Search results for: 'the works'
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (trans.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faustus: from the German.London : 1821
First edition in English of Goethe's Faust, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book is most often met with in the publishers' reddish-brown paper boards, the flimsy backstrip having perished. This copy, however, has an attractive contemporary polished calf binding by the London binder Charles Murton, who Ramsden notes specialised in blind stamping.... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 134583
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ARNOLD, Matthew. Poetical Works.London : 1910
Handsomely presented copy of Arnold's complete poems, first published in 1890. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140552
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GORE, Catherine. New Year's Day, A Winter's Tale.London : [1846]
First edition, in a beautiful signed Kelliegram binding, with their signature onlay illustration, of the second of three Christmas books by Catherine Gore.
The "Kelliegram" binding was one of the many innovations of English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family had one of the longest connections in the history of the binding... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 143157
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WORDSWORTH, William; Thomas Hutchinson (ed.) The Poetical Works.London : 1908
A beautifully bound copy of the Oxford Edition of Wordsworth's poems with charming floral details. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145357
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BURNS, Robert. The Complete Works.Philadelphia : 1895
The Ayrshire Edition, number 23 of 50 sets only, very handsomely bound. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 146510
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Dramatic Works.London : 1826
An exquisitely bound copy of this attractive Regency edition of Shakespeare, printed on strong, fine india paper by Charles Corrall for the pioneering publisher William Pickering using his miniscule diamond type in double columns: the text is tiny but perfectly legible.
The plates were prepared for The Plays of Shakespeare in Pickering's 1825... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 141562
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OWEN, Robert. A New View of Society: or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice.London : 1813-14
First edition, first issue of the four Essays, one of 40 specially bound presentation sets printed on thick paper, parts III & IV "Not published", inscribed "From the Author" on the first blank.
Edouard Dolléans states that just forty copies of A New View of Society were bound for presentation: "En écrivant les Vues nouvelles, Owen a surtout... Learn More£87,500.00Stock Code: 130529
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, in a fine Scott of Edinburgh binding, presentation copy, inscribed from the author on a preliminary blank to William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, whose celebrated library was largely destroyed by fire during the Gordon Riots.
The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James Anderson (1739-1808) wrote several influential... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 127839
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AYTOUN, Edmondstoune William. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems.Edinburgh : 1863
First Paton edition, superbly illustrated. "The book brims with Paton's half-page illustrations, headpieces and tailpieces (augmented by a few landscapes by his brother, Waller Paton) - the armour and historical costumes (Paton was a noted collector of these) perfectly realized to the last detail, the compositions unusual and forceful, the squeezed-together... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 137470
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EURIPIDES. The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments.London : 1782
First Wodhull edition, the first in English of all the extant writings of Euripides: "although Wodhull advertised his version in February 1774, and thought to complete it within a year, it was only in 1782 that, prompted by the appearance of two rival partial translations, he overcame his fastidiousness and published The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 137652
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SAUNDERS, Richard, as Cardanus Rider. Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1759.London : 1759 & 1758
A handsome Georgian-era almanac volume. Almanacs such as this provided information on the dates of markets, lists of MP's and advise on which foods to eat at certain times of year depending on your temperament. Cardanus Rider is often said, though probably wrongly, to be the pseudonym of the medical practitioner and astrologer Richard Saunders (1613-1675),... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 133744
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BIBLE; English, Douai-Rheims version. The New Testament of Jesus Christ translated faithfully into English,Rheims [NT] & Douai [OT] : 1582 & 1609-10
First edition in English of the Roman Catholic version of the Bible, the Old Testament in a contemporary Douai binding and a presentation copy from John Knatchbull, vice-president of the English College at Douai, offered here with a pleasing copy of the Rheims New Testament in 17th-century calf.
Knatchbull presents the Old Testament to Lady Joanna... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 108480
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CANNON, Richard. Historical Record of The Fifteenth, or The King's Regiment of Light Dragoons, Hussars:London : 1841
First edition. "Reputedly, William IV proposed that a series of regimental histories should be compiled, whereby the general public could be apprised of the distinguished services rendered by the regiments of the British army the work of compilation was entrusted by royal warrant to Cannon. He started immediately and the first volume to be published... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125526
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BASKERVILLE, John (printer). The Book of Common Prayer,Cambridge : 1761
Second Baskerville edition (first published the previous year), this the preferred of two impressions, with the lozenge-and-star border framing each page; here in a particularly elegant binding, possibly executed by the leading German binder John Baumgarten.
