Decorative Bindings (all items)
First editions and rare books in fine bindings and decorative bindings and manuscripts, including first editions bound by the Chelsea Bindery, and multi-volume library sets.
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HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World. 1932
£1,375
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy... Read more
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World. A Novel. 1932
£3,250
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. Finely bound by Leonard Mounteney, who worked as an...
Octavo (215 × 140 mm). Contemporary yellow three-quarter morocco by Leonard Mounteney, spine gilt in compartments with gilt floral pattern and red and yellow... Read more
CAPOTE, Truman.
Breakfast at Tiffany's. 1958
£2,750
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in pink morocco, black morocco title label, title to spine silver, black leather onlay silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as... Read more
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Brideshead Revisited. 1946
£4,125
First US edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper "For the Children of Mary, Waltham Cross 3rd Dec 1949", no doubt a donation to raise...
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, inner dentelles, dark green... Read more
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Brideshead Revisited. 1945
£1,500
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, plain green... Read more
GREENE, Graham.
Brighton Rock. 1938
£1,500
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, black... Read more
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul
Bunny and Brownie. The adventures of George & Wiggle. 1930
£2,250
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in bright green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, pictorial block to front... Read more
BYRON, Lord.
Byron's Life and Works. 1832–4
£875
17 volumes, small octavo. Bound in half tan calf, two black labels, gilt titles and decoration to spine, grey endpapers, marbled boards. Spines slightly worn with some cracking,...
17 volumes, small octavo. Bound in half tan calf, two black labels, gilt titles and decoration to spine, grey endpapers, marbled boards. Spines slightly worn with... Read more
SALLUST.
Caii Crispi Sallustii quae exstant … 1737
£1,250
Large paper copy of the famous edition of Sallust by the short lived Gottlieb Kortte (1698–1731), whose installation as professor of jurisprudence at Liepzig in 1726 Bach hailed...
Large quarto (307 × 225 mm), in two parts, with continuous pagination and register. Bound by C. Smith in early 19th-century dark green diagonal-straight-grained... Read more
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks. 1899
£150
An attractively bound copy from the collected works.
Octavo (178 × 118 mm). Late 20th-century blue half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers and sides, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 20 plates.... Read more
(FORE-EDGE PAINTING) NEWTON, John.
Cardiphonia: or, the Utterance of the Heart; 1822
£1,250
Sixth edition. With an attractive and detailed contemporary fore-edge painting depicting Douglas, Isle of Man, the harbour ringed in hills, buildings around the water, a number of...
Octavo (175 × 112 mm). Contemporary black morocco panelled in blind, spine compartments decorated in gilt and blind, lavender coated endpapers, fore-edge... Read more
(BULL, René) MÉRIMÉE, Prosper.
Carmen. 1915
£1,375
First René Bull Edition.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, titles and box design to spine gilt, raised bands, title to front boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt,... Read more
HELLER, Joseph.
Catch-22. 1961
£2,000
First Edition, First Printing.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full royal blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, plain coated... Read more
HELLER, Joseph.
Catch-22. A Novel. 1961
£2,750
First edition, first printing. With a tipped in segment from the title page of Heller's fourth book God knows signed by the author.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in bright blue morocco, titles to spine blocked in white copied from the original spine, pictorial onlay of a red figure to... Read more
(CHAMBERS).
Chamber's Biographical Dictionary. 1926
£20
New edition.
Octavo. Contemporary dark green half morocco, titles to spine, green cloth boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Some occasional light foxing, spine faded and binding... Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) DOLBY, George.
Charles Dickens as I Knew Him. [late nineteenth century]
£125
An attractively bound copy of this biography by George Dolby, who managed Dickens' reading tours in the United States.
Octavo (180 × 120 mm). Early twentieth-century dark green half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Original cloth... Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.
Charles Dickens. 1913
£95
First edition, first impression.
Octavo (185 × 122 mm). Contemporary dark green half morocco, spine gilt in compartments with floral tools, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine and... Read more
(CHARLES II) AIRY, Osmund.
Charles II. 1901
£375
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 1250 numbered copies, this an out-of-series presentation copy. Very handsomely bound.
Large quarto (322 × 245 mm). Contemporary turquoise morocco, spine gilt in compartments with custom tools related to Charles II, boards gilt panelled with floral... Read more
DAHL, Roald.
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. 1964
£2,250
First edition, first printing with the six line colophon on the last page (this was cut to five in all subsequent printings). This US edition precedes the English by three years.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in purple morocco, titles to spine, decorative multi-coloured title onlay to upper board, twin rule to turn-ins, dark green... Read more
(CHAUCER, Geoffrey) SEYMOUR, Mary.
Chaucer's Stories Simply Told. 1884
£95
First edition. A very attractively bound copy.
Octavo (180 × 125 mm). Contemporary red calf prize binding, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, brown morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges, double-line... Read more
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.
Chaucer. Selected and edited by Frederick Nöel Patton. c.1910
£60
Part of The Canterbury Poets Series, edited by William Sharp.
Small octavo. Contemporary quarter vellum, brown morocco label, (137 × 100 mm) floral decoration to spine, green cloth boards, plain cream endpapers, top edge... Read more
FLEMING, Ian.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. 1964
£1,800
First Edition, First Impression.
3 volumes in one, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark green morocco, titles to spine gilt, two raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, colour... Read more
DODWELL, Edward.
Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, 1819
£6,500
First edition of "this remarkable work" (Blackmer), describing both classical and modern Greece. It was the outcome of Dodwell's two tours through the region, the first in the...
2 volumes quarto (259 × 205 mm) Contemporary Russia by Gilmour of Salisbury - ticket to the front pastedown of volume I - narrow bands with a dashed roll, gilt... Read more
BURGESS, Anthony.
Clockwork Orange. 1962
£1,750
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in black morocco with a filmic morocco onlay showing Alex's bowler-hatted gulliver, titles to spine and front board in... Read more
BURGESS, Anthony.
Clockwork Orange. 1962
£1,750
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in black morocco with a filmic morocco onlay showing Alex's bowler-hatted gulliver, titles to spine and front board in... Read more
