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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BUCHAN, John.
The Thirty-Nine Steps. 1915
£1,500
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
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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
BUCKINGHAM, J. S.
America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive. [1841-3]
£5,000
First editions, the Slave States being the first of two issues, of "Mr. Buckingham's great work on America" (Rich). Buckingham spent his early years as a sailor in the Atlantic and...
9 volumes, octavo (212 × 130 mm). 19th-century tan calf, spines gilt in compartments, red and brown labels, Northern Light Board stamp to head of spine and ruling... Read more
BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de.
Oeuvres Choisies de Buffon 1883
£75
A handsome copy.
2 volumes, octavo (175 × 105mm). Contemporary red calf, double green morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spines in compartments, raised bands, roll to boards,... Read more
BULGAKOV, Mikhail.
The Master and Margarita. 1967
£1,375
First Glenny edition, first impression. Although the Glenny translation was beaten to the press in 1967 by that of Mirra Ginsburg, Ginsburg had taken as her copy text the heavy...
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, dark green... 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
BUNYAN, John.
A True Relation of The Holy War Made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus. [c.1890]
£60
First published in 1782. A handsomely bound copy.
Quarto. Contemporary tan half calf, black morocco label, decoration to spine gilt and in blind, marbled endpapers and edges. Numerous black and white illustrations.... Read more
BUNYAN, John.
The Pilgrim's Progress [c.1890]
£45
A new edition with a memoir. Part of Sir John Lubbock's hundred books.
Octavo (185 × 120 mm). Contemporary red morocco, titles and decoration to spine, triple rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Black and white... Read more
BUNYAN, John.
The Works. 1855
£185
A nicely bound set of the works of John Bunyan.
3 volumes, tall octavo (255 × 160 mm). Contemporary red half calf, spines blind stamped in compartments, gilt to raised bands, black morocco labels, red patterned... Read more
BUONAMICI, Castruccio.
Commentaries of the Late War in Italy, Translated from The Original Latin. 1753
£750
First edition in English, first published in Latin, "Ludgunum Batavorum" Genoa, 1750-1. An account of the Italian Campaigns of the War of the Austrian Succesion by a participant....
Octavo (200 × 115 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco label, red speckled edges. Contemporary shelf label to tail of... 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, Walter W.
Bits of Old Chelsea. 1894
£10,000
First Edition, one of a limited edition of 110 copies, of which only 100 were for sale. A lavish piece of 1890s book production, with text by two fellow bohemian poets and...
Large folio (443 × 305 mm). Fine binding of reddish brown morocco by The Chelsea Bindery, spine and front cover lettered gilt, spine with wide raised bands, gilt... Read more
BURN, Richard & John.
The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer. 1793
£500
Seventeenth edition. Richard Burn was a JP and clergyman who edited the ninth, tenth and eleventh editions of Blackstone's Commentaries. His Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer...
4 volumes, octavo (208 × 130 mm). Contemporary tan calf, black morocco labels, 5 raised bands, patterned roll to boards in blind. Boards rubbed and scuffed, some... Read more
(BURNE-JONES, Edward) Huffer, Ford.
The Queen Who Flew. A Fairy Tale. 1894
£5,000
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 25 numbered copies signed by the author on the verso of the front blank.
Octavo. Original full vellum, titles to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial design to upper board in reddish-brown. Tipped-in lithographic frontispiece by Edward... Read more
BURNET, Gilbert.
The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. 1715
£675
First edition of the third volume, the supplement; fourth edition of the first two volumes, which were first published in 1679–81. Burnet's work, the first attempt to write such...
3 volumes, quarto. Contemporary full panelled calf, red and green labels, spines attractively gilt with floral tools and leaf sprays, raised bands, covers with triple... Read more
BURNETT, Frances Hodgson.
Little Lord Fauntleroy. 1886
£375
First UK edition, first impression.
Octavo (210 × 143 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in crimson half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth boards,... Read more
BURNS, Robert.
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. 1787
£950
First London edition, third edition overall.
Octavo (215 × 135 mm). Later red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, paneling, turn-ins, and edges gilt. Portrait... Read more
BURNS, Robert.
The Poetical Works and Letters. c.1910
£65
A handsomely bound copy of Burn's poetry.
Octavo (185 × 126 mm). Contemporary tree calf, brown morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine in compartments separated by raised bands, roll to boards and... Read more
BURNS, Robert.
The Poetical Works. 1830
£150
2 volumes, octavo (163 × 99 mm). Contemporary burgundy half pebble-grained morocco, titles and decoration to spines, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Engraved frontispiece...
2 volumes, octavo (163 × 99 mm). Contemporary burgundy half pebble-grained morocco, titles and decoration to spines, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Engraved... Read more
BURNS, Robert.
The Works. 1819
£600
A very handsome library set of Burns's works in an attractive contemporary binding of diced calf with delicate gilt tooling to the spine.
4 volumes, octavo (211 × 124 mm). Contemporary diced brown calf, spines gilt in compartments with black bands, double line ruling to boards gilt, marbled... Read more
BURNS, Robert.
The Works. 1819
£350
An attractively bound library set of Burns.
4 volumes, octavo (207 × 125 mm). Contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides, red speckled edges. Portrait frontispiece to volume... Read more
BURNS, Robert.
The Works. 1834
£350
An attractive set in excellent condition.
8 volumes, small octavo (163 × 94 mm) Contemporary red pebble-grained morocco, titles to spines, decoration to spines and boards in blind and gilt, raised bands,... Read more
BURNS, Robert.
The Works. 1834
£650
A beautifully bound library set of Robert Burns.
8 volumes, octavo (160 × 100 mm). Late 19th-century brown morocco, spines and boards panelled in gold and dark brown, marbled endpapers, turn-ins and all edges... Read more
BURTON, John Hill.
The Book - Hunter etc. 1885
£60
New edition. A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (178 × 116 mm). Finely bound by Hendersen & Bisset in tree calf, black morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine in compartments separated by raised bands,... Read more
BURTON, Richard F.
The Works… The Memorial Edition. 1893–94
£2,750
A complete set of all that was published of Lady Burton's memorial edition of her late husband's works, comprising A Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, A Mission to Gelele, King of...
7 volumes, octavo. Bound in recent sand full morocco, title gilt to spine, raised bands, gilt lozenge device to compartments, single fillet gilt panel to boards,... Read more