John Baskerville (1706-1775) was the most significant English typographer of the 18th... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 133632
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CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England.Oxford : 1807
Large paper issue - Lowndes notes that only 50 such sets were printed - of this very appealing Oxford edition presented here in a choice Regency binding. First published between 1702 and 1707 (with the first octavo edition appearing in 1705-06) Clarendon's great History has "remained in the mind because of his literary achievementthe fashioning of the... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 106106
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RUSSIAN ARMY REFORM. Polozheniye o pereformirovanii armeyskoy kavalerii (Regulations on the Reformation of the Cavalry).St Petersburg : 1833
First and only edition, genuinely scarce, a single copy traced to the Russian Presidential Library. A handsomely presented volume, a contribution towards Nicholas I's efforts at far-reaching reform of the army, a volume which would have had minimal distribution among those directly involved in the administration. This copy identified, by the gilt-stamped... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 133891
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EDMUNDS, Henry (comp.) Extracts, from the several Treaties subsisting between Great Britain and other Kingdoms and States,London : 1758
Third edition, in a decidedly distinguished binding, in the style of Jonas Hanway's first binder, possibly executed for a member of the Admiralty.
The third edition - preceded by those of 1741 and 1747 - was issued against the background of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) and updated to take into account the latest maritime treaties: with Algiers... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 121023
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BULSTRODE, Whitelocke. Essays upon the Following Subjects.London : 1724
First edition, the presumed dedication copy to Thomas Parker (1666-1732), the first Earl of Macclesfield, with the Macclesfield library bookplate to the front pastedown (south library), blindstamp to the frontispiece and title page, pencilled shelf marks to the initial blank, and shelf labels to spine; subsequently sold as part of the celebrated sales... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 139490
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HAYLEY, William. Plays of Three Acts; written for a Private Theatre.London : 1784
First edition. Lovely copy of the collected theatrical works of this now largely forgotten, but once highly popular writer, exceptionally prettily bound and with an attractive provenance. Hayley is best remembered today as a friend and patron of George Romney and William Blake, and biographer of Milton.
Hayley (17451820) "although affluent was... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 139629
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BARETTI, Joseph. A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages.London : 1760
First edition of this major English-Italian dictionary, inspired both by Baretti's adulation for Samuel Johnson and by his contempt for the previous English-Italian dictionary of Ferdinando Altieri, whom Baretti castigates in his preface for his ignorance and his "love of obscene words and phrases... as well as of scurrilous sayings and senseless proverbs... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 131203
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BROCKMAN, Stuart (binder). The Times Atlas of the World.London : 1993
A superb binding executed by Stuart Brockman, for the celebrated Wardington collection of atlases, which contained many designer bindings commissioned by Lord Wardington.
Stuart Brockman (b.1972) is the son of the bookbinder James Brockman. Trained by his father and now working alongside him in Oxfordshire, Stuart was elected as a Fellow of Designer... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142425
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GALLEY, Edmund - WHITE, F. Faulkner (illuminator). The Galley Memento.[Exeter : 1879]
Handsomely bound and illuminated presentation album, one of just two copies, presented to honour the work of solicitor and county clerk Ralph Sanders, one of two men instrumental in reversing the miscarriage of justice in the case of Edmund Galley, who became an international cause célèbre after being wrongfully convicted of murder and transported... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 132619
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CROYDON, Edward (publ.) A Guide to the Watering Places, on the coast, between the Exe and the Dart;Teignmouth : 1817
First edition, a superior copy in red morocco, with the bookplate of John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury.
Fisher was "a highly cultured prelate, a generous patron of both authors and artists, and a capable sketcher; he was chaplain to the Royal Academy in 1807 and helped to set up the British Institution the previous year. For the last twenty-five... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 100333
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1903
Deluxe edition, number 56 of 250 copies signed by the publisher, this copy in a striking and unusual arts and crafts binding, perhaps the work of the Guild of Women Binders, though unmarked, exhibiting their adventurous style. Goldsmith's masterpiece was first published in 1766. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139010
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HAMILTON, Anthony, Count, & Mr. [Abel] Boyer, (trans.) Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont:London : 1714
First edition in English of this anonymously published account of Anthony Hamilton's brother-in-law, French nobleman Philibert, Count de Gramont (1621-1707), and the intrigues of the Restoration court. This first edition is commercially uncommon, particularly in such an attractive binding.
