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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AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1911-12
£3,500
The Winchester edition; considered the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. In this enlarged issue, the set has two...
12 volumes, octavo. Recent tan morocco, double morocco labels burgundy and green, decoration to spines, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) POLLARD, Alfred W.
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table. 1917
£3,500
Signed Limited Edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 386.
Large octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial block to front... Read more
COLLODI, Carlo.
The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio... 1892
£3,500
First English Edition.
Small octavo (151 × 95 mm). Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in royal blue morocco, titles and centre tool to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin... Read more
COLLODI, Carlo.
The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio... 1892
£3,500
First English Edition.
Small octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full light blue morocco, title to spine black, decoration to spine gilt and black, raised bands, single rule to... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 1755
£3,500
First Hawkesworth edition, which "for a long period supplanted Faulkner's Dublin edition (1735) as the authoritative text of Swift … The life of Swift prefixed to the first...
6 volumes, quarto (280 × 216 mm), each in 2 parts. Attractively bound about 1800 in full diced russia; spine divided into six compartments by double raised bands... Read more
BARRIE, J. M.
The Works. 1888–1919
£3,500
"Der Tag" is a Second Edition. All other titles are First Editions.
20 volumes, octavo, but assorted sizes. Finely bound uniformly by Bickers and Sons in blue half morocco, gilt title and decoration to spines, raised bands, cloth... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
The Works. 1926
£3,500
National Edition. The writings of the 26th President of the United States on outdoor life, ranching, history, politics and war, with an autobiography in volume twenty.
20 volumes, octavo. Recent full tan morocco, red and green labels, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, top edges gilt, others... Read more
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
The Works. 1911
£3,500
The Swanston edition. Limited to 2,060 numbered copies.
25 volumes, octavo (186 × 122 mm). Finely bound for Hatchards in tan calf, double brown morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spines, flat bands, twin rule to... Read more
[CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne] TWAIN, Mark.
The Writings. [1911]
£3,500
Author's national edition.
25 volumes, octavo. Recent burgundy half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, burgundy cloth boards, cream endpapers, top edges gilt. Monchrome... Read more
DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1921
£3,500
First published in 1888, this is the second edition, the first with Doughty's new preface, and Lawrence's introduction, one of 500 copies only. "Travels in Arabia Deserta, on which...
2 volumes octavo (219 × 140 mm). Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green full morocco, title gilt to the spines, raised bands with dotted roll,... Read more
![[The Richard Hannay Series.]](/content/store/products/26707/2/34448.jpg)
BUCHAN, John.
[The Richard Hannay Series.] 1915-1940
£3,500
All first editions, first impressions. Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by Buchan. In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests...
7 volumes, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Contents of The... Read more
![[The War speeches and the post-War speeches, comprising:]](/content/store/products/5589/2/7153.jpg)
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
[The War speeches and the post-War speeches, comprising:] 1941–61
£3,500
First editions, first impressions.
12 individually issued works, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. The War... Read more
HAGGARD, H. Rider.
King Solomon's Mines. 1885
£3,300
First Edition, First Issue. With all the textual misprints: p.10, "Bamamgwato"; p.122 3rd line up, "let twins to live"; p.307 footnote, last line , "Wrod." Surprisingly scarce in...
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, black coated... Read more
(LAURENCIN, Marie) [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice in Wonderland. 1930
£3,250
First Black Sun Press edition, a total of 790 copies, this copy from the American issue of 420 copies, this is one of 50 printed on Japanese vellum. A major association copy, that of...
Oblong quarto (242 × 285 mm). Contemporary Art Deco inspired red three-quarter morocco by Whitman Bennett for Harry F. Marks, titles to spine, rabbit design to... 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
RANSOME, Arthur.
Complete set of the Swallows and Amazons Novels. 1930–47
£3,250
All first editions, first impressions. Signed by the author to the half-title of Coots Club.
12 volumes, octavo. Recent green morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, original endpapers bound in, top... Read more
COOPER, James Fenimore.
The Complete Works. [1895-96]
£3,250
Leather-Stocking Edition, limited to 1,000 copies, this being number 247. A fine collected works of the American author, including of course his most famous novel, The Last of the...
32 volumes, octavo. Contemporary half dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt.... Read more
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Plays ... 1765
£3,250
First edition edited by Dr Johnson, the first variorum edition, and the foundation text of modern Shakespearean scholarship. Jaggard notes that Johnson seems to have earned in excess...
8 vols., octavo. Mid 19th-century contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, double green morocco labels, marbled sides, endpapers and edges. Portrait... Read more
GREEN, Henry.
The Works. 1926–52
£3,250
All first editions, first impressions.
10 volumes, octavo. Recent green morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. The occasional minor... Read more
![[Complete Strangers and Brothers series:]](/content/store/products/20881/2/25305.jpg)
SNOW, C. P.
[Complete Strangers and Brothers series:] 1940–70
£3,250
All first editions, first impressions. Signed and dated by the author to the title page of the first volume. This eleven-volume roman fleuve probably constitutes Snow's chief...
11 individual works, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A small... Read more
![[Dance to the Music of Time:]](/content/store/products/18743/2/21468.jpg)
POWELL, Anthony.
[Dance to the Music of Time:] 1951–75
£3,250
First editions, first impressions. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper of A Buyer's Market "For Marjorie Matan from Anthony Powell February,...
12 volumes, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Some light... Read more
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MARRYAT, Frederick.
[Works] Author's Limited Edition. [c.1898]
£3,250
Author's Limited Edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, of which this is number 165. The volumes have individual undated titles, and introductions by W. L. Courtney variously...
24 volumes, octavo (219 × 145 mm). Contemporary dark blue half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, gilt titles in two, others with gilt naval motifs, blue cloth... Read more
![[The Space Trilogy, comprising:]](/content/store/products/3141/2/17081.jpg)
LEWIS, C. S.
[The Space Trilogy, comprising:] 1938–43–45
£3,025
All First Editions, First Impressions, of Lewis's Space Trilogy, Cosmic Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy, the three books having a number of interesting parallels with Tolkien's Lord of the...
3 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy coated endpapers, all edges... Read more
![[The Sword of Honour trilogy:] Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender.](/content/store/products/3913/2/5321.jpg)
WAUGH, Evelyn.
[The Sword of Honour trilogy:] Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender. 1952–61
£3,025
All First Editions.
3 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turn-ins, plain cream endpapers, all... Read more
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man. 1916
£3,000
First edition, first printing. Due at least in part to the adverse reception of the Egoist serialisation of A Portrait, no English printer would print the book for fear of...
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, plain black... Read more
