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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ARNOLD, Matthew.
The Poems of Matthew Arnold 1840 - 1867. 1920
£45
A handsomely bound copy of Arnold's poetry.
Octavo (180 × 115 mm). Contemporary green calf, red morocco label, elaborate decoration to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, crest to front board, marbled... Read more
ARNOLD, Matthew.
The Poetical Works. 1896
£50
A handsome copy.
Octavo (185 × 120 mm). Contemporary brown morocco, titles to spine, decoration to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Gift inscription to binder's front... Read more
AUCKLAND, Lord William.
The Journal and Correspondence of William, Lord Auckland. 1861
£125
2 volumes, octavo (214 × 135 mm). Contemporary crimson calf, morocco labels olive and brown, elaborate tooling to spines in compartments, raised bands, rules to boards with...
2 volumes, octavo (214 × 135 mm). Contemporary crimson calf, morocco labels olive and brown, elaborate tooling to spines in compartments, raised bands, rules to... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Sense and Sensibility. 1919
£385
First illustrated by Thomson in 1896. A particularly attractive copy of Sense and Sensibility.
Octavo (168 × 105 mm). Contemporary tan calf, red and olive morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine in compartments, raised bands, twin rule to boards with... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Sense and Sensibility. 1908
£375
A particularly handsome copy.
Octavo (195 × 117 mm). Contemporary blue half morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine in compartments, raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Sense And Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. 1833
£7,500
First collected edition. Published by Bentley in his Standard Novels series. Each of these is the first one-volume edition and the group as a whole constitutes the first collected...
5 volumes, octavo. Recent blue half calf, tan morocco labels, centre tool to spines in blind and gilt roll to bands, marbled boards, brown plain coated endpapers,... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Complete Novels. [c.1960].
£500
A handsomely bound single volume of Austen's novels.
Octavo (200 × 130 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in burgundy half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers,... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The novels and letters. 1906
£6,000
Stoneleigh edition. Limited to 1,250 numbered sets.
12 volumes, octavo (207 × 136 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt,... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels and Letters. 1906
£2,750
The Chawton edition. Limited to 1,250 numbered copies.
12 volumes, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With coloured... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1923
£3,750
Large paper edition. Limited to 1,000 sets of which 950 are for sale.
7 volumes, octavo. Recent tan morocco, double morocco labels burgundy and green, decoration to spines, single rules to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt,... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1917
£750
A nice, illustrated library set.
10 volumes, octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spines and upper boards gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edges gilt. Colour frontispiece and 9 plates in each volumes... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. c.1892
£1,250
Handy library edition. An attractively bound set of Austen's novels.
6 volumes, small octavo (180 × 118 mm). Contemporary dark brown half morocco, titles and floral decoration to spines, three raised bands, marbled boards and... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1892
£1,750
Large paper edition, one of 100 numbered set. After Richard Bentley, J. M. Dent was the next publisher to take up Jane Austen's novels, and continued publishing them into the 1960s....
10 volumes, small octavo (202 × 129 mm). Original brown cloth, titles and decoration to spines, edges untrimmed. Browning to endpapers, spines darkened and some... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1905–6
£2,450
The Winchester Edition, the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. The Winchester Edition was first published by Grant...
10 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in recent full burgundy morocco, gilt decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Engraved... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1905
£4,750
A particularly attractive set of Austen's novels and a fine example of the Bayntun Bindery's work. The Winchester Edition, the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane...
10 volumes, octavo (202 × 135). Finely bound by Bayntun in contempoary red half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, two bands, marbled boards and endpapers,... Read more
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
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1926
£2,750
Second edition. A particularly handsome set.
5 volumes, octavo (187 × 125 mm). Finely bound by Bickers & Son Ltd. in tan half calf, crimson and tan morocco title labels, elaborate tooling to spines in... Read more
BACON, Francis.
Original Letters and Memoirs, 1736
£250
Stephens's edition was first published in 1702, with a supplement including Bacon papers found in the collections of his cousin Robert Harley, later earl of Oxford, published by his...
Small quarto (204 × 155 mm). Contemporary calf, double gilt rules, red sprinkled edges, rebacked to style with red morocco label gilt. Portrait frontispiece,... Read more
BACON, Francis.
The Works. 1825–34
£1,200
The Montagu edition, one of the earliest collected works of Francis Bacon and the most important literary achievement of its editor, who also contributed two articles on Bacon to The...
17 volumes, octavo (218 × 138 mm). 20th-century brown crushed morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed.... Read more
BACON, Francis.
The Works. 1826
£650
A handsomely bound library set of the works of Francis Bacon.
10 volumes, octavo (214 × 130 mm). Contemporary maroon half vellum, spines gilt in compartments, black morocco labels, marbled sides, edges, and endpapers.... Read more
(BADMINTON LIBRARY) HUTCHINSON, Horace G.
Golf. 1890
£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, burgundy... Read more
BAGEHOT, Walter.
Literary Studies. 1879
£125
Second edition. Inscribed by the author's wife to the binder's front blank "For Halsey Ralph Ricardo on his marriage, March 1882. With Mrs Walter Bagehot's best wishes."
2 volumes, octavo (218 × 138 mm). Contemporary dark blue pebble-grained morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, roll to turn-ins with... Read more
BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael.
The Coral Island: 1866
£150
First published in 1858. Ballantyne wrote children's stories based on his experiences in Canada as a young man in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, achieving his greatest...
Octavo (174 × 115 mm). Contemporary dark brown pebble-grained morocco, titles and decoration to spine, gilt panelled design to boards, cream endpapers, gilt... Read more
BANCROFT, George.
History of the United States of America, from the discovery of the American continent. 1874
£1,000
Twenty-fifth edition.
10 volumes, octavo (225 × 145 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, two morocco labels brown and green, elaborate tooling to spines in compartments, raised bands,... Read more
BANCROFT, Hubert Howe.
The Works. 1886
£7,500
First edition, the complete set of what is still considered by historians to be the most important single source of early Western American history. "Colossal co-operative...
39 vols., octavo. Recent tan morocco, spines gilt in compartments, light and dark brown morocco labels, marbled endpapers, floral roll to boards and all edges gilt.... Read more