"The book was greeted with considerable critical acclaim... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133350
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CORELLI, Arcangelo. [XII Sonatas or Solos for a Violin with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord or Violoncello.[London] : [1706-40]
A handsome Regency-era presentation binding incorporating a variety of exquisite lyre tools, a suitable binding for one of the most influential opuses of the 18th century.
"Within months of their publication in 1700 in Rome Corelli's Sonate e violone o cimbalo had been accepted by the musical work as having a special status. No other collection... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 111109
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JENKINS, James. The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. From the Year 1793 to 1817.London : [after 1835]
First edition, later state. First issued in 1817, the work sold slowly, which led Jenkins to issue copies as demand necessitated. The earliest copies of this book have the text printed on paper watermarked 1812 and 1816; this copy is printed on paper watermarked 1835. An attractively bound copy of this magnificent illustration of the high-water mark... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 94719
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CHIVERS BINDING - LAMB, Charles. The Essays of Elia; [together with:] The Last Essays of Elia.London : 1902
A highly attractive copy in a beautiful example of a "vellucent" binding, by Cedric Chivers of Bath, of Charles Lamb's largely autobiographical pseudonymous essays, dealing with mankind at large through the medium of his own experiences and impressions.
Chivers's binding style is produced by hand-painting the backing sheet of the binding, which... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 144785
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WHEATLEY, John. An Essay on the Theory of Money and Principles of Commerce.London : 1807
First edition of the first volume of Wheatley's Essay on the Theory of Money; a second volume followed in 1822. In the preface Wheatley notes that "It may, perhaps, be necessary to offer an apology for presenting to the public the First Volume only; but the work admits of a distinct division: the first part relating to the refutation of our existing... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 129391
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ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.London : 1842-5
First edition, with the plates in the proof state, of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey Travel); no publication before this astonishing work had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the region.
The... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 132530
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WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of SelborneLondon : 1900
Large paper edition, number 86 of 160 copies signed by the editor and artists, lavishly bound and illustrated.
First published in 1789, White's Selborne is one of the great English books of the 18th century, "the first book which raised natural history into the region of literature" (Encyclopaedia Britannica). The work is arranged into three... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139565
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SINATRA, Frank - KENNEDY, John F. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy.Washington, DC : 1962-1963-1964
First editions, first printings. From the library of Frank Sinatra, his name in gilt to each front cover. An outstanding memorial to one of the most remarkable relationships in modern political history and the two men who stood at the nexus of glamour and power in mid-20th century America.
The relationship between the singer and JFK has been... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 135154
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SAUNDERS, Richard, as Cardanus Rider. Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1778.London : 1778
A handsome Georgian-era almanac, in a highly attractive contemporary binding. Almanacs such as this provided information on the dates of markets, lists of MP's and advise on which foods to eat at certain times of year depending on your temperament. Cardanus Rider is often said, though probably wrongly, to be the pseudonym of the medical practitioner... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 121189
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SAUNDERS, Richard, as Cardanus Rider. Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1778.London : 1778
A handsome Georgian-era almanac, in a highly attractive contemporary binding. Cardanus Rider is now believed to have been the pseudonym of physician and astronomer Richard Saunders (1613-1675). He was a member of the circle of William Lilly, whose own Merlin was first published in 1644; Rider's British Merlin was first published in in 1653, and was... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 111954
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BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer,Oxford : 1781 [& 1772]
A very attractive Book of Common Prayer and Psalms, in a personalized Georgian binding, the spine lettered for one "Thomas Hales Deptford", the covers resplendent with the Christogram "JHS" within richly gilt red and green onlays; a pleasing example of the expense and care dedicated to the binding of Books of Common Prayer in the period. Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 142110
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![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/4/145478.jpg)
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.London : 1868 & 1872
First edition of Through the Looking-Glass, together with an early edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this being from the 12th thousand, published just three years after the first edition of 1865, handsomely bound as a set by Bayntun of Bath. The Alice books earned the author "a place in the firmament of the great, for they are not only acts... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 145478
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems.London : 1824
First edition, first issue (without errata slip), in a very striking binding by Zaehnsdorf with their gilt stamp to the rear pastedown denoting exhibition-worthy work, and with appealing fin-de-siècle provenance (see below).
