externally in fine condition, minor occasional spots internally. With black and white illustrations by Hugh Thompson. A pocket edition, binding 18 by 12cm. View More...
First Editions -- 1923-1932. In 7 volumes. Light blue cloth spines with white title labels and marbled boards. Large paper limited editions -- only 1000 sets produced; includes all six novels by Austen and two volumes of her letters which were produced later, 1796-1809 and 1811-1817. All illustrated with plates. Heads and tails of spines a little rubbed with a small split at the head of Pride and Prejudice. Uncut and internally clean. A lovely set in great condition. Uncommon in such nice condition, and to have all seven matching. View More...
xv, 140pp. Numbered, limited edition. Pink cloth binding with tan leather title label. Top edge gilt with edges uncut. Boards clean with some sunning to the spine and edges. A reproduction of the original manuscript. Binding firm and internally fresh and bright. Some darkening to the decorated endpapers, rather comical colour illustrations of the Tudor and Stuart houses, by [Cassandra] C. E. Austen. Also includes a reproduction, about half size, from a page of the original mansuscript: Austen's introductory note to 'A History of England', also in the book. Number 73 of a limted run of 260, in... View More...
xix, 151 pp. Harleian Mss 279 and 4016 with extracts from Ashmole Ms 1429, Laud Ms 553 & Douce Ms55. Later quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. Original printed paper wrappers bound in at front & rear. Boards slightly rubbed with slight bubbling . Very light water staining affecting the tail edge of some of the leaves, particularly the endpapers and original wrapper. Bookplate to front pastedown. Original wraps worn and laid down. Binding firm. Text in Middle English. View More...
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