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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[SOUTHEY, Robert]
Select Works of The British Poets, 1831
£60
First edition.
Octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary tan calf, red morocco label, decoration to spine, raised bands, gilt panelling to boards, cream endpapers, marbled edges.... Read more
[SOUTHEY, Robert]
The Life of Nelson. 1814
£950
Second edition. "Southey constructed an early-nineteenth century hero as a model for the young - in his words, a "patriotic manual". He told a friend that he would write "such a life...
Duodecimo (162mm x 100mm) contemporary red full straight-grained morocco, broad rolled panels in gilt and blind to the sides, flat spines gilt in compartments, just a... Read more
[SOUTHEY, Robert]
The Life of Nelson. 1895
£125
A nicely bound volume of the poet Robert Southey's popular Life of Nelson, rarely out of print since it was first published in 1813.
Octavo (212 × 135 mm). Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges. Portrait frontispiece and 12 plates,... Read more
[SOUTHEY, Robert]
The Life of Nelson. 1814
£1,500
First edition, the uncommon large paper copy. "Southey constructed an early-nineteenth century hero as a model for the young - in his words, a 'patriotic manual.' He told a friend...
Octavo (185 × 113 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked, dark tan morocco label, flat bands with gilt milled rolls, lozenge tools to the first, fourth and sixth... Read more
[SOUTHEY, Robert]
The Poetical Works. 1845
£60
New edition. An attractively bound copy.
Octavo (231 × 147 mm). Contemporary olive pebble-grained morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine in compartments, raised bands, gilt panelling to boards... Read more
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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
SMYTH, William.
Lectures on Modern History; 1854
£125
New edition. A handsomely bound copy.
2 volumes, octavo (177 × 109 mm). Contemporary crimson calf, spines uniformly faded to tan, two brown morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spines, raised bands,... Read more
SMOLLETT, Tobias.
The Works. 1872
£425
A handsomely bound set of Smollett's works.
8 volumes, octavo (225 × 136 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, morocco labels in red and green, elaborate tooling to spines in compartments, raised bands, dark... Read more
SMITH, Rev. Thomas.
The Naturalist's Cabinet: [1807]
£385
First edition.
6 volumes, small octavo (176 × 105 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, black morocco labels, decoration to spines, marbled boards, plain cream endpapers. Numerous... 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
SMITH, Dodie.
I Capture The Castle. 1949
£1,375
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled... Read more
SMITH, Dodie.
The Hundred and One Dalmatians. 1956
£1,500
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in white morocco, with black onlay patches (imitating a Dalmatian's colouring), title to spine gilt, cream endpapers with... Read more
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry in the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 1799
£1,250
Ninth edition. An attractively bound set.
3 volumes, octavo (212 × 126 mm). Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments. Bookplate to volume I. Bindings lightly rubbed, repairs to joints and... 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
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
SLOANE, William Milligan.
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1909
£1,200
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4 volumes, quarto. Finely bound in recent half burgundy morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, original cloth boards, top edge gilt, others trimmed.... Read more
SIMON, André L.
Wines of the World. 1969
£1,250
One of a limited edition of 265 copies expressly designed and bound by Zaehnsdorf and signed by the author on the limitation leaf.
Large octavo (262 × 185 mm). Fine red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, titles to spine gilt, five raised bands, grape vine design to upper board in gilt with green and... Read more
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.
The Dramatic Works. 1857
£45
A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (176 × 108 mm). Contemporary green calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red morocco label, covers ruled in gilt with a double fillet, marbled... Read more
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.
The Plays. 1900
£45
From the library of English classics series.
Octavo (218 × 140 mm). Contemporary brown half morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Ownership... 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
(SHEPARD, E. H.) GRAHAME, Kenneth.
The Wind in the Willows. 1931
£1,375
First Shepard edition, the first illustrated edition of this children's classic, which was first published in 1908 with only the frontispiece as illustration.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands single rule to boards, inner dentelles, burgundy... Read more
SHENSTONE, William.
The Works in Verse and Prose. 1765
£250
Second editions.
3 volumes, octavo (175 × 110 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt in compartments, red morocco labels. Engraved frontispiece and vignette title to... Read more
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
The Revolt of Islam; a poem, in twelve cantos. 1818
£4,500
First edition under this title. In 1817 the Olliers agreed to publish Shelley's long poem, Laon and Cythna. Shelley's new father in law, William Godwin, recommended a master printer...
Demy octavo (210 × 130 mm). Finely bound by Rivière & Son c.1900 in red crushed goatskin, both covers tooled in gilt with stylised vines, onlays of grapes... Read more
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose. 1880
£975
A handsomely bound set of the Buxton Forman edition.
8 volumes, octavo (225 × 139 mm). Contemporary brown half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt.... Read more
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
The Works. 1850
£150
A handsomely bound copy of Shelley's poetry.
Octavo (233 × 153 mm). Contemporary dark tan calf, crimson morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine in compartments separated by raised bands, rules to boards... Read more