Edited by Mary Shelley, this collection contains hitherto unpublished poems - Julian and Maddalo (with its evocation of... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 141182
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LENNOX, Charlotte. Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune,London : 1778
An attractive and well-preserved set in 'Etruscan' calf, most probably executed by the esteemed bindery of the Edwards of Halifax. This is the ninth edition (first published in 1755 in 3 volumes and subsequently expanded to 5) of this much republished translation by Lennox of the history of one of Henry the Great's main advisers.
Charlotte Lennox... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 133228
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HEINSIUS, Daniel. De contemptu mortis libri IV.Leiden : 1621
First edition of the noted Dutch scholar Daniel Heinsius's (1580-1655) last major work of poetry, a didactic espousal of a stoical contempt for, rather than fear of, death. Willems writes that in its time the poem enjoyed a great vogue, and it was translated into Dutch by Jacques van Zevecote. A classical scholar of great renown (he was a professor... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 137321
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WAUGH, Evelyn. [The novels and short stories.]London : 1928-57
First editions, first impressions, of all of Waugh's full-length novels, from Decline and Fall (1928) to Unconditional Surrender (1961), and his volume of short stories, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing and other Sad Stories (1936). Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 134235
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Pieces.London : 1823
First edition, an exquisite copy in a rare and highly unusual contemporary binding, of this posthumous gathering of unsold first editions of Shelley's major works, comprising Prometheus Unbound (1820), Hellas (1822), and Rosalind and Helen (1819), as well as the first London edition, second overall, of The Cenci (1821). These titles include among their... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 111619
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COSWAY-STYLE BINDING - LUDWIG, Emil. Napoleon.London : 1927
First UK edition, following the New York edition of the preceding year and the German of 1925. This glamorous binding incorporates a portrait based on Jacques-Louis David's famous 1812 portrait The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, the original of which hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
"Ludwig was trained in... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 138769
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CYRIL, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria. Opera omnia quae hactenus summa diligentia reperiri potuêre,Paris : 1604-5
The magnificent Paris edition of the works of St Cyril of Alexandria produced by the consortium of printers and booksellers formed in November 1582 to publish the works of the church fathers. The text is founded on the translation from Greek into Latin of Gentian Hervetus. Cyril of Alexandria (c.378444) was bishop of Alexandria when the city was at... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 132174
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HORACE. Q. Horatii Flacci, quae supersunt, recensuit et notulis instruxit Gilbertus Wakefield.London : 1794
A striking copy of Horace's works, in the original Latin, "a very elegant and correct edition" (Dibdin). With the booklabel to the front doublures of literary journalist and author Charles Whibley (1859-1930), on whose recommendation T. S. Eliot was appointed to the editorship of Faber and Gwyer. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 146814
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FRENCH LITERATURE. Fables, lettres, et variétés historiques.Londres : 1777
Second edition (first published by Elmsly alone in 1771) of this compendium of passages for students of French, here handsomely bound in red morocco, an English binding making considerable effort to match the generally higher standards of contemporary French binders. Peter Elmsly, or Elmsley, was principally involved in importing foreign books and was... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 100358
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SHAKESPEARE, William. Sonnets.Leipzig : 1910
First Rowohlt edition, one of five copies printed on vellum, finely bound by the influential German binder Carl Sonntag jun. (18831930), who was instrumental in the emergence and development of the German book art movement that preceded the First World War.
He trained as a binder in the early 1900s in France and the UK, including at the workshop... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 139564
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ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down.Harmondsworth : 1976
First illustrated edition, signed limited issue, number 16 of 250 specially bound copies signed by both the author and illustrator. This copy has an original watercolour depicting Pipkin, drawn and initialled by the illustrator, on the first blank.
Adams's first novel, Watership Down was initially turned down by the major publishing houses, before... Learn More£5,250.00Stock Code: 141188
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ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down.Harmondsworth : 1976
First illustrated edition, signed limited issue, number 244 of 250 specially bound copies signed by both the author and illustrator. This copy has an original watercolour depicting four rabbits, drawn and initialled by the illustrator, to the front free endpaper verso and first blank; it also has a contemporary fore-edge painting depicting two rabbits... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 134691
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BOUCHOT, Henri. Catherine de Medicis.Paris : 1899
First edition, one of 1,000 copies on handmade paper by Blanchet Frères et Kléber, this number 80. One of Goupil's lavishly Romantic turn-of-the-century illustrated historical biographies, here in a really handsomely appropriate binding. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111974
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VICTORIA, Princess Royal - MASSIE, Richard. Martin Luther's Spiritual Songs.London : 1854
First edition, this a presentation copy from the author to Victoria, the Princess Royal (1840-1901), Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, inscribed by the author and in an attractive presentation binding.
