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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(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
[RANYARD, L. N.]
The Book and Its Story; 1855
£20
Thirty-second thousand. Seventh edition, with additions.
Octavo (179 × 117 mm). Contemporary burgundy pebble-grained half morocco, titles and rules to spine, burgundy boards, plain endpapers, sprinkled edges. Engraved... Read more
GELL, Hon. Mrs.
The Cloud of Witness. [c.1908]
£20
One hundred and sixtieth thousand. First published in 1891. An attractively bound copy.
Small octavo (150 × 96 mm). Original quarter vellum, brown morocco label, floral decoration to spine, brown cloth boards, cream endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Five Nations. 1908
£25
First published in 1903. A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (187 × 124 mm). Bound by Hatchards in red half calf, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
[Young Men's Christian Association.]
Lectures delivered before the young men's christian association in Exter hall, 1863
£35
First edition. A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (180 × 118 mm). Contemporary tan calf, crimson morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine, raised bands, twin rule to boards, marbled endpapers and edges.... Read more
SMILES, Samuel.
Lives of the Engineers. 1874
£35
A new and revised edition.
Octavo (180 × 120 mm). Contemporary tan calf, red morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine, raised bands, marbled boards with pictorial block of Huddersfield... Read more
TRENCH, Richard Chevenix.
On The Study of Words. 1872
£35
Fourteenth edition, revised.
Octavo (168 × 101 mm). Contemporary tan calf, red morocco label, decoration to spine, raised bands, crest to front board, marbled endpapers and edges. Some... Read more
GOLDSMITH, Oliver
The Plays. 1909
£35
An attractively bound copy.
Octavo (175 × 120 mm). Contemporary green calf, burgundy morocco label, elaborate decoration to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, school name blocked to front... Read more
HOOD, Thomas.
The Poetical Works. c.1870
£35
Part of The Lansdowne poet series.
Octavo (178 × 119 mm). Contemporary dark blue pebble-grained morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, multi-rules to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt... Read more
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Underwoods. 1890
£35
Fifth edition. An attractively bound copy.
Octavo (165 × 114 mm). Contemporary vellum, red morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine, twin rule to boards with cornerpieces, decorative endpapers, edges... Read more
MURRAY, Gilbert.
A History of Ancient Greek Literature. 1907
£45
First published in 1897.
Octavo (189 × 127 mm). Contemporary blue half calf, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, blue cloth boards, school crest to front board, marbled... Read more
(ARISTOTLE) Ellis, William.
Aristotle's Politics. [c.1890]
£45
Sir John Lubbock's hundred books.
Octavo (184 × 120 mm). Original burgundy pebble-grained half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. 1904
£45
Sixteenth edition. A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (187 × 124 mm). Bound by Hatchards in red half calf, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.
Faust. [c.1890]
£45
Part of Sir John Lubbock's hundred books.
Octavo (184 × 119 mm). Contemporary burgundy half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Bookplate to front... Read more
MOORE, Thomas.
Lalla Rooke, An Oriental Romance. 1836
£45
Eighteenth edition. An attractively bound copy in excellent condition.
Octavo (165 × 95 mm). Contemporary crimson calf, brown morocco label, spine elaborately tooled in compartments, raised bands, gilt tooling to boards, inner... Read more
MACAULAY, Thomas.
Lays of Ancient Rome 1877
£45
New edition.
Octavo (174 × 113 mm). Contemporary crimson crushed morocco, brown morocco label, Black and white illustrated title page. Ownership inscription to the verso of... Read more
SMILES, Samuel.
Life of a Scotch Naturalist. 1882
£45
A new edition.
Octavo (174 × 108 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, black morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Black and... Read more
SOUTHGATE, Henry (eds.)
Many Thoughts of Many Minds. 1870
£45
Twentieth thousand.
Octavo (205 × 139 mm). Contemporary dark green morocco, title to spine gilt, decoration to spine and boards in gilt and in blind, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.... Read more
SCOTT, Sir Walter.
Marmion A Tale of Flodden Field. 1855
£45
First published in 1808.
Octavo. Contemporary burgundy pebble-grained morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine, raised bands, rolls to boards and turn-ins, brown endpapers, gilt... Read more
TENNYSON, Alfred.
Maud and Other Poems. 1876
£45
First published in 1855.
Small octavo (165 × 101 mm). Contemporary tan calf, green morocco label, centre tool to spine in compartments, raised bands, twin rule to boards with... Read more
TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
Maud, And Other Poems. 1862
£45
A new edition.
Small octavo (164 × 100 mm). Contemporary red morocco, titles and rules to spine, rules to boards, inner dentelles, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Ownership... Read more
CAMPBELL, Thomas.
Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and Other Poems. 1852
£45
A nicely bound volume.
Small octavo (132 × 80 mm). Contemporary brown morocco, spine gilt in compartments, yellow coated endpapers, panelling to boards, turn-ins, and all edges gilt.... Read more
[SOUTHEY, Robert]
Poems. 1909
£45
An attractively bound copy of Southey's poems.
Octavo. Bound in half vellum, blue morocco label, decoration to spine gilt and onlaid red morococo, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Engraved frontispiece... Read more
SMITH, James & Horace Smith.
Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum. 1873
£45
New edition.
Octavo (165 × 113 mm). Contemporary burgundy calf, green morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine, raised bands, rules and school crest to boards, marbled... Read more
CARLYLE, Thomas.
Sartor Resartus: [and] On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History. 1831 & 1840
£45
Sartor Resartus is the forty-fifth thousand of this edition and On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History is a first edition.
2 volumes bound in 1, octavo (162 × 112 mm). Contemporary tan calf, black morocco label, elaborate decoration to spine, raised bands, rules to boards with... Read more
