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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MARSH, Edward.
Edward Marsh's Little Book. 1990
£275
Limited edition of 600 numbered copies. Facsimile of a notebook given in 1911 to Edward Marsh by Lady Diana Cooper. He decided "to ask all the poets I knew to copy out in it a a poem...
2 volumes, octavo. Bound in terracotta quarter morocco, green cloth boards. Housed in a green card slipcase with paper title label to spine. A fine copy. Read more
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Elegant Extracts in Prose [and] Poetry [together with] Elegant Epistles. c.1810
£650
A library set of the popular Elegant Extracts, collections of verse and prose from the leading writers and periodicals of the era, first published in the 1780s. These books were so...
18 volumes, small quarto (126 × 78 mm). Contemporary dark blue half calf, burgundy morocco label, decoration to spines, marbled boards, red sprinkled edges.... Read more
KETT, Henry.
Elements of General Knowledge 1825
£125
The ninth edition. With corrections and additions.
2 volumes, octavo (215 × 1331 mm). Contemporary blue calf, titles and elaborate decoration to spines in compartments, raised bands, boards ornately decorated in... Read more
CLIMENSON, Emily J.
Elizabeth Montagu 1906
£125
First edition. A handsome copy.
2 volumes, octavo (215 ×138 mm). Contemporary burgundy half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt.... Read more
GREENE, Graham.
England Made Me. 1935
£1,375
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, plain... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) STEEL, Flora Annie.
English Fairy Tales. 1918
£2,750
Signed Limited Edition. One of 500 copies. Signed by Rackham.
Quarto. Finely Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath in full blue levant morocco, gilt title and box design to spine, raised bands, gilt rule and ornate gilt panel design... Read more
JESSE, John Heneage.
English Historical Memoirs. 1901
£4,750
A good collected edition of the popular historical writings of John Heneage Jesse (c. 1809–1874). The first of these, Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reigns of the...
30 volumes, octavo. Bound in red half calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, white cloth boards with gilt Tudor rose design, marbled endpapers top edge gilt.... Read more
SPENSER, Edmund.
Epithalamion and Amoretti. 1903
£125
First edition thus, one of a limited edition of 30 numbered copies signed by the publisher on the limitation leaf.
Octavo (252 × 158 mm). Contemporary full vellum, titles to spine, elaborate floral pattern to upper board, and top edge gilt. Original cloth bound in at rear.... Read more
LYTTON, Lord.
Ernest Maltravers. c.1890
£45
A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (178 × 115 mm). Contemporary blue half calf, two red morocco labels, decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards and... Read more
(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING) BURNEY, Fanny.
Evelina [c.1900]
£1,750
First published in 1778. A lovely example of a Riviere cosway-style binding.
Octavo (180 × 120 mm). Finely bound by Riviere and Son in blue crushed levant morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, front board set with a... Read more
[SHEPARD, E. H.] PEPYS, Samuel.
Everybody's Pepys. 1926
£1,250
Signed limited edition of 350 copies of which this is number 211.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, titles to spine gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With... Read more
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Evil Under the Sun. 1941
£1,375
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled... Read more
[BERRY, Mary.]
Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. 1865 -66
£245
Volumes 1 & 2 are first editions and volume 3 is a second edition.
3 volumes, octavo (208 mm × 133 mm). Contemporary blue half calf, double burgundy morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spines, raised bands, marbled boards and... Read more
[CROKER, Thomas Crofton.]
Fairy Tales and Traditions of the South of Ireland. 1834
£350
The selected edition, comprising forty tales extracted from the fifty that first appeared in three separate volumes issued between 1825 and 1828.
Octavo (145 × 95 mm). Late nineteenth-century red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled sides, endpapers, and edges. Engravings throughout. Spotting to... Read more
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian.
Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen. 1923
£375
Eleventh edition. A particularly handsome copy of Andersen's Fairy Tales.
Octavo (186 × 135mm). Finely bound by Riviere & Son in red calf, two brown morocco labels, decoration to spine in compartments separated by raised bands, rule to... Read more
(NIELSEN, Kay) ANDERSEN, Hans.
Fairy Tales. [1924]
£3,750
Edition de Luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artist. A selection of classic stories by Hans Andersen which includes the Snow Queen and the Tinder Box beautifully...
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rules to boards gilt, titles and... Read more
(NIELSEN, Kay) ANDERSEN, Hans.
Fairy Tales. 1924
£1,500
First US Edition.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled... Read more
HULME, Edward, & Shirley Hibberd.
Familiar Garden Flowers. [c.1895].
£375
First series through to fifth series. Each issue contains 40 colour plates with a detailed description of each flower along with its medicinal uses and habitat.
5 volumes, small octavo (184 × 128 mm). Contemporary brown calf, black morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, twin... Read more
HULME, F. Edward.
Familiar Wild Flowers [c. 1900]
£250
Hulme completed nine series in total which were published at various intervals between 1878-1905. Each issue contains 40 colour plates with a detailed description of each flower...
7 series bound in 3 volumes, octavo (190 × 129 mm). Contemporary burgundy half calf, brown morocco labels, decoration to spines, raised bands, burgundy patterned... Read more
CHANDLER, Raymond.
Farewell My Lovely. 1940
£1,750
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, inner dentelles, dark blue... Read more
TOLKIEN, J. R. R.
Farmer Giles of Ham. 1949
£1,250
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, two raised bands, rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled... Read more
(POGANY, Willy) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
Faust. [1908]
£1,750
Edition de Luxe limited to 100 copies of which this is number 80 signed by the artist.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full terracotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial block... Read more
(POGANY, William) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
Faust. [c. 1908]
£850
First US edition, first printing. Originally published in the UK in 1908. A handsomely bound copy.
Quarto (265 × 190 mm). Contemporary green morocco, elaborate floral decoration to spine, boards, and turn-ins gilt, rose-shaped pink onlays, burgundy morocco... Read more
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
Faust: A Dramatic Poem. 1833
£60
An attractively bound copy of Goethe's Faust.
Octavo (220 × 138 mm). Finely bound by Riviere in blue half morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. The occasional... Read more
THOMPSON, Hunter S.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 1971
£1,250
First Edition, First Printing.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, titles to spine in silver, block to front board after Ralph Steadman in blind, single rule to... Read more