Massie has inscribed on the first blank: "Her Royal Highness the 'Princess Royal' from the Translator"; with Victoria's attractive bookplate to... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 133638
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WILLIAMSON, Thomas. Oriental Field Sports;London : 1819
Second edition of the work the bibliographer considered the most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence, containing 40 fine colour plates. The author, who served for 20 years in Bengal, describes his "pig-sticking adventures; shooting tigers from machans and elephant back, hunting buffalo, driving hogs, bears and wolves; and shooting peacocks and... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 87219
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JONES, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.Oxford : 1750
First edition of the author's only book, a beautifully bound subscriber's copy, one of approximately 330 copies printed on royal paper, this from the library of Sir Edward Popham of Littlecote.
Born in Oxford, where she lived all her life, Mary Jones (1707-1778) was a well-connected poet and letter-writer whose work was greatly influenced by... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 134908
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LANG, Andrew. Aucassin & Nicolete.London : 1887
First edition thus, one of 550 copies only (of which 500 for sale) on Japanese vellum, of Lang's acclaimed translation of the French medieval romantic chantefable, "Andrew Lang was born in order that he might translate it perfectly and he has fulfilled his destiny" (Ezra Pound, Spirit of Romance, 1910), in a superb arts and crafts modelled binding.
From... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 144866
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KONDAKOV, Nikodim Pavlovich. Histoire et monuments des emaux byzantins.Frankfurt : 1892
First and limited edition, number 24 of 200 copies printed in French; a very fine copy of this lavish and sumptuously illustrated celebration of the Zwenigorodskoi collection of Byzantine enamels, "one of the most luxurious publications of the 19th-century" (Federov, pp. 200-1). The portrait frontispiece, included only in those copies given by the collector... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 141106
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FRENCH GLASS BINDING. Chansonnier dédié aux Demoiselles.Paris : [c.1828-30]
A beautifully preserved, finely bound French songbook from the Janet workshop.
The British Library's Database of Bookbindings notes that the Janets (both father, Pierre-Étienne, and son, Louis) were well-known engravers and publishers of ephemera in deluxe and gift bindings, particularly women's almanacs; Louis moved to rue St Jacques 59 - the... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 133875
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MISSAL; Venice printed. Missale Romanum.Venice : 1725
A striking eighteenth-century Roman Missal, attractively printed in Venice and apparently bound in Brescia in the year of publication: a note on p. lxxxiii reads "Brixiae-Conglutinator est Ioseph Goltius in Via Pallade iuxta Xenodochium Mercaturae. Die 13. Decembris 1725" (The Brescian binder is Joseph Goltius on the Via Pallade, next to the marketplace... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 112562
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HAGGIN, Blanche Butterworth. Le Livre D'Amour.New York : 1887
First edition of this lavish book of French love poetry, number 19 of 20 large paper copies printed on Japon, numbered and initialled by the editor Blanche Butterworth Haggin on the limitation page, in an exquisitely produced binding by one of the most famous and important fin de siècle French binders, Léon Gruel's atelier, in beautiful condition.
The... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 144850
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BOISGUILBERT, Pierre le Pesant. Le détail de la France, sous le règne de Louis XIV.No place : 1697
An early edition of the author's first important economic text, a damning critique of the economic condition of France as a result of the policies adopted by Colbert and his successors, first published anonymously and without royal permission in Rouen in 1695.
Boisguilbert (1646-1714) "is largely remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 136946
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CERVANTES, Miguel de. El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.Madrid : 1780
First printing of the celebrated Ibarra edition. Printed for La Real Academia Española (the Spanish Royal Academy) by Joaquín Ibarra y Marín, this edition was intended to be a supreme example of Spanish craftsmanship lavished on the nation's greatest literary work. This edition excels in beauty of type, design, paper, illustration and printing, as... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 137798
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LE TURC, Bonaventure-Joseph. Instructions Patriotiques et Militaires,London : 1780
First edition. Le Turc was a London-based Frenchman, who published other technical manuals on ladders, cannons and bridges. The present work is a military treatise, addressed to George III, offering proposals to enhance the defences of British overseas possessions. An English translation was intended, with a prospectus produced, but was never published.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 122062
